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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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to flesh, but not overfat. Either fat
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There should be an abondance of
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Clover hay and alfalfa are especially
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Corn stover and oats straw also are
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physical condition, of course, though
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addition, especially If It to clover or
atfnlfo. he will not need more than
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which has the sanction of usage on
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corn meal, ground oats and wheat bran,
and one part linseed meal. If de
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the corn meal.
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herd bulla, though much less of it than
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growth on It ah possible. On this feed
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protein to supply the needs of his
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While careful attention needs to be
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exercise Is quite ss Important in pre
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wore pHpüpBB
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tbs retailer, which may he from Bve
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