A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Third

he other, though he was not so sure of any reason for his pleasure in it. She had her charm; the charm of wildness to which a certain wildness in himself res

in that; he imagined himself rejecting it; he almost wished he was enough in love with the girl to marry her without it; tha

ith him; perhaps it was to be final. He found himself very happy in his present relations with her. She had dropped that barrier of pretences and ironical surprise. It seemed to him that they had gone back to the old ground of common artistic interest which he had found so pleasant the summer before. Apparently she and h

ght, when Fulkerson said: "Introduce myself, Mr. Beaton: Mr. Fulkerson of 'Every Other Week.' Think I've met you at our place." The girls laughed, and Alma explained that

chance at you, Mr. Beaton, and Ah'm just goin' to toak yo' to d

to say yes,"

o much mo' than you do in the No

much for me. I should like to hear you say Soa

." Miss Woodburn flung out over her lap the square of cloth she was embroidering, a

f I were less than great I might have something to say about th

tell me yo' favo'it

any? Is blue good, or red wicked? Do people have favo

" answered the gir

of one that h

had. Now mah favo'ite colo' is gawnet

u mean in neckties?" Beaton stole a g

her wrist. "Ah do think you gentlemen in the

I made the observation that the ladies were ten times

t it with a glance of dawning recognition. "Oh, this is a

cert

ome professional advass about putting something in th

he waited patiently to let her play her comedy out. She spread the cover on the table, and he advised her, as he

agreed, fahnally, to leave it to you; Mr. Fulkerson said you'd be sure to be raght. Ah'm so glad you

h to talk about Fulkerson. "He's a capital fellow; generous, magnanimous, with quite an ideal of friendship

nd said she should tell

famation from me, and he

ew York business man." She added, as if it followed logically, "He's

ition to despise busines

gation of her father, but he restrained himself, and she went on more and more as if she wished to account for her father's habitual hauteur with Beaton, if not to excuse it. "Ah tell him he don't understand the rising generation. He was brought up in the old school, and he thinks we're all just lahke he was when he was young, with all those ahdeals of chivalry and family; but, mah

so many questions, Mr. Beaton. You know it's all mah doing that we awe heah in New York. Ah just told mah fathaw that if he was evah goin' to do anything with his wrahtings, he had got to come No'th, and Ah made him come. Ah believe he'd have stayed in the Soath all his lahfe. And now Mr. Fulkerson wants him to let his editor see some of his wrahtings,

n near the piano, and he

n on the piano-stool. H

n the banjo; he had bor

he chord he had been tr

ver the air

that?" he asked

pectful little tune, some

amily at her. "Your perceptions are wonderful. It is disrespectf

aim that a

fact. How can you r

n," said the girl. "Or perhaps t

ke to have you say the

, impa

to say them,"

do me

now that that

me from that house, with its assertions of money-you can hear it chink; you can smell the foul

sn't that unpleasant odor here; but I wis

think that there is one soul uncontaminated by the

lma, with modesty. "Bu

why do you

can? Those girls are a strange study: the young one is a simple, earthly creature, as

teration! And do they like being studied? I

ith melancholy absen

hould hope it would scratch, and bite, too. I think you've no bu

ence of yours! It appeals to the old Covenanter s

erely say it was not only ab

," said the young man, making his eye

I have a soul

and followed her acros

ton," s

me in from the other room. "Wh

a reception. I st

ime," Alma

too. It has sometimes occurred to me that there is such a thing as staying too late. But with Brother Beaton, here

aughed, and Mis

fashion! Ah wish Ah was on mah way

o make you," Alma expla

ked Fulkerson. "How do you manage to get your invitations to those thin

h Miss Woodburn, with the effect of having already shaken