Alamogordo news-advertiser., 1913-02-15

but slightly frowning, puzzled, study
ing him. Rawn felt the query of her
look, felt also something stirring down
In his nature which he grappled at
once and was able to suppress. His
voice vas cool and low as it was be-
fora.
Its a big crowd below, and we'll
be lost In it. I've learned already that
YOU can be discreet. Well drop down
in there, where no one knows us.
Well try ourselves out, and see
whether we'll do, here where the test
is hardest. You're ambitious? So am
I. This is the heart Of the world
the place of gratified ambitions. What
do you say, Miss Delaware? I've been
looking around down there, and as
nearly as l can see, I'm the only man
in this avenue worth million dollars
who at this precise moment of the
day isn't talking to some good-looking
woman"
"You fatter mel" commented the
girl. He did not endeavor any analy.
sis.
mot in the least! simply talk
sense and business To you, coyet
what you coyet, love what yud love,
want what you want Things wGica
are equal to the same thing ought to
| be equal to each other-for just lit,
lie while, Miss Delaware. Isn't II
true? If 1t is only play, why, let's play
at it.
II forgot to tell you" he added,
that my son.in-law, Mr.. Halsey, has
gone back to Chicago. He was sum,
moned by wire. No one else knows us
both. There wouldn't be one chance
in many of our being seen by anyone
here who knew either Of us, and II so,
what harm? Well go and dine as well
as the best of them, in the main room.
What do you say, Miss Delaware?"
She stood facing him now, seeming
years older than she had few mo-
ments before. A very skilled OBJ
server might possibly have suspected
certain new quality in the calmness
of her eye. Beautiful she certainly
was; alluring, irresistible in the an
cient appeal of woman, she certainly
ought to have been, and would have
been to any but this particular man
. who now stood facing her, half smil'
ing; a man of middle age. gray about
, the temples, of heavy-browed eyes
strongly lined face. Of strong and bony
, frame; not an ill-looking or unmaEly
7 man one might have said, though
! years older than this young woman
who stood now threading between bel
fingers the filmy moonshine chair
which suspended the points of flame
a that rose and fell upon her bosom.
At last she said, hesitating, ant
holding up the flaming pendant, TN
not to keep them?"
: mo, Marguerite!" he smiled. "Thii
!; particular Papa Faust retains strinI
on those jewels. They have been seel
elsewhere, my dear girl. No, on,
nights use of them Is all this business
4 proposition carries, my dear"
He began to be just a shade NOR
4 familiar; but she looked at him, still
n curiously helpless, because she foun
him strong where most men are wea
=, and defenseless. He caught some sor
a OF challenge in her attitude and !
spite of himself trod a half step fol
n ward. She evaded him. II
"a heard her laughter ripping in the hal
20 and followed. Soon they wer
n in the crowded lift, packed in agains
shirt front and aigrette. silks and jev
In els, arms and bosoms barred for th
8 evenings fray.
ia It may be true that no gentleman
n. grown in less than three generation
Of but II is not the case that 1t require
three generations to produce an ari
IN tocrat; and here was simple and pc
ne feet proof Of that assertion. Hea
st walters make no mistakes! The hes
III waiter OF the main hall unhesitatin
e. ly took John Rawn and his companic
ne to as good table as there was In Il
room. He knew the air of distinctiC
IT. when he saw It!
N. Heads. in plenty. Of men and 9th
vs. women, turned as they passed throul
he in that careless throng OF the worl
ed wise and blase. They walked by quit
.te ly. simply. took their places with
ut hesitation. John Rawn had bethoug
a him earlier as to the dinner order.
er gave his directions now quietly, vii
la out hesitation.
'se The two ate and drank discreet
he comported themselves. in fact. cas-
he as any OF these scores Of others. Tn
Ter did not lean toward each other and
I'D viously talk secrets. they did not lau
~. uneasily and stare about. Among I
go many wellbred women In that room
ril- where at least few such were pr
ent-none showed an easier acc
wn tomedness than Virginia Delawa
re Her eagerness, her feverish ankle
no all now were gone. She was perfe
nal iy in hand. 1t was her pleasure n
his only to prove her fitness for such
I I scene, to comport herself AZ thou
. she had known no other surroundlT
an. than these In all her life. Once mi
in the miracle Of possibility In the yot
IRE. American woman was shown.
the Rawn. discreet as his compani
lin looked on with approval. You're