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The Men By ALBERT PAY? COPYRIGHT. 1908. BY be one or my attaches, Drougm me i this. He was crazy with jealousy, j ( He'd just picked up the fan; said It 11 was his wife's and that some man had written "I love you* on one of the j \ sticks. He was going home to beat his i wife and make her confess who the villain was when I persuaded my wife to save poor Mine. Nova Kovitch by pretending the fan was her own. Ah, but my wife is a born diplomatist! j Nova Kovitch was convinced, and I 1 pocketed the fan for future reference." j Danllo took the trinket from PopofTs hands and read the penciled lnscrip- ) tlon. "Why," he said on impulse, "this is De Jolidon's handwriting! How does it happen that he"? "Then." squealed Popoff In triumph, "it is Mme. Nova Kovitch he loves. The whole thing is absurdly simple when a brain like mine is brought to bear on it!" Delighted with his own astuteness, the ambassador pattered off to join the" other guests, leaving Danilo, fan in hand, blankly facing the astounded lit* tie clerk. "Nish," observed the prince, "do you suppose it's possible De Jolidon can be In love with Mine. Nova Kovitch as well as with Mine. Popoff?" "I'd?I'd like to think so." murmured Nish as he started faithfully off in the wake of his chief. "I'd like to think so. It?It would make it less exclusive, less of a monopoly. And to think h;s excellency never recognized his own wife's fan! Where ignorance is bliss why read up on divorce laws?" Laying the fan on a nearby table, Danilo was turning away when a voice behind him called mockingly: "Still in retreat? So you are afraid Of me!" Whirling about, the prince faced Sonia. She was bewitching)}* pretty in the black and gold Marsovian dress that snowed to fullest advantage every willowy line of her figure. "I'm not retreating,!' he contradicted, "only skirmishing in light cavalry fashion." "And you are going away like that? Oh rnn otiinlH irm n vu? J VU "I can't tell what you mean," he answered, puzzled. "And I shan't tell what I mean,"she rejoined, "by the way," she added, "how do you happen to be here? You declined my invitation." "I'm here," he replied bluntly, "because I'm making it my business to get rid of every Frenchman who shows 6igns of proposing to you." "But why?" she asked in wonder. "For my own amusement; that's all." "You?you don't happen to be in love with me yourself?" she asked, a tinge of wistfulness in the light mockery of her tone. "Certainly not!" he retorted, with suspicious promptitude. "You're very, very rude!" she reproved. "But since you don't love me you ougm 10 oe aoie iu give ui? gwu advice about accepting a man I really want to marry." "Oh!" growled Danilo, chagrined. "Then there is some one you want to marry r She nodded. "Whoever the man is, he's after your money," he sneered. "No," she Contradicted. "He is not? sot this one." "Too said all men were alike." "This man is different He loves me." "Then marry him! What is it to me? Marry any one you want to. I don't care. And I'll dance at your wedding. 1*11 dance till I wear holes through both my shoes." "You silly boy!" she scoffed. "You're Jealous!" "Jealous?" he raged. "Jealous? I Jealous? That's a good one!" Words failed him, and he stalked away to a nearby summer house, where he paused, lost in seeming contemplation of the little building's architecture. The neglected fan lying on the table caught Sonia's eye. She picked It up Idly and opened it The words "I love you" met her gaze. Quickly she glanced > at Danilo. "I understand," she murmured to ?grself. "He vowed he'd never say it to me, so he's written it" , Noting that Dsnllo's back was toward her. she furtively lifted the fan to her lips and kissed the written words. Then as she restored it to the table she whispered: "Just the same, I'll make him say 1 Jt He shall!" Sne crossed 10 wnere ue biwu. "Have you nothing to say to me, prince?" she asked. "Only one thing?goodby!" j "Goodby!" she echoed. "You're? " you're not going?" "I leave Paris tomorrow morning? 1 the first train?forever!" "Then you won't be here, after all, to 1 dance at my wedding?" "No!" "But you promised. And now, I suppose, I shall never see you again, for when I'm married I shall live in Paris." 1 "I thought you were more patriotic," be sighed. "It seems hard that you should turn your back on your native land, marry a Frenchman and settle ? here." "Yet It is what I have decided," she 1 * answered. "This is probably the last |ime I shall wear our native costume * >{L W \ y Widow ?ON TERHUNE ' J HENRY W. SAVAGE _ J or dance our wild national dances. To- ; Jay's fete is a sort of farewell to old : times." "No; our dances and costumes would nnnnol tn 0 U'l-isnchtnd T1 U'llrt i_< ' It you are going to marry?" * "The engagement isn't announced ! vet," she evaded. "Then." he returned, with a shrug. I "I suppose I shall never know, for 1 i leave early tomorrow." r 'a ? w* i ail ft-r marsovian Gi "And yon won't dance at my wedding?" "I're told you I would not" "If you won't" she cried, a sudden Inspiration flashing through her mind and lighting her pale face to dazzling beauty, "dance with me now!" She stretched out her slender white arms with an allurement that no mortal man could resist CHAPTER IV. The Waltz. 'TJT1ANCE with me!" repeated 80I I || nia. IfI The faroff orchestra had ' ' struck up a dashing, gay Marsovlan air. Impelled by the music ind her glance of daring, Danllo sprang forward. In an Instant the two were whirling madly amid the intricacies of a wild Russian dance such as has for countless centuries been performed from Siberia's Ice plain to Tartar steppes?a dance of youth, agility, utter abandon. Tet. as they came panting to a halt at the last crashing note of music the face of neither reflected the exhilaration the swift motion and stirring measures usually evoked. In fact. Da- i nilo's brow wore a very perceptible scowl. Sonia, too, was downcast Had her rash experiment failed? "You didn't enjoy that," said she. "Not especially," he confessed. "DidfOU?" "No. You don't dance as well as you did." "You've probably grown to pre fey ( French partners," he replied, piqued 1 at the reflection nn-hla d&Bcl&a . "From all I hear," she retorted, you have very little right to reproach me on that score. You dance a good deal at Maxim's, don't you?" "Sow and then." be admitted. "And with what sort o? partners. I wonder?" she scoffed, a touch of scorn In her sweet voice. "With polite ones," said Danilo icily. She winced ever so little at the reproof and went on. "I suppose you dance better with them than with tne." "Possibly." he agreed. "You see. I, ftjo. may prefer French partners." Slie raised her great dark eyes to lis. a world of meaning in then. "i>o you?" she asked, almost iu n whisper. The distanf orchestra had been playing again, this time not a native oir. but a dreamy, infinitely sweet Viennese waltz. The o|?ening notes of the haunting melody, though softened by distance, were wafted none the less distinctly to the listening couple. O * -\0 . [JESTS WORE THEIR PICTURES Again their eyes met With a mutual impulse they drew toward each other. Then began a dance as different from the stiffly conventional ballroom waltz as moonlight differs from a gasoline flare. With more than a hint of the free, marvelousiy graceful poses of Slavonic dancers. Danilo and Soni.> began their wondrous waltz. Throwing herself ' back into the strength of his circling embrace, the girl's outstretched arms swayed like wind blown lilies in rhythm with the music, her light step scarcely touching earth as the prince guided her through the mazes of the dance. It was a strange, dexterous blend of tfUkl UUU U1 HOOX/uu vucuiai y\jataring and of gliding, modern waltz steps?the very poetry of motion. Nor from the first note nntil the last strain of music died away did either dancer's eyes leave the other's. Love, eager and eternal, was In the gaze of each. Eye said openly to eye what sullen pride forced back from the lips. Then a last dreamy chord and the music was hushed. Danilo and Sonia started, amazed, as though from some vision of paradise. The widow, fearful lest by Impulsive word she might wreck her plan of bringing Danilo to her feet, darted breathlessly away to welcome a new group of guests. The prince, left alone, stared after her, open mouthed. A clapping of applauding hands aroused him. "Bravo, bravo, my dear princel" wheezed the ambassador, toddling forward. "What a delightful little dance I But Is It customary to catch one's partner in a jiu jitsu grip like that, or is it a fashion that has come in since my waltzing days?" The old bore's feeble Jest brought Danilo quickly back to earth and to a Bense of everyday surroundings. "Were you looking for me?" he asked, none too civilly. "Only to see if you had succeeded yet in finding who the lady is with whom De Jolidon is In love. She must be made to win him away from any ideas of jnarrying the widow." "To blazes whh that and all the rest of your silly plans!" shouted Danilo. "Don't worry any more about the widow. It's no use^I tell you. . She is vi4rs | going"to marry aTrenchnfan~ln sjilte I of us all! And," he went on bitterly, goaded by the chagrin and abject disappointment in PopolTs face, "I'm going to dance at her wedding." "Going to marry a Frenchman, is she?" yelled the distracted ambassador. "Preposterous! I'll find a way | of stopping it! And it is De Jolidon : she thinks of marrying?" "What's that to me? I don't know 1 who she'^ engaged to, and"? But PopofT waited to hear no more. | Catching sight of Nlsb, he rushed upon i that unhappy clerk. "Find M. de Jolidon!" he command- ' I 1 "K' nan rnur nrn An him Jill tho rost i j CU. 4VtC|' J VUi VJW V** - WW I nf the evening. See if he makes love [ to the widow and report to^aje. I ' have already told Mme. Pc. VfT to L'ound him on the subject K us nil we ought to learn something before we're done." | "You'll learn 'something' if yon keep on spying." muttered Dnnilo under his ! breath as he moved away. "But I'll 1 ; bet a year's income it'll be something r< i ! ^ A K fs c::>n y U aW/Y V? QUE NATIVE COSTUMES. "A lady went into the rummer hou$e with a gentleman." that will g!?e you more surprise than pleasure." Dunk was falling. Aboye the myriad colored light* that dotted the garden the moon was rising. Along one of the hedged paths leading to the sum mer bouse a man and a woman were strolling?Mme. Natalie Popoff and M. de Jclidon. j "And so your worthy husband set you the task of finding out whom I am in love with?" De Jolldon was j saying. "Yes," the ambassador's young wife answered. "He Is afraid you will marry the widow." "Why shouldn't I?" queried De Jolldon Jokingly. "You told me to." "But?but you won't, will you?" she pleaded. "Why don't you look at me? What are you looking at?" De Jolidon's eye had fallen on the fan where It lay forgotten on the table. "The fan you lost and that your husband pocketed," he sakl, handing It to her. "Thank goodness 1" Natalie exclaimed, seizing It; then: "Lend me a pencil." 8he wrote a sentence on the fan directly beneath the three worda he had scribbled the night before at the balL "There," she sighed, handing 'it to him; "keep that as a reminder." He held the fan np to the light and ' read: I "1?am?a?dutiful?wife." t "Remember that always," she ad- ] Jured. "Natalie!1' he cried passionately. "It is true?I am a dutiful wife. If ' I have been foolish enough to listen to 1 your lovemakiug. at least 1 have never 1 encouraged it. I have always rebuffed ' you for conscience's sake. 1 am a duti- < for- i "Why remind me of the hopelessness of my love?" murmured I>e Jolidon. ( "You may refuse to reciprocate it. but you cannot prevent my telling you"? "Iiut 1 can. After this evening we must not meet again. My husband trusts me. This must be our farewell Iknn't frv trt nlti?r mv our pose. I have made up my mind. After this evening I shall never"? "Natalie, you can't mean"? "I do. This is the last talk we two shall ever have together." "Then," implored De Jolidon. "if it is really to be our farewell interview, why must we talk here in the garden, where at any moment others may come to claim your attention? Grant me a final half hour of your society all to myself. Let the talk be uninterrupted. Let us sit in the little summer house over there. See?it is empty." They entered the little inclosed ar-, bor It was lighted by a string of Japanese lanterns, and two rustic chairs were at opposite sides of its round center table. There was a door at each end of the tiny room?an ideal 8pot for a tete-a-tete chat now that the moonlight had wooed most of the guests out of doors. ~^The light wicker door swung shut beN the couple. Natalie quite enjoyed the prospect of listening to her adorer's melodramatic words of farewell and of posing herocially as a self sacrificing, dutiful wife. In half an limit- of m,.ct ehn trnnld rploln hor hlis- I band with the righteous consciousness In her heart of having dismissed forever the one man besides Popoff who had ever made love to her. 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