The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-07-16

laugh she had known In the past.
Yes, but ! can hardly believe Il: I
seem to have been here half a lifetime.
To think that q month age ! was a
do~uble.dyed New Yorker"
IT'S been n strange experience for
you. When you come back TO New
York"
He looked at her. oddly she thought.
why should | 40 back7"
Why! Because it's your natural
habitat. inst it?"
That's the word" he said smiling.
1T was my habitat. This is my home"
She was silent a moment In sheer
surprise. She had thought OF this
Southern essay as a quickly passing
incident. a colorful chapter whose
page might any day be turned. But
II was impossible TO mistake his al
Ing. Clearly. he was deeply infatuated
with this Arcadian experience and had
no thought ut present but to continue
II indefinitely.
They were passing the entrance o! n
cherry.bordered lane. and without TAX.
ing his hands from tho gear. no
nodded toward the low broad.eaved
dwelling with It's towering arbors that
showed In flashing glimpses OF brown
and red between the intervening trees.
The palace OF the ~aueen!" he said
Rosewood. by name"
She looked In some curiosity. Clear.
ly. II not a refuge OF genteel poverty.
neither was II the abode OF wealth:
so. from her assured rampant OF the
Fargo millions. Katharine reflected
complacently. The girl was a local
favorite. OF course-he had been tact.
full as TO that. II was fortunate, I'm n
way. that he had not seen her, Katha.
rine. In the grand stand until after.
ward. Feeling toward her as she be-
lieved he did, with his absurd direct.
ness. he would have been likely to
drop the rose In her lap, never re-
necting that. the tourney being a local
function, the choice should not fall u>
on IN o%utlander.
The slowing OF the car brought her
back TO the present. and she looked
up to see before them the great gate OF
GLADDEN. Hall. She did not speak till
tney had guile stopped
Then. as her hand lay In his for
farewell. You are right In our de.
c!sion." she said softly. This Is your
place. You are n Valiant OF Virginia.
! didn't realize II before. but ! arr be.
ginning TO see all II means 10 you
Her voice held n lingering indein.
able qualit.r that was almost sadness.
and for that one slender instant, she
opened on him the unmasked batteries
OF her glorious gray eyes.
.
The tournament ball at Damory
Court that night was more than an
event. The old mansion was an IRE.
sistible magnet. The floor OF It's vel.
low parlor was known TO be OF delecta.
BILE hugeness. Its gardens we're a lie.
gend. The whole place. moreover. was
stepped In the very odor OF old mys.
terry and new romance. Small wonder
that to this particular AFFAIR the elect
the major was the high custodian
OF the rolls. his decisions being as the
laws OF the Modes and Perslans-came
gaiiy from the farthest county line
anu tHt uS HouScs vi tue nelknDOf
hood were crammed with over.nigh,
guests.
BY half past nine o'clock the pha
lanx OF chaperons decreed by old Gus
tom had begun TO arrive. and the grea,
iron gate at the front OF the drive
erect and rustless now-saw an impos
ing professional OF carriages. Thes,
passed up n slope as radiant with tn,
fairy light OF paper lanterns as n Japa
nese thoroughfare In festival season
The colored bulbs swung moon-lik'