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perform for her widowed father.

him, albeit unwillingly, to remain Ned's intention of waylaying

one supposed, was inevitable: of what use were mitionaires’ possessions if they could ‘not. be shown off? . It was a kind of periodic reassurance-for’ théir owners, who. otherwise might have, doubted their value. And, it had to be admitted, Bonny made the process as painless as possible, He literally rushed them through the gardens, the greenhouses; stables, and kennels; even .the model dairy, with its rows of fawn purebred Jerseys and glittering modern équipment, was disposed of In a quarter of an hour; he did not seem to know what he had paid for the animals or how the machinery worked, and treated. the, whole business as a huge joke. The sole halt of any consequence was made in one of the paddocks, where a miniature grandafand Nad been-—erected:. Here ‘they were. hidden to seat themselves, while Sonny's héad groom trotted out a series of | hackneys and hunters for their inspection. 1 By the time they got back to the house in the sizzling midday heat Almira, in cream lace and an enormous plumed hat, was walting to marshal her guests for . lunch, at the club. Bonny com-| plicated matters by insisting on driving Ned and Celia in the! motor-car, which broke down| “twice on the way to Onwentsia.| Celia sat giggling swathed 1 veils on the high leather while the men laboured desperate. ly to coax back to life an obstinate] magneto. agneto.. ina 2 HE WENT back to town on the morning train in spite of Almira’s warm invitation stay. It was & blow to realize that his mission hdd been a failure. ~ The private car left on Monday night; Tuesday morning Ned was to the telephone by a voice: At the last minute, Cella, she, too, had decided 16 stop in Chicago. It was so / dreadfully hot and she had seen / #0 many fairs in Paris—they were all alike, really. “I'm at Papa's, you know: won't you come to tea this afternoon?” Es Ned went, and spent a pleasant hour in the great golden room

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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

NED CAME down 'to breakfast next day to find all the assembled except Mr. Kennerley, whose age and infirmities obliged

a plea for a 10-minute chat in the den was frustrated by the plan, immediately set afoot, of a general tour of | the premises. This,

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in seclusion till noon, Sonny as they left the table with latter's

to a particular instance of it was, made delicately by degrees, Celia announced quite simply on the last afternoon, as Ned paused on: his oars to let the boat drift under; a sereen of drooping willows, that she had engaged rooms at the Annex and meant to move in directly. Life at Papa's was too] difficult : Ned couldn't, and didn’t, pretend to misunderstand; the Kiss in the cab, on their way home that - night through the leafy glades of the park, sealed a bargain as strange as it seemed inevitable. He ~ did not know whether to be happy or unhappy. »

. i ON FRIDAY the Kennerleys and their guests arrived home from... St.Louis. On Satyrd June_18, the American Derby Wi tun at Wasbington Park. Sonny, wearing a grey fopper and an Ascot tie, with Gwen] Trafford beside hi in the driver's seat, held the reins of & fine team of bays; deftly he

swung the . Jifeat black-and-, scarlet drag #into line on the macadam f Michigan Ave. alregdy «& jumble of coaches

and tapdem-carts, stanhopes and tilbupys, vis-a-vis and victorias. Hooves clicked and wheels rumed, polished mountings of harness flashed in the sun. { At ‘the ‘entrance Sonny flicked, the bays, who broke Into a gallop as they pulled their lum-|

bering burden up the rise of!a chance. Hurry up, Dickie; it's

ground to the clubhouse steps. | Ned had supposed they were to lunch at the elub, but Celia, fit seemed, at the last minute had decided 1t- would -not do, | From this oval green island the bustle and roar ‘were pleasingly distant, though they had an ex: cellent view of the big red-roofed| clubhouse across the track with

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Just as the ladles were making ready to climb aloft once more another .carriage drove into the field: no coach, but a bright yellow phaeton drawn by a chunky black pony. The reins were held by a young man equally chunky; who Was WeAring a crimson-and-white striped blazer and a straw hat clapped on. the back of his very . square head. A cigaret drooped from ‘one corner of the

young man's mouth; his face Wa# 5ying anxiety; he soon saw that.

flushed and his hard buttonblack eyes like a doll's. The pair were laughing loudly as they reined in the pony. Ned's amusement ~ vanished when he saw Sonny; the latter had turned a dull red and was biting his lips in an effort to control himself, "“I think, you know, we'd betfer be moving,” was all he could manage to say, in an uncertain ~ » . THE CHUNKY young man cracked his whip to attract their tention, and the young lady TARE ovEr-the side of “the-phae-ton to eéxdlaim with -a brilliant smile: “Hello there, dearie—you didn’t expect to see me here, did you? “Well, to-tell you the truth, I bardly expected it myself. kréw you couldn't take me out to ‘the track today, but Dick happened along and coaxed me info coming with him: He just got back to town from Frisco and he-—-but 1 forget, you two don't know each other, do you? Meet my brother, Mr. Richard Branson—Mr. Abner Kennerley, Junior, ‘I won't keep you now, Sonny boy--just wanted to say hello “and ta-ta—look me up In the grandstand later if you have time. we got going!” ‘In spite of her raucous laugh the young woman's speaking voice was unexpectedly low and Sonny started ‘towards his wife with a wretched mumble of “Mira; I swear . . ." It was Celia who grasped her

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