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THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
would be a credit to society. But she was sunny and young and in earnest, and she filled a dreadful need in the Major's empty heart. And that is why, now that the Major lay dead, surprise was universal when it was found that no will had been made, and that, in consequence, the entire estate must fall to Beldon Thorndyke. Marjorie, the loved grand-niece, was penniless.
The "finishing" had not taught Marjorie overmuch of the world as it
close of that spring day saw a plighted troth under a stilly moon.
Now Lieutenant Preble was on the far seas, and Marjorie was alone in her sorrow, and the sorrow was very real. If she had come to the Major when his gray day was very gray indeed, he had been home to her and father and wisest counselor, and she had accorded him a generous love and the profoundest admiration. She did not realize the oddity of his failing to provide for her; the conspicuous
THE EXECUTION OF THE WILL
is outside of ' ' best sellers. ' ' And the one other source of her information had not cared to teach that pretty head realities he fondly hoped to keep from her ken forever. This source was Lieutenant Preble, and he held all of Marjorie 's ardent, youth-warm heart in his reverent hands. He had come on a matter of military import to see the Major one day in the early spring, and, crossing the estate by a wooded path, he and Marjorie had met. It was spring, you know, and they were very young, and the heavens were very blue — and mating was in the air. And, primevally sure, each recognized in the other the Most Desired — the All Essential. And the
urgency of her departure from Thorndyke Hall did not present itself, until Beldon Thorndyke presented it to her.
He came across her on the wooded path where she had met Edward Preble, and where they had sworn, under the cover of the stars, to keep eternal faith, and Thorndyke 's unruled, indiscriminate passion was aroused. She was slim and rounded and subtly fair in the black gown, and suddenly Beldon recognized it as a desirable fact that she should grace Thorndyke Hall permanently — as his wife. The way he chose to tell her so was one peculiarly disagreeable to the untutored girl. She could not have