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A LESSON JlLq'VEL ' r By Cecille Langdoh.- ( Copyright; hy W. G."'Cfiapman-) "It would take a' wise.ghT to fool ine,"4 boasted Harold Mercer. "You money and position is beset 'with, the traps "'and allurements of the co quette; and the averageUwoman, in ihy experience, is a selfish, sordid creature.!" V: .'"K i "While I. entirely disagrefr-with you, and beg 'leave .to remind you otour estimable' 'sister,-- Lucy,'lretbited his friend, Dale:'Burton,. "wiatTs 'the es- . "Friend Lucy.- pecial cause of this outbreak-at the present time, may I ask?" "Just this," explained Harold. "We are going, to summer for-.two greeks at EleasanLLake. Lucyunsists that we shall seek out her friend", a Miss , -Etta,Mbrris": Betweeh,you-and me, if. the young-lady, in questiori-is one-half the-angeUc being Lucy.1 paints her, I shall begin to think. I have really'met. my fate at .last. I!ve.sjeen her por trait, and. I. am going toldetermineif 'there is one woman in, the world who really cares-for a man for himself1 'alone." "As how, now?" propounded Dale',-' dubiously. "I have a simple plan. It is an old. one, I will admit, but it is results I am " after: Nothing would please Lucy bet-, ter than to have this Miss Morris for a sister-in-law.' Nothing' would give me more delight than to find' a real, genuine-hearted, girl who thought more of love than dollars. Without letting either of them know it, we will exchange identities. You shall be HarpldjMercer, the gentleman of leis ure, the heir to, the? Mercer fortune. Iwill become 'Dale Burton." "Poor, but deserving,, and all that!' finished Dale with, a laugh. "Oh, come!now, Harold, you can't think seriously of carrying out this ridicu lous idea. Whyj we enter the arena asxpretended rivals! What if; well, suppose the girl should take a real fancy to-me, what will Lucy say?" "We won't lt it'go that far; if w.e find you are' tie lucky suitor," ex plained Harold, a trifle disturbed. ., He was- a. pretty fair-sort of a fej jow, but he. had an exaggerated idea of the power of money. -It was true that' scheming maids had been daz zled with his prospects. For all that, there were more true hearts in the world than her dreamed of, t and, as Dale" expressed it; to himself; Harold deserved "a good taking down at the hands of some smart, sensible girl." .. When the two young men arrived at Pleasant Lake next day,- Dale Bur ton, was the brother of Miss -Morris' dearest friand. Hertbeauty and at tractiveness were a revelation to Har old. Only for a moment her magnetic eyes rested upon him, and his soul was. forever under their thrall. Then with a few words that, made Harold wihcer as, to her pleasure 'at meeting "the fiance of her dearest friend," Miss Morris turned to wel come tie pretended brother of Lucy Mercer. , ' 'WeIL'?' yawned Harold, .dismally, J AS