Evening star., 1915-02-21

For all Adea's careful training for all her sheltered
life, there about her touch of wdness than
a little pagan imagination. She could not the
singer: she felt if his voice and hers alone in
the woods, and miles apart. With curious of
unreay she accepted the key he had chosen and let
her voice rise in thin but sweet soprano.
With strange elation the two voices kept till the
very last had sounded. Then Adea heard the
pushing aside of bushes quick tread, and her singing
mate stood before her. He tall, broad young man,
with red, curling hair, and plain but winning face.
He carried his hat in his hand: if in saluaton
of her, but he walked freely with bare head
He well tranping suit and he had small
knapsack on his back For moment their eyes met
in such glance Adea had never exchanged with any
other Then he bowed, and turning away walked
across the glade and disappeared among the
the other side.
"But how perfect" thought Adela at was little
idy, song, and he would not spoil it by word.
That is the sort of experience not worth describing and
yet always cherishes it
She drove home slowly, rather subdued in spirit. Life
had been carefree far. 1t would be pleasant if
could always remain girl; but age would wait for
one, and it high time she married Penrhyn Hale.
She and her father dned with the Hales that night,
and she all that prospective ancee and daughter
in-law should have been. There good deal of
fatery and some pathos in the way the two elder
unable to conceal their pride in the young couple
Adea asked herself what right, except the right of
chance, she and Penrhyn had to have such golden
future decreed for them.
THE next morning she was walking past the Hale
estate with her favorite Airedale when she
startled into standsti by the sight of two figures
coming out of the carriage gate One Penrhyn, and
the other the unknown singer Both lifted their hats.
Good morning. Adela, Hale said a wonder if you
chance to remember Baldwin Crane? He visited
when about twelve, and, l remember, he tried
to improve your tennis
Adea held out her hand. @I remember vaguely" she
said "At any my game did improve about that
time. Are you stopping with Mr.. Hale?'
"Isuppose am in a way Crane said. "1m to be his
secretary-socal more less for this summer andbus
in the autumn, when really buckle down towork
"Of course he's stopping with me- Hale said. ave
don't mean to let work spoil our summer fun
Adela sudden CLINT of determination in Cranes
eyes, which she knew meant that if he
plovee he intended to earn his salt. She remembered
family colossal failure that Cranes father had made,
and then the emigration of the whole family to the
West. And now young Crane had come back to make
his fortune in New York! 1t occurred to Adela
that any who worked could be working for any
thing but fortune As she looked at Cranes smiling,
plain face she wondered if it could have been dream
that their voices had met the day before Certainly he
looked conventional enough now.
"Its holiday with me today Crane said. "Dont
you think, Pen, l might what my labor Miss
Rolin has really done for tennis?"
well get someone else and have doubles Hale as
sented "Nav we turn back with you Adela?'
Adela smiled consent. Crane had become stranger
to her 1t until evening that he back what
he had lost. She and her father giving rather
large dinner party and Crane and the Haes present
Afterward Crane, in a quiet of the terrace,