The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-25
CHAPTER XII.
The Golden Gun.

more easy than to dive into Thu
whirlpool. The difficulty was tt
come out again unframed, and K
bring the golden cup which lay a.
the bottom. David Noel hac
stepped into the social vortex. Ht
was swept to it's center with some
what bewildering speed, and car
ried round and round it's monot,
onous gaities.
june melted into July. July
fused into a fierce, savagely cruel
August, even for New York; yet
Noel had not glimpsed a loving
cup shaped to his lips. Princesses
ycs-girls whose loneliness dazzled
his eyes, yet somehow missed his
fancy.
He began to grow restless and
out Of patience with himself. Still
he stubbornly persisted; went IL
country houses to Adirondack
lodges, to see and hills, as indefa-
tigabiy as if he conducted some
new campaign. Milo Valdez was
deliriously happy, in and out of
love a dozen times. Noel looked at
his secretary with blended exas-
peration and envy.
In the middle of August he left
Valdez at a house party and re-
turned to New York alone. In Sep
TENDER he must return to South
America and he was resolved to
take a wife with him. AL the OBJ
stinacy of his nature was fixed on
that.
He mad come to New York to
think, and he intended to leave the
city with decision made; but the
days passed and brought nothing.
No princess foot would carry on
the trail LETT by the false little
shoes which had vanished and left
him lost.
He began to reflect that love is
not necessary to marriage. Friend
ship might be enough, with all that
his money could give the girl, and
all that his occupations would give
him of relief. He was beginning
to discover that most %princesses
were decidedly practical, not to
say cold of heart.
1t was during these last days
that Noel idly fell to watching a
girl who daily passed that hotel
window before which he was ac-
customed to take his breakfast.
She was a very ordinary girl in
deed, aud very, very far from be
ing even a countess or a duchess,
not to speak Of a princess.
Quite obviously she belonged to
those who work that they may
live. The fixed hour at which she
passed the hotel window each day
tho sober little ffrock she always
wore, a certain air Of purpose
about her, all proved her M Of
the city's toilers. As such, she was
absolutely outside of David Noel's
range OF thought.
Yet, somehow, he looked at her
Every morning he saw her dance
past him on the sunny side Of the
street. She really walked, o1
course, but she walked as only the
born dancer can-Swith an earth
spurning lightness, an enchanting
suppleness Of strong little archee
foot and rounded apkle, a rhyth
mic sway Of 1.-THE young body ane
limbs. She carried her small CHR
nptilted, as il she half expected
someone to look over her shoulder
at any moment, in make fir
tation; but she was not at all Thu
kind Of girl with whom anyon,
could flirt. Noel recognized thai
at once. She was as clean as thu
sunshine she evidently loved anc
shcs flashed through the grim,
strets with much the same IN
harmed and shining serenity.
Had David Noel been less restles.
and dissatisfied, probably he ncve,
ssSW0nld hayaAn0ticed the littleapl
benin. He fell to watching be-
from sheer WEAKNESS Of h.lasclf
with the same Indifferent, casua
attention that he bestowed upo1
park squirrels and staggering
gutter sparrows. lie never dream
ad Of nyckanusnn, crnnnh .,,:%L u.