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"leaving leaving " leavl/lg leavl lg leaving / in itt i " a day or two as asas asas asis as Don aftcnded atended ( { to some busi bust busid bustd buslad ! d the city got dug out of ad ara a ars ! d dra rs ra sed h shead s head quickly qwck1y as asllded asmded as.uided asuided . l/lded l lded mded / of somethmli something somethmliu somethingU somethingL u gay say th sas s v.a.s va.s vas \\as as tas \ \ . . with n three threeAre threeV , Are you absolutely suree sure surelire lire e ' Am I lively hlely likely to forgetvretched forgetwretched forget . wetchtd vretched wretched : s ckness ' It wasyear was wasr year years . next month monthhen \\hen hen then \ the thecame thecame r came c me Ned and since then theng thenng [ g . but s lence Jence Such a thIng thIngr thingitoppened r happened thInghappened happened before I didn dldn t anNora anNora an ' Nora s letters but she s al alIT alwr ali \ wr \IT IT tten ( ten Sometimes regular regularme regularmetimes regularimeumes ( me metimes tImeS tImeSI B \I I a \ th several months monthsn monthsttn n I tr ed to persuade my myat myat mykhat at their plans changed sud sudespecIally sudespecially sudf especially when Don sartI sartIfa s arts artsfa artila [ fa lei led ta to appear I thoughtni thoughtm thought | m ght have gone to some out outway outeway outt-mj outt mj -way way e-way e & - - - country and staged stayed sta stayedI ) ed edI ' I suppose I was just trymg trying tryingd trymgd d myself as the boys say I Itr Itr I'tr Itr ' tr ed to behove belIeve beheve that since theyapparently theyapparently they ' apparently successful she had hadtieD hadties hadidea tieD ties me-given me given me - - given me up as a aobbut aobbut aob-but aob but ( ob-but ob but - - that s not-Nora not Nora not - - Nora I ve ye vevery yevery vevery very unhappy about her Ned Ned.troubled Nedtroubled . . troubled . . And tonight tomght somethat somethat some [ that Martha said has made madeore madeore madenore ore soos soes so aes os es glanced ( lanced up conscious thatwas thatwas that thatm < m was inattentu mattenU\ mattenU mattenUe mattenti \ e a Ned saId saIdlfuny saidttufly saidhttully [ lfuny ttufly Do you remember a aIe ale able Ie le catastrophe in ChIcago ChIcagothe Chicagottht the root roof of a theater collapsedI collapseda collapsed I a we ght of snow snowi ' i father was suddenly erect erect.on erecton . . doa don dos t mean- mean meanon meanon mean - hap1 | dontinean on t mean that anything anythmg hap hapto hapto to Nora broke In Ned Theoccurred Theoccurred The ; occurred as I remember nowi noVo not noVoTOU notyou you TOU were too sick to see thei thes the thes [ s . s . I only glanced at the head headmyself headmyself headmyself myself . . . I loathe such details detailsC detailsCorinne detailsCormnt C Corinne rllll1e revels in m em you She youShe even read part of the theawud thealoud the.ihud theihud . awud aloud it at the table-how table how table - how a fel Iel elPO bo ho felbo Ielho vis was in 11l m the audience and t talely safely went back into mto the theplace theplace theW place and spent hours uncolIaps uncollaps un collapt colIaps collaps ng balcony trying trymg to toe toe ton e a child cbUd who was pinned be bethe bethe bei the wreckage It was very veryly verytold told The reporter claImed claImedI claimedroe claImedve claimedye I ve ye teen been an eye witness SaId Saidan Saidnan i an refused to quit even 'When When 'Whened whened ' whennd ed ed . . He lie taved saved the child I be himselfhis . bebut tut but tailed failed to get out hImself himselfu 15 u nime Dame name was Mason He was wasM wast timbersaltd timberslied t tinder under the timbers timbersed lied ed ' o a cut but I judged from what the thesa thesa thet haveIf sa a d that he d better have It If it were Don- Don Dones Dones Don Donnn - nn angrilyty angrilyy es turned on his son angrIly 7 y wasn wash snt t I told of this thisk ' k Mal nis his voice softening softenmg But Maa Ma l a * common Nedttoiild Nedshould enough name Ned Noraind snd sndt should you thinkIt think it was Nora s * nd ndt ? , "ybeciuse ybeciuse " ndtbecause because Dann-not Dann not DanDot Dannot the paper said Dan understand"neap understandneap understando - Dot not Don you understand : " o Dear near that a misprint been mIghtbeen might mightA poss ble I dIdn t speak speakbecause because you were so Sl sic Just I JustI Justcouldn couldn t worry Dad Dadh you A h I haveheated havelIgated havebgated see now that I should have lIgated bgated the matter myself My excuse eiccuse Myexcuse Myeiccuse " " < ! is that It ; was the very Wben when veryWben verywhen roen thatat Jmuor Jumor Junior got into that at t college and Cor nne was was"tlelt wastlelt ' Ibe she wasIbe wasshe " felt it was all my fault . . . tstand - OUght " . I Was wastoostnct-didnt wastoostnct didnt too strIct-dldn strIct dldn strict-didn didn - - - t ' stand land tho . the boy n nA -A A - Ai -i i - * hethat at all-saId all saId - he that check because I d dn do t him I andI Wal wan enough enoughallowance allowance and- and - snowed under ' I went gh wentgh gthings wentgthings thIngS I never told and and1lL you andMy \1lL 1lL \ ' On My home very nearly nearlyeB the thougha rocks Dad though lOver thoughlOver a over now thank God But It vel1lhIng verymig Itvel1lhIng itverymi verymi g else out of my mmd mind later tune-the tune the tun-the tun - - awful worry of tt it when eB I remembered I Iled Ilied led lied ledof liedof of course that If Nora Noraaledrto aledrto aledrtoal In Inreal real al Want she led to alcant you cant . would have n ' DO no 18 Is bitIs In Ihe she ' wouldn WHildnt tI t ! The bit bittowLT9 James * Lambert "Aerts Aerts " s voice toWard thward voicebmself bmself tumself himself I lost t r my one day and warned her Dd nd notDd notnd not ' aVe ve Nora A'S6011'1 AS60111 ' s got pluck ' " Always Alwa And ' Andcharacter lharacter character : Dld Did I tell ' 'Uyou Uyou You YouWal youwas Wal was of then en that Ned heard " "rd rd " the thelo.E theloE fo sitfo ofcourageous . courageous ' . ' I ' 'ttleNora ttleNora ttle Nora .it- .it sit- sit sib . .itnothe - - hours nothe Other ofother ? ' beslde beside the hody body of had bad hadnever badnever C ofC never n-v n v - Waiting ltlng for the father tath " r seen een to take her herM touchedes lie Was w " plainly B ' y touched - M es the she ,1 1 , , I s < got 0 4 4i -i- i - iracLt1 - d character he ad up a She fortune showed It when \ hen she because ( or thought she she new ew he loved that fellow ub yeub ubes times es these needed her There ve ye last yearsi 'hen hen " ' he yearshe I few years ve ye i felt hOle racLt1 respons reopens spons ble for t knocked knockedzie kttocktr1 ' ricket racket If It " Don Do " Ma Mason Mas son n-Ma n Ma - Ie zie : ! e do vn VD vii that day in m the ofT off oflTce ce ce the break between YOU YOUand youand youand and Leonora might never have havecome havecome havecome come aboutJames aboutJames about aboutJames James staring starmg Into the fire said saidnothmg saidnothing saidnothing nothmg nothing because there was no deny ing tng denying denytng this aspect of the case and andafter andafter andafter after a silence Ned went on onYou onYou I onI hetold betold You see I thought that story be he told me was Just lust ] ust bunk I sup supposed supposed supposed posed he was trying trymg to pull the wool woolover woolover woolover over my eyes and I as much as told astold him he lied I couldn t imag ne necan necan necan ( can t now for that matter ) how howany howany howany any sane man could be so easy as asto asto asto to hand over a roll of bills to a agirl agirl agirl girl he d never seen before wIthout wIthoutmakmg withoutmaking withoutmaking investigationBut makmg making some sort of investigation But I suppose it takes all kinds kmds of ofpeople ofpeople ofpeople people to make a world and my- my mymy mymy my mymy - my own O\VD O VD \ kids now they re old oldenough oldenough oldenough enough to think about it tell me I Iha"en Ihaven Ihavent ha"en haen haven " t " iny "lny lny mny imag nation Andif And If IfDon ifDon rfDon Don wasn t lying Iymg ( and I doubt now nowthat nowthat nowthat that he was ) you can hardly blame blamehIm blamehim blamehim hIm for seeing seemg red can you ) iou7 iou7He ou ' He d dn do tie t 1 e said James 'but but 'butthe ' ' butthe the fellow had no business busmess to lose losehIs losehis losehis hIs temper to-to to to - - to that extent he headded headded headded added hast host ly Iy remembering rememberIpg ocea occa oceaslons occasions occasions slons sions when his own temper had e\ploded e ploded eJo ea eaploded \ . ploded too violently for the com corn comfort cornfort cornfort fort of those concerned . . Surmising Surmlsmg his Ius father s thought thoughtNed thoughtNed thoughtNed Ned smiled smlled a little and andthen -then then - went wenton wenton wenton on Well that s ancient lustory history lustorynow historynow historynow now and since smce then other thmgs things thmgshave thingshave thingshave have hurt me so much more that thatthat thatthat thatthat that old experience doesn t seemI seemG seemf seem I G seemt t f i i 1 L L9 & \9 9 \ 9j 9s 9K j s K * . ' : You see , I thought that story storyhe storyhe storyhe he told me was just bunk " worth remembermg-certam1y remembermg certam1y remembering - certainly not notworJ1 notworth notworJi worJ1 worth bearing bearmg grudges for What Whattroubles Whattroubles Whattroubles troubles roe me is that I ve ye gone on all allthese allthese allthese these years without trying trymg to brmg bring brmgyou bringyou bringyou you and Nora together And I ImIght Imight Imight mIght have You can cant t deny that thatDad thatDad thatDad Dad I ve ye known you were mlssmg missing mlssmgher missingher missingher her but I ve ye never l lifted ted a finger fingerto fingerto fingerto to bring brmg her ber back Years ago Mar Martha Martha Martha tha told ri me e a how dead the whole wholehouse wholehouse wholehouse house seemed without her She hmt hint hmted hinted hinted ed that I ought to talk with Wlth you youabout youabout youabout about it but somehow I couldn t tIt tIt tIt It was the . night I1.Ight I1Ight I made the mls mis mlstake mistake mistake take of trying trymg to buy Nora s four fourposter fourposter fourposteri poster ! Do you remember7 remember ' | James looked up a pathetic smile smilem smilein smilein m in rus his MS worried worned eyesDId eyesDid eyes eyesDid Did I hurt your feelings feelmgs son ? Not so they stayed hurt You Younever Younever Younever never have bave Dad Its It s because you youand youand youand and I have always been so close closeand closeand closeand and understood each other that the thegap thegap thegap gap between my boy and me has hasseemed hasseemed hasseemed seemed so tragic Even the gIrls gIrlswhom girlswhom girlswhom ( whom I sometimes feared I was wasspollmg wasspoiling wasspoiling spollmg spoiling ) tell me I ne\ ne net ne\er ne er neer \ er see theIr theIrsIdethat theirsidethat theirside sIde-that sIde that - - that I m unsympathetic I Isuppose Isuppose Isuppose suppose I am m In a way I was wasunsympathetic wasunsympathetic wasunsympathetic unsympathetic to Nora always alwaysthough alwaysthough alwaysthough though it took a number of hard hardknocks hardknocks hardknocks knocks to open my eyes to the factJames factJames tact fact tactJames James murmured as if tus his mmd mind mmdhad mindhad mindhad had wandered a little from what whatNed whatNed whatNed Ned was saying saymg If-If If It - if I could only onlyknow onlyknow onlyknow know where she is now ' I know where she was six weeks weeksago weeksago weeksago ago was the amazing amazmg reJomderYou rejoinderYou rejoinder reJomder rejoinderYou You do James Lambert s vOIce vOIcesounded voicesounded voicesounded sounded belligerent I heard not halt half an hour before beforeI I started over Ned told him Cor Corinne Corlnne Corinne inne lnne was at a tea this afternoon afternoonand afternoonand afternoonand and gave one of the other women a a11ft alift alift 11ft lift home-Mrs home Mrs home - - Mrs Ed Whitney whose whosenIece whoseniece whoseniece nIece was in school . with V.lth Vlth tith Nora you youUremember 11 11remcmber 11remember remcmber remember She and some lrlends Sriends lrlendsv Sriendswere .friendswere friendswere . v . were ere on a motor trip tnp through Maine Mainea a while ago They ttopped stopped some somewhere somewhere somewhere where tor for lunch and couldn t get getaway getaway getaway away for several hours-some hours some hours - some trou trouble trouble trouble ble with their car-and car and car - and to pass the thetime thetime thetime time they wandered into mto the hotel hotelball hotelball hotelball ball room to watch a dancing classchildren classchildren class classchildren -children children - - children of the summer popula populatIon population population tIon I suppose And Noraas Nora \ was \\as as at atthe atthe atthe the piano pianoShe She was ' * . ' Ned nodded . . Mrs Whitney didn ddn ! t recognize recognizeher recognizeher recognizeher her at first Said she looked a good gooddeal gooddeal gooddeal deal older and-and and and - and pretty rocky rockyShe rockyShe rockyShe She was going to speak but on sec second secand second ond and thoughts decided it would be bekmder bekinder bekinder kmder kinder not to But she made some someinquIries someinquiries someinquiries inquIries of the hotel people who whowere whowere whowere were natives of the place They said that Nora was trying to support supporther her family That she played the theorgan theorgan theorgan organ at church and gave musIc les.ons lesons lesions musicles'ons musiclesons musIcles.ons musiclesions ' . and made cakes to sell during sellduring the summer summcr season and- and and - Ned Ncd andNed andNcd hesItatedas hesitated as if i1 uncertain uncertainwhether uncertainwhether uncertainwhether whether to finish and and-well and well - well theysaid they theysaId theysaid saId Father that she was living lIvmg m in man inan man an old barn or garage or some thIng something down near theater the \\ater ater water waterJames \ waterJames aterJ J James ames stared a at t hIm hImMy himMy himMy My Nora living IIvmg m in a barn7 barn ' ' , 'That That That shat s \ what \\hat hat Mrs Whitney WhItncy saId saIdbut saidbut saidbut but she shes s oneho one who \\ho ho \ makes the most mostof mostof mostof of a good story Dad so don t let letthat letthat letthat that thatorry \\orry orry worry |