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> » & “ ? : o > Ine LiIRIANG iiir ¢ , : i. We VU J i. ‘ . - OSH O39 O90O9O06 00 OO e 11 ( vt y igh } } tH 5 Wa ‘ A i Mi: o we t i XY i ve et ‘ i ¥¥"} ’ no VV { De. *t! J very | er T { lie | a i d, he would give her something use- Flow she hated useful things! haps she could cajole him out of a Then she could pay Cerise some- ng off her bill ane order that new tea vn that was so adorable. The one she had on was getting passe, and no self respecting woman could afford to be il) dressed, especially a pretty Mrs. Otway walked across the room and in- ted her face in the glass. It was worth inspection, in spite of its discon- teuted expression, It was a very pretty | face. The sleek head and big brown eyes were indeed curiously attractive. As she

looked the eyes changed their sulky look to one of interest. For the door opened to admit Captain Dalrymple. Lalage Ot- way turned to greet him and then sank into a ehair—her own special chair in front of the fire.

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said, “for my thoughts appear to have conjured you here.”

“But surely you expected me

“I never expected anything good, there- fore I'm not as surprised to see you as I otherwise should have been,” she re- turned.

He laughed.

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“I’rankness is veracity’s

vice.”

“I don't pose as veracity. I’m in no moed for anything so effective. I was railing at fate when you came in.”

“Were you? What has she been do- ing?” he asked.

“ISnmeshing me In her web, and, alas’ (shrugging her pretty shoulders), “it isn’t even spun of silk!’

“I think, Lalage, that I would have spun it-of silk had you let me.”

“And I think, Captain Dalrymple, that you out my permission.”

“Christian name! Why, it is as deli- ciously pagan as you are yourself and as beautiful,” he said.

“Then it serves its purpose, for beauti- ful things are useful, even though useful things are not necessarily beautiful,” she said, as she poured out tea and handed the cup across to him. “Sugay?’ she said,

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are using my Christian name with- ,

When a man feels “out !?

“I expect that you have a convenient memory,” she said, with a little sneer which was yet unable to destroy the beauty of the face.

Jack Dalrymple came up to the girl.

WALL Judi NEK, CHARLOTTETOWN, JANUAR) pl aud will ptain gown. * A The sun wa i i ti ] t Jim ¥ lory closed the 00 discreetly behind ing Post, while Lalag was ceep in her him. i@_Lters. ne ist be a sage frem the bar- She glanced at him. Surely he was racks,” Captain Dalrymple explained in very ill or the glare was cu iously unbe- answer to Mrs. Otway’s lock of inquiry. coming, for he appeared positively ashen. “It can’t be 1 home, for, you Ie looked up. His eyes met those of his know, Sophie is in Loamshire hunting wife. and si nposes me iD lLiounsiow. And,” he “What a magnificent actress the Stags added, with a happy laugh at his recoyv- has lost in you!” he said bitterly. “This ered bachelerbood, “I’m entirely my own should interest you” (reading from : 1 go 1 ‘ y 1 come back paper): presently ¢ “We regret to announce the death “N no! Not tonight.” shaking her through an accident in the hunti field head. “Jim is coming home to dinner, which occurred yesterday morning of the and It] rh } is sometimes mel Hon. Mrs. Dalryn ] le.’ i d 4 h 4 yny in a “So Sophie died yesterday morning | trio,” she 1. yet posted you a ri in the afternoon. ‘But I mu st see you again, he said, There’s nothing you 1 1 trouble to say . with insistence. ' Yialage watched him leave the room. “Come tomorrow, then.’ Some time after she heard the front door “Tomorrow is your birthday. You | slam. Then she went unsteadily to the didn’t think I’d forgotten it, dearest, did place he had vacated. She picked up the you?” he said tenderly. newspaper. As she did so the sunshine

sent across it a shower of living sparks from the ring upon her finger. What was it Jim had said about Sophie? That

' she was dead?

‘“TLalage,” he said, “you are unfair, for :

you know that | do nothing else but think of you—morning, noon and night.” He took her hand. It lay unresistingly in his, the pretty pink palm uppermost. He bent down and imprinted a burning kiss in it, shutting the fingers that they might hold this record of his infatuation, “My darling,” he went on, speaking hur- riedly, “you mustn’t mind, but I’ve sent you a present. I came up from Hounslow today purposely to buy it. You'll wear it, won't you? I didn’t ask your permis- sion’’—

The ubiquitous Mallory again appear- ed. “If you please, sir, they have sent for you again,” he said reproachfully.

Lalage laughed as the sound of the

door shutting upon the captain came te her. It was a pity he had been sent for. It had been an amusing scene, and it might have developed into an exciting one. He was so very easy to play upon. Now, heigh-ho!—and Mrs. Otway gave a yawn of prospective voredom—there was nothing before her but a dull tete-a-tete dinner with Jim, who would probably tell her little trivialities about the law courts and with pride would retail his dull remarks—remarks which it required an expert in legal wit to comprehend were intended to be an amusing repartee.

But Jim was distrait tonight. His usual bright happiness was clouded. He had no stories to recount, and he seemed generally parsimonious of ideas. It was absurd. Yet Lalage almost thought that once or twice she encountered a critical look in his eyes which was strange to her. It was imagination, of course, for she could always manage Jim—Jim, whose loyal blindness was proverbial. With an effort she forced the conversa- tion during soup, fish and entree, which were in turn marshaled by Mallory. Even the complacency which had been left from her interview with Captain Dalrympie—the aftermath of flattered vanity—had deserted her; courtesy, the fruit of cultivation from the seed policy, alone supplying the place of tbe usual dinner discursiveness. A feeling of ten- sion was in the air, the atmospheric heaviness which precedes a_ thunder- storm. When the servants had left the room and coffee was upon the table, Jim passed Lalage a cigarette in silence. He watched her light it; them he said sternly:

“Lalage, as I came in tonight the post- man gave me a registered letter. As it ‘gs directed to you in Captain Dalrymple’s writing I felt it would be better for me to gee you open it now.”

“A thousand thanks, Jim, for your con- sideration,” she said in sarcasm. Then, with that self love which sharpens peo- ple’s wits and induces spurious clever- ness, she calmly put out ber hand for the package. She almost overreached her ob- ject by showing too great an indifference, but Jim couldn’t see the terror of expo- sure which clutched at ber heart and drove the color from her face, and the electric light was too becomingly shaded for ber to dread its betrayal.

“You silly Jim!’ she said. with a nerv- laugh. “I believe you're jealous.” lier mind was’ weaving impossible schemes of escape. The parcel was a small, square box, well wrapped in brown paper, with seals so carefully and admi- rably formed that the Dalrymple crest was impossible to mistake. With reluc- tant fingers she broke the seals. The brown paper gave place to a wooden box, which, upon being opened, revealed a small velvet case holding a half hoop dia- mond ring. Thank God, no letter was there! She gave a sob of thankfulness. The rest was now easy. Light flashed upon her as upon the diamonds.

“How absolutely delightful of Sophie! she said, calmly putting the ring upoa her finger.

“Of Sophie?’ said Jim incredulously.

“Of course” (with a hysterical laugh). “Sophie Dalrymple has often given me birthday presents. Weren't we school fellows?”

“But surely not such presents as this?”

“How like a man vo appraise the val- ue!”

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