Show the ne real eal adventure by henry e n ry ki kitchell webster k copyright 1916 co AFTER THE suggestion OF MARRIAGE HAD BEEN MADE TO RODNEY ALDRICH HE WASTE TIME IN FOLLOWING IT UP ROSE SURPRISES HER MOTHER SYNOPSIS rote stanton St nuton student at the Valver of chicago Is put oft off a at street I 1 car a in th rain I 1 artan utter argument tang with the e conductor she Is acco accosted by a young man who offers help and ad escorts her har to another car his an hour later this I 1 man rodney aldrich a well todo to do lawyer appears soaked with rain 1 at toe the home of wealthy married sister bister mrs martin macho whitney to attend a birthday dinner in his bis honor better mrs mra whitney 8 sug 89 9 gest that it a about out time rodney looked around tor for a wife he calls on miss St onton and ad what oct occurs at the meeting is ia described tn in this installment CHAPTER III continued C othmer am ob she bald mothers the I 1 written tit two we u of three dirce lt boole and ad lota 0 reng amea idea SL entities about women women s right and suffrage and all that bites ae a bacon be enwell well met ot of a leader ever since mae she he graduated from college back in h just jt think 1 1870 when roost meet girl used mind to have accomplishments french music and it washing extra you k wn she said mid it all with a quite adora me seriousness senous ness and his bis gem gravity v ity mate match M he hers whim when he replied 1 I would tille lile to meet her very much from aboyte iti iamb about cull a subject I 1 ta in woolly ignorant 1 I 1 et wt 1 believe she he sold eald thought uy a that id call it feminism temi alson in talking to mother about it if I 1 were em you yen moth mothers a a suffragist but iere bere 1 caime 11 1 abnot another h ar wave of 0 faint color along with h her smile mall but well bs awfully respectable you yoa know knew sh she C a seem to mind led his him tough laugh ing 9 out at that though she tilde t loto set him what ob about a ut tb the other late interesting I 1 ting in member comber ot of th the ae family he asked presently pew mantlY your alt sifter which Is sto she a suffragist or a feminist feminIs tT 1 I suppose she said oaid m d call portia a feminist anyway she time to talk about b out it much yen ton ease bee she a business ba lumes woman shea she a a hatta decorator she tells you what kind ind of furniture to buy and then sells eells it to yow you portia a terribly clever and awfully fully independent all AH right he said that brings a IBS flown down to you what are youl she sighed im 1 in sort kurt of a black sheep I 1 19 guess a ess tm fin just la in the miller ally tty but fm to be a lawyer whereupon be cried acted out at so an italy eliely that she fairly jumped then be ingred end it said it the notion ellot ellof her bar in court ort trying a case he was waa a law yer fer III nehf seemed rather startling start ilog bhe sighed again 91 and ana now I 1 an suppose plome she said advise me not to be IN kot a bit b he said its if the fin cst at profession in the world B but the he said it oi off the top of his bis briod ind down below it was RUU en an with the picture of her in a distant dismal courtroom court more blazing up at a iry fury the way she he had blazed up at that met conductor 1 I suppose upp a 1 I she he h hazarded crded that it s awfully do dull I 1 I 1 bud and tiresome though valid until you get way away up to the top that roused it him bini it s awfully dull drill when wc you yan do get to the th top or what a called the tp top t p being a client chient cure cars taker with the routine law brai business mass of a raw few big corporations and ad rah estates going through your office offles like bite grist griet through a hilll that s supposed to be the big reward word ot of course he was vas out of III his a chair now mw trump tramp ing up and down the th am room an the th tiling thing to bear in mind it if to you ore re going to t travel at that slat bood ad I 1 Is th that t a case 1 Is worth white while in a precise and ana nu unalterable alters ratio to the amount of money in ia olad evolved 1 in it il it you yen question that im at t sit alt seriously bously ance Y youra I 1 lost last t limits what happened be protect to me a I 1 its he pulled polled up with a jerk looked at ner cy and it laughed it my sister fre drin won were here bar be explained she he warn you that now was the time or yen to auk ask ma con it I 1 it b been to see a pr I 1 a adanal a or so something m like that film smiled r I 1 in a rt ct of at militated contented bhea the inalle trans in itself into a look of thoughtful than gotful gravity silly and ana it there a r was a a long on 8 silence anew phah ith though it puzzled ailed win him he be made 10 a move a to break at last he pulled I 1 tn long breath straight afi t acm to U him and ad said bald I 1 arned u ith you 1 tell me what happened aaa A onder the compelling palling sincerity delft lot her for or the nea two houra suld and le a ibale 14 or r there thereabouts about Us be did t told old it I 1 ps a he had bud never told it before he told her bar bow he bad started 1 at I itlie tie toot of the ladder in one A ot of the 1 successful firms ot what at he be called ad client it caretakers ab he told ot of his bit discovery or of a real mid legal problem and ait 07 passionate url with of I 1 the 1 situate balch blon he be had bad attacked M it the the thrill ing ig weeks of hill cibor r he be bad pu put upon it and the then be told he her how the head the arni an old friend of his him to fa of theral IU had d called balind hin him in and said the work be bad 1 I done d lams was very remark able bit a art ol 01 not profitable the whole amount involved 0 o the finn arm ta the case having b been el soure borne twenty a in other C we worda r hw in w waa fired ite ile told her bar how bow tied mid got gat in 11 with wilb A in a at I 1 antic bunch the city 13 bolcs race vad from the say ay he be 1 I told of his hia labors in datt drafting lg a new city aty ordinance she silt that it must have hav A been base one ol 01 0 the most fascinating occupations pu 1 la the world M ain tit til h lift told her bar he bow it bad drawn draw him bin into fare politics aad ad than bow after an elo election abow g new states state attorney tied had of fled biro a p position 0 buor on oa his bis stas staff ot of asle tents in a sense of coal course it we was true that he had as frederica would have put but it forgotten she we was there them T the h a girl knew he had forgotten and her only discomfort came cama from the fear fam that the spell night might be broken broke and he be might remember suddenly and stop step in the deeper sense mad and he ahe was breathlessly conscious ot of this too ton he forgotten she ahe was waa there he was failing euing it all bemuse because she was A there be because causi she was waa herself and nobody elso else she ka kaw though ugh how she he hals explained with that intuitive certainty which Is tie the only real certainty certainly there ts Is that the story have been evoked from him in just that way by anyone else in the world at the end of 0 two years to in the states attorneys office be told her he m figured he had him bis training and was ready to begin 1 I made just one me resolution when I 1 hung out ont my shingle he be said and that was that no matter how bow few fair cases I 1 got I 1 would lit take any that wern I 1 interesting that ditto dian t give me something to bite or on I 1 waso I 1 willing to be bored for any reward they had to offer me its cynical cyclical to be bored it a the worst immorality there Is well and I 1 never have been it all autobiographical and mo narrative natile there was a lot at 0 his bis deep breathing specious spacious philosophy of life mixed up in it it and this the girl cons consciously clousi y and deliberately it dl d need anch she said tit something a about b discipline and he searched the word away from her bar what I 1 Is discipline why it a tending standing the pitt standing it not cot submitting to it it its accepting the facts acts of life of your own life fife as a they happen to be it being conquered by them it 8 not making me masters ten of them but servants atit to the underlying things you yon want she tried to make sit I 1 reservation there suppose the thin things P you wanted merlint good things T but he allow it it what ell they are be insisted your de dc sires are the only motive forms forces Y youa gt got no matter how fine your intelligence I 1 Is t it t a can t rida rade anywhere y 0 except on the tha back of yow ya own 00 V f ira what Is discipline why its lt stand ing 10 the gaff pass passions learn lamut to rid them control them spur them but dout dont I 1 forget agat that tin IIII ym you just june as r a ia the rider 1 18 it was with a curiously restored body her chin cradled to in the crool ol of her aim I 1 which hach I 1 lay long the b bacic ck ot of the much couch hr her my ayea mt ormand on ma tb the window that the girl listened with in more nud and more poignantly vivid me con of the roan man himself the driving power of him of something i in hla ott a sit slie got to thinking of the flight of a great bird wheeling up higher and a nil higher on his powerful wings wines suit sud denly darly and it to her bar consternation EDO he felt celt her bar yea eyes flushing floating up with tears teare she tried to blink them away but they came a t too fait presently he dropped a short in a his walk stopped talking with ft a gap in fil the middle of a sentence atatim and looked into her heir face she coulta t aft him clearly but sue she saw his him hands clench and heard beard hlin him draw a docs breath then he in a t turned abruptly b aly and g I 1 walked to the window and tor for a mor tat tal endless minute there was a silence something happened during that moment while he stood looking I 1 into to her tear flushed ey eyes a something momentous critical itice which no previous it 1 in her life bad p prepared ard be her r tor for and it bad happened to him too his hia silhouette as he stood there with his bonds bands clenched between her and the tha window showed ber bar that what underlay her bar quiet was won dar and fear and ad more man deeply still a sort of cosmic ionic contentment the acquin acqui essence of a swimmer in the still tr fr resistible current of a mighty river riv er it was distinctly a relief to her w when hen he her mother the r mas came 1 in and ad presently portia pori I 1 Is she introduced him to them and then dropped out of the conversation altogether As it it were a I 1 long we way off she heard him retailing tell last night ht A adventure and expressing his regret th that t be baan t taken her to his him sister to be dried out before he be sent her home she was aware that portia stole edole a look at t her in a puzzled param penetrating sort of 0 way any every now and then but herself as aa to the tha basis of her curiosity it waso wasa t until he rose to go that she bhe aroused herself and went want with him into anto the hall there them after he be it got into hta his overcoat and hooked his stick over his bis arom arm ile he held out hla his hand to her in formal leave taking only it turn out I 1 that h mt way for far the effect of that war warm 11 lithe it Is rip flew its flag la in both their far faces 17 youre such A w wonder da be old she smiled so go are am y you it was th the e first time she had ever stammered in her life 11 when she mine came back into the sitting room she found portia mellott inclined to be severe did y you on as ast it him to conic came again she wanted anted to know rose items smiled 1 I never thought of it she said and perhaps crimps its just As aa well said I 1 P portia ortis did you have anything at all 11 to say my to him before we mine came ML home or were you title like that ml all the yo while how long ago did he ha cornel clovel 1 I dont know said amid rose behind a very real aw yawn 1 I was asleep on the co coach eh when he be came in that s why I 1 was dressed like this and ahva she said she nas hung hungry there am wase I 1 on a the w whole hole a happier pier person la in the world at thud that moment but rodney aldrich pounding nine along g at t five file miles ile an hour 1 la a duce tie alon left to chance co was not net happy or if he be was he be debt t know it ft ile he could 0 t yield instantly and easily to him bis bailitz bai liti si as rome had do done he felt that he must most think felt that he had he never 1 la such each need of cool level comoda consideration uon cut as at this moment do but I 1 the process was impossible anyway it was a remark frederica had bad made lost last night bight that gave him something to hold bold on by marriage 6 she he tied had said was on adventure of which no amount ot of cautious loua thought taken la in advance could modify the em essential a list aliv theis we was no 0 d doubt bt 1 in his him mind led that marriage afi with it that girl would be a more won darful adventure than anyone had ever h bid id in the world CHAPTER IV how it track struck portia it was just juat a fortnight later that rose told her mother she was going tu to marry rodney aldrich thereby giving that lady indy a greater shock back of surprise than hitherto she biad experienced bado per perien red ced ia I 1 the sixty bit years am of f a tolerably eventful event lul life rose hole found her bar neatly writing a paper at the boudoir desk in the little room she called be her den it mrs steele sold bald what dear earl indifferently enough just la in mechanical response of the matter matte atif tact fact inflection ot of rosalind 6 voice then than she laid down her bar pen pan united tied in a puzzled way bay up into her daughters face ace slid and added my earst eara must have played me a funny crick what did you say items cloae repelled rodney Rod ricy aldrich and ad I 1 iam are going to be married tried but when she bhe sawn saw a look of painful la in her bar mother a face she set bat down on the arm of the chair slid a strong ana n r around the fragile fin figure te and he hugged g t tt it up oil against he herself 1 sup suppose posa she observed red contritely that I 1 ought to have broken it more on gradually but bat I 1 never think ot of things like thalas A 1 well I as he fine could her bar mother ithe r resisted C the embrace 1 11 I as cant t it believe she a eaid amid gripping the edge of he her deik sk with both hands that you yen would joet jest about a solemn in Ati subject blent UK like that rose and yet it s incredible P ahe mother freed herself from the girl s embrace liters rose and ad walked mi away Y to another chair it IE talk ratio rationally a ally and seriously my dear slit she said tit we a can continue the conversation U on but this flippant ruther rather vulgar tone you re taking pat me very much inch the girl flushed bushed to the imir hair 11 1 I dian didn tit t know I 1 we was being flippant and it vulgar she said 1 I mean to be I 1 was just trying to ton tell you all about IV it yov you T re told me a said add her bar mother that that M mr aldrich be haa asked yon yen to marry hint him and ad that youve consented bad it seems a to me you have in done it so BO has hastily a and thoughtlessly thought I 1 ess ty else he 9 told old ty you he a 1 loves even you I 1 ve no an doubt but roa I 1 d don amr t nce how it its p possible this for far you to r feel duio suio M on im such each short acquaint ance a why ot course hes told me ross rose net said it a 1 little ittle bewildered Us he cant can 1 help telling in me all the time way any more wan than I 1 a can h help alp telling him we re rather th ar mad about eath other really tv I 1 think thial he a the meet wonderful per son aj ID the world arld and she smiled tied a liti little ae uncertain lybe he thinks I 1 am ain but we ve re tried to be sens Ibb beat it 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