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Show BEAVER be fong drawn ovt and manner changed.-. “I have an idea that : The GIRL in the MIRROR _Hizabeth Jorden 25 as e % WNQU CHAPTER VIII—Continued oS ee Jepson moved ponderously away_to do so, while Rodney, opening his- big “~ box In the hall, drew out the poinrettia and chrysanthemums and pro¢eeded to arrange them in a gorgeous nrmful. Bangs had unexpected taste ‘ - __ fn color and arrangement, as Kpstein’s stage-directors had discovered in the : ers past. Laurie watched him with poNite Interest. _ “Making a picture of yourself, aren't you?” he sick-room 5 asked. “Going into with your’little hands ef flowers?” are pat But even the full as he scoffed he was unwrapping his own flowers. Bangs was right. The act of handing a ee pasteboard lacked i; box ‘to a sick friend esthetic value. aot te Jepson returned with a cordial message. Mrs. Ordway would be charmed to see both young men,®but she received only one visitor at a_ time. Would Mr. Bangs come up now? And perhaps Mr. Devon would drop in again ning. ~ during the afternoon or eve- : Rodney grasped his floral offerings and mounted the stairs two steps at a time. He brown eyes was showed excited’ it. and It was his most awfully good of Mrs. Ordway to let him come.ap in this informal way. Standing by the chaise longue where _* she lay, he told her so, his auburn head shining among the flowers he } earried, Hike a particularly large ehrysanthemum. Then, selecting some - empty vases, he sat down on the floor beside her and began to arrange his flowers, while she watched him, at first with surprise, then with growing = : graces, no no parlor social tricks. airs If he and had been formally sitting on a chair, holding his hat, he would have been a self-conscious and unhappy young man. As it was, with hands and eyes _ } _ ' busy, and wholly at his ease, he talked his exuberant best. “How about ‘Laurie’s romance?” Louise asked Bangs told at once. her about the the As so, luncheon mirror. he did vision in was served, and he was casually invited to share it. Susanne, moving shuttle-like between the table in the sick-room and the dumb-waiter in the upper hall, presenily confided to a young footman a surprising piece of news, which he in turn confided to the incredulous Jepson. Young Mr. Bangs, who was lunching with Mrs. : mental confusion. If Sonya, when she entered the sickroom, was shocked by the change in the appearance of her new friend, she showed no sign of it. Sitting down beside the chaise longue, she entered briskly upon a description of the recent experiences of Samuel. When she left the hospital the house surgeon was obediently endeavoring _to look down the throat of Hullen R. J., and every nurse on Samuel’s floor was scuttering In and out of his room. Nevertheless the Infant, though graclously accepting these attentions, had demanded and received Sonya’s personal assurance that the particular game of the morning was not to be repeated. There was an unpleasant element in that game which ‘grown-ups might not notice but which he, Samuel, had caught on to. Louise laughed and expressed a hope that Samuel would now be able to breathe without. disturbing his neighbors. - admiration. Rodney had : Ordway, Sonya came . } ie | to the én, perfect.” Her perhaps, after “There’s-one thing more,” she went hesitatingly. “Laurie and Mr. Bangs and I. wondered if perhaps you wouldn’t feel more comfortable if Mr. Warren came home. You know he himself would. want to—” Louise closed her eyes, and without moving her head, © “Shaw? Great Scott, no! At lest I didn’t see him. I suppose he takes a few hours off now and: then, during’ the twenty-four; doesn’t he?” : “Oh, yes, he comes and goes, some‘times secretly, sometimes openly. ° I did not see him at all today until late IRIN Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for “1f | Moved, How Long Do You Think it Would Take Him to Find Me?” this afternoon. Then he took up-his post across the street just opposite this window, and stood there for almost an hotr.” Laurie ground his teeth. of Old Man’s Stale Joke “T sometimes think I'd rather see a boa-constrictor crawling into my room than see Shaw down on the sidewalk,” she ended. “And yet—I know you can understand this—there’s a queer kind of relief in the knowledge that at laq:, and finally, he has got me.” She whirled to face Laurie and threw out her hands. There was nothing theatrical in the gesture, merely an effort of entire finality. “We have come to the -end of things,” she finished. “Since you would not have them end my way, they must end his way. . Whatever happens, I shall not run and hide any more,”” For a moment silence hung like a substance between them. Then the visitor resolutely shook off .the effect of her words. “I promise you I will get to the bottom of this,” he quietly told her. “In the meantime, will you +: to forget it, for a little while? You know you said you could do that, occasionally.” He was clearing the table as he spoke. Now he proceeded to unpack a basket he had sent over an hour before by Griggs, and which, he observed, had not been opened. Dropping back into her big chair, she watched him with an odd look. If he ly puzzled him, for it held not only interest but an element of apprehension, even of fear, “In the past two days,” she sald, after an interval, “you have sent me five baskets of food, four baskets of fruit, six boxes of candy, and three boxes of flowers. What do you suppose becomes of them all?” “TI know what becomes of the tlowers.”; He cast an appreciative glance around the transformed room. “And I. hope,” he mildly added, “that you “{ forgot the lemons.” (TO BB CONTINTUD.: Aspirin is the Accept only ‘Bayer’? package which contains proven directions. 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She had become-a different personality from fo You can say this much for the dio announcer, anyway, He knows station in life. : vis fie'speentes tragic-eyed girl who less than ten minutes ago had somberly announced that she was making her last stand In life. Again, as often before, Laurie felt overwhelmed by «the rush of conflicting emotions she aroused. “Shall we have this big bowl of roses in the cénter, or the four little bowls at the corners?’ she asked absorbedly. : As she spoke, she studied the flowers with her-head on one side. For the moment, it was clear, the question she had asked was the most vital in the world. “The little ones,” decided the guest. “The big one might shut off some of you from my devouring eyes.” He was mixing ingredients in a chating-d1sh as he spoke, and he wore the trying alr of smug complaceney that invariably: accompanies that simple process. “No.” he objected, as she tried te} help him, “I will do the brain-work. rush Your part is to be feminine anc briskly back and forth, offering ma things I don’t want. And at the cast moment,” he added gloomily, “yor may tell me that there isn’t a lem in the place.” He looked about wits tne hopelessness of # great artist ry ing the failure of his chef @oeuvre” Rheumatism | DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART | } Imitations may prove dangerous.—Adv. deep-throated, and contagious. Under it his spirits rose dizzyingly. “You are feeding half the people in this building,” she sald, “not to mention Sam and his home circle. Sam has absorbed roast chicken, cold partridge, quail, and sweetbreads till he {s getting critical. He asked me this morning if I shouldn’t like ham and eggs for a change!” Laurie felt slightly aggrieved. “Do' you mean to say that you’re not eating any of the stuff yourself?” he demanded. ; “Oh, I eat three meals a day. But I don’t keep boarders, you know; so I give the rest to Sam to distribute. He feeds several dozen art students, I infer, and staggers home every night under the burden of what’s left.” “There won't be anything left this night.” She had risen now and was helping to set the little table. Laurie looked at her with shining eyes. One of her rapid changes of mood had taken Lumbago Neuritis — Toothache Warning! Unless you see the name “Bayer” on package or on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for 26 years. Say “Bayer” when you buy Aspirin. eat the food.” . She broke into her rare laugh, soft, “wholly Headache Neuralgia Colds Pain had seen this look it would have sore-— must be as amusing as young Mr. De“What does he expect to gain by von himself. He had actually made that performance?’ “Several things, I suppose. For the mistress laugh both times he came. | “Yes,” she sald, “Bob ‘would want one, he wants to get on my nerves; She was laughing now, as Susanne to, if he knew.” had not heard her laugh for weeks. She was silent for so long that and “he does,” she added somberly, and still without turning. To be sure, this was one of her good Sonya began to think she was not Laurie made a vague tour sround days. But it wasn’t easy to amuse to have the answer to her: question. the room and brought up by her side. Mrs. Ordway at any time. Perhaps Mrs. Ordway was leaving the “You know,” he confessed, “I haven’t Jepson summed up the situation In decision to her, =» really taken this thing in yet. Even an oracular utterance: - Butito leave to others decisions now, this minute, it doesn’t seem pos“Henny one that’s a friend of Mr. that concerned herself. was not Louise Devon's his hall right.” she was sible to me that Shaw could do you Ordway’s habit. Instead, When Rodney was leaving Jepson’s fighting a battle in which the lifelong any real harm.” She nodded. “I know. Why should mistress expressed the same thought devotion of a supreniely self-centered it? Even to me it is like a nightmare to her guest in a different way. nature was struggling with a new“Come often,” she said. ‘You have born unselfishness. Though new-born and I keep hoping to wake up. ‘There are hours, even days, when I congiven me a new interest. I don’t think it was strong, as the invalid’s next vince myself that {it isn’t real.” She you can quite realize what that means. words showed. : : stopped. “It must be very hard for “If I: were calling him back from to me.” any one else to understand,” she endahything but his honeymoon,” she said When Sonya arrived at five that afted, when he did not speak. But he’s utterly ernoon, she found Jepson still exuding at last, “I’d do it. “Nevertheless,” admitted Laurie, “1 happy. His letters show that, in every _reassurance. With two doctors withline. I want him to stay so, as long ean’t forget it. I can’t think of anyin call,a nurse in the house, and Mr. thing else.” Devon and Miss Orleneff to telephone as he can. J want his honeymoon to to at a moment’s notice, “nothing ea se Fd od much could ’appen.” -So reasoned oe he ee ae paste y Jepson. He beamed approvingly on Sonya, informed her that Mr. Devon was in the sick-room now, and waved ‘her through the hall with an effect of crazy. So she said, “Over there,” was “learnbenediction. The new sales clerk who pointing to the stairs. been had store” the ing all about She found Laurie just leaving, and The little man walked away muttermanager next to they had a moment’s chat on the up-: placed by her section ing, “What floor's the basement on, with instructions per landing. Mra. Ordway, he told. an information pooth ha, ha.” ‘Then the information clerk, the questions to “stay there and hear her, was rather restless this afterwho had fgnored all this, turfed and customers ask.” noon, but she seemed better than she said: “Didya see I didn’t notice him? way from the had been yesterday. However, he They ranged alt the He comes around every month or so : didn’t like her looks at all, and he sensible to the insane. and asks that pet joke of his. Asked from a little The prize query came me the first time I was here; he alfancied the nurse was disturbed. Supa white bear’. about Louise sounded Sonya elderly gentleman with ways picks a new girl to spring -it on.” pose eh? on, nt Surely Warren eabling for Warren? “What floor’s the baseme —New York Sun. He oe sales clerk stared. would want to know, Laurie thought. new The Laurie's striking be kidding ; anyhow, For the moment didn’t seem to best He Wrestling Bouts in Japan was and it - good looks were slightly dimmed. one could never tell, haggard. Every year the Japanese wrestling almost The customer is hollow-eyed, was to abide by the rule: championship is decided at the Kokuif occasionally even Things were coming just a bit too fast right always gikwan in Tokyo, says the Pathfinder The habit of carrying the for him. rr a on Magazine. Here the wrestiers from burden of others had been taken the east and west of Japan struggle Under the strain of it, too suddenly. Too Much Service for supremacy. The championship his untrained mental muscles ached. gentleman was having elderly “an bouts, which are always picturesque, It was the irony of fate that Sonya, hotel manlunch in our grill,” said the last for ten days or more. sometimes looking at him with the clear brown, when ager, “and, as was customary than; The matches begin early in the morneyes that were so much softer evidence of Hach his water glass showed less beautiful ing and last until late at night. so much and reBangs’, use, a passing waiter or bus boy name, like our than Doris’, should misinterpret his filled it. After the fifth or sixth re- wrestler nus a stage actors. In fact, they are the heroes of his re-. and emotion, his ‘Stop?’ appenrance, fling the diner let out a roar. of the’ the Japanese fluppers, some of them action from the high spirits ‘Ive been trying to get that idols in going the ‘he erted. again was He ever belug as popular as matinee morning. water giass to the proper level with, this country. mingled and, decided; she doctor My -pace, I came to this table. since “catch-as& the of use scorn all the wrestlers rose The a third of her: pity for him, ordered me to take a pill in eatch-can” method. Each match conabsolute the was that soul mrong a glass of water. Now I feel like an stnues until one man is thrown. The it dwelt. and I still . saaster of the body in which water-wagon be overloaded carchampionship the wins perception who san aroused 4 Fils newly have the pill to take’ ”-—Boston Tran- . comes a popular national here to. the ried same hint of this scorn t script. {t was by the though covered "Boy Tired NEWS ' She took this as naturaNy «s shn had taken his’ first remark: “It’s going to be very hard for you. all, 'll be here when he gets back,” I was wrong to draw you into ft. 1 she added more lightly. “Life atti am realizing that more and more, has its interests, But, if I happen not every minute,” to be here, tell him why I didn’t “You couldn’t help yourself,” “he cable.” cheerfully reminded her. “Now that “I will tell him,” Sonya promised. I am fn it, as I’ve warned you before, Neither of them referred to the sub- I intend to run things. It seems to ject again. me that the obvious course for you fs to move, After you're safely hidden CHAPTER IX | Somewhere, I think I can teach Herbert Ransome Shaw a lesson that won't react on you.” An Invitation She shook her head That evening Laurie walked across “If I moved, how long do you think the square to Doris’ studio with a deit would take him to find me?’ cision in his stride which detinitely “Weeks, perhaps months.” expressed his mental attitude. He Again she shook her head. had come to the conclusion that “I moved here a few days ago. He Something must be done. What. this appeared exactly forty-eight hours something would be was still hazy later. If I moved from here it-would in his mind, but the first step at least only mean going through the game of Seemed clear. Doris must move. hare and hounds again.” He was so convinced of the urgency “But—” he began. She interrupted of this step that he brought up the him. subject almost before the greetings of “T’ve reached the point where I can’t guest and hostess were over. Tossing endure that any more.” For the first his hat. and. coat. on a convenient time her voice broke. “Can't you imchair, he stood facing Doris, his hands agine what that sort of thing would fn his pockets, his black eyes somber. be? To get up in the morning and “We've got to get out of this, you wonder if this is the day I'll see him know,” he abruptly announced. under my window? To go to bed at Her eyes, which had brightened at night and ask myself if he is lurking his’ entrance, gre: as somber as his in the shadows below, or across the own. Without- replying, she turned, street, or perhaps outside my very walked across the room to the windoor? To know that sooner or later dow, and stood looking down Into the he will be there, that his coming 1s street, : : as inevitable as death itself—” She “Is he there?’ she asked. at last, broke off. real purpose of her visit. : “He and. his mother are going back to Devon house Saturday,” she said, “but I’ve got to stay in New York for a few months, on account of my literary galumphings. I wondered if you— if it would be convenient for you—to put me up. I hate hotels and—” Louise lay silent for a moment. ‘Then she reached out and took Sonya’s hand. . “Yes, you unskillful prevaricator,” she said. “You may come—and see me through.” Sonya held the hand tightly in her own. “Information” : 6Gervice friendliness of Sonya’s manner. The knowledge added to his wretchedness, He had a childish desire to explain, but he conquered {tt and hurried away. 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