The Port of Adventure

' me for the gold bag?" Kate asked, when the unpack

pent, and the trouble he took!" something seemed to moan in her mind. But with an impersonal air she gave Kate permission, dismissing the past as represented by the Hi

by a friend. It was a "clipper," he said; could do anything but climb trees or jump brooks, and might be hired by Mrs. May, at a reasonable price, for a day, a week

paint), at the prospect of business. Other vehicles were now being produced by a firm who had bought his patent, said he, but at present his own; appropriately named the "Model," was the "only one running." He lifted the brilliant bonnet, and revealed intricate things, all new and silvery and glistening like crystallized sugar. Angela fell an easy victim. She knew nothing about the mechanical virtues a

reathless with the excitement of bargaini

ve done it! I've got five hu

he bag," Angela re

for luck. Then I tried another place, but they offered less, and I ran back to Barrymore's. They said 'twas a splendid bag, and th

er proposed to her has married some one else. And when the codfish, whose name was Sealman, asked her where she would go for a tria

scratched his head through the open roof of his basket. It was a small car, but as Angela wanted it only to run about the neighbouring country, keeping Los An

bag would look in the window, in case the jeweller had placed it there; and sure enough, he had displayed it, anxious not to miss a sale. There were other gold bags, but this one-of

rl that amount. Now she must pay for her pride; and having less than half the income of the Princess di Sereno, Mrs. May ought to have been thinking about the California land she wished

ncisco. It served her right, she thought, to pay two hundred and fifty dollars more than if she had dealt with Kate. She should have been ashamed even to want Mr. Hilliard's bag, still more to buy it; and she took away her purchase in a beautiful box, with all the j

r the next three or four days," said Mrs. May to Sealma

way Nevadaward to get a divorce. Nick had been to Los Angeles before, and knew where to go without asking advice, though the same lovely lady would have been enchanted to give him some. Mr. Millard was also in his hote

ed himself; or whether, on the principle that a cat may look at a king, sh

ounging, and frowned. "Great guns! If there ain't that bandy-legged, crop-eared, broken-nosed auto Sealman came to offer Mrs. Gaylor last winter, and wan

ght of her, had returned by the time he strolled in to ask if Mr. Sealman was s

if his car's eng

e next three days, perhaps longer, to a young lady in the

l fixed up?"

d just been settled; in fac

course, the impression conveyed. As he reflected (not so much wondering what he wanted to do next, as whether the thing he wan

ut I'm maid to Mrs. May, and 'twas to me you gave that beautiful bag you said y

assured her. "I gave

more, who keeps a smart jewellery shop, paid me five hundred dollars. I'm all

e swallowed the bag by this time if you'd let me

you, and my lady, Mrs. May, I'm the happiest girl in

th. "She's my lady, too-my angel-though she doesn't

It had hung on her wrist. It had been in her hand. It had held her lace handkerchief, which smelled like some mysterious flower of fairyland. Now he knew what he had

n in the window," he was presently informed by the youth who had served Angel

se, at Doctor Beal's Nursing Home, asking a favour which he was sure Morehouse would grant, because they had grown very friendly on the journey East. Next, he called at the largest gar

remembered Mr. Hilliard! Every one had

s came along about that time. I hadn't got any use for an auto then

ke you

" Nick confessed. "No use pretendin' to be an expert

gs to a millionaire who went broke before he'd had his auto a week. Best American on the market, and better than new. S

lour of her ha

to buy the yellow car if it were satisfactory. "But I want to learn to drive right away. I'd sure be on pins and needles, sitti

a horse?" the

"I can worry

rnia knew more ab

rick of steering sooner. Six

of an hou

s. That's

nd every day, will I be warranted safe and kind after, say, four le

n. Keeping at it like t

doze or two and a sandwich or two in betw

you'll be a dandy driver, I promise you,

drive-

drive

to do," mumbled Ni