Evening star., 1923-08-15
Continued from Yesterdays starr
What has that got to do with it?'
You are engaged, them?

What has that got to do with it?"
You are engaged, them?
"Well-yes."
Greg groaned inwardly. Up to this
moment he had been consoling him.
self with the assurance that the cas-
lillian youth might have been lylng.
1t was she who broke the next long
silence. What difference does tnat
make?'
"A great deal to me-"
She perversely chose TO misunder-
stand him. DO you mean that you
don't care to help an engaged girlF
Il don't mean that at all, said
Greg Indignantly.
What do you mean, them?
Am l no more to you than a kind
of detective to be dropped as soon as
this case is done WITH" he demanded
bitterly. Perhaps YOU expect to pay
me for my services and let me 60"
IF you're going to be hateful
don't know what to say"
Neither do l." said Greg gloomiiy;
81 guess there is nothing to be said
Once more 1t was she who could not
support the silence. Who told you
l was engaged" she demanded.
He did. The young man. 1 don't
know his name" 49,
"Where did YOU ever meet him?"
In the Meriden. After he left you
day before yesterday l followed MN
into the bar and managed TO get INTO
conversation Win MIN. was - - .
then to find some way of getting into
communication with you. HE Foluh-
teered the information about being
engaged to YOU, 1t came out OF the
clear sky to me-"
She said, not with entire candor
perhaps: II am to understand, then
that you wish to have nothing more
to do with me or my affairs.
Nothing of the kind" he said. Il
shall go through with It to the enc,
r~ez IN
then ?'-this with a plaintive note
II am quarreling with you because
yesterday in your letters you caheo
me your friend; you led me to believe
than a useful person. yet you with
held this essential fact"
But you knew it all the time"
You didn't tell me. How did l
know but what the man was lying?'
Hes incapable of lying"
"Oh. now you're simply trying to
change the issue"
He had her there. She fell silent.
Presently he went on with added
bitterness. What 1 can't understand
is, when you said you were an Amerl-
can, when you said you loved America,
how you could have chosen him.
That's why" she said. Hes an
American"
What"
Half an American, anyway. His
father was an American. like mine.
His name is Henry Saunders.
Il fancy he must take after his
mother" said Greg dryly.
Once more they rode for several
blocks in a miserable silence, each
looking out of his own window.
I'm sorry l can't drop this painful
subject" Greg said at last. but I've
got to know where Mr.. Saunders
what do You mean? He doesn't
come in at all"
rs he on de Socotra's side?"
He has nothing to do with poll
tics"
II see What does he do?"
"Are you trying to insult him?"
Not at all. Merely asking for
little Information"
Hes very wealthy. He looks after
his property. and-er-he travels"
"I see. What would your uncle
have said about him?'
ct don't know, I'm sure"
But you said your uncle's ideas had
very strongly affected you"
That's true. But / wouldn't let
him nor anybody else choose man
for me to marry"
'Of course not. But as the wife of
Mr.. Saunders do you expect to lead
the kind of life your uncle recon-
mended?"
"I don't admit your right to ask me
any such question"
Easy enough to say that when the
question is hard to answer" said
II wish 1 were home" she said in
a small voice.
But he would not spare her. why
haven't you told Mr. Saunders every
thing that has happened?"
"Because-oh. a thousand reasons!
How many more questions do you
expect me to answer"
'Is 1t because you think he might
not be willing to help you run down
Of Aptn fn 70 do
You have no right to suggest such
a thingw
But you said he was rich. Nat
urally he belongs to the rich mans
party"
He's honest and straightforward"
Then why haven't you told him?"
81 wished to spare him."
I'm sorry, but he must be told"
Her eyebrows went up. Must?
don't like your tone. Why must hep"
You and l can't be engaged on these
secret matters and go around to-
gether without his being told. must
insist on his being told for my own
sake"
1t need hardly be said that in taxi
ing this lofty moral position Greg
was not wholly sincere. AS a mat
ter of fact he suspected that the
Castilian youth would cut very poor
figure in a matter of this kind, and
he had a not unnatural desire to show
him up.
Very we'll. I'll tell him." she said
GROSSLY.
And 1 should be introduced to
him."
Anything else?" she queried sar-
castically.
On the whole that drive home could
not be considered a success. The
very warmth Of their feelings to-
wards each other gave them a power
to wound that they seemed to take
a perverse pleasure in exercising to
the full. But Greg thought of how
II would be after she left him, and