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CHAPTER VIII-Continued

noted that her cheeks were flushed.
"Has that gossip reached you?'
Couldn't have lodged It'll" she
smiled.
''By the way, believe you told me,
the first time I met you, didn't you,
that you'd been jilted'?"
"Only once"
"What for?'
"That's what I'd like to know! Can
you understand a mans deliberately
and Of his own free will and choice
losing the chance to annex me for
life? Why" she abruptly inquired, "did
you jilt your cousin, that baroness?"
II didn't. i was never really en-
gagged to her. Our parents had sort
Of understanding"
'Did the noble lady fall in with it?"
II never heard that she objected"
"Then don't you think you rather let
her DOWN."
mot so much, in my opinion, as
marriage de CONVEYANCE would let her
down! Anyway, my brother, whom
she'll probably find much more to her
taste, is going to marry her."
"Is hep
'1f she'll have him."
"And you think she will like him
better than you?"
eff you'd ever met him you wouldn't
ask!"
ooh, why"
"Hes a ladies' man-has >prettier
manners than have and better
clothes"
"Some girls don't care for a ladies'
man."
well, If she turns him down 1 might
begin to be interested in her myself"
"Why"
IF she could be so disinterested.
My brother has big income from my
father. l have only what / earn"
"You haven't very high opinion of
girls, have youy'
"What makes you think so?"
"You seem to think they've no sense
-preferring manners and clothes to
"a mani"
Marvin felt tingling sensation
along his arm that made it difficult
for him to keep his hand on the wheel,
such an urgent pull was on it to
snatch her to him and kiss the lips
that paid him such q tribute; he was
not used to compliments from girls
because he was not used to girls at
all.
But the necessity, at this moment, of
n n RI GJn in 1fC
bury's best hotel prevented his re-
plying.
"I've been wondering" Nicely said,
as their waiter arrived with oysters,
''are you going to make this educa-
tional job your life work, Mr.. Creigh-
ton? Or are you using it as a step
ping-stone' to other ambitions?" she
wickedly suggested.
'Have you any idea," he seriously
replied, show hard it is to find Job
an honest man can do? Pledge your
self to absolute honesty in this world
and you'll starve to death or rot in
Jail Public school positions are
political jobs controlled by bunch of
exploiters. Show me one profession or
business in which man can be entire
ly honest. The church? 1t is to smile |!
ask any pastor! Journalism? Ask
John Swinton, one of Americas most
beloved journalists. Medicine? Read
'Arrowsmith! The law? Ask Judge
Lindsey! Teaching? Ask Scott Near.
ingv
"Well, what is one to do about it p"
"Darned If see any solution for a
fellow that was born with twist like
mine!"
Most people born to great riches
as you've been, certainly are not
troubled with your difficulties, Nh.
Creighton! I've always been poor, so
! can't quite feel your plight"
"All my life I've felt bitterly the
hoggishness of our family's living in
luxury on the labor of others who live
on the ragged edge Of poverty"
"You take life as seriously as l did
at sixteen! Grow up and be a cynic
like me, then you'll be happy, though
rich. Can it matter to the vast uni
verse how we worms on this tiny earth
behave?"
"Not to the vast universe-but to
us while we're here. Got to have traf-
fic laws, you know, unless you can get
off the high road to road no one
else uses; where. of course, you'd have
a right to drive yourself to death If
you wanted to. But can you find such
road? Can you"
His voice trailed off into silence as
he sat staring at her absently; for
while he had been talking he had be-
come conscious as he looked at her, of
seeing face within face-the child
ish face of that photograph of his Eng
lish cousin looking out at him from the
mature, intelligent countenance of this
young woman.
That photograph was at this moment
In his inside breast pocket. An almost
Irresistible temptation seized him to
take it out and compare 1t with the
living face before his eyes. Or to sud-
denly confront her with it and note
the effect.