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BY ROY VICKERS
CHAPTER XXVIII.
If she was still interested! That
s'ung a little. The note was writ
ten not by the master bat by that
t ; persoaal Allan who had laugb
c l at her and Etocd ready to laugh
A quarter of an hour in a tail
drought her to an unfashionable
s-ftion east of Gramercy Park.
She was unfamiliar with Alan's
km1 of flat and It gave her some
little trouble to discover it was
on the second floor and that there
w:3 no elevator.
"He Is funny with money!" she
pi'i 'ed. "Eut I suppose this sort
of thing Eult3 his puspose."
Alan himself opened the door
t J her.
Hello, Shirley!" he exclaimed
Sh thought that he -oras surpris
tn spe her.
'I got your letter about twenty
minutes ego and thought tnat
w.T-Ud lose no time, sue answer-
el. "May I come in?"
Of course!" he'agreed. "Yon
oiil help me find my way about
tv.e place. I only moved in here
thi3 morning and haven't quite
g it the hang of.it."
'What r. f;."Tiy little place!"
ex. laimed Shirley, standing in the
diminutive hall. ''It looks rath
er rosy." -
"I hate hotels," exclaimed Al
p:;. ' AiH clubs are very little bet
ter. Also, if yon have to see a
of people on business, neither
i much use."
Shirley thought that over.
' Then he was expecting me," she
r included. "I couldn't see him
every day at the club."
' There aire four rooms," Alan
w.n saying. "These two are bed
i j iius. iThat door in front is the
ji -tine-room: what on earth this
r.om is J I haven't the faintest no-
t:-n."
He opened the door and switch
el on the light and Shirley found
h -.TSL-lf in a room, common enough
in smaller flat-land, an accommo
dation room, convertible with
lirile trouble from sitting-room
i:i:o a bed-rooro.
"What exactly is one supposed
to do in a room like this?" asked
AUn. !
Shirley looked from a sofa that
could change itself into a bed, to
a washstand that was partly
bookcase.
"I don't know. One would have
to know something of the kind of
. . ;p1o that generally live in these
places. Where do the servants
.-. i"
"The kind of people who live
1 .-re as a rule don t have any," he
explained. 'I'm not having any
it; -.-elf. I eat in restaurants and
the jantw's wife is going to keep
t'.e place clean. It simplifies ex
ist or.ee wonderfully.
I came to report progress,
Ahin. I have more or less set
tled things up since I saw you
last."
"Oh, good!" he said approv
!:!?':'. "We can talk in here."
Shirley again found her atten
tion diverted by the room into
wiiich she had followed him.
Is it a dining-room or a draw
in ,'-ioom?" she' asked.
Ha seemed to regard the ques
tion, as in some way profound,
and it wa3 several seconds
fore he answered.
"You haven't the faintest Idea
of how the middle-classes live!"
he remarked. "I'm afraid youll
find things frightfully hard."
Eut I'm never going to live
this sort of life." she trotested.
It's Macedonia or nothing for
me."
" ' Or nothing !" he repeated.
"That's a mere nhrase. von know.
And, don't forget, even if yon do
your part successfully, it may be
mat noining win comeoui 01 me
venture. For it Is a venture a
gamble.
Shirley smiled. The money part
of the enterprise might be a
gamble, but the essence of the
whole thing from her point of
view was a certainty.
"That lawyer got all my things
in a few hours," she said briskly.
"I'm going to sell the diamonds
Aunt Marion gave me and my
ether jewelry. The coupe is going
to be sold and he thinks I ought
to get a thousand for it. I've left
the limousine to Roger I didn't
want to grab everything. Alto
gether, by the time I go to Mace
donia, I shall have about ten
thousand dollars for expenses."
"That would go a long way
here if it were carefully man
aged," he pointed out.
"It wouldn't turn itself into a
half million, Alan and that's
what this has got to do. When
can you start telling me how to
begin?"
"Tonight, If you like," he an
swered. "Now, in fact."
"Yes, please," said Shirley. "I
don't even know what it is yet. I
remember Roger saying it was
something to do with a Slue."
"There's a mine, a string . of
quarries and a hundred and twen
tv miles of railway," he an
swered. "The mines and the quar
ries are useless without the rail
way. On either side of the rail
way, for the whole length, the
company owns land which is now
prr"-tically wua but vnicn conia
be made rich agricultural land
once it was opened up by the rail
way. "The railway is partly built but
work cannot go on without gov
ernment protection. Attempts
have been made from time to
time by people sent out by Cuth
bert Kelton to get this protec
tion and they have all failed hith
erto. So the whole thing is derelict."
"That's easy enough to under
hand." said Shirley. "I have to
persuade the government that it
is in the interests of the counts'
to get the thing going."
"Yes. It won't be the govern
ment itself; it .will be the local
deputies of the government. You
will find all nationalities amongst
them mainly Greek. They all
have French as a second language
and you'll be able to talk to them
all right. But they wm asK you
innumerable questions and al
though vnu won't need to be a
mining or railway expert you
will have to know as much about
the details of the undertaking as
if you were, say, Cuthbert Kelton.
That's where you will have a bit
of a job. It will all be strange to
you as strange as this flat." .
"Haw much are you going to
be-! teach me of It?" Shirley asked.
I "The whole lot if you like. It's
not difficult In its essence. It
doesn't demand any special gift
or any special knowledge the
handling of money never does. I
collected a good deal of stuff for
Roger. I'll Just get It If you'll
wait."
He left the room and returned
with a tin box, which he unlock
ed. First there was a large scale
map of the country. A he spread
It out. Shirley came and looked
over his shoulder, then finding
her hat in the way. took it off.
Alan traced the nronosed course
of the railway for her. His com
ments on the country interested
her. There were questions on her
part and it was midnight before
thov (ml finished with the man
Then they came to the reports
mil hiatorv of the company s
records of failures its brief per
iods of optimism.
milt Alan talked and ah in
terrupted from time to time with
Questions that involved digres
sions, a new world was revealed
to Shirley a world in which men
judged by the Westbury standard
behaved with extraordinary rest
lessness.
They would camp in the middle
of a Macedonian plain and sud
denly telegraph to Chicago for a
Dumn. The entire activities of the
company seemed to be suspended
over that pump. By the time tne
pump had arrived the engineer
who had ordered It would have
died of dysentery and another
engineer after some months' de
lay would be sent out.
She remembered Roger's fath
er a Jolly old man, whose tra
gedy In life seemed to be tnat ne
had never been made a master 01
hounds. And all the time he was
carrying these Tast anxieties in
his head of the engineer who
died on the plain while waiting
for the pump; then there was
that eahla telHnar him that the
bandits had broken the reservoir
and flooded the mine.
Money had always seemed to
hi an affair of banks, checks
anil lue-acies and lust "having
Dlentv." The sense of revelation
waa stronr nnon her. At times
there was confusion but she was
always able to clear the confusion
with her own questions. As she
pieced together each scrap of
knowledge, she felt that she was
being taken behind the scenes of
human society.
She soon forgot her fear that
the preliminary work would be a
mere maze of mathematics. 10
her it was a personal drama a
string of men like Alan had lost
their lives or their courage in
trying to make a fortune for
Cuthbert Kelton.
She became unmindful of
place and time, unmindful even
of Alan. She was dimly conscious
of surprise on his part, of pleas
ure in her interest. Suddenly she
noticed that his voice was
hoarse.
"You're getting tired, Alan!"
she exclaimed. "I'm afraid I'ye
been asking millions of questions.
Let's stop now. Perhaps you could
spare me a little time tomorrow."
"I think we might knock off
now without reproaching our
selves with a grin. "What do you
think the tlme"Ms?" .
She glanced at the drawn cur
tains and could see the dull day
light behind it.
The sun is rising!" she said
"We've been longer that I
thought."
lie "flung the curtains aside and
she saw that there was a mist.
What is the time, A?"
"It's a quarter past nlA Shir
ley." he answered. "We've been
at it close upon 12 hours."
"I'm most fearfully sorry, Al
an. I"
"I'm most fearfully glad, Shir
ley." he Interrupted. Some queer
quality in his voice startled her
startled him; too. it seemed,
for he hurriedly added: "It's
some 13 hours since you ve nao.
any food. I'm going out to get
some rolls and will make you a
scratch breakfast before you go
back. Otherwise you will feel the
strain. You'd better sit quiet un
til I come back."
The obvious thing to do was to
ro back to the hotel, she thought.
But he wanted to make breakfast
for her and she felt that It would
be bad- fellowship to refuse.
"Mur I raid the place for a
bath towel while you are away?
shA asked, and he showed her
whr the linen cupboard was.
She had just finished dressing
after a hath when she heard the
bell ring.
"Half a minute! she called.
As she turned the latch, some
intuition warned her that it was
not Alan who was on the other
side. It was too late to retreat
She opened the door and faced
Mrs. Sibley.
Before Shirley had recovered
from her surprise, Mrs. Sibley
hugged her.
Oh. mv darling, why did you?
she cried, and her voice broke
into tears. "When I heard your
voice call out 'Half a minute- i
still hoped It wasn't you and i
told Roger to his face that he was
a Har and when I saw these hor
rible flats, I was sure It couian i
bo you. Oh, dear, there's some
one coming up the stairs and I've
no right to come here at all."
Before Shirley could answer,
the footsteps on the stairs ma
terialized in the person of Alan
Brennaway.
"Oh. dear!" wailed Mrs. Sibley.
"This is dreadful. Shirley darling
what has he got In his pocket?"
In his pocket Alan Brennaway
had a pineapple. Both hands were
full of parcels.
The situation was beyond Shir
ley and she left It to Alan.
Alan put some of his parcels on
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. (AP)
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
nnt hia specially built Lockheed
low winged monoplane through its
paces again today, this time alone.
Yesterday Airs, iinaoergn ac
companied her husband on his
first flight in the plane, but to
day she remained at the home ot
Jack Maddux, executive of the
Trans-Contlnetal Air Transport-
Maddux line, which employs Lind
bergh. With her were Mrs. Mad
dux and Amelia Earnan, woman
trans-Atlantic flier, also employed
by the line.
At the end of his test, which
included speed, landing and vari- ,
ous ' banking trials, Lindbergh
paid the Detroit Aircraft corpora
tion with a check for $17,825 and
the plane was his.
the window-ledge andtook off his
hat.
(To be continued tomorrow.)
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