The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-04-04
Chapter IT
A BEGGAR,s ROMANCE

A BEGGARS . ROMANCE
 Before Jacqueline Grey driftec off to sleep at the close of tht most adventurous day of her life she reviewed the events that were climaxed by the glorious carefret moments she had spent with Ted dy Montrose.
 He obscured everything else 1T her thoughts which in itself was compliment to that young mar Tor Jacqueline had never thought about men, much.
 Neither had desired to end theil adventure at the door of the Ma jestic and Jacqueline had agreed that Teddy might call again.
 Now. for the first time she real ized what it might lead to and it seemed that only one course was open to her. The adventure must end. He was Teddy Montrose scion of Franklin Montrose of the Montrose Shipping Line and it was obvious that he belonged to diff ferent class of society.
 In her sojourn among the wealthy she was not adverse to bluffing those she met but she did not in- tend to let herself drift into the affections of any young man under false pretenses.
 A great gulf stretched between them and it seemed very dreary expanse. Nevertheless it existed and she must face the fact.
 The depressing thoughts of the night were temporarily forgotten in the joy of the moment when Teddy Montrose very punctually appeared the next day and took her to dainty little tea shop in the west end.
 There they found cozy hrtle corner where they might enjoy their tete-a-tete.
 At first Teddy was rather inclined to be serious. Jacqueline liked him just as much by daylight as she had in his evening clothes.
 T should like to tell you some thing about myself" he said, with a straight face.
 Gracious! Do you mean confes- sions?"
 He nodded
 of you feel it necessary to con- fess your past" returned Jacque- line sweetly, T hope you don't expect me to do the same, because I am not going to-"
 Teddy waved his hand sketchily Forget it." he said. You have nc past"
 Haven't I? Don't you be toe sure. I'm afraid my past would give you a serious shock"
 But Teddy was too intent on his own past to heed her. T am a penniless orphan" he said. Not exactly an orphan, but an outcast You understand me?"
 I'm afraid I don't"
 sIt's rather difficult. But I've been all sorts of a fool. My father says so, and he ought to know, for he's had to pay for it. I'm just beginning to realize it now, when it's too late. I'm the only son, you know, and I've sown some wilo oats in my time-wild ones Oi course the Old Top-that's tht batter, you know--has always bang ed the table and roared, but the mater has smoothed things over ano he has paid up. But lately ths mater seems to have lost hel charm somehow. The Old ToI has been giving me lot of anxiety "a lot of anxiety"
 Jacqueline chuckled.
 Teddy dived down his collar ant brought up shilling suspended oi a string. He held it out to her
 aThis is what it has come to, he said. "The Old Top is rathe conventional-does things by tn book, as the saying goes. At ou last interview, which was rathe warm, he handed me this in al envelope. Of course l thought l was a check until I found out. HI told me to get out-just like thai
 AThat was the last I should eve have from him, he said. Tn heavy father business, you know Never darken my doors again am SO on. Frightfully unoriginal. l toll him so and it didn't make hin laugh. Very difficult to get jok across on the Old Top. I though he was pulling my leg at first, bu I found out he was ridiculousl serious. My allowance had beel cut off, and the bank had beel warned. They wouldn't even giv me an overdraft."
 .swhat is an overdraft?" enquire' Jacqueline, innocently.
 eThat's what you pay peopl uifh when vou haven't got an