The San Francisco call., 1913-08-31

the last the line worry over the
of meal ticket the question of Mr. Stones admission the
ancestral halls became thrilling That because
after the randather the Buresons had
essed 1.-THE Of that old geneman vrile energy much less
his versatility Words naturally the Buresons had
developed right into the in point Of wealth and into the
weathies of exclusvenes In fact If the terrible
powerful and mysterious Mr. much
turned his hand around he could have transformed the dn
gushed Mr. Burleson cultured leader of society
atng monaredom the strength of the inheritance that
remained to him. into something close to pauper
Edna she caught stray gnts when the argument waxed
shrank the ogesh shadow that seemed to be
drawing and the Burleson door She
only child very beautiful very extensively educated and very
gorousy ated marriage which should let her. though
perpeuae the social peeminence of the Burcson
Privately she had doubts to the fufmen Of this last
ambition of her parents for she had formed her mind
plan by which should wed the handsomes weathies and
most completely adorable man who had born with
whom she going be happy forever after precisely the
prncesses in the fairy stories It perfectly
lovely and practical pan All that needed for its
accomplishment that the handsome wealthy and adorable
fairy prince should within range of her level glowing
cntrancing blue eyes; she intended to do the rest.
As for Mr. Stone, with his miserable origin and his noto-
Of the mountain of Mammon, she considered him
most repuve and disgusting giant when she felt like girl
which her age of the tme and like unpleasant
episode of existence when she felt like and
thought like her mother.
Mr. took dinner with them. Mr. Burleson, from the
very when the heavdded of Lew Stone fixed him
the crisis and the heavy voice. with its dreaded in it.
sad "Burleson, I'm after afford society,"
had that Stone would take dinner with him and his wife
and his beautiful and extensively educated daughter SO had the
Mank and the Hady and the Hills and the Mckes and the
Won terbergs the Baytons
the Of the Bureon set together They all in the
hollow of Stones big, fat ringed hand and the Baytons
although they wouldn't have lost than the moey Of their
possessions had he shut down them, well known
prefer doubling Of the Dayton the
having of it. The Bursos and the rather tolerated the
Baytons than approved Of them they hadn't
and Roger Baytos the elder represented of only
thirty just the sort of ascending planet
embodied in Lewis Stone.
When Edna Mr.. Stone she was mmitigably in the
mood that him in the episode class The marked
passing from grhood her branded
her the instant when she took her last approving
tall pier after her maid had done her Edna
about descend for the introduction She
exquisite figure and the sweet grish face and she stared the
grhood from her where there kndled
the cold fire Of womanhood resenfu Of heseat
the sanctt Of her home She this stranger
with the feeling her breast that he buying to
entertainment which he expected be and
whemed.
"Wel she told herself. he shall have his moneys worth
He had it. BY the subtle intuition girl Develop Edna
Buson had gauged rightly the mental attitude of the