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Dsn Mid: ' Yes. she w'Jl; yes, the will. ?11 right " -Now,- Letty Lane went on, 'if 11 were i chertty affair. I could sing foi nothing, and I don't doubt the duchesn 1 Didn't Think You'd Act Like Thli to i Boy You'd Known All Youi Lite." tf ahe la an benevolent aa you say ahf at, could get me up some kind of ? charity show." Dan. who bad started to rise, now keened toward her and said: "Don't you worry about It a bit. If youTI com? and stig we will make It right about the price and toe charity; everything shall go your way - She was stdsed upon by a violent 111 at coughing, and TJeh leaned to ware her end put his arm around her as I brother might have done, holding bei tenderly until the paroxysm was past , -Ocsh!- heexcla med fervently, "lt'i. heart breaking to besr you cough like that and to think of your working ai you do. Cant you stop and take ? good rest? Csnt you go somewhere?' "To Greenlsnd's Icy mountains?* ahe responded, smiling. "I bate th? nasal" "No, no; to some golden sands oi other." he murmured under hla breath "And let me take you there." But ibe pushed him back, laughing now. 'No golden sands for me. I'n afraid I've got to sing In Mandalay to night" Hs looked at her In dismay. She Interrupted hla protest: "I've promised on my word of honor, and use box-office bss sold the seats wltt that understanding " By her sofs. leaning over her, In i choked voice be murmured: "You shen't sing! You shan't gc ant tonight"' **Dont be s goose, boy," shs said -You'v? no right to ordsr me like that ?land lack, please." As he did so shi whisked herself off the sofa with t, sad dsn srdor and much grace "Now,* ssm toM him severely, "since you've sasjun to take that tone with me. I'm gnli.g to tell you tbst you mustn't eosae hers dsy sfter dsy ss yoti have fsssa doing. I guess you know it. don'1 ywaf" He stood bis ground, but his bright face clouded. They bad been so neat nach otbsr and were now so removed "1 dou't care a damn what people aay." he replied. She Interrupted him. She could b< wonderfully dignified, small ai sh< was. wrapped as she was In the wool ea shawl "Well," shs drawled with ? sodden Indolence snd Indifference Is her voice, "I expect you'll be surprised to hesr thst I do ^sre. Sounds aw tally funny, doesr't it? flut ss yot have been coming to the theater noa night after night till everybody's talk log about It?" **You don't want my friendship," h? stammered. And i ?-tfv I.an" controlled hor do stre to laugh at his boyish subterfuge ?No. I don't think 1 do." Her tone struck hirn deeply: hurt him terribly. He threw his head ur. defiantly -All tight. I'm turned down then." ho said simply. -1 didn't thiSl you'd act like this tc a boy y ?u'd known all your life!" Ten t be silly, you know as well as I do that It won't do " tin did know It and that he had a! ready done enough to make It reason able for the duchess, if she wanted to, to break their engagement Slowly preparing to take his Ic.tvo. hfl said w1?* fully "Can't I help you In any way? I*?t me do something with you for your poor. It's a ssjsjMorl |q baas them betwtcn tis. and you can coUBl on me Kbn said sh?? knew It. "Ihp don't corns nny moro to th< -?; get a habit of not otnmg." On the threllpafsj of her door he ssked her to let him know when she would sing In I'ark I Usi und In touch Ing her hand ho repeated that she must count on him With more ten dernens In I I? blue ss/sj than he was himself sware. he murmured eWfOUted Send us your job work. or: ?Take care of yourself, won't you, please?" As Blair passed from the sitting room Into the hall and toward the lift. Mrs. Hlgglns came out hurriedly from one of the rooms and Joined him. "How did you find her. Mr. Blair?" "Awfully seedy Mrs. Hlgglns; she needs of a lot of care." "She wont take It though." return? ed the woman. "Just seems to let her? self go, not to mind a bit, especially these last weeks. I'm glad you came In; I've been hoping you would, sir." "I'm not any good though, she won't listen to a word I say." It seemed to surprise the dressing woman. "I'm sorry to hear It, sir; I thought she would. She talks about you oft? en." He colorc .ike a school boy. "Gosh. It's a shame to have her kill herself for nothing." Reluctant to talk longer with Mrs. Hlgglns, he added In spite of himself: "She seems go lonely." "It's two weeks now since that hu? man devil went away," Mrs. Hlgglns i said unexpectedly, looking quietly Into the blue eyes of the visitor. "She hasn't opened one of his letters or his telegrams. She has sold every pin and brooch he ever gave her, scat- 1 tered the money far and wide. You ?aw how she went on with Cohen, and her pearls." Dan heard her as through a dream. Her words gave form and existence to a dreadful thing he had been trying to deny. / I "Is she hard up now, Mrs. Hlgglns?" he asked softly. And glancing at him to see Just how far she might go, the woman said: "An actress who spends and lives as Miss Lane d >es is always hard up." "Could you use money without her j knowing about It?" i "Lord," exclaimed the woman, "It wouldn't be hard, sir! She only knows that there is lucli a Thing TO money when the bills come and she hasn't got a penny. Or when the poor come! 8he's got a heart of gold, sir, for ev? erybody that is in need." He took out of his wallet a wad of notes and put them In Hlgglns' hands. "Just pay up some bills on the sly, and don't you tell hf>r on your life. I don't want her to be worried." Ex? plaining with sensitive understanding: "It's all right, Mrs. Hlgglns; I'm from her town, you know." And the wo? man who admired him and understood him. and whose life had made her keen to read things as they were, said earnes:ly: "I qatte understand how It Is, sir. It Is Juat as though It came straight from 'cme. She overdraws her sal? ary months ahead." "Have you been with Miss Lane long?" "Ever since she toured In Europe, and nobody could serve her without being very fond of her Indeed." Dan put out his big warm hand eag? erly. "You're a corker, Mrs. Hlg? glns." "I could walk around the world for her, sir." "Go ahead and do It then," he smiled, "and I'll pay for all the boot leather you wear out!" As he went down-stairs, hlready too late to keep an engagement made with his fiancee, he stopped In the writing-room to scribble off a note of excuse to the duchess. At the oppo? site table Dan saw Prince Ponlotow sky, writing, as well. The Hungarian did not see Blair, and when he had finished his note he called a page boy and Dan could hear him send his let? ter up to Miss Lane's suite. The young westerner thought with confident ex altatlon, "Well, he'll get left all right, and I'm darned If I don't sit here and see him turned down!" Dan sat on until the page returned and gave Ponlotowsky a verbal mes? sage. "Will you please come upstairs, sir?" And Blair saw the Hungarian rise, adjust his eye gin la, and walk toward the lift. CHAPTER XV. Galorey Gives Advice. I.ord (lalorey had long been used to seeing things go tho way they would and should not, gnd his greatest effort had been attained <>n Um day he gave his languid body tho trouble to go in and see Kuggles. "My God." ho muttered as he watch ' 'I ban and tho dochesi on tho terrace together they were nevertheless un? denlably ? band some pair Mto think thai this is tie way I am returning old Blair s hospitality!" And he was ashamed to ret ail his western ex|>o rlfSjeaa, when in a Shack In the moun? tains hi bad i itched the big stars aagsa out In the heavens and sat lato with old Dan lllalr, delighted irith tho Rlmnb; philosophies and the man's high ideals. "What tho devil does It all mean?" ho Wondered. "She has simply se> tweed hin, that' til" Qlve us your Job work. lie got Dun finally to himself and without any preparation began, push? ing Dan hack into a big leather chair, and standing up like a Judge over him: Now, you really must listen to me, my dear chap. I shan't rest in my grave unless I get a word with you. Your father sent you here to me and I'm damned if I know what for. I've been wondering every day about it for two months. He didn't know what this set was like or how rotten it is." "What set?" The boy looked ap? pallingly young as Gordon stared down at him. There wasn't a line or wrinkle on his smooth brow or on his Hps and forehead finely cut and well molded?but there were the very seals of what his father would have been glad to see. The boy had the same clear look and unspoiled frank? ness that had charmed Galorey at the first. He had been a lazy coward to delay so long. "Why, the rottenness of this set right here in my house." And as the host began to see that he should have to approach a woman's name in speak? ing, he stopped short, his mouth wide open, and Dan thought he had been drinking. "You are talking of marrying Lily," Gordon got out. "I am going to marry her." "You musn't." Blair got up out of his chair. It didn't need this attack of Galorey's to bring to his mind hints that had been dropped that Galorey was in love with the Duchess of Breakwater. It illumi? nated what Galorey was saying fast . and incoherently. | "I mean to say, my dear chap, that you musn't marry the Duchess of Breakwater. Look at most of these European marriages. They all go to smash. She is older than you are and she has lived her life. You are much too young." "Hold up, Galorey; you mustn't go on, you know. You know I am en? gaged; that's all there is about it. ? Now, let's go and have a game of pool." Galorey had not worked himself up to this pitch to break off now at a fatal point. "I'm responsible for this, and by gad, Dan, I'm going to put you on your guard." "You are responsible for nothing. Galorey, and I warn you to drop it." "You would listen to your father if he were here, wouldn't you?" "I don't know," said the boy slowly. Then followed up with an honest, "Yes, I would." Gordon caught eagerly, "Well, he sent you to me. Your friend Ruggles has gone off and washed his hands of you. but I can't." Lord Galorey walked across the room briskly and came back to Dan. "First of all, you are not In love with Lily?not a bit of it. You couldn't be ?and what's more she Is not in love with you." Blair laughed coolly. "You certain? ly have got things down to a fine point, Gordon. I'll be hanged if I un? derstand your game." Galorey went bravely on: "There? fore, if neither of you are in love, you understand that there is nothing be? tween you but your money." The Englishman got his point out brutally, relieved that the impersonal thing money opened a way for him. He didn't want to be the bounder and the cad that the mention of the wo? man would have made him. The ooy drew in an angry breath. "Gosh," he said, "that cursed money will make me crazy yet! You are not very flattering to me, Gordon, I swear, and Lily wouldn't thank you for the motives you impute to her." "Oh, rot!" returned Gordon more tranquilly. "She hasn't got a human sentiment in her. She's a rock with a woman's face." Dan turned his back on his host and walked off Into the billiard-room. Ga? lorey promptly followed him, took down a cue and chalked it. and said: "Well, come now; let's put it to the test." Blair began stacking the balls. "How do you mean?" i "Well, when you haye had time to get your first news over from Ruggles. tell her you have gone to smash and j that you are a pauper." i "I don't play tricks like that," said the westerner quietly. "No." responded Galorey bitterly, "you let others play tricks on you." The young man threw his cue smartly down, his youth looked con? temptuously at the worldly man, and he turned pale, but he said in a low voice: i "Now, you've got to let up on this, Gordon; I thought at first you had been drinking. I won't listen. Let's get on another subject, or I'll clear out." Galorey, however, cool and pitiful of the tangle in tho boy's affairs, wouldn't let himself be angry. "You are my old chum's hoy. Dan." he went on, "and I'm not going to stand by and see you spoil your life in silence. You are of ago. You can go to the devil if you like, but you can't go there under my roof, without a word from me." "Then I'll get out from under your roof, tonight." "Right! I don't blame you thero. but. before you go, toll Lily you have lost your money, and See v. hat she is made of. My dear < hap"?ho changed his tone to one of affection "don't ho in ape; listen to me, for your father's lake; remember your whole life's hap? piness is In this game. Isn't it worth ooklng after?" "Not at the risk of hurti?:g a wo ?nan's feelings," said the hoy. "How t an It hurt hor. my dear man. to toll her you are poor?" "It'i a lie I'm not up to lying to sr; I don't care to. And you mean ?o think that if I told her 1 was busted dio would throw me over?" , ????? Rend us your Job work. "Like a shot, my green young friend -like a shot." "You haven't a very good opinion of women," Blair threw out with as near a sneer as his fine young face could gx;,ress. "No, not very," agreed the pool play 9r, who had continued his shots with nore or less sangfroid. When Galorey had run off his string of balls he said looking up from the table: "Rut I've got a very good opinion of that 'nice girl' you told me of when you first came, and I wish to Heaven she had kept you in the states." This caught the boy's attention ai nothing else had. "There never was any such girl," he said slowly; "there never has bscn anywhere; I rathei >uess they don't grow. You hav? made me a cad in listening to you Gordon, but as to playing any of those comedy tricks you suggest, they ar? not in my line. If she is marrying me for my money, why. she'll get It." "You're a coward." said Galorey "like the rest of American husbands all ideal and no common sense. Yoi want to make a mess of your life You haven't the grit to get out of 8 bad Job." He spurred himself on and his weak ; face grew strong as he felt he was compelling the boy's attention. "11 you only had half the character youi [ father had, you wouldn't make a mis take like this; you wouldn't run blind into such a deal as this." Blair was impressed by his host Galorey was so deadly in earnest and so honest, and, as Dan's face grew sei and hardened, his companion prayed for wisdom. "If I can only wir j through this without touching Lib hard," he thought, and as he waited Blair said: "You haven't hesitated to call me names, Gordon. You're not my build i or my age, and I can't thrash you." | And his host said cheerfully: "Oh yes, you can; come on and try," and metaphorically speaking, Dan struck j his first blow: "They say?people have said to mc ??that you once cared ToT'Llly your ; self." The Englishman's heavy eyelids die not flicker. "It's quite true." Taken back by this frank response Blair stammered: "Well, I guess tha' explains everything. It's not surpris lug that you should feel as you do. U I you are Jealovs, I can forgive it a lit ! tie bit, but it is low down to call t j woman a fortune hunter." Now Gordon Galorey's face changec and grew slightly white. "Don't make me angry, my dear chap," he ?aid In t low tone; "I have said what I wanted to say. Now, go to the devil if yoi like and as soon as you like." And the boy Ba'id liotiy, stammering in his excitement: "Not yet -not yet?not before I tel you what I think." Gordon, with wonderful control o his own anger, met the boy's eyes, and said with great patience: "No, don't, Dan; don't go on. Then are many things In this affair that w? can't touch upon. Let it drop. Th? right woman would make a rippini man of you, but you oughtn't to marn for ten years." Dan took the hand which Galore3 put out to hlra, and the Englishmar said warmly: "My dear chap. I hop* It will all come out right, from mj heart." Dun, who had regained his balance ; said to his friend: "I've been very angry at what yot said, but yo'i're the chap my fathe: sent me to. There must be somethini back of this, and I'm going to find on what it Is, and I'm going to take m: own way to find out I wouldn't giv< "And What's More, She's Not In Lovi With You." a rap for anything that came to m< through a trick or a lie, and I wouldn'i know how to go to her with a cock and bull story. I shall act as I fee and go ahead being just us I am, anc I perhaps she won't want me after all 1 even if I have got the rocks!" And Galorey said heartily: "I wisl there was a chance of it." When, later, Gordon thought of Dai It was With B glow. "What a chii of the old block he is," he said; "what a good bit of character, even at twen ty two years." He was divided be tween feeling that he had made ? moss of things between Dan and him self, and feeling sure that some of till advice had gone home. After a RIO incut's Bilence, l?uti Blah's son said: "I'm going up to London tomorrow." "For long?" "Don't know" Then returning with boyish slmpllo It to their Bubject, which Galore) 1 thought had been dropped, |>.m said: "There may be something true it what you say, Gordon. Perhaps sht doee want my money. I'm not a title? man and I'll never be known for any thing except my Income. At any rat? I was rich wl en I asked her to raarrj me, and I'm going to hx up that old pJa.ce of hers, and 1'r*. glad I've got the 3end us your Job work. coin to do it." When, later, for they had been in terrupted in their conversation by th? entrance of the lady herself. Gordon as Ruggles hai done, mentally thoughi of the flowing tide of life, and how 11 flowed over wiat he himself had call ed "rotten ground." Perhaps old Blair was right, he mused, after all What does it matter if the source 1? pure at the head water? It's awfully hard to force t at the start, at least. CHAPTER XVI. The Musicale Program. The duchess ran Dan. made plans, set the pace, and they were very much In evidence during the season. The young American, good-natured and generous, the duchess beautiful and i knowing, were the observed of Lon? don, and those of her friends who would have tolerated Dan on account of his money, ended by sincerely lik? ing him. The wedding-day had not been fixed as yet. and Dan was not so violently carri?d away that he could not wait to be married. Mein while Gordon Galorey thanked God for the delay and hoped for a miracle to I break the spe 1 over his friend's son before, it should be too late. In early May the question came up regarding the musicale. The duchess made her list and arrarged the Sunday after? noon and her performers to suit her taste, and the week before lounged in her boudoir when Dan and Galorey appeared for a. late morning call. "There, Dan " she said, holding out ! a bit of paper, "look at the list and 1 j the program, will you?" I "Sounds and reads all right," com- j mented Dan, h inding it on to Galorey. Besides being an artistic event, she j intended that the concert should serve to present Dan to her special set. She now lit a cigarette and gave one to each of her fr'ends, lighting the Eng- i lishman's herself. j "The best names in London," Lord j Galorey said "You see, Dan, we shall trot you out in a royal way. I hope I you fully appreciate how swagger this is to be." I Glancing at Ihe list Blair remarked: I "But I don't see Miss Lane's name?" j I "Why should you?" the duchess an I swered sharply. I "Why, we planned all along that she was to sing," he returned. She gave a long puff to her cigar? ette. ' "We did rather speak of it. But we shall do very well as we are. The program is full up and it's perfectly ripping as It stands." I "Yes, there's only just one thing the matter with it " the boy smiled good naturedly, "and it's easy enough to run her in. I guess Miss Lane could be run in mcst anywhere on any pro? gram and not clear the house." Lord Galorey, who knew nothing about the subject under discussion, said tactfully: "\\Tiy, of course, Letty Lane is perfectly charming, but you couldn't get her, my dear chap." j "I think we will let the thing stand as it is," said the duchess, going back to her desk and stirring her paper about. "It's really too late now, you know, Dan." Vnruffled. but with a determination which Lord Galorey and the lady were far from guessing, Blair resumed tran? quilly: "Oh, I guess she'll come in all right, late as it is. We'll send word to her and fix it up." j The duchess turned to him, annoy er: "Oh, don't be a beastly bore, dear I ?you are not really serious." Dan still smiled at her sweetly. "You bet your life I am, though, Lily." j She rang a bell at the side of her desk, and when the footman came in I gave him the sheet of paper. "See that this is taken at once to the sta? tioner's." 1 "Better wait, Lily"?her fiance ex? tended his hani?"until the program is filled out the way it is going to stand." And Blair fixed his handsome eyes on his future wife. "Why, we got this shindig up," he noted irreverent? ly, "just so Miss Lane could sing at it." "Nonsenoe," she cried, angry and powerles, "you ridiculous creature! Fancy me getting up a musicale for Letty Lane! Do tell Dan to stop both? ering and fussing, Gordon. He's too ridiculous!" "And Lord Gilorey said: "What is the row anyway?" "Why, I want Miss Lane to sing here on Sunday," Dan explained. . . . "And I don't want her," finished the Duchess of Break water, who was evi? dently unwilling to force a scene be? fore Ix>rd Galorey. She handed the list to her servant, but Dan intercept? ed it. "Don't send out that list. Lily, as it Is." lie gave it baek to her. and his tone was so cool, his expression so decided and quiet, that she was disarmed, and dismissed the servant, telling him to return when she should ring again. Coloring with anger, she tapped tho envelope against her brilliantly pol? ished nails. It" Bhe had been manu 1 to Blair she would l ave burst Into a violent rage; if he had been poorer than he was she would have put him in Ills place. Lord Galorey understood tho contraction of her brows and lip.< as Pan reminded: "You promised mo that you would have her. you know, Lily." "Give In, Lily," Galorey advised, ris? ing from the chair where he was lounging. "Give In gracefully." And she turned on Galorey the an? per which she dared not show tho , Dther man. Bui Dan interrupted her, explaining simply: "l knew the clrl when she was a S?nd us your Job work. kid: she is from my old home, and I want Lily to ask her here to sing for us, and then to see if we can't do something to got her out of the state Bhe is in." Galorey repeated vaguely, "State?** "Why, she's all run down, tired out; 3he's got no real friends in London." The other man flicked the ash from his cigarette and looked at Blair's boy through bis monocle. "And you thought that Lily might befriend her, old chap?" "Yes." nodded Dan, "just give her a lift, you know." Galorey nodded back, smiling gent* ly. "I see. I see?a moral, spiritual lift? I see?I see." He glanced at the woman with his strange smile. She put her cigarette down and seated herself, clasping her hands around her knees and looked at her fiance. "It's none of my business what Let ty Lane's reputation is. I don't care, but you must understand one thing, Dan, I'm not a reformer, or a charit? able institution, and if she comes here it is purely professional." He took the subject as settled, and asked for a copy of the program and put it in his pocket. TO get the nanes of her songs from her and take the thing myself to Harrison's. And I'd better hustle, I guess; there's no Lima to lose between now and Sun? day." And he went out triumphant. Galorey remained, smoking, and the duchess continued her notes in sil? ence, cooling down at her desk. Her companion knew* her too well to speak ' to her until she had herself in hand, and when finally she took up her pen and turned about, she appeared con? scious for the first of his presence. "Here etlll!" she exclaimed. I "I thought I might do for a safety 1 valve, Lily. You could let some of your anger out on me." The duchess left her desk a i came over to him. i "I expect you despise me thorough? ly, don't you, Gordon?" ! They had not been alone together since her engagement to Blair, for she f had taken pains to avoid every oppor? tunity for a tete-a-tete. "Despise you?" he repeated gently. "It's awfully hard, isn't it, for a chap like me to despise anybody? We're none of us used to the best quality of behavior, you know, my dear girl." "Don't talk rot, Gordon." she mur? mured. "You didn't ask my advice," he con? tinued, "but I don't hesitate to tell you that I have done everything I could to save the boy." I (TO BE CONTINUED) *_ IN THi: POLICE COURT. WhUkey Caeca (?mo up for Trial? Preliminary for Burglary. There were several cases tried in the police court Thursday, one being a case lor transportation of w hiskey, another for burglary. 1 Rseee B. James, who has been tried and found guilty of selling whiskey on numerous occasions, was up this morning for transporting whiskey ror an unlawful purpose, lleece went |tO Columbia last night and returned this no.ruing with a grip containing one gsllon and a half pint of whis? key, and another suit case containing three more gallons of whi-key, alleg? ed to be his. was found on the tram, lie was arrested by Mr. H. (J. Hfl - Kagen as the owner of all of the whiskey ami despite his plea that he 1 knew nothing of the grip with the I three gallons be was found guilty by tin recorder and sentenced to pay a line <>f $7.". or serve Id days. The case against Sam Davis for tin- same offence, which was contin? ued over from Thursday, was not heard. Sam is out on bond and the t ase w ill probably come up in a day or two. Lucius Bossard was given a prellen* I nary for burglary. Lucius has bees tried a number of times before by the recorder on various charges, it ems alleged thai he broke Into the house of i negro woman and stole |Z. ITpon the close of the hearing the re <. rder bound Bossard over lor trial ai the Court of General Sessions which will convene here In June. Bossard was represented by Mr. Oeo. !?. Levy and the prosecutor w as rep ? resented It) Mr. H. I >. kfotse. It Looks Like a <Vtnec to separate a boy from a bos of Buck* ten's Arnica Balve. His plmplsa bolls, scratches, knocks, sprains and bruises demsnd it. and Its quick re? lief for burns, BCSldS, or cuts is hla [right. Keep it handy for boys, also girls. Heals everything healabls and does It quick. I'nequaled for piles. Only 25 cents at Stbert'S Drag Store