Show the girl who came BY JACK WOODFORD copyright W N U CHAPTER VIII continued 14 tea bucka replied the lady care lesly lillta thought this exorbitant but nevertheless she took out a ten dollar bill and handed it to her she had the taxi driver bring up her things paid him off and set to un packing thankful that the lady bad not recognized tier nobody deemed ever to connect her with the lillta forbes of the newspaper article some ago she man lied a little that people raould so quickly forget such things and yet reflected that it was not onu ual so anny happened all the time in chicago she had glen her correct name with some satisfaction sailing under a specious flag ans unpleasant it always made her feel dishonest she decided how ever still to write under the name 0 margaret farrar since the commercial work she was doing might some day give way to really worth while work to which it would be a pleasure to sign her own name without having people connect it with the confes alons and other superficial stories done merely for the money by mar garet barrar when slie had her belongings straightened around to some extent die sat down to read the remainder of her morning paper turning a page she was made almost breathless by two pictures in the society column author til ed the pictures were one picture was an extremely good likeness ot don ll and the other was a photograph to which had evidently been greatly re touched of miss prangle the story below the pictures told 0 a wedding scheduled for june with a prospective honeymoon in europe to follow there was also the usual sen blurb about its being a love match student falang in love instructor etc it also described miss cringle as a young lady of un disputed talents since though she was wealthy rhe had made a journalist of herself by her own diligent efforts lillta wondered if mr could read that part of the article laughing she bit her lips to keep back the tears and got up and went to the window and stared off into the pirk it was march in three months mr would be married would go away to europe with miss prangle perhaps they d talk of her laugh over the little who got her self into such an awful mess she could almost bear ft arrill s rich voice eay and there was a time when 1 thought 1 wa in love with her can you imagine that dear probably mias prangle would be on able to imagine it and would have no backwardness about saying so with embellishments the hot tears rolled down her face as she stood by alie win dow and she realized realised reali sed that she loved mr ft arrill just aa much as over would always love him life was tn deed cruel determinedly she forced herself to stop tn that strain put on her hat and coat and walked out to get some breakfast somewhere after breakfast she boarded a car and went downtown to the main library an attendant pointed out the hie car room and finding the drawer she came to not less alian a hundred annl fifty or two hundred books bearing upon the subject of writing in its ev ery possible phase she selecta 1 oliree that she thought the most inter estling and walled while an attendant got the volumes slie remembered lie night almi she had staved after class to get mr vi arrill to a library card guarantee tor her retailed bow he had aero rero irked that she looked more like a butterfly than a bookworm would it ever be possible to forget hla husky luuk especially when one anen hat some one else was hearing it ire fitly the books came and slie want out to take a car home As the car crawled along stopping almost ut every corner slie forced her mind to busy itself with something more substantial than husky laughs floating her mind she decided eliat she would have to word harder alian she bad ever worked before since ninety dollars was now about all she bad and she wanted not only to make a living but to cave up enough to pay back gray and feel under no obligation to him to get her mind completely off ot mr arrill slie began to mentally plot out a serial it would be a story a all who hid actually taken n misstep and who had back bo many sarles of the sort acre about pale little gails who skated along on the adje of and anally evere saved from it it would be wonderful to get a serial printed that would encourage the many alio biad actually tal en wrong steps and needed help and encouragement and the idea that it was not necessary to keep on bolna doan afterward their problem ray more acute and more in need of alian that of girls who merely contemplated wrongdoing bhe remembered harvey torrance and he nod represented to her ihara had been a ilni when she hon y loved him with alj CT add boici and yet ills pasa ing had meant little to her she saw now very clearly what really hap bened she had been lonesome terribly lonesome alone in a big city it had been easy then tor barvey to make love to her how much better one felt to see and understand the thing in that light in stead of thinking that a deliberate tendency toward badness bad caused her false step how much more people needed education than condemns cond emna aton if only more time could be spent in acquiring learning instead of acquiring a specious knowledge of what persons should be condemned for what their chances were for going to hell if they did this that and the other thing lillta fairly glowed as she laid out scenes and continuity tor a serial that should ex press this thought to girls who were condemning themselves as bad because of some misstep step set them to fighting back instead of slipping down ju because they had done something wrong for which they were honestly sorry suddenly some impulse caused her to look out of the car window and there before her eyes stood the bach elors hotel where lived A terrific wave of depression took her it seemed as though it she were to stay in the car another moment she life was indeed cruel would suffocate she tried to request the motorman to stop at the next corner but he slid the car by and it was not until the corner after that that he did slop and she stepped down in to the street and walked toward the curb she still had the sense almost of suffocation and the dull murky at did not help it any she laughed a little bitterly to heiselt herselt as ahe turned into the park reflecting upon what a tremendous difference there was between the unquenchable feeling of love alic now had for war rill and the weak anemic little love feeling that she had had for barvey corrence rence and which she had for a time mistaken for the real thing she had walked several blocks along the park paths when suddenly with her head down she almost ran into a man who blocked her way she stopped and looked up into the face of young watterson completely at a loss she stammered I 1 thought your father had sent you to europe he did returned watterson in peculiarly dry tone but things have blown over and I 1 came back I 1 m aw fully glad 1 met you ive wanted to tell you how deeply I 1 regret the herrl ble trouble 1 got you into somehow she sensed a change in him so an found that it was almost shock lne she gave voice to the thought youie changed yes ive changed it was about time it killing a man gives a fellow quite a turn I 1 can I 1 get him out of my mind and I 1 get you out of my mind I 1 m through with the sort of life that I 1 used to live on too much money may I 1 walk a little way with you why yes paid lillta a little un certainly lie fell into step her for about halt a block they walked in silence and then he turned to her and said 1 I here Is a whole lot that I 1 want to say to you ills tone was so un earnest and so different from bis usual manner of speech that lillta was profoundly moved CHAPTER IX the change in fred watterson had been not only subjective but also ob apparently he had done le di inking ills face no longer had the puffed massaged look and bis eyes were steady even solemn lillta acknowledged that he was very handsome and very appealing in an impersonal sort of way with his almost little boyish air of honest con and subdued sorrow tor what he had done when he suggested that they drop into the refectory in the park for a bite to eit she readily con rented the big refectory was almost empty and they chose seata by a win dow where they could look out over the north pond toward a little bridge that spanned it at a narow point with the leaden skies above the glass like water reflecting the leaning trees at the edge of the pond the vista was one of distinct if somewhat sad beau ty when they had ordered sand and coffee fred leaned toward her across the table and spoke with a constrained air ao though somehow he were almost afraid to have her answer his questions what have you been doing since 1 last saw you writing res short stories in fact I 1 m going to start a serial which I 1 hope to sell do you mean that you actually are supporting yourself from the proceeds of your writing youre very young yes I 1 am young she reflected that he was hardly much over twenty five himself but apparently very lucky still unfair you eee I 1 took part of a short story course under a very excellent instructor at southwestern university who helped me wonderful ly 1 suppose that I 1 just have bad some latent knack for it all of the lime or perhaps ita just that the unusual experiences I 1 went through helped in some way ills eyes searched her face anxious ly lillta felt he was not satisfied with this answer to his question but how did you get out of jail how did you live immediately after you got out of jall bow did you get the money to register at southwest ern how did you support yourself til you sold your first story and where did you go to lay low while the newspapers were broadcasting about you ula deep sincerity and entire tack of the former flippancy that bad marked him prompted her to tell him the whole story from beginning to end omitting only the part about mr somehow she could not bring herself to speak of him she felt a though if che did a lump would come into her throat and choke her she even told him enough about torrence to enable him to guess the rest which he did promptly but with aut BO much as a raised eyebrow 0 condemnation and she ended ive never blamed you for what happened something was almost ineal bably tably bound to happen to me in order to wake me up aad it not been foi poor death I 1 believe that I 1 should be almost glad for what bap bened you sincerely loved harvey then he quickly put in M I 1 m ashamed to say that 1 dlan t I 1 sincerely thought that I 1 did however but I 1 im quite gun of that now TO BB CONTINUED |