| Show WIFE WV T by KATHLEEN NORRIS IT Addeen North ELLEN 1 SYNOPSIS ellen and joe lati lat imer orphans without means make their home with their aunt elsie at port washington small new york town ellen Is studying art her expenses being paid by mrs sewall nose girlhood friend of her mother mrs rose invites ellen to a thanksgiving house party and the girl Is delighted on the way from the station to mrs airs roses noses ellen rides with a remarkably attractive young woman and a much older man she takes them for father and daughter but they are intro artro deuced as mr bit and mrs airs josselyn ellen does not fitin fit in with the younger members of the party and Is miserable leaving for tier her home next morning ellen meets gibbs josselyn son of her fellow guest he has disapproved of his fathers wedding and Is not on speaking terms with the couple declining to stay at mrs roses noses gibbs drives ellen to the station they 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 ile he has been attracted by the girl and she by him ellens injury proves to be severe anti ana tor for months she Is an invalid CHAPTER IV continued 5 the glory of the year deepened swift swiftly li and joy kept pace with it in ellens heart the harness was long gone the couch was upstairs again and only a cushioned rocking chair in its place ellen could sweep the garden path again with tier her blue sun sunbonnet tion over tier her eyes ellen could cut out cookies on condition that she went straight upstairs and lay down for an hour afterward except that she usually went to bed at eight and avoided the more violent forms of youthful amusement ellen might live her old life again but bui it would never be the old life it was so EO enriched and so enhanced by the he five bolg months in prison that ellen felt sensations of freedom absolutely sol birdlike warmth and flowers end blue sky intoxicated her leonard Ilens henshaw baw for whose attentions she had wistfully longed a year ago was her captive now but she did not want to marry leonard Ilens linw she only wanted to be alive and to claim tier her work and play among the living again may thirtieth always a great day in port washington annnus broke cloudless and found all the village already in holiday mood the yacht clubs would go into commission at high noon with every imaginable form of gayety gaiety to do honor to the occasion at the rort port washington club where ellen and her friends would presently gather there were to be swimming races a great outdoor luncheon fk a baseball game between the married and the unmarried men moving pictures games and prizes for the small children a dance until long ion after midnight and of course the raising of the colors ellen was taken down by the henshaw boys in their car at ai eleven and was as under tinder parole not to race even if she swam not to crew even if she sailed and to be home at five to get three hours rest before the dance strings of color were fluttering everywhere women with baskets ni were ere gathering on the clubhouse porch eager boats were cutting about the pier end like restless gulls tenders loaded to their capacities were making tor for the yachts presently tile hie colors colora went up fluttering gayly against the blue and the cannon fired from the lie grassy mound before the club ainu linuse e buas answered by twenty boom ins rig shots front from the boats As the det died away the band burst mailly madly into sound and thirty young flauree plunged from froin the pier end for tile te first farst swim to pull themselves ulon ul on tile the font float a later as sleek as seals peals und and odd add their shrieks and laughter to the he general uproar Lat one of the seals atio ho was warning carnival that it 11 lie pushed her into the water again le auld bould be sorry for it the longest imy of his life had chanced to glance toward tle eaglet one of the visiting achas in the bay anchored three hun f ded d ed pil bards ards away fron froin her she of 1 tha moment have received a shock r a man with a thick mop of sit sil red hair under a als md ed yachting e 11 i vas ras standing there aln ro yawning hap my in the warm sunshine sun cibbs JosA josselyn elYn if lie he hail had lieen been brough no such lucli schooling is ellen in tip alp last few months mont lis had surf buffered ered ton to in its his own way lite like ellen he had seemed to lose his in the lie world word alth ith his fathers mir ringe lit ills rc lg from his fathers firm and the from his fathers house to his club sensitive and proud lie he fournel the attitude of his intimates equally distasteful whether they sym alth him or criticized him tie he missed his work and found no tn in to take up anything new without his redl realizing izing it the pretty ittle miss latimer had touched him fhe via rot not lilting flirting like lucia she was im dead in earnest ca niest the eyed fo root I 1 lie ile chanced to cone come to manhasset Man hasset harbor with george lathrop and geor georges geores es motherless boy and girl in ID time bior for the opening of the clubs on Deep ration day george junior leaping out of the he cabin ready for swimming the older men followed suit and gibbs whom the boy adored blindly in ID all things passed him in the fresh dancing water and dragged himself up tip on the anchored raft at the side of the club pier where they got into conversation with will a boy lit in a dirty gray sweater who nho was sitting there idly in the sun tills Is going to be the girls race nice now said the boy when he and george junior had discussed several important matters all line up here and dive and swim to the float and touch it and then swim back on the pier the crowd was gathering to watch the races and presently a dozen slender laughing girls in wet bathing suits formed a line on the edge of the float and at the crack of tile the pistol were into the water with one and tearing like so ninny salmon for the hie swimmers float the sm sweat entered ered boy was now heard to observe to george junior my sister out there on the float she could beat em all I 1 she got first prize last year and two years ago she fell out of an automobile and hurt her spine and they wont let tier her swim yet 1 I dont know what ashes doing in that thai rig then gibus gibs observed olt oh well site she swims but she cant race gibbs thought the big bl loosely built country fellow had it a most engaging smile and paid small attention to hi his words at the moment meanwhile ellen wrapped in a mantle of drying black hair was rocking herself back and forth on the float discussing the races and congratulating the winner perhaps she noticed the two strange men and the boy who dived suddenly from the anchor float but as this chanced to be the moment when the henshaw boys with two girl passengers elected to upset their canoe it was probable that she saw nothing of the visitors later when she and aunt elsie were busy at the lunch tables that had been built on the green between the clubhouse and the tennis courts and with a score of other women were cutting cakes helping salad and pouring coffee joe lounged up to them gorging on sandwiches interested in all other forms of food and even willing to be useful in some not too conspicuous way theres a feller on one of the yachts that ast me to come out with a boat about four and bring him in to get cigarettes and ire ice and annd flu butter and things lings ti joe volunteered lie asked me my name and I 1 said latimer I 1 mt sick of this joe joe joe business every in the place Is named joe gosh that kid with them must have things pretty easy ills sister was there a little kid hut but gohll slie she was a pippin harriett harriet 1 sties about ten or twelve with tier her heir hair all hanging round ellen laughed anti and for the young latimers the episode seemed closed and yet not only to hllen ellen and to gibbs josselyn Jossel but to joe and the innocent harriet of the hangin banging locks the hour bour was filled with possibilities ties and never to be stricken from the calendar of the tour four lives again for gibbs had biad caught the name joe called to george lothrop Lot latin hiop op senior and had mused upon it I 1 calimer La limer lints taits tunny funny latimer and port washington lie he lip lie tier her cousin or something I 1 the same names run min through all grades ID fit these old country places place if lie he comes at six sl ill ask ilm alm it if lie he knows my attle lady indy what lid did mrs rose call her clelen that was III it Is there any one down here annine i 1 helen latimer tip he duty duly agouti joe late lale in the sweet summer afternoon when tile lie rn ances cs were over no sir I 1 guess my and my mv sister and I 1 are the only onos ono s of at that mat name anine loe joe answered sifter after a moments lh ought you never heard of a lady nal nfl nid pd mrs rose hose mrs sewall rose hose sure I 1 did Jnes nid smiling sties tile lie lady got my sister started in the art school eb ool well of course gibbs wat wai at lils lil s own pleasure in ing her at last your sister it I 1 and ad what Is tier her name 1171 ajlen len joe stalled smiled emen ellen of course gibbs echoed well flow Is slid she oil oh ashes nil right now loe joe answered carelessly if youre coming coining ashore lor for the e toni tonight git see tier her she cant lance dunce except just a little lut but sties guing going town down 1 I hardly think we will conie come in for the dance gibbs answered ons funny slie she looks as if slie could dance I 1 iut but you give her my love sir jossel lyn will youl at the dinner table george lathrop asked gibbs if he had haa noticed notice that hoy boy that was no sort of boy to be knocking about the water front of a small fishing village lie had an exceptionally one fine face id like to get hold of a toy hoy like I 1 that and kep him about the deaca Lath lathrop roli said enthusiastically it would be the making ot of george well if you like the boy I 1 assure you be amazed at the sister gibbs said a little beauty dainty clever quick as a whip I 1 I 1 take it the best sort of american blood come of a long iong line of simple decent people the matter with tier her lathrop asked the matter with her how eyou mean gibbs who was mixing a salad dressing looked up sharply why sties sickly or so something methin g his host aP answered innocently did ni you hear the boy say this morning that she swim any more and just now you hear him say that she dance lie ile said shed been in a motor accident and hurt tier lier spine little george said hut dut she got the prize for swimming la last t year and second prize in the ladies singles what is it uncle gibbs for gibbs had laid down his fork and was staring nt at him strangely great lord he be said in a horrified undertone hut that bet be I 1 and as they all looked at him in surprise he be turned toward his host you remember when alien my car was in a smashup smash up last november george I 1 lie ie said it just occurred to me ft t just occurred to me that that little girl was w with me I 1 I 1 dont blu suppose apo se theres one chance in a thou thousand that that was where she got hurt 1 I dont suppose theres one chance in a million lie ile got up and walked to the cabin window the sunset gun had III fired reathe the banners were lowered port Was washington liln was dotted with lights in the early darkness other lipets mirrored themselves in the quiet hay bay 1 I guess you and I 1 will have to go 90 over and have a look at that dance george he be said it was a night made for youth and beauty and the innocent ra radiant d lint egotism of beauty and yeath ellen knew when the girls told her she looked perfectly adorable that they A 11 ak ilk I 1 d then S sh h stopped speaking Spa aking ano no ore one hand went with a quick gesture to vier her heart and in the dimness he saw her breast breas t rise suddenly and her lips part a little spoke no more than linn the truth to tier her happy eyes they all looked rd oralle and ani slip sho truthfully returned their compliments aliments ments abbs blis i lita ills host itald bo bith the children came cadue ii a bore in the alie rowboat i of the eaglet qt it eight lathrop lathro senior benlor hid had finning the ilie in members embers anti and was wai quickly taken to tile lie liburt of poll younger set ct lie ile was a democrat le annn end he fie liked to lo see lils liis dat ichters blonde locks bobbing bobbin over tile the shoulder of ibe alie boy who mho had rowed tile boat that afler roon oon gililis lind had deell declined ned to driler the ballroom at onre and lind remained on the porch to finish liis his from the darkness here he watched the dancers dnn cers and lie he had no in finding I 1 allen llen in tier her pale pink ruffles mleh billj her exquisite int fare face she was not dancing although the lie little lilue eyes and the pink slippers evidently longed to to dance and when gibbs first saw tier lier wai talling tall ng prettily tily to some older woman ill gl great glat at gravity anti attention A youth caine up and she transferrers tier her earnest parm st gaze to him ard presently biblis felt a quick sensation of almost pain near his lu arl ns as hur face brightened into an all artial laugh so so young so innocently fresh and good gibbs wondered d whether summer and aind innon moonlight light end gotten into ills his blood na aa he felt fell it run warmer at the alie sight of tier her too dignified unified to in write him what u tiny day of pleasure bad cost her too honest to make capital out of the lie fortuitous chance she could adjust t her little affairs with courage and character nia harln having chosen tier her path pursue it to rae end tle th c ronn man who won voa ellen latimer he thou thought glIt would be a lucky men man with a 0 curious wistfulness and suddenly with an tomed flush of color in his face ace the into hla his heart fult full question apran sprang formed suppose such a girl could come to care for a man liko him where could he find anything better or sweeter or more rich in promise for the years to come lie ile was tired of the old we lle lie he had never really cared for the lie false standards the su u women the intriguing shallow girls the show and glitter and cost to put his arm about that lovely young body to feel her close to him as she raised I 1 her ter face for his kiss to see ellen in the sort of gowns lie he could design for her crouched lied beside a studio fire crossing an old garden in spring nothing in months had so stirred his old deft delight lit in living as the thought of pleasing tier her sp spoiling tier finding the lin untouched touched deeps ot of tier her joy always fresh suddenly the gllnn was born parisi paris 1 they would go tu to paris and there they could both work and could make for themselves a life nothing short hort of the ideal A dim old studio one of those clever balds who delight in the tha cooking art summers idling in brit tony or holland ant and the lovely young mrs josselyn a picture in gipsy hilts hats and summer smoaks iks hs or velvet childish winter gowns would fill his life with sv sweetness antl anti inspiration and everything that was clean and good honest lie ile crossed the porch to the door of the ballroom at as the dance ended and met tier her in the group of girls and boys atho ho were coming out for it a breath of cooler air slie she was talking to another girl but site she saw tile the strange man and turned her bright eyes curiously toward him then she stopped speaking tind and one hand went with quick gestine gesture ge to her heart and in the dl dimness inness lie he saw her white breast rise suddenly and her lips part a little lie he got her hard hand and h held eld it and still she did not speak merely 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