Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-08-15

lives behind the bars? 1t simply makes
one pull at them little harder l am
as badly off as Stepan himself, who
loves me from behind the fortress
walls. Sometimes l wish that l were
there with him."
Madame de Poniere reached for an
ivory-topped stick and rose to her feet.
Almost as though by magic, from
somewhere within the dim, cool re-
cesses of the room beyond, the gray
haired manservant was by her side
She leaned upon his arm.
"We drive at four O'clock, Pauline"
she said. Afterwards, we will watch
the play at the Sporting club"
Pauline shrugged her shoulders 1t
was the same yesterday afternoon, and
every day behind. 1t would probably
! be the same tomorrow. She looked in
tently across the narrow gorge toward
that other villa. A two-seated car
had turned in from the road and was
crawling up the winding avenue She
stretched out her hand for>the field
glasses which lay on the table by her
side The figure of the young man at
the wheel was familiar to her.
Pauline rose to her feet Almost
as mysteriously as the manservant
had appeared few moments before, a
black-robed maid fastened toward her.
Pauline shook her head.
'"This afternoon 1 do not wish to
rest" she decided Il shall walk In
the gardens"
Pauline descended the stone steps,
crossed the drive and plunged into a
narrow footpath which wound its way
through a plantation of stunted but
understanding pine trees, downward |
toward the sea. The path was not an |
easy one, and Paulines shoes were
scarcely designed for such an adven-
ture. Nevertheless, she persevered.
At last she gained her end. She stood
upon the little strip of sand, besprin-
killed. with rocks, which bordered the
sea. Only few yards away the SHIN
mering blue water rocked toward the
land in little wavelets. She turned
and looked back. The villa from
which she had come seemed like a
dolls house shining out of its shelter
ing clump of expresses. More directly
above her now was the far more extern
slve residence of Lord Hinterleys. She
looked toward It searchingly. There
were several people upon the broad
amongst them the slim figure
Of a young man at its farther edge,
gazing intently in her direction. She
smiled a little as she picked her steps
across the yellow sand to the edge Of
the sea and clambered on to a rock.
queer fit of heedlessness was upon
Ter. She stood upon the top of the
slippery rock, finding a strange pleas {
Ire In the salt-laden air and the wind {
which brought a thousand ripples Of
light to the trembling blue sea, which
lew her skirts about, and even |
'rought disarrangement to her smooth
y bound hair. This tempering Of the /
unshine brought a new Joy to its ;
warmth. She stood there basking in a S
urely sensuous pleasure, forgetful for @
moment of the depression of the q
1orning. The sound of tumbling v
tones In the little gorge behind S
careely disturbed her. 1t was not r
nth she heard footsteps upon the n
trip of beach that she turned her t
cad. Coming toward her, already '
My few yards away, was young h
ian Of personable appearance and I'M g
ontedly determined expression. For Il
nee in his life Gerald had made up
Is mind. So
Although he was In reality brimful al
confidence In all his relations with
lie other sex, Gerald had sometimes
not altogether unattractiye appear 81
ice of shyness. He stood bareheaded til
II a moment, looking up at Pauline. Y
81 am sorry if I startled you" he
i'd. II was looking for my sister. w
low this is a favorite place Of hers, al
Id when I saw you standing there / d.
Their jumped to the conclusion that te
III must be She"
"Really2" Pauline replied "Are we tw
much alike, thenT he
mot in the least" he declared
ankly. he
'That seems to make your explana- DIR
IN little insufficient, does 1t not2" loc
Iuline remarked. inl
Gerald settled down to business. alb
II know that ought to have turned
ck," he said, "but, after all, wasn't aiS
much more natural Of me to come dls
7 have been trying, ever since ! WI
st saw you, to get someone to intro ma
ce me-we are, after all, as l have Wo
IT discovered, to my great delight, me
Ighbors-and this is the Riviera, not we
rkeley square. May / tell you that Una
name is Gerald pombey, that my INC
her and sister have the villa up
re, and that, from the moment / oos
v you, have been anxious to make III
II acquaintanceT yot
She looked at him In silence for a nla
ment, half critically, half thought a.
ly. There was nothing absolutely nro
in her attitude, and yet a
raid somehow conceived the idea ~,
t this might not, after all, be so !.
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