Year: 1879

somewhere of that kind Carol said So"


eyes, he lived in Dogwood Gulch. Five
years ago I had the gold fcver, Give, and
went there. I did not find any gold. Ten
Eyk was one of those little qucksilvcry men
that attract all the gold in their locality to
themselves"


And Miss Ten Eyk p


Had Just returned from St Louis school
then. very nice young lady should say"


"Then why not renew the acquaintance ~
"To tell the truth, Give, | had to borrow
money from old Ten Eyl, to get back to New
York, and his daughter knew it. OF course
! repaid it. but the old miscr wanted interest
| did not like that, and | took the liberty of
saying so, and also of sending him my nc
count for few professional services. So
| you see l have no pleasant antecedents on
which to renew the acquaintance. Let us
drop the subject"


Give was willing to do so. lie was n sus-
| picious fellow about money matters, and in
his heart thought it likely that Dick Dayton
was in debt TO the estate of the late Peter
Ten Eyk Besides, it was rather a principle
of his to let any conversation drop which was
inclined to drift toward cash


But Dick did not find it as easy to drop the
memories this short conversation awakened
He wandered off to a deserted end of the
long piazzas, far away from the lights and
music and laughter of the dancing-room, and
| lived over again the events of those dreary
! weeks in Dogwood Gulch. Certainly most
! prominent in them was girlsh figure clad
in gray alpaca He recalled n hundred cir
cumstances-not all of them pleasant or pict-
uresque-in which they had been concerned
and he wondered if the plain little chrysalis
could have become the gay butterfly report
said she was.


He had mind to step Just inside the ball
room and have n look at her. Then he re-
membered the gypsy's prophecy, and smiled
scornfully at the inclination. These va
grants, he thought, know, because they
! keep their eyes and ears open. The girl in
some way had learned both of the accident
and of Miss Ten Eyks arrival; and because
| am considered" Here Dick had the grace
to stop his reflections yet he knew that he
was strikingly handsome, and that unoducat-
ed women are apt to overrate the power of
great beauty


But he threw his cigar away and stroled
toward the front of the hotel Should he
look at her or not Was this girl the for
tune that had been predicted? If so, he
could in this instance, at any rate, defy fate,
and choose for himself And he chose to ig-
more Miss Ten Eyk that night, and to leave
for New York before she was upin the morn
ing. And Richard Dayton had so seldom in
life felt able to order his movements ac-





bling destiny in this fashion gave him an ex-
hilarating sense of independence.


After that small temptation Miss Ten Eyk
gave him little concern. His fate, indeed,
seemed to lead him in ways far enough from
the fortune that was associated with that
young lady. He WAS obliged to work very
hard in order TO retrieve fruitless past. and
lay the foundations of more remunerative
future, and he gradually dropped out of that
gay society who dress more elegantly than
Solomon's lilies, and yet who, like them, toll
not, neither spin.


Still, he occasionally saw his old compan-
ions, for there are always hopes of clever
young lawyer and as long as he has a decent
suit of clothes, and does not want TO borrow
money he is among the list Of future posi-
BILE eligibles. And after Richard Dayton's
argument in certain great railway case, his
prospects frightened visibly Acquaintance
who had forgotten him for two years began
to leave cards in his Office, and send him pret-
ty reminders of balls and dinners and very
exclusive evenings at home


1t was at one Of the latter that he met Give
Raynor again. They had not seen each 9TH
er for many months, and their hand-s shake
was unatfectedly glnd and honest. Il thought
you were in Europe for your health Give"
said Dick. You don't look well"


NO | dare sny not l have gone through
enough 10 NIL me. 10 you TtIhtuueT tuht
handsome gypsy girl? She has made the
biggest fool of me, and after all my running
round after her, things came to nothing, and
had to 60 to Paris TO console myself
did you want to marry her =
81 don't know suppose so but while
was trying to be sure about the whole affair,
Reglita goes and marries one of her own wild
yellow cousins, and he was so impolite, and
| said such dreadfully disagreeable things to
me, that was obliged to give up the girl. 1t
nearly killed me. had to go to Paris aud
| shall never marry any one now. Reglita
was right; | shall never have wife, Dick"


The little handsome, daintily dressed fellow
did look so much changed that Dick bad no
heart TO treat the confidence in any other
way than seriously, and out of their mutual
recollectiOns of the lovely Romany girl
sprang easily enough the memory of another
woman-Miss Ten Eyk.


Did you like her. Clive?"


"A good many of the fellows did; she al
ways seemed to be laughing at me; and Re
| glita was very pleasant in those days. | did
not care much about her Carol got his re-
fusal, and few others since him. People
| say that she suspects every man, and that she
manages her own business mostly, for fear
the lawyers will cheat her"


''If she is like her father" began Dick;
and then impelled to raise his head by the
| magnetic influence OF pair OF great gray
eyes, he saw Jane Ten Eyk earnestly regard
ing him. Before Dick could arrange his
thoughts she had decided what to do, and
was standing before him with pleasant smile
and outstretched hand. Dick was gratifed.
! Men are as sensitive as women to such little
social triumphs, and Jane chosc-at least for
this evening-to drive all her admir-
ers into hostile relations with Richard Day
| ton.


Dick looked at the girl he had left in Dog
wood Gulch very curiousy. He thought of
the gray alpaca dress and little white aprons,
and contrasted them with the shimmering
silk and flashing Jewels, and Jane detected
the thought ere it was defined in his own
mind,


"You are thinking of my dress and making
comparisons, Sir. Men are born modistes
Why do you not look at my face Is it also
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