Show F a 4 WIT r 1 acar A FAMOUS neurologist said recently in a lec lecture tyre we dont viva ulva our patients much medicine any more we give them something to think about if we can make a man put his thoughts on something constructive and shift the focus of his mind from his bodily ills we can give him a good start anthe on the road to health and this Is the big idea out of which the story of the destroying angel Is woven it if any of our readers need to get their minds entirely off themselves and their troubles they will find in this new serial an uncommonly strong magnet fop For louis Louls joseph vance you know never wrote a tiresome yarn he keeps your mind electrified and your interest eager from U start ar to finish CHAPTER II 11 1 doom then im to understand Ither theres esmo no hope for afraid not Greyerson Greye raon said sald reluctantly sympathy lif ill ills eyes none whatever the verdle was thus brusquely emphasized by one of the two consulting specialists having spoken lie glanced at ills watch then at the face of his colleague bushnell who contented himself with a tolerant waggle ot of ills his liend head apparently meant to imply that the subject of their deliberations really must ile bo reasonable whitaker looked quickly front from one to the other of ills his three judges acutely sensitive to the dread significance to be detected in tim expression of each fulling failing to extract the least glimmering of hope from the attitude or of any one of them hem lie ho drewa drew a long breath unconsciously bracing himself in his big chair its funny lie he said with ills his nerv ous smile hard to realize I 1 menn mean you see I 1 feel so fit between attacks hartt interjected quickly yes whitaker r had to admit dashed attacks sold said bushinell Ilu Bus linell heavily recurrent tit at intervals constantly more brief each of a trifle more severe than its predecessor evidently Bushi Bus litell liell considered the last word w ord ills his prerogative there was it brief uneasy silence in the gloomy consulting room then whitaker toker rose well how long will you glye me 11 lie asked in a steil lied voice six months said Ore greyerson miserably ti avoiding ills his eye three ibartt corrected jerkily Ter perhaps haps the proprietor of tile the last st word stroked his chin with a contemplative tive air thanks sold said whitaker without irony frony lie stood for art an instant with tits his head bowed tn in thought what a damned outrage lie ho observed thoughtfully and suddenly he fie turned and flung filing out of the room Ore greyerson jumped to follow him but paused as lie ho beard tile crash of ti the to street door ile he turned with a twitching apologetic smile poor devil I 1 lie ho lit at lila ills desk find ciul fishing a box ot of cigars fron froin rono lono of the drawers Alar married ried inquired no the only mitigating clr cir cum comstance stance sniff greyerson distributing glasses iles quite alono alone la in the world as far as I 1 know no near rel olives nt at least iles junior partner lit in a young law firm downtown down town sentor senior a friend or classmate of ills I 1 understand drummond Dru inmond whitaker moves with the right sort of people young stark peter ieter stark astnik ls Is tits lila closet friend 0 hugh whitaker stood for a long time how long lie ho never knew biere headed on a corner just na as lie had left Greyer sons office scowling at nothing considering the enormity of the wrong that blid been put upon win him later realizing that people were staring blaring lie he clapped on his hot hat to satisfy them and strode aimlessly down sixth avenue lie ile turned across town toward fifth avenue came to ills his club and alla went vent lu in passing through the office force 0 of habit swung his gaze to tile the letter rock there was a square white envelope in the W page pigeonhole and it proved to be addressed to him ile he knew the handwriting very well too well ills his heart gave a great jump as lie recognized it find and then stink sank like a stone for not only must lie he dip butkie but lie must give up tile the girl lie ho loved lovea anti auml had find planned to marry the first tiling thing lie meant to do was to write to her slid and explain and relea release sei her from tier her promise the next thing lie ile refused to let tho the idea of the next step form in ills his mind hut but lie knew very cry well what it would be in ili the backwards of ills understanding it lurked a gray grisly shameful shadow eli adow the elevator kept him film will fing a moment or two tw ojust just round the corner from the grillroom grill room door whence camo came a sound of voices talking and d laughing whitaker heard what was being said without nt at first heard and afterwards remembered fit 1 vivid detail seems to lie be the open opan season for runaways Itai hamilton nilton was saying saving its ollya only a few days since thurlow badts tits las daughter her name mary took the lie bit between lier her teeth and bolted with the old inaus hauf chaut beur somebody asked how far did they got get before old ladislas islas caught up lie give chase iaea not that wild if lie he was put to it old ld thurlow could play pay the unforgiving parent in a melodrama without any makeup make up whatever iles hes just like that sold said hamilton remember tits hla other daughter grace eloping with young soung pault it few years ears ago old ladislas hud had a down dowil an n pettit chos a decent enough kid so grace was promptly disowned and no liepe of ever tou touching chInga a penny 0 f the ladislas coin but what became of them mary ilary anti and the ho stoker person nobody knows except possibly themselves she like tills marv quite contrary inquired george brentana Bren tona tons voice a olt oh nothing but a kid said bald little riske fiske not over oer eighteen tile the elevator was waiting by this 1 time but whitaker paused tin an instant be fore taking it chiefly because the so sound und of his clivia own naine uttered littered by hamilton lind roused win him out of the abstraction abati action in which lie had overheard tile preceding conversation anyhow lint im sorry for hugh whit alter iles going to take tills this huid hard mighty hard george brenton asked na as if surprised what I 1 know lie he was as interested in that quarter you must bo be blind alice carstairs cai stairs lins has had hlin him going for it a year lavery body thought site she was only walting waiting for foi lint to mako make some big anoney lie ni much as anybody I 1 fancy fane brenton added the last straw tough hp lie hoberly whitakers it white man limn and alice carstairs deserve deseive him hut but I 1 blame tiny any annn for feeling cutup cut up to bo be thrown over for tin nn out and out like perey grim show whitaker heard no more at the first mention of the name naine of allec alice cm car stairs lio lie lind had suat matched ched tier letter from its ills pocket mid and was ns reading leading nobody will ever know just what alice carstairs saw seiw fit to write to blugh whit alter the blood ebbed from ills face anti and left it ghostly aly and alid when 1 ho to 11 lind 11 1 torn the paper to shreds and let atheni flutter about his feet lie fie swayed perceptibly so ao nuell h HO 0 that aliat one of tile iho pages took alarm find jumped to his side reg beg pardon mr air did you call me whitaker steadied himself and stared until lie he recognized the hie boy no lie sold eald thickly but I 1 want ant you give gh e me a bar order the boy produced the printed form and whitaker hastily scribbled ills hla order on it bring that up to the library he be said and be quick about it ile he stumbled into the elevator and presently found himself in the library there was vas no one else about and whitaker was ivna as glad ot of that us its it uns in n him to be glad of anything just then lie ilu dropped fien homily vily into a big and waited his brain whirling and seething his nerves nerves on edge end screeching in this state peter stark found hint him peter sauntered into tile lie room with n manner elaborately careless bf beneath neath that mask he was n anything an thing but indifferent just as aa his appearance was anything but fortuitous moreover peter had already heard about alice carstairs ond and percy grimshaw alel lo lie he said contri contriving fing by mere occident accident to catch bight of whitaker who vas almost invisible in tile the big chair with its back to the body of tile the room what you doing up liere here aluch up its nil all up said bald whitaker trying to to pull himself together n cri things up I 1 I 1 dont believe it sold bald stark coolly wy my feet are on tile ground but you look ds ns it if seen a ghost 1 I lisne my own jovn sold paid whitaker i the page now flow stood steed beside him will tt a tray open it lie told tile the lioy boy indicating a half bottle or of champagne find and then to peter im having s both bath wont you jump in peter whistled watching matching tile the winit cream oer ever lie brandy lit in the lie loni lon glass icell kings 9 8 peg ell eh liu lie said bald will it ft lift of e throws hem boy bring too me some soine scotch and plait water filter for common people hiie boy disappeared ns as willful I 1 lifted tits lila glass ini im not waiting uniting lie he said bluntly 1 I need tills now flow 1 I hope boic peter said thoughtfully lint the man lunn who aho started that it lit about drink milking making it fellow forget died the death ot of it dog ile he deserved dese ived to a U y wey ile he stopped nt at whitakers side find dropped a liand hand on oil lilt shoulder Il lugh lie ho said yourt oun one of 0 the he best dont What whatever eyer he had meant to say if left 1 because of the of tile the page with its ills scotch but ili h had said enough to let whitaker under stand lie he knew about tile tha ri N nar Tl ints nil all right sald im not going to make a fool of nii lily self but I 1 am in a pretty bud bad way vay boy hold on I 1 peter interrupted youre not going to order another what youve youe had Is enough to gal it corpse harang Harr BarrI ng tig the negligible difference ol of a few or mont months lis file returned whitaker id like to know what hat you iou menu mean b bi that peter ieter remarked ked obviously wor nor tried chats Yh ats the matter with youl you ask greyerson I 1 cant re the intuni alts too long and I 1 I 1 I 1 it if I 1 did petera eyes ees narrowed narrow etl what fool Ish nesi bas greyerson been putting lilt into your lead head lie ins demanded it a good mind to go punch tits ills it ills fault whitaker us as sorted its my own or rather lt it something in the lie nature of a inous gift froni from iny illy progenitors several of em ein died of lt it und and now it seems I 1 ell ef you look as if seen a ghost must greyerson Gic erson says so BO fit at least and wi I 1 believe him lie ho culled called in hartt ind find bushnell Kii to told my lily little mortem the they inide it unanimous it im uncommonly lucky I 1 inny live to pico next thanksgiving you cant make tile ine believe that flint peter insisted it just bennt ile bo so A vian like you chos always lived clean why look at your athletic records I 1 wont believe it ili I 1 ills big rod red generous list fist described a largo large and inconclusive gesture 0 of violence well lie growled filially grant nil tills which I 1 dont not for one little minute what do you mean to do doil 1 1 I dont mind telling you salil said I 1 V hitaker 1 I dont know did at the saine mime time ive got to d soni something ething get away somewhere abrupt inspiration sparked the lie lefing of peter stark and lie begun began to sputter with enthusiasm ive got lie ho cried jumping to ills hla feet A sea trips just tile thing chances nrc fare turn the trick rick bring you round nil all right O 0 and prove what asses nasca doctors are I 1 can have the A adventures 11 gs put in within three tareo days well try that south sena sells thing weve talked about so BO long what ayou say A warm light glowed in whitakers sunken eyes 03 es ile iio nodded slowly just suppose now that in whitakers battered mind the seed beed thought of suicide has started to swell and sprout do you believe that the anticipation of a sea trip will kill the seed theres a hint in this question TO DB 1103 CONTINUED |