Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-04-16

even in the pleasant. sense of adoption.
She did not want pity. To
think Of his getting those things for
her in Damascus! Pity sug-
gested that she was weak and help
less, whereas she knew that she was
both patient and strong. What
did she want? She glanced up and
down the deck. 1t was totally desert
ed save for them. Then, "clad in the
beauty of a thousand stars" she
leaned over and down and brushed his
hand with her lips.
And George slept on. Only the blare
of the bugle brought him back to mum
dane affairs. He was hungry, and he
announced the fact with gusto. They
would dina we'll that night. The cap
tain placed Fortune at his right and
George at his left, and preached bot
tie Of fine old Johannisberger. And
the three of them had coffee in the
smoking-roon the other passen-
gers had any iosity, they did not
manifest it openly.
Upon finding that they had no real
need Of staying over in Naples, the
captain urged that they take the re-
turn voyage with him. He saw more
than either of the young people, with
those blue Teutonic eyes of his.
George promised to let him know with
in dozen hours Of the sailing. Ger
tainly Fortune would decide one way
or the other within that time.
Both had seen the Vesuvian bay
many times, with never-failing love
and interest. They sailed across the
bay in the bright clearness Of the
morning.
"You are going back with me-"
George announced in tone which in
ferred that nothing more was to be
said upon the subject. But, for all
his confidence, there was a great and
heavy fear upon his heart as he asked
for mail at the little Enclosure at
Cooks, in the Galleria Vittoria. There
was cable; nothing more.
"Now, Fortune ="
''Have 1 ever given you permission
to call me by that manner"
"Why ="
"Have II"
mo"
"Then give you that permission
now"
What do you brighten man like
that for?" he cried. What l was 60
ing to say :"
Fortune"
What I was going to say, Fortune,
was this: Here is the cable from Nor
timer. I'm not going to open it till
after dinner tonight. Well go up to
| the Bertolini to dine. You'll stay
there for the night, while put up at
the Bristol, which is only little ways
| up the Corso. I'm not going to ask
you a question till coffee Then We'll
thrash out the subject till there isn't
a grain left"
She made no protest. Secretly she
was pleased to be bullied like this. It
proved that among all these swarming
peoples there was one interested in
her welfare. But she knew in her
heart what she was going to say when
the proper time came. She did not
wish to spoil his dinner. She was also
going to put her courage to it's SUI
] preme test; borrow a hundred pounds,
and bravely promise to pay him back.
If she failed to pay it, it would be be-
cause she was dead. For she could
not survive a comparison between
! herself and her mother. Here in
Naples she might find something, an
opportunity. She spoke French and
Italian fiuently; and in this crowded
season of the year it would not be diff
f1cult to find situation as maid or
companion. So long as she could earn
a little honestly, she was not afraid.
! She was desperately resolved.
Such a dinner! Long would she re-
member it; and longer still, how little
either of them ate Of it! She knew
! enough about these things to appreci-
ate it. 1t must have cost a pretty
penny. She smiled, she laughed, she
TESTED; and always battle to dam the
uprising tears.
The dining-room was filed; women
in beautiful evening gowns and men
in sober black. But the two young
people were oblivious. Their fellow
diners, however, bent more than one
/ S1duCG Ill Iu01F U1ISCllOu. 4u-uII1uS
clothes, to be sure, but it was OBJ
served that they ate to the manner
born. The girl was beautiful in a
melancholy way, and the young man
was well-bred and pleasant of feature,
though oddly burned.
Coffee. George produced the cable.
1t was still sealed.
''You read it first" he said, passing
1t across the table.
Her hands shook as she ripped the
sealed flap and opened the message.
She read. Her eyes gathered danger
Ously.
BE CAREFUL" he warned. you've
been brave so long; be brave a little
longer"
81 did not know that there lived
such good and kindly men. Oh, thank
him, thank him a thousand times for
me. Read it." And she no longer