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5rtECP5 CIOTniHG L0W5J05EPH V VAWCE I CHAPTER XIV. Continued. -16- rou darling!" he declared with emotion. "Walt till I get my breath. Man's got no business courting when he ain't In training.". Lydla laughed aloud. Impossible to fesent the extravagances of this irre pressible boy! "I'm in no hurry," she countered, a hint of malice making piquant her demureness. "I got you!" said Peter, breathing heavily. Suddenly Lydla realized that Peter was the cheerfullest soul she had ever known. She'd be sorry to lose him, with his high spirits and honest, out Bpoken friendliness. But she was bound to lose him ; and not him alone, but all her new-found friends. This night had demonstrated Indisputably In her understanding that Craven's mode .of life could never be hers. They lived and thought on dif ferent planes. Downing street's secret agent must of necessity have his secrets and $uard them Jealously; but love and loyalty could not endure In an atmosphere of petty deception, useless, persistent fibbing, feigned emotion In trinsic selfishness. She meant to leave him without de lay. Come morning, and she would strike out for herself. And that in volved forfeiture not only of her fa ther, but of hJs friends that now were hers. It would be Impossible to keep on terms of equality and companion ship with those amiable creatures of "exalted irresponsibility, and spend her days behind a counter! She felt very forlorn, lonely, young and Inexperi enced. She turned at length from unseeing contemplation of Central park's dismal perspectives, to look curiously at Peter, who forthwith grinned gracelessly. "What do you want madman ? -Just to talk to you," he replied frankly. "You keep to yourself so utttch I get lonesome and desperate. Think what It must mean not to see you In over twelve hours to a man of my mercurial temperament! Honest, I was feeling awful low when you showed up Just now. In another hour Td ve been taking things seriously the same as you." "What makes you say that?" "Because you show It." "Do I, really?" she pleaded anx iously. "Not so's anybody'd notice It but me. You'll have to learn that you can hide nothing from me. Consider what a swell time you'll have when we're mar ried." "No don't Joke, please. I I am not very happy tonight.' "You aren't?" Peter sat up at atten tion, serious for once at least. "It's nothing don't ask me, please. Tm Just a bit low-spirited." "Nothing doing!" declared Peter firmly. "Dissimulation isn't your long suit I know J" He nodded with im mense gravity. "You're fretting about that cussed necklace." He drew a long breath and lied magnificently. "Yon see, we were talking It over when you came in : Quoin calling Betty down for making Craven try to smuggle, and Betty fighting back like a good one the whole story coming out I don't care if Tad is your father, he itadn't any right to put a raw deal like that over on you. Now," Peter wound up defensively, "turn loose the heavy aH leryi I've spoken my mind when it was node of my business, and It's up to me to take the count without a whimper." i Lydla was silent, her face averted. "No," she said presently, "I'm not angry with you. Why should I be? I myself don't think it was right It tt's pleasant to know somebody sympa thizes, when everybody else seems to think it nothing at all." "Not my way of looking at it" Peter insisted. "Listen to me now! Why not marry me and chuck the whole game Betty. Tad, Quoin, the whole outfit? Think how good it would be to know you don't have to care what they think I Just say 'Peter, you're on P and we're offwinter In Egypt everything like that You see? Not a bit of use fret ting about people when life makes It self so easy." "Please don't Peter. It makes you getm unsympathetic, after all." -Don't yoo beiieve it I'm so full of sympathy for you that It hurts me. Please won't yon marry meF -I can't listen t you If you will go on this way I" she cried, half distract ed. -Pro not thinking of marrying anj- author "the lone wolf," "the? brass bowltit. COPYRIGHT BY LOUIS JOStPti VMCZ "I know. It's Just as good a line as It ever was, and you read It to perfec tion. But it loses force with repetition, itoor rtnn't fnrp-pt that this is an- UJJ d - other scene several chapters farther on and no other fellow has turned up tn mnkA it difficult for you to decide. I know, 'cause I've been watching." "Please be kind u you cam oe serious." "But I am serious." Ah hut von promised me you never would be!" She tried to laugh ; but not very successfully. . "That Just goes to snow now tuue knew myself. The diagram is, of course, I never wanted to be serious before I in inv with vou. Don't you under stand that really? I love you, Lydla 1" The girl sighed and looked away, troubled, a strange, sweet fluttering in her bosom. And Peter was searching her shadowed face with eyes she dared not meet lest they surprise ner agna tion and wrest a victory from it Her lips grew tremulous, her eyes aim. "I love you," he repeated gently. "Oh, believe me, heart of my heart I" His hand closed firmly over her own. "But," she protested in a voice eforooiv mora than a whlsDer. he had to bend very near to hear, "but Peter" "Dearest?" "It's the first time you you ever told me that." "God forgive me!" cried the young man devoutly. "I never thought I thought you knew all the time !" CHAPTER XV. "Peter!" The cry. was smothered. "Silly boy I Can't you see the cab is turning iDo let me go !" "Only into a side .street I say, wheie are we bound anyway?" "It doesn't matter only to deliver a note and ge an answer." "Who to and from? Grammar's nothing to me, anyway." "I sha'n't tell you if you don't stop. Well, a friend nobody you know. If you don't let me go, I'll" "What will you do?" "If you'll let me go, Til tell you something." Curiosity triumphed. Lydla extri cated herself. "What is It?" "There I'm all mussed and rumpled. You're frightfully Inconsiderate." "May's well get used to it You've got a long, rumply, mussy lifetime be fore you. What were you going to say?" "Promise not to be silly again, if I tell you?" "I say, that ain't sporting of you. You promised " "Very well. No wait Is my hat straight? We're turning again stop- -Wlt Till I Get My Breath Man's Got No Business Courting When He Ain't In Training." ping. Look out and ses If It's the right number." "Ninety-eight" "That's right" "Now what are yon going to dor "Get out deliver the note, get the answer, and come back to you. Peter." "Nothing could be fairer than that Only you don't get out till you tell me what you promised to." "Very well. But you'll have to get out first Not s word whUt yours in this cab. Now, Peter, pleas l" "Oh, all right" Peter backed out snd offered ls hand. He closed strong fingers round hers. -No, you dont not Oil yos keep your word!" -Then listen, Peter P ner voice was low, but clear and very sweet "It doesn't make an ounce of difference to me about those others so long as it's only me you love now and always will!" With this Lydla ran up the steps, leaving Peter dazed with the memory of her face at parting. And indeed the wits of the young man were reeling, drunken with the fragrance of his beloved. It was some moments before he began to recover. Interim, he stood bareheaded in the drizzle, blinking fatuously at an elec tric arc on the corner of Park ave nue. Then suddenly he remembered what misgivings had sent him head long from the Margrave to overhaul this taxi of ten thousand Elyslan de lights. But when he did remember It was too late. His dearest had already been engalfed by the front doors of that ill-omened house. Ill-omened, at all events, he must consider it in the light of what Quoin had hinted. And yet surveying the residence, one began to doubt An eminently respectable quarter. Seventy-sixth street between Madi son and Park avenues, a block as se date as any in town, dedicated to the homes of solid, decent law-abiding hodles who. to be sure, wouldn't suf fer association with any establishment of the least questionable character. Since the cab had stopped not a sound had disturbed the quiet save the T)tAiTorf VM" "Miss Craven Asked Me to Give You z jj This, ;Mr. Traf t" f semioccasional rumbling of surface cars on the one hand or snoring of motors on the other. And number 98 itself was a resi dence of a type and caste to allay dis trust at a glance an elderly, well-to-do sort, with brownstone front, well groomed ; nothing in this ensemble the least ominous or threatening. Inclining to question old Quoin's ever-ready Inference, Peter climbed back into the cab, and for five min utes hugged himself in private .ecstasy. Everything was for all the best in the best of all possible worlds. He needed only to crowd things a bit rush the wedding through bofore Lydla realized that people were onto Craven, keep her if possible Ignorant forever of old Tad's disgrace That could be fixed, no doubt Fortunately Betty wasn't vindictive. Quoin's .commission from her had been merely to scare Craven silly and run him oat of town. And that, of course, would keep things dark ; for Craven would naver dare re turn. Of course, if he ever f&und out his daughter didn't know, ajjd her hus band didn't want her U know, he would likely try on a little blackmail ing, Just to keep body und soul to gether. But Peter wouldn't mind that not in moderation. Anyway, he'd al ways liked old Tad; and to think of him in want who had ben so reful gent a figure in the life of town, woutd be keen discomfort for his prospective son-in-law. Peter dared say old Tad could do with a tidy bit of blackmtvll something adequate and regular. And he, for one, would never begrudge it But when five minutes had elapsed Peter began to fidget That's long time to wait for. a girl you'rs crazy about who has Just owned up she's crazy about you I He consulted his watch : ten minutes past eleven. Lydla had come to the Margrave about a quarter of: they couldn't have been more than a quar ter of an hour coming up town. Peter became convinced that he had waited ten minutes, not five. Things began to look dubious. He hopped out and up the steps of 88. The outer door was fastened ; but a steady pressure on the push-button brought a shadow to skulk suspicious ly behind lace-screened Inner doors. One edge of the curtains was pulled aside a trifle, be was inspected nar rowly, and then the shadow material ized Into woman who came forth and unlatched the outer doors. Even to Peter's captious scrutiny she looked a very nice sort, altogether an appari tion to abash suspicion. -Yes 7" she Inquired In pleasant voice. - ,lt I ' II Tph." the dtscoranted young mm replied intelligently. "That Is to say I ah " "Perhaps you'v mistaken th house?" No I mean to say Miss Craven I brought her here was to wait to see her home, you kRiWr waited so long began to wonder " "I see," said the woman quietly, a flicker of amusement in the eyes that Peter rnther liked. "If you don't mind waiting another minute, I'll ask her." Singularly enough, Peter thought, she didn't ask him to step in out of the weather. On the other hand, sbs was considerate not to keep him waiting long; though the message she finally brought hlra proved distasteful enough. "Miss Craven asked me to give you this, Mr. Traf t." "Thanks," said Peter, graciwwly ceptlng the proffered envelope. It wasn't scaled. Unceremoniously h lifted the flap and withdrew the in cisure, a square, white, heavy corre spondence card with the address stamped in black letters. Below a stub pen had been used with disastrous ef fect : "Dear Mr. Traft Please don't wait for me. I can't tell how long I may be detained. Sincerely, "LYDLA CKAVJiUN. Dear Mr. Traft, nonplussed, accepted dismissal with what grace he could muster. "Oh ah thanks," he said blankly. "Awf'ly good of you" "Good evening, Mr. Traft." "Good evening." The door closed. Peter grunteo dis gust and went slowly down the steps. (TO BE CONTINUEU.) PERSONALITY IS BIG FACTOR That Quality Which Enables Man to Sell 20 Cents' Worth of Paper Gold Mines for $20,000. Pprsnnnlltv Is that duality of humiw nature which enables a man to sell 20 cents' worth of paper gold mines to an other man for $20,000 and then hart his customer grieve for fear he has re ceived too much for his money, per sonality is the greatest factor in the business world today, and if an em ployee has proportionately $lu!o worm rf it to the boss' $1 worth, that em ployee will own the business with in ten years. For this reason me boss should analyze the applicant for traces of personality rather than submit him to the hand writing test which is an obsolete accomplishment in. theso days of type writing machltftes. There can be no crowd or peopie without an eoidemlc of personality breaking out, and when it manifests itself in more than one sectioti tnere is a conflict. All persons do not possess, personality. 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