The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-11-21

see, my ancestors are such new ac'
quaintances, ! find them absorbing
You know when I lived in New
York"
Last month"
He laughed a little-not quite the
laugh she had known In the past
Yes, but | can hardly believe IT;
seem To have been here half life
time. To think that month ago
was a double-dyed New Yorker"
It's been strange exerience for
you. Don't you feel rather Jekyland-
Eydish?" 90
That's a terrible compound he
laughed. as he swept the car round
curve, sldlfully evading n Dumping
wagon-load OF farm-hands. In which
Capacity am Mr. Hyde, by the way?''
She smiled at him round the edge
Of her blown veil. Figures OF speech
Jekyl in New York. anyway. You
read what the papers said? No? It's
| just as well; II would have been like
! ly 10 turn your head"
| Could anything be as likely to do
that as-this?" With a glance he
| indicated her presence beside him.
careful she warned. Speeches like
that smack of disloyalty TO your
queen. What a retty girl she Is!
/! congratulate you on your prowess. !
must add my congratulations on your
taste"
He returned her bow OF moment
since.
1T was all a most unique thing,
1 ~ p
ball | shall witness the coronation.
can hardly wait TO see Damory
| Court Do you know, in all these
years never suspected what ver-
satile genius you were? It's too won
derful how you have stepped into this
life-into the peoples thoughts and
feelings-as you have. When you
came back TO New York"
He looked at her, oddly she thought.
why should I go back"
| why? Because it's your natural
habitat Isn't it,"
That's the word" he said smiling.
TT was my habitat. This is my
home
She was silent a moment in sheer
surprise She had thought OF this
Southern essay as a quickly passing
incident. a colorful chapter whose
page might any day be turned But
II was impossible to mistake his
meaning Clearly, he was deeply In
| fatuated with this Arcadian expert
ence and had no thought at present
| but TO continue il indefinitely.
But 1t would pass. He was New
| Yorker, after all. And what more
charming than to have an old place
| in such a COUNTRYSIDE position
ready-made at ones hand, to step into
for a month or two when ennm made
! the old haunts tasteless? It was
worth some cultivation. One must
anchor somewhere. Virginia was not
so far from the center; splendid
estates OF Northerners dotted even the
+, Carolinas. Here one might be In
hand-touch with everything. And II
was no small thing to hold one Of the
oldest and proudest names in Sec
! ton like this. One could always have
town-house too-there was Wash
ington, and there was Europe. =.
They were passing the entrance OF
cherry-bOrdered lane, and without TAX
ing his hands from the gear, he nod
ded toward the low broad-eaved dwell.
ing with its flowing arbors that show
ed in flashing glimpses OF brown and
red between the intervening trees.
The palace of the queen!" he said
Rosewood. by name"
She looked In some curiosity. Clear.
ly, II not a refuge Of genteel poverty,
neither was 1t the abode OF wealth;
so, from her assured rampant Of the
Fargo millions, Katharine reelected
complacently. The girl was a local
favorite, OF course-he had been tact
ful as to that. 1t was fortunate, In a
way. that he had not seen her, Kath-
arine, in the grandstand until after
ward. Feeling toward her as she be-
heved he did, with his absurd direct
ness, he would have been likely to
drop the rose in her lap, never re-
fleeing that. the tourney being a local
function, the choice should not fall
upon an outlander. That would not
have tended to increase his popular.
fty in the countryside, and popular
1ty was the very salt Of social success.
So Katharine pondered. her mind. like
capable generals. running some
what ahead Of the moment.
The slowing Of the car brought her
back to the present, and she looked
up to see before them the great gate
Of GLADDEN. Hail. She did not speak
till they had quite stopped.
Then, as her hand lay in his for
farewell, You are right In your de-
cision," she said softly. This Is your
place. You are Valiant OF Virginia.
didn't realize II before. but I am
beginning to see all It means to you"
Her voice held lingering indefin-