The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-09-10


 Kirk got a book and went ovel to the window seat. The book wa. Mrs. Browning's poems. He turned to Lord Walters Wife" the poen Juanita had mentioned at Caprice But why do you go?" said the lady AS both sat under the yew,
 And her eyes were alive in theil
 depths
 Like the bracken beneath the seq
 blue.
 Because I fear you" he answered Because you are fa;, too fair, And able to strangle my soul :
 Why, the alarmed things writ ten to prove We can be true if we want to-" he thought. If l donf confront Juanita with this , He took out his pencil and began to mark certain of the verses. Ht looked at his watch. Five minutes of four Some one came in from the hall.
 It was Adrian. Kirk had spoker to him on the stair a moment be- fore. Adrian had asked if Kirk thought it was going to rain It was like him, Kirk thought, to invade the library at this time. Kirk rose He would be in the hall when Jua- nita came down the stair. They would go into the garden. Juanita however, might not come down the stair, but by way of the verandah through one of the long French windows, from which Adrian star ed so unhappily at the darkeneo sky. Kirk sat down again. When Juanita entered, they would bolt. Don't let the weather rumple ,, you he said to Adrian. 'Tarpor Points jolly when it rains"
 The weather?" Adrian turned hands in his pockets. 'Senorita Flores is engaged" he said abrupt ly.
 That SOP" Kirk answered after pause, his pencil moving beneath a line. How had that got out SC soon? He looked up. Did she tel you?" he asked.
 Adrian shook his head T have net seen her today, except al lunch. It was my mother told me !, Nelly told her. Last night the mar quesa gave my mother the particu- lars. Senorita is engaged to a no bleman in Barcelona" Kirk looked down at his book. & that was what she had had to tel him. "Barcelona's a long way off, he said The ocean to cross, ane all Spain, if remember my geo. graphy. You going to let that stol you?"
 , Adrian thought, She's told hin , herself" But had she told him all , 'fSenorita Flores is not only engag. ed," said Adrian, but she is il debt to this man-for her educa |, tion, her clothes, her travels. Who. ever else should marry her woult :. have to assume that obligation. I , is so stipulated"
 Kirk's eyes were on the page. | Why now you no longer are fair Why, now you no longer are fatal But ugly and hateful, swear"
 Good you found out in time, said Kirk.
 Adrian nodded. Suppose I hac proposed and been accepted?" h, remarked. T thought you should know, also. Nelly told my mother that you had not been told"
 Kirk thanked him, and Adrian sauntered out through the French windows, down into the garden. Kirk went to the hall door l There was no sign of Juanita. H,
 waited until ten minutes after ths hour when they were to meet il the porte cochere for the drive tt Tarpon Point.
 There he found her, on the from
 seat of Adrian's sedan, Adrian be
 side her. She smiled gayly at Kirk
 buttoning the collar of her browr
 suede coat, pulling her russet cal down about her ears. Kirk's smil,
 was less spontaneous as he climbed
 in beside the marquesa, among tn, i wraps and umbrellas that had beer
 provided against cold and rain. Ma
 dame Fouche and Nelly waved t, them as they rode away. II It was not until they reached Tarpon Point and were going ul the steps of Steve's place that Kirl managed a word with Juanit. alone.
 | You didn't come to the library What was the matter?" II T came" she answered. Adrian was there. I'll see you tomorrow. H Kirk was aware that she ha. been glad to turn back at the doc I-thankful to Adrian for furnish l ing this brief reprieve. | Copyright, Dodd, Mead and Go. II Is every one reaching for the II Moon? Tom orrow Juanita's HI thankful for total eclipse.