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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH JOSSELYNS Ellen was as Innocent as Gibbs of any prearranged planning to that effect. They simply felt the possibility in the air. Presently Gibbs mind had seized strongly upon the Idea. lie would go to New York, and find a studio, and see what the prospect was of painting portraits there. After Tommy's birth, at Ellens request, he had written his father, enclosing a little photograph of the small, lump of babyhood that was Thotuus Gibbs, Third, and the grandfather had eagerly reA magnifisponded to the overture. cent cup had come from Tiffanys for the baby, and presents on all formal occasions. Now Gibbs began to think he would like to show his father the stalwart Tommy, who spoke two languages at five, and played his little violin so nicely. Then, abruptly, It was settled, and they began to wonder how they had managed to stay away so long. Ellen, during the last busy days, would stop sometimes In her packing to look out of the undraped studio window. They had been so happy here since the marvelous days when she and Glhhs hud unpacked the boxes, and laid the rugs, nnd hung the pictures with their own hands. Wus It wise to run away from It all? And then came the memory of Fifth avenue in spring sunshine, nnd the sound of ones own tongue spoken on all sides nnd the garden In Main stHeet sweet with lilacs, and she would smile again. She smiled now as the little boy and the tall man crossed the deck to her Glhhs was young, at thirty-eight- , despite the silver hnir. He had been playing bridge, and was glad to get Into the fresh air, after the hot smokbald-heade- gold-line- face, hearing him say, a dozen times day, thut she had given him hack his life; her happy, grateful heart was only too full. He began to work at once, and for awhile she worked, too. Hut swiftly she saw that her earnest and clever beginning was ns thut of a promising child. There were ten thousand girls in Paris who could do what Ellen could do. Glhhs was a genius, she never doubted It, and It was only a year or two after they came to Purls that his world began to see it, too. He went straight at his portrait work, nnd he lived only for that, and for her. And Ellen, watching ether women struggle and despair, In 'onellness nnd poverty, wondered, with her old, sweet, childish surprise, why God hud been so ing room. good to her. "You packed everything! he acAnd presently she had Tommy, and cused her. they were playing at housekeeping In ISecause I wanted you to be free to the tiniest of little lost villages In see the very first of the city she anHrlttifhy. These were days of sunswered thats "Look, eagerly. Tommy, shine. while Glhhs, wonderful in Ellis Island, dear, where all the Immknickerbockers and a smock, painted, and Yvonne walked igrants have toI get off. And look, to market, and Ellen theres Liberty bareheaded It Is darned thrilling! Gibbs said, played under twisted old trees with as they leaned on the rail. smiling, no had nurse hut his Tommy. Tommy picturesque little mother now, for Ellen was thrifty, even In Paris, and Ellen had spent more thun one evening on the arm of Glhhs chair, working out the flrandal end of their problem. Their money must Inst until this time or thut time they must think of the a HOME AGAIN STNOPHIS. Ellen and Joe Latimer, orphana, wltliout means, make their home with their Aunt Elsie, at Port Washington, small New York town, Ellen is studying art, her expenses being paid by Rlrs. Kewall Hose, girlhood friend of her mother. Mrs. Rose Invites Ellen to a Thanksgiving house parly and the girl Is delighted. On the way from the station to Mrs. Rose's Ellen rides with a remarkably attractive young woman and a much older man. 8he takes them for father d and daughter, but they are as Mr. and Mrs. Josselyn. Ellen does not ilt In" with the younger members of the party, and Is miserable. leaving for her home next morning, Ellen meets Gibbs Josselyn, son of her fellow He has disapguest. proved of his fathers wedding and Is not on speaking terms with the couple. Declining to stay at Mrs, Rose's, Glhhs drives Ellen to the station. They miss the train and Gibbs undertakes to drive the girl to Port Washington. Their auto Is wrecked. Ellen Is hurt, but It Is not thought to be serious, and she and Gibbs part. He has been attracted by the girl, and she by him. Ellens Injury proves to be severe, and for months she is an Invalid. Recovered, she Is tuk-Inpart In the town's Memorial day festivities when Gibbs Josselyn on a yachting trip with a friend, George Lathrop, meets her again. The feeling of mutual attraction has strengthened since they parted. They leave Port Washington man and wife. Inlro-duce- ! paint-smeare- g d future. CHAPTER V 6 the little mother In Tommy, the his blue coat said presently, lifting the child from her lap, and setting 1dm upon his can sturdy legs on the deck. Tub and tell dad that mother wants tr, see Idm ! Tell him were almost utmost Ini Her voice rose almost to song on the last phrase, and although the child was already out of hearing, her nearest neighbor, an elderly woman also comfortably stretched In a deck chair, heard her and smiled. You sound glad to be buck. Mrs. .Josselyn ! said she. "I didnt know how glad I was going to be, admitted Ellen Josselyn, her happy eyes leaving the prospect or the dark waters of the harbor mouth, and the unmistakable approach of the solid blue shadows that mean land. Mr. Josselyn and I went abroad the very day after our marriage, and that was six years ago last October. We've lived In France all this lime. Tommy was born there, and when we decided to come hack to America 1 felt a sort of terror, actually! It seemed much, much harder than the original uprooting, strangely enough! I never have been homesick for America, hut Im homesick already for France! And yet, now that vore almost In, Im beginning to he terribly thrilled!" Ellen let her eyes rest on the tumbling water again, and the nearing land. America again I Thirty-fourtstreet again, Central park again; after all. It was home. She had curiously, vaguely dreaded It, she had had her times of hoping never to return, and yet now she felt a sudden thrill nnd a rush of something like rapture In her heart. She was an older Ellen, at twenty-ninand nn astonishingly developed I. lien. The six years had made u woman of intelligence and charm. Travel nnd study had done their share, Joy had had Its part in the change, nni sorrow, too. Wifehood, had brought her generous nature only what was fine and good, motherhood bad brought her the hoy that was the core of her heart. And motherhood had brought sorrow as well, for little Tom had had a sister for a few happy ncntlis. three yenrs ago, and the bnh.v grave. In a strange remetery, was long out of Ellen's thoughts. Hut that was the only shadow. Otherwise. It was all gain. The radiant gill that had sailed with Glhhs from tli's same harbor more than six yenrs ren had not been an exacting wife. There was no background of spoiling cnl selfishness to make Kllen Josselyn a difficult woman to live with. Her Oh. Glhhs, wont that be Jovous: f"n! had charmed him, nnd perhaps a lltle touched him, a thousand times In those first days. Everything was delight to her, the ship, the new friends, the new gowns. Her eyes and heart were never tired of new Impresh e, rer s' an s. Paris was all she had ever dreamed for her life, much, much more than her brightest dream. And before Tommy came. and afterward, and always, tiow d wonderful life was for Ellen I Fxnlorlog th magic city, with her haad n fdbbf rm, watching contetit and vublrJoti mark new Unas In hla When Tommy was two yenrs old, nnd before the second child was horn, Gibbs painted his wife. They were In ISrittnny again, and Ellen, with white sewing In the lap of a checked blue gown, and figure and face already caught In the first rising tide of motherhood, wns set against a background of gnarled old grapevines. The picture was hung In the Salon des Independents, and Ellen, when her delicate little girl wus a few weeks There wns a old, went to gee It. crowd ubout it; there wns always a crowd about It. It was the discussed picture of the year, but she always looked at It with a little pang at her heart. She hnd been so happy In those sleepy July days In the grape-arboshe hod thought that the new hnhj would he like Tommy, strong nnd gay and hungry. And the tiny new thing, who had been named Pose for Glhhs mother, was so frail. Even while she was looking at Glhhs picture, Ids first success, Ellen's heart was In the little nursery on Mont Saint Etienne, hanging agonized above the little bed where Itose Josselyn lay quiet, apathetic, half asleep. The picture, during the winter, caused a widening circle of comment nnd admiration, and presently Glhhs hnd his first commission, and was to paint a hoy of ten, In the trim gray uniform of a ndlitary school, and riv celve two thousand francs for the picture. So fame wns coming, nnd fortune would come close on her heels. Ellen, sitting by the studio window In the winter afternoons, and looking out at the fluttering snow Into which Yvonne had taken the dancing Tommy, mused upon the dream that had become the filet. She hail Paris. Glhhs. nnd Tommy so much more than she had asked! Hut the silent, apathetic little Hose was gone from the nursery now, never to lie against her mother's heart again Wns that the cost of success she wondered. Success was new, hut ah. this constant hanger at her heart was llow gladly how gladly new, too. she would let the one go. If she might lose the Ather! Glhhs painted three more portraits the next winter, which made them feel rich : hut he was working hard and enthusiastically In the atelier six mornings a week, and neither he nor Ellen were Inclined to extravagance, so that there was no particular Incentive to seek commissions. And so the exquisite years went by, and Tommy wns throe nnd then four, nnd still the Josselyns lived In their own happiness, shut away from the world, nnd glad to forget It. Ellens whole heart wns wrapped about her husband, her girlish Idealism had never been disturbed. Trite, she knew now that Glhhs was human. She knew now that he could be unreasonable, that he hnd mood In which she nnd Tommy nnd Yvonne must keep even a crumpled roselenf from Ids path. P.ut he loved her she amused him and pleased Ids pride, nnd her happy ways with him, thnt sometimes were those of a daughter nnd a pupil, sometimes wide-eyeadmiration, sometimes all motherly, were dear to him. He did not have to ask her If she loved hltn ; he wns all her world. Suddenly, tn the venth year, a new note came Into their conversations Without any premonition thev hegan to say: If we do go back to America." aspect. Llirifs was so changed a to Operation Adviseo Friend Said be hardly recognizable. She was dressed with great severity, but ever thing she wore was fine and rich. Her skin was like a rose leaf her dark eyes were rimmed with faint violet shadows eyes made for sorrow, but shining with pleasure and hospiEllen thought she had tality now. never seen winter teeth, or a more beautiful scarlet ruouth to enhance their whiteness. She had been beautiful seven years ago, she was more than that now. She radiated charm and personality, there was a hint of sadness In her face when It was In repose, there were a hundred provocative attractions In her thoughtful smile. She was ready with a French phrase, a German phrase, she touched lightly upon the Italian political situation, she had the name of a Russian novelist reudily upon her tongue. Ellen thoroughly liked George Lath-cop- , who was Glhhs senior by only six or seven years, and His best friend. George was a lawyer and a man of importance, but he was somewhat insignificant in appearance, and his manner still betrayed the country boy who has fought his way to the top. You must help me get sone new gowns," Ellen said, realizing for the first time in seven years thut gowns really were important. "Of course at home1 in Paris, I mean, Ive worn only studio things. But, my dear, you should have gotten loads of tilings In Baris! Lillian said. Youll think theyre pirates (. 1924, SSTX7IIAT do you tldnk, Milly? " Theres an Indian girl coming to teach school in Millport next term. Shes got a room with Mrs. Briggs. Sure, a real Indian. InDoris Fawn was a dian from a western reservation. She had been adopted by a missionary and brought east, and after his death had She qualified herself for teaching. retained only misty memories of the old days on the reservation, of the blanketed bucks and squaws, of the triliul ceremonies. And If sometimes strange longings stirred in her heart she remembered that she had adopted the ways of the whites. And they had always treated her as one of themselves. Pretty Doris Fawn, with Her dark hair and dusky skin, wherever site went was a subject of curiosity and sympathy. Mrs. Briggs motherly heart went out to the girl ; she could not do enough for her. Dickson, the senior trustee, had promised her the position when the term began. Mrs. Dickson also took a motherly interest in her. The Interest of the son, Harry Dickson, was not motherly. lie contrived many a meeting with her, until the girl's heart Site fell passionately in responded. I" here love with the white man. He was a I did Well, get an evening gown, to her. and an afternoon dress, Ellen said. hero She was to remember all her life Gibbs and I tried to pick out somewith bitter sweetness those stolen thing smart. Hut really It Is hard, meetings In the woods. All through so There there. are many new models, that warm, bright summer ttiey met and one cant tell which is going to he as lovers, unsuspected by anyone. It so adopted nnd many women dress was not until September was apjust to fit their own types, now. refound himself that proaching Harry of gardless style! unable to meet her as before. PresHere we are!" Joe, who could not sure of business, he explained. move his delighted eyes from his sisBut still the girl, with her wild nater, said suddenly. They all got out ture in her, frequented the at the great hotel, where, Ellen woodslurking where Harry and she had been were to for a day so learned, they stay happy. She loved to lie in the sunor two, Instead of the Hotel Brevoort, shine and dream of him and of the before going down to the country when he could meet her freely days house, to which Lillian had given an and ask her to become his wife. And Italian name, Villino dell Orto. that was how she happened to see Josselyn, Senior. It appeared, kept Harry and Mary Purcell strolling a suite at the Biltmnre throughout the the same paths arm in arm. entire year. He and his wife could along are you sure you love me Harry, come and go at their own pleasure, asked. Mary truly? change in their own familiar rooms And Doris Fawn concealed herself, to street from attire evening dress, like her wild namesake, in the heart keep nn appointment there with maniof the woods. curist or masseuse, or entertain their "Because, you know, there's been friends with a cozy meal served besome talk about you and that Indian fore their own fire. Today he had engirl, Mary went on. "You were seen gaged the adjoining suite for his sons on walks together. family. I dont Absurd! said Harry. "Isnt this corking?" Gibbs exulted, I did fall for when the younger Josselyns were mind telling you, Mary, tier a little. She is on attractive alone. little thing. But that was before I I Oh, Giljis, Its such fun And came to care for you. And an Indian arent they dears to do it all and why, thats what made it safe for just arent yon glad now thnt I made you me to the girl. She knew I could write when Tom was horn I Ellen had never jolly be serious. , taken off the big blue coat, and the Doris Fawn heard it all with an injacket of her suit, and appeared in a credulous face. She knew tie could loose little blouse of dark-bluvelvet never be serious! He wln.se child she with n deep collar of old lace. She was to bear, he whom she had meant opened the door Into the drawing to tell, so that they could be married, room of the other suite, and there, to and he could protect her! Suddenly the child's delight, was the lurch she saw the trap that she had fallen table, with two waiters hovering about into. The race gulf that could not it, and a shining display of covered be crossed opened before her. dishes and steaming pots. They gathYes, thats really too absurd, Mary, ered about it Immediately, Ellen be- continued As a matter of Harry. tween Joe and George I'.athrop, fact I've been a little tired of getting Tommy chatteruig to his enraptured the She made a nuisance of hergirl. grandfather. Gibbs and Lillian mak- self running after me. ing each others acquaintance after the And you do love me, dear? long years. With all my heart, Mary. They Afterward, Ellen walked to the lift kissed. with her brother, nnd stood there talkAnd Doris Fawn crouched in the ing to him ns if she would never b thicket, sobbing heartbrokenly. done. After a while she crept out. UnconYou seem to like Mr. Lnthrop, sciously she had adopted once more Joe? the Indian walk, the Indian demeanor. Hes a king! Joe said, with a All that had been superficially white cptiek meeting of eyes. in her was gone. She made her way And the hoy. Is he nice, Joe? toward the railroad station. George .hes nil right. He's in colHunning up to town, Miss Fawn?" lege now. Harvard." asked the smiling ticket agent. And how's Harriet? She must Doris assented. tie d e r; It Is Darned Thrilling!" Gibbs Said, Smiling, as They Leaned on the Rail. The ocean was left behind them, they were well Into the river now, and on both sides the laud was coming down . to meet Trees were still hare but Easier was near. "Weve missed all the ugly, hard part, Ellen exulted, "and we'll get all the glory of the spring!" "I wrote the old man wed go to the Brevoort. Glhhs said. "I bet we II find a message there. They'll ask us down to tlit new house." Ellen smiled. Her father-ilaw and tils wife hud recently taken possession of a new home at Wheatley Hills, a fashionable colony only a few miles from Hurt Washington, it would he rather fun to visit there, as Glhhs' wife, with little Thomas. Third. She well remembered the Handsome woman who had been so ballllngly superior In her manner toward Mrs. Hose; her own vvliat was it? stepmother-in-lanow. so curiously hnd events come about. "Glhhs!' she said suddenly. "Look there by that little hoy on the pier whos waving the flag! Isn't that your father of course it Is! And your stepmother, too and there's Joe theres Joe. the old darling thats I'ncle Joe. Tommy Oh. Joe Joe Joe I" "That ts dad." Glhhs said, deeply pleased and touched. "And there's old George I call tills decent I We've been away o long. Ellen, that I'd forgotten how nice It is to have folks! I suppose the dashing lady in the black hat Is my mamma? Wave your hand, kid, thats your family! And try to remember the English for things, or theyll nop (ike you I" Five minutes later they were all together in a Jumble of landing. Ellen wns kissed on her suddenly wet cheeks and by George by her fnther-in-lavv- , Lnthrop. who had been best man at their wedding, and by the sweet and rnther silent Joe. Joe was taller than ever, he would never be or have a particularly or happy manner In company, hut Ellen clung to the big, boyish arm. nnd laughed Into his handsome, kindly face ns If she could never feel and see and hear enough of him. He had Improved so, and he looked so well, so grownup! After all. ones little brother wns one's little brother, even If he was She found her fnther-ln-latwenty-fivned. he was somehow shrunken, und his face b J grown leaner In lla llu-tn- n well-dresse- d d , e j 1 'Site's nineteen. "Is she all over the sickness now?" Ellen had remembered suddenly that the tomboy Harriet had had a frightening illness about a year ago something that their vague repot ts had given her to understand was Uke an infantile paralysis. Sure. She limps some she's getting well." 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