The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1915-04-02

II forgot Here are twenty pounds.
You can return the balance when
call. l am very grateful"
by the name Of Mallow," began the
consul general.
YES" interrupted Warrington. with
a smile which was grim and cruel. 81
expect to call upon him. He owes me
something like fifty pounds. and am
going to collect it," Then he went
out.
The consul general dropped NAL
lows perfecto into the wastebasket
and lighted his pipe. Once more he
read the cablegram. The Andes Con.
struction company. What a twist.
what an absurd kink in the skein!
Nearly all of Elsas wealth lay bound
up in this enormous business which
General Chetwood had founded thirty
odd years before. And neither of
them knew!
Il am not bad man at heart" he
unused. but l liked the young mans
expression when ] mentioned that
bully Mallow."
He joined his family at five. He
waved aside tea, and called for
lemon-squash.
ELSA, | am going to give you lee
ture"
Didn't tell your" cried Elsa to the
wife. II felt in my bones that he was
going to say this very thing" She
turned to her old-time friend. go
on; lecture me-"
in 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-
tion."
oh" said Elsa, becoming serious.
"A 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. II had been TWEEN
ty years younger I'd have punched his
ugly head. His name is Mallow. and
he's not a savory chap"
Elsas cheeks burned. She never
would forget the look In that mans
eyes. The look might have been in
other mems eyes, but conventionality
had always yelled it; she had never
seen it before.
go on" but her voice was un.
steady.
Somewhere along the Irrawaddy
you made the acquaintance of young
man who calls himself Warrington, ia
miliarly known as Parrot & Co. I'll
be generous. Not one woman in a
thousand would have declined to ac-
cept the attentions of such a man. He
is cultivated, undeniably good look
ing, strong man. mentally and
| physically"
Elsas expression was now enig-
NAUTICAL.
There's not much veneer to him.
He fooled me unintentionally. He was
quite evidently born a gentleman, of
race of gentlemen. His is not an iso-
lated case One misstep, and the road
to the devil"
The consul generals wife sent
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, / have travelled pretty
much over this world, and never met
a 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 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 l was indiscreet.
But why should l put myself out to
gain the good wishes Of people for
whom have no liking; people I shall
probably never see again when 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 we'll as | 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"