Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-07-14

waved aside tea, and called for a
lemon-squash.
ELSA, I am going to give you lee
ture"
Didn't tell your" cried Elsa to the
wife. Il felt in my bones that he was
going to say this very thing" She
turned to her old-time friend. go
on; lecture me-
I'm the first place, you are too kind
hearted
THAT will be news to my friends.
They say have heart of ice."
"And what you think is independ-
ence of spirit is sometimes indiscre-
ton"
Oh" said Elsa, becoming serious.
GA man came into my Office today.
He is a rich copra grower from Pc
nang. He spoke of you. You passed
him on going out. If had been twen-
ty years younger I'd have punched his
|! ugly head. His name is Mallow, and
he's not savory chap"
Elsa's cheeks. burned. She never
would forget the look in that mans
eyes. The look might have been in
other mems eyes, but conventionaltty
had always yelled it.; she had never
seen it before.
GO on" but her voice was IN
steady.
Somewhere along the Irrawaddy
you made the acquaintance of a young
man who calls himself Warrington, IA
miliarly known as Parrot & Co. I'll
be generous. Not one woman in q
thousand would have declined to 40
cept the attentions Of such man. He
| Is cultivated, undeniably good look
ing, a strong man, mentally and
| physically"
Elsa's expression was now enig-
| NAUTICAL.
There's not much veneer to him.
He fooled me unintentionally. He was
, quite evidently born a gentleman, of a
race of gentlemen. His is not an iso-
lated case. One misstep, and the road
! to the devil"
The consul generals wife sent a
startled glance at Elsa, who spun her
sunshade to tighten the tension of her
| nerves.
HE confessed frankly to me this
morning that he is fugitive from JUS
tice. He wishes to return to America
He recounted the circumstances of
your meeting"
Uncle Jim, I have travelled pretty
much over this world, and never met
gentleman if Warrington is not one"
There was unconscious belligerency in
her tone.
"Ah, there's the difficulty which
| women will never be made to under
stand. Every man can, at one time or
another, put himself upon his good be-
havior. Underneath he may be a fine
rascal
mot this one," smiling. "He warned
me against himself a dozen times, but
that served to make me stubborn. The
fault of my conduct" acidly, was not
in making this pariah's acquaintance.
1t lies in the fact that had nothing to
do with the other passengers, from
choice. That is where I was indiscreet.
But why should put myself out to
gain the good wishes of people for
whom I have no liking; people I shall
probably never see again when I leave
this port?"
'You forget that some of them will
be your fellow passengers all the way
to San Francisco. My child, you know
as well as I do that there are some
laws which the Archangel Michael
would have to obey, did he wish to in
habit this earth for a while"
Poor Michael! And if you do not
obey these laws, people talk
Exactly. There are two sets of
man-made laws. One governs the con-
duct of men and the other the conduct
of women"
"And a man may break any one of
these laws. I consider it horribly I'm.
fair
$50 it is. But if you wish to live in
peace, you must submit.
Peace at that price have no wish
) for. This man Mallow lives within
the pale Of law; the other man is out
side of it. YET of the two, which would
| you be quickest to trust?'
| The consul general laughed. "Now
, you are appealing not to my knowledge
of the world but to my instinct