The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-11-07
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laugh she had known In the past.
Yes. but can hardly believe II:
seem to have been here half lifetime.
To think that a month ago ! was q
double dyed New Yorker"
ITS been strange experience Tor
YOU. When you come back to New
York"
He looked at her. oddly she thought,
why should I 90 back?"
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 mean
Ing. Clearly, he was deeply infatuated
with this Arcadlan experience and had
no thought at present but to continue
il indefinitely.
They we're passing the entrance - :.
cherry. bordered lane. and without TAX
ing his hands from the gear, he
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 queen!" he said
Rosewood, by name"
tn
ly. II not a refuge OF geDteel poverty.
neither was II the atvde OF wealth
so, from her assured rampant Of the
Fargo millions Katharine reflected
complacently. The girl was local
fayorlte, II course-he had been tact
full as to that. II was fortunate, in a
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-
fecting that, the tourney being a local
function, the choice should not fall up
on an outlander.
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 TIL
they had quite stopped.
Then. as her hand lay in his for
farewell, You are right In your de-
cisIon," she said softly. This is your
place. You are a Valiant OF Virginia
didn't realize It before, but am be.
ginning to see all 1t means to you"
Her voice held a lingering indefin.
able quality 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 ar
event. The old mansion was an IRE
slstible magnet The floor OF It's vel
low parlor was known to be OF dele eta
BILE hugeness. Its gardens were lie
gend. The whole place, moreover, wal
stepped In the very odor OF old mys
terry and new romance. Small wonde
that to this particular AFFAIR the cleo
the major was the high custodian
OF the rolls, his decisions being as tn
laws OF the Modes AID Persians-cam
gaily from the ( rthest county line
and the big houses OF the neighbor
hood were crammed with over.nigh
guests.
Ply half past nine o'clock the phs
Ia TX OF chaperons decreed by old Gu,
tom had begun to arrive, and the grea
iron gate at the front OF the drive
erect and rustless now-saw an impoi
ing professional Of carriages Thes
passed up a slope as radiant with tn
fairy light OF paper lanterns as a Jap,
nese thoroughfare In festival season
The colored bulbs swung moon.lily