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THE GVMPSKidding en the Square
0b Subconscious Courtship
V ByBERTA.RUCK
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wun'A WHO IN THE STOFW
CLOVER MLPHMBTONfi. charm
J, twM widow, mho hat Inherited a
K Uiinm. Harried b relative and
dV-r 10A0 ' m1rr'e ier
&!Kfcnc" e off "the harpiet,"
iPl$ AnvV nAmtlOBABL.
JLtJfvirnr veteran, mdn 0 personality,
Vatnineer ule hat invented a new
Mil fa finance which he aereet te
WllSi "strictly lutinett" propeti-
ti0nesmtARy MEADOWa, Cjteyer't
J!E?i.i Clever in adveriitu anty it
VuitH VeZ'e'r touehter, a
PyWIlOLT, big, poed-natured chap,
lulfuM in love' with Reientarv.
fir. A Grewing Strain
rtrnHEBE'S nothing te fidget about!"
1 m11 she. goed-humoredly. "Every
M7rt lng te go nil right. Levely
&& the "kind you get where the cook
Mni. lust 1 little J nnd the mustb
ffirNoe. Quite n happy theujt
luy ' .he's delicious. Notes Ike warm
?K trickling rather slowly out of
f 'f 5 knew. Quite nimple
III iS? tee. I "heuld think the kind
lM tlia would really melt your
i . a rneni after Betne of tnat pert.
ifrh1
Hi'
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.n mere formally she added, "I sup sup
lW.Per" !....;- it I'm called nwny
Fax middle of dinner and leave the
miE for Just a few minutes? '
galled away? Why, nre yelT ex-
P"rm cxpe'tlng n message from the
ftyWe'tfi -saasrs?
night." .,
'Oh? Ne bothers, 1 nopef
"Ne bothers at all," returned Clever
hf Elphlnstene Bretners, mung ucr
dirk head nbove theso. shoulder.
.-SemethlnR quit. Ijoed, if t
.r that I Imagine will be. Rather
crowded Hours ky'-j -t.ni.ht..
what with your business
end mine. And tncy nre netu cem.nB
." .,
"IIew de you unewr" no bbkcu.
that they were en these terms of com cem com
imalenablencis. In Paris, during the
, Ifcpoef honeymoon, she iinu ni.e ecen
l-ompanteaaW, quite m much an aa
nine out ei ten " ....
have met ever tiiore xer 1110 nr- uhw
with their people, and with whom he
might have done a mt 01 biret-bikiiik.
They had discussed the shows, the
fMhiens, the ether people at their ho
tels; and Clever had admitted te "quite
ealejing" tramps they had taken to te
...i,.. in Pntitnlnphlenii or about cr-
lilies. Then, when they'd returned
te take up this oddly deuuie me in
Green street, it had at first scemeu
tiff. Awkward, nnd n Krewlne strain.
But tonight apparently things had gene
back te the Paris and holiday-time
footing. She hed spoken with almost
sisterly case about their alms and
hew these would prosper.
Quite eagerly he nsked, "new aa
jeu knew'"
"Oh! I Just Jtnew, Baia bee.
"Your mnbt will get taken en all right."
Kentlitid bv the nrcttincss of her
peaking veicn, btimulated by the fra-
trancn and the beauty se near mm,
excited and put upon his mcttle by
the thought of the coming party, young
Carmichncl found himself looking as if
for beinc inspiration into her serene
pay eyes.
He leaned nearer. "It wu awfully
decent of you te say that," he told
Iifr, grateful as n small boy for n-
f'euragement. "Will jeu de you mind
iwlng it again?"
Hut thn deer enencd. "Sir Algernon
nn'ii Lady Coz!" announced the man-
icrrant.
"All is net brass that clittcrs. but
eertaialy Cox does glitter like hell!"
had been mid of him by men who had
worked with him. It was true. His
breast, when in uniform, glittered with
tnese orders; in any case his hair
glittered, Ids eyes, ids teeth glittered,
his moneclo glittered; and his conver
sation clittcrcd most of nil. Esne-
daily did it glitter when he found him-
aeu in the presence) of a woman as
pretty ay his hostess.
"Mrs. Cnrmlehuel ! Hew vrv sweet
of you te let us ceme llke this tonight
dellehtfnl I hnve heen no InnklnU
forward " He turned all the glitter
about him full en te Clever. Clevor
.seemed te glenm back at him. Perhapn
it was thnt held tfqsiin drMn of hers.
f phich, when she moved, gave her the
played, but nevertheless he put own
. terk n clenched his hands under
a Uble polished like black Ice; clenched
them hard. Te hear her' say the mock
word troubled, him oddly; It troubled
him te catch, through the rest of the
conversation, Sir Algernon' answer
ing" murmur of "Ah The-only thing
you ever need be Jealous of, that I'll
swear," and "Of course you're proud,
my dear lady: naturally. We must
leek into this I'm going te hear all
about it" r
"Are you? Because, of course,
you'd mean everything te us," Clever
Carmlchael returned. Odd, hew Car.
mlchael (talking te Lady Cox) could
hear every syllable from the ether end
of the table, acratm th hrnnMiln
candlesticks, ncrera thit hlnek.nrwl.
amber shades, across the center decera
tien 01 a garlanded crystal bowl in which
live geld carp flashed and glided under
cne iianis, ecneintr just the
glinting grace of n fish.
w"ih unit urB.
were
been
nervev"
announced. llerrnv. nhn had
t called "The Plumber of the Empire"
luKause he had been caned in te step
up leaiss or various kfnds se often dur
ing the last twenty years of our history,
imu me composite fnce of a soldier, un
rtist, and a huslness.-mnn, with shaggy
brews ever lightning-swift eyes; their
am glanee about renssured Carmichacl,
tuewie(igeu the Uexes, took in the
d pailer. rtevcr's beauty, Sir Al Al
rnen a glitter, and the general situation.
'Majer O'llrien" was nnneunced.
, .. ........ uut.AUA OUIUIV.I UH4.'
yr geed-looking, neat, intelligent, an
Xu rrstPPer of. the great man's 5 in
yaentally, the author of the most popu pepu
'jfr Play te be produced that year.)
9 'Docter Mare llnherfiinn."
(Alse distinguished. nUn vnnd tn leek
Ffjen with wonderful slieulders, eyes
Unit with human kindliness.)
complete. They
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j. l::.-.1"'u,'
nu.iBira
went
At Inn hnml n 1ia .nlKM M
. u niiiu ..1 iiiwi Biiiiri'ii.n .ftii-
11 InUfhflal lin(,..l Cf 11 f. id .
(mil. 1 "c""i rair iiigerneu rbk lr no
F.m. be Permitted a persenul remark.
u 7, ,tr lovely trecu or yeurfl,
urS. I nrmfiliAl .l.fr ...... !.-&
ta. i?m ' New den,t te11 rae !t wasn,t
X10W fllnPintncvl tFnAiiitn.lfp.aU. f
rj" Clever returned easily." "Iinnc
ae your seeing timf it r..ni 1"
toe'rte1'1 0V" by altvlaM iUa
"Ne ; chosen while we were in Paris
IlUt I Wll.n 11. .1. J.-li... 11 I.
Wi. ... """ nuiie toen au ene 1
, ,' v.111 rome ever by airship "
ihlnwi.. course 1 Airships alr-
nii 1 ul tuujse, uuve 10 snow
"U about -
Jhey dined.
,A t0. '''ten happens when one has
ilMm of
Clever's corsage. She must have ar
ranged that effect: , Infernally clever
she was in nil the woman-ways, alie
were that fish -frock, but Mt was old
Cox himself that she played llke a fish.
And when, theueht Carmichnel ntrlfMv.
had the girl taken in se much of the
technicalities of his mast? She had
led the conversion te it new. She
kept it there, he caught whele sentences
of her pretty, flattering volce, describ
ing (quite accurately, tee) the points of
Carmichael'fi child and passion.
"Ne! Thcre's no winch at all,"
the words flowed glibly from her.
"The shin Is te be bmmht in nnd hnM
I te its mast by " tiny pause for effect
"Dy magnetic attraction a magnetic
mast; thcre's been nothing of the kind
up te new, as you knew, Sir Alger
non "
Sid Algernon's eyes positively gilded
her fnce with his glitter. "Magnetic
attraction ! Alt I Yeu mean" he made
a gesture with a flshferk "the same
principle as the the old toy the mag
net, magnet, you knew. Ducks in the
bath when we' were kids, drawing them
round and round well, I Bny 'we'!
Leng befere your tlma, alas!"
"Oh, no! I had magnet-ducks!"
protested Clever gayly. "Of ceurse
that's exactly what it means. It takes
you brilliant men te toss off the met
juste where we tellers have te struggle
for words. Well, that means a
small power-heuso at the base of the
mast, with a dynamo"
"My dear! My dear lady, I mean mean
te hear you discussing dynamos aa if
they were new bats. I find the
modern feminine mind as piquant as the
fashions. I de indeed.
"Don't laugh ut me because I'm only
feminine I'm n trnrkni. In m .-..
Sir Algernon! And de let me tell
you "
"Oe en. go en. J'm interested. I
am indeed. A dynnme at the base of
mis tuing, you any "
"Anu, 01 course, a dircctlennl note
te find out the exact whereabouts of the
airship as she approaches"
"Ah! Excellent "
Carmichacl, his cars alert te this,
had in duty bound turned te talk Rus
sian ballet te the woman surgeon, but
she smiled away hislremark "I want te
listen te your wife," paid she softly.
"Se de you. Wait n moment."
In a choice blend of the Elphinstone Elphinstone
Brethers business voice, and of the
voice of charm en full. Clever was
centinuing: "As she draws te the
mooring, you revers'e the engines. That
reduces the shock of Impact te nothing,
my husband found, leu see be has
worked out all the speeds "
"Quite "
"What A Sex"
"Then there's well, I need net
trouble you with the telescopic device
for the hele thing. -It cluita up and
down from the Barao dynamo." ,
(She muBt, thought Carmichnel in
bewildered amusement, have a memory
like n gramophone!)
"llfrst-ratc. The same dynamo?
New, that'll an idea. I should never
have thought of that; I don't believe
Hervcy would, glittered blr Algernon.
"I bet we'd hnve had two; big hole
for the cat, little ene for the kitten
sort of thing! A single dynamo; hcur
that, Hervey?"
Ocncral Hervey. who had been un
obtrusively attcntive te everything, re-
turned, "Xhe drawings are tit my oihee
new, sir. If you could spare n moment
te leek In tomorrow morning Car
mlchael would be there tee."
"Capital, capital. But net tomor
row. I'm ufrnid. Kay a week tomorrow
or In ten days' time, what? How'd
that suit, Carmlchael? Make it ten
days' time, then ; give us time te go
into It mere thoroughly, Mrs. Car
mlchael " f
Clever gave him a smile of child's
delight; inwardly she was reflecting
that these glltterers have te make them
selves a little Inaccessible. Half the
glitter comes from taking twice as
long about a thing as anybody else.
What a sex ! Hew is It possible te take
any of them seriously?
"Thnt brings us te the twenty-third.
The twenty-third, at what about
eleven-thirty 7 Will you make a nete
of that, O'Brien?"
O'Brien mnde a note of that. And
Carmichacl said te himself, without
vainglory, without exultation, "It's
done I"
Yes: already he knew that the game
was his. It wust achieved, ns these
things se often axe, ever a glass of
champngne and n alice of thi breast.
Ter this he'd done everything;
thing: he'd taken en this mad contract
of a mnrrlnge. In the near future
he would be no longer the mcre pen
sioner of the wealthy woman he'd
married, but the business partner. He
glanced at her again ever the dinner
table: her dark head was new tilted a
little aslde ; she was talking te Ucrvcy.
She could talk te anybody, the exqui
site humbug. She was wonderful
and yet there was nothing In her. Or
vih there uuat did it matter? The
point was that she assured success for
the only thing for which Carmlchael
did care: that mast. Ought he net
te be well ceutcnw
All the time he knew In his heart
that he was net content nfc all.
This evening, with everything play
ing into his hnnds, be was mere rest
lessly uneasy than en the morning be be be
eoeo his first pregnant interview with
Elphinstene Brethers thnt morning
when he'd written "mast" letters
which (he knew!), would only find room
in the wastepupcr baskets of such men
as were new his guests and colleagues.
Defensively he drank charanagnu and
asked himself, "Well, what's my
Prepared for difficulties and "manaae.
J' 3,.?.'i evc'thlng turned out te be
- wn y iiaby "3 far us Carmichacl was
wne.i.nn.1 wr ""." ."""."'.'!""' ""-
ilit. , ; rUQ KrcRl; ,nani " guesi,
JUttered forth affabilities.
lour husband, Mrs. Carmlchael, Is
very rlm-i.r ,nn it t ..,- .. .
fL-' 8 u most fortunate one most
.iu. ie, 1 suppose you heard of this
uientleu Of hlH v,n fr.im It. Inivn.
ion?1' -
Ihllecd. Ten " nnnu ! nlu nt
4Ver ('nrmlnhn.l Hit T . .. .
.". of it I should be iealeus of it.
minis " "
"Ver tilO nvateri, rSirmtMia! Kril
" e&y this. H knew- it represented
merest "lines" in 'the .art she
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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
lty FONTAINE FOX
The young lady across the way
aays n candidate who gets n mere
majority of the rotes wins all right,
but she supposes he feels better
about it if he gets an actual
plurality.
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as it arrived a maid glided up te her, H T I JL" " - &&L$rXffi0M '"Wli
murmuring a' message. Clever, lifting 7 TB , I r TT " - MJ JtW0f "rtm
her head, turned a smiling general apel- I H VL . I I ttte.L " M " B C i.
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few minutes! You'll forgive a her- J) Sc?e " (3flE efwa MtwKi astt " ',li
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