Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1919-11-27


Never return! my dear lady, you
could not possibly desert Melbourne
Hall. The very stones would cry out
upon you"
"oh," she said looking straight
into his face; my husband may not
like England, you know"
II will believe 1t when he has the
courage to tell me 30" y
Men are generally courageous
when 1t is a question of telling wom-
an what they do not like. l am to
live in Bucharest, be 1t known. My
summers will be spent in the Car
pathians. l shall become child of
the primitive colors the red, the blue,
and the orange-which Menie Muriel
Dowie tells us are an eternal delight
to the eyes. I am promised glorious
weeks on the Black Sea, and more
glorious weeks on seas which are not
black. The sun is always shining
there-why should one want to come
back to England?"
Had anyone asked Evelyn why she
gpoke in this way to stranger,
man Of whose existence she had hard
" been aware yesterday, she would
certainly have been unable to give
satisfactory answer. To no other In
ill her life had she spoken so openly
and 20 readily as to this fair-haired.
blue-eyed Bnglishman, who did not ap-
pear to have one grain of humbug in
III his body. Her surprise was not
greater than her pleasure; she would
deny that It pleased her thus to con-
TESS intimate thoughts which she had
not shared even with her own father.
Gavin, upon his part. servant of can
dor always, observed nothing unusual
in her freedom; but he could ask him
self already If she were in love with
the man to whom her future was
pledged.
I'VE are forgetting how to be seri-
GUS" he rejoined; that is also one
of the vices of the age. People chat
ter away as though words were
enough and the truth of words nothing
at all. You do not mean anything you
say, and you expect me 20 listen to
you in the same spirit. decline to
do so. If you go to Bucharest, you
will come back again before the year
is OUT JAS for the blue. red and Or
ange, we'll, could as soon imagine
you buying an early Victoria side
board. That Is my frank opinion. You
must forgive me II it offends?"
He looked straight into her eyes
and she did not turn away. Gavin Ord
was unlike any man she had known
not by mere cleverness alone, but by
that strength Of will and character
which could not fail to assert itself
In any company. whatever its nature.
Here sat one whom. were he to com.
0and her. she would certainly obey.
Such possibility Of docility aston.
ished Evelyn beyond measure-but 1t
also encouraged her to put question
to him.
Frank opinions need no forgive
ness" she said. II am longing for
more, Mr.. Ord. You told me last
night that you believed you had met
me in London. Please tell me where
II was"
She asked the question with some
pretty pretence OF Indifference which
did not deceive him for an instant. 1t
Is better, he thought, that should tell
tation whatever:
II am quite wrong, OF course; but
when / thought the matter over l re-
membered that a young actress. who
made great sensation at the Carlton
Theatre in May. might have been
named for your own sister. That Is
what gave me the idea that l had
seen you before"
How strange! Do you also re-
member the lady's name?"
Perfectly. All London went mad
over her. She called herself Eta
Romney, and the play showed Just
such . house as this. 1t was the old
story Of Oh Vernon retold, Lady Eve.
lyn."
You we're much taken with the
play, 1t appears?" {
Not with the play at all. But
thought Eta Romney one Of the clsv.
crest women / have ever seen on the
stage"
"Is she playing still, may ask?"
you know that she Is not, Lady
Evelyn"
81 know it-are you serious?"
80 serious that I shall forget the
subject until you choose to speak Cd
It again"
But 1t interests me greatly" she
pleaded, with that insistence which
often attends the discussion Of things
better avoided. IF l am really 30 like
somebody else, ought not to be seri.
Gus? You say"
Indeed, say nothing" he ex.
claimed quickly, and then In lower
voice-"at least until the Earl has
breakfasted."
She did not reply. The Earl en-
tered the room and began at once to
speak OF Gavin's work and the ar
rangements which must be made for
It.