Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1913-02-12
CHAPTER v.-(continued3


You wish my opinion?" countered
the daughter. "He is shy. but he is
neither stupid nor silly; and when he
smiles he is really good-looking."
My child" replied the woman.
drawing of her gloves and examining
her shapely hands. II have looked in
70 the very heart OF that young man
thousand years ago. a red-cross on
his surtout, he would have been beat
Ing his fists against the walls OF
Jerusalem; FIVE hundred years later.
he would have been singing chant
royales under lnttice-windows; a pa
lsdin apd a poet"
Ow do you know that? Did he
make love to you?"
NO but made love to him with
out his knowing It: and that was
more to my purpose than having him
make love to me- systematically.
Three days, and he was SO guileless
thSt he never asked my name But
In Monte Carlo. as you know. one asks
only your bankers name
And your purpose2"
IL Is still mine, dear Do you real.
lie that We haven't seen each other
In tour months. and that you haven't
offered TO kiss me
Did he go away without writing to
you about that money!"
Mrs. Chedsoye calmly plucked out
he inturned fingers OF her gloves. Il
believe / did receive a note inclosing
dis bankers address. but. unfortu-
nately, In the confusion OF returning
TO Paris, i lost It, My memory has
always been trial to me-" sadly.
Since when7" coldly. There is not
woman living with a keener memory
han yours"
You flatter me. In affairs that In
serest me, perhaps"
You never meant 20 pay him. 1t
n horrible"
My dear Fortune. how you Jump at
conclusions! Did l not offer him a
traft the very first thing"
Knowing that at such a moment he
:ouid not possibly accept it," de-
risively. Sometimes hate you,"
I'm these days flial devotion is a
~Ost art"
No. no; it is a flower parents have
ceased TO cultivate"
And there was IN the tone a
strained note which described an in
tense longing to be loved. For IL
George Percival Algernon Jones was
lonely young man, IL was the result
of his own blindness; whereas Fortune
Chedsoye turned hither and thither in
search of that which she never could
find. The wide Lybian desert held
upon it's face loneliness. desolation.
less mournful than that which reigned
within her heart
Hush! We are growing sentiment
al" warned the mother. Besides. I
believe We are attracting attention. q"
Her glance swept a half-circle com.
placently.
Pardon me! should be sorry TO
draw attention to you. knowing how
you abhor it."
Ny child, learn from me: temper Is
the arch-enemy OF smooth complex
ions. JOnes-it makes you laugh"
IL Is q homely. honest name"
II grant that But a Percival Alzer-
Hon jones'" Mas. Chedsoye laughed
softly. IL was one OF those pleasant
sounds that caused persons within
hearing TO walt for II 20 occur again
Come; let us go up 10 tho room. II
Is dull, dusty journey in from Port
Said"
Alone. Fortune vas certain that for
her mother her heart knew nothing
but hate. Neglect, indifference. in
justice, Misunderstanding. the chin
repellence that always met the least
outreaching OF the chiid's affections
the uDaccOuntable disappearances
the terror OF the unknown. the blank
wall OF ignorance behind which she
was always kept. upon these hate had
builded her dark and brooding re.
treat. Yet, never did the mother come
within the radius OF her sight that she
did not fall under the spell OF
strange fascination. enchanting. fgbt
against II how she might A kindly
touch OF the hand, a single mother.
smile, and she would have flung her
arms about the other woman's neck
But the touch and the mother-smile
never came. She knew. she under
stood she wasn't wanted, she hadn't
been wanted in the beginning, 20 her
mother she was as the young OF AMI.
mails. interesting only up 20 that time
when they could stand alone That
the mother never made and held
feminine friendships was I'm nowise
astonishing. Beauty and charm, such
as she possessed. served Immediately
&c stimulate onvy in other Eomen's
hearts Add that men OF AN stations