Show A A 7 1 A less B IPER R ir by fill kathleen een orri 0 J 0 1 tr j avii dt ba norr s byN synopsis I 1 harriet flold twenty eight years old and beautiful is ie tho th so 0 o clel of the flirtatious mrs isa ibelle carter at It Ill chard ichard carter carters home and governess govern of 17 11 year old nina carter ward twenty four years old and fancies himself in love with his mothers mo there attractive decro fry tory mr hire barteen tar tere latest laffi affair tir to with young anthony pope rope and the youth to taking it very seriously CHAPTER II 11 Presiding over the toa t cups thie this bummer summer afternoon harriet Is 1 profoundly disturbed by the arrival of a visitor royal blondin next day at tea party in the cit city londen makee makes him self if agreeable to nina and leaves a deep impression on the unsophisticated girl CHAPTER III harriet agitation over the appearance of 13 at cro Crown alan lande appearance Is a explained by the fact that he had been a di disturbing curbing element in irr tier life ten ton years before and rhe she fear fears him the man la Is an avowed adventurer living on tit the gullibility of the idle rich he ile frankly announces announce a to If harriet amriet hie his intention of marrying nina who ae ws the daughter of the wealthy bichard carter to t a highly desirable deel rable catch an and urr argei tier bar to rid aid him she la to in a a enoe n so in hie I 1 to power and after wit him mm tn a hia 0 ft iU airle agrees to follow a policy of neutrality CHAI TEIl R IV harriet visita her mar meir ried sister davenport with whom bhe she had had her home during her unfortunate acquaintance with blondin Ulon din and tella tells her of hie his reappearance the two women reali realizing zinc the unscrupulous nature of the man view the future with apprehension hn lon CHAPTER V knowing the tender feeling ahe she haj ham inspired in ward carter harriet le tempted to marry him for tho th position lon and wealth he can rive kive her though she he does not love loy a him Il londin haa has ingratiated himself with madame carter richard a mother and she h in 1 wholeheartedly whole heartedly in favor of till film marriage mArr lace with nina ward urge urges harriet harriot to marry him at once she CHAPTER VI at hie his too open flirtation with young anthony pop pope richard carter markedly shown his hl resentment leabelle isabelle ardently returning her youthful lovere lovers attachment elope elopes with him on his hi yacht and pursuit la is useless the tte new news of the sensational affair of course by gossip ie Is kept aa as much aa an possible from being public property CHAPTER VII VU ward carter 1 urice urges harriet to marry h him 1 m but she he can a not brenir herself to an a alliance liance with him merely for the ask bake of belf self advancement and refus ref uaea the fact of mra mrs carter carters elopement becomes public harriets Harr lete capable managing hand ie to more than ever needed at Crown lands and despite the complication complications aha she forestien forr for esties aoe as inevitable she ho decides to remain CHAPTER VIII blondin put pat pressure pree aure on harriet to forward hie his marriage with nina but she he makes up her bar mind to defy him richard carter questions her concerning her knowle knowledge dire of intention intentions and ahe she counsels coun sela active appo luon to the tho match the family with harriet move to a eummer summer establishment on an I 1 long island ees widened ld ened with ith anim so youve refused retus cil ward have you I 1 long oo ago 00 title ali answered simply the ninn man laughed but a moment inter so youve refused ward have you his fac face crew anik and 1 troubled again us its tit h 1 I hurdly hardly hiim blut lilt to dot dol the tile girl 1 Is the th first lart eon nit loii of couric find bill IK ne neds 18 ou I 1 feel that she Is ig not all 0 lut tilt aiuppy when lien aou ore are liere here I 1 w x tin fort unit tely reached a at plue 1 ve not got to ftc awl 1 I free atu youve e heard ua us ull till hullt of this new o 0 n a 3 istir girl that wah ill keep me going ilko a sime 1 for I 1 ont know when I 1 au atu to he lie hulite or alint lint I 1 shall have to cancel I 1 suppose I 1 icart convince you how bedl we e need you mr smother I mother well ehe alit lias hns ah nys ny s taken life that way sit blip can cant t ch chainge tinge now nou I 1 shall hine hue ida tabor ns no it nc fix n c iture ture her here I 1 suppose nina running wild ward nevor never hume you you ove me exactly what I 1 want here I 1 good tires hospi nuit a rood good report atom yina nina and vard ward I 1 cun can bring men home I 1 can 1 ie ae litif a touching ills tint biml falce u cv 1 in ir shorty I 1 wish there was setup w e JL e boung wn ninn Pom ehert hen t tr make aou a mrs smith or jonca mim 1 fifeld and li let lit t aou u come back to the carters again agul til t harriet laughed d sharply immediately upon the tile laugh linn 11 such a 1 ninn slip anil and abw 1 adolid even ii a widow in to vulnerably vulnerable ItIc hurd smiled but sudden thought inide the smile but nn nil absent one and he quite obviously plunged ged in lit lor for a long minute 1 I heres I 1 erea another 1 ilela in ill buld suld looking tip 1 1 I dont know lio how this ua will you it fins occurs occurred d to inu file before hinted it or I 1 thought he lie did lilt and the more I 1 think of jt the more po possible isible it seems you tire a bus business Iniss woman and I 1 nin am n busl business nes man you know exactly what I 1 am alit exl exactly etly what lint 41 in nil married life after twenty wenty two tuo liars that taht tt f alig lu 1 n or f ao ur hut but there it that wicy of settling sc it if you car cnn to consider it lie ile ainu sed ith it questioning look of encouragement and hiter tat harriet had gratl palo find nd lint flyod tier ey eya upon ills tits n as if under a spell you mean her olce oleo failed tier i 1 I inena I 1 incon that you and I 1 get married in it fe evv week beeks hen I 1 nm am free he nn herd 1 I him lime just indicate to aou a ahat it would giltan to inc file I 1 hope he added matching her closely us as sin she ent ant stunned and ellent allent 1 I hope that it bould also hao hae its to 3 oiin ou your position then would lie unquestionable tio mycother my mother ninn nina theirld the orld would have nothing to sa your in fluence on ward Is the one thing that may eave save tho the boy of nann inn aone already spoken my bly mother I 1 know knowl her herl I 1 immediately become the champion of her r sons ife there would be a three days buzzing that would end itt the swift rushing up of joy in harriets heart was uns accompanied with ith the first agonies of renunciation was perhaps all the more sweet because of them she hod had not come to this hour without enoi knowler ing x what hat he lie meant to her tier this quiet man with ith the splendid mouth and the keen gray ray ebes and she trembled no with ith un an exquisite emotion that to drown droun out all the past and ajl all the future mery everything thIng except that she loed him and lie needed her Buthen but when she spoke it wag uns as choll coolly as he lie mr carter what ahat of your wife ifer 7 his eyes met hers tiers divorce proceedings were ere instituted immediately it was as es she had gone etli with doting pope the decree will III be he nut but that will III nut not annot alter utter tile harriet fult faltered ered you dinean hesitated heRita ted aou a luean mean ou that aou ou regard me ine as married still harriet mute att ill motions emotions abao luta nodded without It hout MU III ou will nou u lit me think about 10 it she fult eld A sudden i ann into face you I 1 know knon how hon I 1 ans ns brought brouil kt ill up to think of dl orce she went ment on oil pleadingly 1111 te nindo plent of mistakes in my life but ae nt cifor or deliberately done N blat blat I 1 felt uns i as rong and this would bev be richard asked slowly ly linell ell I 1 thought about it 1 site ile answered slowly aly colli people co my luy sister and her tier husband would otil tl sol so 1 I 1 I would lune sold said so of some other woman bomani wo manI tills this would not hp he an ordinary marriage marr ou oil would be he tn entirely your our own Iti thard all wah quiet it would be a garringe mar ringe 1 only in the eeb 0 o di df the world 1 I sw see she 1 I 1 1 I must jap linne time thue to think about it 1 I As long ns ou like she hatt risen and now lie rose too and went elit with her tier to the library door and opened it for her tier han you decide come and tai me ho lie mild bowing she turned to gi khe him a parting smile with a desperate des perote wish ish to to till 11 him half the honor and jo she would foci fow in tn taking lIng his tits name in sharing his responsibilities but the pleasantly ifil personal nod be gae her chilled the words unspoken harriet ned fled to her room my chance the whispered press previs ing her cold finger tips to lier tier hot cheeks my chance at last and I 1 cant take iti it no I 1 cant lake it I 1 dont care what ills tits world orld dx q or jr thinks iny world permit it no I 1 cant not a divorced man not a man inan m with mith ith a living wire ve I 1 e been a fool ive been wrong rong plenty of times time but ie neer committed myself to folly and wrong 1 she stared blindly ahead of her after n ualle title she spoke again halt aloud 06 oh hut but eliy hy does lt it have to be lie any I 1 if I 1 could go to him toll tell alint lint lie tie mentis to me if it we pon if we v could take a little place axt to linda never to see e nina or liitt lils mother or word ward or hoy roy again oh oil m lint heaven i how now I 1 phonia to lote e it 11 planning for things together an j lenla kill and fred did having him come home to HIP ine eury mery night flight I 1 atut it imbt that wnm wn harriet still suit t denly recalled hermele sensibly and it in folly cun pen cu n to mint about he lie ili 1 a rich twin unit a married man and that endel it q lint ends it A griat dimi dilation lation swept her tier spirit ep arit sin she fell froin hitter bitter musing to weaken mir ill 1 I alit lie inu lim permitted it after ill all ill pant of good women had lint shown her tier tin ili uny ny diw needed her hv she tile do good line and above all I bill he 11 hill she iward n mining in the bed boil room mint thile IR it dorar she called it avar p 0 of weakness and fitti gilp M 4 goodness liow how sou ili UK ite its just noon do ou oil happell to kno know if mr car ter er IK iii idill lie ill I 1 in lies he expecting mr bir cox vot to cobile 0 let muno thed her tier tumbled hair I 1 and still unit alouzy down hut lift I 1 lou ime him I 1 she bald suit duniy nt anding still on oil tho the landing land lne i ft I 1 1 I 1 love him W tn tit all my scull to look out nt at the loftly falling snow with brimming cee 1 I lovo love him with all my soul 1 A moment luter later lie she knocked ut at the door ope opet I 1 it in answer to his cull call and in cloaie it be hind her CHAPTER X there was as tj at lindan house trouble so terrible that harriets Horr lete anex arr itil caused no comment caused no more than a weary flicker of lindas heavy henvy eyes pip the adored first bom born son lay dangerously III and thu the hole household moved on tiptoe heartsick with dread it was therla era er bad fred stated lifelessly linda hardly left the room they etero ere abrald for her tier too if pencil if alay anything thing happened I 1 harriet hun let thought had heard the phrase a hundred times bo before fore the ditL ifIl ll 11 lift lit 1 1 sin ilo I 1 aid i afi an 4 for an our gerore it was up mp the mother came hack back and they icet their 11 igil ll together Kether to fred tiered naw nsw ered the strange untimely ging of the doorbell lob dob rbell brought in packages C conferred in the halls bolls with the doctors midnight came tv t b velock four suddenly there as ns panic ilter ctet by chanco chance in the hall saw lindu linda and nd fred and the doctors together r heard lindas bodas spirit anguished ye 1 and freds anything an tiling her heart pounded pound eid the nurse ran rim upstairs harriet fell upon her tier knees with mith n u robbing tb whisper hi sper no no nal and I 1 in dachun da clenic clun to her husband lius band ditl ith a cry fry torn from tilt he deeps of her heart OJ wi pip my iny mi own ir boy voy I 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 da dauo au came slowly and at seen ahe village ina aa bierk und ano closed d under a bk of unbroken gra here and thare inoke smoke streamed stran pd upward from a or a windowpane sti elioud an oblong of pirle unlit light harriet put out oyt the light that mo becoming annece unnecessary but her licit libart a aas singing for joa jo and tin tilt limitt was brimful of an inner light tint and cheer that no winter bleakness as touch the girl iohd been crying tit 11 ill she ns blind but it waa was it 11 ring mixed with laughter und and of kf utter itt i ter thankfulness she sl met linda at the dour a gitry lindil glia W as to face enier aa as to straggling hair but with ith stith kittil anc in ili ber her fes ees that Harriet clasped in her arms began begun to cry ngien oh harriet it if I 1 cun con eer thank I 1 god gott enough kilps ia mother sald beginning on tin her tier bli with till one long sigh ob wa in dehr deor 1 hes iles sleeping like a baby god bless him and benr old fred Is sleeping too oh oil harri I 1 to go about the house as I 1 ju just at line a co eo ivring ering and the girls and feeling that v were er all nil going to be happy tobither to gither ther again in a fuw few day my iny dear I 1 dont know knon what ive done lone to bo be so bles blessed aed 1 31 boa who lie has har neer gl gi cu anyone abline a it moments mp nip ments care or trouble tro ulle since shim he lie w as its botn orn my darling mho iho lugod tl up HI at roo me besterda est erda ia his eye 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