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CHAPTER I.
& QUESTION Or rzasoz AL Ar PEABANCro
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HE problem before me was
this: If a girl was all legs and
arms at the age of 13 -and
one can't remember much of
anything else about her appearance -
what will she look like on her nese•
steenth birthday? At the first glance ii
seemed to be difficult of solution, and
after pondering upon It during many
•thousands of nliles of travel on the sea
I was'no nearer to the answer except
.aa I was nearer to the girl.
It is true that I had had a great bun.
dle of my father's letters to assist me
They were waiting for me at Laurence
'hfarques, when by the tardy blessing
• of heaven I succeeded in getting eut of
the Transvaal, where I bad spent two
years that will not bear thinking about.
(Previous to that experience I had stud-
ied mineralogy and chemistry in Ger-
.many, whence, upon an offer that seem-
• ed flattering, I bad gone to President
! ruger's realm just in time to get into
.611 kinds of trouble, Suffice it to say
that I never did a day's work for the
mining company in whose service I
' went there; that, thanks to •the long
range of modern weapons, I was quite
badly wounded at a distance of,neariy
a mile from a foolish little riot with
,which I had no connection, and that I
.lay many months in prison .charged
swith an offense the nature of which
kites not yet been disclosed to me.
Enough of such recollections. This
~story begins with my father's letters.
-Those which I found at Lourenco Mar-
•ques were written after his anxiety in
regard to me had been relieved. He
knew that I was coming home, that I
was none the worse for my wound and
that my desire to roam had probably
.been curbed by my experiences. So he
wrote of the future, and very cheerily.
!It appeared that all things had gone
:surprisingly well with hien. He had
never been poor. He was now rich, as
he expressed it, "really beyond my de-
sires --somewhere between my own and
yours, perhaps -but you will not need
to worry much, my boy." A fine old
:father he always was. I could not
have chosen a better. It smote upon
my heart that I was all to Lim and yet
.bad left him so much alone. .
However, there was Sibyl; no kin of
his, to be sure, but very tenderly re-
garded, the daughter of his friend, and
•quite helpless in the world except for
him.
"Sibyl has developed beyond any-
thing that you would believe," he wrote
to one of those letters. "She is a very
brilliant young woman; the promise of
'Ler girlhood is more than fulfilled."
Now, to be honest, the promise of
Sibyl's girlhood, as I remembered it,
was not much. She lived at our house
-atter her sixth year, but I never paid
• any particular attention to her, except
to tease her, in the amiable effort to
.make her cry. It was one of Sibyl's
peculiarities that she never would cry
in any person's presence. Even when
• an infant, as I had been told, she would
hide her tears under a. pillow, at the
,great risk of smothering. At a later
period she would shut herself tip in the
dark to indulge her grief, and after
..some of my experiments with her
youthful feelings it had been necessary
•to open all the clothes closets in the
house and even to explore the cellar
In search of her. Experimenting, by
•the way, was. always my forte. As a
s'boy I spoiled many clocks by taking
them apart, and doubtless the sante
spirit of research often prompted me
in my attacks upon the neryous sys-
tems of my fellow creatures.
I was away at school during the
major part of my youth and so saw
less of Sibyl than would have been nat-
• .ural, considering that she dwelt under
my father's roof. My moat distinct
recollection of her was as she used to
• sit at the 'table, rigid, embarrassed,
hiding her long arms and long hands
under the cloth; her hair brushed
• Straight back from a forehead so thin
that it shone upon the curves like a
porcelain doorknob. The . omposite of
these impressions may have placed her
in my mind at about the age of 12.
My father mentioned in a letter which
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found at Gibraltar that Sibyl would
be 19 on June 15, quite probably the
..date of my arrival in Chicago.
After reading this statement I looked
'. baek through the • other letters in a
Vain attempt to find something descrip•
tive of Sibyl's personal appearance.. 1
would have welcomed a word upon they
color of her eyes, and the mention of her
weight would have greatly assisted me
in rectifying a mental picture that
must now be far out of date. Nothing
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Hese c
the sola Masted 1t
of t•
Sibyl's wit, vivacity, Scholarship, ace
complishmonts-•it appeared that she
bang Well ---were often referred to, and
especially her amiability. The last' is
ominous, for goodness of heart has
i been set against beauty since the days
when liar early ancestors dwelt in the
branclidS of trees.
My father did not :fay that he wished
the to marry Sibyl. Ile Was tut careful
6 not to say it that I caught him dodging
+ It on every page of all those lettero.
HIS •r3*ttsfdeti0tl at Wale ward of
Mine In a late cytt elente'►tlon• td hint
indicating that 1 Wait bringing iny'
While 'heart ham* War tenor a u %,
•1iFYd it Wit iMnteditatelt faulted y
.1iune rather„value allttdlon1 to Ott
number of Sibyl's' admirers. 7 was not
cheered by discovering that the chief
among them was a young than who had
just ascended the pulpit and might he
disposed to hold beauty as it mere
transitory earthly vanity and those
traits which are commonly lumped as
"goodness" to be the truly valid attrue
tions. There was also p, hint about Ar-
thur Strickland, and this woe' nearly
fatal, for Arthur as a youth was a
special providence for homeay girls. .A
fellow who has that troutte never gets
over it, so far as I have been able tai
observe.
Now, upon the subject of beauty 1
am not quite right in my mind. I can•
not honestly say that I ever so much
as asked a girl to dance, except from
motives of politeness, unless she seem-
ed to me to possess the element of
beauty, For me the whole matter be-
gins there. I admit the existence of all
the admirable qualities that are men-
tioned by name in the dictionary, but
if they were united in one woman and
she were not beautiful I could as easily
fall in love with the "Data of Ethics"
as with her.
It was a perfect certainty that my fa-
ther wished me to marry Sibyl. He had
expressed such a hope long before, and
I knew that it was as strong in him
RS ever, though there was not a word
directly upon that theme in these last
letters, Doubtless he feared the usual
result of parental interference with a
young man's,liberty of choice, and, be-
sides, he was too good a father to bur-
den me with a definite expression of
his wish. Therein lay all the sorrow
of the situation. If he had been the
sort of father that may disinherit a
fellow or invoke the wrath of heaven
to punish disobedience, I should have
been positively pleased with the pros-
pect of disappointing him. But he
would never do any such thing; he
would always be kind and generous, al-
ways helpful, sincere, resourceful in
my interests, a comrade through and
through, always a gentleman and the
everlastingly unapproachable model of
fathers. Confound him! That was
where he had e a me. L should marry Sibyl
Sbi
out of respect and love for the dear old
governor, supposing, of course, that
the girl would take me, as she certainly
would, for precisely the same reason.
So that was all settled, and it re-
mained only to guess and at Iast to
know what particular form of ugliness
the poor child had developed into since
my eyes had last beheld her. She meet
have been almost 14 on that occasion`;
but my memory retuaed to serve mil
in regard to it. The wavering, compos-
ite image which I have already men-
tioned was the best I could exhume.
There had been something peculiar
about Sibyl's hair. It was what the
children called "calico hair," because it
presented a pattern in colors, a wide-
spread but singularly Inaccurate term,
as calico, strictly sfpeaking, has no pat-
tern. However, Sibyl's hair had many;
it underwent a change of hue much
more violent than is ordinary and very
capricious in • its scheme of progress.
When she was a little girl, her hair
was light -or was it dark? I couldn't
remember. Anyhow, it changed from
one to the other; changed to match the
color of her eyes -or did it match them
first and not afterward? I couldn't
say. I remembered the striped head,
btft not the course of its evolution.
Sibyl was a bright girl, though great-
ly repressed by embarrassment; an
original girl, If ever there was one, for
she never said or did the expected
thing. I remember when my father
She uteri to ail at the table, a'Ifrid, ens -
bar eassaL n
brought home a little dog in a basket
as a present for Sibyl in response to
her shy but very earnest request. It
d kin beast that I
was the queerest t o g
Over saw; surely nobody but my father
could have picked It nut, a creature
homely beyond belief, yet impossibly
amiable, bright and amusing. :as the
event proved.
At the sight of It Sibyl was en-
raptured. She gathered Bogy (for so
he was named) to her bosom and over.
*helmed him with endearments. Al-
most immediatetr aftererttrd She myste-
riously vanished, to be tdtittd, ittikt ciln-
elderable search, iti'!t small dark roots
With Tioty In her arl►td. The dog's
woolly head was wet with Sibyl's tears,
'.
er i the
ift
1 stopped n
d
but the child y g
opp
stant that she 'fad diseorrl!red, file the
*Wale 4(4. Mend to gate the .Om*
TILE WINUI[A.l( .TI.fl1 S P ;;CE1IBBER i, oo4
of tier woe, ebe carefully .steadied her
vu ec for this reply: "Uncle Simmer al -
Ways likes homely dogs."
The natural inference was that Sib-
yi's pet had been a disappointment to
her, and' thus my father viewed the
case. The truth was far away, all Sub-
sequently appeared. Sibyl saw in the
selection of Bogy a crowning confirma-
tion 0 h
f her previous 0 bservations And
deduction*; My father had ever a kind
word for a crop eared cur, and such
would look after him on the street and
wish to be his dog. He would buy a
scrawny horse of a teamster and turn
.it out to pasture for the rest of its days,
and he would give his patronage to the
freckled newsboy with a nolo like A
little piece of putty, Sibyl had seen
these things, and her sentence complete
would have been this: "Uncle Sumner
always likes homely dogs -and me!"
This incident of long ago was in my
mind as the ship that brought me home
sailed luto New York harbor. It had
come up out of the past as the result
of much delving among battered rub -
hist' of memory. It showed that Sibyl
had recognized her misfortune early in
life, and in connection with the fact
that I had naves received a portrait
of her in all the years of roe- absence it
possessed a melancholy value. We had
exchanged letters at rare intervals-
eitsay s I would better cull them, sketch-
es of travel on my part and on hers
the quaintest comments upon matters
impersonal -and I had asked her for a
picture more than once, without even
eliciting so much as a refusal. •
A. customs tug slid up along the side
of our big ship, and there stood my fa-
ther on the little craft's deck. Not a
day older he seemed to me, straight,
stalwart, handsome and distinct from
all others. When he came aboard our
vessel, he seemed to be the captain or
an admiral over the captain's head, It
was impossible to see him anywhere
without the feeling that he must be in
command.
I had called to him as the tug rat
alongside, but he had failed to see me.
Upon our deck he looked straight atx,
Inc ?for a second's space without recog-
niti n; then he started and raised his
hands, surprised.
"Marshall!" he exclaimed, taking my
right hand in his left and laying the
other on my shoulder. "Marshall!"
He seemed to find an assurance in
the name, as if it helped him to realize
that there was no mistake.
"Why, you've grown a foot!" he
cried. "You're taller than I am. And
you've changed so -I can hardly be-
lieve it's you."
"It began while I was in Europe,"
1 replied, "but I got the height while
I lay abed in Pretoria. It quite often
happens, of course, that a fellow grows .
an inch or two under such circum-
stances, but I got nearly three."
My father complimented me most
heartily upon my added stature and
robust appearance. When he had last
seen me I had stood scarcely 5 feet 10
and had been hollow in the chest from
a long habit of huddling over a table
when reading..
"Sibyl will be struck dumb at the
sight of you," he said. "She likes men
of good height, and that's why every
little five footer falls In love with her."
"How is Sibyl looking these days?"
I asked, with carefully veiled anxiety.
"Bless the dear child!" he responded
enthusiastically. "She's the picture of
health."
When that's the best that can be
said of a girl's looks, let Cupid drop
dead in the scuppers and be washed
overboard. I turned my face away
and groaned.
CHAPTER II.
THE WORST THAT COULD IIAPPEN.
HE thought of my father's im-
patience touched me deeply.
He was one who hated railroad.
travel, especially in the warm
weather, yet he came a thousand miles
for the sake of seeing me a day earlier;
partly, also, that I might be spared the
necessity of hurrying to him. He knew
that there were matters I would like to
arrange in New York and old friends I
would wish to see.
"I . must return tonight," he said.
"There's a directors' meeting day after
tomorrow that I hare pledged my soul
to attend. Lucky for the collateral
that your steamer wasn't late, my boy.
And I'm so glad, so deep down glad, to
see you."
The tears came into my eyes as he
spoke. He has such a strong and man-
ly sincerity and such a voice. I inher-
ited enough of it to sing fairly well,
but my ordinary speech, compared to
his, is like the March wind toying with
a loose shingle on a barn.
"I'll go back with you," said I. "I'm
Impatient to see Sibyl."
He looked at me with a quick flash
of pleasure, and I feltlike one who has
paid something on account of a debt.
The sensation was so agreeable that 1
rushed on recklessly.
"It's singular," said I, "that a fellow
so susceptible as I am should have
knocked ardund the world for almost
Aro years and come home with his
heart absolutely unscarred. My little
flirtations and follies have hurt neither
myself nor any one else."
"That's good; that's mighty good," he
said, with his hand upon my shoulder.
"I1t fact, it's too good to be true. I'm
afraidseen ou have your own heart
>'
clearer than aotne others, for you're 'a
fine figure of a man, 1.farshall, to use
the old fashioned phrase. But I'tu
sure you've always been straightfor-
'avard and honest."
Ile paused and then added:
"As for your hurrying home to see
Stbi'l, it won't do any good. She isn't
there. I told her you'd stay w few
days In New York."
t eoutdtt't help feeling relieved. If
Sibyl had gone upon a visit at latch: a
time. It was clear that she could riot
entertain any sentimental memories of
ate. 'There mins little reason why she
-:huffs]. I had never been especially
kl:id to her. Indeed the thought earns
ins edged black With temente that t
had done tlotifing to make the child's
life happy under my father's roof,
Doubtless she remembered me very
Justly ae a selllsh brute and viewed my
ft►ther's obvious wish regarding 'sur fu-
ture wjth feelings melt more unpleas-
ant than my own.
The subject was not invitibg, and I
gladly turned from It to tell the story
,.
of any adventures,. thus the time was
occupied until we reached the city,
Presently, ,When we were free of the
customs inspectors, I began to observe
an indefinable and agreeable difference
la my father's manner from that which
I remembered. It beeame perceptible
when we discussed my stay in New
Fork and my business there, which
was connected with a small trust firs
my own through iuherltauce from my
mother, My father was cue who had
by nature a liberal hand with money,
yet he had been accustomed to make
every dollar work for him in some in-
vestment and had thus often been
pressed for ready cash. In earlier days
I had admired his method of combin•
He told me what provision he had
planned for me.
Ing generosity with prudence. The
need had passed. As he spoke of money
matters I became slowly aware that
my personal expenses were to be any-
thing that I mightschoose to make
then-; that the trust fund was no ion-
ger precious for Be yield, but because
my mother had given It to me.
%Vlren we were lodged in a hotel
with a luxury that appealed to me es-
pecially after a prison hospital in the
Transvaal and the staterooms of third
rate steamers, he told me definitely
what provision be had planned to make
for me, and I sat silent, hanging on to
the arms of my chair as if they had
been the handles by which I gripped
the reality of all this, that it migfit not
fly away into dreamland. There was
nothing that I might not have inferred
from his letters, and yet the spoken
words were worth an ocean of .ink,
backed, as they were, by the spectacle
of my father's renewed youth and ab-
• solute freedom from care.
Could I meditate the crime of disap-
pointing, this man in the best hope of
his remaining years? I was so far
from it as to he occupied principally
with anxiety lest Sibyl should not care
for me. I took high resolutions to be
a good fellow and one that she would
find worthy. I ceased to be distressed
by the thought of what she might lack
in looks and began modestly to consid-
er my own deficiencies. The chances
were that she would find me rough in
my ways. I had gone little into soci-
ety while in Europe. My position bad
been to break rocks in a laboratory,
and South Africa had surely not im-
proved me except in size. There was
at least a third more of me than there
had been, but the quality was no bet-
ter. I might frighten away some of
my rivals, but one of them was a cler••
gyman and protected by the cloth.
We had a delightful day together,
driving in the afternoon, and dining
with great good cheer In the park, with
the scented trees for walls and the mild
stars of June lighting the infinite alti-
tude of the roof. As luck would have
it, some fellows 1 had known in cot•
lege were dining there, and they joined
us. My father was the best fellow at
the table, the life of the party, giving
a fine, high spirit to all the talk, and I
was proud of him.
Near midnight, after I had put
him aboard his train, i walked hack
to the hotel 1n excellent humor, and
then, through the perversity of dreams,
I passed n miserable night, beholding
Sibyl in fifty different guises, each of
them more libelous than its predeces-
sor. I saw her blue eyed, brown eyed,
one eye blue and the other brown;
flaxen haired, dark haired, calico
haired; a Wonderful fantasy, based in
the manner of a musical composition,
upon the thence of a lanky girl sitting
at a table and hiding her skeleton
bands under the cloth. A heavy sleep
followed these distressing visions, and
I awoke barely in time to keep an en-
gagement that I had made with Bob
Cushing, one of the men who had
dined with us in the park.
Cushing and I had never been close
Mends in college or afterward, but we
had met in Europe, which was a bond
of sympathy, and it appeared that he
had followed my fortunes with an in-
terested eye. Ile had known what
steamer was bringing me home and
had been prevented frotn meeting her
Only by his failure to receive the news
that she had been sighted. I was sur-
prised when he told the this and still
more by learning that he had made �a
plan for my entertainment. Ile and
come of his friends of both sexes were
to attend a golf tourney on the West-
chester links and were to ride but In
automobiles.
I had been told that a place in one
of the vehicles had been reserved for
me, but 1 bad received no proper warn•
Ing about it.
"You'll have a sttee girl is talk 10,"
Gushing bad Bald, but he had beets
1 1 in describing h that]
even leas we d d1rSe g er
say tether In describing •Iltbyl.
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sonably good portrait of Anna La,
moine, I think I should have found the
strength to decline the invitation. It
was not the proper time for me to run
any risks.
At the first glance the young lady
affected me most singularly. She had
remarkable eyes, rather long and under
level, finely marked brows, the iris be-
ing of a warm brown, darkening very
slightly toward the pupil, and thus giv-
ing an effect of intensity. When she
looked at me, it seemed as if those
eyes meant more than ordinary, but
what they meant I could not guess.
They embarrassed and at the carne
time enticed me.
She had unusual.'color in the lips,
which were delicately molded, yet
rather full. Upon the .e a,•e, the lower
part of the face Was the more encour-
aging to the physiognomist, pronmising
such qualities as are prized in women.
The brow looked dangerously Intelli-
gent, and the eyes were an unfethom:
able puzzle.
I speak of these matters with par-
ticularity because her face impressed
me thus in detail rather than in gen-
eral. For this reason I did not think
of ber as a beautiful woman; one does
not pick beauty to pieces. Miss La-
lnoine's countenance was interestirig
and notable; she would surely be a
girl to twist the necks of people as she
walked along the street. As a rule,
1 ala not attracted by a startling
woman; I prefer the perfection of a
type, the beauty that may pass unno-
ticed except by the discerning. How-
ever, upon this occasion I was not In
a mood to be exacting.
The fact Is that I was happy, jolly,
out for a good time. The previous day
had left its mark on me, and the
shadows of the night were gone. I was
glad through and through that I had
found my * fa h r t e so hale and strong,
so prosperous and cheery. My affec-
tion for Lim brightened the world, it
made the thought of my own fortunate
condition an unmixed delight, for be-
tween us there r
e e could be noq uestton
of burdensome obligation. Moreover,
I had my own ideas of useful and
agreeable work in the future, and the
present was a holiday.
Mr. and Mrs. Cushing, who rode with
us, were in high spirits. I had never
met the lady before, but we were
friends in three minutes. That couple
were the sort of people who laugh, not
vacantly, but from the sense of humor.
They seemed to find a jest in every-
thing, and as a rule it was a good one.
Miss Lamoine entered into the spirit
of the occasion, yet with a difTereirt
manner. She seemed to have her own
view of -natters, even the most trivial,
and she gave this impression in a way
that is wholly indefinable.
She was not in the slightest degree
reticent as that word is ordinarily un-
derstood, and yet often, when she had
finished speaking, I caught myself
waiting for her to proceed and after-
ward vaguely wondering what she
would have said had she not chosen to
withhold a part. Yet her manner was
so perfectly unaffected that the elusive
nature of her thought constituted a sin-
gular fascination. She produced upon
me the effect of one who by virtue of
some unique experience or natural gift
beholds in all things more than is seen
by the general.
It is possible that I exaggerated her
powers. It may be that I thought her
a seeress because she could see through
me -no very great feat as I view it
now. One will meek in this life now
and then a person who, without en-
croachment or the faintestssuggestion
of an. overprompt familiarity, will dis-
s lay at the first meeting that eompre-
(To be continued.)
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Could only Walk
From Bed to Chair
For years a sufferer from Kid.
ney disease -cured by Dr
Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills.
MR, SA1rtIar, SPARLT1ir,, Ladysmith, Pontiac,
Co., Que., writes :-" I have used Dr. Chases
Kidney -Liver Pills and believe there is no mcdi,
cine to equal them. I was troubled for years
with kidney disease and this treatment ha4 cured
00When I
began to use these pills I could
only walk from my bed
to n chair. Now 1 can
go to the field and
work like any man.
They are an excellent
medicine. Dr. Chase!
Ointment is a perfect
care for Itching piles
One box cured twt
membets of my family
who had suffered from
this wretched ailment
for four years."
Itklt lllkiittilrfi Because et their Ohs
set 'and combined action on kidneys, liver and
bowels, Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills Buri
where ordinary medicines fail, one pill a dose.
25cents a hex. The portrait and signature et
Dr. A. W. Cbiise, 08 every lair.
,Dr. Chase's laelrmile flastor promptly
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