Castle Craneycrow

omer fellow than this stalwart American. There was about him that clean, strong, sweet look of the absolutely healthy man, the man who has buffeted the world and

than one woman who admired him because she could not

find that the prince was not present, and he made his way to Dorothy's side, with Lady Frances, coolly dropping i

ems good to see you after all these years. You bring back

long for them," he said, simply.

York for years. Lady Saxondale goes back so often

this fall," said Quentin, w

asked, in some surprise. He

ected to make the trip this fall. Am I wron

a. I shall depend on you, Phil, to be nice to him in New York. You can do so

'll get Dickey Savage to give a dinner for him, and if he can survive that, he's capable of having a good time anywher

id, flushing slightly, and he imagined he

a great horseman, a marvelous

Dorothy, a trifle quickly. "Usually they say that princes are all

d under the smooth veil of hypocrisy. Again, just before Lady Frances signaled to him that it was time for them to

are the same Dorothy Garrison I u

as in her manner an icy barrier that would have

ou were charming

harming no

a change, however, is it? Then, you were very

hurt by what she felt to be an indifferen

things unless I meant them. But, now that I think of it, it is the height of

as calmly as if he were the merest stran

gly, looking straight into the dark eyes she w

another day," she

ome to-morr

t say 'to

on, decisively. She looked concer

ou tea on Friday. I shall

o New York next week,"

k? Are yo

ys he hates London. He says he'll leave me if I

you. Stay, Phil; the Saxond

the tea o

is no cons

" He saw at once that he had gone beyond the lines, and drew back wi

ndition," she s

ave monopolized you to a somewhat thoughtless extent. Everybody is loo

e Ugo, whose presence she had not observed, did not escape his eyes. She looked up and saw

day. I shall ask him to come early, t

know him better. At wh

id, pointedly. "Too early t

ect me before three. I am

tea until four o'clo

not repress the smile that his old willfulness brought to her lips

and then pass out with Lady Saxondale. Only Lady Saxondale observed the dark gleam in the Italian's eyes as he responded to the big American's unconventiona

any of the cha

sure. I'm to fin

back on Frida

k tea, y

ask you

, but I think I

n't want you to turn Do

set; it can't be turned. It is set for that beautiful, bejewel

ld become very jealous,

me." After a moment's contemplative silence

st of whatever won his interest, whether it was the tender encou

d them ridiculous) days when she had been his little sweetheart, the days when both had sworn with young fervor to be true till death. She did not take kindly at first to these references to that early, mistaken affection, but hi

he Row on Tuesday. There was resistance on

your wedding," he said

will not

calmly, and then smiled into her

of September," sh

ask me t

ave asked y

romised Lord Saxondale I'd meet him at four o'clock." He did a genuine