18 
THE GUEST 
OF QUESNAY 
By Booth Tarkington 
Copyright, 1908, by the McClure Company 
Copyright, 1907, 1908, by the Ridgway Company 
[CONTINUED. ] 
in the pursult OF tnrilling scientific re- 
search, what with the tumult which pos- 
sessed me, | forgot to mention the bond 
that links us. 1, too, am a painter, though 
as yet unhonored and unhung. It must 
be only because | lack a gentle hand to 
guide me. If 1 might sit beside you as 
you paint! The hours pass on leaden 
wings at Quesnay. 1 could shriek. Do 
not refuse me a few words of instruction, 
either in the wildwood, whither | could 
Support your shrinking steps, or from time 
to time as you work in your studio, which 
(1 glean from the instructive Mr. Ferret) 
is at Les Trois Pigeons. At any hour, at 
any moment, | will speed to you. | am, 
sir, yours, if you will but breathe a “yes,” 
ANNE ELLIOTT. 
To this | returned a reply, as much 
in her own Key as | could write it, put- 
ting my refusal on the ground that 1 
was not at present painting in the 
studio. Il added that I hoped her suit 
might prosper, regretting that I could 
not be of greater assistance to that 
end, and concluded with the suggestion 
that Mme. Brossard might entertain 
an offer for lessons in cooking. 
The result of my attempt to echo her 
vivacity was discomfiting, and I was 
allowed to perceive that epistolary 
jocularity was not thought to be my 
line. It was Miss Elizabeth who gave 
me this instruction three days later, on 
the way to Quesnay for “second break- 
fast.” Exercising fairly shamefaced 
diplomacy, I had avoided dining at 
the chateau again, but by arrange- 
ment she had driven over for me this 
morning in the phaeton. 
“Why are you writing silly notes to 
that child?’ she demanded as soon as 
we were away from the inn. 
“Was it silly?” 
“You should know. Do you think 
that style of humor suitable for a 
young girl?” 
This bewildered me a little. ‘But 
there wasn’t anything offensive”’— 
“No?” Miss Hlizabeth lifted her eye- 
brows to a height of bland inquiry. 
“She mightn’t think it rather—well, 
rough? Your suggesting that she 
should take cooking lessons?” 
“But she suggested she might take 
painting lessons,” was my feeble pro- 
test. ‘1 only meant to show her I un- 
derstood that she wanted to get to the 
inn.” 
“And why should she care to ‘get to 
the inn?” 
“She seemed interested in a young 
man who is staying there. ‘Interested’ 
is the mildest word for it 1 can think 
of.’ 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
At the chateau, having a mind to of- 
fer some sort of apology, I looked anx- 
iously about for the subject of our 
rather disquieting conversation, but 
she was not to be seen until the party 
assembled at the table, set under an 
awning on the terrace. 
Mrs. Harman had not appeared at 
all, having gone to call upon some one 
at Dives, I was told, and, a servant 
informing me, on inquiry, that Miss 
Elliott had retired to her room, I was 
thrust upon my own devices indeed. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
WENT home. Outside the inn I saw 
Miss Elizabeth’s phaeton. 
But it was not Miss Elizabeth 
who had come in the phaeton, 
though a lady from Quesnay did prove 
to be the occupant. At sight of her | 
halted stockstill under the archway. 
There she sat, a sketchbook on a 
green table beside her and a board in 
her lap, brazenly painting, and a 
more blushless piece of assurance than 
Miss Anne Elliott thus engaged these 
eyes have never beheld. 
She was not so hardened that she 
did not affect a little timidity at sight 
of me, looking away even more quick- 
ly than she looked up, while I walked 
Blowly over to her and took the gar- 
flen chair beside her. That gave me 
a view of her sketch, which was a 
violent little ‘“‘lay-in’ of shrubbery, 
trees and the sky line of the inn. To 
my prodigious surprise and, naturally 
enough, with a degree of pleasure I 
perceived that it was not very bad— 
not bad at all, irdeed. It displayed a 
sense of values, of placing and even 
in a young and frantic way of color. 
Here was a young woman of more 
than “accomplishments!” 
“You see,’’ she said, squeezing one 
of the tiny tubes almost dry and con- 
tinuing to paint witb a fine effect of 
absorption, “I had to show you that 
I was in the most abysmal earnest: 
Will you take me painting with you?” 
“JT appreciate your seriousness,” I re- 
joined. ‘Has it been rewarded?” 
“How can I.say? You haven’t told 
me whether or no 1 may follow you to 
the wildwood.” 
“JT mean, have you caught another 
glimpse of Mr. Saffren?” 
At that she showed a prettier color 
In her cheeks than any in her sketch- 
book, but gave no other sign of shame 
nor even of being flustered, cheerfully 
replying: 
“That is far from the point. Do you 
grant my burning plea?’ 
“T understood | had offended you.” 
“You did,’ she said. ‘Viciously!” 
“I am sorry,’ | continued. “1 want- 
ed to ask you to forgive me’”’— 
“What made you think I was of- 
fended ?”’ 
“Your look of reproach when you 
left the table”’— 
“I was only playing offended. I 
thought your note was fetching!” she 
said 
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