The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-01-03

OF defeat. The elder was an aristo-
cratic woman past middle age.
Who is she?" demanded an eager
young man from Richmond.
Two girls from Baltimore were Wis
IDLY excited. Said one:
Il didn't know they had returned
to this country, did you, Nell?
They've been living abroad for sew
eral years. Goodness, how that girl
has blossomed out. I'd never have
known her if she hadn't been with
her mother"
DO you think she's so very pretty"
inquired the other.
She's a dream" cried the Rich
mond young nan but who is she?"
Roberta Grand. She's a Baltimore
girl and
What name did you say" asked
the tall young man beside the fire.
place.
She was a dreadfully stupid girl
at Miss R%alston's," proclaimed Miss
Baltimore.
The master of Jenison hall inter
rupted again.
Grand? Are there many Grands
in Baltimore?"
Her father is Colonel Robert
Grand. He's the great race horse
man. said one of the Baltimore girls.
Colonel Bob Grand?"
Yes. OF course he and Mrs. Grand
don't live together. They were di-
vorced about five years ago. 1t seems
that he ran off with an actress-to
London, they say. | remember that
he bought a house in London for the
divorce. He treated Mrs. Grand
shamefslly. | know that much. Fa.
Their says he is a terrible man"
David Jenison was very pale and
very still.
Who vas this actress" asked
some one. He went very cold.
Il don't know. Some one you never
heard of-just a common, ordinary &C
tress, as | remember"
Jenison abruptly strobe out upon
the porch, leaving the others to puz-
zle themselves over his unexpected
detection.
In the five years that had passed
since his brief but ever green eX-
perience with the circus he had not
come upon a single trace of Mary
Braddock and Christine. Detectives
in his employ followed the circus for
coynro1 nnol-. Iroo,l, ,y,,t A.,
cover anything that might put them
on the track. Others Swallowed the
.disgruntled colonel, while Blake, his
old pursuer, went to New York and.
REINFORCED by agency men. watched
the home of Albert T. Portman. But
they had disappeared so completely
that every effort TO unearth them
proved futile. David was in college
the following winter when he heard,
through Dick Cronk, that Colonel
Grand had sold out the circus to p. T.
BarnuIn, with whose enterprises it
was speedily amalgamated. AS the
was sold at private sale, by
actual generalization, Mary Braddock's
We're undefended. There was
talk among the circus people, how.
ever, hal Grand. after certain judg-
ments had been satisfied. advertised
throughout the country for Mrs. Brad
dock, stating that he held in his pos
longing to her. Whether this tempt
ing bait found her in such dire dis
that she could not remain in
hiding while it was being offered, no
one seemed to know.
Young tensions story was so well
that wherever he Jared he was
hailed AS a hero. In his own sunny
he was a hero prince with as
many retainers and loyal subjects as
ever benz knee to an eastern medieval
He was the richest planter
in all Virginia. Rich also in fair looks
as we'll as in worldly possessions, the
owner Of a distinctive charm of man
ner. combined with the poise Of good
breeding. a certain interesting reti-
cence and a wonderfully impelling
smile. he was more than a hero to
the young and little short OF an idol
TO the old.
Countless assaults had been made
against his heart. Every vile known
TO beauty had been employed in a
hundred sieges. But the Jack Snipe
Of eighteen was still the lonely Jack
5nipe at twenty-three; his heart was
5heathed in a love hat harked back
to a rough, picturesque development
and Was strong by virtue OF its memo
lies.
At no time in all these spreading
years had Christine B~raddCck's flower !
ace and girlish figure faded from his
vision. On this misty night in early
Iune, while others were thinking of
lim, he was thinking Of her and the
made five years before. In
i've years, they both had said. The
erm of probation was drawing to an
md. He "a waiting now for the re-
lemption of that promise.
Once, and once only, had he heard
rom them, and then in the most mys-
erious way. Soon after his return
the university al envelope contain
ng $500 in crisp, new bills al de-