Show THE 1 I H E GIRL WH OH HAD NO N 0 GOD GO A mystery story by MARY ROBERTS RINEHART RINE WART CHAPTER IX continued allies 8 eingle single and very attractive tny my dear the entire village Is trying to marry him there ie Is talk of tho the doctors daughter a common little thing ahva the she had gone elinor a little faint wilt and dizzy neat ment out on oil the terrace she realized that the barrier be aard and herself mits not only of ills tits faith against her tf there mas wa the insurmountable gulf between ilia world and her horld sno she did not ut fit into his ills life into his arm perhaps into his tits life never walter would try to get tho the money she must ret get word to hlin him somehow tor for it if the bryant pearl wab rc covered and boroday given hta his freedom money would not be an immediate necessity she paced the terrace and tried to think it out for talbot to go back to tho the city an hour for the delivery dellery of tho the special delivery another hour then the police pollee would have to come out by train or motor alth the beet best ut of luck it would be four before the tile pearl could be recovered there were a dozen possibilities the tile thief might be out of town toju the pearl might bo rc recovered covered from tho the box without kilt hout bis his assistance in that cose lio lie would mould not hold ta to his agreement with boroday bhe tried to head licad walter off on but ehe she could not locate him at none of his various haunts could she lio find him b by y telephone ho lie was not at the bagos at the taxicab ollice he lie mas said to bo be laid off for tho the day As the white thouds of tho the afternoon turned to flame in tho the sunset face grew r isit d and hard o 0 am I 1 in not blind ill get him for this thief I 1 that was A hat he had eold said lie ile would go affet tho money ilia that night aud and there was mas murder in his heart lid lilt watching matching F elinor alt face tact grew grow fretful she squealed it ft a door slammed med brought food that elinor could not cat eat and finally divining a crisis tried stealthily by lone hone to locate tolbot or lethbridge and failed better eat a bite or two bho dentri abed nerves loo were on edge 1 I dont want it ahe said just a little soup I 1 I 1 it if you bring that tray troy hero here again I 1 shall throw it out of the window 11 Ilear letto wn was cheered elinor and speechless was alaria ing elnor in one oc of her tier rare razes rages as reassuring by seven minor elinor knew what she ho must do go to word ward tell blin jilin hat eho the feared and how she knew she was as not craven but her very foul soul was avas blk she sough sought about for some way to evade the issue or to postpone it and finally she be struck on one on plain note paper she scra crawled tiled a luttio note in a feigned hand an attempt will be mode made tonight to secure t te 0 o fund raised at the morning enice en ice bo advised add give it to someone else to keep overnight but she realized before she bid b id finished it the uselessness of such an attempt ward would mould not transfer a danger tho night bad had fallen A line of care from the country dob club was ilas carrying town people and villagers home to the late dinners ot 0 the golf season groups of girls aud men in summer ga garment f glutting gayly bossed under the wall it of her garden down domn in the valley straggling lines ct ot evening goers moved deconde decon dv toward tho the churches A ragged child alood la in tho the road below her garden and wept E ellnor ran mn down to him and took him blin up in her arms N when hen she had soothed law ehe she felt quieter she went into the house and rut put on her hat bat there no amace from rom tolbot talbot no word of 0 huff evening service was over when she reached baldit judes the last straggler had gone and aard ard was not in fight sho she avoided the strett lights she felt quite sure that walter was la in the vicinity his keen eyes missing nothing ho ito had put his band hand on her before she he knew ho he ass near ng again agal a I 1 he be jeered 1 I 1 have not been in the church 0 her iler quick mind wn wu scheming dasper abely 11 1 I have been alone this evening vien yoi 1011 did not come COMO ip I 1 ite ile a enung ung her around you more looking for met 1 I thought you might bo here you raid said last list night thu memory of tho the night before stung him blut lie ile released ler er wrist niter alter I 1 am of raid 1 I 2 tried to make intake you understand last night but roll you wouldn t listen it he were roused ho he might bo be dangerous cerous loa t take chances i doat dom t think because be he Is a chu churchman rebman she was talking against time sho bad her plon plan now 1 I 1 can take tate care ot 0 myself eald said stutt sullenly raU enly bat but ho he kept bis his place her aa as she lie started back her iler tude was vas tor for him then them she cart carol d after all nut but it do abend too much elinor had w him jilin with alth a high hand lih ery pul el e ached with mith her tier nearness but be did not touch her lie left her without even a hand clarp AOU might me luck 1 I wish you safety she replied iio ile stood down donn in the road and matched her shadowy figure ligure threading its way may along the garden paths lie bad had a ald gilld impulse to run after her to kneel in the tarth at her tier feet and cry out for her tier old for her ful eyed caresses cn then into his suspicious young heart crept the vision islon of face when he had bad planned pl anncil his new coup I 1 shall warn him the she had said hofta mouth as birti as bo he turned and walked down the bill hill CHAPTER X into and through her tier garden I 1 knor walked quietly until she was safe from bun nillance eil lance then sho she ran ruthlessly across the flower roner beds through the roses the terrace ilas a all 11 led she avoided it making a detour that led by a bide side entrance into old Ull llila arya rys library for obvious rea sons 8 old III larye larys te telephone NN ans as in a sound soundproof closet before walter had taken a hundred watchful fut paces down the road she had ward at the other end of the line what with running and terror she could hardly speak once long ngo ehe she had heard a disc discussion aslon b bb e ameen boroday Ilo roday and her father fattier about thu tho use of the telephone its substance was fig that when the transmitter Is held to the tile chest a clear message may be sent but it with ith the effect of dia dis tanco tance she held the transmitter to her breast then and it seemed to her that word ward must hear the throbbing of her heart I hello lello hello I 1 canio came his quick response no need to ask who mho it haq she ahne anew every inflection of 0 his ht 3 olce this mils la 18 a ft friend ellnor panted 1 I want mant to tell aou a something yes very ln clale now very soon an attempt she stopped what was eho she doengi she her father daughter the beald of the band bandl by warning morning ward word ehe she 4 1 I 1 41 I 1 I 1 can take care cate of myself might bo be sending walter to his hi death A vision of 0 old hilary tary gray headed lieu eyed at thia this very telephone on bed into her mind wind old hilary lary whose religion bad been of keeping the faith inith not with bis his god but with bis his men who nho are youl the impatient Impat lent voice was mas saying in her ears tars are ime you suro sure on want met me tilt Is 13 ward of saint judes elinor quietly hung up the transmitter and stood in the darkness her hands to her throat old ever watchful came into the beyond litnor could bear her man wandering dering about knew tho the moment when the ho dis discovered h hor korap wrap on c chair heard beard her tier plaintive volee speaking through k window to the empty terrace ellsa litnor nor she the called miss Ell elinor aorl 1 ellnor let her go IN when hen her shuffling footsteps foot bad had died away elinor took tile yec elver clver down again and called the assistant rectors hou house te dit this time she be spoke directly into the transmitter thia this Is elinor fainor kingston mr ward I 1 vender monder it if you are very tired to nighta 1 I 11 tired lin never tired I 1 e I 1 am thinking of askina you to wine up UN 1 I there are some things I 1 vant yant to talk about question questions that are arc troubling me I 1 kaow it is late bat but 1 I taw saw you at the early service of course ill comeux come up 11 lie bad seen her then I 1 1 I 1 it U do toy my best he lie wa was saying buying of 0 course you know I 1 may disappoint ou these question questions that come from within must bo be answered in the same way but aru coming nt at once elinor minors battle wan wa only halt fought tough t but she had A d great sense of relict relief let him meet walter on tha the way waye so much the better let hut know that bard was ya 5 out and the offering pre unguarded lie might hate the roun but no hope of a running fight with him m would deter him from his main object the money to save IN ward ard she waa mas milling even anxious to let succeed women I 1 omen sometimes sometime s meet large crisel with ith bacall unities but elinor had no vanity INIth without out so in much uch as a glance at ill the mirror elio she went tient out in to the gardan to listen for isnara ards s step on tho the road she knew his walk al at ready tho the foretk fal III ct cirtain r tat n step of an nud cud purposeful man tho the illuminated dial on the steeple of the baptist thatch showed something after ten when ward finally came caine up the hill the relief of seeing him hial unharmed sent allinor down the terrace steps alth both hands out before he be could take ehni in ward u was as obliged to stoop and deposit on tho tha ground at latr feet a small box wit bo he carried tho the rooming morning collection he said smiling and took her bands hands in his her ner quick alarm showed in her face but ou anro reckless I 1 to go with so much money ward was toll following oiling her up the steps 1 I daro dare say it Is safer with nu mt t than any place else in the world orld pid did anyone ever hear of un assistant rector going about with u k fortuno fortune in his hand I 1 I 1 lie ile followed her into the library and placed tho the box on the great table old hilary had been wont mont to till divide ida the annual earnings of the band bond ward pointed to it with ith his humorous dintle would anyone suspect he said that in that box there Is a stone I 1 it bouce a new church organ and a childrens playground I 1 then glancing at her with keen egeit he lie waa was struck by her pallor you to ask me if I 1 am tired I 1 I 1 he be cried crid N liy ily ou poor chit 1 it Is you who are w orn out t it be bet ter to have me corae tomorrow and go aver o 0 the things you rou about I 1 1 I think we had better talk nebout them BOW now said elinor de desperately calm at a n quarter before eleven that sun day night old bent on her evening task of bending sending elinor to bed vion wandered dered into tho the library she found ward his earnest face glowing ex pounding rounding tho the tene i of bis his faith from the edge of ija and elinor lying back with her face drawn drann watching ill the clock on the mantel old astounded withdrew not to sleep but with the wakeful alertness of old age to wander up and down the garden paths until such time as visitor might leave ward suddenly realized that be was making small headway when at last bo he caught eyes on the clock ho lie hushed flushed and rose ive done it all very hedly ho he said 1 I sem to wander all about and not get anywhere you see its all BO so real to me jl elinor had hall leaned back with closed it Is s nil all very terrible to me ehe she replied this god of vengeance this god of tenderness and li mercy kercy ward supplemented I 1 dont don t you see what it all deanal ilow terrible this life would mould bo be it thil were nere allf our little lives full fult of jealousies and hatreds and crimes I 1 bringing that box over then there on the table up here with mith ine ina bace I 1 dare not trust it to my fellow men I 1 who could not last lost night for thinking of you who are all that la Is good and sweet and tender up here alace lu ill this great house houe with god knows what dinger lurking about elinor had reached her limit the band build of her spit self control snapped she could not hold bold him much longer and before lift lie went he lie must know when I 1 sent tor for you she said 11 1 1 I 1 had two reasons I 1 wanted to see you Pl please easell AS he took a it step toward her and I 1 wanted to save you from squi something ething that I 1 know of TO TID 1311 |