New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-07-19

II don't quite catch your meaning
darkness was looking honestly be.
wildered.
II mean, IL she has learned to
care"
"Great Scot. sir. care for me? Be
In 10 Oh no. l can't eve say the
word in a connection like that. She
feels kindly toward me. I know, and
the Lord knows how good to me she's
been. As for me, why, you don't
thInk-no, of you don't think
that I'd have been worm enough, green
idiot enough, beast enough. to speak
that same word to her about myself?'
"If I could have thought 1t for an
instant. l apologize" said Christopher.
"Thank you. sir. You're a white
man. l knew you were. I love that
girl-yes. But even if there weren't
Il Mrs. darkness l wouldn't have told
Miss NOurma, any more than a COM
mon man like me could tell a queen
to have her for his wife. Her kind
isn't for my kind. And, besides, she
loves somebody; l guess a mighty diff
ferent sort of man from me. She
didn't say anything about him herself,
but her aunt told me. l hoped the
motoring and the beautiful scenery,
and the fresh air and new experiences,
might do her good. Though l ought to
have known that what Il tour from
India most round the world, to Amer
lea. couldn't do, two weeks in an auto
wouldn't. But, you see, she happened
to say, the afternoon before we landed
in Southampton, that going in a motor
car ought to be Il nice way of travelling
in England, and that she'd never taken
more than Il short ride in one But
though she's enjoyed everything, she
doesn't feel any stronger for the two
weeks"
II think I see," said Christopher.
''The father, in India, wouldn't let his
daughter marry the man she loved, and
Miss Dalrymple has been trotting her
niece about the world to help her to
forget"
"NO, you don't see" Hardness an
swered. but how could you, without
any sort of Il clue to the real
The young man is u fine chap
any father would be proud to have his
daughter marry; Il soldier who got a
Victoria Cross in that war of yours
with the Beers. before he was ordered
n, India HIS fiflnJ fnn fhtnG hos
Il baron or a baronet, and cookbook
ing. Miss Dalrymple said. She called
him u splendid fellow, worthy of her
niece. so you can guess what he must
be, for her to think that. But Miss
.ourma refused him."
although she loved him?"
because she loved him. But she
made him think she didn't care, other
wise he wouldn't have given her up.
She refused him because she was un-
Ter sentence of DEATH"
"Has the poor child got consump-
ion?' Christopher asked. "She doesn't
ook ill. It's only that she's different
rom other girls-seems made of moon
light, or flowers, or something un-
.arthly."
Miss NOurma's father was an Off
like the young man his daughter
He spent a summer in kaSh-
mir, on leave, about twenty-one years
go, and had some letters of introduce
ion to high-up, grand sort of natives,
and noblemen. Then he some
don't know how, for his sister
ltdn't tell me-gOt to see a girl he
wasn't supposed to see, for women
here aren't much on show, are they?
two fell desperately in love, and
e stole her away. They married; and
s it wasn't exactly the right sort of
hing for an officer to have done, when
e was a kind of guest, he gave up the
rmy. Miss NOurma's mother was per-
beautiful, Miss Dalrymple says.
Ter husband brought her to England,
ut she was hOmesick. and the climate
idn't suit her; so he managed to get
ONE civil appointment In a remote
art Of India. where he's stopped ever
lnce, not having any money of his
And his father was so displeased
18th the marriage, he didn't leave him
luch. But the lovely Kashmiran prin-
ass died when her baby was torn;
lat's Miss Nourma, whom they named
fter her mother. And it seems that
lie child of a European nan and a
woman, though almost al !
avs extraordinarily handsome. is just ,
lie same as born under sentence of
I
IF Captain Dalrymple had been a
oh man something might have been
one earlier, perhaps, or so it appears, {
that the worlds growing scientific. I
hen she was a child, Miss NOurma
light have been sent away from India, S
IT to England, but to the High En- {
ldine for the winters and somewhere
every summer-mOuntains or S
le seaside; and she might have had l
eat specialists to look after her. But
, was poor, and nobody supposed, q
lyhOw, that there was a chance for e
little girl to escape the fate others t
I'd suffered when their time came, =
Sc her father might have made a ire y
endOus effort. AS for NOurma. she a
as happy enough. for, Of course. no t
told her. 1t was only Just before 2
Dalrymple, the aunt, came out to \
sit her brother and niece Indeed,
less that was what took her out) v
at Miss Nourma overheard a CONVEX a
ton which let her know what to ex- n
ct. When the young officer pro- h
sed she said No. pretending not to "
re a bit. g
sNOt a word did she tell her father G