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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

"You're going-when?" She hadn't) mer was beating in her throat. BOOTS BAENUJIN, 18

"I don't-I don't know what you and pretty, I meant to ask this question, had deter- openly anubbed SYLVIA RIVERs, the mine! not to do so, but it tumbled out mean!"

chest wirl in archneck, fashionable New in spite of her resolutions. The mon

"Marry me," Russ demanded briefly. York suburb, Sylvia Lalb perty at the Yacht Club, Boot ecople

kecegiance at her quickly, glanced away. "I can't take a wife to Chile and that's belated Invitation from MRS. WATERMAN Give them time to get somebody here.

Hob, werk-10 days, maybe, a fact. It isn't that kind of job...

"Marry!" Her eyes wero starry, her whole being was shaken at the never thought, thought. "Why, I never dreamed

one of the alterty social fight..

HARDY WHITMORE une of Sylvia's gunta, who had been drinking, puta llouts in

The season's almost over," Boots an embarrassing situation and she fa escorted raid quite at random, not heeding her home by RUSS LUND, swimmi intrete, words, nor in fact realizing in the The malicious Bylvia salses this opportunity to east what she was saying. The dull

Huss went on slowly. "Thore are theone and beauties MRS. PERNELL of pain of last night was starting all over other things we could do. Get in the Woman's Uab to suk Bouts to resign from agat. He was going way-ho was the old bus, go out to California

In her faciation from the crowd Boots going away she might never see him Mexico-any place. It'd be swell" begins to see rent deal of Itus Lund again!

She could noe the two of them, Ruddenly he announce he is going aWBY,

"Yep!" Russ's big brown hand bronzed, gypsyish, vagabonding down slipped over her amall one, holding the world together. None of the it like a prisoned bird. She was village stuffiness, the showers, the aware of her pulso beating swiftly.

pram-pushing that other girls knew. "Bilsa mo7" his deep voice asked. This must be what people meant when "Why, of course! Boots laughed they spoke of marriage as "The Great softly, shading her eyes, pretending to Adventure," peor at a sail far on the horizon. | "Naturally."

CHAPTER XIII

Lator, much later that night, Boot assured herself that she had mingined! the whole thing. She wasn't in the leant in love with Russ Lund. The vory notion was proposterous. It was merely that she was lonely and at a loose end. To-morrow she would

greet him in quite simple and friendly fashion and everything would be as it had been before.

But it wasn't quite that way. She schooled herself not to sit near his raised platform on the sand. She managed not to look his way. When Johnny came along she chattered to him almost feverishly. Had ha en joyed the mountains?" Oh, she knew the Pineville Gap was a keen place, All the time she was conscious of a big, bronzed figure in a block bathing

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" he pronounced steadily and the raft,

II must be mad oven to think of solemnly, "will miss you like the veryt," Boots said on a shivering breath. devil

"Why?" the man demanded quickly, The Ico about her heart began to easily. "Oh, I'd be good to you break up. Suddenly she came alive.

"Not really!" she said softly, almost sweet," he said huskily, "I don't

"Not honestly, caressingly.

know why we wouldn't pull together- a lttle queen like you" You're Just saying that.

"I can't. I can't." Her SY She was startled, almost frightened at the strength of the brown hand clouded. The short, sweet moment of

over. She was dreaming cloning on her wrist. She drew her reality. "I couldn't do it," she told hand away.

him. "My mother-it would break her heart-she'd never understand—

"You mean-me"

17

Kues.

suit. She neither looked his way nor "Don't be like that," he commianded seemed to be conscious of his near-shortly. "You know darn well how ness but every fiber of her young be-feel about you..."

ing renched out invisible tentacles to She was breathless. She had to kim.

go on, although she knew that way Presently as she lay stretched out Jay danger. How?" she demanded Innguldly on the sand she heard his under her breath. voice. "Guess you came when I was giving Mrs. Meredith a lesson."

Slim, golden, her rounded breasts She looked up swiftly and a aud-rising and felling under the deep den rush of telltale colour belied the curve of the dark jersey, she faced! indifferent drawl in which she answer-him. Her fingers were linked about ed him. He flung himself on the 1 her slender knees. In her anoth, beach beside her. Johny had drifted curved throat a pulse bent deeply. away--he was at the diving stand-The man stared back at her, his eyes and they were suddenly quite alone darkened by some emotion. together. It WIS low tile. The bathers were drifting by meward with their inevitable burdens of bags and books and hampers.

"Mother get home?" His voice It had a ante almost caress- was low. ingly intimate in it.

h. not yet! Nine o'clock train." Sh. trove to make her tone canasti and the offer only succeeded in mak-

"I'm crazy about you and that's a fact," he stated briefly.

"Oh, Russ! Her eyes, under their dark, sweeping Inshes, were Atarry she fairly glowed.

faced

She was quick to sense his hurt, quick 15 smooth over the awkward. nex

"No, of course not, Idiot. She'd think 1 was too young."

"We wouldn't," Ruas offered can ally, "have to tell her, suɑ know, Just light out.

"Elope?" The warm colour flooded the girl's cheeks.

"Sure. Why not?"

"Oh, I don't know. There always secus something just a bit under cover about an elopement. I don't quite like the round of it.”

"Nuts!" said Russ lazily, and oven through the spell of his nearness Boots, foit a shock of annoyance. The word jarred. Oh, but he didn't know it wasn't his fault that he was a bit crudo, unlettered. He was bright, he could learn. Boots saw herself Icad- "I do. Honestly. I'm-I'm awfullying him through the world, teaching fond of you!" The words hind slipped him, AL 40, he would be a man of

You don't give a darn!" He was tracing a pattern on the sand but his eyes never left her face.

were out she would have given worlds know his wife is responsible for his to Lite them back. They were 80 greatness. They say she made him

Why, what he is to-day

"

ing it tremble a little. She became out against her will and now that they affairs. Someone would say, "You anery n herself for her failure and this realization of her own weakness mate her voice sound cold and far

Buss glancet up at her sharp www.y. ly.

"Not mad at me ?" She managed a laugh, wholly arti- ficial and unconvincing.. "What an iden!"

tame-so inadequate. Fond! with her soul she loved this big in- A ball clanged nearby. St. Mark's articulato Adonis with the ready smile clock. It was half-past G. The girl and the unruly shock of brown curling scrambled to her feet. hair,

"No kidding?"

"Oh, I must go.. I had no idon it was so late."

"No kidding!" She dung back her

He faced her, unsmiling: "WeB, golden mano and gave him a smile so what about it? De I go to Chile or sweet, no bewitching, that the man don't 17" caught his breath.

They were quite alone in this little sector of the beach at the moment,

"Oh, Russ!" she protested nervous. "Then why-why don't we de Rome-ly. "I can't decide all in a minute. I with the exception of a young matron! on the piazze who was rocking and thing about it?" he demanded in

In her knitting. husky undertone. A rompered baby think we must be crazy, both of us, counting stitches Boots, all her slim length a picasant with a pall staggered near, staggered symphony in pale gold, broken only away. The young matron

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But the spell was on her again. | Outwards for: on the

She neither knew what she said or did when his eyes were fixed on hers. "I'll wait until to-morrow," he said with a strange, becoming gravity. And on that note the lift him."

(To Bo Continued.)

by the briefert and slenkest of bathing veranda came to the rall and called garments, linked her slim hands to him sharply. gether and stared unseeingly at the blue horizon:****

"What an idea!" she echoed vously. "Well, I didn't know."

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