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A IVTIVT A Story of a Modern Girl 4_J y / /-\ 1 ;jL' /~V and a Million Dollars

Beautiful JOANNA MANNERS, a New York clerk, is summoned by HARKNESS. the buyer, to appear before her employer. MR. GRAYDON, who delivers an overwhelming: message. Someone whose identity she is not to know has deposited 81,000.000 for her in ANDREW EGGLESTON’S bank. Joanna offers to share her fortune with JOHN WILMORE. her fiance, but he is determined to earn his own way as an architect. At a brilliant jocial affair, wealthy FRANCIS BRAMDON. the banker’s nephew, introduce* her to YVONNE COUTANT. society divorcee. whose partner. RODDY KENILWORTH, rich, romantic idler, admits he will try his hand for Joanna. He knows Brandon is the one thing Yvonne desires that she hasn't got. Joanna goes to live with Yvonne where she meets MItS. DORIS MARKS, a MR. PENDLETON and LORD TEDDY DORMINSTER who loses no time in courting Joanna. John attends Joanna’s coming out party and realizes that her new setting has placed a great abyss between them. In Eggleston's library hangs a large old painting of a girl who resembles Joanna. A year of frivolity passes at Villa Amette in France and still Joanna has not lost her heart to any of her admirers—not even PRINCE MICHAEL. Lord Teddy, during a morning ride, urges his suit and voices his objection to Kenilworth's attentions to Joanna. By 11. L. Gates CHAPTER XXIII. Startling News Hbeen looking into Joanna’s face when he finished, he would have been puzzled by what he saw. She had been fire white while he told her that “they" were saying she had stolen all of Yvonne Coutant’s lovers. Slowly the brown sheen of her eyes had crept back until they were almost black. The round red lips thad set in a straight line. But Teddy didn’t look at the girl beside him. The echo of his last words hardly had died when he went into a funk with himself. He looked straight ahead, between his mount’s ears, and Inwardly cursed. Teddy Dormlnster was not the kind to say that sort of thing about anybody, to anybody, much less repeat It as the gossip of others. He was sorry, and damned his lapse. When he did glance, timidly, at Joanna, her face had cleared, the brown had come back between her lids, and her lips had relaxed. She detected his chagrin at himself and was conscious of his sidelong glance. In mute acknowledgment of both she reached across with her riding crop and patted his sleeve, lightly. They came, just then, upon the approaches to the little wooden shrine of St. Devote. By common impulse, and wordlessly, they pulled up their mounts. Dorminster held his hand for Joanna’s foot as she stepped to the ground. He tied the bridle straps together and followed her when she strolled to a stone bench under a cluster of pepper trees. "I say!" he exclaimed shyly, “I’m cut up, you know, about popping off like that! I shouldn’t have fouled Kenilworth, and as to Yvonne —” She interrupted him. "And I shouldn’t have asked you," she comforted him, "to tell me the things people are saying. Because you see, I have known right along. I was only curious to hear if there was anything new. That about Prince Michael and me was.” “Just the same,” he insisted, "it was rotten of me, I’ll have to see Kenilworth and tell him what I’ve said to you. It’s the only way.” "You’re a stickler for honor, aren’t you, ’leddy?” "For the sporting thing, anyway." “I wonder sometimes, if you don’t think it’s just the sporting thing to do, to make believe you are in love with me and that, ts I'd let yoti, you’d make me your countess and be as true as you could be forever after? I’m vain, and wicked, and frivolous, you know, and I fancy you think it would be sporting to take charge of me, who am all alone, and keep me out of the abyss!” • * * H””1 IS protests were hot at his lips, and his throat was crammed with things he wanted to say. But her calm look Invoked a sudden change of mood. While she waited for him to And the words for which he seemed to be scraping the ground with his crop, the St. Devote woods were very peaceful, only the busy chatter of birds breaking the stillness. “No,” he said at last, slowly, as if he carefully weighed his conclu-

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sions, “there’s nothing sporting about a mans regard for a woman. It’s either honest, or it’s not. You can’t make a sporting deal out of it either way. I’ve watched you since that time a year ago when I stumbled onto you in Yvonne’s dressing room 1 n New York. I’ve seen you fight for understanding of all the crooked things that went on about you. I could have helped you learn, many times, but I knew you'd fathom everything in your own way. A girl does that, nowadays. “There's a lot, perhaps, that I don't know about what’s really inside of you, but I’ve a heart that doesn’t grieve over anything my eyes can’t see. I wouldn’t care, you know, whether you fell into the abyss or whether you were so innocent you didn’t know that anything that shouldn’t be, could be. However you are, I’d like, awfully, to have you marry me. I’m honestly in love with you.” A whimsical smile played with the corners of her mouth. “I remember,’’ she said, “that you promised me, that first day at Yvonne’s, that you would be awfully fond of me.” The smile disappeared and left her wistful. “And I remember, too, that you arc the only one, Teddy, who has turned out to be just what I thought you would be. All the rest are different than I expected.’ “Are you, too, different than you thought you’d be?” She laughed gaily, but all she said was: “Heaps!” After awhile she added: “But we mustn’t reminisce, Teddy. It may transpire that some day I shall have nothing left but reminisence. If that happens. I’ll want them all saved up. You’ll be one of the best of them.” ... E caught her hjtnd, when she rose, and held her. She did i___l not draw away, but stood quietly, her eyes meeting his. She was so close to him that he felt the warmth and tenderness of her, and that she was almost breathless. For one brief instant his brain went into a riot and he was dizzy. When his head cleared he felt her crushed against him, and realized that It was his own arms that were holding her there,, holding her so tightly that already her lips were paling. He would have dropped his arms and released her, but she caught them, and let him understand that she was yielding. She Yv-as even holding her pale lips to hipi. When, at last, she stirred, he kissed her again, and then freed her. Before she drew back she said to him! "I would like to love you, Teddy', and If I could, I would. No one has ever said so fine a thing to me as you have—that you’d not only want me, hut take me however I am. That is so different than being told that I’m wanted, but mustn’t be bad! I’ll remember it, whatever happens.” Before they reached the gates of the Villa Amette grounds Joanna brought up his threat to do the sporting thing with Kenilworth. "I'd rather you'd not tell him that I know what has been in the past between him and Yvonne," she said. "It hasn’t interested me at all, you know.” Somehow, Teddy thought, it did interest her. He was foolishly bitter about it, and resentful, which he didn’t have a chance to show, however, because they were turning into the villa path and Joanna, with a flirt of her crop, broke Into a final gallop toward the stables. Dorminster had all the Englishman’s love for fine horses. He seldom returned so- a ride with Joanna, and these rides through the fragrant beauty of the Riviera hills were as frequent as she would grant, that he did not watch the grooms rub down their horses and perform the countless little services which the British stable master finds as necessary to his charges as are the administrations of a watchful maid to the grooming of her dainty mistress. Both of the steeds they had ridden that morning had been his gifts to the golden girl, brought from the stables in Sussex he had inherited with his other fortunes. It was significant of him that while Roddy Kenilworth showered her with things made from diamonds at every excuse for a gift that presented Itself, and while Brandon, with a finer sense, found rare bits of bijoutiere for her delight, Teddy had made it horses, with exquisite trappings coming along in periodical Installments. • • • mOANNA left him among the grooms, after an affectionate and appreciative rub at her steed’s nose. Martha, who had caught the echoes of the gallop through the bridle path of Villa Amette, had hurried out from the house with a soft cape for her mistress' shoulders, but Joanna waved her away and turned in among the beds of gorgeous pansies and French violets which lined the walk on either side up to a glistening white

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summer house, a miniature of the Petite Trianon of Versailles. This spacious summer house, with Its broad porches and crystal windows, was famous along the Riviera in legends more or less romantic. When the grounds of Villa Amette were thrown open to some exotic revel the house In the "Amette Trianon was the center of bizarre festivities. From its porches one might look along far stretches of the deep blue Mediterranean, and weave many idle fancies about the snake-like ships coming in from Suez or stealing along to Corsica. Joanna dropped onto a step beneath a window and, with her customary trick of pulling up her knees and resting her chin in them, fell into a profound study. She did not notice when her riding crop slid from her listless fingers, nor when Martha, who had been observing her, came across the lawns and stubbornly spread the cape, which was heavy enough to baffle the always cool sea breezes, around her slim shoulders. Os what Teddy had said to her only orie thing hurt a bit. The talk among that circle of butterflies and butterfly hunters which make up the gay colony of gamblers—gamblers in love of one kind or another as well as In money of the only kind—that credited her with deliberatly "stealing" from Yvonne, one by one, that rich company of devotees whose constant hanging on about her had classified them as her own particular army of serviceable gallants. It* was true, of course. Brandon, for whom, she knew, Yvonne would have sold whatever soul she had. Roddy Kenilworth, who had once been much to Yvonne Coutant, and who, for some strange reason, might still command her when he chose, to drop his gallant mask and tear her’s aside: Michael, the Russian, who had saved his fortune from the debacle at St. Petersburg and had been generous with It to Yvonne’s benefit; one or two others who fluttered around her in London and Paris and who counted In a lesser way, and, even, Teddy Dorminster himself—for there always had been, before, a sort of genuine affection between Teddy and Yvonne which Yvonne had called upon at those times when she was a little tired of everything. All of these had made a corral of her own treasure chest and had climbed into It. each with‘his separate manner, and separate intent. Yet Yvonne had never revealed the slightest gesture of concern. Indeed, there were times when Joanna fancied that she gloried In the fickleness of her satellites. It was almost as if she deliberately Invited it. And, then, there were other times, Joanna reflected, when she had surprised the weariness in the dense black eyes of the woman who had been from her perspective, the ideal pattern in the minds of Miss TwentySeven and her excessively modem kind. • * • • mOANNA had become so accustomed to riddles that she wouldn’t fight them too long when they persisted In baffling her. A quick, nervous shrug of her shoulders was the sign that whichever way things went they’d get to where they were going anyway. She reached for her riding crop which lay at her feet. While she was clasping it she was conscious of voices that floated out from the rose hung window just above her. She would have called out merrily, for one of the voices was that of Yvonne, but one word pierced her brain as sharply as a sudden shock. YVonne was saying—John! Her mind just escaping from the thrall of her reverie, it was caught and held again. Joanna was totally unconscious, for a time, that she was listening. Yvonne was saying: "I don’t imagine his coming will make much of a difference. If he told her of this visit, or If she knew of It, she haas not mentioned it. I doubt if she knows. It isn’t a thing she would be secretive about.” The other voice was Brandon's: “Nevertheless, he will have to be reckoned with. She hasn’t seen him since she left America, and the situation is changed now. John Wilmore isn’t the fumbling pauper student he was a year ago. He’s aroused the popular enthusiasm. He Is sufficient of a celebrity to be acclaimed In Europe. "The homage people ar<? paying 'him probably has Ironed out some of the kinks In that contorted philosophy which irritated her when she wanted to find out how fast a pace she could go. He’ll probably measure up fairly decently now." TESTIFIES FOR BROTHER Miss Nicolasa Gonzalez, Cuero, Texas,\wrltes: "My brother, ten years old, suffered from constipation since he was eight, but Is feeling fine since taking FOLEY CATHARTIC TABLETS, and has Improved wonderfully.” FOLEY CATHARTIC TABLETS are pleasant and easy to take, mild In action and promptly relieve constipation. They act on the liver as well, having a tonic effect. Try them today. Refuse substitutes. —Advertisement.

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