Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-07-25

She shook her head sadly. ITO an
swer you 1 would have to reveal the
secret that makes it impossible for
her to become your wife. and that /
cannot, will not do"
rs it fair to me?"
Perhaps not, but 1t is fair to her,
and that is why 1 must remain silent"
Before God, 1 shall know the truth
from her, If not from you-and-"
IF you love her, if you will be kind
to her, you will let her go her way
in peace"
He was struck by the somewhat sin
lister earnestness of her words
Tell me where may find her, he
said, setting his jaw.
1T will not be difficult for you to
find her." she said, frowning, IF you
insist on pursuing her"
you drive her away from your
house, Sara Wrandall, and yet you ex-
pect me to believe that your motives
are friendly. Why should 1 accept
your word as f1nal?"
81 did not drive her away, nor did
I ask her to stay"
He stared hard at her.
Good Lord, what is the meaning
of all this?" he cried in perplexity?
What am to understand"
The car had come to a stop under
the porte cochere. She laid her hand
on his arm.
If you will come in with me, Bran
don, l will try to make things clear
to you"
He left in half an hour, walking rap
| idly down the drive, his coat buttoned
closely, although the morning was hot
and breathless. He held in his hand
| a small scrap of paper on which was
written: IF loyed you less, would
come to you now and lie to you. If
you love me, Brandon, you will let me
go my way. 1t is the only course.
Sara is my friend, and she is yours.
Be guided by her. and believe in my
love for you Hetty."
| And now, as things go in fairy sto-
ries, we should prepare ourselves to
see Hetty pass through a season in
| drudgery and hardship, with the ulti-
mate quintessence of Joy as the re-
ward for her trials and tribulations.
I Happily, this is not a fairy tale. There
are some things more fantastic than
fairy tales, if they are not spoiled in
| the telling. Hetty did not go forth
to encounter drudgery, disdain and OBJ
4
went with a well-filled purse, a definite
purpose ahead and a determined fac
tor behind
In manner BETTING her station as
the intimate friend of Mrs. Challis
| Wrandall, as the cousin of the Murgat-
| royds, as the daughter of Colonel Cas-
Teton of the Indian corps, as a per
son supposed to be possessed of in
dependent means withal, she went
| with none to question, none to cavil.
Sara had insisted on this, as much
for her own sake as for Hetty's; she
argued, and she had prevailed in the
end What would the world think
| what would their acquaintance think
and above all what would the high and
mighty Wrandalls think If she went
with meek and lowly mien?
Why should they make it possible
for anyone to look askance?
And so it was that she departed in
state, with a dozen trunks and boxes
an obseQuiously attended seat in the
parlor car was hers; a telegram in
her bag assured her that rooms were
being reserved for herself and maid
at the Ritz-Carlton: alongside it re
posed a letter to Mr.. Carroll, instruct
ing him to provide her with sufficient
| 1unOS TO carry out the plan agreed
| upon; and in the seat behind sat the
lady's maid who had served her fol
| a twelvemonth and more.
The timely demise OF the venerable
Lord Murgatroyd afforded the most
natural excuse for her trip to England
| The old nobleman gave up the ghost
allowing for difference in time, at the
| very moment when Mrs. Redmond
Wrandall was undoing a certain pack
age from London, which turned out
to be complete history of what his
forbears had done in the way of prop
agation since the fourteenth century
Hetty did not find it easy to accom-
modate her pride to the plan which
was to give her a fresh and rather
imposing start in the world. She was
to have a full year in which to deter
mine whether she should accept tot
and poverty as her lot, or emulate the
symbolic example of Dicky, the canary
bird At the end of the year, unless
she did as Dicky had done, her source
of supplies would be automatically cut
Off and she would be entirely depend
emit upon her own wits and resources
In the interim she was a probationar,
person of leisure. It had required
hours OF persuasion on the part Of
Sara Wrandan to bring hertz ifns
n with these
Il But 1 am able and willing to worl
for nv living" had hpeu Hpffy,s sinh