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Show &WSxhW MENS CfflLBIffiN X Br GERALDINE DONNER ' Aulitr Kustn.ticasjby &v IXZMLA'lSr Ccjjyrllt I mNECK v VV 00. CwiyThBOBM-MtKll- l kold'n halo of lamp blotted tha dark at Interval, and now and then tba a, which had occupied th bench a, Hill f n nn, th tmnant Mn. Into tba circlet of vaporoua Il.! ki Mr lumination. Ikiw, M luMr, ltrn and paaaed out of them, S Iwll Anilt ttr arrlv a if they had boon croaking tba atago fiiir, rnitnr tfc'inirili k linn nil n til wMr i of n theater. ball Invlmilon for t.l wU". l W M'1" Th nll drirrmlnwl rfuw4, Herny did not mov and did not noI In rrlAln rlnuklilnf mrvi , tice the Increasing chill of tha hour or lni Inbk 111 lurnkn vir..n, n (nortn-rtha moisture beading on ber clothes nntnl lln-- hi iwhlor Hu .un1r like wintry rime. 8hs waa eunk In an menr, tiv friunt ,iorrl. t 1111 of thought, a auapended trance y, i'nnn nl kbyta IntmlnleS In Anllt. of contemplation, In ttm Anit"t Ideaa. In ona of receptivity to new llvn I rMrn4 nnlfroml.rotishl t" hour her basic eitlmata rnrvti'km (( off tv storm. Mrl, Antdop of human ber accepted measnature, In i I (omint.a Url Cannon norIn a urement of motives and ttandarda, bad talar wnki dimr m liara liiialianl la and writ lallr iitar Her point of balwaan been suddenly upset. irylnff in mnoih nvaf !' I In M view waa Ilka a kaleidoscope, which I Ham. In.mmlik 11 follow snowbound priw.wr In tmfol tr1 la unexpectedly turned. , Sitting talk nf tor. It la lmtr on tba bench aha saw tha fann aaior. Aflrr ibra wak. nd of -- n. Tl"cni and mail miliar I aiert of Ufa fallen Into new K nrnva lamilnlrk IM lallar from navar ahapea, and do-H taking on alien forma. Una lav wlf. Tlla I" driart did. Stormbound paopla realized that Itomlntck had nevShe , aa falhar na and lu.mlnl. mbr-a er teen happy with her, and, for the lhain and damanda nn aaptanallon It , Drat time, aha understood tha gulf bebroiHar Oan I mada matiacr of rn-liand I In l It If Ha aura sober a them. Site aaw what tha Ufa tween a for atraaa antipathy waa that he had wanted to lead, and pnaition In talk with raiurna horn. lrny atari that ha could bavs led with tha other In plaaaa him. hut fi la Indlffarant. Can woman. It would have been that vary non rail on Mr. Ilvan. Thrjr Itomlnh'k'a msrrtac dirnetiltl, and I an form of exlatenrs which Herny had al-- ' Immlnlr off non ukaai buying lirrny, roan In park on Hunday with llarny and ways derided, and thought nn outward Ml Cannon, how to har expression of the Inward dullness of .amlly, In llarny. in Mr, and atari ionw people who had children, looked shabllyan'a nama 1annon offara llarnydlvoraa, In laava har hnahand and parmlt or by, and did not cars for money. Now aw larmlnli'k hh rafuaa. It". fI an ha felt unaura as to whether her Jark tn Iniffy. anaaaad Ilvan pall acorn of It waa not foolish and unennon offara llarny l.nr and I lurnad i offar of alalar down. Ikrny tall As In a audden forward yaiidayilia. lightened. ford, tha artor, maka a hith In mual Hak shoot of a search light, ahe aaw them Itiwo lalla tmmlnh'k that tn wlfa. and llrt lima arknnarladaa that Dominick and Rosa happy In a way aha lova him. Cannon offara llarny I5"., I'aonon aha had never dreamed of being happy. pn whlrh aha rafuaa. aavln win Ih want Immlnlrk for Iloaa. liana in In a world ao far from hera that ahe ranrh. Ilaroy aaruaa Ho of trying alaal har huahand and lalla har of Ih of bad never before had a clear look at what aha It, a man and women concentrated upfarad hrll. I(aa fall falharhrlba jaamad about Ih allampl In navar llarny on the marry piece of Ufa that belonged to and daalnra that ah would Immlnlrk. ahould h avar b dlvoraad m. them, living passionately for each othart prumlaa from falhar to tet IWrny er, Indifferent to all that aecmed to nloo. ber of value. CHAPTER XVIIIi Continued. She brought her mental vision back She leaned down to take hla band. from this upon herself and felt shaken 1I rcllnqulahed It to her with an lm and slightly sick. Seeing beyond the menao lightening of hla heart, and circle of her own experience and senpence fell on him an he felt her rub sation for the first time, ahe would her cheek ngntnit hie knuckle. have said to any companion who "So youre not mad nt the old man, might have ahared her thoughts: "No after all? he said almost shyly. wonder Dominick didn't get on with "No," she murmured, "not at him. me!" For a dlspasslonately-contem-platlvI was angry nt what he wae doing. moment ahe saw herself In It wae a subtly feminine way of get Itomlnlck'a eyes; she aaw their marting round the delicate points of the ried life aa It had been to him. She situation that Inconsistently feminine felt sorry for both of them for him way which separates judgment of tba In hla forced acquiescence with the Individual from Judgment of hla acta. conditions around him, tor herself beHut It relieved the Donanxa King of cause of her Ignorance of all be had the heaviest weight that had lain upon wanted and expected. him for many years, and. for once, he "I couldnt be any different, ahe gave thanka for the Irratlonalnesa of whispered to herself, that's the way evNOPtis. i! i ,i fig-ur- pkd mI 1 t. lririil ln-l- yr It-- 1 of"-T- a rllfH-'Ull- 1 nr n'l mo-tlonle- ll'if-jra- tl Vr-Canno- It. nrlf Jmmi-nhk'Imml-tiir- (tl-- k u unina II !' . e i ; i 'i.. i i ; I women. I am. "Well, good night, honey he eald, She never could be any different. no matter what crazy notions youve She waa ose kind of woman and Rose got, youre the old enn'a girl all Cannon waa another, and Dominick right. belonged to Robo Cannon'a kind. She She kissed him. did not know that It waa so much bet"And you wont forget your prom- ter than her kind but It waa different. ise? she murmured. They made her feel like an outsider In "Of course not, be said stoutly, not a distant world, and tht feeling gave sure Just what she was alluding to. her a sensation of deadly depression. "Any promise I make to you stands The burning heat of resentment that put till the Day of Judgment Good had made her apeak to Rose was gone. Bight." All the burning heats and angers of When she left him, he lit another the last two months seemed to belong cigar, sank lower In his chair and to the past An ley, nostalgic ache of loneltnesa had hold of her. The accusstared at the fire. It waa a deadlock. In hla helpless tomed sense of Intimacy and warm, enness, the enraged helplessness of the joying Interest In the world what w-man who had ridden triumphantly mean when we talk of Tlvlng" had over all obstacles that fate bad set In been completely drawn out of her. hla path, his prevailing thought waa The cold, biting In to her marrow, how much he would like to kill Derny. at last woke her to a realization of her She had done all this. This viper of surroundings, and she aat upright, a woman, the kind to tread on If she looking bllnklngly to the right and left. raised her head, had baffled and beat- 1 e half-li- t plaza lay like a lake of en them all. He could not murder shadow surrounded by a circlet of her, but he thought with grim lips of light and girdled by noise. It was like how he could crush and grind her the brightness and animation of the down and let her feel how heavy Bill Cannon's hand could be. It seemed for the moment as if everything were over. They had reached a place where a blank wall stretched across the road. Bernys refusing the money had been a serious obstacle, but not an unconquerable one. Rose tonight had 'given the whole plot Its death blow. With lowering brows he puffed at his cigar, groping In his mind for some way that might yet be tried. He could not brook the thought of defeat And yet the more be meditated the more impregnable and unscalable appeared the wall that Btretcbed across the way. e CHAPTER XIX. Friend or Foe. For some time after Rose had left her, Berny remained on the bench, not moving, her glance resting on that part of the path whence the young girl's figure had faded from view. The night slowly deepened, impregnating the gray atmosphere with a velvety depth of shadow that oozed through it like an Infusion of a darker, She Hurried by the Market Stalls denser element. Lights came out. First sporadically, here and there world flowing round her but not touch-le. blooming through the opaque dusk, her, as she sut alone in the not suddenly, but with nn effect of to She rose suddenly, determined grndualness, as though the air was so thick it took some time to break escape, if such wore possible, from through it Then came more. Rows her gloomy thoughts, and walked of window appeared in long, magni- toward the upper end of the square, All round the plaza directing her steps to the Spanish nnd fied sputteTs. there was a suggestion of effaced Itnlliin section of the city which is brightness, as of a painting which called the Latin Quarter. She walked had once been sharply outlined and slowly, not knowing where to go, only brilliant, but was now rubbed into a determined that she would not go formless, impressionist study of (shad- home. She thought for a moment of ows and undefined, yellow blur. The her Bisters, where sho could have din- dark-ness- fafmt tha wall Sb Ml vtr7 rlety. Hut on consideration sba fK and loeapabl of any tnor conenf' that this, too, waa more than ahe tloa of mind, liar thouahts seamed to could Juat now bear. They would tor- float, dlaconnartedly and Indifferently, ment her with question! and sh Mt (hla way and that, Ilk a eobh tlrtwd by air currents and half held In no mood to put them off or to be rememconfidential. by restraining thread. To her dulled Finally ahe bered a Mexican restaurant, to visit observation tba laughter of th Jewtsh which had at one time been a fashion. party cam mingled with lit tinkling loud Sim had been there with !Uel nd of tha guitar outalde, and th Josh, and one In n party with some continuous talk from tba SpanUb of lh hank people, She knew where women In th corner. the place was and felt that she could Th waiter brought flsh a fried dine there with no fear of encountermelt and alt roused herself and ing any one she knew. picked up her fork. Sh did not no With aa objective point In view. Ilea that a man was standing near her step gained decision, and she her In th archway, th edg of th tiiovcd forward briskly, leaving tha lac curtain In hi hand, looking about th room. II threw a aid pluxa and plunging Into tha conger! of plcturesqua street which harbor a glanc at her which swept her shoulproswarming foreign population. Th ders, her hat, and her lights of shops and open stalls fell out file, and looked away. Then, aa If Into th fog, transforming It Into thick, something In this gllmps had sudchurning currents of smoky pallor. denly touched a spring of curiosity, Wet walla and sidewalks showed a h Hla ascend looked back again. h Th gold veneer, and lingering drop, survey waa longer. glnnc trembling on cornlrea, hung Ilka tiny bent upon her waa aharp and grew In globes of thin yellow glasa. Intensity. II mad no attempt to Feoplo and things looked magnified ntr or to mov nearer her, but any and sometimes horrlbl aeon through on watching him would hav seen this mysterious, obscuring medium. that hla Interest Increased with th Ones behind a pan of glass ah aaw prolongation of bta scrutiny. tinea of detached, atarlng eyes, fasAs If afraid of being observed he tened glaringly on her aa aha ad- cast a quick aurreptltloua look over vance. It waa tba display In an op- tbe room, which In Its circuit crossed wher glasa eyes the mirror. Here, reflected frem a diftician's wort disposed In fanciful lines, like a ferent point of view, Herny waa shown decoration. She looked at them ask- In full far, her eyes lowered, her ance, feeling that thera waa something hands moving over ber plat. Thl sinister In their wide, unwinking scrut- man scanned th reflection with Iminy. She hurried by the market stalls, movable Intentnesa. Iterny laid down where the ebawled figures of women her fork and pushed tbe flsb away stood huddled round the butchers with a petulant movement, and the block. They looked aa If they might watcher drew hack behind tbe lace ha grouped round a point of Intecest, curtain. Through Ha meshea he conbending to atara at something lying tinued to stare at the mirror, hla lips there, something dreadful, like a tightly abut, hla face becoming rigid In tbe fixity of hla observation. corpse, Herny thought. Tbe waiter entered, hla arms piled When ahe saw the Mexican restau-ran- f ahe felt relieved. The strange at- with dishes, and ahe made a beckonmospheric conditions seemed to have ing gesture to him. He answered with played upon ber nerves and aha waa a Jerk of hla bead, and. going to the glad to get somewhere where she sr and End tha cheer of fongen,l s down-ben- ahow-wlndo- could find warmth and light and people. The place, a little shabby bouse dating from tbe era of the projecting shingle roof and encircling balcony, stood on a corner with windows on two streets. It wi built upon a slope so aharp that the balcony, which In front skirted the second atory. In the back waa on a level with the sidewalk. , under The bright light of abadea of fluted white china, fell over the contents of tbe They were not attractive. A dish of old and shriveled oranges stood between a plate of tamalea and another of red and green pepper. There were many flies In the window, and, chilled by the cold, they stood along the inside of the glass In a state of torpor. Berny puatxA open the door and entered. The front part of the place waa used aa a grocery store and bad a short counter at one aide, behind which with the stood shelves piled high ware demanded by the Mexican and Spanish population. Back of this were the tables of the restaurant. The powerful, aromatic odors of the groceries blended with the even more powerful ones of the Mexican menu. Tbe room waa close and hot. In a comer, hla back braced against the wall, a Spaniard, with Inky dark hair and a large expanse of white shirt bosom, waa languidly picking at a guitar. Herny knew that thete was an Inner sanctum for the guests that preferred more secluded quarters, and walked past the counter and between the tables. An arched opening connected with this room. Coarse, dirty, lace curtains hung In the archway and. looped back against gilt hooks, left a space through which a glimpse of tbe Interior was vouchsafed to the diners without. It waa smaller than the restaurant proper, and was fitted up with an attempt at elegance. Lace curtains also coarse and dirty veiled the windows, and two large mirrors, with tarnished and gilt frames, the enbung on tbe wall opposite trance. Just now It was sparsely patronized. In one corner two women In mourning and a child were sitting. They glanced at Remy with languid curiosity and then resumed a loud and voluble conversation In Spanish. A party of three Jews, an overdressed woman and two young men evidently visitors from another part of town sat near them. On the opposite side there was no one Berny slipped noiselessly Into a chair at fhe corner table, her bnck against the partition that shut off the rest of She felt sheltered the dining-room- . In this unoccupied angle, despite the fact that the mirror hanging opposite gave a reflection of her to any one standing in the archway. The cloth was dirty and here and there showed a hole. Her Ineradicable fastidiousness was strong in her even at this hour, when everything that was a manifestation of her own personality She was seemed weak and disgustedly clearing away the crumbs with daintily-brushin- g of the last occupant movements of her finger-tips- , when the waiter drew up beside her and demanded her order. It was part of this weird evening, whn natural surroundings seemed to combine with her own overwrought condition to create an effort of strangeness and terror, that the waiter should have been nn old, shrlvelen man of shabby and dejected mien, with a defect in one eye, which rendered it abnormally large and prominent under a drooping, reddened lid. In order to see well it was necessary for him to hold his head at a certain angle and bring the eye, staring with alarming wildness, upon the object of his attention. Ills asppet added still further to Berny's dissatisfaction. She resolved to eat little and leave the place as soon as possible. When her soup came, a thin yellow liquid in which dark bits of leaves and herbs floated, she tasted it hesitatingly, and, after a mouthful or two, put back down sjpeon and leaned gaa-Jeta- ahow-wlndo- hr unfastened hi coat TV.vt7for who earn for hla order, a cup of black coffee and l II glasa of brand evening paper. With the before btm !. sat lppl" the slightest noise from w room causing blm to th paper before bl fa'- ,D lie sat thus for seme flfte and women utea. Th Spanish ' child tmerged from h arch t f and th restaurant, left later h heard lb ( raping hof (etts and Herny voice s M for her bill. II lifted the paper no It content, In buried appeared hack th moving as Herny brushed Inc curtain and passed him. n and sb eye absently fell on him d a vagu Impression of the dark h shove from of a head emerging n A ow ned sheet of Ih Journal. I'M the lowered h rustled by watchful followed her With a keen, til! move not did glnnc. lie street door closed behind her. when I threw the pspr aalde. snatched up on hi hat and flicked a stiver dollar cloth. th to "No rhnnge," be anld to the waiter, who cam forward. unaccusTh vurprised servant, astonished stared tomed to urh tips, after him aa h hurried down the passage between the tables, quickly the door and disappeared Into tbe darkneaa of the street. Herny was only a few rod away, moving forward with a alow, loitering to follow atep. It waa an easy night at observed. Walking without being a prudent distance behind her, he kept her In sight aa she passed from the Quarter smaller atreeta of the Into the glare and discord of th more populous highway, along Kearney Street, past the lower boundary of 1ortamouth Square. He noticed that ahe walked without haste, now and then glancing at a window or a passerby. She was like a person who has d ltln on alk. t4 Halfway up th that thoa lrgr ln of iumwjjft Inflows brok it, altovt th pavement, a lino of a kay-- fw step, v . ? ihowlni Hark ifoiS transoms rtvaalcfl it to ih. a flat building H,r V alt dtopM and without hcitaiu drntly aa on who v fatsiijjj th plar, mounted os 2 walked to th la at of Th man, with soft and firffuia. atrps. fress4 th street, A( nearer h saw that ah tUh a latch key, but waa wnltm, U-r- . J tlidri mttted. leanln a. If tired aoiJJ wall. II bad reached tb whvn th door opened, him a bright, unimpeded vl Ion flight of aialra carpeted la eL Iterny entered and for a moaraLW for th door closed, he i k mounting th stairs. , asked for any one, or Indeed i and,, sound of greeting or inquiry, r, waa therefor either expected k t. habitue of th piar. Wha th t wae ehut be, too, mounted tbe a I etrpa and read th number ea tb II whispered It even transom. ;U (ml tlmra, th light falling out ea b ( far with a atm thin, aqulltn ( Wa dark hair drooping downward hi collar. Hstlsfied with bla Inves-igj-jleft th porch and walked n; down tb street to the corner, fin there waa a lamp, and halting at&r Via Ita light b drew from his potig Fa. bather wallet and took CM Ryans card with aa written on it. Tbe penciled atew were th tarn aa those on the faf ill I h had Juat left, and he itood kt-- j 0Jr :1 -- tr. n thmfg-Homlnl- ck fixedly at th card, nn exprewk i excitement and exultation groviui bla law It .it, fac. V CHAPTER XX. Th Actor's Story. I Mr The afternoon of the next dxy P, Inlck came home earilcr than ills New York friend, who vn route to Japan, had but a coeplt daya In Fan Francisco, and hr. claimed his company for dlnon. .a! theater was to follow and Dccii had com home to change hjs dc? Til Ud and Incidentally either to re Br (h and explain hi absence or to Ian me sage for her with tbe Cblua rat S He felt rather gull'y where ike He had area nottlu concerned. her for two daya. The only tlw! 7i met was In the evening after hen lot! hour, the only meal they toot gether waa dinner. With every gc u a of affection dead between then, 1-married life the hollowest tin-- . nte, had ao long and ao sternly tra '7-him to be considerate of herud' r.B her on hla mind, that he it3 0 101 tlnctlvely followed the acquired of thinking of her comfort uf t ranging for It. He knew ibe xs e do be annoyed at the two lonely to' fa and hoped to aee her before V t pt and suggest to her that ahe tek;a loci for one of her Bisters to Join k r day The flat was very quiet wbexk of t tered, and after looking Into to it two rooms for her he called the 0 :xe. naman, who said Mrs. Ryan hid F ie sei out early In the afternooo, en l no message except that sba fflff ca home to dinner. Dominick nodiSri kfr dismissal and walked Into the wel, He carried the evening paper, kl V, hes o 11 hnnd, and looking at the clock d In that he had an hour before It ouro be necessary for him to drr Tount Berny would leave the house. t nt k doubtedly be home before then, was rarely out after six. Melt" and ' hlnk the thought that she was not k I that he could read the papen1 M uninterrupted you, molested, tr pi caused a slight sense of trie was W iway lighten the weight that In to ways with him. bob He had hardly opened th Mj fascln when a ring at the bell hopes. It was one of his ; wlfeij tept W Its never to carry a Th Glance H Bent Upon Her Waa Sharp and Grew In Intensity. she looked upon as a symbo WF' middle-clas- s rk h table where the Spanish women sat, no objective point In view, or at least bourgeois, wltbb off shaken had she that unloaded his cargo there, as he set la In no hurry to reach It. manners and working-gir- l It out exchanging remarks with the But this did not seem to be the Dominick the paper dropped women in their own language and case, for when she reached the nnd framlM , square for entrance, her showing no haste to Berny's summons. she took her stand on the corner he would which with words She moved In her chair and muttered where the Sacramento street wai ' cars with the fact that he angrily. The man behind the lace cur- stop. The man drew back into a doorInstead, bow absent again. tain advanced his head and through way opposite. They were the only the rustle of feminine sklrti.be the Interstices of the drapery tried passengers who boarded the car nt tho Chinamans padding step. to look directly at her. In this posi- that corner. Berny the closed servant entered and presen entering tion he could only catch a glimpse of Interior, the man taking a sent on the with a card. Traced on It In her, but he saw her hand stretched outside. He had it to himself name here, lng handwriting was the rentes-hiforward to take one of the red beans nnd chose the end seat Dominick the winby Dcfay Buford. from the glass saucer In the middle dow. Muttering to imprecations nt the Invitation to the matt of the table. It was an elegant hand, cold, he turned up his overcoat collar realized that this probably the skin smooth and white, the fingers and drew his soft felt hat down over only time that tho actor cou covered with rings. She again beck- his ears. By turning his head lie lently do so. There was an oned, this time peremptorily, and the could see between the bars that cross before dinner would be sen waiter came. The listener could hear the end windows, the interior of the turning to the servant Doml her voice distinctly as he watched her car shining with its light, polished him to show the gentleman reflection In the glass. yellow woodwork throwing back the (TO BE CONTINUED.) "Why didn't you come when I beck- white glare of the electricity. There oned? she said sharply. were only three passengers, two deprBilliards In the Count "Because I had other people to wait essed-looking bllllrd women In dingy black Willie Hoppe, tho Yo on, said the waiter with equal asper- nnd Berny on a line New In with himself In was discussing ity. "They was here before you. the corner by the door. He vacations. "Whats the matter with the dinner her even better here thnn inoould see tlon of summer vacations, summer resthe "I like tonight? Its all bad. taurant. She sat, a small, dark heart of the country "I aint cooked It, h retorted the pressed Into the angle of the figure "in the seat only trouble with the e man, growing red with indignation, her hands clasped In her t can her eyes country Is that you t4 h'a swollen eye glaring fiercely at her. down. Her hat cast a lap. there. shadow air mu over billiards of game I And no elses complained. the upper part of her face, and below guess heard nbo follow youve "Maybe it's whats the matter with you? this the end of her nose, her g nape mouth chaps, summering nt I); and rhin were revealed .as Berny made an angry movement 'vas they that and pale e!s complained sometimes alluded to ns "flouncing sharply-cu- t as nn Ivory ' abei She two white bulls apart, ,r carving and turned her head away from him. seemed to be sunk In nnd'sat them hnd a spot. But t thought drospof Get me an enchilada, she said per- motionless; the half 80 of her face he that them to vr ( explained could se, looking emptorily, "and after that some lract very ministl white little n after against I dont want easy, her blark fur collar. anything else. th tlngutsh tho halls l,r bU Lee! 11 'Hen, The waiter moved away nnd the He was furtively "hi bin nt up , ,tf surveying her "Another chnp man behind the rurtaln, as If satisfied when she started, billiards. "I'stair glanced out of of a for the game his by long survey, also turned back window and signed to "r, the conductor balls were brought, gav '!!( into the general room. Close to the stop. 1 he man on toe front dropped ter laugh of disgust. opening there was nn unoccupied o the ground nnd stole W " I,ook here, he said, lightly round table, and at this he sat down, laid he car, so that Its 'll v moving body hid askod for not his hat on the chair beside him, and him from her. 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