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CHAPTER I.
They met on the train going up
; to Haverford.
He Mw first a stout little flat
keeled brogue sticking out be
yond the Pullman chair, and for
the first ten miles of their Jour
ney this was all he knew of her
that she wore brogues sometimes
-for the chair was turned and
he could not see over the top. .
Idling as were his thoughts in
the languid winsomeness o f
lAprll, they fixed themselves upon
that little shoo critically, with
all the questioning attitude of his
artists' mind.
It was singularly dainty for
iuch a common sense bit' of foot
gear, heavy-soled for utility and
stitched across the vamp for
smartness. The girls he knew
test wore fragile, spike-heeled
Dumps, and he reflected unhap
pily that this girl probably would I
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York for a tramp in the hills In
dowdy knickers and sweater with
a knapsack strapped to her hack
Not the girl a man would care
to strike acquaintance with even
for a tedious hour on the train.
must be young and graceful
certainly graceful. Aristocratic
too! Her ankle showed breeding.
Last winter, when he had done
posters for a hosiery house, they
had searched New York for Just
such a model. And searched In
vain.
Eventually the chair swung
round almost as if moved by the
force of his curiosity. Slowly it
turned and- abruptly he found
himself looking Into a pair of
red-brown eyes; warm, friendly
eyes, with laughter In them some
where and earnestness and eager
ness as well, Just for a fleeting
instant. . .
Theh, as a light is dimmed.
the friendliness was withdrawn,
the warmth vanished. The girl
looked through and beyond him
and turned indifferently toward
the window. ' But so vivid had
been his sense of eontact in that
brief Instant, and to complete was
bis feeling of aloneness now St
had passed, that he dropped back
rather like a collapsed balloon
and mattered aloud, "Well'"
The girl had not thought It
worth, while to turn her chair and
now he could see what she was
like. Not the frump he had Imag
ined! The little knitted suit be
spoke Fifth avenue, if not Fifty
seventh street, and there was no
where about her a hint of the
sough and ready hiker. All slen
der youngness she was, like the
silver birches which grew so
straight and proud In the bits of
woodland beside the tracks. And
the pinkyrwhite sweetness of her
face made him think of the cher
ry blossoms which kept sending
their fragrance through the open
window at his elbow. Orchards
all along. the way what a day. If
a chap could eross the aisle, bend
over her,-say something to bring
a smile to those hail-pouting,
small-girl lips.
Besides her hair was red. Not
bricky, nor the Titian which chal
lenges adventure. Some, indeed,
might have called the mop, part
ed and done in a knot at her neck
merely "blond,", and let it go at
that,' but the artist instinct was
more ' exact. He classed it "am
ber," and in thought painted it
la tints shading from gold to
bronse, as the light played oa its
smoothness, though escaped ends
curling at her temples were not
like little threads of flame.
One did not speak to a girl with
hair like that when she wished
not to be spoken to.
And because be was a sincere
workman, an artist from the tips
of his long, thin fingers to the
top of his sleek, dark head, he
presently forgot the girl and
might never have thought other
again had the train not slowed
as it ran out on a little bridge
and started up with a. lurch.
Absorbed In thought of work,
he was returning to his seat,
crossing between coaches, when
it happened. The girl was at an
open door, upon the shelf which
covers Pullman steps when the
door is closed as this one should
have been, and she was gating
down on the river far below.
The wheels ground all at once;
the train jerked all along its
length an4 the Jar flung her for
ward. With a frightened cry she
clutched . for something a n y
thin'g but she bad been leaning
far ' out and her balanee was
gone.
But something was holding her
hands were rough on her shoul
ders snatching her from the
empty space above the river. She
stood upon the platform again,
and closed her eyes, sobbing.
The tall young man held to
her shoulders, pressing her
against the side of the door, for
she seemed about to faint.
"Don't shake like that," he or
dered her huskily. "You're all
right now. They'd no business
leaving that thing open. Good
Lord, don't cry! Here can you
walk? Let's -get inside."
She moved beside him, still
trembling, and he took her to her
seat, helping her gently, bring
ing a cushion for her feet. But
when he got a little flask and of
fered her brandy she refused.
"But you need something.
Water then "
"I suppose I must thank you
for saving my life. I'm afraid my
uncles were right they're my
family, you see, four uncles. They
said I'd never get as far as Haver
ford all by myself.- I'm sort of
silly, I expect, doing a thing like
that." - - - -
"You're all right now," be re
peated. And then because she
looked so little and scared and
because some of the Interest be
had felt In the beginning had
come back, he sat down in the
chair ahead, turning It -so they
faced each other, and began , to
talk about the orchards and the
frosty-thla spilled everywhere
like pots of gold and the spring
time lakes which lay in the fields
like broken mirrors. And finally
rink came back to her, cheeks
and her hands no longer twisted
in her lap.
Then he said, quite casually.
"I'm Kenneth Wilmer," and flip
ped the cover of a magazine. A
lovely girl face looked up from
the cover but the red-brown eyes
swept past this to the sprawled
signature beneath which was his
own.
He tried to keep pride out of
his expression but be was a bit
too young, a bit too heady with
the thrill of success to manage
Try well. So when he saw her
brows come down as -she studied
him in a puzzled way a flush
went over his good looking face.
"Perhaps you don't care for my
Btuff," he began -stiffly.
"Oh, I do! Only well, you see
I've saved your pictures. Dozens
and dozens of them. All the girls
at school did. We had our walls
lined oh, not quite, I suppose,
but nearly. We thought them the
nicest girl pictures there are at
all. It was a sort of fad with us,
do you see?"
He had a white, flashing smile
and he loved homage.
"Of course none of us ever ex-
ypected actullay to meet you!"
And the way she said "you" was
a glowing tribute. "We had a lit
tle drawing of you we cut from
a newspaper but I see now it
wasn't a likeness at all. You
why, yoVre just a kid!"
(To be continued.)
Federal Power
Commission Not
To Tackle Issue
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 8.
(AP) The Oregonlan. in a dis
patch from its Washington corres
pondent tomorrow will say oppon
ents of the application of the
Northwest Tower company for
permission to appropriate waters
of Marion lake, Marion river and
the North Santiam river have
been informed by the federal
power commission that no imme
diate action on the proposal is
contemplated.
Can you afford to be without
the protection afforded by the
$1.00 accident policy issued to
Statesman subscribers.
Didn't they knowJhetter than to
go about aping men, taking on
all the masculine attractiveness,
and bringing out their own worst
points as well? Women!
The brogue moved slightly
the girl had slid further down In
her chair and he leaned for
ward, his surprised glance slip
ping along a length of sheerest
chiffon hose quite inconsistent
with the brogue, but delightful
to the sight.
A steeply arched instep rising
to a slender ankle wasn't "this a
dancer's foot? and a line run
ning up to the edge of a knitted
beige tkirt in the merest hit of
curve, ending in a knee that was
be some hiker going up from New neither knobby nor fat. The girl
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