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DANIEL
By...
WILL N.
HAKBEN
Author of
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Copyright, 1902, by
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CHAI'TKU VI.
JIIE you hr pooplo assoinhlod
slowly at the dunce that eveu-
inu'. Toward dark it had be-
yun raining, and, according
to custom, two livery stable carriages,
called “hacks,” were engaged to con
vey all the couples to and from the ho
tel.
Everything in life is relative, and to
young people who often went to even
less pretentious entertainments this “That’s
affair was rather impressive in its ele
gance. Lamps shone everywhere, and
bunches of candles blazed and sput
tered in nooks hung about with ever
greens. The girls were becomingly at
tired in light evening gowns, and many
of them were good looking, relined and
graceful. All were soft spoken ami
easy in their manners and either wore
to common'll him to the preference of
r.ny thinking woman, especially when
« ntrasted to Ilillhouse. who was only
a little taller than Dolly and was show
ing himself even at a greater disad
vantage in his unrefined allusions to
his and Alan’s attentions to her. In
deed Alan was sorry for the spectacle
the fellow was making of himself and
tried to pass it over.
“I usually come in on SalwrdayH,” he
true,” said Dolly, with one
of her rare smiles.
“Yes”—ilillhouse took another head
er into forbidden waters—“he’s about
joined your church, they tell me.”
Alan treated this with an iudulgeul
smile. He did not dislike Ilillhouse,
but ho did not admire him, and he had
never quite liked his constant atten-
. , , . , tions to Miss Barclay. But it tvas an
or carried flowers. The evening suits , aoknowledi;o( j fact among the society
of the young men were well in evi
deuce tind more noticeable to the wear
ers themselves than they would have
been to a spectator used to convention
al style of dress. They could be seen
in all stages of inadaptability to fig
ures too large or too small, and even
after the da nee began there were sev
eral swaps and a due amount of con
gratulation on the improvement from
the appreciative fair sex. The young
lady accompanying each young man
had pinned a small bouquet on bis
lapel, so that it would have been im
possible to tell whether a man had a
natural Piste for flowers or was the
iwilling victim to a taste higher than
his OW'D.
Rayburn Miller and Alan sat smok- i ,
lug and talking in the room of the
latter till half past 9 o’clock, and then
they went down. As a general rule,
young men were expected to escort
ladies to dances when the young men
went at all, but Alan was often ex
girls of Darley that if a girl refused to
go out tvith any young* man in good
standing it was not long iwfore she
was left at home oftener than was
pleasant. Dolly was easily the best
looking girl in the room—not perhaps
the most daintily pretty, but she pos
sessed a beauty which strength of
character and intellect alone could give
to a face already well featured. Even
her physical beauty alone was of that
texture which gives the beholder an
agreeable sense of solidity. She was
well formed, above medium height,
had a beautiful neck and shoulders,
dark gray eyes and abundant golden
brown hair.
May I see your card?” asked Alau.
T came early to secure at least one.”
At this Frank Hiilhousp burst out
| laughing, and she smiled up at Alan.
; “He’s been teasing me all evening
| about the predicament I’m in.” she ex-
| plained. “The truth is. I’m not going
i to dance at all. The presiding elder
cused from so doing on account of liv- > , ...
ing in the country, and Miller bad j m , ? ! nV ". , :,y V'
broken down every precedent in that : i-,'' '.'"l • , 1 " UMI . ‘ \* , ! !
respect and never invited a girl to go | ' , ’ H <! l! !S 11 1
With him. He atoned for this short- 1111 ' '
coming by contributing most liberally
to every entertainment given-by the
young people, even when he was out
of town. He used to say he liked to
graze and nibble at such things and
feel free to*go to bed or business at
Will.
As the two friends entered the big
parlor Alan espied the girl about whom
he had been thinking all day. She was
seated in one of the deep, lace cur
tained windows behind the
.Frank Hillliou.se was just presenting .
to her a faultlessly attired traveling ]
salesman. At this juncture one of the I
floor managers with a white rosette on
his lapel called Miller away to ask his
advice about some details and Alan ,
turned out of the parlor into the wide '
corridor which ran through the house.
He did this in obedience to another
unwritten law governing Darley’s so
cial intercourse—that it would be im- j
polite *for a resident gentleman to in
trude himself upon a stranger who
bad just been introduced to a lady. So
he went down to the ground floor and
strolled into the office. It was full of
tobacco smoke and a throng of men,
some of whom were from the country
and others from the town drawn to
dancing. At first mamma
said 1 siiou:.:.:'* come a stop, but Mr.
Ilillhouse and I siu. —bd in getting
up a compromise. I can . 'v look on.
But my friends bavin"' p, '• on me
and li!li;< ; i.y card for tine call
stationary.d.: n< cs.”
Alan laughed ns be took tin* card,
which was already almost li!led. and
wrote liis name in one of the blank
spaces. Some one called Ilillhouse
away, and then an awkward silence
fell upon them. For the first time
piano. , Alan noticed a worried expression on
her face.
“You have no buttonhole bouquet.”
she said, noticing bis bare lapel.
“That’s what you get for not bringing
a girl. Let me make you one.”
“I wish you would,” he said thought
fully, for as she began to search among
her flowers for some rosebuds and
leaves he noted again the expression
of countenance that had already puz
zled him.
“Since you are so popular,” he went
on, his eyes on her deft fingers, “I’d
better try to make another eugage-
ment. I’d as well confess that I came
in town solely to ask you to let me
take you to church tomorrow even
ing.”
He saw her start. She raised her
the hotel by the festivities. From the . ...
office a door opened into u bar and e ^ es to ils :luu0 ‘ s *' hnploringly, and
billiard room, whence came the click- ^ cn slie lo° kfi d d<wn. He saw her
Ing of ivory balls and the grounding | l^ave suddenly as with tight-
of cues. Another door led into the «: no<1 1,ps slle lcancd fonvard P in tbo
large dining room, which had been fl 0 ’ ni ' ls on l 1 * 8 coa t- The jewels in her
cleared of its tables that it might be rinss fla f® d under his e y es - Thei ‘ e
used for dancing. There wore a sawing ™ as a do cat0 P erfuniR ,n air
of fiddles, the twanging of guitars, the about her glorious bead He bad never
Jingle of tambourines and the groan seen her look so beautiful before. He
ing of a bass viol. The musiciaus, won <l e r R <* at bR r silence at just such a
black and yellow, occupied chairs on moment ’ Th « tightness of her lips
one of the tables, which had been Rave "'«?• and ^ trembling
placed against the wall, and one of when she started to speak
the floor managers was engaged in 1 hardly know what to say, she
•whittling paraffin candles over the began. I—I—you know I said the pre
floor and rubbing it in with his feet sldmg elder was at our house * and ”-
Seeing what he was doing, some of
the young men, desirous of trying their
new patent leather pumps, came in
and began to waltz singly and in cou
ples.
When everything was In readiness,
the floor manager piloted the dancers
downstairs. From the office Alan saw
them tiling Into the big room and tak- j
Ing seats in the chairs arranged against
the walls on all sides. He saw Frank
Hillbouse and Dolly Barclay sit down
near the band; the salesman had dis
appeared. Alan threw his cigar away
and went straight to her.
“Oh, here you are!” laughed Frank
Hillbouse as Alan shook hands with •
her. “I told Miss Dolly coming on
that the west wind would blow you
this way, and when I saw Ray Miller
Just now I knew you’d struck the
town.”
“It wasn’t exactly the wind,” replied
Alan. "I’m afraid you will forget me
If I stay on the farm all the time.”
“We certainly are glad to have you,”
ajpalled Miss Barclay.
“I knew she’d say that—I knew It,
I knew it,” said Hillbouse. “A girl
can always think of nicer things to
say to a feller than his rival can. Old
Squire Trabue was teasing me the oth
er day about how hard you was to
beat, Biahop, but I told him the bigger
the war the more victory for some
body, and, as the feller said, I tote fair
and am aboveboard.”
Alan greeted this with an all but vis
ible shudder. There was much in his
dignified bearing and good appearance
I had anything to do with it In fact
my heart is almost broken. I’m very,
very unhappy.”
He was still totally at ea as to the
cause of her strange distress. “Per
haps you’d rather not tell me at all,”
he said sympathetically. His tone nev
er had been so tender. “You need not
you know.”
“But it’s a thing I could not keep
from you long anyway,” she said trem
ulously. "In fact, it is due you—an ex
planation. I mean. Oh, Alan, papa has
taken* up the idea that we—that we
like each other too much, and”—
The life and soul seemed to leave
Alan’s face.
"l understand,” he heard himself
f<aying; “he does not want me to dsit
you any more.”
She made no reply. He saw her
catch a deep breath, and her eyes went
down to her flowers. The music struck
up. The mulatto leader stood waving
his fiddle and calling for "the grand
mareh” in loud, melodious tones. There
was a scrambling for partners. The
young men gave their left arms to the
ladies and merrily dragged them to
their places.
"I hope you do not blame me—that
you don't think that I”— But the clat
ter and clamor ingulfed her words.
“No, not at all,” he told her. “But
It's awful; simply awful! I know you
are a true friend, and that’s some sort
of comfort.”
“And always shall bo,” she gulped.
“You must try not to feel hurt. You
know my father is a very peculiar man
and has an awful will, and nobody was
ever so obstinate.”
Then Alan’s sense of the great in
justice of the thing rose up within him,
ami liis blood began to boil. “Perhaps
I ought to take my name off your
card,” he said, i. drawing himself up
slightly. “If he were to hear that 1
talked to you tonight, he might make
it unpleasant for you.”
“If you do, I shall never-never for
give you,” she answered in a voice
that shook. There was, too, a glisten
ing in her eyes as if tcars^vero spring
ing. “Wouldn’t that show that you
harbored ill will against me, when I
am so helpless and troubled?”
"Yes, it would, and I shall come
back,” he made answer. He rose, for
Hillbouse, enlling loudly over his
shoulder to some one, was thrusting
his bowed arm down toward her.
“I beg your pardon,” he said to Dol
ly. “I didn't know they had called the
mareh. We’ve got some ice cream hid
out upstairs, and some of us are going
for it. Won’t you take some, Bishop?”
“No. thank you,” said Alan, and they
left him.
YACHT RACING EXPENSE
What It Costs to Defend the
America’s Cup.
THOUSANDS IN THE AGGREGATE.
This story will be
next Friday’s issue.
continued in
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them a good idea of the amounts of
money that are expended in trying to
capture the old yachting trophy and
in the efforts made by tbo New York
Yacht club to defend it
The planning and building of a cup
challenger or defender involve much
time and labor and necessarily the out
lay of large sums of money. The de
signer and his corps of assistants are
the first that must be met. Mr. Fife,
for the challenging parties, and Cap
tain Nat Herreshoff, for the defend
ants, for instance, are men who place
a high value upon their services, and,
as the owners of the yachts are liberal
to a marked degree, opening negotia
tions with a view to the building of a
cup yacht means a fee that in some
other profession would be looked upon
as staggering in its proportions.
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ers In time are consulted, and with ar
rangements satisfactory in this wise
materials must be considered, then the
riggers kept in mind, as well as the
sail makers, while finally the skip
pers and crew are secured. Money is
required by all these, and much of it.
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placed in commission alterations and
repairs are required frequently at
times, while docking the craft for
cleaning and smoothing purposes
means large additional sums.
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made by Sir Thomas Lipton four years
ago that the mere cost of the Sham
rock I. was between $400,000 and $500,-
000, while the expense of bringing the
vessel across the ocean and that of her
officers and crew were extra. That
seems a big lot to pay for the vessel,
but Sir Thomas should be the best
authority on the subject of the cost of
the yacht.
If ho expended a sum approaching
half a million dollars four years ago
for ids challenging yacht the money
the present trip is costing him must be
far in excess of the figures named. The
Lipton fleet now here is proof of that.
It is easy to believe that the Shamrock
III. cost quite as much to build as the
Shamrock I., and it is quite sure the
bringing over of three crews, those of
the Shamrocks and of the tender
Cruizer, must stand him in a bigger
amount than the single crew of four
years ago and the additional assistance
he obtained in the United States.
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be made upon the America’s cup, it
cun safely he estimated that something
lu the neighborhood of $600,000 will be
required to foot the hills at home and
here incidental to bis third trial to
win the old trophy.
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more widespread. By the time the
yachts are called to sail the first race
for the cup the Reliance, selected to
defend it, will have cost, one way and
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year will approach the very respectable
amount of $575,000 or $600,000.
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