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Show THE SALIN A SUN. SAUNA, UTAH The BEGINNERS I . A Novel by Henry Kitchell Webster . .. . o Copyright by the Bobbs-Merrl- ll SYNOPSIS Acting In good faith to aid a neigh-bo- r, Ruth Ingraham, In a buBinesa way, o Edward Patterson, rashler of the agency of a life Insurance company, la wrongly suspected by his Wife, Julia, of infidelity. Her accusation unfits him for business, and he takes a short vacation. On his return be Is deeply wounded by his daughter, Edith, telling him his personal belongings are In the "spare room," having been removed from the room which had been bis and his wifes bedroom. Pattsraon accepts ths situation as proof of his wife s belief In his guilt. A business matter brings James Marartnsr Into Pattersons life. iner needs $8,000, with which to push his Invention, an automobile choke, and after a brief Investigation, Patterson, lecldes to go in with him, supplying the money and taking a part In the Without Informing his management. family, he resigns from ths Insurance ompany, devoting his whole time to the pushing of the Invention. A short time later he tells hie wife of the ofchnge he has made. She accepts the Situation. Edith 1s made aware of the ahange In the family fortunes hy her mother telling her she has deolded to with the cook, she and Edith to the housework. At Christmas Bdlths brother, Edward, comes from pllege for the holidays. With him Is Roger Morgen, whom Edith had known as a ohlld. Her mother asks Edith to leave her present private school and Balah her studies at ths public high school. It will mean a saving of several hundred dollars, and Edith agrees. A talk with Roger Murgan heartens her. She decides to leave school and Ot herself to become her fathers stenographer. He Is hurt, hut her determinEdith finishes her ation Is evident. aourse and takes the position In her lather's office. Mariner shows an ll nation to keep away from the factory. He Is working on another "In vention." Patterson gives him $500, practloally ending Mariners connection with the business. Patterson becomes acquainted with a man of means. Jake Gorman, who has talked vaguely of putting money Into the business, fti Pattersons absence Gorman comes to tne factory. Edith handles him with much business tart, and he Is Impressed, but, after some days, displays bo desire to Invest money. Chl-ag- rt In-e- CHAPTER VI Continued 12 "Of coursp you do," mother agreed, All the Instantly, "and you shall. same, she paused a moment, there, and the next tiling she did was to ask a question. Did your father get hold of Bert Willard? lie wanted to have a talk with hint this morning. "I guess so," Edith told her. "We left them together at the station." This seemed to be something oft mothers mind, though she didn't ex actly brighten up at the news; turned, if anything, a little graver and more thoughtful. Finally she said, Why, the situation Is Just about what It was when you went away, I guess. I don't think there's been any real change, as far as the actual prospects go. Thera was one little flurry, last week, hut I dont believe It amounts to anything. A firm of patent lawyers wrote to say that aoma clients of theirs were making something along the lines of the choke and were interested In the Mariner-patent- s. Tour father went to see them. They talked In a vague sort of way about Infringements and lawsuits and then they suggested that they might consider buying our patents If they could get them at what they called a reasonable price. Tour father asked them what their notion of a raasonable price was and they suhl about a hundred and fifty or two hundred dollars. Of course dad told them be wouldnt consider It and came away, but It left him feeling rather blue." "Big bluffs 1" Edith said, furiously "They're afraid dad will sue them. Thats what's the matter with them. "Oh, yes," mother agreed. "It wasnt anything I don't believe theres anything else," she went on, " except that a man who has been buying quite a lot of chokes apparently Isn't going to pay for them. It makes things pretty hard Just now, of course." "Poor old dadl The girls voice betrayed her by breaking over the words and the next moment she was "And there I was, all the crying. time, she Jerked out desperately through her sobs, golf and meals In a atlng big hotel Mother held out her arms. "Come here, chicken," she said. After the girl had snuggled down In this refuge and had got a little quieter she added, "Tou stayed and helped him as long as you could. I dont believe youll aver know, even If he tries to tell you, hew much you helped him. Is Mr. Willard going to help him, do you suppose?" Edith asked when ahed got control of her voice ngnin. "Thats why he wanted to talk to him this morning, Isnt it? To see If he could borrow some money?" I think so, mother admitted. Hell have to get some from somebody." "Didnt dad try to get him to go In before I went away? Edith asked. Mother turned to look at her and countered with another question. "Did he say anything to you about It?" "Not a thing! Edith assured her. "Oh, It was Just a hunch. I noticed Mr. Willard never asked anything about the business. lie seemed to be sort of keeping away from it the night he drove me home from the club. And then, I thought dad acted as If his feelings had been hurt, when they wanted me to go to Asheville with them. I didnt know why, then. But do it before, why does . If he wouldnt dad think he will now? "He asked him to Invest in the busimother explained, ness, and Bert flve-doll- 1 Co. ("WNU Service) said, pretty plainly, I guess, that he didnt want to. A" your father, means to ask for today, Is a loan of a thousand or two, to tide him over. He'd give his note, of dourse. Oh, well, by tonight, I suppose. For a while they talked about Ediths trip and what had been happening at home, but the other subject was never very far from their thoughts and finally Edith went bnck to It. I suppose Jake Gorman made up his mind, at last that he wouldnt go In. Each one of your letters made It seem a little more hopeless, but you never told me that hed really turned us down.. "He never did, mother surprised her by saying. M Net In so. many words, at least. Only Ned' mnde up his mind, at last, that there wasnt much use In keeping after him." (She loved It when mother .made that slip; spoke of dad to her ds Ned. It made her feel sort' of grown up and . free and equal.) "Mr. Gorman's got something else on his mind, Just now," mother went on. "It seems hes going to he married. . The girl felt her mind go perfectly blank.- - "Married ! she echoed. "Who ' . to?" "An actress, I believe; a sort of actress. Shes In one of the musical shows here In town; .Ive heard her name, but Ive forgotten It." ' Gosh Edllh exclaimed, and turned away to conceal the perfectly foolish grin that she felt breaking out on her face. She felt suddenly older an Incredible lot older. She certainly had been one awful kid when she- was working In dad's office. Well, Roger needn't worry, n.fter nil! An hour later, while they 'were sitting at their meal,, they heard a heavy mnsculine tread coming up the front steps and across the porch; then, instead of the- - ring they expected, the click of a latchkey. They looked at each other, startled. It can't be Ed, can It?" Edith ventured. Mother- - got up quickly. "It's your father, she said. There was something simply terrifying about having him come home like that In the middle of an ordinnry working day. It was contrary to nature.' The girls knees felt wabbly as she rose and followed her mother toward the front, hall, where he had stopped to hang up his hat and coat. . She was near enough to hear mother say, rather low, "There's nothing wrong, Is there, Ned? but she couldnt hear the first part of Ids answer.' "I thought I'd come home and have a little talk with you, he concluded. He did look pale and the smile he gave Edith, when he saw her standing there, brought a lump Into her . throat He glanced through Into the dining room and said, Tvp Interrupted your lunch, havent I?" "Ilnve you had yours?" mother asked, and he admitted, as If It had Just occurred to him, thnt he hadnt. Hed Join them in a minute. They werent to bother to get him anything special. He didnt want much. . It was a horrible sort of lunch to let a man sit down to. Theyd decided to eat up the ice box Instead of going out and getting anything special, and the table was littered with sauce dishes containing a scrap, of this or a tablesnoonful ot that. Mother wns distressed about It but Edith didnt mind so much. She knew the sort of lunches he had every day. It turned out not to matter, an) how, since he hardly pretended to eat. Perhaps It was rather easier Just at first, as It gave them something to pretend to make a Joke about. But did they mean to go on pretending as long as she was there? Couldnt the talk begin until shed left them to It seemed so. At last themselves? dad turned to her and said, "Tell me about the trip. I had no sort of a chance at the station this morning." Desperately, for a minute, she sat trying to make a beginning, but It was The words wouldnt come. no use. "Some other time, she said. She pushed back her chair and rose. "I think Ill go out for a while. It's ages since Ive seen any of the girls." She was aware, though she'd turned her face away, of a look between them, and as she passed dad's chair he held out a hand and stopped her. Youre welcome to a seat at the council table, my dear, If you'd like to stay. Id like to have you here." She kissed him when he said that, and went back to her chair. He began at once, but you could tell from the dry brittleness of his voice that he could hardly get the words out The business won't get any at all. He made help from Bert Willard. that finally clear this morning, lie washes his hands of us, as far as keeping on with the business Is concerned. If I want to liquidate it, he says, he'll be glad to lend me as much as It needs." Edith didnt know what liquidate meant and he went on to explain. "Close It out; pny Its debts; pay off the employees and let them go; sell the machinery and the stock and the patents for whatever we could get; and dispose of our lease on the factory; In one word, bury It, The tearing edge of bitterness lna his voice made It hurt to listen. "I think he meant to be kind, Ned," mother reminded him. He Instantly agreed. "lie did. From his point of view hes more or less Justified. It seems that when I first suggested his going In he had a consulting engineer make him a report on the choke. The man made a number of tests and pronounced It of no value. He went no further than- that, but Berts owq chauffeur did. He tried It a week and took It off the car, saying much what Mariner did la his last well know - letter. . -- 1 - A grimace of pain went over his face. "Oh, from the first Its probably been plain enough to Bert and to you, he said. "I didn't 'look Into ' Mariners history. 1 didnt get a disinterested. opinion on the choke, I went lntb It like-boy eloping with a girl he. knows his family wont approve of. Bert made that comparison at the time. I can't blame him for trying to stop nie before I get any deeper In It worked for it. I put some life Into It some of my own." It was a long, time before nnyone said anything after that. Finally mother spoke. "If you do give, it up, I Ned, what will yoy do? Afterward, " . mean." .If only' he wouldnt try to smile! Edith had. to look away when he answered. Berts suggestion wns that 1 try to get back my old Job, with the Insurance company. I couldnt do It; of course, but they might give me something. Is that what youd want me to do?" . Mother' didnt answer at all. She sat very still for a while, thinking. ' Then she asked, Can you go on, with the other business,- - without Bert's hulp? Have you any choice about . giving It up?" Yes, theres a 'choice, I can rquke one more attempt on Jake Gorman. It will be pretty hard to get his attention, of course, within a clay or two of his wedding. Its a forlorn hope. If I succeed . . . Well, thats what home for, really. My only resource, after that, would be to put a mortgage on this house. I can't do that without your consent." Id consent, of course, mother said, qjilokly. "But "Theres no of course about it. he broke In, savagely. "I've had no right to drag you In as far as this. I've put you Into a h 1 of household drudgery and unpaid bills, deprivations . . It was her turn to Interrupt. Tve never been happy, not In years, as Ive been during these last months. I wouldnt go back to the way things were a year ago, for anything In the world. The girl was watching her fathers face. Shs saw a burning flush come into it, deeper and deeper. She turned away. Thats beside the point. Isnt It? he said, harshly. "Your present source of happiness isn't in question. The question Is Mothers color didnt come up the way his had, slow and dark ; It flamed suddenly, like a bright flag.' Theyd forgotten, both of them, the girl perceived, that she was there, . "I didnt mean that, mother said. "I meant I'd been happy because I felt I was helping you. A little. Not as much as I wanted to, but but as far as I went." Panic fell upon Edith. She couldn't stay there. She stared rigidly out the window, wondering desperately how she could escape. Some one was coming across the street. "I think Carolyn Seely Is- coming here," she said. "I guess Ill run out and head her off." Neither of them spoke. They hadnt heard what she said. She fled down the hall, snatched her polo coat, slammed the front door behind her and. struggled into her sleeves as she ran down the steps. "Hello she cried to Carolyn. Isnt it ages ! But Julia wouldnt have it "You should have seen her face" she cried. She fairly ran out of the room. I dont know what she thought." Her Insistence maddened him. "Does nothing matter to you, he demanded, even at a time like this, except what other people may think? The situation has been plain enough to her, anyhow from the first. It was she who told me, the day I came home from California, that youd moved my things Into the spare room. I didnt know whether youd discussed your reasons with, her or not, and I didnt much care. I knew youd talked with Ed. It was the reason itself I was concerned with. I thought then thnt youd done It because you believed I'd been having an adulterous relation with another woman. Even If I had been sure that that was the reason, I dont know that Id have defended myself. The only defense youd have accepted at that time would have been a proof of lack of opportunity, and I had no such proof. But I wasnt sure, even then, that that was your reason, or that that was what you really believed. I thought you might be pretending to that belief as an excuse. Since then, Ive become convinced of It. I dont believe that at this moment you have the slightest misgiving that Ive ever been unfaithful to you.I dont see why you wanted to rake that up today, she protested. That Isn't what you came home to talk to - a ' - ... ..." 1 - --CHAPTER VII The Discoverer The thing that flamed In Julias face was anger. After the front door slammed, she said, You had no right to take what I said thnt way. "I took It as I took It. It didnt occur to me that there was any other way of taking it. Six months ago you made It plain thnt you didn't wish to go on living with me as my wife, and youve never intimated since that yur wishes have changed. When I henrd you say you never wanted to go back to our old way of living, I thought that was what you meant. Its hardly a fact I could be expected to overlook. Even If you had thought that was what I meant, you might have considered Edith. "Edith?" he echoed blankly. "She was sitting right here," Julia Insisted vehemently. "You were talking to her as much as you were to me." To him the digression was frivolous, and he tried to dismiss It offhand. I dont believe what I said was intelligible to her." He didnt Inflect it like a question and she forebore to comment "Did you agree with him from the beginning? he asked. "The night I told you Id resigned from my old Job and gone Into this or any time since, for that matter have you foreseen any other end than failure? I didnt complain, did I? she demanded hotly. I backed you up. I belp.ed all I coujd. Thats the point! he shouted at her. Now were getting at It. He lowered his voice, bnt went on You speaking no less vehemently. didnt complain. Yon backed me up. You sacrificed yourself. You even let me sacrifice Edith. You were what Bert called a good sp.ort about it. Why? Why didnt you complain? Why did you back me up? She was crying; and he waited until shed finished with her handkerchief. I really want an answer to that, he then Insisted. "Why? To show that I was some good, J suppose, she told him forlornly. And .s that the reason youre willing to mortgage the house, too? To show that youre a good sport? That goaded her into a spurt of resistance. Its your house, isnt It? You earned the money to pay for It. All the same, you have a right to It, even a legal right. Your security, and the childrens, Is bound up In It. And now, as It seems to you, Im go- lng to throw it away on the last fling of my folly. And you say youre willing to let me do It! In order to be a good sport? Is that it? I dont know, she said desperately. Yes, you like-- I dont know what youre trying to make me say. .lie hadnt, consciously, been driving her, with all his questions, toward any Nevertheless he specific admission. had been trying for something. He had not merely been trying wantonly to hurt her, lashing out at random. It was not she herself he was tearing at, but something that stood between them. Draperies! He didnt believe he could make her understand that. Suppose you werent being a good sport, he said. "Suppose you werent being anything. Just yourself. Thats .what Im trying to get at. What would you say then?" I dont know what you mean she cried. AVhat do you want me to say? That I wont let you mortgage the house?" What'do' I want?" he threw back at her. AVhat 'do you want? You yourself. As you are ! Not being any1 'Thats . Beside the Paint, Isn't It? Your Present Source of Happi." ness Isnt in .Question The Question Is me about, Is It? You came home to ask me whether Id consent to put a mortgage on the house, and I said of course I would." Of course ! he quoted. I dont know why it made you angry that I said of course. I tried to go on and tell you that I hadnt minded the housework and doing without the car. I said it had made me happy to think that I was helping you a little. Are you trying to quarrel with me? Is that what you want?" He leaned his elbows on the table and burled his face In his hands. Was that what he wanted? ne didn't know, ne could deny nothing shed said. She was right, of course, In saying that now wasnt the time to discuss the Ingraham affair. If he was going to put a mortgage on the house'he ought to go back to town this afternoon and-ge- t things started With the real estate people. She'd given him no grounds for a quarrel In what She'd said about that Shed been perfectly reasonable And It was that her throughout. calm patronizing reasonableness that was driving him frantic. He figured It as a mess of drapery faded dusty drapery, at that that he would like to tear away with his hands. He would like to see her real mind or soul, whatever you wanted to call It naked, for once. All right, well talk about the mortHis voice sounded thick and gage. muffled. He hardly knew whether hed spoken audibly or not. You said of course, youd consent. Why would you?" He waited a while for an answer to that question, but didn't get one. She drew in a breath, as If to speak, but apparently found no words that suited her. "Would It be," he persisted, "because you thought, In spite of Willard's opinion, that I had' a chance to succeed? Pull the business out of the mud? Make our fortune?" She flushed at his tone. Its undisguised Irony must have rasped like a file, but she answered him quietly. I dont think Bert would have refused to help If he had thought there was any chance. "And since Bert is a successful man and I am a failure, you agree with him." thing.. She stared at him as If she was getting frightened. "Youre not yourTve never self, today," .she said. seen you like this before." lie grinned at that. She was see- Ing him Just as he was trying to see her and she didnt like It. AA'hat was it you really hoped for," . he asked, when I told you Id gone In with Mariner? Did you hope Id succeed or did you hope Id fail? "Of course I hoped youd succeed. Of course again ! But are you sure? Heres a test for you. AVhen you were busy around the house washing dishes and so on which ending to the .adventure did you play with? Did you ever dream It out that my hopes had come true? That Ed Made good and Justified myself? given you everything you wanted? Travel? A big house? Opportunities for the children? I dont believe It I think you always ended It like this. Half an hour ago, when I came home to lunch, and told you Bert had turned me down, and that your consent to my mortgaging the house was the only resource I had left thats the moment youve been waiting for, all along. But It isnt coming off quite as you meant It to. I think." I think youre crazy! she cried. Really out of your head. Why should I want you to fail? That Isnt as hard to answer as It sounds. The more I'm In the wrong, the more youre In the right. How does It look to the Willards, for Instance? Your husband resigns a good ; Job and goes chasing throws away his savings, cant pay his bills, forces his son to work his way through college and his daughter to take a Job as his stenographer; and through It all you never complain. Why, It makes a heroine of you No one can say you arent a loyal wife and a good sport. Thats what you want. That's the conviction you want above anything else. Youll go through anything to keep it bolstered up. AVhy? Thats what I want to know. What are you afraid of looking like to yourself or anyone else? AVhy cant you take It for granted? Oh G dl AVhy can't you be human, for once?" Across the table she sat very still looking at him with somber eyes. You hate me, she said with proYou must have found conviction. been hating me for years." 1 success in business, it is true. But at home hes the worst kind of failure. Cant get along with his wife . . easily upset . attacks of nerves . always tired out. 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