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thing but a clumsy oaf hed hare mad« tier rreltle it weeks ago." The woman turned her dark eyeti uiMin him With a dash. "You are invidious, m*u ami. My affair is not settled Am I a clumsy oaf too?' The earl laughed q0etly "No, Helene. Your little American ia so in iov# with you that if you the hotel on to the terrace, and h’a attire would have attracted notice from a Hindoo idol. He wore «¡rotles-siy white fiannels, w hite shoes pi[>* layed to a dazzling degree, a thoroughly i—---------------------------------------- British straw bat, chamois gloves and By TIMOTHY C. DICK. a pale bile scarf held together with a (Cogiyright, 1X0, by Arfierlean l’n A 0 massive pearl. elation.] For an instant Mme. la C’omtesse Abner Simmons entered bls h ichelor looked at him and then, with a little cry of greeting, rushed toward tbe apartment after returning from busi steps and took both bis startled bands. ness, sighed, sat down in an ens < h.iir A Novek/dtiofl of the Play Presently he “Ah, my dear Horace Granger and felt very lonely. looked up at the mantel, and there of the Same Same Beempson!” she said excitedly. Haa i stood a letter. It was addressed in a your sister told you?” woman's band to Mrs. Abner Simmons. By BOOiH TARKINGTON and aoruce swallowed once or twlcu To Mr. Simmons tills address was a ■avagely and then made a heroic ef mockery It suggested a home, a HARRY LEON WILSON fort to keep down tbe radiance that pleasant looking woman tripping iluw:i- was choking him, made two effectual . stairs at bearing her husband's latch- dabs at bis eyes with tbe handkerchief Copyright. 1909. by American Presa ’ key in tbe door, followed by a tr ,1 of Association he took from bls sleeve and responded .girls and boys; a connubial kiss and joyfully, though brokenly: several pairs of little arms around "She has, indeed. 1 assure you I am papa’s neck. SYSNOPS1S quite overcome, my dear friends Chapter I—Daniel Voorhees Pike, a ruing I All this Mr. Simmons saw in the ob- Really, 1 assure you.” , long letter addressed to her who was young Kokomo (Ind.) lawyer, hears that hu With a silvery laugh Mme. de Cham- not. Of course there was a Mrs Sim ward, Ethel Granger- Simpson is to be married piguy stepped backward from him, mons for some man of the*same name abroad Io the son of an F.nghsh ear!. Her making a little courtesy as she did so as himself; but, alas, there was tm A young girl followed by three jrtetur- father was hu nearest friend, and he bar long The earl came forward with out such person for him! What should he caque banditti. loved rhe girl. He goes abroad to arrange witli stretched bauds and grasped one of do with it? He took it down from the asked him suddenly, ‘Horace, is this Horace’s between both his own. her the business matter« connected with her mar- mantel and examined it closely. A day or night?' he would answer, ‘It's "My dear young friend,” he said hand was stamped on ft with its fore lage II.---Ethel Granger-Simpson and her Helene.’ But he’s too shy to speak brother, Horace, have become anglomaniact and You're a woman; you can't press mat “Not at all not at all.” finger pointing to "Try this" and "Try As tile remark seemed a tritie am that.” There were so many of these are «pending much of their late father's fortune ters. But Al merle's a man; he can. biguous, Horace looked at him inqulr suggestions “to try" tliat Mr. Sim m travel and entertaining. I hey become inti He can urge an immediate marriage, ¡ugly, but, rending reassurance lu Ills mons itelieved the letter had been the mate with Lady Creech, the Earl of Flawcastle, which means an immediate settlement face, replied instantly: rounds aud no Mrs. Simmons found. hu ion, Almeric St. Aubyn, and Countess de and a direct one." "1 assure you I am. 1 assure you 1 How could she be found since she did Mme. de Champigny picked up a Champigny, an adventuress and associate of the am. It’s quite overpowering, isn't it?" not exist? He determined to make a silver fork from the table and exam earl's. They are at a hotel at Sorrento, Italy. With a look of commiseration tbe dead letter office of himself, open it fned it carefully. Ethel promises to marry the son because she countess regarded him aud said softly: aud return it to the writer. "it will not be small—that aettl»- craves a title. Ill.---The Russian Grand Duke “Ab, p<Mir M. Horace!" Mr. Simmons took out a letter and a Vasili u hortly to arrive at the same hotel in Xient? You have decided what num? From his sprawled attitude in the , card photograph. The photograph was cognita as Hen vo > Grollerhagen. IV---The Hawcastle looked up sharply and chair the honorable Almeric drawled , tliat of a woman from thirty to thirty Earl of Hawcastle u in need of money and yodded with decision. a protest. wants hu son to get a huge settlement of money five years old. anil as lie looked it “I have—a hundred and fifty tbou- "1 say! Don't take it that way. you | seemed to be the face of tier wltose re- on hu marriage to Ejhel. An escaped Russian ' land pounds!” know. She’s very happy.” bandit is located at Sorrento. i ceptiou of him had tilled Ids fancy. From the countess ca me a gasp of Horace recovered himself instantly The letter was signed, "Your loving astonishment. (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK) “My friend! Will she?” And she aud crossed the terrace quickly to sinter.” The address was given, and Mr turned and stared at the room where grasp the baud of the bridegroom to Simmons put it in another envelope, tbe [>lano was still playing. Hawcastle be. The fact that it was as limp as a with a brief note stating ills motives mackerel did not worry him an instant. in opening ft and asking for informa "Very well, Mariano," he said, and laugiied grimly. “She’s worthy of it—she's worthy of tion of Mrs. Aimer Simmons and how Mariano, with another jerk that was “Not for Almeric, but to be tbe supposed to include both of the Ulus Countess of Hawcastle. My ancient It! I know she is! And when will it she happened to exist without ids 1 lng any ¡tetter for her existence trious ones, disappeared with a speed sister-in-law hasn't been her chaperon be, St. Aubyu?” be said. "Enchanting!” cried the countess en- wished to keep tile photo rap'i iness that was alarming. For an in for a year for nothing. And. by Jove, ‘So clear is his grasp lid not feel authorized to do so stant there was silence, and then the she hasn't done it for nothing, either!” tbusiastically. addressed it to the street and number countess, with a quick upward glance And this time he laughed quite heart of the ease, eb?’1 Hawcastle flashed her a glance and 1 given in the letter. of her dark eyes, said tremblingly: ily as with a grim appreciation of the turned to Horace. In atiout a week a reply came The "I should like much to know his Jest. “Oh, the date?" he said doubtfully, writer said the mime on the letter was name." “But she’s deserved all • shall allow The earl smiled and went on with her,” he resumed. “You see, it was “I dare say within a year—two : not Simmons, but Timmons. ( After ill years”— ■ there was no Mrs. Simmons.> The plio his breakfast. she who found these people. Indeed, There was another little cry of pro- tograpb was a likeness of Miss Marga "You may be sure it isn’t Ivanoff,” we might say tliat both you and I owe test from the countess, and the earl ret Butterworth. The writer Miss he said, but the assurance did not her something. Even a less captious glared at her metiadugly. Horace I Cornelia Boyd, was transmitting it to seem to carry weight with madame, for respectability than Lady Creech's she learfed her chin in her hand and Mrs. Timmons The letter concluded might have looked askance at the long with thanks for the favor Mr. Sim looked off over the bay, and there was ■friendship’ that has existed between a troubled look in her eyes. mons had done the writer. us. Yet she has always countenanced Just what Mr. Simmous had said in us, my dear, though she must have his note about tbe photograph does not CHAPTER V. guessed a great many things. And she apiiear, but Miss Boyd must have THE ENGAGEMENT. will help us to urge an immediate ticod something of admiration OW can one know it is not marriage. You know as well as 1 tieen ready, as most women an Ivanoff?” she asked slowly, that unless it is immediate there’ll help out a romance, for she was not and this time the earl laughed tbe devil to pay. Don't miss that called upon to mention the picture aloud sential Something must be done she did. Mr. Simmons wrote ag; “He wouldn’t be called an infamous once. We're at tbe breaking point, if asking If Miss Butterworth w- re brigand," he said, but the countess you like the words- a most damnable lated to James Butterworth, an eml waved her hand. insolvency.” neut divine aud an uncle of the writer "That, my friend, may be only Ital As he tinisbed «[leaking the immacu A reply came that Miss Boyd <. u!<l ian journalism.” late and vacuous Almeric himself uot answer tjie question and gave Miss “Pooh!” said Hawcastle. “This strolled Into the terrace and, putting Butterworth’s address means a highwayman—not—not an em up his glass as he came forward, said Mr. Simmons cooked up quite an In bezzler, Helene.” softly: genious letter to Miss Butterworth The countess arose from the table “Hello, governor! Howdy, countess!" After mentioning tliat be had • 11 ! and moved about restlessly with her With an affectation of boredom be picture and how be came to see it lie eyes on the blue expanse. sprawled into a chair and tapped at said that the features were remarka "I should be glad to believe it, my his boots with his crop. bly like those of the Rev. James Rut good friend, but I—I care for no more “Out riding a bit ago, you know, terworth, bls esteemed uncle and be to eat. 1 have perhaps some foolish with Miss Granger-Simpson. Rippin’ was sure tliat he (Simmonsi could feeling of unsafety. It is now two girl, isn't she?” claim her for a relative, probably :i nights that I dream of him-of Ivanoff His father leaned across tbe table first cousin He received a polite reply —bad dreams for us both, my friend." with tension in every line of him. that the lady had no such relative and The earl looked up in amazement “Go on!” be said anxiously, and Al started, too, and seemed to be about had never heard of any sir h person to enter a positive objection, but he and then burst into a laugh. meric looked up at him with a silly This was not surprising to Mr. Sim contented himself with sa ying: “What rot!” he exclaimed "It takes smile. “Oh, but 1 say, you know, isn't mons, whose knowledge of the rev. r more than a dream to bring a man "Didn’t stop with her, though.” '¡'lie end gentleman was precisely that of back from Siberia.” "Why not?” demanded tbe earl an that putting it Jolly far off? thing's settled, isn’t it? Why not say Miss Butterworth. The clergyman w > The countess looked at him w itb grily. tn invention. some sharpness. "A sort of man in tbe village got me a month instead of a year?” The genealogical ¡dan having failed. “Ha-bum!" said tbe earl, "Oh, if "Then 1 pray there has been uo more to look at a bull terrier pup,” Almeric Mr. Simmons wrote again to Miss you like! 1 don ’ t know that there is than dreams.” she murmured quietly went on. with a yawn. "Wonderful Boyd, frankly stating tliat lie would Even as she spoke there came the little beast for points. Jolly luck, isn't any real objection.” “I do, indeed,” returned Horace be interested to meet the original of tinkling sound of the mandolins and it? He has got a bead on him”— "See here! Why not let them marry the photograph and asking if In tbe guitars, and madame turned to the Hawcastle interrupted savagely. kindness of her heart she would sttg lemon grove In time to see a young "We'll concede his tremendous ad here in Italy?” Ilawcastle could scarcely conceal bis gest a method for the purpose. All girl in a fawn colored riding habit, vantage over you in that respect,” be with a soft felt hat upon her head and said and threw the cigar he had just satisfaction, while Mme. de <'.ham tbe world loves a lover, and Miss I’oyd plguy executed a bit of a pas seul be gave him a list of half a dozen friends a riding crop In her gauntleted hands, lighted into tbe coffee cup. of Miss Butterworth, any of whom enter, followed by three picturesque "Is that all you have to tell us?’ hind Horace’s back "Ab. the dashing methods of you might Introduce him provided they banditti with the Instruments. implored the countess, with a dra knew him to be a gentleman. As she reached tbe terrace she matte gesture, leaning forward, Al- Americans!'' returned tbe earl smll Meanwhile Miss Boyd had ¡Hit her ingly. “You carry things on so! Next paused and drew from her glove some meric looked up with surprise. friend on to the fact that she had an you'll be saying. 'Why uot here at Sor silver which she drop [red into the hand “Oh. no!" be said. “She accepted me.” unknown admirer, and it was Miss of the first villain with a laugh Then The earl dropped into a chair with a rento?’ ” “Well, and why uot, Indeed?" asked Butterworth wlm suggested the names she turned, smiling, as the musicians sigh of relief, aud the countess clasped yf the possible introducers. One, and Horace Instantly. withdrew nnd waved her crop at the her hands ecstatically. “And then." went on Hawcastle, ynly one, of the names was known to “Entin! Brava! And will she let it two who were watching her. The eari smiling, “and then it will be, ‘Why not Mr. Simmons, and he was a member be soon?" arose with a bow, and madame ad of Simmons’ club. Tbe attentions Mr. within a fortnight?’” Again Almeric stilled a yawn. vanced with outstretched hand Simmons suddenly began to shower "Right-o!" cried Horace. "And why "I dare say there’ll be no row about "Ah, the divine Miss Granger-Simp upon this man were only understood son!” said Newcastle with raillery In that,” he replied. “You see. I’ve made uot within a fortnight?” Almeric sat up and stared at his no when a request came for the introduc bls tones, and the girl laughed with a her awf'ly happy.” ble father and brother-in-law to be, tion. “On my soul, I believe you’re right," happy, care free face. It was an advantage to Mr. Sim “The divinely happy Miss Granger- said Hawcastle, “and thank God you but tbe earl smiled once more that mons' cause that for several months cheerful smile and waved a deprecat Simpson," she said, and at the sound are!” Miss Butterworth was cognizant of the Rising, he walked up aud down tbe ing baud. of her voice and the look In her eyes “Ah. you wonderful people! You are fact that she bad an unknown admir tbe countess ran to her and kissed her terrace aud then turned quickly. "Here's her brother,” he said softly. whirlwinds, yet 1 see no reason why er. Her fancy during this time was rapturously upon each cheek feeding on Mr Simmons' personnel. it should not be in a fortnight.” "Oh. I hope you mean"— she began, “Attention now!" Miss Boyd, whose misdirected letter here! I say. you know!" inter- ' Ob. 1 when Hawcastle Interrupted her with had led to this possible romance, made Almerlc. heaving himself erect jected . some excitement. CHAPTER VI. in tbe 1 chair aud waving a protesting Inquiries about Mr. Simmons, found "You mean you have made my son EASY THEY. Tbe earl turned on him ln- friends wlm knew him and pronounced crop, divinely happy?” ISUALLY when a mau through stautly. hint a good man. This Miss Boyd ex The girl extricated herself laughingly inclination or environment de aggerated Into "a noble, good man." "As I say, dear boy. why not?" be from the embrace of tbe countess and cides that the manners of bis inquired suavely, and Almeric wilted Miss Butterworth, too, was on the turned to the earl. ¡>eople will not serve for him immediately shady aide of thirty and not unwilling “Is not every one divinely happy at and that tbe customs of tbe land “ of Just as you say, governor," he an to meet her fate. Before the introduc Sorrento,” she cried, waving her crop, bis adoption are more applicable to bis tion she had been given Mr. Simmons' “even your son?" and with another purpose lie outdoes eveu tbe natives swered meekly. "Enchanting! Brava!” cried the antecedents, bls business and social laugh rau quickly up the steps and in bis conf(\-matter, to th» existing countess, and Ilawcastle again turned standing l»y her friend, who asked Into the hotel, leaving tbe other two modes. permission to do tbe introducing. All to tbe palpitating Horace. looking at each other with astonish Horace Granger-Simpson—hie G.wa “My son is all impatience," be niur that remained was to see Mr. Sim ment. ger was but a recent innovation due tv mured. fixing the young man with his mons. As they looked a piauo from tbe the belief that Simpson by itself was When she did see him the i cession eye. music room that opened upon tbe ter altogether too hojielessly plebeian to was so favorable that the way from (TO BE CONTINUED) race broke forth with Chaminade’s attract eveu a modicum of attention— this ¡sdnt was made easy for him. ne “Elevation," aud Ethel's voice took up had consorted with the gilded youth proposed to her the evening he met tbe words clearly. The countess turned of several capitals, and bis education TWENTY FIVE CF.NT8 IS THE PRICE OF her, she gave an answer tantamount PEACE to her companion. had progressed to such an extent that to an acceptance, nnd they were mar "She Hies to her piano, mon cher. the youth of Kokomo would have ried in due time. The terrible itching and smarting Ah. tba-t Is good for our little enter stoned him Instantly upon his arrival And now the fancy excited by the incident to certain skin di eases, is prise, eb? Listen!” at the town depot. supisised name of Mrs. Simmons Cwiio, almost instantly .llayetl bv applying Uawcastle sat dowp with a grunt of He ambled with a rocking gilt, after .LI. has ||ttl< • ■ Salve. P.rice 2.5 with tbls stoxyi is living rapidly ful «•tisfaction dravn from the guardsmen he had *0 Chamberlain's “it’d time! if_Alulerlc -bad been auy carefully watched, down the steps j X cents. -For sale by C. Y. Lowe. filled. From Home J Tbe Misdirected Letter Elegantly t'iltrd oad ¿ ELIZA B.ETIII. I s steamer is new. u strongly built and tilted with the latest improvement! and will . o a legufar 8 day service, tor pa.sengers and height, tietween the Coquille rivet. Oregon, irst class Passenger Fare. $7.50t $3 on Up Freight WALSI KOM. AifHnt, Bandon. 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