Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1922-02-09

Does Mr.. Carter play golf tomor-
row?" he asked, presently.
Il suppose sol"
"And you-what do you dO?"
"Oh, 1 have a full day! People to
lunch, friends of Madame Carter"
The boy laughed triumphantly.
Il knew you'd say that ~ he said.
"NOw, I'll tell you about tomorrow.
You and 1 are going to slip away, at
about one o'clock, and go off in the
gray car. Well go up to-well, some
where, and We'll have our lunch under
the trees. Well be back at about four.
for the tea callers, and they may have
you until 1 come back for dinner.
After dinner Wen walk on the terrace
as we did two wonderful, wonderful
nights ago, and perhaps" His voice
had fallen to rich and tender note,
his eyes were rapt. perhaps" he
said, lust before we go in, at the
end of the terrace, you'1 look up at
the stars again"
''TOny" Isabelle interrupted, her
face brilliant with color. MY dear
boy-my dear boy, think where this
is going to end. In all reason-in all
reason"
isabelle, what in Gods name has
reason to do with it ~ He knelt be-
fore her, and caught her hands, and
Isabelle had a terrified fear that
Ward, or Nina, or any one else, might
start up or down the terrace steps and
see him. ''The instant you realize
what you and 1 are to each other, my
darling" he said, "you begin to talk
of reason. Love isn't reason, Cherie.
It's the divfnest unreason In the
worldi Cherie, there's never been
another woman for me; there never
will be! 1 can't liye without you; /
don't want to! You're frightened now,
you don't know how we can manage
it. But III find the way. The only
thing that matters is that you must
belong to me-you shall belong to me
as TO you in every fiber of my be-
ing"
"Tony-for Heavens sake-!" Isa-
belle was in an agony. Somebody was
approaching He had gotten to his
feet, and was gloomily staring at the
river, when Nina Carter, followed by
great white Russian hound, came
flying down the steps.
Mother" Nina, tall, Overgrown
girl, with spectacles on her straight
nose, and straight, lfght-brown hair in
thick braids, stopped short and gave
her mothers companion a look of
whitening distaste. Mother" she be-
gan again, aren't you coming up for
tea?"
ASK Betty Allen to pour" said
Mrs. Carter, regaining her compoSure
rapidly, and assuming the air of host
esS at once.
Betty went home for a tub" Nina
explained. "She's coming back. But,
Mother" she added, with a family re-
prOachfuI and whining intOnation,
really, you ought to be there
Mrs. Carter knew this as well as
Nina. But she found the child ex-
tremely trying in this puritanical
mood. Granting that this affair with
Tony did her, Isabelle, small credit,
at least it was not for Nina to sit in
judgment. RebelliOus, Isabelle fOndled
the loving nose of the hound with a
small, brown. jeweled hand. and
glanced obviously at Tony's uncom-
promising back.
'Trot back, Nina, love-" said she To
her daughter, cheerfully, "and ask
Misc Horrinf TO
III be there directly. Wen come right
up. Run along"
To Nina, in this ignominous dismis-
sal, there was sweet. She adOred Miss
Harriet" the Miss Field who had
been her governess and her mothers
secretary for the three happiest years
of Nina's somewhat sealed young life.
1t would be fun" to have Miss Field
pour. Nina leaped Obedlently up the
steps, with a Topping of thick braids
| and the scrape of sturdy shoes, and
the sweet summer worlI vas in silence
again.
Isabelle sat on, stroking the hound
her soul filled with perpleXity. An
thongs eloquent back gave her sudden
understanding of his fury. "Ah, please,
Tony" she pleaded, what can l dOT'
Nothing" he answered. suddenly
plant. Nothing, of course" And
he turned to her a bOyish face stern
with pain. "Of course you can do
nothing, Cherie. I'm not such a-such
fool his voice broke angrily-
that l can't see that! Come on, We'll
go up and have tea-with the Bel
! lamys. And I-I'Il be going tonight
I'll say good-by to you nOw-and per
haps you'll be good enough to make
my gOOd-bys to the others"
| The yOuthfulness of it did not rob
it of real dignity. Isabelle, wretched,
| ly mounting the steps beside him, felt
her heart contract with real pain. He
would go away-it would all be over
and forgotten in few weeks-and
yet, how she lOnged to comfort him
to make him happy again!
She looked Obliquely at his set face
and what she saw there made her
| feel ashamed.
On the bright level of the upper ter
race tea was merrily in progress Miss
! Field had duly eNome down - preside