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AT i A i CHAPTER 1, Summer Lightning It wag Mr. Ricardo's habit as soon us the second week of August came around to Bains, In sik weeks he lived pleasantly, 'motor-car in the afternoon; he "dined 'at the Circle in the evening, and spent an hour or two aftppward, the baccarat rooms of at the Vita des Fleurs. 1 An enviable, 'smooth lite without a doubt, and-it is .cep- tainy that his acquaintacnes envied him, . : At the same time, however,' thdy laughed at him and, alas! with some 'Justice, for he was an exaggerated bdreclating the gowns and jewels of cards were person. He was Lo be construed in the comparative. Everything in his lief was u trifle overdone, from the fustidious arvangemnt of his neck- ties (0 the feminine nicety of his little dinner parties. a In age Mr. Ricardo was fipproncs- ing the fifties, in condition he was u widower---a state greatly to his )ik- ing, for he avoided at once the irk semeness of marriage and the re- proaches justly levelled at the bach slor; finally, he was rich, amassed a fortune in Mincing Lane, which he had invested in profitable zecurities. Ten years of ecasg, however, not altogether oblite business look. Though he lounged from January to 'December, he lounged with the air of a taking a holiday; and when he v&®. ited, as he frequently did. the studio of a painter, a stranger would have hesitated to decide whether he had been drawn thither by a love of art or by the possibility of an invest- ment, His "acquaintances" have heen mentioned, and the word is suitable For while he mingled in many cn cles, he stood aloof from all. He affected the company of artists, by who mhe was regarded as one am- bitions to become a connoisseur: and among the younger business men, who had ncver dealt with him. he earned the disrespect reserved for the dilettante. His Little Failing If he had a grief it was that he had discovered no great man weio in return for practical favors would engrave his memory in brass He was a Meccenas without a Horace an Earl of Southampton without Shakespeare, In a word, Aix-les- Bains in the season was the place for him, and never for a mo- ment did it occur to him that wag here to be dipped in agitations and hurried from. excitement to ex- citement. The beauty of the little town, the crowd of well-dressed and agreeabis people, the rose-colored life of the place. all made their appeal to him But it was the Villa des Fleups which brought him to Aix. Not that he played for anything more than an occasional Jouis: other hand. was he looker-on. 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Blhwmeoe St, Oshawa C--O ------ WHEN WE TEST EYES IT IS DONE PROPERLY JURY & LOVELL, Lid Phone 28 Phone 1if! travel to Aix-los- Savoy, where for five or [Spectacle of Heo waged pretended to take the waters in the [raw nature and good manners, anorning, he' went for a vide in his Was extraordinary to him how con- n' having | very | nor, on the: * Munich, hy By {two in his pocket on most evenings (at the servieg of the vietims of the | tubles. But the plessure to his curi- jous and dillettapignind lay iy the the battle which was after night hetwath 1 night {wtifutly _punnems prevailed, There (were, owever, exceptions. For instance, on the first evening | 'of this particular visit he found the | (rooms. hot and sauntered out into | the littlo semi-circular garden at the | huek. He sat there for half an hoyr junder a flawless sky of stars watchs Ing the people come and go in the {light of the electric lamps, and ap-| the womefh with tie 'noinseur; quiet there 'of vivid lire, A girl in a soft, clinging frock ot | | rooms and flung herself upon a bench, She could | Recardo's thinking, twenty years or age, tainly 'young. ! A Lovely Figure | The supple slenderness of her fig-) ure proved it, and he had moreover caught a slimiqe, as she rushed out, 'of a fresh and very pretty face; hue he had lost sight of it mow. For the 'girl wore a hig black satin hat with a broad rim, from which a couple of 1 white ostrieh feathers curved over at eye of a coi und then into this start nervously | not, to she was cer-| financier . id > 8 r of that louis note, the back, and in the hatow of that up by their owners. hat her face was masked. he could see was a pair of long diamond eardrops, which sparkled | and trembled as she moved her head | --and that she did constantly. Now {she stared moodily at the grouna, {now she flung herself back, then sis {twisted nervously to the right, and {then a moment afterwards to the | left; and then again she stared in | front of her, swingin a satin slip} or |packward and forward against the (pavement with the petulance of a child. ! All her movements were spas- {modie; she was on the verge of hy- | Ixteria. Ricardo was expecting her to burst into tears, when she sprang uns (and as swiftly as she had come she {hurried back into the rooms. "Sum {mer lightning" thought Mr. Roecar- do. | Near to him a woman sneered, sand 'a man said pityingly: "She was pretly, that little one. It is re | grettable that she has lost." Ricardo finished his cigar 2no {strolled back into the rooms. making 'his way to the big table just oun the 'right haud of the, eptrance, whers the play as a rule runs high. It was leleurly rdinning high tonight. For so 'deep a crowd thronged about the | table that Ricardo could only by standing on tiptoe see the face of | the players. Very High Play OF the banker he could not cateh a slimpse But though the crowa remained, its units 'were constantly changing, and it was not long hefhre Ricardo found himself standing 'm the front rank of the spectators, just behind the players seated in the chairs. The oval green table was spread out beneath him littered with hank notes. Ricardo turned his eyes to the left, and saw seated at the | middle of the table the man who | wr: Lilding the bank. Ricardo ree- | Jd dim with a start of surprise He was a young Englishman Harry Wethermill, who after a brilliant career at Oxford and at had so turned his scientific ,&enius to account that he had mad« a fortune for himself at the age twenty-eight. He sat at the table with the indit 0 'Ref. Bedti eformer time | . Stories (Continued from page | Wiggily did his. "Oh, here they are!" are the first flowers of the spring. coming up under the snow! Take some to your teacher, Sammie and Susie, and Pl take some to Nurse Jane." ! The rabbit flowers, and children gathered th hurried om to school { Then Uncle Wiggily began to pick | some of the cool and lovely blos- | goms for Nurse Jane, and, while he | was doing this, along came the had | old Woozie Wolf. | "Gurr! Gurr!" growled the wolf. | "I'm going to nibble your ears. Unele | Wiggily!™ "Oh, please don't!" begged the buuny. "See these lovely snow blos- i soms! Doesn't the sight of them | make you want to let my ears | alone?" "Neo?! 1 | | grumbled the wolf, "it | {doesu't What do | eare for snow | flowers. or any other Kind?" | "No." said Uncle Wiggily. "I guess | you don't. There is no use trying | | to be nice to you. Bat if you dom't | {let me alone because of these snow { flowers perhaps you will for a snow ballr™ { With that the bunny gentleman | quickly rolled a hard ball out of the | snow packed around the trail- ing arbutus. © "Take that!" cried Uncle Wigegily, and he threw the snow hall as hard as he could at the Wolf. It hit the bad chap right on the end of his nose?! "Oh, wow!" howled the Wolf. "1 wish I'd smelled the snow flowers in- stead of the sno ball?!" Aad he was | 20 afraid lest Mr. Lougears throw more hard balls at him that the Wolf | ran away. Then Uncle Wiggily took the ar- butas flowers to Nurse Jane, and he put some cool sonw on her aching head and soon she was much better. and she smelled the blossoms and | liked them very much. | So this teaches us that ven money | {is of some use in this world. Aad i the lide pig doesn't ory like a baby and make the doll carriage | think the pussy cat is lost. I'n tell! You next about Uncle Wiggly and | the wintergreen y i , ee VILLA ROSE A.E.W. MASON came suddenly a flash suddenly his face fiyghed from lan white satin darted swiftly from the white-gloved hand he more than 'geated with a smile, 'refused the stake. opened, the note fluttered down on louis {to the cloth, the money was staked. | chalr. a rr ae tr PPP _- - _. -- --__--__ I TT a= | |ana smiled, and the smile made her | {face a miracle of tenderness. Then she disappeared, and in a [few moments Ricardo saw a way | {open in the throng behind the bank-! lor, and she appeared aguin only a | | yard or two away, just behind Weth- | jermill. He turned, and taking hor | {hand into his shook it chidingly, "I couldn't let you play against | me, Celia," he said in English; 'my luek's too good tonight, So . NYTer py ev ve 2 Wothermill's winnings, and Rieardo, curious to know whose small, deli- ue i cutely gloved hand it "wan 'which (YOU shall he my purine tnstou | stayed ut his elbuw tonight, Yor op {wad brought the game to so abrapt [f° a cupitd posite to him the croupi¢r was uar-,a - termination leaned forward Lr A id a Hussheid oo er) ranging with extraordinary deftness He rerognized the voang girl In the | I'he girl's fuce Bilie Wig Her | piles of banknotes in the order of white satin dress and the hig black (hand still lay clasped in h N, Khe their value. The bank was winning hat whose nerves lcd got the het made no effort to withdraw it, heavily, Kven 'as Wieardo looked 'ter of her a Low minutes sineo in! I couldn't do that," she Wethermill turned up a "natural, the garden, (claimed, and the croupier swept in the stakes | He EW ferent look of the habitual playe: upon his clearly chiseled face, Bu it was plain that his good fortune ex: | hor now clearly, ana | . Partners Now i ue | from either side. thought her of an entrancing love: | "Why not," said he. "See! And An Exciting Moment liness, She was moderately tall, tair Joosening her fingers he took frou "Faites ves Jeux, mesfeurs, Le of skin, with a fresh coloring upon {them the five 'louis note and tosseq | jeu est fait?" the croupier eviod, all" her cheeks which she owed to noth- | il wvar he the, Eraipjer 1 ¥ he Bddod in a breath, and repeated the words, | ing but her youth. Her hair was of to his bunk. "Now you can't help | Wethermill waited with his hand | a lght brown with a sheen upon Yourself. We're partners, upon the wooden frame in which the it, her forehead broad, her eyes| The girl laughed, and the com: | stacked. He glanced [dark and wonderfully celae. 0 pany at the table smiled, half in| around the table while the sakes there was something more than. her 8ympathy, halt with amusement \ mere being laid upon the eloth, und beauty to attract him. chair was brought for her, and sh | sut down behind Wethermill, ho | Nps parted, her face joyous with ex- small! l¢itement, But all at once Wether- | five ow 1 ni Ho. was mill's luck deserted him He re louis note was thrust forward he ZFeW, and haunted him. 10 WHR mowed his bank three times, and haa 'g still vaguely jfazzling lis brains to' ag oui He took & tween the shoulders of (wf men " dealt the card through. ¢ took a ' {fix the place when the croupier fin- |g" : ca fw h ut the table, . Wethermill ished 1is. reckoning {fourth bank, and rose from that, leaned forward and shook his head 'B0€C his reckoning. 2 ool au loser. With a gesture o "There are two thousand louis in | But he was too the bank," he erfed, "Who will tak» | bank for two thongand'! A Big Bar A full-size, full-weight, solid bar of good soap is "SURPRISE." Best for any and all household use. He had a strong belief that sowe where, some while ugo, he had ul- ready seen her. And thiz Dbeliet guor into interest, Almost opposite to him «a holding a --. -- ANOTHER PAPER QUITS Editor and Publisher: The Port Huron (Mich,) Press suspended pab- lication Fehrway 18, the Times- Herald, the only other daily in the city, of 50,000 population, taking | wer ity subscription list. The Press wis published by J. R. Os<ius and tor | (womonth or more had been operating | in a circulation, combination with | William R. Hearst's Detroit Times. a copy of the latter publication go- ing 10 every Press subseriber in dition to the Press. Incidentally, two of daily papers that have Michigan within the last four months have already discontinued. Besides the Press, the Kalamazoo Star quit a short time ago, that city, with 50,000 population, also going back to a one daily basis. The new dail- ies' still in the ring are the Flint Tribune and the Lansing Capital. News 8 "That's enough, Celia," he suid. 'let's go out into the garden; it will be there" "1 have away," said Wethermill The fingers of the hand had On the late, cooler vour good luck girl remorsetully, his arm through taken the put No one, however, was willing. \ in hteifresh bank was put up for sale, ana {Wethermill, still sitting fn the deal- 0 1 v a une suite" suid qui jer's chair, bought it He spoke mi yy Ls wlio ; elf etly, He relinguished the bank once to un attendant, and the mon ; You'll have to take a Tye : rather than plan against that five- slipped round the table and, forcing away before you can do that, he The stakes were taken his way through the crowd, carrica inswered, and the couple walked a message to the girl in the black together out of Ricardo's hearing. count hat, She looked toward Wethermill | (To he continued) At once he leaned hack An eastern paper is pursuing the !{ question as to why homely men us- ad- | yally marry the most beautiful wo- men. Easy. 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