"I have found the Stanleys, but Miss Conway is not with them. She married Jack Tennant two weeks ago, and went to California on her wedding tour.
Earle."
[CHAPTER XXIX.]
THE PRICE OF A SECRET.
"As roses when the warm west blows
Break to full flower and sweeten spring,
My soul would break to a glorious rose,
In such wise at his whispering;
In vain I listen; well away!
My love says nothing any day!"—Swinburne.
Although Congress was not to convene until the usual time in December, the Winans family went to Washington in October's last bright days ere the golden autumn haze was dimmed by the gray mists and fogs of November.
Among the series of fashionable entertainments with which the gay world opened the social season the coming out of Precious Winans marked a brilliant event.
Since her mother's first appearance in Washington society years ago as the senator's bride no such wonderful beauty had carried society by storm.
Society raved over the girl, to whose wondrous charms was added the sensation of last March, when, after her kidnaping at the Inauguration Ball, she had been so romantically rescued by Lord Chester. Her admirers were legion. She had a social triumph so splendid that it might have turned any young girl's head.