Show barade by evelyn evelym campbell service copyright by evelyn compbell 3 TOE THE STORY linda flaver hills father neler neer dowell do well dies when shells ebels seven teen CHAPTER I 1 continued 2 do they do everything live T they ey live everywhere ue he sent his hl long white hand tine fine as a womans comans wo mans in a gesture that indicated all that vast sweep ot of the city apart from rum their own environment they have been around you child all of your life only of course you never saw them you never would you never will they built the houses you live la in they paved the streets they spun the cloth you wear the food you eat Is handled by them in a hundred ways all this passes through their hands yet you have never knowingly seen theall teem I 1 lie he stared struck with this stupendous thought linda looked puzzled and faintly distressed she felt as if she had been caught mocking at something which after all was not amusing or ridiculous she was more thoughtful thought fill than girls of her age usually are and there was novelty in this viewpoint that caught her attention but before she could reply the procession e hanging changing every minute yet always the same had claimed her wonder again the music came fainter and fainter from its distance the best and show allow lest iest of the bands had gone by and the tall of the comet was escorted by the leftovers of drums and cifes fifes there was not a splendid automobile to be seen and no bowing the tall oil silk hats bats had become extinct patrolmen appeared on corners they shouldered the crowd and women and old men began to garner their flo nocks cl if of startled awry children before long it was impossible to tell where the marchers barchers mar chers and the crowd were divided for the street was a maelstrom of pushing worrying bodies striving against one another for the right of way to nowhere authority lost patience behind the brown awnings safe and sound from all this flurry in cousin amys fine house on the avenue jim Hi haverhill talked to his daughter and used the sight they P iad had just wit nosed ne sed to point his bis lesson and send it home look down in the street and you will see life I 1 could not show you a fitter picture if we walked through nil the galleries of the fhe earth those poor fools groihs arii ha you called them I 1 would id the crowd come out to watch them march wil who io cared or watched after the hand band and aid the cars and ahe I 1 he ant forms went by its their one day of the year when we our kind are out of the lie city and they can play of al calling it their own yet even then got to resort to fine feat hers to make their own little show worth while poor grubs grahsl I 1 smart butterflies 1 let lem em dig nod sweat and struggle until doomsday and never be halt half as important to ahe the world ns as a red cont coat with a dancing stick life linda it seem fair she remarked fair he sneered of course it lent fair nothing Is fair and it 1 Is a humanity itself that bleds unfairness As long lone as men have eyes they will be caught with color As long ns as they have ear ears a they would rather hear than groans its the parade that counts linda my loye love and learned it the tie people who want to get rs done you can put yourself over with a 0 brass band and a bow when you might crawl on your knees to tile the edge of the he led fled sea and never be heard from linda who at sixteen owned sables that were much too tine fine to be worn until she was twenty ove hid already brushed close enough to tile the swamp of f poverty to 16 know its chill breath the they y lived in cousin amys house that an summer in slept in grand mahogany bedi bed but they used the servants sheets and there was only a grouchy caretaker in the basement living rooms often she carried secret packages from fiora the corner grocery tilts hits of food that did not require experienced cooking she did not like this there was something fearsome and frightening about it much too near the grew some sonie procession t that ft walked after that day she listened attentively to all her father bad to say he fie tried to crowd all the dubious wisdom of ills his past into the few duis days that remained and she readied reached for it avidly a 0 0 0 amy ralston alston tl returned to america three weeks after death she was very much annoyed nut ot of nurse course because the poor creature was dea dead dahe bhe admitted that no one hai ha control of the life ifo forces and she knew that the end hail bad to come to ever we one but the she thought it 0 him to die in her house she had bad expected to begin a series of dinner dances dancea immediately and this peces necessitated a period of mourning however brief mourning called for mora BOM clothes when her trunks were already bursting with fresh paris toilettes toi tol lettes it was as comforting to reflect that only the family and a few old friends knew about jim haverhill Haver hlll and whether he be w was is among the quick or the dead there Is the daughter she said speculatively to her husband who whistled off key but was much too wise to offer suggestions A girl like that thai may be a frightful responsibility or an asset as her poor father would nave have said but when she saw linda to in her slim black poised with a gentle grac ity tj that placed her grief in a sacred secluded background the first pleasurable moment of the whole sad ead affair presented itself the girl Is a beauty she exulted as a good showman always exults over beauty she looks like her mother wl wo a was a fool or nr she never would have married jim haverhill but if this child to Is as clever as she looks linda was clever she was not yet seventeen but her mind was twenty sev seven i en a mind as keen and ai as her lithe body she knew or of life as a game in n which cleverness and savoir fabre counted largely and the girl Is ie a beauty she exulted Exult td as a good showman always alway exults exult over beauty she bhe calmly regarded her youth and beauty as trump cards the girl was wag not romantic she was tree free from silly complexes and she had no heroes her tips lips curled when some one spoke of movie gods and she was never known to read a modern novel but with all this linda was a charming creature polished and ane CHAPTER 11 II poor poo jim daughter when the sad business of erasing jim Haver haverhill hlll was well over and cousin amys house was coming out bof its coma linda put on her close clos tittle little hat one day and went to se see senator coverse Con Von erse verse there was not the slightest difficulty in getting an interview As she sha followed the clerk through one room 1 after another she thought how rich and powerful the senator must be the carpets were like cushions under her feet and everything gleamed with shining surfaces and silence only a very important man could command silence like that in the heart of tho the city senator converse was extremely carmand war a arm mand and sympathetic in tits ills greeting lie ile heaved his ponderous body from his swivel chair and waddled to meet her As tits his hot limp hands closed over hers she felt herself a i 0 she looked down don in amb emb embarrassment n rr fis a and nd disco discovered vered that tits ills feet wire enormous long and pat bat and encased in heelless patent leather shoes that accentuated their shapeless in atness ant nt nesa ness alloo poor reims jims daughter he wheezed leading h her er after him upon my word I 1 I 1 have just learned why you telegraph me at once I 1 would have come or sent lie ile tell fell in into to a 0 long silence looking at tier her to in surprise TO BE CONTINUED |