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in-en thinking tv! .if fun It w.utM be I you ran do your hair like hers In the - ter, if It’s full and perfect, and com
to restore it. utui pul If ill order for portrait, and wear that white brocade p le te r
Hlonrhe and hlnii'Plf to occupy tv lien dress that she ha 1 it painted in—you'd
“I guess you’re right,” said Philip
, '' mm
they r .. dm to 11 ¿»ms ¡end 10 visit. Ii be the living image of h er!"
huskily. Then, still hesitating ' Y<>u
contained s cel Is r arid two large,
Accordingly, after a cureful study don't suppose I think you're right Just
semicircular rooms.one uhote tlie other, of the famous picture, Blanche did because 1 want to, do you?”
and n small one with a little attic her hair, with Violet's help, high on
“Did you ever think anything wua
over It In the ri ar. lie sal In
her head, powdered It. laced herself right Just for that reason?"
one of the dilapidated chairs, pulled Into the stiff, magnificent gown that
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“I don’t hellevd so," he said at last,
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smiling at her.
tiny place became transformed. There
Mary smiled hack; and looking at
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trait over the mantel, her desk in one arms around him, trembling, too.
ever to do with the past, but a g o o d
corner, her harpsichord in another,
"What Is it?" she exclaimed. “Oh, deal to do with the present. Try us
and her gate-legged mahogany table Bhilip! What's the mutter?"
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dressing table, tier long gilt-framed very like her, aren't you? Like her of his time, especially since the ar
mirror, and the sampler she had picture, of course, I mean.”
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stitched, on the flowered walls instead
THREE-AND ONLY THREE
“Yes—but I don't see «vliy you seem of Miss Rosalie King, a summer vis
of pictures.
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so upset, even If I urn. I thought tt itor, a worker in a New York depart
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you to see me dressed ment store, that his family was fa
Most of us have heard of the superiority of “standard’
ant task. Then, hinting tlmt Blanche, u[,
this!"
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C H A P T E R I. — M o t o r i n g t h r o u g h V e r -
vored less and less hy his presence.
fiie engines as compared to those which are produced o) ¡ mom. nt»r t>>* village of Hamstead, who bud promised to Join him there,
Bhilip forced a laugh. "I’m not up Philip, who hud marveled ai the way
assembling, or as a oy-product O I the tnanuiacture O l m a k e s t h * a c q u a i n t a n c e , In u n c o n v e n was still nowhere in sight, he picked set." he said pleasantly "You startled Mary bore Paul’s shortcomings, and
tlonal fa»hlon. of P l a n c h e Manni ng,
up some of the musty books lying on me a little, that’s all. You're--you’re j not only bore, but forgave them from
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of trucks, but we do not know the distinction between these g m i e r l d i o a f t e s l e y v e n e n t e a e m n o , r w e d i . t h w P h r o o m m he her.
the table, and began to look through enough to startle any man, you're so the beginning, marveled still more Ht
In
! c o n v e r s a t i o n , he l e a r n a s o m e t h i n * o f
them.
types.
lovely. I want a kiss—and I want to the apparent Indifference with which
I h e r f a m i l y h l a t or y, d a t i n g f r o m R t v o -
They were mostly law books, with | consult you about something. . .
1 lutlonary t i m e r
S t a r r la c o n v a l e s c i n g
she bore his frank neglect.
and It b e i n g a
a few interesting marginal notes that
It’s simple enough. There are a good many makes of “as f l o r o n m g d a i s s t e a r n i c o e u s t o 111/iese.
Ami then he told her of his scheme
But Mary was, as lie was eventual
B u r l i n g t o n , hla d e s
the
second
Moses
Manning
had
made;
I
ly to discover, far less indifferent
sembled” apparatus. There are three, and only three, mak t v i i n l l a a t g i o e n . not B l a b n o c a h s e t i n s g u g a g e s ho t s t e l , t he t h a s t m a he l l but Bhilip knew little or nothing about . for fixing up the little office.
To his surprise, she did not respond than he had supposed, aud knowing a
c o me , f o r t he n i g h t , a g u e s t o f h e r
ers of old line “standard” apparatus. These three concerns c b o e us
law, and did not understand them.
i n, M a r y Ma n n i n g .
to
him with enthusiasm. At first she little of the capacity for suffering that
The third volume that he opened, less !
C H A P T E R I I . — Alary r e c e i v e * t’ nt up
were in the fire apparatus business long before the advent
many silent and self-contained per
wi t h t r h e V e r m o n t h o s p i t a l i t y , and he
bulky than the others, proved to be d looked a little bored. Then she In- |
sons possess, the discovery disturbed
terrupted
him
with
a
petulance
which
a k e r t he a c q u a i n t a n c e of he r t wo I n
of the motorized fire engine. They build nothing but fire m
county history, written by a local
t e r e s t i n g s m a l l b r o t h e r s , Mo s e s and
him not a little. Next to Blanche,
s h e la " m o t h e r , " t he
clergyman early in the Nineteenth shocked him.
engines and fire equipment. They maintain extensive re m Al o g t y, h e r to b e w i n h g o m dead,
tiiere was no one ln the world for
and o f
Ma r y ' s ( century.
"For
Heaven's
sake,
Bhilip!
Don't
'
The Connecticut valley hud •
o u s i n P a u l , h e r fiance.
Ma r y , S t a r r i
search laboratories and testing departments which are c finds,
you realize that I want to get away whom he cared as much as he already
Is a c q u a i n t e d wi tl i G a l e H a m l i n , I been settled by men of ne slight cull-
from
Hamstead and stay away? If did tor Mary, and they were naturally
B o s t o n a r c h i t e c t . ln,
In r w , h
o
s
o
office
constantly occupied in finding out how to make good fire P no a t u ed
n o * ° ?,rar#
her, a n d t h e i r s u h s e t p i e n t I t e v o l u t i o n -
l la e m p l o y e d . ' R e c o g n i s i n g In M a r y
,
1
we
fixed
up Ibis place, and put all tliut thrown a great deal together. Going
d l y spi r i t , he i n f o r m s h e r o f hi s | a r y r e c o r d w a s n o t e w o r t h y .
Philip
engines better. Every part that goes into the finished pro- d a e f s r i r i e e n to
Into Seth Manning’s house one day
wi n B l a n c h e f o r hi s wi f e. S h e
read on with Increasing Interest, money Into it, we’d have to keep com
on an errand, he first encountered
duct is judged from a single standpoint—whether it is the ' f f* a m sym
pathetic,
and
ten*
h
im
of
an
o
ld
ing
hack
to
It!
That's
the
last
thing
which grew greater still when he
ily
superstition
concerning
Moses.
reached that portion of the history on earth I want to do! I don’t want
best part, so far as a fire-fighting unit is concerned, that B l a n c h e s " o f t h * M a n n i n g f a mi l y .
“Where’s Mary?" inquired Philip.
an
old
fashioned
house,
full
of
old-
devoted mainly to the Manning family.
CHAPTER
III. — Vi ol et
Manning,
"In her room,” said Moses.
can be built.
m o t h e r o f B l a n c h e and o f P a u l , wi t h
fashloned furniture, in an old-fash
Here
were
Moses
Manning’s
tine
war
h e r s i s t e r , J a n e , s p i n s t e r , a r e d ubi o us
“In her room!" Bhilip echoed. It
service— the trip to France—und here, ioned village! I want to live in a big
These three concerns do not build to simply meet a j ^"7und"'niPhbutPlav;itr1lyv.%np
dm,.Pnu:- too, was the Countess Blanche! The city. I don’t want a quiet existence; was so unusual for Mary to be "off
duty” even for a few minutes, that
“low price.” Their constant endeavor is to offer quality, c h a p t e r tv.— t*aui Manning. p»m. story of the great chests that came I want to give parties all the time— the
fact was alarming.
except
when
I
am
going
out
to
them—
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in hla h o m e l ife, Is I nc l i ned t o
service and dependability. 1 he assembler, on the other i>e d i s s i p a t e d , n o t r e a l i z i n g Marys t r u e over the sea. And. at last, came the little afternoon bridge parties and little
“Yes. Lyin’ on the b«>d.”
date of the twins’ birth, and, a few
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,
, ,
.
.
,
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wo r t h , a n d t a k i n g t h e i r f u t u r e r e l a -
“Is she sick?"
hand, may
have no laboratory
or technical organization, tnhllHtuq'
tionship
-
«a,
** i husband
iu a u u iiii
n
and
in i
w
" H ife
e
I1 B
: njio-tiq
farther on, that of Lady evening theater parties—and heaps of
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t a b l i s h e d , t h o u g h t h e r e is no f o r m a l ! . . .
"No. Cryln'. Hard,” added Moses
dancing.
And
I
simply
adore
going
to
Blanche’s
death.
But
between
these
i'em.iit.
M a r y ' s r e p r o a c h e s f o r hi s
He can buy truck chassis here, a pump there and other a un s r due
with emphasis.
" c o n v i v i a l i t y " a re badly received
dates was something that Bhilip had the movies and stuqiping around for
"Do you know why?" pursued Philip.
P a u l , and t h * g i r l b e g i n * t o h a v e
equipment somewhere, else, anil build down to a “price’ by
lacy
nightgowns
and
getting
an
ice
I
not
yet
heard.
m i s g i v i n g s a s t o t he w i s d o m o f t he
“Paul,” said Moses laconically.
cream
soda
in
the
middle
of
the
morn
a
l
l
i
a
n
c
e
.
S
t
a
r
r
'
s
d
i
s
c
l
o
s
u
r
e
of
t
he
f
a
c
t
in an endeavor to compete with “quality” and balanced en l hat he Is t he s o n o f a C o n g r e g a t i o n a l
“. . . And the Lady Blanche, being
Philip turned thoughtfully away.
ing, and having lunch at a tearoom.
m i n i s t e r , and of hi s f i n a n c i a l «’ a n d i n ^
v“ r .v w<‘nk af,<*r h e r l unli t r a v a i l , w a s
gineering.
He was sleeping In the room adjoining
That’s
what
I’ve
done
the
few
times
reL-*1« «* ' ' hi m in t h * M a n n i n g f a m i l y ' s
sorely spent, for sh e w as a f em al e
Paul's on Ills brief visits at Lady
elegantly formed, but not sturdy, or of I've been to town to visit. Why Philip, Blanche farm, and he had some idea
It is not unusual to see the standard apparatus produced
1
thought
you
were
going
to
help
me
C H A P T E R V,— G a l e H a m l i n , l o n g a
sound health. She lay In great pain,
Atary' s hand, h a v i n g k n o w n
to escape from Lady Blanche farm! of the hours his future brother-in law
by the three old pioneer makers, in operation after twenty s h u T i t . o “ r ln.i; f o e r he
r c o * l * K* d a y s In B o s t o n . ( and ever nnd anon she sank into a
I thought you wanted me to have a was keeping. After vacillating for a
vi si t « H a m s t e a d but m a k e s no p r o « ,
years of service, protecting life and property and main r e s s In hi s l o v e m a k i n g . P h i l i p ' s wed- stupor from which none could rouse good
time and pretty clothes, and short time between Ids reluctance to
nor did she regard my exhorta
meddle In other people’s affairs and
tabling a remarkably high degree of efficiency. Time tests d f u i n t u g r e . wi Is t h u B n d l a e n r c s t h o e o , d In t h * i m m e d i a t e 1 her,
heaps
of
new friends. . . ."
tion, or the lamentations of her af
his distress at the thought of Mary’s
There wus something almost gro
C H A PTER V I
flicted husband. But suddenly she did
all claims.
unhappiness, lie waited up for Paul
speak ln a loud voice, saying, ‘Since tesque about Iter, In spite of her love that night, and endeavored to have a
Philip Starr would never have 1 must die, neither shall any other liness. as she stood before him in her talk with him.
dreamed of considering his comfort woman In this village who beureth silvery brocade, clamoring for tawdry
attempt was far from success
PENNSYLVANIA TAKES FARMER OUT OF MUD able Income a fortune. But It loomed twin« survive her cruel labor; und possessions and trifling pastimes. The j ful. The Bhilip
tried to put the question
sudden
dread
lest
the
delicate
fabric
though
I
perish,
there
shall
he,
in
large In the eyes of Ludy Blanche
fairly and kindly. But Paul «vas en
romance might bt* rent before
In a recent issue of the New Republic, Governor Pinchot farm, and soon In those of all the every generation, a Blanche Manning I
raged.
this farm, who shall have not only his eyes, filled Bhilip with four. But J
of Pennsylvania wrote on “Lifting the Farm er out of the country side, for In the general re on
‘‘You had better mind your own busi
this
fear
was
engulfed
In
the
terror-
|
joicing at the good luck which had be my name, bul In whom m.v person
ness,” he shouted, so loudly that
Ized
premonition
which
Ills
research
Mud.”
shall
also
he
seen
again.
And
she
fallen Blunche, It was augmented—
Philip feared Violet and Blanche
consciously or unconsciously—hy many shall wed for love, being hotly wooed, had aroused.
might
both be aroused. “I don't i -II
Somehow he steadied himself and i
Not so many years ago, Pennsylvania’s road situation persons. Violet herself was largely even as I «vfls wooed, by a stranger.
you how to manage things with my
managed
to
speak
lightly.
“I
do
wunt
was like that of most other states—it had a certain mileage responsible for this. She went about But because I have suffered, for all you to have a good time and party | sister, do I? You've done just as you
among her neighbors scattering her my love, In this unfriendly, cold coun
d—d pleased about the whole afi dr,
of superhighways costing $50,(XX) to $70,000 a mile, and good
try. and because he who swore to love clothes and pleasant friends, darling," t
news as she went.
since
the day you first struck the fa: n.
thousands of miles of unimproved or half-improved roads ! “Of course, Blanche Is very young, me best has not saved me from an he said. "And you shall. We won’t ! And I'll thank you to let mine alone,
say
anything
more
about
this
scheme
1
guish.
hut
hath
shown
kls
love
to
he
which became a sequence of mud holes in bad weather. , and It breaks my heart to think of hut selfishness, since he hath failed of mine, since it doesn’t appeal to you. ■. too. I guess l know what I’m aboui 1"
’
parting with her." she snld, sighing
"I’m afraid you don’t. That’s just
me when I most did need hint—there tt was only a fancy, anyway."
It,” said Philip. “And I'm older than
Then it adopted a new policy. The state took over 20,(XX)
w,i*,n* """* * few tw,r"- *'nut fore.
He drew her close to him, drugging
I say. she shall not love for long.
.
f
,
. ,
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e
.
| I couldn’t bring myself to stand In the
and have been about u bit more,
miles of inferior roads with the purpose of transforming wa, of the true happiness ..r one of Within Hve years of her niurrluge himself, for the moment, with the de- I you,
and—”
them into dlistless, mudless hardsurfaced thorough-fares, my children for »elltsh reasons. That’s cither she or her husband shall die light of feeling her in his arms But I "Oh, you’re afraid I don’t, are you?
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,
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.
-I n e v e r been mv w h v
Of ■•nor«* and die with the bitter knowledge that i afterwards he sought out Mary.
Well, I should worry," jeered Paul,
good every day in the year. It Studied the constlUCtloll o Blanche Is too Innocent about worldly neither riches nor passion nor high j Everyone always took stories of who
was picking up more or less V w
cheaper roads for lighter traffic anti found that where oldj things and too much In love to think romance, nuy. not even all three to trouble to Mary, sure of help nnd tin- ! York slang. "W ere a good little Imy,
sullic* to make that great ' derstanding and comfort. The fact 1 aren't we? Never li t it up in all ■ ar
road-beds had pood bases, a s a t i s l a c t o r y bituminous sur of ,he material side at uii. but we gether,
,
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i • i r
r
c/vv ,
en n
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r» r
i ! older ones know that can’t be over- thing culled love unless there he other that It was Ironing day. nnd that he lives! Well, run u ig to bed, that's
face could be laid for from $1,500 to $2,5(X) a mile. It found looked altogether. Philip can do things, which my lover hath not given found her, in the middle of a sultry the best place for uw of your a«l-
that in other cases hardsurfaced roads could be construct-j everything for her. Yes. her ring Is me, added unto them. And, In the afternoon, tolling away In a hot vunced year, and «\; crlence you most
lovely, Isn't It? You seldom see such hour of their death, I will appear unto kitchen, nnd not sitting with folded 1 look out not to keep too late hours, or
cd cheaply with bituminous binders.
pure, white diamonds. And he’s given those who die. and comfort them, for hands I d some secluded and restful j get your feet wet. or something like
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a pendant, too—a diamond star! the manner of their passing shall be spot, as comforters are traditionally that—might lie fa ta l!” Then as
Whenever possible local materials were utilized in her
supposed to he found, made no differ Philip hesltat. I. Paul burst Into oaths
Wasn’t that a pretty thought, nnd so lonely and grievous altogether.’
ence. He could not bring himself to before which Bhilip, hitherto unac
"And thereat," went on the ctaron
building the road. A type was gradually evolved—not the j clever! Philip 'is clever, unusually so
Icier, "she lay hack upon her bed In speak of Blanche's outburst, hut he quainted with certain phrases of rural
cheapest type, but that which really combined economy I H*
,h* nBme "h#,B *0|B* to h*»*. peace,
and did not speak again. And j did speak of the ominous sense of fore-
s t o o d electrified for a mo
with service and long w ear-and as a result first-class ru-1 No ,.hl,|P won.t h,,nr of „ lonf PD we marveled greatly that one so gen- boding which had been awakened hy vocabulary.
ment, at.d then walked Into his own
l a l roads were and are built for less than $ 6 , (XX) a mile, gagement, so I’m going to toke Blanche j tic Should seek. In her last moments, his perusal of Hastings' history nnd room an.I dosed the door.
which had persisted ever since. Mary
to Boston right away, to buy her to lay a curse upon her innocent de
And s o ilie second episode, also,
Governor Pinchot describes one of these $6,(XX) roads. | trousseau,
listened to his recital In sll«*nce, and cauie to no abrupt end, and he strove
nnd see caterers and sta- seetidants.”
First a 20 foot roadbed is provided, necessitating cleaning tinners and to on. I guess I can show I Philip closed the book, shivering without stopping her work. And w!u*n to ili ¡Hiss both from his mind.
Philip had finished, she went to tlie
The wedding day, which seemed to
out widening and easing of curves and grades. Drainage his fashionable friends that I know nnd angry and ashamed because he stove
for a hot Iron, tested it with her the It qiatieut bridegroom so inter-
how things should be done, even If I wus shivering Tliut silly old super
follows. Then a road 14 to 16 feet wide is built in the center! do live In the country ¡—They're go stition—what did It amount to! But hand, and began to press out Seth's "lit: il.iy S lo w In arriving, came at last
of the bed. The base course is usually stone and average j ing to California on their wedding —had It amounted to anything? He overalls before she answered.
—v- n i l , clear and cloudless. The
course Philip would have began, involuntarily, to recall the hls-
"You don’t think we've kept this Utile white Congregational church,
live inches in thickness. Over this comes an application trip—of
from you wilfully, do you?” she said, where nil the Mannings had always
taken Blanche to Europe If this tire torl«*s of other members of the Man
of three to four inches of finer stone. A bituminous binder j some war hadn't been going on nlng family. The countess' girl-twin at length. "You know I asked you. worshiped, and where the marriage
F applied. And a typical Pennsylvania rural road has been Blanche is going to keep a maid, and —the second Blanche—had married a right off. If there were anything that ceremony was performed, was dec-
Virginian, a classmate of her broth would make you want Blanche less, oruted as it never hud been before in
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! have a motor, right from the begin
completed.
nlng. Of course, all Bhlllp’s friends— er'* at Harvard, who was shot, after and you snld h o . And I'm sure that the hundred Hud fifty years of Its ex
nnd he has thousands of them—xvlll they had had only a few radiant the reason she didn't tell you the istence. The Wallacetown “orchestra”
Pennsylvania is to he congratulated-and, more import entertain for her and give her a beau months togetluT, In * duel with the whole story, that day by the brook, played
at the farm. A wedding sup
ant than that, emulated. Every state must, if it is to pre tiful time. Bhilip Is charming, and man who had once been hi* best was simply because, as she said, you per, more sumptuous than any of
that’s so rare in a man I He Is so friend. The lawyer. Moses, had a would think she was 'awfully eon which Hamstead had ever partaken,
pare for the future, take the farmer out of the mud.
thoughtful nnd pleasant always. I daughter named Blanche, who went celled and fresh' If she Inferred that was spread on tables under huge awn
•Imply adore him myself. . . ."
west In * prairie schooner on her she thought she was beautiful and ings extending over the lawns, and
There wus not a single flaw In the honeymoon, and was never heard of likely to be lo«ed at first sight l»y a two rooms were filled with presents
General Tire»
Exide Batteries crystal, Violet could purr on for again after she passed the Alleghenies handsome stranger. She doesn’t read which any bride might well have been
hours In fact Hamstead grew a little And the lawyer's eldest son had a much, and she's probably forgotten proud to display and possess. Blanche,
tired of so much perfection and so daughter who—but that story was too part of the legend, anyway, even If she wearing the countess' peurls. enveloped
Tire Repairing & Vulcanizing
much purring.
dreadful, and contained shame as well ever read It. You- you wouldn't be ln a mist of white tulle aud soft lace,
Nevertheless, In spite of some ex as trag«Mly. Feeling as If hla throat so cruel as to spoil her lovely
looked
more ’exquisite
and fairy like
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pression* of disparagement, Mrs. Kl
ness by telling her about It now, would than ev«-r. Philip’s friends_and thev
liott and all Hamstead with her, could not shake himself free of the you?'
sectned to be legion—were there In
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flocked to see the trousseau, and then hnnd that etyiked him. Philip sprang
“Good Lord, Mary, you don't think full force, nor had Hamstead real
the presents, and. In early August, to to his feet to see nu apparition stand
I want to. do you? It would Just ised before how many Boston friends
Broadway and Couch Street
the wedding. During the two months Ing In the dimrway.
atx*ut kill me to give h«*r up.”
M.ary had. too. Gale Hamlin was
Blanche also had been spending her
and a half thnt had elapse«! since his
“Then what do you mean?"
there, with hla sist«-r and niece. Mr.
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Portland,Oregon first apiMMirnnce there, Bhilip had time that rainy morning by making
"I thought you might think—I think Davis, the senior partner of the firm,
spent every Sunday and holiday at j an excursion Into the past. Her moth m.vself perhaps I ought to—on her ac had Come, too, with his wife and sons;
er had felt It a good opportunity for count. you know.
Lady Blanche fnrra, and. as Mrs
and mau> others. All Hamstead was
them to go through some of the
Elliott said, had been to "pleasant
“On her account?" said Mary, stu there, of course, and most of White
spoken" that he had become cordially cheats carefully stowed sway In the pidly.
Water and some of Wallacetown; and
liked In the village; and. In turn, he attic In search of treasures to sdd to
“If there Is any truth In n thing all Hamstead Included, that summer,
had come to have a very warm and her trousseau and they had found a like that. Isn't It m; duty to?"
pretty, pulnted Rosalie King, with her
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tiny Iron bound trunk, thrust far un
“Why?"
cousins, the Westons. . . .
4 > real affection for many of his new
der the eaves and forgotten, full of
f 1 friends and relatives. Only twice had
-S«)—she could do something safer,
Finally. Blanche and Philip drove
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his dream of perfect happiness been the countess' clothes; Blanche had of course."
off In their own motor, showered with
shaken; nnd he tried to dismiss both carried them down to her bedroom
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Mary folded the overalls carefully
rice and confetti, cheering and waving
of these episodes from his mind as and trle<1 them on. They fitted her as "There Isn't anything safer for s girl from their ribbon-bedecked car as they
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If they had been made for her.
trivial.
to do.” she said In a low voice, "than went. The guests remained a little
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“Couldn't I keep one ef them on. to marry the man she lo«es. If—If longer to laugh und cry. and “talk it
! * f t alone for a time on« rainy
morning, he had decided to explore the and surprise Philip?"
he loves her. And If her life is the over."
Then gradually they went
“1 thick U would he lovely I
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eoe that'» short, what doeg that mat
home, motor horns UK>tlng, aged carry.
LADY
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