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Subconscious Courtship
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By BERTI BtCK
iWfter 0 "TM Wjjjf fr. lfHjre. jhe Amnt Rever," ate.
Oepyrient, void, Mead A Ce,
rnTTeiffilNS THE STORY
25 Berr Cemlchael, engine
Xf''rll War. Infertile li a
T,rV v Hhehtu mnrrkd a moo meo moe
tlfjAti a fete mlfiulet er iXe
v!.mt A ti tone Bret.t vnere uwver
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An Mounding Pwpwal
In0 GET nymi - -
ITidepMd in this country Is rery
etlttMt:
entirely the buelnew woman a
'.- went, took up: "IIew'i
!JS 'manner went, took up: "Hew-b
'.vwh.t'ii the big expense? Mate-
P8,, he .nwSSr' grlcTy.
1&B.cbJJi.,,ouUe quick enough te take
Jf. Al te think te hcrwlf : "Net
S?irt of lunch you've Just had." But
ffffutteSd was the iuevttable fern fern
STtemperUIng, "Hew d'yeti mean.
.". ..ll
"??'.- v. -Mtnrt himself explaining
K Tniturally as it she were wme
1? !i.Ti,,lt or anybody Interested
?the only Interesting things.
n5.i Mner ments and all tbat
... mdmisUb enough," he nld, "but
Writhe least Important part, you
15? If theso things cost ten times as
Sa they'd probably have a better
Sm with the powers that be. If they
Miens tlwM take rue en. Fer
ft 35V Tcreuryshlp andebs and
rtBtilnf -stones te a career in u. .i h. n
Eft-?' be shrugged bis Bheuldcrs
Sttifenly see the abolition of an ex
hSnr department, leu understand?
file nodded, listening with an In
ttmt that was net deliberately "turned
.. mil. t..f n vtatv n-im new te
W Her experience of business was
that every one wnnted te get something
lone. That the first tm of the Gov Gev
Anient might be te gtt nothing done
nrleed her a little.
. u. rnt nn net conscious tnnt an
tmewhere of attention was biimula biimula
tieg bin.; but It stimulated him just
tknie. t , . . .
"If OIICC i Siari cooling iuj ut:ein iii
witting rooms, waiting for sirs und
. ie.i.u tn nttinil te ine. a mere
lamble nobody el en Inventor hanging
bout, my mast's done for. Frem thin
Mment I don't mind being no
body much; I don't mind hew I live
or btre 1 lunch. But my mast has
te te."
fibe noticed the pride In nis voice.
"My most." said he, "has get te have
I tar at the deer rendy te take it
M te the Berkeley or the Itltz. It'.
Ht te entertain In that style ; iKiieru
the uniler-strappcrs and ke for tin
people who can get things done. A
lencb, a dinner from my mam iiiiriii
Je the whole trick. It's t'et te go in fn
(dalm little Meek end at country
raw and te play golf when it's mi
pod te be working and te knew what
ulneand cigar pcLpIr te fce t" imilwlieii'
te ask te theutre parties. 'I'liat's what
I mean by 'lunche.s,' " li mi mined
tp pregnantly. "The iiclunl tltlni; it
irif mightn't i-est hundreds. Launch-
D It will run into tneupatidR. '
"Treumi!M :
She listened Intently.
She made n little ccsture of cleved
binds.
Phe said: "Well?" Meaning:
"She seld: "Well?" Meaning :
"Thnw thousands could be yours."
"Wolf," he sold. "D'yeti mind net
Mjtnr anything for a minute?"
Again he sank into thought. After
Mural minutes he raised his head.
Aen he paid: 'And my the duties
Muld be?" '
Composed and lucid fand prepared)
m told him. What he proposed te
Lira in effect wus as folleww :
Subject te modification by lier m m
llriters (wlie niuf-t, he imaKined, win
Mfr the young woman quite insane)
Ine bulk of lier Heceihli fortune vim
te lie se tkd up that the tdguuturc
c-f Leth href und the man wlie mar
rinj her would he neicssary lieferc ii
could be touched.
Aport from this, each would draw
I liwd private allowance of uu amount
Je be determined later. Hers was te
re based en a scnle of expenditure mf
laent but ery much less diffuse than
It bad been in the past. The uu.eunt
f his would depend (for the present)
a the immediate and definite require
''fits of liia mast. I'Jus hii personal
"Ne," he said, instantly. "Net any
rrwnnl allowance."
He mliilit toy with the idea of de.
'"S such a thing for the sake 0f his
tilDtt, but iven In thniiirlil I ....I,
Ht wnpesp himself putting a nenuv
"I'fl Ills own tieeket. ever this
JiJntly lie. M,ld : ".Must e.i have
neniiite answer new en the spot?"
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,nn81'',' ln, nt impntleuee, uiuiny.
he iin,?'"!"1'1' "J.''' V.: fear Hint
W'ht lie think better of it? Sim. said.
mnn.
'"if. ut course.
Ijl'mil the end of the week?"
II V." ". H,,y 's"nduy'r V.mi reuld
'Ml HIV llelllp inlilr.. .. I,!l. 1 ...III
,J"n:. V" H,1"'i-''y aft.Tiie,
"I uiii'i ,'1P "8l;,'t''1, rMw '"
will let jeu knew by .Sun
" ...i.(t, niiiiu Will
mil lieu?"
s she rose,
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Wr Fi.i i W,"K """y arternoen,
knur l"i. i i nuiuiiiy iiiinm,
lwk.,,lllll!,T',11 in '""f-h'ewn
, "' '" the drawing-room win--n.?'
1Pr aunt's house.
'fid
ipi. ,','"," "'.' iule near the top
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...llreken Klilniises of l n...,...i. ,i.
"iid i?,i ,WfMU" uf 0,,i,k ",t',, "l0
fhklv s irH of v."n'? women mining
'tehvwtf" t1,,,,r ",,ur"
'Wi,,!,00'1, wn,cll"B Hnd waiting.
Tin. ,k V H 'H'" behind her.
'"a .us ''!" 'n" " Hewmury
"Ire Hri'";1 ,,,0"M"' " ,",,- ''''
'' lie .,"' "'"J"' t,iiey...iif. who mm
illli , '"' ''nbri.ld.-reil fender Menl
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IH .'."".'"-v ,ll"', "" til'' ell.ei.
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r"k w l..ii ' . ' ",v,,r wii Mbi-ar
"Wi, i. h! v m,,l .',K i'K,ii'J unnexeil.
Oh '.i1."" "."citemeut"
v Uethlllir." T'lliver tnuun.! ff.
te' Mb fewelnatlnm mmI
ng along. ''ajr thren tbat mtA'
that'i1 ni0t mnt!n: te her family
Mneetin.1"1 W1"' ""Ited, and waa
expecting, a caller.
nfai.,c, Vwaver, who was net the
Sf Tn whose s,l het w appeared
reuna theknrivet hedge; a young man
wh0 came Ferth as a bridegroom from
JmMitt?.ber "nd walked with a certain
familiarity up the path.
ajiM e .Veve.r jcpmmcnted softly but
ad b,y-. "And Twe," she added as
f.n .i?e fat? BunF enen an(1 bard
S?--jthe "ee,s of we first came the
second young man.
-j ,,Ucre.n the boys of the old brig
?&.. f.hc. slghed Inmlng away,
leu talk te them for a few minutes,
Rosemary, will you? In the absence of
the eternal Jim you might attend te
! i."i ur mc- B,mP'y cfln't bother
with them until tea-time. I'll send
Sandal down te help you cope."
She could watch for that expected
visitor even better from her own room
upstairs.
Clever's room, te which she ran two
stairs at a time, was in odd contrast
te the room she had just left.
. 1,,or fjfi drawing room of her aunt's
large, old-fashioned house (though it
showed traces of three centuries), was
characteristic in the main of only one.
lbe eighteenth century appeared in
the excellent prints after Lawrence,
Gainsborough, Homney j portraits of
Mrs. MeadpwN "grcat-grcatH." She
it ""
was wuat ii .ailed "very well connected
en one nldc. Frem that side she In
herited the harp thnt gleamed in one
corner of the room, the harp that she
kept strung, with It strings of geld
and tdlrer, its red string, its strings of
gut but that hhe wa almost never
known te piny. Graceful relic of the
eighteenth century !
xlie nineteenth century, however,
predominated. An auctioneer's list
would have gloated ever:
"AH that handsome furniture, com
prising beautiful drawing suits of solid
dark carved oak "
"Handsome set off fender-Irons In
belld steel "
"Mantel clock with exquisitely de
signed figures of Shepherd and Shep
herdess In ormolu'
8e solid thHt no one could lift the
thing. Lverythlng, in fact, wea solid
something "se unlike ' new, when
everything In wholly hollow," Clever
had commented. She loved the Icicle
chnmlcller and the tnll Brlnsmead rose
wood piano with Its frilled panel of
apple. green silk behind fretwork, the
cabinet abulgc with sheaves of stamp
papered ballads by Test I and Molley;
she loved the China cupboards guarding
Chelsea. Rockingham and Spede. Al
together there was something comfort
able, reassuring in the utmosphere of
these, things, like taking tea with n
benevolent dowager of the old school
who is always glnd te see you und who
has never heard of the high cost of
living, Bolshevism, I'lsarrelsm, Dada
ism, or anything else that may have
"come in" since her own girls "came
out" in the year of the diamond
jubilee.
A Weman's I'lace
The twentieth century, gnlly ram
shackle, spread its top-dressing of
jazz ever this foundation. In uu Im
mense bowl of papier nuiclie (tangerine,
yellow) Hewered a dozen nightmare
blooms of iris, crocheted III black wool
with centers et H;.iih'-;.ih. purple beads
and long wire stems moored te n glim
boulder. Beside this clustered growing
liKi'int!s, languorously scented, in n
basket tied with streamers of geld.
The lii'.t .' liable in modern phonographs.
Klectilc light fittings in thnt vivid
glassware new beginning te flew in a
steady stream from f echo-Slovakia
into tirrat Urltaiii. Cushleiw te stock
a harem. Other trifle" provided by the
money (,f Klphinstene Brethers.
This note of new-rii'hes-over-age-wern
-comfort sounded throughout the
house. It gave the history of Clever's
position there.
She had come te it as a waif of
font teen, reserved and strange, fresh
from wandering from hotel te hotel In
Southern America with her darkly
handsome ne'er-de-well half Spanish
father. The orphan Clever, taken te
the lu.'irt of her aunt and cousins, hnd
heroine one of a thoroughly Knglish
fumilj -circle. She had gene te school,
te business classes, te the office; she
had been married from that house, und
after the t raged v of her wedding day
she had returned te the room she hud
presumably left fur geed that morning,
"Let me slay," she'd si.id te her
aunt. "This is my only home. I'll
sell that ether house ve were going
te live in. I want te !ie for keeps
with jeu and the girl "
She was new enormously richer in
comparison with them than they had
ever been with her. It wiu her turn
te lavish.
At first there hnd been protestations,
endless hulf-playful'rews when she hail
come home und announced that she I. nil
ordered -iir mid such alterations te be
made or that she had bought such ami
such things for the l.etisc.
"Ilenrest child, It's nut necessnry.
Central heating? Why? Twe mere
maids? Oh ! Why a new Trench
Kitchen stove? The old range is net
really se tiieseme, I'lewr "
And from the girN, ".Mether, she
mustn't, must she? Why all tlnse new
en talus and curpcis? We won't he
bossed by Klphinstene Brethers, will
we? lieside.s, it doesn't go
with the house, (Me, I i'm tee grand
for us. Why don't you g() awiy from
jour peer lelatives, wen. an. mid live at
some dashingly opulent 'suite' by jour
self, that .Mm can de c.Miclly as jeu
like with ?"
But Dever illphilistene hnd lefused
te leave; sn had accustomed hep aunt
te accepting ami her muslus had
presently come te take for granted.
And she had done "enctly as she
liked" with her own room or rooms.
Fer she had new taken the smaller
boM'eom as her ImiIioeiii ami in It she
had indulged cmtj fancj she had for
decoration and color.
Clever, who could ehe net what men
call love, appi-ci-hitcd all surface hcnul,
ii ik conscious impression; ,.he did le'c
color. Yellow was her favorite. Her
room, as she entered II. wa luminous
anil golden as the inside of a great
golden tulip; she in her velvet frock
forming the brown slim pHiil te this
tlewer. Later, as one's eves leek in
the details of decoration, , one saw the
many shades of her favorite hue. All
lieltereuii. with creamy tuiliels, clewed
,tlie painted walls; ilu fleer was covered
Will, primrose p."'- rumv ieiiiiihk,
wiiaciI and polished und uiiejipcird save
for one huge leopard skin beside the
bed .Marigold-.udlew and the jellew' of
sulphur p.msies nenewea tegeincr in
eiderdown. Lemen jellew and geld
I shone the spread of Chinese embroidery
under the sheet of plate glass that was
C c Ien of icr iiressiiiu 111
Able
tl.Ut ellew uleaiiied the
three bis
rrvNlal steppered ases that held lialr
wash, skin lotion and her own special
melai.B" of scenl ; even lnr brushes,
combs, pin tray, maiilciire set showed
the warm soft je!ew of blonde torioin' terioin' toriein'
sbi'll. 'I'Iicm' ceiiiliiiied ,cllins of eery
sliiiil.' mini' (even oil the Uiili'M dam
if an ll.cli-b .lu'j 1 a show of brilliant
siiiidilue In the loelii.
Clever leed Minshiuc.
CONTINUED TOMOHUOW
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