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Gi^L >H?!llB U# TT \^ .-Aw ili5Tovv>^yf Marie\&r\Vorstr ?v^ ILLV5TRAI10N5> fiy M.G.KETO?R_ \ 1 /// \ She accepted this philosophically *Ok, I knew you would; I quite ex pected It, but?" tad In the look the threw at him there was more liking than reo?atment?"I knew you, too; yon ooulda't go very far, my dear fel ' 1 think Dan Blair It exoellent ?tuff." Qordoa laid. "He le the greeneet, youngeet, moat rldlculoui Infant." the exclaimed with Irritation, and laughed. "Hie money te old enough to walk, however, lin t It. UlyT" She made an angry gesture. I "I expected , you'd oay something loathsome.** Her companion met her eyes direct* ty. She left her cbalr and came and eat down beside him oa the ?mall oofs As be did not move, or look at her. but regarded hie cigarette with Interest, she leaned cloee to blm and whispered: "Gordon, try to be nice and decent. Try to forget yourself Don't you soe what a wonderful ckanoe It Is for me. and that as far as you and I are concerned, it can't go em?** The face of the man by her aide grew somber. The charm tble woman 1 had for blm bad never lessened since day when he told her he loved long before his marriage, and they wore both too poor. "Wo have alwaya been too poor, and Edith li jealous of me every day and hour of her life. Can't you be gener \r I He roee and stood over her, looking ?wn at her beautiful form and her ssaewhat softened face, but bit eyes hard and hie face very pale. Tou had better go. Gordon." ehe ?aid slowly; "you had better go. . . Then, as he obeyed bor and went like a flash ae far as the door, she fol sowed blm and Whispered softly: "II you're really only Jealous. I can for glee you." He managed to get out: "His fath? er w*j? my friend; he seat the boy to gae) aeJ I've been a bad guardian." He ?made a geeture of deepalr. "Put your ?elf la my place. Let Dan Blair go, Uly; let him go." Her eyelids flickered a little, and ?he said sharply: "You're out of your ?eases. Gordon?and what If I love him?" With a low exclamation be caught her band It the wrist so bard that ehe cried out. and be said between his teeth: "Tou don't lovo him' Take those words back!" "Of course I do. Let me ''roe!" "No." he said passionary, holding her faat "Not until you take thai tm His face, bis tone, his force, doml nated her; the remembrance of their past, a possible future, made her wav er under bis eyee. and the woman ?sailed at blm as Blair had never seen her smile. "Very w.ill, then. gc>n?e," ehe capl tulated altrost tenderly; "I do.': love Unit boy. of ccurso. I'm marrying him, for bis money. Now, will you let me But bo bold her etlll more firmly and kissed her several times oefore bo thsally sot her free, and went out of the bouse miserable?bound to her by strongest chains?bound In his iscience and by honor to bis trust to Dan's fatber. and yet handicapped by another senso of honor which de that man must keep silence to end. CHAPTER XVII. Letty Lane Sings. The bouse of the Duchess of Break? water In Park Lane was white, with groen blinds snd green balconlee; beautiful, distinguished and old, mel? low with traditions, and Cue tide ot fashion poured Its stream Into tbe music room to listen to tbe Sunday concert Without, the day was bland and beautiful, mild spring in tbe deep ?sreet air. and already the bloom lay over the park and along the turf. Pic? cadilly was abl?se with flowers, and In tbo windows and In the flower wo ?sssn's baskets they were so sweet as to make the heart ache and to make senses thrill. Keen to tbe spring luty. the last guest to go Into the drawing room of the Duchess of Break wmter was the young America") man In whom the msgtc of the season had stirred the blood. He seemed the youugeat and the brightest guost to crocs the sill of tbe great house whoso debts he was going to pay. and whose future he was going to secure with American money. Cloee sfter htm a motor car rolled Ug, to tbo curb, and under tbe :\wning Lett7 lane passed ipitckly, as trough thistledown, blown Into the distin? guished bouse. The actress was t.iken poos acut on of by several people and shown upstairs Dan spoke to bis hostess, who wore, over her Hiure dress, a necklace given her by DM She *ald he w in too late for words," and why hadn't he coma before After greeting him she oet him free, and he went eag-rly to fled bis place neit to an elderiv woman Fend us your job work. whom he "liked Immensely, Lady Cat warn. She had given him twenty pounds for tome of hit poor. Lady Calwarn had a calm, kind face, and Dan tat down beside her, well out of the crush, and they talked amiably throughout the violin solo. "Think of lt,M she said, "l^etty Lane of the Gaiety is going to sing. I'd sit through a great deal for that. Let that man with the fid Jle do his worst." Blair laughed appreciatively. He thought Lady Calwarn would be a good friend for Miss Lane, better than the duchess herself. "I wish Lily could hear you talk about her violin? ist," he ssld, delighted; "tshe thinks he's the whole show." And tentative? ly, his ingenuous eyes fixed on hit friend, he asked: "I wonder how you would like to meet Miss Lane. She's perfectly ripping, and she's from my state." "Meet her!" Lady Calwarn ex claimed, but before she could finish, through the room ran the little anti? cipatory rustle that comes before the great, and which, when they have gone, breeka into applause. The great actress had appeared to give her num? ber. Dan and Lady Calwarn, behind the palmt in a little corner of their own. watched her. A clever underttandlng of the world Into which she was to come this day, had made the girl dress like a charm. She stood ouletly by the piano, her hands folded. Among the high ladies of the English world In their splendid frocks, their Jewels and feathers, she was a simple figure, her dress mow white, high to her throat, unadorned by any gay color, accord*pg to the fathlon of the time. It wart tuch a drett at Romney might have painted, and under her arme and from acrosi her breast there fell a toft coral-col? ored silken scarf. The cos:ume wat daring in its simplicity. She laight have been Emma, Lady Hamilton, be? cause perfectly beautiful, perfectly tal ented, she could risk sever) simplic? ity, having In herself the firs and the ?rt and the seduction. Her "h*V Wa"? a golden crown and her eyes like stars Bhe was excited, and the scarlet had run along her cheeka like wl ie spilkM ever ivory. She looked around the room, failed to see Blair, but saw the Duchess ol Breakwater in her velvet and he? jew , els. letty Lane began to sing. Dan and she had chosen Mandalay and she began with it. Her dress only wat simple. All the complexity of her tal eut, whatever she knew of seductloc and chsrm, she put In the rendering ol her song. Even the conventional an dlence, most of which knew her well were enchanted over again, and the? went wild about her. She hp 4 nevei been so charming. The men clapped her until she began in self-defense sn other favorite of the moment, and end ed In a perfect huxzah of applause. She refused to sing again until, io the distance, she taw Dan etandlng by the column near hit seat. Then lndl eating to the pianist what she wanted she sang The Earl of Moray, such 8 rendering of the old ballad as had aot been heard In London, and coming, as It did, from the Hps of a popular sin? ger whose character and whose verv? were not supposed to be sympathetic to a piece of mutlc of this kind, the effect was startling. Letty Li ne'e face grew pale with the touching old trag edy, the tcarlet faded fiom her cheeks, her eyes grew dark end molrt she might Indeed fcerself have beer the lady looking from the ci stle wall while they carried the body of hei dead lover under those beautiful eyea Dan felt his heart grow cold. I she had awakened him when he was a little hoy. she thrilled hlra now; hi could have wept. Lady Calwarn die wipe tears away. Wnen the last not* of the accompaniment had ended, bans friend at his side sail: ''How utterly ravishing! What a l>eautlfu'. lovely creature; how charming an how frail!" He scarcely answered. Ho was mak lng his way to T^tty Lane, ami he wrung her haini. murmuring, M()h, you're great; you're great!" And the pleasure on his face repaid her over and over again. "Come, I want you to meet the Duchess of Breakwater, and some other friends of mine." As he let her little cold hand fall and turned about, the room as by maglo had cleared The prlm-9 minis? ter had arrived late and was In tho other room. The refreshments were also being served There was no one to meet Letty Lane, except for several young m*?n who came up eagerly and aaked to he presented. Gordon Ga lorey among them. "Where's Lily?" Dan asked him; "I want her to meet M1as Lane." "In the conservatory with the prime minister," and Oalorey looked mean? ingly at Dan. as much as to say, "Now don't be an uttor fool " But Ii?tty Lane herself saved the situation She shook hands with the utmost cordiality snd sweetness with the men who had been presented to her, and asked Dan to take her to her motor. He waited for her at the door Give us your Job work. * HCl she dime down wrapped around as usual if\ ber filmy scarf. "Are you better?" he asked eagerly. ??You look awfully stunning, and 1 don't think I can ever thank you ?nough." I She assured him that she was "all right," and that she had a "lovely new role to learn and that it was com? ing on next month." Ho helped her in and she seemed to fill the motor like a basket of fresh white flowers. Again he repeated, as he held the door open: "I can't thank you enough; you were a great success." She smiled wickedly, and couldn't resist: "Especially with the women." Dan's face flushed 1 he was already deeply hurt for her, and her words showed him that the insult had gone home. "Where are you going now?** "Right to the Savoy." Without another word, hatless as he was, he got Into the motor and closed the door. "I'm going to take you home," he informed her quietly, "and there's no use in looking at me like that either: When I'm set on a thing I get it!" They rolled away in the bland sun? set, passed the park, down Piccadilly, where the flowers in the streets were so sweet that they made the heart ache, and the air through the window was so sweet tfiat it made the senses swim! CHAPTER XVIII. A Woman's Way. When the duchess thought of look? ing for Blair later in the afternoon he was not to be fourftl. Oalorey told her finally be had gone off in the motor with Letty Lane, bareheaded. The duchess was bidding good-by to the last guest; she motioned Oalorey to wait and he did so, and they found themselves alone in the room where the flowers, still fresh, offered their silent company; the druggets strewn with leaves of smilax, the open plane with its scattered music the dark rose? wood that had served for a rest for Letty Lane's white hand. Oalorey and "I Think You'll Have to Let Dan Qo Lllyl" the duchess turned their backs on the music-room, and went into a smal. conservatory looking out over th? park. "He's nothing but a cowboy," the lady ext laimed. "He must be quit* mad, going off bareheaded through London with an actress." "He's spoiled." Lord Oalorey saic peacefully. She carried a bunch ol orchids Dac had given her, and regarded them ab i sently. "I've msde him angry, and he's taking this way of exhibiting hli spleen." Galtrey said cheerfully: "Oh, Dan'i got lots of spirit." Looking up from the contemplatlor of h*r flowers to her friend, the duch ess murmured with a charming smile: "1 don't hit It off very well witr Americans, Gordon." His color rising, Oalorey returned: "I think you'll have to let Dan go Lily!" For a second sho thought so her self; and they both started when th? voice of the young man h'mself wai heard in the next room. "Oood-by, I'll let you make you? peace. Lily," and Gordon passed Dar in the drawing-room in leaving, and thought the boy's face was a study. 1 Tho duchess held out her hand t< Dun as he camo across the room. i "Come here," she called agreeably. "Every one has gvuie, thank heaven! I've been waiting for you for an age. I^t's talk it all over." "Just what I've come back to do." There had been royalty at the rausl cale. and the hostess spoke of her guests and their approval, mentioninj; one by one the names of the great. It might have impressed the ear of a man more snob than was the Mon- j tana copper king's son. "I did so want you to meet the Bishop of Ixmdon," she said. "But nobody could find you. | You look most awfully well, Dan," and I with the orchids she held, she touch- I ed his hand. Ho was so direot, so Incapable of anything but tho honest truth, that Dan didn't know deceit when he saw it, and his lady spoke so naturally that he thought for a moment her rudeneas had been unintentional. Per? haps she hadn't really meant? Ev? erybody in her set was rude, great and rude, but ahn could bo deliciousjy gracious, and was so now. "Don't you think It went off well?" Dan said that it had been ripping and no mistake. "I like Lady Calwarn; she's bully, and I liked the king. Ho spoke to me as if he had known me for a year." She began to be a little more at her ease. Send us your Job work. "I didn't care much for the fiddling, but Ijetty Lane made up for all thr, i*jst," said Dan. "Wasn't she great*' I "Rather!" The duchess' tone was ! so warm that he asked frankly: "Well, I why didn't you speak to her, Lily?" And tho directness caught her unpre? pared. The insult to the actress by which she had planned to teach him a lesson failed to give her the bravado she found she needed to meet Dan's question. Her part of the transaction, deliberate, unkind, seemed worse and more serious through Iiis headlong act, when he had driven off, braving her, in the motor of au actress. She didn't dare to be Jealous. "W'asn't it too dreadful?" she mur? mured. "Do you think she noticed it : too awfully? I was Just about to go up and speak to her when the prime \ minister?" Dan interrupted the duchess. He blushed for her. "Never mind, Lily." His tone had in it something of benevolence. "If you really didn't mean to be mean?" She was enchanted by her easy vic? tory. "It was abominable." "Yes," he accepted, "It was Just that! I was mortified. You wouldn't treat a beggar so. But she's got too much sense to care." Eager to do the duchess justice, oven though he was little by little be? ing emancipated, he was all the more determined to be fair to her. | "It was too sweet of her not to | mind. I dare say her check helped to soothe her feelings," the woman said. "You don't know her," he replied quietly. "She wouldn't touch a cent." The duchess exclaimed in horror: "Then she did mind." And he turned slowly: "She's eaten and drunk with kings, and if the king hadn't gone so early you can bet he would have set tbe fashion differently. Let's drop the question. She sent you back your check, and I guess you're quits." With a sharp note in her voice she said : "I hope it won't be in the papers that you drove bareheaded back to the hotel with her. Don't forget that we I are dining with the Qalorey's, and it's past seven." After Dan had left her, the duchess glanced over the dismantled room which the servants were already re? storing to order. She was not at ease and not at peace, but there was some? thing else besides her tiff with Dan that absorbed her, and that was Ga lorey. She couldn't quite shake him off. He was beginning to be Imperi? ous in his demands on her; and, in spite of her cupidity and her debts, in spite of the precarious position in which she found herself with Dan, she could not break with Oalorey vet. She went upstairs humming under her breath the ballad Letty Lane had sung in the music room: "And long may his lady look from th? castle wall." CHAPTER XIX. Dan Awakes. I The next night Dan, magnetically drawn down the Strand to the Gaiety, arrived juse before tbe close of the last, act, slipped in, and sat iar Dacx watching Letty Lane close her part. After hearing her sing as she had the afternoon before in the worldly group, it was curious to see her before the public in her flashing dress and to realize how much she was a thing of the people. Tonight she was a com? pletely personal element to Dan. He could never think of her again as he had hitherto. The sharp drive through the town that afternoon in her motor had made a change in his feelings. He had been hurt for her, with anger at the duchess of Breakwater's rude? ness, and from the first he had always known that there was in him a hot championship for the actress. To? night, whenever the man who sang with her put his arms around her, danced with her, held her, it was an offense to Dan Blair; it had angered him before, but tonight it did more. One by one everything faded out of his foreground but the brilliant little figure with her golden hair, her lovely face, her beautiful graceful body, and in her last gesture on the stage before tho curtain went down, she seemed to Blair to call him and distinctly to make an appeal to him: "You might rest your weary feet If you came to Mandalay." Well, there was nothing weary about the young, live, vigorous Amer? ican, as, standing there in his dark edge of the theater, his hands in his pockets, his bright face fixed toward the stage, he watched the slow falling of the curtain on the musical drama. Dan realized how full of vigor he was; he felt strong and capable, indeed a feeling of power often came to him delightfully, but it had never been needful for him to exert his forces, he had never had need to show his met? tle. Now he felt at those words: "You might rest your weary feet" how, with all his heart, he longed that the dancer should rest those lovely tired little feet of hers, far away from any call of the public, far away on some lovely shore which the hymn tune called the coral strand. As he gazed at her mobile, sensitive face, whose eyes had peen the world, and whose lips?Dan's thoughts changed here with a preat pang, and the close of all his meditations was: "Oobh, sho ought to rent!" The boy walked briskly back of ths scenes toward the little door, behind Which, as ho tapped, he hoped with all nls heart to hear her voice bid blm come In. Hut there were other voices In the room. He rattled the door knob and Letty Lane herself called to him without opening the door: "Will you go, please, Mr. Hlatr? 1 can't h? e anyone tonight." I Je had nothing to do hut to go? Send us your Job work. Letty Lane Fluttered Down, Followed by Ponlotowsky. to grind his heel as he turned?to swear deeply against Ponlotowsky. His late ecstasy was turned to galL The theater seemed horrible to him: the cbatterirg of the chorus girls, their glggleu, their laughter as he passed the little groups, all seemed weird and internal, and everything be? came an object of irritation. As he went blindly out of the the ater he struck his arm against a piece of stage fittings and the blow was sharp and stinging, but he was glad of the hurt. WithouL in the street. Dan took hie place with the other men and waitea, a bitter taste In his mouth and anger 'n his breast, waited until Letty Lane Huttered down, followed by Poniotow* sky, and the two drove away. The young man could have gone after, running behind the motor, but their was a taxieab at MS; he jumped in it, ordering the man to follow the car to the Savoy. There the bo> had the pleasure of seeing Miss Lane enter the hotel, Ponlotow? sky with her?had the anguish of see? ing them both go up in the lift to her apartments. (Tu BE CONTINUED) Affairs at Hagood. Rembert, April 22.?Today. April 21, was a good day with us at Bethesda church for, besides the reg? ular Sunday school service, we had a sermon by that man of God. James Russell, ?>f Chester, that was up? lifting. He is visiting friends and relatives in our community. It has been our pleasure to attend three dinlngs In the past few days, at Mrs. H. C. Dethea's, Mrs. J. L. Jack- I son's and Miss Conrtenay Atkinson's, all sumptuous feasts. Mrs. Emma Jackson is thought to be slowly sinki ig, though without suf? fering. We hear that Harry MeLeod con? tinues to improve. There is considerable fever of the i malarial type in the community. Speaking of race suicides, reminds I me that Willis Davis, a deserving and ! respectable negro near Borden has had ten children born to him in h's j home in nine years. Mr. J. L. Jackson lost ;i fine COW from snakt bite or poison woods last I week and Mr. W. S. Allen a fine brood sow, cause \inknown. j Small grain gardens and grasa are looking well. "llagood." For rheumatism you will find noth I ing better than Chamberlain's Ltttl ' ment. Try it and see how quickly it gives relief. Tor sale by all Dealers. i - ?? I News iVom Plnewood. PlneWOod, iprll 2:1.?The largest I : iidlence of the season witnessed the play, "Through the Breakers," en j last Friday evening .tt the sehool I auditorium. , .Miss Annie B. Reeves came over from Klngstree Friday evening and returned Sunday afternoon. ! Mrs. John lt. Hayns worth was a visitor Saturday, returning home in tne afternaon accompanied by Miss i Lisstle Hodge. i Mr. and Mrs. Manning Richardson, Mrs, Lledlng and Miss Jessie Moise !came down Friday night and returned Saturday afternoon, after a visit to "The Fines.'* Mr. QUS Flud With S car of ladies witnessed the performance, "Through the Breakers." Tin y were out auto moblling and g t lost in the sand hills and arrived here in time to take in the play. The local dramatic club cancelled their Summerton date for, the 24th upon hearing of the "death of Dr. Willie Mood. Mr. Ransom s. Richardson spent Sunday and Monday with friends In Stnteburg and Dummerten. Henry M. Mi ns, ?>t Fake City spent Saturday here with relatives. I "Through The Breakers" goes to Pnxville on Wednesday evening, 84th. Wit) He Waw Late. ??What made you so late?" M1 met Smith son." "Well, thai is no reason why you should be an hour late getting home for slipper." 'i know, hui l asked him bow he was feeling, and be Insisted on telling [me about his atomach trouble." I "Did you tell him to take Chamber \ laln'S Tablets'.'" ! "Sure, that Is what he needs. Sold by all dealers. CMHAMtED DOCTORS IX SESSION. Palmetto Medical Association la r-niBc Cock Olt] for TWO DUfO Ses? sion. From the I>;i.!y Item, April 24. The Palmetto Medical Assoeiat the State organization among C medical men. is holding it* am ?eaaton in this city for the tin In nine years. The session of Sd M. D.'s will last Wed and Thursday and plans have formulated among the colored c of the community to entertain gm-.-ts in a fitting style as baCOW I Oame Cock City. Th?-re are about thirty-five mem I , ban of the association in the city Wednesday for its first session, which will be held at Mt. Pisgah church Wednesday night. At this meting Dr. H. H. Butler ef Atlanta frill make the principal address and be the guest of i honor. Other addresses will be mad/1 by l>rs. Maxwell. Harry, Sexton, and W. T. Andrews. The session is open to the public and will no doubt be i well attended. The officers of the association are: President, C. H. S. Henderson, Green _ < wood; Vice-President, G. w. Harry. Spartanburg; Secretary, I. E. Macon. Rock Hill; Treasurer, J. A. Maxwell. Sumter. Thursday the business session will . be held and officers elected and a place of meeting for next year decid ! ed upon. Also a reception has been arranged for the visitors by the citi? zens of the town to be held Thursday^ night. It is probj FOR TAFT. Colonel's Friends Admit Defeat 4n Bass State. Concord, X. H., April 23.?Victory in the Republican presidential pri- 1 marl es In New Hampshire was prac? tically conceded to President Taft to? night by Roosevelt leaders, including Gov. Robert P. Pass. Returns receiv? ed at the Roosevelt headquarters from 202 of 290 cities and towns gave Taft^ 380 delegates and Roosevelt 23 4 out of a total of 811 in the State conven j j tion. The Roosevelt leaders conceded the First district to Taft but claimed a fighting chance in the Second district, although admitting incomplete re? turns showed a Taft lead there. i Donf be surprised if you have an attack of rheumatism this spring. Just rub the affected parts freely with Chamberlain's Liniment and it will soon disappear. Sold by all Deal? ers. (.ambler* Arrested and Fined. Tuesday Rosa Do/.ier and Jack Tohnson wer tried before Magistrate W* 11s on the charge of gambling in Fth'hardson'i grove Sunday. Both Were found guilty and Johnson got I , . ei.ten* e of $10 or twenty days an t ^ the Dozier woman was sentenced t> 1 ay a fine of $5 or serve 10 days. ej Yo will look a good while before, you find a better medicine for coughs and colds than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It not only gives relief?it cures. Try it when you have a cough or cold, and you are certain to be^ pleased with the prompt cure which It will effect. For sale by all Deah'i*. Donation f<>r Flood Sufferers. 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