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Esau was a little uncertain when plaining when a gentleman he saw all the cars parked in front waxed moustache and small, close-set that of the house. Most of the cars were eyes approached. Esau sensed big shiny affairs and uniformed chauf- this man did not even see him. feurs sat behind their wheels. The "Judy," said the new arrival, “this chauffeurs stared at him curiously, is our dance. You promised me." Esau checked the number on his or- Judy slipped her hand through der pad with that on the stone post Esau's arm. "I'm sorry. Esqu

single at one side of the drive. It was the fuses to let me dance with a same, so he shrugged philosophically soul until I've danced with him." and neatly jockeyed his light delivery- The gent with the moustache glar- truck in between 巍 long-snouted, ed at Esau. Esau's mouth fell open. With cream-coloured roadster and a shining He looked down at the girl. black limousine.

something of a shock he realized that wound The drive

between

he a she was frightened. Impulsively double row of poplar trees. On either said: "Quite. Excuse ús, please." side were spacious lawns. Throngs of With Judy clinging to his arm he

the people moved about

He lawn. led her stiffly across the lawn. Beneath bright-coloured umbrellas saw a flagstone walk disappearing were metal tables heaped with food around some shubbery and followed it. and drink. Somewhere an orchestra Presently they came to a river bank played.

where there was a boathouse and

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up

on

A

Esau turned into an opening small pier. No one was in sight. Esau the beneath the poplars and started along stopped abruptly and turned to

Again he had the girl.

a flagstone walk. uncertain feeling.

This was. hardly "At first," he said, "I thought you'd what he expected. Perhaps he had made a mistake. Now I see you are ,made a mistake. But no, the num- only using me. Understand, I'm will- bers checked. He hesitated, recon- ing to be a Don Quixote, but I must noitering with his eyes.

know what this is all about.” "Hello there!" said a musical femi- "Please don't be angry." She seem- nine voice. Esau started, then smiled. ed on the verge

of tears. Esau's The girl had appeared from behind stern expression relaxed. "I'm Mrs.

By Stanley Cordell

That man

some shrubbery on his left. She was Van Silva's secretary. very small and very lovely. She wore the one with the moustache-is Fabian a white dress with a red belt and red West, He's in love with me, or at shoes. She looked, Esau thought, a least he wants 'me. Mrs. Van Silva little tired, a little as though her thinks I should be nice to him, because brightness were forced."

she's trying to sell him her summer

I place down at Ocean Point."

"Hello," said Esau. "I hope came to the right place. You see-" "Oh, this is it all right," said the girl. She had a most engaging smile. "Come, Mrs. Van Silva is waiting to meet you."

"Is she?" said Esau. The girl link- ed her arm through his and they fol- lowed the flagstone walk toward the crowds of people.

"You've probably forgotten

saying. name," the girl was Judy. "

ענון

"It's

"I see. And where do I come in?" "It was I who wanted my type- writer repaired. I-when I saw you drive up I-I-oh, I was desperate. Please don't be angry!"

Esau wasn't angry.

He was

be- he

ginning to feel good, but before could say so, the waxed gentleman suddenly appeared, looking angry and belligerent, and began to get difficult. Esau was never one to argue. He restrained himself only until Mr.

"I like that name,' said Esau. "I'm Esau Sherwood." Then he looked at West uttered his first oath, then he her with a growing feeling of hor- struck, and Mr. West, moustache and ror. He would have gone on to ex- all, went to sleep.. plain that he had come for the type writer that needed cleaning, but just then they passed beneath an umbrella and Esau found himself standing be fore a mountain of flesh that gradu- ally assumed the proportions of human being,

a

and Esau grabbed the girl's hand started back along the walk.

"Oh, now I'll lose my job! I can't Oh, what am I going to afford to. do?"

"You're going to work for me. I've a nice little business. I need a sec- "Oh, Mrs. Van Silva,"

stenographer." He stopped short, and Judy was

looked at her severely. "I'll pay you saying, "you remember Esau Sher-

Per- eight dollars a week to start. wood, of course."

haps, after we get to know each other better, I might make a better offer." breath. "I hope so."

"Oh!" said Judy, catching her

"Of course," echoed the mountain. of flesh in an astonishingly

smail voice. "It is so nice to see you again, Esau."

"Again?" said Esau blankly. He

Good lord, this wet his lips. awful! Who did they think he was? He must explain at once.

was

"And this," Judy was saying, "is Count Abel Fabre-Luce, Count may I present Esau Sherwood of the famous Sherwood family."-

"The' count clicked his heels bowed stiffly. "Zee pleasaire; cet ess mine, I t'eenk."

and

"What was that," said Esau, ·

"You must be terribly thirsty," said Judy.

"Here, let's have some punch." She forced a glass into his hand and Esau drank automatically. He was still trying to puzzle out what the. count had said. Then he remembered what a grave mistake the girl had made, and he was on the point of ex-

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