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Narrc \4r\Vors1r \\ CHAPTER XXV. Lstty Lane Rune Away. He bad not got upstairs to hfi rooms st the Carlton before a not? was handed him from the actress, bid? ding him to return at once to the da Toy, and Ruggles, his heart hammer tag like a trip hammer, rushed up to his rooms, made an evening toilet, fo "Why, You Dont Mean to Say That You Thought 1 Wouldn't 8Und b) Mlmr It waa then half-past seven, threw hit cravats and collars sll around th? place, cursed like a miner as bo got Into his clothes, and red almost N apoplexy, nervous and full of em > tloa, ho returned to the rooms bo bad left not throe hours before. The three hours had been buay onei at the actress' apartment. Lett} Lame's sitting-room wss ful1 of trunks ? dressing bags and traveling parapher aaUla. She came forward out of what eeemed a world et confusion, dressed ae though for a journey, even her vel and her gloves denoting her departure She spoke hurriedly and almost with oat politeness. 'I have sent for you to come an* aaa me here. Not a aoul In Londoc knows I am going away. There wlL ha a dreadful row at the theater, but that's uone of your affairs. Now, I want you to tell me before I go Just what you are going to do for Dan." "Who are you going with?" Ruggles aaked shortly, and she flashed at him: "We::, reilly. I don't think that Is any of your business. When you drive a woman as you have driven me, she will go far." He interrupted her vehemently, not darin* to take her hand. "I couldn't do more. I have asked you to onarry see. I couldn't do more. I staid by what I have said. Will yout" he stammered. She knew men. She looked at him keenly. Her veil was lifted above her as and Its shadow framed her small pale face on 'vhich there were marks of utter disenchantment, of greU en aal. 8he ssld languidly: "What I want to know 's, what you are going to do for Dan?' **1 told you I would share with him" ?Then he will be nearly as rich'" "He'll have more thsn Is good for aim. Thst satlafled her. Then she pur? sued. "I want you to stand by him. He aill need you " Ruggles lifsed the hand he held and kissed It reverently. "I'll do any? thing you say?anything you say." Downstairs In the Savoy, as Dan had done countless times. Ruggles waited until he saw her motor car carry her and her small luggage and Hlgglna away. In ?h?lr sitting-room In the Carlton a half-hour later the door was thrown open and Don Hlalr came In like a saadman. Without preamble he seised Haggles by the arm "Look hers." he cried, "what have you been doing' Tell me now, and taU me the truth, or. by God. I don't know whst 1 11 do You went to the Bavoy Tag went there twice. Any? how. wh? re Is she0 ' Dan. slender as he was beside Rug glee' great frame, shook the elder msn aa though he had been a terrier. "Rpeak |g rne Where has she gone?" He stared In the Westerner's f i' > his eyes bloodshot 1 'Why In thunder don't von say something*' And Itugsles prayed for NSJJg pOWOff to unloose his thickening tongue "You say she's gone?" he (pies tloned "I say." said the bov. that you've been meddling In m> affairs with the woman I |gfi I d<s.'f know what roil have said to her, bur It's only your age that keeps rne from striking yog Don't you know," he cried. ' fhs* yog are spoiling Bl| Ufol D00*1 von know that?" A torrent of feeling coining to his Hps. his ryes suffusid. the tens rolled down his f nee Hi walked away Into his own room, remained here a few moments, and when he r me out Bend aa your Job work. again he carried in his hand his va? lise, which he put down with a bang on the table. More calmly, but still In great anger, he said to his father's friend: "Now, can xou tell me what you've done or not?" "Dan," said Ruggles with difficulty, "if you will sit down a moment we can?" The boy laughed In his face. "Sit down!" he cried. "Why, 1 think you must have lost your reason. I have chartered a motor car out there and the damned thing has burst a tire and they are fixing It up for me. It will be ready In about two minutes and then I am going to follow wherever she has gone. She crossed to Paris, but I can get there before she can even with this damned accident. But, before I go, I want you to tell me what you said/' "Why," said Ruggles quietly, "I told her you were poor, and she turned you down." His words were faint "God! * said the boy under his breath. "That's the way you think about truth. Lie to a woman to save my precious soul! But 1 expect," he said; "you think she Is so immoral end so bid that she will hurt roe. Well," he said, with great emphasis, "she has never done anything in her life that comes up to what you've done. Never! And nothing has ever hurt me so." His Hps trembled. "I have lost my respect for you, for my father's friend, and as far asMshe is concerned, I don't care what she marries me for. She has got to marry me, and if she doesn't"?he hsd no idea, in his pas- 1 ?ion, what he was saying or how? "why. 1 think 111 kill you first and then blow my own brains out!" And with these mad words he grabbed Up his valise and bolted from the room, and Ruggles could hear his running feet tearing down the corridor. CHAPTER XXVI. White and Coral. Spring in Paris, which comes in a fashion so divine that even the most calloused and indifferent are im? pressed by its beauty, awakened no answering response in the heart of the young man who, from his hotel window, looked out on the desecrated gardens of the Tulleries?on the dis? tant spires of churches whose names he did not know?on the square block of old palaces. He had missed the boat across the channel taken by Let ty Lane, and the delay had made him lose what little trace of her he had. In the early hours of the morning he had flung himself in at the St. James, taTken the indifferent room they could give him in the crowded season, and excited as he w?s he slept and did not waken until noon. Blair thought It would be a matter of a few | hours only to find the whereabouts of the celebrated actress, but it was not such an easy job. He had not guessed that she might be traveling incognito, and at none of the hotels could he hear news of her, nor did he pass her '.n the crowded, noisy, rustling, cry "Why," 8aid Ruggles Quietly, "I Told Her You Were Poor, and She Turn ed You Down." Ing streets, though he searched mo? tors for her wlih eager eyes, and haunted restaurants and cafes, and went everywhere that ho thought she might be likely to be. At the end of the third day, naguo aanafnl and in despair, having hardly slept and scarcely eaten, the unhappy young lover found himself taking 1 slight luncheon in the little restau rant known as the Perouse down on the Quals. Ills head on his hand, for the present moment the joy of life gone from him. he looked out through the Windows at the Heine, at tho bridge and the lines of flowering trees He was the only occupant of the up per room where, of late, he had or dered his luncheim. Tho tide of llf* rolled slowly in this quieUr part of tho city, and aa I lall sat there under the window there passed a piper playing a shrill, sweet tune. It was so different from any ol Give us your Job work. the loud metropolitan clamors, witb which his ears were full, that he got up, walked to the window and leaned out. It was a pastoral that met hit eyes. A man piping, followed by little pattering goats; the primitive, un looked-for picture caught his tired at I tention, and, Just then, opposite the Quals, two women passed?flower sei I ler8, their baskets bright with cro i cuscs and gtrofles. The bright pic ; ture touched him and something of l the spring-like beauty that the day ! wore and that dwelt in the May light, I soothed him as nothing had for many hours. He paid his bill, took courage picked up his hat and gloves and stick and walked out briskly, crossing the bridge to the Rue de Rivoli, deter? mined that night should not fall until he found the woman he sought Nor did it, though the afternoon wore on and Dan, pursuing his old trails, wan? dered from worldly meeting place to worldly meeting place. Finally, toward j six o'clock, he saw the lengthening I shadows steal into the woods of the Bols de Boulogne, and in one of the i smaller alleys, where the green ! trunked trees of the forests were full of purple shadows and yellow sun 1 discs, flickering down, he picked ut I a small iron chair and sat himself down, with a long sigh, to rest j While ne sat there watching the I end of the allee as it gave out into the broader road, a beautii'ul red mo? tor rolled up to the conjunction of the two ways and Letty Lane, In a sum? mer frock, got out alone. She had a flowing white veil around her head and a flowing white scarf around her shoulders. As the day on the Thames, she was all in white?like a dove. But this time her costume was made vivid and picturesque by *the coral parasol she carried, a pair of coral-colored kid shoes, around her neck and fall? ing on their long chain, she wore his coral beads. He saw that he observed her face before she did him. All this Dan saw beforo he dashed into the road, came up to her with something like a cry ou his lips, bareheaded, for his hat and his stick and his gloves were by his cha'r In the woods. Letty Lane's hands went to her heart and her face took on a deadly pallor. She did not seem glad to see him. Out of his passionate descrip? tion of the houts that he had been through, of how he had looked for her, of what he tL night and wanted and felt, the actress made what she could, listening to him as they both stood there under the shadows of the green trees. Scanning her face for some sign that she loved him, for it was all he cared for, Dan saw no such indication there. He finished with: "You know what Ruggles told you was a lie. Of course, I've got money enough to give you everything you want. He's a lunatic and ought to be shut up." "It may have been a lie, all right," she said with forced indifference; "I've had time to think it over. You are too young. You don't know what you want." She stopped his protesta? tions: "Well, then, I am too old and I don't want to be tied down." When he pressed her to tell him whether or not she had ceased to care for him, she shook her head slowly, marking on the ground fine tracery with tho end of her coral par? asol. He had been obliged to take her back to the red motor, but before they were in earshot of her servants, he said: "Now, you know Just what you have done to me, you and Ruggles between I you- For my father's sake and the | thing I believed in I've kept pretty straight as things go." He nodded it her with boyish egotism, throwing ill the blame on her. "I want you to jnderstand that from now, right now, I'm going to the dogs just as fast as ( cp.n get there, and it won't be a very gratifying result to anybody that ever cared." She saw the determination on his fine young face, worn by his sleepless nights, already matured and changed, and she bt lievi d him. "Paris," he nodded toward the gate of the woods which opened upon Paris, "is the place to begin in?right | here. A man," he went on, and his j Ups trembled, "cau only feel like this j once in his life. You know all the talk there is about young love and first love. Well, that's what I've got fof you, and I'm going to turn it now | ?right now?into what older people Warn men from, and do their best to prevent. I have seen enough of Paris," he went on, "these days I have been looking for you, to know where to go and what to do, and I am setting off for it now." Bhi touched his arm. "No," she murmured. "No, boy, you i are not going to do any such thing!' i This much from her was enough foi I him. Ho caught her hand and cried: I "Then you marry me. What do wt Onra for anybody else in the world?' "Go back and get your hat and stick and gloves," she commanded, keeping down tho tears. "No, no. you C0ID6 with ma, I^etty; | I'm not going to let you run to youi motor and escape me again," "Co; I'll wait here," she promised "I give you my word." As be snatched up the Inanimate objects from tho leaf strewn ground where he had thrown them in despair, be thought hOW thlnga can change It: pale fac" on which there markH of ut a quarter ol an hour. Jubilant to have overcome the fatt which had tried to keep her hidden from him in Paris, he could hardly be Have his eyes that she wan before them again, and, as the motor rolled Into the Avenue des Acacias, ho asked her the question uppermost In hit Send us your Job work. mind: I "Are you alone In Paris, Letty t" "Don't you count V "No?no?honestly, you know what I mean.'' I "You haven't any right to ask li? that" "I have?I have. You gave me t right. You're engaged to me, aren'" you? Gosh, you haven't forgotten hav* you." "Don't make me conspicuous in th* Bols, Dan," she said; "1 only let yoi come with me because you were s< terribly desperate, so ridiculous." "Are you alone?" he persisted. '* have got to know." "Higgins is with me." "Oh, God," he cried wildly, "ho\? can y~u Joke with me? Don't yot understand you're breaking my heart?* But she did not dare to be kind tc him, knowing it would unnerve hej for the part she had promised to play He sat gripping his hands tightlj together, his lips white. "When ! leave you now," he said brokenly, "'. , am going to find that devil of a Hun | garian and do him up. Then I an going to tackle Ruggles." "Why, what's poor Mr. Ruggles go to do with It?" I Dan cried scornfully: "For God'i sake, don't keep this up! You knov the rot he told you? I made him con fees. He has had this mania all along about money being a handicap; h< was bent on trying this game witl some girl to see how It worked.** H? continued more passionately. "I don' care a rap what you marry me for Letty, or what you have done or been I think you're perfect and I'll makt you the hppiest woman in the world.' She said: "Hush, hush. Listen dear; listen, little boy. I am awfullj borry, but It won't do. I nevei thought it would. YouH get over |i all right, though you donX you can'i believe me now. I can't be poor, yot know; i really couldn't be poor." \ He Interrupted roughly: "Who Bayt you'll be? What are you talkint ! about? Why, 111 cover you with Jew els, sweetheart, If I have to rip th? earth open to get them out" She understood that Dan belleve< Ruggles' story to have been a cock and-bull one. "You talk as though you could bu: me, Dan. Wait, listen." She put hin back from her. "Now, if you won't b< quiet I'm going to stop my car." j He repeated: "Tell me, are yoi i alone In Paris? Tell me. For thre< days I have wandered and searchec for you everywhere; I have hardlj eaten a thing, I don't believe I havi . slept a wink." And he told her of hit weary search. She listened to him, part of the tim? her white-gloved hand giving itself ui to the boy; part of the time bo? hands folded together and away fr?re him, her arms crossed on her breast her small shoes of coral kid tapping the floor of the car. Thus they rolled leisurely along the road by the Bols "Are you alone in Paris, Letty?" I And she said: "Oh, what a bore yoi are! You're the most obstinate crea ture. Well, I am alone, but that hat nothing to do with you." I A glorious light broke ove;: hit face; his relief was tremendous. "Oh, thank God!" he breathe! "Ponlotowsky"?and son sail hit name with difficulty?"is coming to night from Carlsbad." The boy threw back his bright heac and laugher wildly. "Curse him! The very name make* me want to commit a crime. He will go over my body to you. You heat me, Letty. I mean what I say." People had already remarked them as they passed.. The actress was toe well known to pass unobserved, but she was indifferent to their curiosity ' or to the existence of anyone but this excited boy. Blair, who had not opened a paper since he came to Paris, did not know j that Letty Lane's flight from London had created a scandal in the theatri? cal world, that her manager was suing her, and that to be seen with her driv? ing in the Bols was a conspicuous thing indeed. She thought of it, how? ever. ?1 am going to tell the man to drive rou to the gate on the other side of he park where it's quieter, we won't De utarcd at, and I want you to leave ne and let me go to the Meurice done. You must, Dan, you must let ne go to the hotel alone." He laughed again in the same jtralned fashion and forced her hand :o remain in his. "Look here. You don't suppose I im going to let you go like this, now :hat I have seen you again. You don't suppose I am going to give you up to :hat infamous scoundrel? You have Sot to marry me." Bringing all her strength of charac? ter to bear, she exclaimed: "I expect rou think you are the only pertota who has asked me to marry him, Dan. I un going to marry Prince Ponlo? towsky. He is perfectly crazy about me." Until that moment she had not made him think that sho was indiffer? ent to him, and the idea that such a thing was possible, was too much for his overstrained heart to bear. Dan cried her name in a voice whoso ap? peal was like a hurt creature's, and as the hurt creature In its suffering sometimes springs upon Its "torturer, he Dung his arms around her as she sat in the motor, hold her and kissed her. ttien sot her free, and as the motor flew along, tore open the door to spring out or to throw himself out, hut clinging to him she prevented ins mad act. She stopped the cat along the edge of the quiet, wooded allce. Blair saw that he had terrified her. ?sho covered her beating heart with her hands and gasped at him that ho was "craty, crazy," and perhaps a lit? tle late his dignity and Belf-possession returned. "1 am mud," he acknowledged nu te Sond us your Job work, calmly, "and l am sorry in at "I 1 Tight? ened you. Hut you drive me mad." Without further word he got out and left her agitated, leaning toward him, and Hlalr, less pale and thor oughly the man, lifted his hat to her and, with unusual grace, bowed good nigat and good-by. Then, rushing as he had come, he walked off ^ov. n through the allee, his gray figure In ? his gray clothes disappearing through the vista of meeting trees. For a moment she stared after him her eyes fastened on the tall, slender, beautiful young man. Hlair's fire and ardor, his fresh youthfulnesti, his pro? tection and his chivalry, his ardent de votion, touched her profoundly. Tears fell, and one splashed on her white glove. Was he really going to ruin I his life? The old ballad, ' The Eari of Moray," ran through her head: "And long may his lady look from thi castle wall." Dan had neither title nor, accordinj to Ruggles, had he any money, anc" she could marry the prince; but Dan as he walked so fast away, misery snapping at his heels as he went, stamping through the woods, seemed glorious to Letty Lane anc the onl) one she wanted In the world. What il anything should happen to him really' What If he should really start out tc do the town according to the fashion of his Anglo-Saxon brothers but mor< desperately still? She took a care from the case in the corner of the car scribbled a few words, told the man tc ! "Are You Alone?" He Persisted, " Have Got to Know." drive around the curve and meet th? outlet of the path by which Dan hac gone. When she 6aw him withir. reaching distance she sent the chauf feur across the woods to give Mr Blair her scribbled word and consolc-c herself with the belief that Dai wouldn't "go to the dogs or throv himself in the river until he had seel her again." CHAPTER XXVII. At Maxim's. At the Meurice, Miss Lane gav? strict orders to admit only Mr. Blaii to her apartments. She describee him. No sooner had she drunk bet cup of tea, which Higgins gave her than she began to expect Dan. He didn't come. Her dinner, without much appetite she ate alone in her salon; saw a doc tor and made h. n prescribe something for the cough that racked her chest; looked out to the warm, bright gardens of the TuiUeries fading into the pallid loveliness of sunset, indifferent tc everything in the world?except Dar Plair. She believed she would soon be indifferent to him, too; then every thing would be done with. Now sh? wondered had he really gone?had he done what he threatened? Why didn't he come? At twelve o'clock that night as she lay among the cushions of hei sofa, dozing, the door of her parlor was pushed In. She sp'ang up with a cry of delight; but when Ponio towsky came up to her she ?\claimed: "Oh, you!" And the languor and boredom w ith which she Mid his nanu made the prince laugh shortly. "Yes, 1. Who did you thirk it was?' Cynically and rather cruelly he looked down at Letty Lane and admired the picture she made: small, ex julslt?, her blond head against the dart velvet ot the lounge, her gray eyes intensified by the fatigue under them. "Just got in from Carls oad; came directly here. How-de-do? You look, you know?" he scrutinized her through his single eye gl iss?"most frightfully seedy." "Oh. I'm all right." She left the sofa, for she wanted to prevent his nearer approach. "Have you had any supper? I'll call Higgins." "No, no. s!t down, please, will you' i want to Know w*?y you sent To T^arls bad for me? Have you come to your senses?" He was as mad about the beautiful creature as a man of his temperament could be. Exhausted by excess and bored with life, she cha.-med and amused him. and in order to have her with him always, to be master of heT caprices, he was willing to make any sacrifice. "Have you sent off that imbecile boy ?" And at her look he slopped and shrugged. You need a rest, my child,' he murmured practically, "you're neu raathenlc and ver> ill. I'vs wired to have tho yacht at Cherbourg It'll reach there by noon tomorrow." ITO BE CONTIXU 5D) Mrs, i:. IJrant, l 11 15 Paden Str< l Parkorshurg, IV. V'a? had an atta< I of lagrlppe \\ hl< h left her bad kid n, \ trouble, and >h<> suffered muel jsevcrc pain and backache. Thep >h< h< ltd ?'i Foley Kidtu > Pills and says "After taking ihem a *h,.rt time th< pain left ill) back and I am again abb i.. d<> my own housework, Foley Kid ncj pills helped me wonderfully.' Libert's Drug More. REAL I M A li I KWvi r.Ks. Reeds l?ffi at Count j Clerk*' (Massr During I'hm Twu W k>. Mr-. Maggie A. Drake to H. X. Pomster, lot on Churcti ureat, | l,2&0. Master t.. k. \v. a. Bultman, 12 1-2 acres in Providence township, 1300. Henry J. McLaurln t<< Mary m. Ryan, tract <?f land >n Camtlen?Otuur leston public road, <?"?."?? tad othei consideration! Helena Walker to Perry Mease, Jr.. ?-t. ai.. iut on y\.iin ttreet north of China's Drug Store, |lt,00#. Davis i>. Molse tu J. B, K ng, lot 00 Hampton avenue, .> 2.??4. Bllaabeth m. McLaurln to Mary M. Ryan and Margaret a. ghaw, tw? tracts in county, knoarn as "Minnas Hill Plantation" and M,Cer tar's <)id Field," $5 and other c? nsid? rat ion. juhn a. Lewis tu j. l. McCaltaas, lot OH Church street. * ;25. W. H. <',,ofc tO Daisy F?. Snith. -7 C?i# acres In Provlden*?e tos/na ship, .*r?7i*.?o. k. m. Hull to t. p. Lynara, sol sa Calhoun street. $*2",. C. H. Deal tO P, P.. Creech and A. a. Howeii, lot un Broad street, $r.. McGallum Realty Com pa ay to R. Aiford Burgess, lot ?.n stimter street* 175. 0. J. C. Rose to Frank Mclaughlin. 30 acres of Manchester land. $y<? 0. J. C. 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