The Washington herald., 1914-05-29

who sat with him in the diner. But 70
| get back to my original question, why
| won't he call on me? Every other man
in your particular set has been here"
Shirley goes out very little nowadays.
He was engaged to be married TO a
beautiful girl. and she Tilted him"
| How could she eri1
| ''She married the other man. without
mentioning the matter to Shirley 1t
| made him a little bitter, / think Women
have spoiled him all his life. That was
why he took his love affair so seriously.
He won't come here because-well-be-
cause you are the image of the girl he
loved. Shirley says all beautiful women
are treacherous. l knew that I would
just have to tell you why he hasn't been
| here
! II am glad that you did, Aunt Phoebe, ."
declared Eleanor in such a. subdued voice
1 that her relative looked at her curiously.
Il think that l will go for a little walk
| until time to dress for your dinner"
Wear white. Eleanor. My decorations
are Killarney roses and valley lillies-'
1t was when the girl had stopped to
| talk to an old woman who sold flowers
on the street corner that she again no.
ticed Shirley Spence, standing a few
feet away. watching her. She selected
several punches of violets, paid the old
woman generously, smiled at her and
passed on, never glancing at the we'll
groomed man who continued to watch
her. She stopped in the park few
blocks away to give ner flowers to lit
tie crippled girl who sat on a bench
, watching other children play.
Eleanor was happier than Aunt Phoebe
had ever seen her when she came down
to greet the guests who had been invited
to meet her. She had been kind to less
fortunate people. and 1t had brought hap
piness into her own heart and life. Aunt
Phoebe had news to tell and, womanlike,
was SO mysterious about it that the girl
was instantly suspicious.
Have you heard anything unusual.
Aunt Phoebe7 You are fairly bursting
with some important gossip laughed
Eleanor. "Out with it. Perhaps it is
exciting" 1858
Shirley Spence is coming to dinner
tonight. 1t was such good luck for me.
Park Gettys sent me a note just after
you left, telling me that he was ill and
would not be able to come to this dinner.
Almost instantly after reading his note.
i was summoned to the telephone, and
Shirley Spence asked If it would be con-
venient fsf him to call this evening. I
was so surprised that I stammered p Ht-
tie as / asked him to come to dinner
and take Park Gettys' place. OF course
I'll have him take you in. Eleanor"
Please" said the girl. quietly, IF you
have made any change in your table ar
rangements to that effect let me go and
adjust it as we planned this morning.
do not want Mr.. Spence to take me In
to dinner. He has avoided me so now
/ will not throw myself in his way"
Aunt Phoebe looked at her quickly. |
$50 you prefer Dick Boyd? thought that
you would like Dick better than any,
body else
Even the women that evening had to !
admit that Eleanor was beautiful. She i
wore soft white taffeta gown with a |
rope of pearls about her neck that was |
her only ornament. Admiration for the |,
girl was so evident in Shirley Spence's |
eyes that Aunt Phoebe looked at her I
quickly to see what effect his manner
had on her. But Eleanor was merely 1
gracious and eyinced no particular inter-f
est in the .Enan who had avoided meeting |
her.
After dinner, when she had refused to I
marry Dick Boyd for the third and last
time, go he said Eleanor stepped into a
little alcove for the time. sick of the (
thing commorly called love. How could 1
Dick Boyd love her well enough after
two weeks acquaintance to ask her to be i
his wife? She believed that he was
fascinated because she was pret-i
ty, animated. and . little different froW