The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-02-23
COPYRIGHT, 1914, by the Star Company
All foreign rights reserved.
CHAPTER XXI.

Pauline sat reading by the arbored
libarary window. They had come late
to the country home this summer and
the park of Castle Marvin had had
time to leave and bloom into utter
splendor. 1t was like flowery king
dom in the Land of Fairy, and as her
eyes were lifted listlessly now and
then from the printed page, they
roamed over the garden which lay like
some vast and radiant Oriental rug In
Natures palace hall. The distant for
est was the palace hall, tapestried in
green; it's dome a sky of tender blue;
it's lamp, the morning sun; its Prince,
her Harry, STANDING In the garden.
e should always stand in the gar
den," laughed Pauline to herself 1.-THE
flowers are such splendid foil for
him"
She shut her eyes in sheer safety OF
Not even the shabby man
| hopping his hot forehead as he came
along the road harmed the picture.
| AS he turned in at the gate and look
ed about him with strange dazed eyes
he seemed only an improving contrast.
| She was little surprised to see him,
moment later, talking in an easy way
| with Harry, but there was no false
pride in her lover-brother and all men
| were his friends until they proved
| themselves his enemies. All except
| Owen. She wondered why he looked
own on Owen.
The shabby man, holding his hat
between his nervous hands, was evil
IDENTIFY an applicant for work. Harry
| pointed to the flower beds and the
! rose trees with a mod of inquiry. The
man assented vaguely. They came UP
| the path together, making their way
towards the servants quarters over
| the garage. Harry paused at the ar
bored window and spoke smilingly to
Pauline.
| Il have hired a new gardener who
does not know his own name," he
said.
/ The man shuffled his feet and look
/ ed sheepishly at the ground. Harry
| passed ON with him and called the
/ chauffeur, Farrell who took the new
man into the garage.
Pauline turned back to the pages
OF the Cosmopolitan. A picture in al
article on the motor races caught hel
eye and held it for some reason thai
she did not at first understand. L
was picture of man in auto-racert
costume, with helmet tight upon bill
head and the keen features and darins
eyes peculiar to those who live. b!
peril. She had started to read thu
caption when she was interrupted b,
Bemis bringing her letters. With
little flutter of pleasure, she laid doWl
the omen magazine, and, womaniike
began to read the letters from thei
| r1r Inf Opanjnp them Nh
hit upon one that brought little pea
of laughter from her, and she opene'
1t eagerly and read:
Walter and ] want you and Harr
to be with us at the wedding. Don
faint We decided only yesterday, an
It's going to happen very quiet, wit
Just the few people whom we ca
reach with informal notes like this
You can motor over in an hour. Tel
Harry our lions arrived last Thursda
from Germany and after the wedding
the keeper will exhibit them. If Har
ry won't come to see me married, he1
come to see the lions. Yours in
furry,
SOPHIE MCALI4AN."
: Pauline laughed again. 1t was l1k
\ her unconventional chum, Sophie,
| arrange H6G WtuuluS Will thS san
] startling haste that had marked a
D the breathless events OF her life. tn
lions she mentioned are typical of ne
g original ideas. She had suddenly al
nounced to her parents one day thu
. she was tired of domestic animals an
. was going to keep lions instead. AT
her amused and amazed father ne
It not only been forced to yield. but
keep his eye out all over Europe, Ash
and Africa for new bargains In we
bred lions even since.
1t was also very typical of Soph
k that she had selected from among
the dashing wooers at her heels, wa
lter Trumwell, simple and sedate, WI
was Mortified by her pranks and shoe
= ed by her use Of slang, but who ador'
her with the devotion Of a frighten
puppy. Their engagement had be.
long announced 1t was only IN
NJ high-handed abruptness that the we
ding was surprise.
Pauline dropped the letter ON
table and hurried from the room