The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-06-18
Auhor9f The arpctIromDa5dad
The Place @Hbngymoons, etc.
CHAPTER xvl-continued.
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then glanced tOWard brilliant night
outside. 1t would not be possible to
sleep Ia that room again. So he tip
tOed out to the cafe veranda and
dropped into q comfortable chair. He
would hunt them up some time during
the day. He would ask MallOW for
6fty pounds. and he sincerely hoped
that Mallow would refuse him. For
he was grimly resolved that MalloW
should pay for those half-truths, more
damning than bald lies. 1t was due to
Nallow that he was never more to see
or speak to Elsa. He emptied the ash
from his Guilty which he slowed away.
The great heartache and the great
Or disillusiOn would not have fallen to
his lot had Elsa been frank in Ran
COON, had she but told him that she
was to sail on the same steamer. He
would have put over his sailing. He
would have gone his way. still believ-
Ing himself to be a Bayard, a Galahad
or any other of those simple dreamers
who put honor and chivalry above and
before all other things.
ELSA! He covered his face with his
hands and remained In that position
Tor . long while. SO long indeed that
the coolies. whose business 1t was to
scrub the things every morning at
-Four, went about their work quietly for
fear OF disturbing him.
Elsa had retired almost immediate
" after dinner. She endeavored to
nnish some initial work on old en-
Aroideries. but the needle insisted
Npon pausing and losing stitch after
stitch. She went to bed and strove to
sleep. but that sweet healer came not
20 her wooing. Nothing she did could
overcome the realization Of the shock
she had received. 1t had left her dull
and bewildered.
The name echoed and re-echoed
Through her mind: Paul Ellison. 1t
should have been an illumination; in
stead. she had been thrust into utter
darkness. Neither Arthur nor his
mother had ver spoken of q brother.
and she had known them for nearly
ten years. Two men, who might be
twin brothers. with the same name; 1t
was maddening. What could it mean?
The beautiful white-haired mother, the
handsome charming son, who idolized
each other: and this adventurer. this
outcast, this patient. brave and kindly
Outcast. with bis funny parrakeet.
what wal he to them and they to
aimf It must be, 1t must be! They
were brothers. Nature, full Of amazing
freaks as she was. had not perpetrated
Ahis one without calling upon q single
strain Of blood.
She lay hack among her pillows, her
eyes leveled ct the few stars beyond
her door. opened to admit any cooling
breeze. Her head ached.s 1t was like
the computations Of astronomers: to
: certain extent the human mind could
grasp the distances but could not COM
Iprehend them. It was more than
chance. Chance alone had not brought
him to the crumbling ledge. There
was q strain OF fatalism In Elsa. She
was positive that oil these things had
been written long before and that she
was to be used IS the key.
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She drew from the past those salient
'recollections Of Arthur and his moth
ler: First. the day the two had called
regarding the purchase Of . house that
her father had just put on the market
- rambling old colonial affair. her
own mothers birthplace. Sixteen; she
had not quite been that. just free from
her school dars In Italy. With the
grand cir Of youth she had betrayed
tho fact almost instantly. while wait
ing Tor her father to come into the
living room.
sItaiy!" said Artkur's mother. whom
Hiss mentally adopted at once. The
stranger spoke q single phrase. which
Elisa answered in excellent il formal
I'm. This led from one question to
another. Mrs.. Ellison turned out to
- 1 schoolmate Of her mothers, and
she. Elsa, had inherited their very
room. What more was needed?
The Ellisons bought the house and
lived quietly within It. Society. and
kheTe Wa = good deal OF 1t In that
mmA1l Kentuckjan city, society waited
~ them TO approach. and apply for ed
n1te4nce. but waited in vain. Mrs. FL
.4Q4 never went anywhere. Her son
oS41pr va = student and preferred
ooks. So eventually society intro
ttseif. Persons who ignored II
l : interesting. When It became
that Mrs. Ellison had been the
moeo Of the beautiful and aristo-