Show THE HOPE IEST CI-IEST By ByAR MARK AR J. J LEE LUTHER Little B Brown rown 1914 1911 Co by CHAPTER 15 Gertrude Gertrudo put her head in at the thedoor thedoor thedoor door to warn them that their time was short and the awkward subject dropped from their talk But nut not from Sheila's thoughts All AU during luncheon it stuck like a burr In her consciousness The emotional days Just before her marriage se had a dreamy unreality but hut till Ull now sho she had not realized h her hr husband husband husband hus hus- that this haze enveloped eloped l' l band as well Had she sho wished to todo todo todo do so she he could not have clearly described him His Imago image was strangely blurred It was his traits rath rather r than his features which sprang to mind and even en his traits w were svere Te cloaked cd in Sn Would auld Tom In Stoughton Lounsbury's place have had the gen generosity to wish Yale a fighting chance Outdoors once moro more these puzzles puzzles ceased to vex her The Tho streets with their carnival the symbolic bulldogs in tho the shop windows tho the clamor of the tho souvenir souvenir souvenir sou sou- venir vendors venders the Ince Incessant sint flash and challenge of the tho rival colors the rollicking democracy of of the crowds swarm swarming In toward the outskirts outskirts out out- skirts anti and at last tho the colossal bulk of oC th the arena gave her no leisure for spiritual conundrums As the they entered a breeze shook countless flags of life Ufe and fluttered fluttered fluttered flut flut- the blue and crimson veils of or the women and ad facing the thc serried host uttered utter a au 01 ol bewilderment t and clutched tho the hand which chanced nearest But Dut this is wonderful she sho exclaimed Eliot Lounsbury pressed her fingers It Rome ha has nothing on New Haven Haen now now Thirty tunnels like which has just disgorged us sixty s' thousand seats seats seats-Of Seventy asserted Gertrude Seventy ent thousand scats thank seats thank you ou my learned child child why Nero himself would gasp at Yale's Tales new nev Bowl vl Sheila was wan deaf to statistics and historical parallels How could the they call anything so breath taking a bowl she sho asked Perhaps because they say stadium In Cambridge e SUggested suggested suggested sug SUg- Molly Of Ot course courso dra drawled led her fath fath- er or Youve hit on nothing less lees than the esoteric distinction between be be- tween Harvard and Yale Sheila found herself herselt placed be beside beside beside be- be side this man who f seamed med to flavor flavor fla fla- fla vor VOl all his speech with Irony and she uneasily recalled lIed his assertion that he would watch her instead of ot the game but Just then the Bowl roared Its Us erecting to the tho first team and she forgot him al altO al- al tO together ether A staccato ek brek of ot welcome rose from the tho Yale benches as th the Harvard players spread over the field for tor practice practice tice Lice and an outburst as full It'll vol- vol umed swelled from th the cheering section opposite as ns tho the Crimson gave save way ay for tor the Blue Then the 1 punting nd Ind the drop kicking stopped the captains met for the tho toss the elevens took th their lr positions a whistle thrilled and the struggle was on What befell beten neither side could have havo had tho the prophetic vision to foresee If It the tho season reason had shown Harvard to possess posses a machinelike machinelike machine machine- like precision and formidable strength Yale Tille had displayed headwork which ml might ht well wall offset superior brawn But It was as swiftly manifest that thal th the tho Crimson team which had come down to todo todo todo do battle was supreme me In both To Sheila it seemed that the game came had h scarcely begun when th ball was rushed twenty five yards Into Yale's territory and then Ihen yard b by yard ar steamrollered across th the line to a touchdown Harvard failed to kick the goal but Harvard's followers thun thundered ered their content They had hail scored id I. I rd tho the game was but eight min mm- minutes utes utIS old But Yale's clans were Slender youths with large mrs megaphones s pranced before the cl ci section and the bulldog bulldog bull 10 dog song came defiantly across tl o tl fieldA fluid field Jd u A nice tWo little Job for tor the undertaker under under- taker A nice little mHo Job for tor tho the casket casket- maker Were We're very er var el very busy on a brand branc new grave No hope for r a T r 1 lIk these chants ch said Eliot Lounsbury with his whimsical drawl The They convince me ma that t were we're 10 still a n. virile race But Ell lyric optimism Is surely misplaced You never ne can cap tell ten said sal Car Ger trude rude Yale often does docs wonders with a a. forlorn hope bope She cited heroic Instances to which nobody listened for the warrIn warring forces were again Interlocked ed As the tho period ended Mrs Mra Lounsbury gave Sf an audible sigh What hat a football enthusiast 1 h her r husband huband I nil flu Im I'm not a n m lb r she owned I 1 dont don't caro care which side wins If It Stoughton comes cornea through with no broken bones For shame shamo rebuked Molly You ought to hope he gets ets a n chance ch to show what's In him no matter m what ho he breaks In point of ot t fact ct his chance came soon oon The second period opened badly for tor Yale and liar liar- t ard a rd Id fleet baffling Irresistible promptly scored But now with witha a first down for Yale only fourteen fourteen four four- teen yards ards from Harvard's goal the game amo en entered a fresh Cresh and dramatic phase and the delirious shouters for tho the Blue saw the struggle 11 surge on to what seemed a a. certain touchdown There was wasa wasn a n tense moment of oC scrimmaging within a scant two yards of ot Harvard's Harvard's Har liar vard's yards line Une a wild whirl of ot blue and crimson Jerseys a mad confusion confusion contusion con con- fusion of ot arms and IC legs 9 and then young Lounsbury squirmed from the general mass with tho the ball balland balland and guarded by two to lunging fellow fel tel low lov players shook oft off the desperate des des- rato pursuit and sped down the field feld on jl such ch a run and to fuch ucb a a. touchdown ns as no son of Harvard hat Hal vard arrI ever dreamed could br bf cd against the tho sons of or Yale Tale It was a brilliant feat teat and hl hiI reward was earsplitting but the thc heros hero's family might have ha been embittered partisans of ot the Blue for all the the- share they took in the tumult Turning to congratulate them Sheila saw the th thelder elder Louns- Louns hum buns exchange a long lonh look Jook but if It there ther was w pride in It ft there wa wn no hint int of or exultation Molly sat nt ver var very straight and very still till Even Gertrude was silent It amazed Shells Sheila and for tor an instant she them Then It came in 10 her that tho th rode code which madr Stoughton wish for Cor a game tha ha was a game w was also the rode nde of ot hl Ms lila and with n swift revolution rev rev- in her o own n h she her herself hoping honing hat t might b bo be more moro kind to Yale flu Ru Ruit it tint trat at fumbled rt marked m the crest erelt of ot the Blue offensive I and nd a 1 drop kick from the field had further swollen the Crimson core when half time was as called rind the cheering sections took tool ur the entertainment of or the thc crowd She listened ab absently to the songs so BO American In words BO so torel foreign n in their borrowed tunes She was thinking of the Lounsbury Lounsbury Louns Louns- bUT bury code coda which for forn an n emotional moment she had made her own She he saw It as nn n inner flame lame a torch handed down from other generations of men and women with standards of ot condu which were uncommon and fine tine It could not bo be assumed an as a n pose poe no n v bit of or social veneer rn er It had to tobe tobe tobe be born in you you that that t was as the truth of at it and the truth of oC it 11 saddened her She continued to think of oC It when hen tho the game ame was resumed and the tho outclassed team tou fought ht pluck pluck- lit Ih but in vain aln to hold the score Then came a stir eUr and baring of or heads across the tho arena and the sons of Yale old and young oung be began hegan he- he gan han to sing Her thront throat tightened tight tight- ened Ined when hen she nhe understood that this song wa was a R. gallant admission of ot defeat But sho felt a 1 wave leno l e no less of ot happiness Here re t to tn o was as something uncommon and fine something not personal but typical l something which was u part put of or the Saxon Anglo inheritance She would have o had the th end there them but afterward she ehe was as glad clad lad that thal It did not for Cor forshe forshe I she would have the hUfhAnd hush hUfh And then the tho faNell farewell fare faN well elJ ell as tho the Harvard captain risen n from a a. hospital bed sprang tro trolie from tro the lie side lines where he had waited waited walled wait wall ed and kicked the final goal oal of or hI his football care career r. r I It H was t. t over and trooping down irNi tho the Crimson benches a n jubilant lant llant procession trailed In Intel Intel- cate C windings over tho field The rite rito grated upon Sheila thirty-six thirty to tn nothing enough Bh she sho excl exclaimed Molly linked arms with her Dont take tho the snake sonke dance danco too loo serious seriously sho she said nut But that's how bow Stoughton would feel teel about It Ill I'll tell ten him when Iee I Inee nee flee ee him Sh Sheila's lla's skin burned and then grew cold In the tho November dusk Please dont don't she sho entreated Ina In Ina a a. low voice as they turned a away vay a Promise me that you wont Molly bent forward to search her oer eyes All AU right she a agreed I wont won't ont If you O J object But what a l lrIddle riddle you ou are arc Dont Don't you OU care caro what anybody thinks about you OU 1 I care what you ou think The other girl laughed l I I might have o said somebody masculine gender hender but J i suppose you'd have ha wriggled out of oC It Just the same I believe youre you're a 0 man manha ha hater Sheila Shelta Moore Their car escaped from tho the parking space at last Jast and the they rode slowly back through streets which betrayed their de depression depression tie tie- at Yale's defeat But the Taft Tatt was no hou house o of oC mourning mourning mourn mourn- ing and with freshened plumage the they came down to dine in a n hubbub which reduced the musicians musicians' musi musi- clans clans' most cherished effects to ton n pantomime A general conversation conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion in normal tones was sible But tho ho three girls IrIs round eyed d and pink of oC cheek check were viere there to see rather than to talk and anel their seats commanded a avide wide vide 6 sweep of oC the grillroom As the boisterous evening wore ore oreen on en and the spirits of ot the diners rs rose Sheila's gaze returned again ind nd nd again to fo a 3 table tible half haIr hidden hy by Intervening tables t for Cor It was Wa to this party part of ot four that the or orchestra orchestra or- or chestra owed much of ot Its keenest Two of ot th the rivalry company were In plain view The These e were r a n man of thIrty chaps with the tho dress and antI assurance of the average New ew Yorker cr and a ayoung young woman quite ten years earll his whose fur od edged ed co costume tume faithfully copied the military mode which that militant autumn the autocrats of at the ho Rue flue de la Ia laPaix Paix had prescribed The obstacles cl cles s which wholly concealed one of ot the quartet partly eclipsed a girl of ot extreme extremo slenderness but so much of ot the back of at her head ns as showed had for Sheila Shena an illusive Illusive il illusive il- il familiarity So a Satterlee a. a stockbroker er she I heard rd Eliot Lounsbury I ay say In a a. sudden udden lull The nome gave e a her memory the missing clue Flo Satterlee Sat- Sat her her Wall Street husband her Jewels her pursuits pursuits had had been one of or the themes of oC which Ethel Hoyt had discoursed lurIng discoursed AurinI that first appalling din dimy under the Ballantine roof Jt ft A of or course 4 that was as Ethel Ethel her no now 1 ho slender girl 5 s V i hoe her or chair I rd revealing h ho he S- S Is Ie put her Identity beyond J Q n n. n But Sheila S sa lerent Ethel than she had 1 i. i That Ethel Ethol wa was cold if r hostile this vivacious r sparkling p charming Even ardent If It the look took she bent benton on her unseen nl neighbor could bo be believed she he him a agod pod god od among amonS' men He lie roused Sheila's curiosity this escort From time to time his hand would describe a R. flamboyant ant arc or fall tan In friendly cm- cm on Ethels Then a lift as if she felt her gaze aze the tho girl gin Irl turned caught her eye CO and with a n smile of ot mystifying sweetness s bowed V hereupon Toni Tom Ballantine half haIr rose and w with th his gayety evaporated evaporated rated hIs h's gestures ures stilled Ted stared blankly It at t his hIli lt To 1 be 0 continued I |