  All evening Kitty had been trying to get Nolan by telephone, always being told that he was not at the hotel and had gone to the office, and then hearing that the office line was busy. It was after eight when she finally got him on the wire. “Nolan, whoever have you been talking to? If it was anybody else besides Eveley, I am going to tell. I have been trying to get you all evening. I want you to come over here immediately. Something terrible is about to happen, and you must stop it.” Nolan hesitated. “I am to be at Eveley’s at nine, but if you promise to talk fast I will come.” Receiving her fervent assurance, he immediately closed his desk, and in ten minutes Kitty was drawing him feverishly into her favorite corner of the living-room. “Nolan, you could never guess what is going on.” “No,” he admitted, with a reminiscent smile. “So many odd things have been going on lately that I confess my inability as a guesser.” “Listen to this. Eveley’s sister has fallen in love with some crazy aviator, and is going to elope with him. And she wants Burton to get a divorce so she can marry him.” Nolan was plainly dumfounded at this revelation. “And that is not the worst. She is going to desert those two children, and Eveley—You know Eve. She says she will be the willing sacrifice to save the honor of the family, and has decided to marry Burton herself, to be a mother to Winifred’s children.” “Preposterous!” gasped Nolan, looking into her flushed face for symptoms of delirium. “True,” came the grim answer. “But we must never allow such a bloodcurdling thing to happen. It wouldn’t be right. I want you to go right over to Eveley’s as fast as you can, and make her marry you. You can pretend you do not know anything about this, and sweep her right off her feet. Get her “But, Kitty—” “You love Eveley, don’t you?” “Yes, of course, but—” “Then do you call yourself a man, and yet stand idly by and see the woman you love sacrifice her life for her sister’s honor—and—er babies—and—” “And husband,” he said gloomily. “I could stand the honor and the babies, but I object to the husband.” “Of course you do. I have my car here, and I will take you right over to Eveley’s and you can settle it immediately.” “I do not believe I could propose before you, Kitty,” he objected shyly. “I could not think of the words.” “I shall wait in the car until it is over. Then I shall come sauntering up later on and wish you joy, etc., and Eveley need not know I had a thing to do with it. Just you get her promise, and I shall be witness for you. If “All right,” he decided suddenly. “We certainly can not submit to any such nonsense as this. Let’s go.” All the way to the Cloud Cote they kept up hearty agreement that the idea was utterly wild and preposterous, and that Nolan should never stand for it. As she stopped the car, two doors down where Eveley could not see from her window, Kitty said: “Arnold and I want to take a honeymoon trip to Yosemite after we are married, and we want you and Eveley to get married in time to go along. It is so much more fun when everybody’s married.” “Now, you fix it up with Eveley, and when you are through pull back the shade in the living-room, and I’ll take it for a sign and come up to make my call.” So Nolan went up the rustic steps to Eveley, and Kitty settled down in a corner of the car. For thirty minutes she chuckled gleefully to herself, but after half an hour she began to feel that he was decidedly slow. “I could be engaged to a dozen people in that time,” she thought impatiently, “Oh, the poky thing. But I suppose they are waxing demonstrative, and he has forgotten me.” She toyed restlessly with the keys and screws on the car, still watching the black window in the Cloud Cote with only the faint gleam of light from behind. “An hour,” she cried at last furiously. “If that isn’t the limit! I have a notion to go right home, and let him settle it as best he can—but I do want to see how Eveley takes it. Oh, well, I shall give him fifteen minutes more, and then if he has not signaled I’ll go up and see for myself.” So she waited another uneasy quarter of an hour, and then banged stormily out of the car and up the rustic steps. Her sharp tap brought a sudden scurry and scramble from within, but Kitty did not wait for a summons. She drew back the portiÈres and climbed in, uninvited. Eveley was standing flushed and brilliant in the center of the room, trying to tuck up badly straying curls, and Nolan was adjusting “Well, Kitty,” cried Eveley nervously. “Why didn’t you phone you were coming over?” “You do not seem any too glad to see me,” said Kitty rather peevishly, and then at their flushed and shining faces, she laughed. “My, how happy you look! Just like newlyweds—or something.” “Yes—something,” said Eveley. She flashed a questioning look at Nolan, and received a reassuring nod. “Nolan and I are engaged, Kitty.” “Really,” cried Kitty. “After all these years. How surprising.” She put her arms around Eveley lovingly. “When did all this happen?” “Last night, coming down from Flynn Springs,” said Eveley. “We—we had a whole car full of it.” “Last night!” Kitty quickly disengaged herself from Eveley’s arm and looked sharply at Nolan, smiling in great contentment on the davenport. “Last night?” “Yes, last night. It was an awfully big night all around, wasn’t it, Nolan?” “It was for me,” he said, coming over and taking Eveley’s hand in his. “Last night,” Kitty repeated again, glaring intently at Nolan. He nodded. “Then you knew I was lying all the time.” “Well, since Eveley and I had luncheon with Winifred and Burton to-day to announce our engagement,—yes, I may say that I was fairly well assured you were lying. They seemed on their usual tender terms at noon.” “What are you two talking about?” wondered Eveley. Kitty drew her small hat over her ears with a vicious tug. “But we shall be glad to motor to Yosemite with you and Arnold this summer,” Nolan went on pacifically, “we think it will be great sport. We asked Marie and Jimmy Ames to go along. They are going to be married to-morrow. They are in Marie’s room now, so go in and congratulate them if you like. But “I am going home, anyhow, if you mean me,” she said pettishly. She looked at Eveley. “I suppose you think it is very clever for you to be engaged to Nolan twenty-four hours without notifying me, after all the trouble I have taken in the last five years to bring it about. And as for you, Nolan, I think you have a lot of courage to marry a woman who openly and notoriously refuses to do her duty in any shape, size or form. I call it a pretty big risk, myself.” She clambered crossly through the window. “Congratulations,” she called back snappily. And again, from half-way down the stairs: “And we shall hold you to the Yosemite bargain, too.” Then Nolan took Eveley in his arms again and kissed her. “It may be pretty risky,” he said tenderly. “A wife who steels her heart against her duty—” Eveley smiled into his eyes. “Don’t worry. The One Exception will save you. I still claim that duty isn’t the biggest thing in the “Yes, tell me, Eveley—the Big Exception that is Everybody’s Duty—what is it?” “Well,” she said, snuggling a little closer into his arms, “I believe it is everybody’s duty to love somebody else with all his heart and mind and soul and body. And that is what has worked all the transformations for our friends. And it will protect you, Nolan—for I do.” Nolan kissed her again. “Then it is no risk at all,” he whispered, laughing tenderly. “Don’t try to do your duty by me—just go on loving me like this.” THE END FLORENCE L. BARCLAY’S NOVELS May be had wherever books are sold. Ask for Grosset & Dunlap’s list. THE WHITE LADIES OF WORCESTER A novel of the 12th Century. The heroine, believing she had lost her lover, enters a convent. He returns, and interesting developments follow. THE UPAS TREE A love story of rare charm. It deals with a successful author and his wife. 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