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By BOOTH
Author of "Cherry,"
COPYRIGHT; 1005.
CHAPTER' tf I.
THERE wns a silence, for If the
dazzled young man could have
spoken nt all he could have
found nothing to Bay; and, per
haps, the lady would not trust her own
voice just then. His eyes had fallen
agrfln. Ho wna too duzed and, In truth,
too panic Htrlckcn now to look nt her,
though if ho had been quite suro tliat
she was part of a wonderful dream ho
might linvo dared. Sho was seated be
side him, and had handed hltn her par
Asol In a little way which seemed to
Imply thrtt of courso ho had reached for
It, no that JC Wf s to bo seen how uned
sho was to Iltlvo all tiny things dono
for hor, though this was not then of his
tremulous observing. Ho did perceive,
howovcr, that ho whb to furl tho dainty
tiling. Ho pressed tho catch and let
down tho top timidly, as If fcurlng to
break or tear It, and ua It closed, hold
near his face, ho caught a very faint,
nwcot, spicy emanation from It liko
(Wild roses and cinnamon.
Ho did not know her, but his timid'
Ity and a strango llttlo choko In his
throat, tho sudden fright which had
seized him, woro not ennsed by em
barrassment. Ho had no thought that
she was ono ho had known, but could
not for tho moment recall. Thcro was
nothing of tho nwkwardncsB of that
No; he was 6vorpowercd by tho mlra
do of this meeting. And yet, white
wlUi marveling, ho felt it to bo so
much moro touchlngiy a greater happi
ness than ho had over known that at
llrst it wns Inexpressibly Bad.
At, last ho heard her volco again,
ftknklng a little, as sho said:
"I am glad you remomborcd."
"Remembered what?" ho faltered.
"Thou you don't?" uho cried. "And
yet you enmo."
"Chiiio hero, do you mean?"
"Yen now, nt noon."
"A1U" ho half whljyiercd, unablo to
epcak aloud. "Waff it you who
Aid who suld: 'Remember I Across
" 'Across Main Btrcct brldgo nt
noonl' " sho finished for him gently.
"Yes."
II o took a deep breath in tho wonder
of It. "Whero was It you Bald thntr
he asked Blowly. "Wob It last night?"
"Don't you oven know thnt you came
to meet mo i '
"I camo to to moot you I"
Bhn gnvo a llttlo pitying crj'i vory
near a sob, Hcelng his utter bewilder
ment. "It was liko tho BtrnngCHt dream In
tho world," Bho said. "You wero nt
tho ntntlon when I camo lust night
You don't romomber at all?"
Ills oyes dowuenst, his fuco burning
hotly, ho could only shako IiIh head,
"You," hIio continued. "I thought no
ono would bo there, for I had not
written to say what train I should
tsko, but wlion I stepped down from
the platform you wero standing thcro,
though you didn't boo mo at Unit not
until I hnd called your niuno and ran
to you. You said, 'I've como to meet
you but you said It quocrly, I thought.
Ami then you called n carriage for mo.
Hut you seemed so Htrango, You
couldn't toll how you knew that I was
coining, and and then 1 I understood
you weren't yourself. You wero very
quiet, but I know I know I Bo 1 mado
3'ou got Into tho carriage and and"
Sho faltered to n Btop, and with thnt
afcnmo ItHolf brought him courage. Ho
turned and faced hor. Hho hud lifted
her handkerchief to her eyes, but at
his movement sho dropped It, and It
was not no much tho rivllcnto loveli
ness of lier fnco that ho saw thou as
tho tenra upou her cheeks.
"Ah, oor boyl" sho cried, "I know!
X kuowl"
"Yon you took mo homo?"
"You told mo whero you lived," hub
answered, "Yoh, 1 took you home."
'l don't understand." ho Htmumerod
huskily. "I don't understand."
Bho leaned toward him slightly, look
ing nt him with great Intimities.
"You didn't know mo last night,"
ho said. "Do you know mo now?"
For answer lu could only stare nt
her, dumfouuded. Ho llftiMl an tin
wtomly hand towartl hor ttppoallugly.
but tho manner of tho lady as alio saw
tho truth under wont an April change.
Sho drew back lightly. Ho was fa
vored with tho most delicious low
laugh ho had over hoard, and by 8omo
magic whisk which sho nceompllithiHl
thcro was no sign of team about her.
"Ah, I'm ghul you'ro tho wime, Joel"'
he said. "You never would or could
IHtond very well. I'm glad you'ro tho
name, and I'm glad Pv chnuged,
though that Isn't why yon havo for-
ittte-n mo. You'vo forgotten mo bo -
muse you miver thought of me. Per-
hap I nhould uot havo known you If
you had changed, a great deal, as I
havo."
Ho started, leaning back from her.
"Ah," sho laughed, "that's Itl That
.funny llttlo twist of tao head you al
ways hnd, liko a-llko a-well. yon
know I must havo toll you a thousaud
times that It was liko a nice friendly
pwipy. Bo why shouldn't I say so
jww? And your eyebrows! When you
leek Hke tfcat uobodjr eouM over for
t you, Jo."
He roe from the log, aud the moa
pvt leaps W uixsmrtowly,
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TARKINGTON,
"Moiuleur Beaucnlre," Etc
BY HARPER
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thinking they wero to go home, belike
to foodr
Tho lady laughed again. "Don't let
him spoil my parasol. And I must
warn you new: Never, never tread on
my skirt! I'm very irritable nbout such
things!"
Ho hnd taken three or four uncertain
backward steps from her. Sho eat be
foro him, rudinut with laughter, the
loveliest crcaturo ho had ever seen,
but between him nnd this chnrmlng
vision thcro swept, through Iho warm,
scented Juno air, a veil of snow liko n
driven fog, nnd half obscured in tho
henrt of It a young girl stood kneo deep
In a drift piled against nn old picket
gate, her black waterproof uud shabby
Bkirt flapping in tho blipznrd liko torn
sails, ono of her hands outstretched to
ward him, her startled eyes fixed on
his.
"And, oh, how liko you," Bald tho
lady; "how liko you and nobody else In
tho world, Joo, to have a yellow dogl"
"Ariel Tabor I"
nia lips formed tho words without
sound.
"Isn't it nbout tlmo?" Bho said. "Are
strango Indies In tho habit of descend
ing from trnlus to take you homo 7"
Onco, upon a whlto morning long ago,
tho BonBntionnI progress of a certain
youth up Main street hnd stirred Ca
naan. But that day was as nothing to
this. Mr. Bantry hnd left tomporary
parnlyBlB In hla wake, but In tho enso
of tho two young peoplo who passed
slowly along tho street today It wob
potrlfoctlon, which seemingly threat
ened In Bovorni Instances (most nota
bly that of Mr. Arp) to becomo perma
nent. Tho lower portion of tho street, lined
with throo nnd four Btory buildings of
brick nnd atone, rnthcr grim nnd hot
facades under tho midday sun, afford
cd llttlo shado to tho church comers,
who wero working homownrd la pro
ccsslonnl' llttlo groups nnd clumps,
nouo wnlklng fnst, though nono with
tho npponranco of grent loisuro, slnco
neither rato of progress would havo
been esteemed befitting tho day. Tho
growth of Cannnu, steady, though ncv-
or startling, had loft nlmost all of tho
churches uowmown, ami junin street
tho prlnclpnl avenuo of communication
between them and tho "rcsldenco sec
tion." 8o todny tho Intermittent pro
rofl.qlnn ntrntrhed nloncr tho now cement
'Bldownlks from a llttlo below tho
aquaro to upper Main street, whero
maples lined tho thoroughfare and tho
mansions of tho affluent stood among
ploasaut lawus and shrubberies.
It was lute, for tills hud been a com
munion Sunday, and those far In ad
vance, who hnd already readied tho
pretty and shady part of the street,
wero members of tho church cm whero
services hnd been shortest, though few
In tho long parade looked as If they
had been attending nuythlng very
short, uud many heads of families wero
crisp In their replies to tho theological
Inquiries of their offspring. Tho men
Imparted largely a gloom to tho Itin
erant concourse, most of them wearing
hot, long blade coats nnd having wilt
ed their ccUars, tho ladles rcllovlug
this gloom Komowhat by tho lighter
tints of their garments, tho spick and
span llttlo girls rcllovlug It greatly by
their whlto dresses and their faces, tho
latter bright with tho hopo of Sunday
Ico cream, while tho boys, experiencing
some soluco la that they woro Anally
out whero a person could nt least
scratch himself If ho hod to, yet op
pressed by tho decorous necessities of
tho day, marched along, furtively
planning behind luiporturbnbly secre
tive countenances various means for
tho tutor dlspersul of an odious monot
ony. Usually tho conversation of this long
string of the homeward bound was
not too frivolous or worldly. Nay; It
properly Inclined to discussion of tho
sermon,
It was a serious and seemly Sunday
parade, tho propriety of whoso behn
vlor was today nlmost disintegrate!
whoa tho lady of tho brldgo walked up
tho streot In tho shadow of a lacy lav
oudor parasol carried by Joseph I.ou
don. Tho congregation of the church
across tho square that to which Joo's
atcpuuut had been lute was Just de
bouching, almost in mus, upon Main
street whoa these two wont by. It Is
not quite the truth to say that nil ex
cept tho children camo to a dead halt,
but It Is not very far from It. Tho air
was thick with subdued exclamations
nud whisperings.
Hero Is no mystery. Joo was prob
ably the only persou of respectable
derivation lu Cnuuau who had not
known for weeks that Ariel Tabor was
i on nor way uouuv auu tno news iwii
' sho had arrived tho ulght boforo bad
becu widely disseminated on tho way
to church, cuterlug church, 1n church
(even boD aud coiulug out of church.
An account of her houso In tho Ave
nue Heurl Martin and of her portrait
In tho Salou a mysterious business to
inauy aud uot lacking lu grandeur for
that had occupied two column lu
the Tocsin on a day some mouths bo
foro when Joo had fouud himself lu
lBilcally headlined on the tint page
and had dropped tho paper wltbost
readlug further, Ariel's name had
Veen In the month of Canaan for a
loag time unfortunately for Jo bow
rr. not la the mouth of that Canaan
wMeh M4 cuvrw wlUt kit.
DAM OAMTAL 30VKSAL, SAJLSM, nttMJON
a-oo hna not "known Tier. Tho worn
en recognized her Infallibly at flrst
glance, oven those who had quite for
gotten her. And tho women told their
men; hence tho un-Sundny-Hke de
meanor of the procession, for few
towns hold it more unseemly to stand
and Btarc at pnssersby, especially on
tho Sabbath. But Ariel Tabor return
edand walking with with Joe Lou
den I
Ariel flushed n little when she ppr
cclved tho extent of their conspicuous
ness, but It wus not the blush that Joe
remembered had reddened the tnnne
sklu tf old, for her brownness had
gone long ngo, though .It had not loft
her mei'dy pink and white. This win
a delicate roslness rising from hoi
checks to hor temples, as tho earliwt
dawn rises. If thcro had been man?
words left lu Joo ho would have cnlleu
It n divine blush It fascluutcd him.
and If anything could havo deepened
tho glamour about her It would have
been this blush. Ho did uot under
stand It, but when lie saw It ho stum
bled. Thoso who gaped and stared were
for him only blurs In tho background.
Truly, he saw "men nt trees walk
ing," nud when It became necessary to
step out to tho curb In passing some
clump of peoplo It was) to him as ir
Ariel nnd he, enchnntedly alone, wore
working their way through underbrush
In tho woods.
no kept trying to realize that this
lady of wonder wns Ariel Tabor, but
ho could not. He could not connect tho
shabby Ariel, whom ho had treated as
one boy treats another, with this young
woman of the world. Ho hnd always
been embnrrnssod himself nnd ashamed
of her when anything sho did made
him remember that, nfter all, sho was a
tjlrl, jih on the day ho ran nway when
she kissed a lock of his hair escaping
from tho bandage. With that recollec
tion oven his ears grew red. It did
tiot seem probablo that It would ever
happen again. Tho next Instnnt he
board himself calling her "Miss Ta
bor." At tills sho seemed nmusod. "You
ought to havo called mo that years
ago," sho said, "for all you know me."
"I did know her you, I mean," ho
answered. "I used to know nearly
everything you wero going to say bo
foro you Bald It. It seems Btrango
now"
"Yos," Bho Interrupted, "It docs seem
strango now."
"Somehow," ho went on, "I, doubt If
now I'd know."
"Somehow." sho echoed, with tine
gravity, "I doubt it too."
Although ho hod bo dim a perception
of tho staring nnd whispering which
greeted nnd followed them, Ariel, of
course, wns thoroughly nwaro of It.
though tho only sign sho gavo wns tno
slight blush, which very soon disap
peared. That peoplo turned to look at
her mny havo been not altogether a
novelty. A girl who hnd learned to
appear uiicoiibcIous of tho continental
stare, tho following gnzo of tho boulo
vords, tho frank glosses of tho costnn
ea In Rome, was not III equipped to
fnco Main Btrcct, Canaan, oven as It
was today.
Under Iho sycamores beforo they
started they hnd not talked a great
deal. There had been long sllonces, al
most all her questions concerning tho
period of his runaway nbsencc. She
appeared to know nud to understand
everything which hnd happened slnco
his return to tho town. Ho hud not, in
his turn, reached the point whero ho
would begin to question her. Ho wns
too brentbless In his consciousness of
tho marvelous present hour. Sho had
told him of tho deuth of Roger Tabor,
tho year before. "Poor mnn!" sho said
gently. "Ho lived to seo 'how the oth
er fellows did If nt lust, aud everybody
liked him. Ho was very happy over
there."
After a llttlo while sho hod said that
It was growing close upon lunch tlmo;
she must bo going back.
"Then then goodby," ho replica
ruefully.
"Why?"
"I'm afraid you don't understand. It
wouldn't do for you to bo seen with
me. Perhnps, though, you do under
stand. Wasn't that why you asked mo
to meet you out hero beyond the
brldgo?"
Iu answer Bho looked at him full and
straight for threo seconds, then throw
buck her head and closed her eyes tight
with laughter. Without a word she
took tho parasol from hlin, opened It
herself, placed tho smooth whlto coral
handlo of It In his baud and lightly
took his arm. There was no further
demur on the part of the young man.
Ho did not know whero she was golug.
He did not ask.
Onco Ariel smiled polltoly. not at Mr.
London, and Inclined her head twice,
with tho result that the latter, after
thinking for a time of how gracefully
bho did It aud how pretty the top of
her hat was, became gradually cou
scions of a moaning lu hor aouon that
sho had bowod to some ono across tho
streot. Ho lifted his hut. about four
mlnutos lute, nnd discovered Mamie
Plko aud Eugeue upon yho opposite
pavement walklug homo from church
together. Joe changed color.
Tho souud of Ariel's voice brought
him to himself.
"Sho is lovelier than ever, Isn't sho?"
"Yes, Indeed," he answered blankly.
"Would you still risk"- she began.
: ter of It, changed her question. "What
Li tho unme of your dog. Mr. Louden!
lou haven t told me."
"Oh, he's Just a yellow dog." ho evad
ed unsktllfully.
"Young man!" sho said sharply.
"Well," he admitted reluctantly, "I
call him Speck for short."
"And what for long? I want to kw
kk real nan."
"It's might) Inappropriate, Jcww
. M - M &. Ak ft a W.
wr fond rf wich other," Mdd Jw,
"but tyfcta X Bfrktfl )AWL JHf fr "
1007.
'yellow and so thin nuu bo creeping ana
so senred that I christened him 'Re
spectablllty.' "
They were now opposite the Pike
mansion, nnd, to his surprise, she turn
ed, Indicating the way by n touch
upon his sleeve, and crossed the street
toward the gate, which Mamie and
Eugene had entered. Mamie, nfter ex
changing a word with Eugene upon
the steps, was already hurrying into
tho house.
Ariel paused nt the gato as if wait
ing for Joo to open it.
"Don't you know?" she cried. "I'm
staying here. Judge Pike has charge
of all my property. Ho wna tho ad
ministrator or something." Then, see
ing him chopfnllou and nghast, flho
went en: "Of courso you don't know.
You don't know anything about me.
You haven't oven asked."
"You'ro going to live here?" ho
gasped.
"Will you como to sec mo?" sho
laughed. "Will you comb this after
noon?" Ho grew white. "You know I can't,"
he said.
"You camo here once. You risked n
good deal then just to sco Mnmlo
dance by n window. Don't you dure a
llttlo for an old friend?"
"All right," ho gulped. "I'll try."
Mr. Uantry had como down to tho
gate and wns holding It open, his eyes
flxed upon Ariel, within them a rising
glow. Au impression camo to Joo aft
erward that his stepbrother had looked
very handsome.
"Possibly you remember me, Miss
Tabor?" said Eugcno In a deep nnd
Impressive voice, lifting his hnt. "We
were neighbors, I believe, in tho old
days."
She gave him her hand In a fashion
somewhat mannerly, favoring him
with a bright, negligent smile. "Oh,
quite," she answered, turning ngnln to
Joo as she entered tho gate. "Then I
Bhall expect you?"
"I'll try," said Joe. "I'll try."
Ho stumbled nwny, Respectability
and ho together Interfering alarmingly
with tho comfort of Mr. Flltcrof t, who
hnd stopped In tho middle of tho pnyo-
Ton. told mo where you lived," tho nn-
wrred.
ment to stnro glasslly at Ariel. Eu
gone accompanied tho latter Into the
house, nnd Joe, looking back, under
stood. Mamie hnd sent his epbrother
to bring Ariel In nnd to keep hlra
from following.
"This nfternoonl" Tho thought took
nway his breath, and ho beenmo paler.
(To Be Continued.)
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