, 1920-03-11

ANU SO, SuIu AlTS, lGeut. NE WdI1I
YOUR advice"
Eyes, Cousin Anne. we were sure
Won would know inst how To handle IT.,
chimed in Daisy.
Cousin Anne looked Mt them with n
rather humorous exnression in her
beautiful gray ewes aI,et mo see If
7 have n straiphtn she said. show
ing her concentration on the subject
in hand by a most alluring frown.
"There are two men-one named
Tommy and one named :James-botb
standing on their toes to marry
Daisy here"
"Weu. realIv Cousin Anneu infer.
rnnted Daisv c~onscientiouslv "James
has never said ANYTHING as definite
as that II 10 inst that he keens COM
ing here day after dav and sends me
all sorts of lovely things"
Mrs. Trent broke in rather breath
~lesslv: "Among them some French
poems. which. of course. I wouldn't let
her readl"
"Dear. dear. how dreadful of him ~
asserted Anne Dunsany. a sterply re-
pressed twinkle In her ewes.
"Wbst else does he do Daisv7n
cts more the way he looks at me
than ANYTHING else" said Daisy. His
ewes are so. well. intent-they make
me fairly suufrm. And her the next
minute I think he's at me.
Tommy saws he knows there's some
thing yery queer about James. drop
ping down there in Glenbrook from
nowhere that we know ANYTHING
about and keeping a dead silence about
his life before he came. It does look
oueer. doesn't it?n
81 can see how IL would look queer
to Glenbrook." replied Anne eouiyo-
| cally. "These silent. mysterious. fas-
| chatting men with intent looks I'm their
ewes generally bear investigation"
That's what Tommy saws" smiled
Daisv.
Anne looked at her vounr cousin
in silence for n moment. Then she
rose. picked nm her very chic hat and
| placed # on her golden head with a
most becoming tilt all her own.
"Tll be back before long" she said.
"Tm going to have a look al the mys-
terious James house. An observant
woman can learn almost anything
| about a man from his front door mat
and waving her hand in farewell she
disappeared down the garden path
and out the big gates onto the road.
In spite of the difference of ten years
in their ages and the difference of a
world in their experiences of life, Anne
| Dunsany was very fond of her little
cousin. BY some freak of cousinship
they looked almost enough alike to be
sisters and l.nce took a very deep and
personal Interest in everything that
tOached her.
Il cO5fG easily murder that James
man In cold blood If he is playing
with her." h unused as she APP
preached a comfortable house set back
from the street. She was just In time
to see a motorcar dash through the
| gates and disappear in a cloud of dust
up the road.
'"That's James" unused Anne.
Now for his housed"
1t was a nice house from the out
side, Anne had to admit. The white
pillars of its broad veranda cleaned
in stately purity at all suspicious
passersby as If denying their owners
possible blackness Of reputation. The
wicker chairs and tables, the maya
zines and books strewn around In
pleasant disarrays looked attractive.
81 wish I could see the inside" sud
denly thought Anne. "He's out and 1
don't see any servants around-Pm go
ing to explorer and before she had
time to reconsider she had hurried up
the front walk. mounted the steps n
entered the house.
She walked into a long, low room.
The late afternoon III came through
the open windows and touched the
rows Of old books that reached up to
the ceiling with a golden light. 1t