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CHAPTER XV—Continued.
—t Be.
He thauked her and withdrew. He
did not look back as Miss Davis closed
the door behind him; their eyes had
not met: but he understood that she
had comprehended him fully. Today
he would be away from the Santoine
house, and away from. the guards who
watched him, for at least four hours,
under no closer espionage than that of
Avery; this offered opportunity-—the
first opportunity he had had--for com-
mumdeation between him and his
friends outside the house.
He went to his room and
some slight changes In his dress; he
came down then to the library, found
a book and settled himself to read
Toward noon Avery looked in on him
there and rather constrainedly prof-
fered hig invitation. Eaton accepted,
and after Avery had gone to get ready,
Butoa put away his book. Fifteen
minutes later, hearing Avery's motor
purring outside, Eaton went into the
hall: a servant brought his coat and
hat, and taking them, he went out to
the moter. Avery appeared a moment
later, with Harriet Santoine.
She stood looking after
they spun down the curving drive and
onto the plke outside the grounds; |
then she went back to the study, She
dismissed Miss Davis for the day, and |
taking the typewritten and
some other papers her fa had
asked to have read to him, she went
up to him.
Basil Santoine was alone
“What have you, Harriet?
She sat down and glanci
the papers in her hand, g
made
as
them
sheets
ther
and awake,
hie
throug
asked
began to read them aloud. As |
finished the third page, he inter
rupted her,
“Has Avery taken Eaton
country club as I ordered?”
“I shall want go oul
in the afternoon; I would trust yous
uhservation more than Avery's to de
termine whether Eaton has been
surroundings.”
to the
to t there
you
used
te such
read
ofl suddenly.
“Has Donal
today, Father?
‘in regard to whe
I thought last night
turbed about my relieving him of part
of his work.”
“Disturbed? In what
She hesitated, unable to define
to herself the Impression Avery's man
ner had made on her. “I
he was going to ask you
still In his hands”
“He has not done so yet.”
“Then probably I was mistaken
She read again for haif an hour
after luncheon, finishing the pages she |
had brought
“Now you'd better go
the blind man directed.
She put the and
away in the safe in the room
aud going to her own apartments, she |
dressed carefully for the afternoon i
As she drove down the
passed the of the
the men in motor
down. The indeBniteness of her
knowledge by whom or why the attack |
had been made only made it seem |
were terrible Unquestionabls
he was In constant danger of its repe
tition, and especially when
day-~-he was her
grounds, Instinctively she
her horse, She at
house only to make certain that Mr
Avery and his guest were not there:
then she drove on to the polo field.
As she approached, she reengnized |
Aviey's lithe, alert figure one of |
the penles: with a def: stroke |
she another page,
:
!
he seemed dis
—
way?
ever
understood
to leave it
to the club,”
reports letters
below, |
road. she
attempt by |
un Eaton |
scene
the to
to her
as
father's |
fo
outside
hurried |
the cinb
stopped
an
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Edwin Balmer
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standing off hy himself. She waited
till he iooked toward her, then sig
naled him to come over, She got
down, and they stood together follow-
ing the play.
“You know polo? she questioned
him, as she saw the expression of
appreciation in his face as a
daringly “rode-off” an antagonist
saved a “cross.” She put the
tion without thought before she
oghized that she was obeying her fa
ther's Instructions.
“I understanf the game somewhat,”
Eaton replied.
“Have you ever played?
“It seems*to deserve its reputation
as the summit of sport,” he replied.
He answered easily that
could not decide whether he was evad-
ing or not; and somehow, just then
she found It Impossible to put the
simple question direct again,
“Good ! Don!" she cried
and
ques
reg
sO she
Good, on
stroke
and drove it
toward his opponent's goal.
directly
Instantly
whirling his mount, Avery raced away
after the ball, and with anether clean
stroke scored a goal.
cried out in approbation.
“He's very and
he?" Harriet said to Eaton.
Eaton nodded. “Yes: he's by all
the skillful man on the
field, 1 should say.”
The of the im
pelled the girl, somehow, to qualify it
‘But o
plaved m
“Yes, I
ones."
Everyone about
quick clever, isn’t
most
generosity
praise
two others really have
that and that”
picked them as the expert
Eaton said quietly
“The others—two of them. at
man
least-
+} gt.
Ink,
They watched the
the ball up
SCuUrTy
course
fleld, ti
perienced
from the
Avery rode
“
I say, an)
want try it?
un”
tn
warmed
Avery
gave the
looked
challenge «
“Cggpe to take a
Harriet
panion: a s
his face,
chance?
ed
had
ished.
8t pale:
manner
though
Santoine
dden fit
which vg
wateh
come to
as she
him
Avery's
and left but
in
i he must
se from fear of such a fall as he
had witnessed, not
to explain Eator
“How can [7 returned
“If you want to play,
Avery dared him “Furden"—that
his eyes glowed,
5
challenging } ns
rein
was enough
1's stdrt,
he
who had just been hurt
“will lend you some things: his’ just
about fit you; and
mounts.”
you can
Harriet continued to
the challenge had been
{fot
watch
put so as to
give him no refusal but
timidity
ground
“Why don’t you try it?
found herself saying to him.
He hesitated. She realized it
nof timidity he was feeling: it
deeper and stronger
that. It was fear: but
was not fear of hodily
instinctively toward him
He looked swiftly
Avery. then at her, then away.
hurt that
in
at
He
As She Approached She Recognized
Avery's Lithe, Alert Figure on One
of the Ponies.
he cleared the ball from before the
feet of an opponent's pony, then he
looked up and nodded to her.’ Harriet
4 drove up and stopped beside the bar
rier; people hailed her from all sides,
and for a moment the practice was
stopped as the players trotted over to
speak to her. Then play began again,
and she had the opportunity to look
for Eaton. Her father, she knew, had
instructed Avery that Eaton was to be
introduced as his guest; but Avery
evidently had either earried out these
fnstructions In a purely mechanical
manner or had pot wished Eaton to
be with others unless he himself was
by; for Harriet discovered Eaton
suddenly he made a
decision
“11 play.”
He started instantly away to the
dressing rooms; a few minutes later,
when he rode onto the field. Harriet
was conscious that, In some way, Ea-
ton was playing a part as he listened
to Avery's directions,
Avery appointed himself to oppose
Eaton wherever possible, besting him
in every contest for the ball: but she
saw that Donald, though he took it
upon himself to show all the other
players where they made their mis
takes, did not offer any instruction to
Eaton. One of the players drove the
ball close to the harrier directly be
fore Harriet; Eaton and Avery raced
for it, neck by neck. Eaton by better
riding gained a little; as they came
up, she saw Donald's attention was
not upon the ball or the play: In
stead, he was watching Eaton closely.
And she realized suddenly that Don.
ald had appreciated as fully as her-
self that Eaton's clumsiness was gp
pretense, It was no longer merely
polo the two were playing; Donald,
suspecting or perhaps even certain
that Eaton knew the game, was try.
ing to mmke him show it, and Eaton
was watchfully avolding this, Just in
front of her, Donald, leaning forward,
swept the ball from in front of Ea-
ton's pony's feet,
For a few moments the play was all
at the further edge of the field: then
the ball crossed with a long curving
shot and came hopping and rolling
along the ground close to where she
stood. Donald and Eaton raced for it.
“Stedman I" Avery called to & team:
mate to prepare to receive the ball
after he had struck it; and he lifted
itis mallet to drive the ball away from
in front of Eaton. But as Avery's
#
club was coming down, Eaton, like a
flash and apparently without lifting
his mallet at all, caught the ball na
sharp, smacking stroke, It leaped like
a bullet, straight and true, toward the
goal, and before Avery could turn, Ea-
ton was after It and upon it, but he
tid not have to strike again; it bound-
ed on and on between the goalposts,
while together with the applause for
the stranger arose a laugh at the ex.
nenge of Avery. But as Donald halted
before her, Harriet gaw that he was
not angry or discomfited, but was
smiling triumphantly to himself; and
as she ealled in praise to Eaton when
he came uguin, she discovered
in him only dismay at what had
done,
Close
he
The practice ended, and the players
rode awgy. She waited in the
house till Avery and Eaton came
from the dressing rooms
triumphant satisfaction to
have increased: Eaton was silent and
preoccupied. Avery, halled by a group
of men, started away: as he did
he saluted Eaton almost derisively
Eaton's return of the salute was open
ly hostile Khe at him
keenly, trying to
| mine whether had taker
between than she
{ had witnessed,
“You had played
| played It well”
did you want
seemed
&0,
looked un
det
more piace
the two men arsed f
ore-—agnd
charged “Why
to pretend you hadn't
polo bef
he
Bilt
He made no reply
talk of other
with surprise that his m
As she began to
things, she discovered
auner
| “You Needn't Wait for
« You Wish; I'l
She Offered.
her had taken on even
ity and constraint
since his talk
i before,
with
The afternoon w»
to sit
outside the
gathered groups of
whe had come in from
| or from watching tl
in i
She found herself now fn
these groups composed of
own friends, who were
wafers in the
They
and she could not
this }
instructions
dows
| them,
FOS ION 14 IEF
noti » t hier
well
afd been a
refgse
especially
father's
ns
i her The mer
them, Ea
Eaton
forward for her
made a place for
window
rose, as she moved toward
ton with
{ a chair
and two of the
Eaton on the
them,
her: s
was pushe
introduced
!
girls
sent between
A= they seated theinselves and wore
| served. Eaton's participation in the
polo practice was the subject of con
versation. She found, as she tried
talk with her nearer neighbors, that
she was listening instead to this more
genernt conversation which Eston had
Joined. She =aw that these
had accepted him as one of their own
| sort to the point of jesting with him
about his “lucky” polo stroke for a
beginner; his manner toward them
was very different from what it had
been just now te herself: He seemed
at ease and unembarrassed with them
One or two of the girls appeared to
have been eager—even anxiogs—to
meet him; and she found herself oddls
resenting the attitude of these girls,
Her feeling was indefinite, vague: it
made her flush and grow uncomfort-
able; to recognize dimly that there
was In It some sense of a proprietor
ship of her own In him which took
alarm at seeing other girls aftracted
by him; but underneath It was her un-
easiness at his new manner to herself
which hurt because she could not ex
plain it, As the party finished their
ten, she looked across to him.
“Are you ready to go, Mr. Eaton?"
she asked,
“Whenever Mr. Avery is ready.”
“You needn't walt for him unless
you wish; I'll drive you back,” she
offered, yy
“Of course I'd prefer that, Miss San.
toine.”
They went out to her trap, leaving
Donald to motor back alone. As soon
as she had driven out of the elub
grounds, she let the horse take its
own gait, and she turned and faced
him.
“Wil you tell me” she demanded.
“what have I done this afternoon to
make you class me among those who
oppose you?”
“What have you done? Nothing
Miss Santoine”
“But you are classing me 80 now.”
“Oh, no” he denied 4a uncoavine
people
ingly that she felt he was only put
ting her off.
that whut
to Eaton
Harrlet Santoine
had attracted
was their recognition of his likeness
to themselves: but what had Im
pressed her In seeing him with them
was his difference. Was it some mem-
ory of his former life that seeing
these people had recalled to Ln,
which had affected his manner toward
her?
Aguin she lookell at him
“Were you sorry to leave the club?’
she asked
“I was cuite ready
answered inattentively,
“It must have been pleasant to you
though, to—to be among the
people again that you—you used to
know, Miss Purden”-—she mentioned
one of the girls who had seemed most
interested In him, the sister of the
boy whose place he had taken in the
polo practice—*"{s considered a
attractive person, Mr. Eaton. 1 have
heard it said that a man—any man
not to be attracted by her must
forearmed against her by thought
knew
her friends
leave” hve
to
sort of
Yers
base
or
he holds dear”
“I'm afraid 1
stand.”
The mechantealness
reassured her,
don’t under
quite
of his
Mr
answer
“1 mean Eaton”
not as attractive to you
have been, because ¢}
been other
some woman
Oe
in your
whose memory
or ti
wetintion of seeing
t
:
font
i
ed you"
“Has beeri? Oh,
“Yes, of course”
you mean before”
she answered has
“No
rather
none.’ + replied sioply, “It's
Miss Santoine, hut
uch
denial wa
Onirme
¥
£10
moment
Thes
romd
neither spoke
which
“i the
had come about a bend In
and
parcie not to
moment
“Do you
considering
wnonn
thi
A
‘Why nev
“1 don’t mean that you might not
sou might try that,
ould be prevented
{she hesitated,
she
d of cou
But
and
WHS quoting her fatl
‘~—gmacrifice your posit 8
“Why not?”
“Because you tried to gain it-
if not exactly that, at least
wanting
L
yon
whe }
of er)
ion here,
Pro
you had
object in to be near
She hesitated obge more, not looking
at him. What it was that had hhp-
pened during the afternoon she could
not make out; instinctively, however,
she felt that it had se altered Eaton's
relations with them that now he might
attempt to escape,
They had reached the front of the
house, and a groom sprang te take the
horse. She let Eaton help her down:
they entered the house, Avery.
whe had reached the house only a few
moments before them-—was still
the hall, And again she was startled
in the meeting of the two 1
Averys trinmph and the swift
of defiance on Eaton's face
She changed from
dress slowly. As she
as
flare
did so,
of the day. Chiefly It was to the polo
practice and to Eaton's
his one remarkable
mind went.
in Eaton semething more than merely
a good player trying to pretend igno
rance of the game? The thought snd.
denly checked and startled her. For
how many great pole players were
stroke that her
dred? Fifty? Twenty-five?! She did
were so few of them that their names
and many of the particalars of their
lives were known to every follower of
the sport,
{TO BE CONTINUED.)
High Aspirations.
Nineyearwold Joseph MeKee amazed
even his own mother, the other eve.
ning. They were discussing automo-
bile accidents, and expressed the hope
that they would have none, when he
sald:
“Mother, 1 know of a way I'd rather
die than in an automobile accident.
I'd gather die in an electric chair, It
would be the quickest way of all
Wouldn't ty
‘We have po Minute Men pow, But
the country is full of mon any lnspector
would class us seconds,
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here is a place we speak of as
“After a While,” but no successtul
man is ever found ln that place,
SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPERS
The evening meal on Sunday night
usually a light one, This is the
time when the men in the
family learn to do many
culinary tricks, which
they enjoy; and such
knowledge is often In-
valuable when the wife
and wother Is lI
away.
The making of a pal
atable plece of toast is
simple, but the hundred
varieties of spolled toast
will testify that iL is often served as
the small boy sald, “well burned and
scraped at the kitchen sink,” his idea
of the way to prepare toast,
Toast may be the basis for any num-
of tasty lunches or suppers. A
is
creamed fish,
toast served with rarebit,
a vegetable like celery is a
wholesome, filling dish,
A dish which is
liked is fried
almost universall
Holl the
that have
y
oysters large
crackers
been well seasoned with salt and pep
per, then
chafing
til ti e&y
Serve
saute
dish
are plump an
stove,
well-browned
or on the gas
with
dressed with ana
pep
per.
Cut
make it
mixture.
An good
lunch
into very
onion sandwi
one Ion for Su
Cut ti
ery ©
after church,
thin
bread
and
With a
cold, or a cupful of
glices 3
ik, hot or
cocoa, the ap
petite will b
frie
ing
the
I SAUCes
With «
:
satisfyir
or
ake
titre
ing 13
ir cookies serve n iw
men!
Fruit cake des
seri~-at cake without dough. Take nuts
finely
One may
excellent
makes an
kinds finely grated,
inside of figs,
of various
raisins,
and
chopped
and the white
hold the mix-
41 and press inte
in slices to serve,
lemon orange juice
#8 are poisons to us,
which is a
aused by
by fear
in of hysterics,
discare of
vexation
Sevigne
the
and
imagination
supporied
DO YOU LIKE ONIONS?
is one of the mbst whole
‘he families
serve them
or twice a
week In various
ways, cooked
poked,
The onion
some of our vegetables
who
once
or
will be
things be
ing normal) the
least subject to
prevallinog dis
CAROR,
ung
{other
a sleep producer, allays inflammation
of the mucous membranes and Is a
fine antiseptic. One of the most appe-
tizing of ways of serving this odor
iferous bulb is to throw it or as many
as will be eaten, onto a bed of coals
to roast. The peeling is not rembved :
that will be charred; after removing
the outside, cut up and
A stuffed onion is another
size to be chosen for this
large as one's appetite for them; par
and then take out the centers,
dish, or they may be mixed with the
filling and put back into the cavity.
crumbs and seasonings, or with sau-
sage, or with chopped nuts and other
butter,
Onions Stuffed With Peppers.—Par.
good size. Remove the centers, chop
and mix with finely chopped green pep
pers that hgve ‘also been parboiled
Season well, fill the onlong and bake
surrounded by a white sauce. Baste
white baking with butter,
Onion Sandwiches ~Those who reak
ly find the onion pleasing to the taste
will enjoy a slice, seasoned with
French dressing for a filling for a
sandwich, :
Onion Relish—Tnke one large on.
fon grated, add one-half cupful of cel
ery juice, grind the celery and press
out the julee: one teaspoonful of mus
tard, ten drops of tabasco, one tea.
spoonful of salt and celery seed, four
woll-beaten egg yolks blended with
the salt and mustard, and two table
spoonfuls of olive oil, twenty capers
and one-fourth of a cupful of vinegar.
Serve with game,
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It helps digestion,
allays thirst, keep-
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and moist, the throat
muscles relaxed
and pliant and the
how good a cigarette
really can be made
you must try a
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