The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1914-05-21

DO you think it Ike me?" she In
quired innocently.
Amazingly like you" he declared
with conviction.
She turned the page. He was watch
ing her closely. AS she looked upon
the sketches of the half-nude figure
warm blush covered her face and
neck She did not speak for a full
minute, and he was positive that her
fingers frightened their grasp on the
magazine.
THE same model" he said quietly.
She nodded her head.
"Hetty Glynn. am sure" she said,
after pause, without lifting her eyes.
Her voice was low the words not very
distinct.
He drew long breath, and she Took
ed up quickly. What he saw in her
honest blue eyes convicted her
! Sara Wrandall came into the room
| at that moment Eetty hastily closed
| the magazine and held it behind her.
Booth had intended to show the re-
production to Mrs. Wrandall, but the
girls behavior caused him to change
his mind. He felt that he possessed
a secret that could not be shared with
Sara WrandaF, then or afterward.
Moreover he decided that he would
not refer to- the Hawkrfght pictures
again unless the girl herself brought
UP the subject All this flashed through
his mind as he stepped forward to
greet the newcomer.
When he turned again to Hetty, the
magazine had disappeared. He never
saw it afterward, and, what is more to
the point I've never asked her to pro-
duce II.
He thought hard over the situation
The obvious solution came to him:
She had been at one time reduced tC
the necessity Of posing, circumstances
evidently known to but few ald least
of all to Sara Wrandall, from whom
the girl plainly meant to Keep the
truth. This conviction distressed him,
but not in the way that might have
been expected. He had no scruples
about sharing the secret or in keeping
it inviolate: his real distress lay In
the fear that Mrs WrandaM might
hear of all this from other and per-
haps ungentle sources. AS for her pos
ing for Hawkright, it meant little or
nothing to him. In his own experience
two girls Of gentle birth had served as
models for pictures of his own max
ine, and he fully appreciated the ex@
gencies that had driven them to 1t
I, One had posed in the altogether.
She was a girl Of absolutely IRE
proachable character, who sfterwarc
married chap he knew very well
u and who was fully aware Of that shor
/ phase in her life. That feature of tho
situation meant nothing to him. h'
= was in no doubt concerning Hetty. Sh'
/ was what she appeared to- be: A gen
tlewoman
He admitted to. himself that he wa
% under the spell of her IL was no
u love. he was able to contend; bu
II it was a mysterious appeal to some
thing within him that had never re
u vealed itself before. He couldn
quite explain what 1t was,
% In his solitary hours at the cottag
~ on the upper road, he was won't I
y take his friend Leslie Wrandall int
consideration. AS a friend, was 1t nc
. his duty to go to him with his sordl
little tale? Was it right to let Wral
u dali go on with his wooing when tnel
u existed that which might make all tn
difference in the world to him? Ii
tx invariably brought these deliberatior
IL to close by relaxing into grim smi
~ Of amusement, as much as to say
1t Serve him right. anyway. Trust hi