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Show . She W as Lovely and 26 ; He 'W as 37 ; and Always the Shade of His Mother, the Small, TTomam Hoered Afcpujt, Doctor, Men 'Wmd-browiie- Rain-soak- By IDA M. EVANS d. ed tlce n'o the Wellman car end hi hand ers fretted. O. he had seen that fretting') hi arm end th orchestra finished with Tram thit first night Stephen Bentle-- : neea, but half a heritage But he hsd but whoa medical desk was heaped so Jim d'd not desire to get rid of hi girls t, gh each first of month with modiste he wa too much the modern father But touched het bare elbow her loos eve- Because he Jtnew how very well he could hthe preliminary strumming of a knew that LettieeTown had wiped a keen mind and a conscientious mind, hbills see d wag summoned to tn telephone Th soon coat sleeve having fallen back. ke her he knew how bitter a taste daily cahe them satlsfactortlv desmasseuse bills, g la time by the time h bills, ts ning millinery women except one from hi mind and lov ely color ran. up her deHeate d suke would be for either bv career or marriage Lettice some telegram wa repeated over the wire to terers bills ljorseho'd bills that every cared just tined to meet Lettic Towns Suppose profile In view of what wa to come months da y hinted that charity began at home, him as It had been received by his office But even then he feared that in th end earning around twenty thousand dol arg. end of month saw his bank account over- Before men. Lk Jim- - Towns, who peren-mal- h v assistant in town. of some significance that! and if ha would usa a little more firmud to or bevond Income, old, later it wa h would decide against marrying her he was on the consulting staff of several drawn, and Korffers nervea had an edge who didn t pay age stalks ss a specter for seif and fam- at the end of th second act that night ness with patient hispitals, hi opinion on tonsils he permitted to few of his patients Had he bees, ayr twenty-fiv- e a reASboard Flyer year old, Chicago f a bov wa to the , There hadf heard Wettles worth that ily cruder gure from Hammond considered to be and adenoids messeneger imagination Bicklngv general promptlv well, he h mseie slipped a summons to Stephen he would doubtless have married her in quotation marks, and his office in a tow- er, with his full immobile facepractitionHammond Wettles stricken on way mark from a confrere and sar- than any werewnf known to medieval wife, who once home es modwe casm Immediate operation Imperative. " There is no grimmer specter than Mrs Bickirgs the breakfast food king, who had a delicate and youth flushed profile ghed two hunering cream stone State street a office dred and passion and in a rush At twenty-fiv- e fortv-tw- o Have . could thtrtv-vnambulance meet train II SO p m. old a ern an He was h not course without s own held desk and income of for age wag wag pounds digest products, waiting patients an still believes in a Santa Claus with building ou At twentv-fv- e yourself requested to operate. Teie Unless one lives in a northern sandhil, a long bench of the best dark leading and contributing member of ha,f threatened with eppendicltts a golden pack of futures for men and, and a dozen charity boards At twenty five on has a less compli- graph reply Fiver Toledo renaissance walnut Stephen had district and. has a peculiar disregard of .t,ut shied froni the neces-ar- v operation wa ke old a heard and think and he comfort PHYSICIAN ON TRAIN no one before income horse fence fe she and from knew that thirtv cated this toward women years in personal high )ou Sephen Although viewpoint not Bentlew.n could teU no one, deeming the matthe summons although of success a Stephen obeved Bickmgs eloped because her parents conpicture Lettice meaning some woman - ou Let tie looked like a lovely rift for some careful toown - MulTWhen too he smiledto hsd Illusion with small sidered and Dan seven his had hit assistant In ChiNow her Yettlce that affair that ter his Townada satisfaction marry But at thirty private setting peculiar voting man. Sitting a little backJtrom the ram soaked mother BicKftigs apo ogized mechanical!' when disregard even after one day he met her Wellman snorted stark cago repeat the telegram and In return bent, 'Dogs life you lead has greatly fallen awav from th on a had a even avenue on It dinner had to a he renaisecu ..Steve was. peroften stood beside him at that telephoned orders for a reply to bs facts of life and success stand kept Michigan waiting at th end of the Wellman And. having made snd the ambulance attended to, the But because that last disappointed lift grimly sensible foundation wainut desk paused to look over form a major operation eved anal! dirtv dav and she was driving Jims medtum-prlCeLake Ehor hall, in a misty pale sance familv car dexterouslv through a of Lettic a eves stayed with h.m glv ng got to this point several times in hisjturn of Stephen th bench ranged patient, often sat with boys w.stfullv and w shed he could adopt Bentlewln' heel was ch.ffon dinner grown whose ex- him m his inner office where men and one A r'se to a cei tain reflection on hts part reflect on Bentlewln shook 1 professional, tangle of other tais eager and obedient An Stephen treme low cut was most kind to her women stripped their bodies and their There was Caldsoft, who when sn in- lovelv color ren up her delicate face at Stephen was somewhat absent minded himse f told himeelf that he would soon animation, too different from that inman Afterward be writ ng introspective vers libre. ana duced by a green turf, had taken possesand once or twice terne had given up a scholarship prize sirht of him with an old white neck and shoulders, she exhibited souls for bis diagnosis, besion of his face That, to correspond, a Had he been more plurgcd into work et hand He Said to himsef that he was not In he blamed himself she had poohoohed In his ear whJe with two years in a foreign uni'e-sit- v that i which w th her and he had no .ntenton insistent Wettles might have yielded perfection H a confrere hi had discussed the incon- cause Mrs Caldson would not go so far ove denied to himself that Lettic certain animation had withdrawn from a so and on to Lettice Towne s face, at hi side, ie irrelefor himself believe a a from Caldson that of i of he the saved with roses her cal, venience family Towne hsd come to regard him long possessed in common by hothouse night lowing point trouble. She vaguely seemed to afford a quizzi- - was bald now and fat and not a verv good was in love with her. He was not a ih.mself and Stephen-mucand many women of this modern, masfleeting plaint v wonder in her lovely vant to Hammond Wettles plight Stephen looked about for DanJWell- dark blue eyes Hs would not admit seuse and steam-heday. to himself that verv often he bad been naan, or a club steward. Where can I Her crossed feet In their misty satin a taxi, Dan Or any hired cart No, greatly tempted to answer that question get In a way to satisfv her and hlmtelf for not yours at th garage ahppen were narrow, hlgfTarched. and Two or three men, besides his host, to a slowly stuck He a while at least attraetiv to a man and an anatomist Perhaps be- were cord.ally ready to supply Stephen formed, austere resolution Her n isck Cora Thev hair vis waved low cause In those earlv childish years pressed- forward In a group But Lettic Towne, and caught with a high atone set comb, Bentlewln had printed austerely on a as thev heard Perhaps gracefully, deftly, took precedence of all. ' small, clean receptive mind as was th month' mode. The mode wa dellhera'elv a d with He a curious morb Smilingly was he littl fixed llt'le to Lattice Towne's delicate contour dropped ' Lettice from hla thought. glint in her eyes, she waved them back. of cheek and white chine and to her eyes, Im driving back to town tonight And then I promised, to get home. And ettice Truly Afterward to be exact vhl which were eo dusky a blue a to be alI can Just ss well go now. was dress silk Please white Towne's delicate y most hl.'-His Stephen wa slightly annoyed trailing In edthat dav and her tulle scarf mind A little bored, a little disdainful, that had snd ahead to Bentieattention thrust In It mire ,av tramp Stephen first evening abe was watching her win tried and failed to divide th blame Wettles and hospital, and he would have preferred not having anyone to talk to in thiee equal portions, like thirds of younger alater, Flossy, Jan Wellman. red spp'e, h mself, accident, and Lt-Uc- e him on the drive back to town. But en n'i other or two men, as well is Dsn. Instantly who rouged lacquerlike, the sharers bobbed of hair, and visible of young fell back hi with small, understanding knees, Aec dent, Lettice s responsibility, were trying with shrill voices and an assmiles ow n negellgence They had no desire to spoil a sortment of lass record to live up to all s game, and possibly woman Crimipretty He had been grpsSIy negligent that has ,vr been imputed to flapperdom own wish. So Lattice could not he could not quite admit, nally negligent, by fiction writer parents and the world even If he had departed, in silly school- gracefully be refused j in The younger crowd threw I d Ilk to start Instantly, h said, general. boy like greed for a hoiday, from hi Lattice and others into an indistinct remake good time-- long-- f xed professional habit of keeping, "And lief. 1 11 Between sixteen and twenty-siget mv cost in a second. Dan. in perfect repair snd within reach of his nowadays, there r not years, but at own long supple finger, his own car or have the car brought out of the garage, least two or three generations , an please hired excellent substitute But Stephen Bentlewln was neither six- It wss ten minute before she was back In an age when hospitals factories teen nor twenty-six- . He wa thirty-seveIn her like, light silken motor coat, nothing offices snd apartment buildings He had men friends who were on her head but the silvery tulle scarf multiple hives buzz on and on to husbands surgeons, and internes, and a man or two smiled. But undeAgain city boundar.es, so that space soms not belonging to his own profesto ac- niably It is a pretty women's privllee siu time must add snd stretch sion And some of these were oatspoken. to tak advantage of a perfectly good commodate the overquot. of overburSome were reticent tight lipped, ran the evedened centers of living, swift locomotion tulle scarf, right at hand, for a long hr ass but Stephen in many instances acdrive with th roan ah' -and aim Is between ning link the often ad eyes to supply what had never been x She was twenty-siBut she could not Stephen Bentlewln a car complishment told him. He had good eyes, or be wouM was almost as essential to his days si quit hide the light In her eyes ss sb not have become the successful person was his b.ack bag of Instrument. got Into th car, Stephen following hs was. And even Blckinga (one of the She took th wheel. Stephen looked His car wss undergoing repair that tight lipped) hsd-- once grunted in an at hi watch. About three and a half th at Just when. afternoon, Saturday concave semlprofeaaional m'le. Dan Wellman hours to mako om thirty-seve- n close of off ce hour "The sex isnt quinine. You can t say consultation Margin enough, he decided, the roeds In his Into breezed private or so or and thus will a man thus, thus, about Chicago are, for th most part, snd room all was invitation Dan spir t react to a long or a ahort dose of Come along, Steve Call it a day. built for speed. At the same time, he some woman " These rains have made the turf springy wished that he were in his own ear. with Korffer, whose eye were a glittering Jim And es a hair mattreas there be his hand on his own capsblo wheel. black and whose hair was a washed-ou- t d Town s purchase was a n creamed pea for dinner" grav, was Ironically acquiescent. Stimumake at , vear the Wellmans played Every late him or stagnate him diowevtr, power has taken on It own raising their own vegetables on two ex"Man Blclcngs finished oracularly fertilized acres, with a luxuri- relativity of meaning in this speedy, pensively there no way of telling beforehand' He smiled to himself, re twelve-rooage near ous paved the golf cottage, Bentlewln learned a little Stephen calling days not long past when all molinks of s far north shor oountry club bout Lettic the next day from Blckinga, tn th womb of th future lav tor speed who had known the Townes since the Stephen Bentlewln accepted th Invitation almost without aN word. It was For men like Hammond Wettles these four children had the mump. "Good famwere mors accommodating days' welcome Nice girl Lettice ily Let's see she Lettic caught the small, fleeting smile He hsd been hard driven for. good must be about twenty-si- x Jim Hands lifted calls Perhaps h misinterpreted It. She his and many weeks, day treats his wife and children well. Keeps n'ght More her head happily and shot the car forem- dressed up stepping on each others hesls Guess that's why Lettice ward huthe usual number of clumsy than has taken her time to marry home s Five fntles, On a superlatively even man bodies had chanced to roll too hear comfortable Dont believe, though The two a unknown brink. Driving reed, fell away. Five more (grunt of vigorous disapproval), Jim salts had not much to say. although Lettice a for gray streets, through toward away much or gallappendicitis week as coffins themselves speeding from Towne a silence may have been hapntlv stones ' A silence can be that. But to corridor, he hd expectant. hospital corridor Stephen knew th type. His office girl in th mood hsd many such names on his books planned to snatch soma golf tonic at his Stephen Bentlewln was not first sunnv free hour. For the sake. In- for chatter, and ah fell in with his Brokers,; salesmen, advertising meh. they desire of his deed, and their families were the rank and file patients. down somewhat the At Dan's Imperative Invitation h of a city doctor Perhaps ih slowed best practice. Th speedometer reHe changed thought of his own car He seldom rod next Tiv miles the subject. (Bickings Bentlewln s glance tn In saw Stephen no But another man's sponded he snd other described Bentiewin as tight grsat wisdom in waiting an hour or two on re- toward it, however, and. Lettic colored. lipped ) But even then he had begun But sh waa honestly uncertain ahen HI pair work spare hours were too relentlessly to compare Lettice Town few. and daylight waits on no mechanic. presently sh came to a atop at crosswith another woman th little, bent, "There's a strip closed for He sew no good reason for not hopping roads scrawny, purposeful one who had bom Dan said "It wa open early thts Into Dans him. It was unfair to Lettice Towns, dollar roadster. I suppose you noticed which Now that it waa proffered to him. he felt morning perhaps. Admitting this, he could not restrain the comparison eager to get at hit golf, in a place which detour Dsn took on th way out"not noHe wss all alertness. He had When he was nine years old. freckled he knew would be good and green. With a good dinner to follow In win- ticed Dan might have detoured half a barelegged and bramble scratched most of the year, not overfed or overclothed ter residence or In summer cottage the dozen etimes whll he was fatuously ad- , any month of the year, he had taken Wellman had Hvng down to a fiti mod- miring-thfoliage or the ' his mother to be an ordinary parent ern art No Wellman dinner had ever tree. Now, as if ths thought had issped did not know then that at that time been known to be poor Whatever the from Lettice s mind to hi own. he rebrackets belonged to a woman doctor ' Welmans faults they gave thetr guests called the recent heavy rain I don't drive th's way Since then, a he had attained skill, he that eplcurlsh fee'lng which even though Personally, had dissected Cora Bentlewln. tenderly said, It esn be but temporary, frail human often enough to know it well," he or pf with a decided touch of uneasiness enough, analyzed her, given her a huguests plalnt'velv yearn for a a and soul And Lettice Towne undoubtedly would Impatience. lonely manity complex a mil or two of . timid hut purposeful nature. To the left be one of the sriifllng appreciative She must have had all three, to he d, meditatively. guests Forair the ooldanrcareful res- unpaved wav, she olution which undermined his feeling for But th right turn means a detour of guessed, or she would not have continued to live on, after his father's death, her the prospect of seeing her was not six or seven miles" in . settled, poverty inhabHe looked at hi watch. It was Lettlcs v unpleasant ited northern sandhill district, and minW thout ado he accompanied Dan out who flushing as if sh suspected blame ister to its needs without any expectation of the door pausing to give a d.rection for herself In h s attitude took th Inof proper recompense or two to the office girl, men down in itiative and shot th car toward th left She and Stephen s father hal been stuan express elevator road Stesame dents at the medical school of a mil farThe un was bright and just Inclining , So that, phen never understood just why the two toward descent of dav, as they roled ther, It plowed heavily. Impetuously, Into settled in those pnrthbrn sandhills in s and cam to bed of over a north new cley the took and great bridge three-rooshack, with its few wretched the lovely skirting road of th lake The a d sconcertlng halt. acres Perhaps for his fathers health or In Lettic exclaimed horror Sterain O" juet ended had washed th face because two poor graduates could not afof th countryside, and a brisk wind phen made no exclamation, but reached ford to go farther or make a better break had combed June grass and tree til! to take the wheel from her. Presently for a practice the r green wa sleek and wavy Ilk a he grimly took his hand off it. No reHis father died five years later SteW r woman s hair To one verse clutch had sufficed phen t childhood was a aerie of grim WU have who had worked mercilessly hard It was stuck, h said, laconically. ' pictures out a towed to to be Idle. be and alive With pleasure An old, rattling buggy and a gaunt th first swift rush off north shore air She exclaimed that they bad passed horse and a little bent woman going his face Stephen shook off toms the last lighted place two or three ml es against seasons of all In win and rain, forth th The surrounding country showed of th back. of accumulated weeks fatigue year to answer calls Long, hilly, sandy He shook off more as Dan drove Into not a blink of house or barn light. roads, scrub oak or hazelbrush at their low club garage. th To th Immediate "Whatever distance It la. well have to a horse s helpless sides, scratching west of th garage the smooth, rolling get help. he sa d, still laconically, and ribs Northern winter that nipped turf had caught something fresher and waa striding off. small, lean body. Through those more emeraiy than usual from the re"Try again to fore th car on.'' sh sandy hill th wind slashed like a taw cent rains Like a mirroring lake, it begged. (Although she never took him along on allured He got in, tried, failed. An engine the worst days ) Over It was a scattering of concentrated sputtered, snorted, puffed fut'lely. Chae-si- s Wofst days or best, he could not remen Is too heavy for the motor, women m and of sweaters he comsport gay call that he ever refused to go herself, and white footgear Lettice Towne was mented briefly "I suppose youd not no matter what the hour of night, what one a care In of to soft blue behind them. Tm silk sweater a walker fast suy kitchen cal contrast to Lettice Town those firet allopathlst. Never sure of his own Judg-meihe miles to some foreigner "VV d young and impresesionabl white shoes which made Interne with Tm afraid of the kn'fe said Wettles and may meet another motorist bedroom and shackful of numerous prog-en- v few month Some Innate fault In the man his first blue-e- v ed nurse her aeem smaller and vounger We may." he said doubtfully But It was For all 'And own busiBut, my its Those she attended In their sickHis meetings with Lettice were casual himself, of course Stil with a curious her modern training the color rose In come to think, we haven t passed meny alacrity that ness nesses There was oid Dewey who hid his non- a few dav s laterinvoluntary ones, edged necessarily with infrequency In the last few miles. Perhaps theyve he accepted anYnvita-tio- n her face, too, at sight of Stephen Yours agreed Stephen Well, they were not to blame Mostly into the in a secret drawto d ne at the Wellman table and professional days of a busy and paying Then whv urge been warned off th route." patents names He strode ' their land was poor and their families There was voung Still- afterward to take In a pay .dow ntown man. Once or tw.ee they met er m h.s desk mv business to urge, He did not tee that It was gone when off A mile back a window ahowed down Its said Stewere large In retrospect, to Stephen, hi preoccupied on the street, otherwise at dinners who well, reddened slander when suits was Lettice or she gieeted him and Dan And presently a side road at the dinner table white curtlv mother seemed alwajs to have had a evening mentioned There was Graisy, too shouldered satin ciad in beaded evening phenIn o.d she went away to dress for, dinner SteThe roused a sleepv truck raiser But gatherings mostly under the were And posargued W ett,es meditative hand on that small, shabby Wellman roof with his huge practice and huger fear slippers He reason For some Dan and Maud a gave was she the of mv life sibly phen. w th several other men slaved un- he declined to bring hts hnrses to pull a wouldn ng t and protract. of instruments booties, always Wellman due credit for bag Mrs y win that wood eventual, lttie e him and benefit In car the world a tinkers dam th fading daypessim'etic from clay, and he declined to let udyd them putting Can til hal.s suspectet tne to have been upsucking a lower lio over Lettice In each others way way and he would consent to move cause to be her ptephen s recent unlucky you sav Adroitly, so her light Thev were a busv off ce crowd for them take hit horses or his flivver to the cost of medic nes which he must to New York and, at fifty four build dabble In MetgL father I can t sav Motors Accessor'es. ali Bentlewln had the most part, and In common took ev- complete the r journey. Stephen wills nllly furnish her patients or watch they thought. though she fook care to explain that It his own candid wav of speech with such en minute of day-en- d leisure with greed "I m a doctor, Friendships are made as well as bom. again began Stephen, them die before her for lack of medteme His Extreme cases admitted was merely because she had a b.rthday men as Wettles Dan Wel'man finally led Stephen off "But that is not mv Farm'Tv got to get to town friendship with fat, rich Dan Well- Well not so extreme Stephen Poverty stalked the countryside a litbut that concern A fusee doesn t stop to find the turf and o'er to his place mopth thev all say." grunted a That what Its ers a ho had bought their holding? on man had begun twelve years before, over tle prejudlc.allv bv h mselfgarnered He had no And I feel older than I am she out whether It will help light a happy-hom- nearlv dark, man a sleepy man, and closed his front door. time tolled almost with tooth and nail aer business and professional men s gath- great fear that he himself would come sighed I m at the wrong You know or an touch had off Lettice motored to boost Bentlebomb miles anarch Although merely arid Three Peric might ng from their west, Chicago sts Tony Stephen small, return for any to apologize for dinner ardmess But he age It is concerned only w'th its own Job out to the Wellmans for the day she had listen. Then, again he might be drunk. wln was too busy a man to have many said acres Many of them drank home-mad- e e to himself that he could place is g whhh a had to to be fuse Mv he had ia Job a no was to called from window a could But foresight enough bring thev hen along friendships. get stuff of course, Town W'rong cons derlrtg the world a age hi bimonthly dinners and keep human bod'es In best condition Can w us your telephone to evening wear In a soft wh'ts at k dreess. other They stared Inept and sullen when come to regard I don t fit continued O d Hammond W ettes heard, grunted week-end- s There s a she sat next Stephen Bentiewin at dinEspecially after he met Jim Towne with the Wellmans Out pf order! Rains washed out their famll es needed tonic or febrifuge occasional Jim was fifty-tw- o Iv and promised to bear ner oid wth a large lot of us who don t We haven t any spewaa a as or years silk delicate unf It Her Once relaxation sighed g.oom twice was to used imly, acceptable earlv sullen, Stephen shoes, and he wor- cial talents, and there s no war to make his ow-- condition In mind after a busi- arms were bare and powdered Her slip- something" not a long distance-gi- ven women, shape- before Maud, stout, overdressed, and chm and is miles Three shaven men, vacuous-eve- d over his liven, the state of the stock us feel important and useful And the ness trip to New York manufactured per were sat n and never the right margin of time. Given less from hoeing or digging, with their overrouged for her age but considered a ried He wen' to New Tork A d phtheria for walking smart president for a north shore market the disarmament conference, and flapper crowd wont let us feel young purposes ' Her stockings the wrong margin straggl ng background of children and very Dan smiled the roared of ult.mate fate wines Stephen current events club had tried to marry light Stephen epidemicquarreled for stage space with were white cobwebs Lattice Towne caught her breath till wretched bedclothes Mv the vears Influenza said Lettice It s the truth liked Jim whose face wa a A boiler explosion Later, when the cottageful went across It was short and frightened In sound. Came over a five dollar bill, or even a Stephen off He had never been tempted Bentlewln trifle too flusned for perfect health at sister Floesv, and her friends affect me In a factory slckenlnglv the clubroome for th evening dance She snd Stephen Bentlewln faced each a ay, and by her bait until Lettice appeared to one marked two dollar, his mothers and who had a nervous way just like a bunch of colts in a parlor I week Hammond Wettles wrote that he ehe wore' a tulle scarf as well It was other In common Incredulity to citv wholesale Tempted he corrected himself He was fifty-tw- o It seemed promptly It Posted not tempted now Dangerously, that is of thumping with a thumb the arm of might be one of their parents thev irri- would return presently "and mind, no silvery tulle, with infinitesimal beads quite Impossible that th a could happen- house for quinine, calomel aconite, I me so m old But saw Behis not tate chair. but cons enough, He remembered He la d the pros against the yours, Bentiewin If saw it must forming a feathery design so near and yet so and chloroform Expensive be eouldt that they Jim wa a commonly met type and not plaintive! v to he a parent of em This be Stephen who waa grimlv devoid of looking but neither s useful nor a dur-a- b far from all the aids and demands of once asked her what shed reallv like to sides love snd money, the greatest modHe bragged spring I th nk 1 have to attend a course vanity disapprovingly reflected that WetTwo thousand ern argumeht for marriage la loneliness the worst earth knows article Merely one of the soft usetimes' have for Christmas on of lectures about his snd Hndu busiress of son.course better tles his act faster and be less7 par- less, lovelv trifles which c vll'zatlon ex- their moments his of Applied Psychology she said gloom- He had that, mine of quinine, Rathar blindly, Lettice turned and re' Other peop.e can stew over daughters I m a Occidentals for of as conscious ticular of la than to huno off the to their gap saws had He miles of mark wlelder wistful It hibits ties west and then family fouf only swamp pathetically That traced her steps tn th direction of th ily. forgot Wett es He 1 ned several times manity rise from savage red and yellow car. She walked fast As though at an abnormally strong Individual who can get spring I don t have to Thev take after in mvself Nord hill r n not been locks mother for Cora It their and didn Had t mors or marrv with less the ties. Bentiewin, common which a on of Wellmans, intimate cold beads. meant without with spring along She died absolute lost to th'nk of any way of getthe wav she could whose life had held no gaps Stephen was Lettice Tow-nand he dined once at th a th ting assistance that would be expeditious Th Iridescent tulle, sheen-llk- e which went nto bronchitis because a But an absorbed and successful profes- Mrs. Jim Townthe for wav d d y. hear Metal annoyed because he was angry at LatSay, by Towne table itself, and he played go f moonl'ght, made Lettic Town eye a enough. Stephen fol'owed her sllentlv, wet rainy bodv did not put Itself into sional man Is likely to realise personal cook He reflected twice out north where Lettice happened little lovelier. Stephen Bentlewln knew cynicism the road in front end behind him drv clothing until a gaunt, wet horse loneliness less than many people must Motor Accessories dropped to s Ix and tice's heplaintive himself could place her fairly to he plaving Yknow don t that yesterday that his puses beat faster as he walked scanning had been unharnessed, fed, and bedded realise it Overlapping offfice and hospitotr any gleam of other headlights. There old on was k nd a often the She of side needs of the the Lettic work laved on across his the Wellman tal Itself, get wrong inadequate p caught nice davs, from the hours, golf place In a shed barn. ea4e no gleam Lecg line of ailing bodies, his market for all my little fivers are onlv of woman under modern veneer when it was not too7 warm or too cold sward at her side He knew exFor two years Is there eny lnterurban car In this Stephen wa thirteen But this time yep. its tures on psychology by some strutting eh said all infrequent would had have he what he curtly asked happened or so he 'worked for his board with a professional associates and societies actly of th country? ' part e from1 once to to had down v f hours that go off loneliness that admission warded near lecturer instead presThat he her was twenty-fivof these turned thirty-sbeen by. later fairlv decent family Lettic once. over afterward An Stephen Bentlewln en from here Several miles sold hie few wretched acres and houss ent, and, to a degree, of old age to come on Business of worried thumb thumping toward mak ng dollies He reflected furNone. arm of char ther that he had more respect for the mind amid a turning over of other fact Hla puls was not slow sa he snd she Furthermore, he had seen almost as for' few hundred dollars sndof got to ChiAh! Several miles! ' in and all Bentlewln th inside their connected her over that riot loneliness to with with club themselves, mind Stephen entered th pen much and guessed it. opDappers doors, triumph Opposed and. pure lighted marriage by cago, They reached th car again. He tried aa outside It! He work gave hl(n almost the Metal Motors drop Lettice or her flap- rude yanking of old Lady Life a hair posed to th other facts, were her eyes, streaming music. He Was not a facile again. Rush Medical Scowl ng, to fores an engine to matter, through The In- per sister. Floss e, had had to be de- underi the impression that they were black-blu- e for seeing He had learned the art too that golf turf, her dancer wheel reagainst iv action Four He was a man who made friends He merciless vintage late In life, witl) hardly enough seal mained fast held tn thegreat wet c ay. was not vain. Sometimes he suspected teriors he saw the acrid homes he en- nied something and J m did not like be-to thereby proving Intimate acquaintance 'ltt'e trick of color ng when she made He intercepted, a look with that old person whom Plato and good drive; ner delicate profile whtpped But he knew that he was going through his surgical snd drug skill was half tered! And even in his own professional denv them been an eloquent exhsve I must There ghat tween Dan and Jim wh'ch took In Ste- others have professed to find diff cult of to a flush by th early spring wind. a turn or two with Lettice. That would pression on Stephens face when presI MMcarlous, not so much original as par-- f He guessed that Jim acquaintance There wa Korffer of glittering black phen In passing Hs looked at his long, Since she was what ehe was It would top a pleasant dav He continued j Inspired he desisted and looked at Lettice, entally washed-ouwas eves And. a more hint dinner and memnot as and t the between com me whose th to in first up but t l jT then, grav hair, b7 sizing genius t'pped corroding however, in some secret recess of ently possible Uan, careful I rema'n'ng stolcaijv on the ground bx'de and surmised that the two who bore- consultation fees slone brought him In her of his familv understood the cord a set of the p'av which followed his puse to dislike her, to fret at a chain which his being rers Ceattaued ea Page Tout V year, handclasp with which Jim ,ater left h,m beat. .faster. Why? 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