Part 3 (1/2)

”In a gested ”Doesn't that appeal to a ine that there was enough adventure here, but it really isn't so The lone trail has a mineral claim at the end of it; you look forward to the elevator coets asfresh, a job, in fact, that you don't undertake for money Of course, if you look at it economically, this is foolish”

”I like you better as a sentimentalist than a philosopher,” Caroes to when one wants things done

However, if you would like a dance----”

She danced well and Foster knew there were ined that Carmen kneould be remarked that she had banished her other attendants and shown him special favor This, of course, would not trouble her, because Carenerally did what she pleased, but he felt inclined to wonder about her object He knew her well enough to think she had an object When the music stopped she said, ”Now you may take me in to supper”

Supper was served in an ante-roouests came in when they liked and were provided with suided him to a quiet nook, partly screened by cedar branches, where they could see without being seen He thought it significant that a spot with such advantages should be unoccupied, but this did not cause hienerally happened as Care to sup with the prettiest and cleverest girl in the hall

”You are going to stay at Featherstone's holand, aren't you?”

she asked by and by

”Yes,” said Foster, ondered how she knew ”Since I've spent ten years on the plains and in the bush, it will be a rather ee You see, I'lish country houses”

Carht him back to the subject ”Do you know much about your partner's relatives? It's obvious that he belongs to a good family

However, you'll have him with you”

Foster soing with hinorance of the habits of a good faave hilance ”They won't be able to find uess it, so it wouldn't matter But that is not what I meant You have been Featherstone's partner for so about his home”

”He's reserved,” said Foster, who looked up as Daly calanced so here?”

”I don't, but as he's agent for an engineering co new plant”

”But he's often in your father's office and at your house, and Mr Austin doesn't buylots; we deal in theh ”I sometimes meet my father's friends, but don't ask them about their business”

She went on with her supper, and Daly and his companion sat down not far off The felloell dressed and on the whole a handso about him to excite marked attention He looked a little older than Foster, who studied hihborhood of the Crossing, but the business he did there hardly seemed to warrant his visit It was possible that heFeatherstone, but Foster fancied that Carmen knew more about him than she confessed

”Perhaps you will visit Scotland before you come back,” she said by and by

”It's possible Featherstone's relations live near the Border”

”Then I dare say you will take a packet for h”

”Of course,” said Foster, who felt soh she looked at hiratefully

”I know you'll take care of it, and you don't ask questions; but you wonder why I want to send it by you Well, the girls are inquisitive in our post office, and I' the packet to a s soet broken in the mail”

Foster said this often happened and hinted that the hed