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| THE GUEST 
OF QUESNAY 
By Booth Tarkington 
Copyright, 1908, by the McClure Company 
Copyright, 1907, 1908, by the Ridgway Company 
[CONTINUED. ] 
“Will you take me painting with 
you?” she added. “If it will convince 
you that | mean it I'll give up my 
hopes of seeing that sumptuous Mr. 
Saffren and go back to Quesnay now, 
before he comes home. You can’t 
know bow enervating it is up there at 
the chateau—all except Mrs. Harman, 
and even she’’— 
“What about Mrs. Harman?’ I asked 
as she paused. 
“IT think she must be in love.” 
“What!” 
“1 do think so,’’ said the girl. “She’s 
like it, at least. I’m afraid she’s my 
rival!” 
“Not with’’— I began. 
“Yes, with your beautiful and mad 
young friend.” 
“But—oh, it’s preposterous!” I cried, 
profoundly disturbed. “She couldn’t 
be! If you knew a great deal about 
her’ — 
“I may Know more than you think. 
My simplicity of appearance is decep- 
tive.” she mocked, beginning to set 
her sketch box in order. ‘You don’t 
realize that Mrs. Harman and | are 
quite hurled upon each other at Ques- 
nay, being two ravishingly intelligent 
women entirely surrounded by large 
bodies of elementals. She has told me 
a great deal of berself since that first 
evening, and I know—well, | know 
why she did not come back from Dives 
this afternoon, for instance.” 
“Why?” | fairly shouted. + 
She slid her sketch into a groove in 
the box, which she closed, and rose to 
her feet before answering. 
“I might tell you some day,” she 
said indifferently, “if 1 gained enough 
confidence in you through «association 
in daily pursuits.” 
“My dear young lady.” I cried with 
real exasperation, “I am a_ working- 
man, and this is a working summer 
for me!” 
“Do you think I’d spoil 
urged gently. 
“But I get up with the first daylight 
to paint,” I protested, ‘and I paint all 
day” — 
Oliver Saffren had come in from the 
road and was crossing to the gallery 
steps. He lifted his hat and gave me 
a quick word of greeting as he passed, 
and at the sight of his flushed and 
happy face my riddle was solved for 
me. Amazing as the thing was, I had 
no doubt of the revelation. 
it?” she 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
“Ah,” 1 said to Miss Hiliott when he 
had gone, “I won’t have to take pupils 
to get the answer to my question 
now!” 
It was evening when I heard Saf- 
fren’s voice calling my name. 
“Here,” I answered from my veran- 
da, where I had just lighted my second 
cigar. 
“No more work tonight! 
ed!” he cried jubilantly. 
down the steps. 
a talk with you. 
“Il won’t sit down,” he said. “I'll 
walk up and down in front of the ve- 
randa if it doesn’t make you nervous.” 
For answer I merely laughed, and he 
laughed, too, in genial response, con- 
tinuing gayly: 
“Oh, it’s all so different with me! 
Hverything is. That blind feeling 1 
told you of—it’s all gone. I must have 
been very babyish the other day. lL 
flon’t think I could feel like that again. 
It used to seem to me that | lived 
penned up in a circle of blank stone 
walls. I couldn’t see over the top for 
myself at all, though now and then 
Keredec would boost me un and let me 
get a little glimmer of the country 
roundabout, but never long enough to 
Bee what it was really like. But it’s 
not so now. Ah’—he drew a long 
breath—“T’d like to run.- [I think I 
eould run all the way to the top of a 
pretty fair sized mountain tonight and 
then”—he laughed—‘‘jump off and ride: 
on the clouds.” 
He paused in his sentry go, facing: 
wne, and said in a low voice: 
“T’ve seen her again.” 
“Yes; 1 know.” 
“But that’s not all,” he said, his: 
Voice rising a little. “I saw her again: 
the day after she told you’— 
“You did!” I murmured. 
“Oh, I tell myself that it’s a dream,’ 
he cried, “that it can’t be true, for it: 
has been every day since then! That’s. 
why I haven’t joined you in the woods. 
I have been with her, walking with. 
her, listening to her, looking at her,. 
always feeling that it must be unreal 
and that I must try not to wake up. 
She has been so kind—so wonderfully, 
beautifully kind to me!” 
“She has met you?” I asked, think-- 
ing ruefully of George Ward, now on. 
the high seas in the pleasant company 
of old hopes renewed. = 
“She has let me meet her. And to- | 
day we lunched at the inn at Dives: 
and then walked by the sea all after- 
noon. She gave me the whole day— 
the whole day. You see’’—he began to: 
pace again—“you see, I was right, and. 
you were wrong. She wasn’t offend- 
ed—she was glad—that I couldn’t help: 
speaking to her. She has said so.” 
“Do you think,” I interrupted, “that: 
she would wish vou to tell me this?” 
{v0 BE CONTINUED.] \! 
All finish- 
springing 
“T’m coming to have 
Changed the Tune, 
He was honest, though poor, 
And was sure, very sure, 
That he loved her alone for herself, 
But her father went broke, 
And he swore ’twas a joke 
| As he laid her away on the shelf, sp 
Sts bt ate Yon Seay” 
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