Ii I By- By Evelyn Campbell S Copyright by Evelyn Campbell a 3 THE STORY Linda rather father neer ne'er- well do dies when she Is seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen lea leaving VIrIS her to face the world with little money or pros tHOS- poets Her sole sale possessions are some flame worth worthless lees stock 8 which her Lathers fathers friend Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Converse agrees to dl dispose of or She Instinctively dislikes Lh the lh senator becomes engaged to Courtney Roth CHAPTER II Continued 11 4 f. f Pearls like these ate al e a passport anywhere Amy Ralston Kalston said Theu Then t she ma made e a n curious remark slightly humorous slightly vulgar nr and In tn Intensely tensely prophetic If LI she site hail had known With your looks and ond those pearls noone no noone 1 one would ever dare hand you a 0 bill lull Linda Bills lUlls I They both smiled It was VIlS wasso wasso so unlikely that Linda Lindu would ever again be troubled with bills I IThe IThe The wedding was as the smallest seI se- se I a flair affair Imaginable Linda's Lindas looks made wade It U unique Her proud face fuce tice Jj seen on the society page lOge of the tile rl right ht i paper said that small sudden n weddings s sro ro i were the only sort son to have ha The bridegroom room was a 8 proud prom arid and happy man He tie was a true product of the fevered times and und there were vere features to this wedding which nobody knew v about and which gave him hint new thrills of Irresponsibility four Twenty hours have made mode I. I changes In many mony a love lo affair Linda was married on Tuesday and anti by hy Wednesday nl night ht she was wondering why she had never noticed that Roth's hs h's manners were not all that they should be he and that he was more titan than had tempered Meals should have ve been heen served by a genie and no service ever p pleased I eased Really flesHy If It It was going to be like this this Linda Linda shrugged shrug ed her beautiful white shoulders The They were In Boston Buston and she was surprised to find herself at a hotel whose name meant nothing to her and she had hud been In lu Boston many times U I thought an anything would do for tor forthe I. I the few tew hours we will be here her new husband said hurriedly The bl big places are ure always full at ut this titis sea season season son and we e dont don't want wont a n fits do wo wc r. r You could have telegraphed for rooms she protested puzzled Roth began to tu pace the nerv nerv- His Ills color was hl high h and the Im un Impatience patience she was beginning to know came me Into his e eyes es Now look here Linda They've kept you yuu In hi cotton cutton wool wol too lon long I Ir r- r wanted you ou because youre you're different r. r from other wom women n. n Youve You've got ut an nn air Ir f. f that makes er e everything you do seem right Even en this hits rate second t hotel hot 1 I would seem smart smart smart-If 11 If you ou mane made a habit of t coming here P Linda was bewildered She Site knew i he lie was tr trying to tell to-tell U. U tell fell her lIer sumet something without committing himself hut slip site r could not guess what it was She fell felt annoyed and a little cheated 0 But when there Is no reason for second rate hotels she murmured E He flushed a n deeper leeper crimson and screwed up his eyes In a wu way she site pur- pur t disliked I Reason Theres There's Jolly well ell rea rca reasons r i sons soils enough enough- h- h He clapped d his iris hands bands on In his pockets with un an odd boyish gesture that touched her tier through h her bewilderment and ond dawning fear rear It ii Ii r reminded her of Jim Jim Hil Then t lie he grinned at her sheepishly r Fact is Is dearest Im I'm stony Oh I know youre you're shocked but you'll Jet get used to shocks shucks Its It's rather a u lark fl It If you look at It from the lie rl right ht angle I Married to a 8 beautiful luxurious creature crea cn ture and und hardly hardly- a bean benn In your pocket l 4 Gad It makes a 8 fellow sit up Linda I 4 dont don't look like that t 1 I I Why did me Why you marry didn't you tell me 1 do think Im I'm cud card Why Why do you nu a u Ii Leave Leo you ou sitting on UIl the church stoop Id I'd say not Besides I didn't LIa It I 1 cabled cabler for money muney and find expected eXI ted tedi i plenty but the old wire wi re came cn me back like a knock behind your ear eur Nomore No Nomore more money Id I'd d spent It nil hll tiL S Lindas Linda's head whirled How could you have spent all r year ar money without without with with- out knowing It 1 slit mana managed ed to say I. I n f line Ile IraQ Ul never 1 r VU umi moment mo- mo ment how muc mud she had counted on fortune He lie had hail seemed secure as a stone wall cali She f felt him staring at her and suddenly she saw behind the hIgi lights of his dominant gray I. I eyes es m merely rely a 8 boyish boastful something some- some thing that that brought ht contempt st ron er eri i that than fear Into her heln being All my money Roth Lath I out 1 laughing So that's It II anti and an she felt tell feltA P A ashamed f t I 1 never had very much he went wenton t. t v t. t on Indifferently Lord love Ime you p- p child you cant can't ru run about as ns I Ive I've done lone without spending lIn a u pile That That car expedition when tle other fellow fel fel- fel lows low didn't pay up tip put HIP Phe final fatal crimp in iy me are And then he tie added blithely s t Its Ifs n a good thing you dont don't have to depend entirely on me Linda was enveloped In a blaze of You married swift Indignation me Die believing I land had money I 1 she accused and writhed In shame and self disgust Its Just that old Joke about th the biter hit hit hit- But he shook his head No uNo Linda I J knew all about you 1 I looked you OU up of course Youre You're taking too tra tragic lc a 1 view of it all ull It ft doesn't require actual money to get g-et along Theres There's wn ways s 's of getting t I el e everything t you want You possess something that's worth more than thun money nod and Ive I've a little of the he snore same thing It got ut over with you lUll iron and I your people which proves pro It W We Ve dont don't need money mone you nod and L We can cnn have tUl e ever everything without It It She Sire WR was struggling with a sensation of nf utter titter collapse Certain ertain phrases ruses he used humiliated hated n as tracts facts appal appalled led her Ills His I 1 looked you oll up ot course filled her tier with bait loathing lung for him hm and for fur herself lIe He had hal looked her III tip up hut site she he had been lIcen n ii fool and taken en hun him on trust fIust or Worse Vorse e tItan than a 0 fool fool n a tallU tall fail U ure re Why hy you fOU are Just an ad ad adventurer I site she cried scornfully Persians he Inc shrugged lIt hut not bourgeois I 1 am nm afraid my dear you lune t more inure to learn Icum tItan than I thought ht You haven't ha found out that Its It's not what liat you rou are lair hut what people think you are ure that counts counts- All Ml clever er per per- persons persons sons know that t t or they're heyre t not fit lit to meet the This Tints was all nil oddly familiar Talk she had hard heard before b talk in a dream She Rhe sat sut still pressing her fingertips n against her pale Faie ups thinking lips thinking of whirl what she should sl lOld do Ii Of or course she could leave lEa Roth ROll nth hut but she rejected this t thought as os It came to her She was not an nn adventuress nd If It he was and L 0 No No Linda I Know All About You I Looked You Up of Course I aside tram from that It U was Impossible to admit to her friends and to Cousin Amy that she had hud been a fool In spite of her attitude of cleverness erness She Site I thou thought ht of nr at Senator CD Converse and arid the sureness of UI what he would say and this t I trough thought made her shudder In Lu some Indefinable way she seemed to tobe tolie be lie closer to him him now nu than latin t before her marriage e. e lie He was so su close dose that she could I touch ouch hl iris his hand Something omet lung within with in tier her warned that uric one mistake now rno one wore more error and sIte she would nol not esca escape es es- sU s- s ca cape U pe from lii III liln n ii as ns she sire IIi ha Had It d lr hr t I the he lie past fast Of or course sl site she lund had not been heen blinded to the rite foci that than h he lie admired her thaI that he tie would hat e hll pa paid Id at any ny price for her Cousin t Amy's Amys s m world had not left her herIn herIn herin In Ignorance of that Roth pit felt sorry for her tier thou though h he hp was US tat fur far r front from reading ii ng tier her t thoughts Slit She II wa was ais So so o lovely ely and childish churlIsh wit with lt h that droop to ro her II lips illis IS He lie took her tier herIn herIn In hl his arms rind and kissed her lIer tenderly Dont I ont fret frEr dear r When Iun you fUll worry you let people P heIr hid I the lie scenes s. s it and nil youve you've tUV gut got ut to fo watch out aLit for that fht Its It's ItsU a U wonderful g tine once you yun learn lea rn how ho to tn play pili tutu find I you'll I liml n a lot lut ot of el clever er ever amusing people playing ln it with us Let Lei the fhe r lie duds with tire the trunk hunk accounts pay the hills while we amuse e em eh Its It's H profession rI rp 1 in Itself making theother the rhe theother other fellow pay anti and teaching him to like It Ir IL Her i tears rears dropped upon the pearls on 00 her breast TO eTO BE liE CONTINUED