Show P A wa D E by evelyn campbell copyright by evelyn campbell service THE STORY linda H ver hills neer do avell we il father adlea dies when she Is seventeen leaving cpr little beyond some borne worth worthless les stock these ashe takes to her fathers friend senator Sen converse to dispose of atter after a whirlwind courtship linda m marries arr es couney n ney roth too late she dincov err ero he Is if a penniless adv adventurer living by his wits CHAPTER 11 II continued there was ws one small sheat of certificates tife ates that unda had been advised sot not to sell for two years nt at least but these went into a brokers hands before mr air and urs mrs courtney roth left boston however clever one may be there are times when currency Is absolutely necessary and roth explained that eliat with a lovely young bride on his hands this was one ot of it the lie tl times tries ile he passed lightly over the fact that it was lindas money that furnished the means of their migration mi ration ile ie forgot the unpleasantness as quickly its as possible and advised her to do the same the rallis went around the world but not as rapidly as they had planned it took two years to go as far as they had counted on going in six weeks but they did not travel as the crow flies they went as the fox runs from cover to cover wherever the grass was greenest and the hares most plentiful not kot a bad two years if you care too much a gay two years if lovely frocks and brilliant restaurants were enough if you mind ugly scenes with landlords and delayed luggage if you were careful about making friends and chose them among people who had delightful houses bouses and played bad cards linda was made amazingly beautiful and interesting by all this travel and change and courtney roth rath held its his hend higher than ever wherever they went people remarked about them what a lucky pair they have everything good looks popularity and wonderful times life Is perpetual play for them it was a desperate sort of play that carried on rather grimly behind the scenes linda learned all tier her husband could teach leach her in those two years and if 11 she did riot not respect him slie site liked him in a to lerent way pitying his boyish ness and sometimes even admiring tits his coolness in the face of overwhelming situations but roth had bad lived tor for ten years when linda lived one he tt vas as burned out with peculiar fires and he wanted to rest though never suspecting tits ills own tiredness it was a game however that had bad no breathing spaces the mad whirligig thirll ig of change held both of them relentlessly ile he grew grev to depend more and more upon lindas ingenuity in managing and when she failed or seemed to fail lie ie became victimized by a silly futile rage that blamed her for their particular predicament di cament it took them two years to get to switzerland but they reached there at the proper moment the ice nas at its best and all the winter sports were as k been act as if the weather had been ordered by aerial wire roth meant to enjoy every moment of it lie ile liked snow and th there re were some new stunts that bear but three days alter after their arrival lie had an un comfortable interview with the manager of the hotel lie ile promised to moie on that night then he cledt aut up stairs and struck linda across the face knitli tit a blow that left an ugly kiark m irk for time to come he left her I 1 ying lying across tile the bed shielding hei shame and swaggered out determined fit haie hae his play to the last a S t lie he bud bad it tor for rno hours later them the brought film in it on a stretcher with a broken broke neck and that was the end of a honey moon that should never h have bave beun begun CHAPTER ill III the wall of pretense the train stopped with such a sud den jolt that the lie book dropped from roin lindas hand she land had not been rending reading anyway and so site she let lei it hi unnoticed she had been staring through the thick double glass window of hie file pullman pul linan at the he grayness that pressed against the pine like i 1 blanket no sign of life was to be seen in that void and this suited tier her mood admirably mir ably for tier her mentality was aa a n standstill without a glimmer to relieve its intense atrophy that morn ing site she had opened her bica to snow and a leaden skies and all through the day this had persisted until she had subconsciously thrown herself upon the breast of the landscape and become a part of its but the jolt and accompanying grinding of brales brakes shrill and nerve wracking disturbed he h snood site she glanced rather helplessly around the lighted car and tier lier eyes encountered those of the good lo oling booling young man across the aisle who at that thai moment chanced to he be looking toward tier her across the tall bucks backs of sections all through the hie conch other inquiring enles peered most of them stupid and tiny lous ious the possibility of an accident had aroused every one from the lan ian buor of 0 dullness that belonged to tn such a lay day what Is it linda asked speaking quite naturally to tile the young man 4 nho wha to have bare absorbed all the tk intelligence 0 of nil all the passengers have we run into a wall or a ditch Hs he shifted appreciating her coolness ties when the other women were already rend y beginning to flutter utter ll one or both lie ile answered easily im afraid weve met tile the waterloo of 0 trains li passing through nebraska in january A snowdrift can be a wall and a ditch fas as well lie he had the pleasant est smile it crinkled tits his eyes tit at the earlier corners and they suf smiled fled too nice brown eyes alia bildt t had ki ably straight look about them ill go and see he he sald said and swung olt off down the aisle after tile lie other men who wha were pushing one another in iii the passage unda linda leaned back and waited she was a sen seasoned tran traveler eler and audit knew new that fretting set got no oue one anywhere so because tile the delay was vas tinte hateful ful and menacing site she let a pleasant thought of tier her neighbor ripple across tier her mind A boy a charming buy boy men had bad their place in tier her life iffe a large place as they must lime am e in the life of tiny any beautiful woman wo but slie she forIll pl curious little fancies about them she so without knowing how it came cama about anstey ansley found himself sitting beside the beautiful young woman s saw aw all men ns as seekers or of prey sleek animals well fed and beautiful seliag gy and horrible reptilian she and her kind were always prey of course she thought of these things as natural and unavoidable avoidable jn but the boy was different ile he had made no gesture of joining tier her even after she had bad spoken first lie ile had seemed almost afraid to look at her she was thrilled and a little litte sorry tor for him knowing what must happen when he did look ile he returned almost at once it Is a drift he sald pausing beside her A whopper its had bad news but im afraid we are stuck here for a few ew hours linda lifted her brovis bros slowly no young man could be e pec teel to guess what this meant to her ills casual tone treated the whole occurrence as a light adventure put but if she was a day late if she missed tile the GieK Suns sons and their nice invitation to allame if they went on without tier her tier her man mail tier oer gae no hint faint of tills this perturbation she merely sank deeper into the comfort of her fur coat as if slie site already r sensed coming discomfort from fro m chill cars and insufficient food linda roth rolls had learned to look at men she knew already alre tidy that this one was as the rig right 1 I d sort site she could spent a bored bared halt half hour talking nR to him bins art anil save saie herself at least from teresi nit thoughts so go without knowing how it came about brian ansley found him hill self sitting beside hie file beautiful young youn who smelled faintly of spring flowers in spite of the snow TO BE |