A Rebellious Heroine

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hat what had seemed at first to be his misfortune was, on the whole, a matter for congratulation; and as

erstone so easily either, for he's a determined devil as I see him; and his intellectual qualities were so vastly superior to those of Osborne that by mere contrast they would most certainly have appealed to her strongly. The baleful influence might have affected her seriously, and Osborne was never the man to overcome it, and strict realism would have

m this he emerged almost immediately with a laug

with whole families that way. Now if they had only been left on the pier with Miss Andrews, it would have worked up well. Mrs. Corwin could have fascinated some fellow-traveller, won his heart, accepted him at Southampton, and told him about the twins afterwards. As a test of his affection that would be a strong situation; but with the twins along, making the remarks they are likely to make, and all that-no, there is no

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publish it in their 'Yellow Prism Series' I could fling all such considerations to the winds, for there they cater to stronger palates, palates cultivated by French literary cooks, and morals need not be considered, provided the story is well told and likely to sell; but this is for t

ed his knee

. "I've got my start already, and without

which time Kelly and the Professor stole softly into Ha

imagining," said the

is he's up to, we mustn't interfere. There isn't any use waking him any

ould observe their presence; but Harley lay in blissful unconsci

ten-volume novel," said

oing through an examination of the human race to find a man good enough for Marguerite Andrews, and it speaks v

ck he gave a deep sigh

Professor. He's a good fellow, moderately good-looking, has position, and certainly knows something, as professors go. I

r wealth, which a closer study of his heroine showed Harley that Miss Andrews possessed; for on her way home from the pier she took Mrs. Willard to the Amsterdam and treated her to a luncheon which nothing short of a ten-dollar bill would pay for, after which the two went shopping, replenishing Miss Andrews

That will make it all the easier to have

ered the mansion of the latter on Fifth Avenue. They had spent the afternoon and evening at the Andrews apartment,

" said Dorothy. "The house is ready

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to go there all

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ll of a sudden Newport came into my mind, and it has been struggling there with Riverdale for two hours-until I almost began to believe somebody was trying to compel me t

e means to make you his heroine still, it will be at Newport if you are at Newport, at Riverdale if you happen to be at Riverdale. Do come with me, even if he does impress you as endeavoring to force you; for at Newport I shal

te. "You are to be Harley's chaperon, Professor Per

Do I? Are we none of us living creatures to do as we will? Are we nothing more than materials pige

ndependence of action. I'll go with you, Dorothy; but if it turns out, as I fear, that we are expected t

rley, anyhow? I thought you lik

ut he does not understand me, and until he does he shall not

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est?" asked Mrs. Wil

e, with a quiver in her voice,

to her husband, later on. "Marguerite is quite upset by t

ready Friday, instead of Thursday of next week; so if you'll pack up to-morrow we can board he

f the fact, though Mrs. Willard's sympathy with Marguerite led her to suspect

y," she said, as she stepped

hank him for his kindness. According to your theory he could have sent us up on a hot, dusty train, and had a collision ready for us at New London, in order to kill off a few

thor in his infinite wisdom deems it necessary to provide a lover and husband; and in order that his narrative of how I get this person he has selected-without consulting my tastes-may interest a lot of other girls, who are expected to buy and read his book, he makes me the object of an intriguing fortune-hunter from Italy. I am to believe he is a real nobleman, and all that; and a stupid wiseacre from the York University, who can't dance, and who thinks of

ne, love," retur

he first act if the remaining four acts depended on her failing to see something that was plain to the ve

. Perhaps Mr. Harley isn't going to m

id Marguerite; "but he's t

ay?" asked M

plans would have miscarried. I'd never have married that Osborne man; I'd have snubbed Balderstone the moment he spoke to me; and if Stuart Harley had got a book out of my trip to Europe at all, it would have been a series of papers on some such topic as 'The Spinster Abroad, or How to be Happy though Single.' No more shall I take the p

tion of the yacht was perfect; his narration of the incidents of the embarkati

ile on the Willards' yacht was not realism at all-it was imagination o

did not know that he was writing untruths, for he verily believed that

a week, however, he had a fearful set-back. Count Bonetti was ready to be pr

ok a new and entire