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MISS CRANE’S CHANCE
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happen to love anybody that I would
suffer too perhaps while they were un
dergoing the test. For our hearts
have away, you know, of not render
ing ready obedience to the mandates
of our judgment sometimes.”
And just at that moment Peter
Blackburn appeared, with his black
face shining pleasantly above his
tightly buttoned white coat, while he
announced with a subdued grin from
the threshhold:
“Marse Waylan in the library, Miss
Nell, an’ he in er pow’ful hurry, an’
wants to see you.”
Nell smiled over Peter’s animation,
and then sighed as she laid her
embroidery down in a colorful heap
on the table.
‘‘Tell him I’ll be down, Peter, in a
few moments,” she said, quietly. But
she sat quite still until the white head
of the old butler had disappeared
down the stairway. Then she went
across the hall to her own room, and
looked at herself in the French mir
ror framed over her rosewood bureau.
She was dressed very simply in a lilac
house gown, made with revers and
cuffs of a darker shade of the same
material. She smoothed the brown
fluff of her her hair lightly with a few
deft touches of the brush, readjusted
her soft silk tie, and then turned from
the room, and went very slowly down
the steps. Wayland Hamilton had
chosen the wrong psychological mo
ment, apparently, for his call, if Miss
Crane’s deliberate descent of the
grand stairway meant anything, for
she paused both at the first and second
landings as if in perplexed thought.
When she entered the library at
last, he was standing erect in the mid
dle of the room, with one hand rest
ing lightly on the table by his side.
At a glance she took in the superb
lines of his figure, the strong, clear-cut
face, the blue scintillating eyes, and
the brown close-cut hair. He was cer
tainly good to look at, in his dark well
fitting business suit, with a cluster
of Parma violets fastened in the but
ton-hole of his coat.
“I was down in the city, yesterday,”
he explained, in his rich full voice
and I saw your aunt, who was good
enough to give me a very delightful
commission to fulfill. In other words
she wants you to return with me to
the city this afternoon, so that we can
all attend the grand opera tonight.
Will you?”
Nell felt a slow flush rising to her
face. It was difficult to resist the
compelling magnetism of his glance.
“I am glad that you saw Aunt
Caro,” she replied, after a slight pause.
I feel really as if she had been gone
an age. But as to the opera,” she
hesitated, “I’ll think the matter over
Mr. Hamilton, and with your permis
sion, “phone you my answer.”
“Don’t!” he importuned, as he
crossed his arms lightly over the dark
blue breast of his coat. “I can take
the blow direct, Miss Crane, if it is in
evitable. Tell me, now.”
And something in his expression or
attitude, made Nell realize that she
was measuring swords with a man,
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who had back of him the power of
great reserved force.
“Why, I confess that I should like
ever so much to hear the music,” she
admitted with a warm glance, “but
still, I don’t think I can go,” Mr. Ham
ilton.
She was really wondering if Ger
trude More had an opera cloa'k which
she might borrow, or if she would have
time to buy one by telephone after
she got to the city.
“You must,” he said, just a trifle
gravely, “for your aunt rarely allows
herself a personal pleasure, and she
would be so bitterly disappointed if I
should not bring you, that she would
not enjoy the evening at all.”
“Then I have no other alternative
Nell replied lightly, with a sudden
darkening of her blue grey eyes, “but
to submit to the decision of Aunt
Caro’s chief counselor and go.”
“For her sake only,” he queried
with a tense accent on the adverb .
“Assuredlly,” she answered.
“I wonder how many kingdoms,” he
said, in a speculative tone, “a man
would have to conquer before you
would admit, Miss Crane, that you did
anything for his sake only?”
“Just two,” she replied, “himself
and me. In fact the ideal whom I
shall never find would have to be
like, I think, King Cophetua, in some
respects.”
“What do you mean?”
“Oh, that is a problem,” she answer
ed, willing to mystify him, and change
the subject.
“May I enter the lists to solve it?”
he demanded, with an expression she
could not fathom.
“Don’t ask it,” she said, thinking
over her morning meditations, “the
answer might prove a crucial test, and
after all it might not be worth while.”
“Any thing is worth while that con
cerns you,” he returned, with a half
reverent glance at the girl who look
ed so pure and chaste in her simple
lilac dress.
(To Be Continued.)
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