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Show as n EYE o KAiHum nous wnu sarvta and straighten It out and 1 doubt" He stopped and a U14 M F"t had had on Tve no doubt, tht Peter 2, wd ZLi travel-crumple- a I'STiae tht scared. LVSI under toll And rJben. lditt. "Lot bw Not Wedlock, a Hoax." zZtpt.mt RlTTwelve"th.lin. fiwe bid been. And on page 4, story absolutely true. of the second whose Judge, pjnown fara-fbad csused his ft to much concern t bad appeared at a a Delta re dare-dev- il Nearly on Monday eve-- 4 the followta sergeant Francis told sto--j, X. abdue-- , 4 bootleggers, followed. The young aevspaper continued, slnca Sat-iKt from home of something been fenled their marriage, gl announcement of It , by Miss Carscad-etand by Judge and pje i ye Cann. Neely ana nis arriving early at the brother k r.nartment to diSCUSS (ij, bad exclaimed and bitrhpn until ouub felt ready to murder . Is why isn't understand Peter Mc talk to b to Kathleen Norris Ivt no sighed. tn His goodness, that God'H make it all dear to us." he said. Mrs. Me Cann freed her hand from Peter's long enough to find a handkerchief and wipa her eyes. Frank, standing on the heart-rulooked down on them all in turn. A coal fire was sleepily burning in the grate; outside the heavy velvet curtains at the windows and the rich lace curtains that were crossed Inside them the quiet holiday morning had clouded over and snow was beginning gently to fall The heaviness and shadow out of doors seemed to make only more luxurious and handsome this comfortable sitting-roowith its books and chairs and firelight. "Did Frank tell ye what Casserly reported?" Judge Mc Cann opened the talk by asking. "That was after I got home last night. Pop. I didn't know that when I was at Carscaddens'," Frank said. "That's right, too. Casserly came here," said the Judge in his mild, fatherly way. "with a report on the Columbus Avenue place," "If they're a bunch of liars," Peter spoke up angrily and suddenly, "That's nothing to met Why do you take what a bunch of liars says for Gospel? You didn't expect to get the truth out of them, did you?" "Casserly saw the marks of where the kids had Jumped out of the back lib'ary window," Judge Mc Cann continued. "And he saw the door where they come into the studio-ha- nd g, Sheila laughed, disagreeably. Her cheeks were still scarlet. "Only that isn't what happened." she said. "Sheila," said Mrs. Me Cann. "suppose that Judge Mc Cann and I said this to you and Peter: You like esch other, you've, been thinking about each other for months. Today was to have been Peter's wedding day. Well, have it so. Be married quietly this afternoon, right here in church on Lexington we'll have a little party afterward, to celebrate the first weddln' " There were tears in her shining eyes. She wiped them away, and went on, still holding Peter's hand, still patting it gently. "Then you go off to Pittsburgh. Tve a brother there; Judge Mc Cann had him on the telephone this morning. Peter, my brother, has a big foundry there, and he'll find a job for Pete. He'd seen the newspaper story and he was so nice about it, wasn't he Paoa? And of course. you and Peter not being able to manage on what he'd earn, why, we'd see to that part of it. "I talked to Peter about this, this morning," she concluded, with a glance at her son's attentive face. "Tell Sheila what you think, dear." "Why. I think it's the best way out of it Gert's gone to her grand- -- ma that paper, Frank." had lamented, He glanced at a paper which his r again. In her wonder- kit Toice. "You mew no eldest son picked from the table fc marry Gertrude Keane and handed him. "There's an artist, Joseph Bertin, the papers." it't got scads, for one and his wife and baby, lives in that studio," he said mildly, scrutinizing by. who was the paper. "They've been there a the restaurant feller, Tony, L' what, Neely?" Sheila year; knows the both of them well She in dangerous voice. was out at church Saturda' night, Neely had explained. but he was there. "His statement is that a young tee. i ran away wun came runnln' down his stairs, k his father had lots of couple laughin' and covered with snow, and that they got their breath and told lefla," Lizzie had taken him the way they'd been thrapped, tr plaintive tones, "why and with that went on, he knows not you? You hardly knew a," Lizzie slow-witte- where!" na are," Sheila had an- why else would I?" go," Joe had said It this point. And the litarted out, anxious and Cann house. had said in the hall, pie m, persistent voice, "I'd gladly to the Mc Canns' le of any use!" at," Joe had said briefly. M liked Lizzie; usually Her father had a big Mc where piness Neely Was a nnnHprfnl vrifp id the could be very fun- the funerals of her the way her Uncle Jim be had to change his ft today she had But f maybe, on account of she had Mrs. Cars- answered for herself. Lizzie, there's a eood ?" radden withdrawn with tears in Joe, Sheila and their (one on their sepa- - m Cann house, when they very laree and looked and Wt when the obviously lympathetic Mamie ad- Jadden with its maenifl- p kept close to Joe, her the pg w. with great curve of its stained glass its palms, the rues and W arches of the door- enormous halL they F chairs that ar're!" she whisper. Cann camp in Mer man came uith ob- - P. forward 1th nothing constrained per or voice, and what "01 accomplish in th Nuctions he did, natural- Pantiy, and they all sat ;ank camp in- with AtM HI hi. gracious, gentle worn- nrst visit looked older as pale and she had Her linn "Mrm M- P f l- - and N, TV "Sheila." m but she made toy. Jop " a, F- - Mc Cann h no shon. na 0 muur iy. looked at Ju do, Joe'" own and it lse a low Cached was to be seen chair pine fn for the boy's big. "d held it Pa i net hr FJ little while she looked A glance fuU of love "d trust, and whpn hp e" "would smile back at ! DOyish snr 8y in his eyes. Mrs. Carscadden SIV. "all this has bear'" for me." nothe judge said se- gently. "u;p mnctn'l ou mustn.t say that. We'll o"om of this matter - a strange city and a new lob. Sea laughed suddenly, mirthlessly. This seems very funny to me!" she said. "Sheila, dear." Mrs. Me Cans said, in remonstrance and distress, "you mustn't think we're trying to corner you. dear, or to trap you! Judge Mc taun and I talked this over all day yesterday, almost all night last night. We want to do what's fair to you. This seemed to us the fairest thing, the thing you'd want to do! Surely surely if you and Peter are fond enough of each other to hsve remembered each other all these months, to have made an engagement with esch other only a few days before he was to have been married, surely then It was natural that we should think that this plan would please you both." "And admit that we were lying!" Sheila exclaimed, angrily. "Aw, Sheila, pull yourself together!" Joe said, unsympathetically. "Dear child, we were only thinking of you," Mrs. Mc Cann protested, in a hurt voice. "I thank you all!" Sheila said, in a loud, hard voice. "But it isn't necessary to to sacrifice your son on my account!" Suddenly she was shaking with rage such as she had not known since very small, schoolgirl days. She walked out of the room, with her head up, and out of the house. No one attempted to stop her; or, if anyone did, she was too blind, too deaf, to know it Down the brownstone steps, that were being gently powdered with snow, she went quickly. The cool, pure air of the silent holiday noontime smote her hot cheeks refreshingly. Timid little flakes fell all about her, her footsteps were softened in the thin covering of the snow. At the corner she turned back. looked at the street She was not being followed, there was not a hu man being in sight Instinctively she had turned to ward the subway, and home. But on the way she passed, on Lexingd ton Avenue, a shabby, doorway. Almost every obscure activity known to the business world was housed in this old building; a passport photographer, a stuffer of dead animals, a dressmaker whose ambitious sign of "Modes" had been crossed by a humbler notice, "Children's school uniforms at cost." A dancing teacher had the top floor; a mender of broken china was somewhere upstairs. The second floor was given over to "Mrs. O'Connor's Famous Employment Bureau." And against her particular sign Mrs. O'Connor had tucked cards. wanted. 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NR Tablet Gt fair. today Know the true value of time, snatch, seize and enjoy every mo Wild Imagination ment 01 it. no idleness , no laziThere is nothing more fearful ness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can than imagination without taste. Goethe. do today. Chesterfield. voun ho up Ay rm? Uj3y rN : rs He stopped. Everyone looked at Peter, who shrugged, tossing his head, and at Sheila. "That's all a lie," Sheila said firmly. "Well, well " the Judge said, "Why, bat Peter knows perfectly well what happened!" making a little clicking noise with tongue and teeth. He laid the paper mother she's off me for life!" Peaside. "That ends that," he said. ter said gruffly. Sheila stared at him in blank CHAPTER XI amazement, moved her gaze to "Peter," his mother began gen- Frank. Her eyes went to every in turn. She looked tly, "had you only come to me and face in the circle told me, dear! Gertrude would have at Mrs. Mc- - Cann, gently persuawas watchgladly let you off. You could have sive, at the judge, who at been married rightly, with all of us ing her keenly, with a heroand and stirred flushed Peter, there" own brother, who had "Judge Mc Cann," Sheila said, ic, and at her all the pro"you don't believe that Peter and I been alertly following ran off to Boston and got married ceedings, without himself taking any part in them. Her mother's face by a justice of the peace!" out"Not if you say you didn't, dear," she reached last; the look of familiar the that suspicion raged tone. he answered in a troubled countenance had worn through the "Well, I do say we didn't! I say was slightly softwe were taken up to Connecticut entire morning now. Mrs. Carscadden was not ened somewhere in a truck, and kept mollified, but she was interested at there in the thought of this unexpectleast "Well, well," the Judge said, ed solution. soothingly, "then I'll believe you. Sheila turned to Frank, who was But here" he went on. "Look her with his odd, grave studying here a minute. You and Pete here Frank, so comfortably met last summer, didn't you?" secure in his own wedding plans" "At Tiller's Beach, on Labor Day." "But I don't love Peter!" she "And you liked each other very stammered. much?" Mrs. Mc Cann interposed in a "We did." tone, as if she were speaksoothing "He asked you to marry him, to a small refractory child: ing didn't he?" "But Peter loves you very much, "We only knew each other that and he never would permit Sheila, Sheila stammered, un- and his one day" father and I never could those from move to her eyes able of your going on, after all approve of her interlocutor. with such a stain on your this, "Only knew each other that one name. There'd be no blessing in day, but you liked each other?" that for him. or for us. It may not "We might have," Sheila said with seem so serious to you now, but an effort. "That is, I thought we the time will come when it would might have. But we didn't see each be serious believe me, dear. And other again." the judge thinks so, too. The world "Why was that?" would think very hardly of you. "Because Peter lost the paper with Sheila. They wouldn't know if you my name on it" Sheila managed a were married or weren't married" fleeting glance at Peter; looked "I wouldn't care what the world back. "I didn't know," she said, thought!" Sheila asserted. "that Peter was rich was a rich "No, you wouldn't now. But the man's son. I thought he was Just-J- ust time might come when you'd want like the other boys." to marry someone else, and then sudof it made a The artlessness there'd always be that shadow. den onslaught upon her hearers. Mc Cann and I wouldn't want Judge the if had?" what you "Well, to be responsible for it and Peter Judge began, clearing his throat, Peter wouldn't either" and Mrs. Mc Cann said quickly, "Why, but Peter knows perfectly "What difference would that make, well what happened!" Sheila perPapa?" knows that "No difference at all!" Paul Mc sisted, indignantly "He as babies as innocent both were we Cann said. whole thing!" "And there's where ye both were through the Peter, who appeared to be exso stupid," he added, feelingly. cleared his "Why didn't ye come to us and tell quisitely uncomfortable, us the truth? Sheila comes in here, throat "Well, I hate to give up my law " play-actiPeter said, courageously. work," "The boy sees her, poor and pitias Mother says I've never ful, as we thought she was then," "But the man continued. "And all his seen my uncle's foundry" "You have to think of the appearlove for her comes back. There's love at first sight, as we well know, ance of things, Sheila," Mrs. Mc Cann persisted gently. "The appeardon't we. Mamma?" "We do, Paul," agreed Mrs. Mc ance of evil, you know how much we hear of that!" Cann. "And you mean to say, Peter " "We work it out that he's promand bewildered, began ised to Gertrude, but he meets Shei- Sheila was twenty-one- , at Peter, off and he stopped. are laid, la, their plans all. a little goes with his true love!" the judge only a little boy after concluded the story. "That's the way boy who would be delighted to stop his difficult law studies and be off to it looked." he added, placatirigly. half-frow- ..." half-smil- city." Sheila stood reading these cards, her breast smoldering. They were all against her, the Mc Canns, and Joe, Ma. and Everyone. Even Frank had smiled as he handed her over to Peter to Peter, who had departed from Sheila's dreams forever, who was less to her now than that casual clerk "fr'm the office," who had been waiting for "Misther Frank," in the Mc Canns' hallway. "It wouldn't be open on a holiday," Sheila reflected, looking up the dank, uninviting stairway that lurched toward "Mrs. O'Connor's Famous Employment Bureau." "Here's what'll decide it" she said aloud. "If it's open. I'll try it! And if I don't want to do it I can back out And anyway. I'd have to go home for my clothes, and probably Ma and Joe'd be home, and they'd not let me go. But if I get away this time, it's for good!" She mounted the crazy stairway and laid her hand on the knob of the doorway that indicated O'Connor's. The knob turned, the door opened, and Sheila found herself alone in a shabby, spacious office, with a kindly looking woman of fifty, whose face instantly told her that if this was not Mrs. O'Connor, at least it might be. "I want a job!" Sheila said, going in. Mrs. O'Connor proved to be an affectionate and encouraging person. "Now, I'll tell you, dear," she said to Sheila. "What did you say your name was?" "Mary Moore." "I'll tell you, Mary. I don't often keep open on holidays, but I've a rush order I couldn't do nothing with yesterday, and I've had to put it into today. There's a federation of business clubs meeting at Atlantic City this week, and every place down there is full You've got a reference, dearie, from someone that knows you, your teacher, or the parish priest?" "I can get it" "Well, Mary, take the to Atlantic City you'll get your fare and your lunch money back. Go to the Pendergast Inn. It's not on the boardwalk, it's a block back, but it's finer than many of the waterfront places. Go there and ask for Mrs. Kearney; she's the housekeeper. She's a lovely woman. I've sent her help these twenty years. "It's only fourteen dollars," Mrs. O'Connor continued hardily. "What of it? It's something, these times, isn't it with everything found. Everything found. Everything found, think of it. Now you owe me six dollars . . . pay me when you like. Some of the girls pay half this week and half the next There's another convention going down soon. She told me there was a month in it, surely. And then it'll be almost May, what do you know about that? 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