Show RADE ADE elyn Campbell Evelyn E 1 bY servIce X Kill Continued Continued AI fER pT R V 20 20 I i want of me Inc Con Con- saw Con furiously I d dO l U He saw at ut cone e angle had lead come over the tho a thong that he be had to fo do with l Ids it and aDd strange In ho him Sard Instantly S So 0 f far nr as os ase urd I D had nothing toro to tu toW he I e t whom ho hi youngster this W ro I as he be hail had crushed as cosily eh Si without known know know- underfoot same one there ere ere- Bul he was e n ii cautious fur for he had d 10 O De be be wary nary of unexpected eJ to in his pocket and pro H Be H e felt celt t Lie Ie cigar It was not a aI aing I fl jj et on ond on ing nor n a time yet on id smoking poking IM d not have hare carried on with iC Behind chind Its shelter think drink impassively prepare use ce e strike stride are at are welted he said sad not nut excited and he helIe an n ms tie lIe asked ashe evenly enl done to Mrs Irs 7 you se could mold not believe that tie lie tied ht Done none to her he heHe helie d aright ari Hero lie He was a n little hint hurt lag man whom hom he lie had Icom in a world worl where tact act Is the of all qualities and yet vet approached by hy this twin being mos mos' and and a s womans woman's name used as a bludgeon refuge in 10 the tinge honored mown rn what you ou mean an linn Brian I will rill explain said pe perfectly cool knowing that already ruined himself and to 10 b be ruined If this would 3 J nearer lis s objective Somes Some s happened J to Mrs Hoth and sea know what it Is I am amoa oa 00 to I tell II me was so 50 sprit slight sll ht that an anteen teen keen than his hearers hearer's might set ed It Converse reflected lela that the youngster was waso o through mud love lo for Linda i i He lie was the sort that love Ion loveal Q al jj the deuce with Duels i a is forty his veins eins do doand dond and nd to thrills of tin ripened i lie He was divided between that isto-that that of the primitive primitive- for lor what he still held of her e her O er as useless to him him- jiving n that hat all was past he be- forever Her bruised ad d carried her too far f r from r r ell all s astonished to read sad the he other mans man's ej eyes es Are are asking for m my honor bonor slowly ours Oars her honor to drawled Then it Is a n aam I am nm to g give ge e into your I I. I sprang prang out on Brians Brian's fore fore- fc Ic was fas not as calm now as who had the a a 11 II- II and sluggish gish blood blond l d that you added c a quest ques ques- t he said Because lIse I will l 1 f shy hr Because I love her J j lore lo lo her as she Is Because Mow Illow IO her wherever er she has 2 t was was fas tiring Their few feu I covered 1 emotion J h surging past him with the tho thoa a J tings rings of ot youth 11 S1 that thaI he had lost In his b l LJ J nothing he e heard himself he e was 8 n little girl Irl I helped helped It he Elle was s n a woman 1 wanted ta o gelling gating what at I want is not 91 because nature gave e a me tie g glanced obliquely at his 1 J 1 with a 11 sort of sick conk con con- Ii 61 k he e must have looked upon h ht 1 f aloneness Ills His lall laughter t I hart had Mm I to snare ny Illy bl birds I I failed And this w was was s st t 1 astonished S t t at his own f. f In at 1 Ule le hal had 1 hap OP discovered Ut that he not nO a II i r any lie hall hiat tt fX I or teals ye ars hurl hal schemed l to tu Tor liT nr t to b buy u Ii lInt at I t flow ow he 7 v an-v cou could I It I let her tier go goto o I hit was to remember r for r l her even yesterday Yeste I h t tp b bra the ie end coil lIH of his It d bawl wishing now Ii I t P IhO not smoked I. I for it was bite hit bit ift money T Then hE f from rom me e for tOt oJ years I r t I h the n suddenly she det de de- I he e 01 would Uld lu 11 liUn not nut have any I tJ to 10 s' s fil ens to Women w when n split I lilt 1 are halts halls aS Usually ly tha r I t L kind 1 1 8 g l to a void avoid Site J of a she cheat for Wf If she t r it Probably she needs need q PIed b back Se e I lck and ap- ap t Horn fur the tr truth I 1 llIn for Ile ee u Y ode lie e nu bud nad asked I i Over OYer VCr him In ln a h if It 11 receded he lie wasI was I I CHAPTER XIV r r rd rt t t II You ou r the lice nia tL She coatroom gave ave him 4 wits nn an old oe young are r the tip JP tie he forgot as I her readily iy that Linda I rne that room and nd was told at ate the he t she e hari hall i left the T elevator But 1 y at t the I e taxi stand t f A lady r he had O gone from fromn r 4 I D s before rec reu re- re She e The fhe c man wo watched u L lit e aa as uc ue chose those his tha looked like Uke use a 0 Wall Iain I clothes The s I starter was teas almost sure url of Mint flint p Per cr Imps the somethIng next chauffeur In II line ne I knew V Brian found hImself In a I ta taxi x moving ing to carefully f u II Y over oter Icy fellows streets e T TI These lese seemed to guess I tot lot t. t f a 8 O. O I He lie e un- un d ers t I 00 f from their lr silence that tI they ley knew more f than he ho dared dured tl think I n I Ue le told tol J the tl d. d Ie driver cr to follow the he other cS cab cab In n the suspected direction and know know- o In lug IK tint Hint the moment of or overtaking It ever e to her and himself him lit lf he found fonne himself thinking less ss of tha n and d morel morel- wondering wandering If she wore a warm cloak loa I and If the Icy ley si sleet cS tI that t iH-at iH n against the window pane could CO d find its way to her soft cheek The cab shivered d and stood still helpless In Its chains S The his tithe spoke doubtfully through to Shall I 1 go o on on sir sh no rn on Where The fIle night was a maze of gray Ia str streets gray people lamps Hanny against I Ic icy ley veils ells of rain Vh Where ere OJ would I he Ill tied ind her in that phantasm phantasm- got Kona But Hut he knew that he tie must trust and would vi with IIi the certainty tint that love and wonting J gives Jes es Presently she would he lie in his arms arias and that Impossible sible parting would he be b no more Strange e thoughts rioted through his 1 mind IId opening ntH and shutting doors floors of little cells where dwelt all alt the Ole Infinite life of his past last and the Indefinable nebulae of of the future that was to have been and the future that float would be He lie had lint followed will o the wisps Yesterday he h had been n a boy worshiping worshIp worship- ing ideals clot fantastically In such bodies bodh's as that of Converse But today today to to- In day he was ns something else not else not man manIS manas manas as IS he knew men but a sort of power which because he loved ed a woman enough could sweep a 8 path for hert her t through h t the he waste places where she as v lost All that he hind had wanted existed no longer except wherein It concerned tier her It was like th the play of or children forgotten before a greater shame lie He saw himself In her e eyes es incomplete She could put him aside because shin sho believed belie him hits too weak to defend her heror heror heror or because she would not accept a It defense had been blind bUnd to her need need tint hut now note that he knew her control control con con- was over Her lIeI decisions became the plaintive cries of a woman left alone in the wilderness lIe He was ryas brought from this b by the swift light Bight of the car as It whirled half around and and- came groaning to a 8 astop astop stop beside the curb It was Impossible sible ihle to distinguished an anything t but bUl Ii lights and a moving mass bl beyond ond the blurred windows but hut he heard the reproachful reproachful re re- voice voice of of his driver calling to him You Yuu see that sir A bad accident It aint a night for a dawg to be out In fhe They They've e e got the street roped off oft Ill I'll II have to go aroun around J the block bluck sir Brians Brian's hand moved to the door handie handle han han- die dle before his mind registered his In intention In in- His Ills instincts were all nil awake carrying him upon a n fierce tide He sprang out ut of the car telling the man manto manto manto to wall wait The street was a Jumble of ot broken things A thin line of onlookers shiv shivering ering in the rain but kept kept- warm by bS their activity pressed against one another an an- an other forcing their way Inch b by Inch upon the forbidden ground Police in gleaming rubber coats ordered them back threatening with clubs what failed to effect The front tires elevated of an nn automobile ludicrously were wele the pivot of this street war anti and Brian pushing his way through the theline theline line saw a grotesque wreck of machinery machinery ma ma- chin chinery ry that seemed d to be sitting down lown at ut last lust after thousands of weary miles TO UE LIE CO CONTINUED I Of Course Henry Had Sent Th That t Letter buthe but butHe butHe but but- He kicked off oli his wet shoes slid hl his tired llred feet feel into a pair of carpet carpel slippers lit his pipe sat dot In the easy chair choir with a n sigh of relief and declared that wild horses hors's coul couldn't make stake him stir front from the house until the following morning wife you ou posted henry l' l said his that that letter I gave you this thus morning I suppose 1 I 1 did my ms love he tie answered un un- blushingly d vis vie visIt visIt hei het I mother to postpone his wife continued It for a while I You lOU see see see- Henry did so His Ills wife saw too What she saw was the tired man ratan Jump intuit from his chair kick oft off his slippers put on his shoes and slip out into the murky street And when live he minutes back with the tate tale later leiler Henry came cattle that he lie hind had been to see how the thermometer ther ther- outside the post pORt stood she smiled |