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.;,' MW f. : * I# * " 1 »■ft E.PHIUÄPy OPPENHEIM Qyyrtyff iy UTtU.BROWN and CO. PAULINE 8TNOPSIS—Fleeing from a brutal stepfather, an unhappy home, and a proposed husband shs detests. Myrtlle, young French girl, stands In a country road on the verge of desperation. Halted by an exploded tire, two young Englishmen, Lord Gerald Dombey and Christopher Bent are attracted by tlie girl's dis tracted appearance. She begs them to take her away from her misery. In a spirit of adventure they do so. conveying her to M a t e Cdrlo and leaving her with Friends^ ' Myrtlle speaks English, kef mother having been an edu cated woman. Gerald sees a beautiful young woman in the gambling rooms, and is fasci nated, hat. can only learn that she ta qalled Pauline de Poniere and la With her aunt. He I* un able to Mettre an Introduction. Christopher and Gerald decide Myrtlle shall not go back to her home Lady Mary. Gerald's sis ter. secretly in levs with Chris topher. disapproves of ths young men's guardianship ef Myrtlle VI CHAPTER IV—Continued There was a somewhat hectic silence for several momenta. Madame Lenore could scarcely conceal her contempt for tb« crudeness of this puritanical Engl tollman. Myrtlle Iteraelf felt aa though a dream of paradise were fad ing away, Gerald, because be was good fellow eaougb at heart, felt farther Insistence Impoqplble. Be was quite content to drift into danger; be was not casuist enough to evade a plain warning. "Well, I suppose we shall have to let this disagreeable fellow have his way," be declared. "Take bar along, madame, and see what you can do. Ton hear tuy fiend's idea—plain blue urge bat tened up to the thront, cashmere ■lockings and square-toed shoes." •"there will be a compromis*," madame declared firmly. "And for die rest, little one, do not trouble too much," the whispered, aa she led Myrtlle away. "I shall keep these clothes just as they are, until the oth er gentleman has made up his mind to meddle no longer. Come to me when you are ready. I can make you look so that milord will take notice of no other woman." Myrtlle'« eye* were swimming with tears. "It was Just for him that I wanted to keep these clothes," she said. *T wanted him to take me out and to feel that I looked like other girls. As for Monsieur Christopher, I deteat hlm I" ontslds wIHim' nf the two young men was particularly disposed for conversation. Christopher felt a distinct return of bis first appre hension concerning Gerald's attituds towards Myrtlle, while Gerald himself was conscious of a vague sens« of re sentment at his friend's interference, the more poignant, perhaps, because of Its wisdom. Anything to the na ture of an explanation between the two was rendered Impossible by the smallness of the room and the pres ence of the shop assistants. So Ger ald contented himself with lighting s cigarette, while Christopher studied a book of fashions. Presently Myrtlle came out to them once more. The transformation was still amaslng. but the blue serge cos tume was absolutely plain except for Its thick edging of braid, and the little toque, with Its dark blue quill, abso lutely free from ornamentation. Yet it seemed almost incredible that this graceful girl who came towards them • little shyly but with perfect self possession should Indeed be tbs peas ant child who had been under their care for rather less than twenty-four hours. "Mademoiselle to transformed." Madame Lenore declared. "She ha* natural elegance. In the simples« clothes I could give her. she would still create an impression. I have done ray best, milord and monsieur. 1 trust that you are satisfied." "I am going to take Myrtlle to Clro*« to lunch. Crane along, Christopher," Mid Gerald. 4ä Chapter V The two women sat on the terrace of their wtstaria-covered till« Madame de Poniere hunched up In bra chair, smoking » cigarette through alec«, her coffee and cigarette alike neglected, gaming fixedly seaward. Tbel«' Immediate environment suggest ed «1 mm « tafle for luxury and the ft* The linen and mmm to gratify ««•or m> 13m Äffe tes# feet vd mm at which they ** a»«** I** PayA 1 V» * xJK*„ISO é mè motor Of Sam fm served risfo*. #'frtefo bfarit m Pauline mur lined face, hut tall and of powerful build. He possessed to the toll the Immobility of feature of the trained English servant, but their was some thing entirely foreign to bis sphinx like attitude and expression. He had the air of one who neither saw nor heard save at bis mist res«' orders. "I am weary of everything here ex cept the sun," Pauline .declared de liberately. The woman opposite knocked the ash from her cigarette. Hera was an aged and withered face, but her black eyes were still full of life and fire. Her long, thin hand, on which flashed several strangely set rings, was sud denly extended toward the waiting servant. Without « word he bowed and disappeared. "One most wait," Madame de Poniere declared. "For what?" the girl asked lastly. The older woman's eyea glittered for a moment "For what will surely come," she declared. 'The portents are all there. Thé writing Is no longer upon the wall—it blazes to the sky." "And meanwhile, mured, "the son shines, my heart beats to tone to It, and I feel all the time the weariness of the days." Tt Is the tnsurgence of youth," the older woman conceded Indulgently. "I suppose the greatest must feel it some day." She thrust another cigarette Into her tube and lit It, Inhaling with the long, regular breaths of the conflrmed smok er. Her delicately-shaped but talon llke Angers were stained with nicotine. "Zubin arrives this week," she an nounced. Palllne yawned. "More mysteries," she murmured, "more false hopes, more exaggerated ■H pwâgyjgg V t "There Will a Compromise," Madams Declared Firmly. stories Nothing good will come of Zubin's visit bat the money he brings, unless by any chance be has news of Stepan. Meanwhile, dear madame, 1 bore myself. 1 rather wish that I bad been born an American.'' The woman showed no sign of an ger, yet somehow or other she seemed to diffuse an atmosphere of contempt "It Is perhaps s pity," she admitted, "that you are descended from one of the greatest rulers the world has ever known. It to perhaps a pity." "Give me something to rule over," the girl declared, "and ! will be repent ant—the souls and liberties of a few million people, or the hearts of a few men. I am twenty-three years old and the sun to warm. And then there to the music, am ode ressource when there to no money to gamble with. What to the use of moste, madame, to one who Uvea behind the bar»? It simply makes one pull at them a little barder. I am as badly off as Stepan himself, who loves me from behind the fortress wall» Sometimes 1 wish that 1 were there with him." Madame de Poniere reached for an Ivory-topped stick und rose to her foot Almost as though by magic, from somewhere within the dim. cool re cesses of the room beyond, the gray haired manservant was by her She leaned' upon his arm. "We drive at four o'clock. Pauline." she said. "Afterward®, we will watch the play at the Sporting club." Faulte« shrugged her shoulder» It eras the same yesterday afternoon, and »very dsr behind. It would probably be the same tomorrow. She iocénd to tantiy across the narrow gorge toward that other villa. A toro-mrated car had tamed to from «RM crawling up the winding « a stretched out her haftd which lay m the tor the »tod info* bf hm wheal wm (»radilär to Paalin« rose to tier feet as mysteriously as the had appeared a few moments befer«, black-robed maid hastened towaafi bet, Pauline shook her bead. "This afternoon I do not «Ml ta peat." she decided, *T shall walk In the gardens." Pauline descended the neon« step«, crossed Che drive and plunged Into a narrow footpath which wonud Its way through a plantation of stoat«»# hat sweet-smelling pine tree», downward toward the sea. The path was am a» easy one, and Pauline's shoes wan scarcely designed for such an adven ture. Nevertheless, she persevered At Inst she gamed her «ad. Sh« stood upon the little strip of sand, bespito kled with rocks, which bordent# At sea. Only a few yards away the shim mering blue water rocked tow«»# the land in little waveleta. She tweed and looked back. The villa '$f*m which she had come seemed B»m g doll's bouse shining out of Its shelter ing clump of gypresses. More directly above her now was the far mors ext en slve residence of Lord Hlmertq*. She looked toward It searching!*, There were several people upon the verum!« , amongst them the slim of a young man at Us farther edge gazing Intently in her direction. She smiled a little as she picked her «reps across the yellow sand to the tdg| «f (he seu and clambered on to g rock. A queer fir of heedless« ess was upon her. She stood upon the top of the slippery rock, finding a strange plena ore In the salt-laden air and the wind which brought a thousand ripple* of light to the trembling blue sea, which blew her skirts about, and eves brought disarrangement to her smooth ly bound hair. This tempering of the sunshine brought a new Joy to Its warmth. She stood there basking ta a purely sensuous pleasure, forgetful for timed figure • moment of the depression of the morning. The sound of twmMftag stones In the little gorge behind scarcely disturbed her. It was not until she beard footstep* upon the strip of beach that she turned her head. Coming toward her, already only a few yards away, was a young man of personable appearance and UB wontedly determined expression. For dnee In his life Gerald had made up his mind. Although he was In reality brimful of confidence In all his relations with the other sex, Gerald had sometimes a not altogether unattractive appear ance of shyness. He stood bareheaded for a moment, looking up at Pauline. "I am sorry if I startled you," be said. "I was looking for my slater. I know this is a favorite place Of hers, and when I saw you standing there I rather Jumped to the conclusion that you must be she. "Really7*' Pauline replied. -Are we h t a k fil th ?°' » w ... . Nbt in the least, he " . y * . That seems to make your explana tion a little insufficient, does It not?" Pauline remarked. Gerald settled down to business. T know that I ought to have turned back," he said, "but, after all, wasn't It much more natural of me to come onî I have been trying, ever since f first saw you, to get someone to Intro duce me—we after ■ Just discovered, to my great delight, neighbors—and this is the Riviera, not Berkeley square. May I tell you that my name Is Gerald Dombey, that my father and sister have the villa up there, and that, from the moment I saw you. Thmre your acquaintance?" She looked at him In alienee for a moment, half critically, half thought fully. There was nothing absolutely discouraging In her attitude and yet Gerald somehow conceived the Idea that this might not, after all, be so easy an affair as he had hoped. • "Are you used to enlarging your ac quaintance In this manner?" she asked. "I very seldom feel the desire to do so." he assured her. "Don't be an noyed. please. I am really quite a re spectable person. I will call upon your aunt. If she will give me permis sion." For the first time Pauline smiled. It was rather a cold smile, but the fact that it was a smile at all was encour- aging. -I fancy that you had better dis miss that suggestion from your mind altogether," she said. "My aunt does not receive here, and she certainly would not welcome you as a caller." "Why not?" Gerald Inquired, a little "Why not?" Gerald Inquired, a little perturbed. "Because yon are a young man," Pauline replied, "There are two things which ray aunt dreads more than any- thing else to life—a bad throat for herself, and young men for me." "I don't we bow she can hope to young men away gather," Gerald declared. "You don't mtod my saying, do yon, that you are you alto the »art of girt whom young men would want to know?" Bet smile returned, laughed slightly, showing some very wonderful teeth. "Really, yen are a most singular person." tote Englishmen talk to cams»I acquaint ance« in this unrestrained fashion?" Pauline was not altogether foiling into line with the conclusions be had arrived at con cerning bar. She evea **Do all young Gerald was Pantine la evidently ae attrao tlve as she ta myaterieu» will Gerald be able to break through • > (TO 8® OOHTtNtJEO ) trim has m m urn « W 1 Christmas Gifts to Buy or Blake Santa'« Novel Dolls :J if Æ i B5L r ■ Santa Claus has been cordially In vited by millions of little girls to pay his annual visit and bring along a new doll. He has asked their mother to help him stock op with up-to-date dollies that aura washable Here to one of them —little Red Riding Hoo«l— all of red oil cloth, except her head, which must be bought. Al welooITO al ui e Christmas tree. the perennial shoe tree and coat make* their annua) appearance, Wegr nave arrived In seu to match Among Gifts for Mon sn tl r man this year, some of them neatly cov ered with corduroy, to cheerful colon, and others with gay ribbons and decked with ribbon flowers. The cor duroy sets make nice gifts for men. Bag of Tinsel Ribbon ot aiflfc, about eight inches long and é This brilliant affair In bags for eve ning drear la made of narrow, metallic folded Into pointa and sewed to tiras. The metallic ribbons silk to many colora with gold Two oval piece« or silver threads. five wide, to the color of tbe ribbon, the foundation. F.' lor i j f .w I r- - ■m is& m -— Jba — EThe, RY DAIRY BULL NEEDS EXTRA GOOD CARE A little special care should be used la the feeding and general manage ment of the dairy herd tire, in order to maintain his stamina and potency to the fullest degree, to the rate of the mature holt keeping him In first-class condition na to flesh, but not overfat. Either fat ness or thinness In flesh works against the maintenance of his beat breeding condition and one is to be avoided as tn«K-h as the other. There should be an abondance of roughage to the dairy bnil's ration. Clover hay and alfalfa are especially good: he may safely have all of either these forages that he win consume. Corn stover and oats straw also are 'good feeds for the bull, though lower nutritive values than the legorai* nous hays. One of the main special require ments of the grain ration to that- it he not too abundant; If Is better to de pend upon the forages for maintain ing the animal's weight as much as possible. Many good dairymen give herd sire the same grain ration as the cows receive, except less of k. The bull's grain needs will vary a great deal according to bis sise and physical condition, of course, though be Is getting plenty of good hay to addition, especially If It to clover or atfnlfo. he will not need more than from four to eight poonda of grain dally. Shorts, bran and oats are par ticularly good concentrates to use In the grain portion of the bull's ration. Here to a ration for mature hulls which has the sanction of usage on many farms: Three parts each of corn meal, ground oats and wheat bran, and one part linseed meal. If de sired. hominy may be substituted for the corn meal. Whether the herd sire ahould re ceive silage to a disputed point among dairymen. Many believe that It Im pair* the breeding abilities of the boll, though experimental evidence to sup nart this belief Is lacking Other breeder* safely feed silage to their herd bulla, though much less of it than the rows receive. I -arge feeding of silage to bulls results to greatly dis tending their paunches, ,__ Until he reaches serviceable age there I« no better feed for the young bull than grass, and he should be allowed to make a* much of his growth on It ah possible. On this feed he will build up the right kind of flesh, and along with It will develop vigor and constitution as he would to no other way. Whatever the ration of the young boll. If should contain ranch protein to supply the needs of his rapidly growing body. While careful attention needs to be given the bull's ration, proper feeding alone w*ll not maintain the mont de sirable physical condition. exercise Is quite ss Important in pre serving his vigor and potency. Encouraging Favorable _M arke t for Veal C alv es Here l* something dairymen should means of making a encourage ss a favorable market for their veal wore pHpüpBB calves: Meat experts of the federal Government say that the practice of shipping veal without removing the hide or skin has many advantages. They explain that veal which doe« not have the skin removed until It reaches tbs retailer, which may he from Bve to ten days or longer after slaughter, still retain* Its "bloom" and the light pink color most desired by customers. The protective covering supplied by nature keep* the flqah from turning dark. 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