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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER CDs? QCDCOOOttOG G SSB30050 SYNOPSIS (HKKRCb CPflEOS&'OG ... lence, a silence which seemed, A somehow, alive with tears James Lambert tries in vain to dissuade . door . . closing his beautiful Leonora, from It was ten years before James marrymg Don Mason, young rolling stone." He tells her, "Unless a house is heard her voice again. founded upon a rock, it will not survive." - foster-daughte- r, Leonora suspects the influence of her Ned, always jealous of the girl since the day his father brought her home from the deathbed of her mother, abandoned by her Italian baritone lover. Don arrives in the midst of the argument, and Lambert realizes the frank understanding between the two. Sitting up late into the night, Lambert reviews' the whole story, of Nora as a child, at boarding school, studying music abroad, meeting Don on the return trip. In the morning he delivers his ultimatum, to give Don a job with Ned for a years showdown. When Nora suggests the possibility of running away with Don, Lambert threatens disinheritance. Don agrees to the job. but before a month is his nerves are jumpy, he cannot sleep over, at night, he is too tired to go out much with Nora. Nora soothes him with her music. Nora grows quieter, and broods over Don, complains to her father of Neds spying on him, and decides that rather than see Don's spirit broken, she will run away. She urges her father to put an end to the futile experiment. James Lambert is obdurate and angry. Lambert tells her that if Don quits she will quit with him; that he will be through with her. He adds that if she tires of her bargain it will be useless to come to him for help. Later Don and Nora discuss the situation. Don promises to buck up and take life more calmly. Well stick it out. he says. With the coming of spring, Don is full of unrest and wanderlust, and takes long walks at night. One evening a poor girl speaks to him, and in his pity for her, he gives her money. A car passes at that moment, flashes headlights and moves on. A terrific heat wave ushers in the summer, and Nora refuses to go to the country with her father. Ned, meanwhile, insinuates to his father about Don's evenings away from Nora, but Lambert refuses to listen. Meanwhile, Don broods over the undermining of his morale. At the height of the heat wave, when Don is finding everything insupportable, Ned speaks of having the goods on him, having seen him give a girl money. When Ned scoffs at the true story of Don knocks him down, and is through. He calls Nora. half-brothe- r, CHAPTER V 7 HOTELS GC3G30eraCO; SODOutMB Continued Would her father leave it just as it was, she wondered just as theyd furnished it together for her sixteenth birthday? James was fastidious about such things. It was the one point on which they never clashed. What a time they had had bathroom! Her over her rose-tile- d father had fussed. Each fixture must be the finest the most perfect. The antique bed they had picked up at an auction in the country. How he had glowed over the h mahogany dear Dad! As for the rug they had hunted the city, over for that rug. It must be Oriental, James insisted, yet it must blend with the soft rose hangings at the windows. They had found it at last: an exquisite Persian that might have been woven for a queens boudoir.. Even Nora, about money, had thoughtless blinked at the price; and her father had laughed at her. . . . Well, that was over! The girl took one long look and turned away. It was so dreadful to go without farewells. Even dear Martha Berry, James Lamberts housekeeper, who, Nora believed, loved her as devotedly as any mother, had left that morning to oversee the opening of the country house. How still everything seemed as she went downstairs! As still, she murmured, as if someone had just died here. Nora paused then, hand on the latch and said: Good-bdear, darI will come ling home. Good-bback some day . . . Her eyes were wet with tears when, a moment later, she told the chauffeur to drive her to James satin-smoot- y y. Lamberts office. Don never heard the story of CHAPTER VI privacy. Youll love it, Nora, once you get the hang of things; and Ill do the cooking. Cooking is one of my real accomplishments, as youll soon find out. Which sounds, she laughed, as if you doubted that its one of mine! Nora never forgot their arrival at the shack next afternoon. It had been raining all day; and though rain was needed to cool the air, it added neither cheer nor comfort to the atmosphere of that onetime fish house, long unoccupied, covered with dust and cobwebs, stifling now with the accumulated heat of weeks. If James Lamberts pampered daughter needed discipline, she got it in the moment when her new husband unlocked the door and thrust her hurriedly inside out of a driving rain; and it is to Noras everlasting credit that Don did not that suspect the consternation surged through her loyal heart. The charm of the place which she was to know later, was wholly lost amid the gloom and darkness of that stormy day. Don having seen the room with sunlight dancing across its worn old They went to Maine. Its the first time I can remember, Don told his bride, when i! havent been crazy to get aboard a boat and see things new things places Ive dreamed of. I dont understand myself, Nora. Is it only because Im so let down? All I want now is to escape from this heat and turmoil to lie on my back in the cool woods and look up at the sky, or watch big waves roll in on a hard beach. Ive got to do something like that, dear, until this fiendish alarm clock stops ringing in my ears. Ill admit it scares me. Lets . go to Maine. But your hard-save- d thousanc will melt away so fast at a hotel, n Don, objected Nora with caution. Don glanced at her, so sweet, so young, so infinitely precious, anc for the first time in his twenty-seve-n care-fre- e years, a sense of responsibility crept over him responsibility for Noras happiness. Its more than a thousand now, he answered gravely. Have you forgotten that Ive been holding down a steady job? And a hotel isnt necessary, is it even on ones honeymoon? You see, theres a place I can take you a studio belonging to a New York artist. Youve heard me speak of Ven, Nora. Hes abroad just now; but Im always at liberty to go there. Besides (a smile sprang into his expressive eyes) it happens to hold the worldly goods with which Ive recently endowed my wife, and perhaps shed like the chance to look em over! Nora laughed at the idea; but questioned, not without curiosity: WJhat sort of worldly goods, Don? Just wait and see, young lady! he responded. Honestly, Nora, I couldnt get along without that shack. When Im over the hills and far away and happen to stumble on something too beautiful to resist, I simply ship it to Maine (provided I have sufficient cash to buy the thing!) and the er retired fisherman who looks after the place for Ven, stores it away. I never heard of a retired fisherman before, my dear. I thought Oh! Nora, tell me Im not those salty specimens kept right on dreaming. fishing until they drowned! And this studio you mention sounds like a floor, never realized just how it storage warehouse. Have you left a looked to Leonora. In that first mospace where your friend the artist ment she Wanted to cry out: Oh, can set up his easel? Don, we cant stay here! Not now Don smiled. To one reared in the soft He doesnt need it. Three years anyway! of luxury, such a proceeding lap ago he bought an island farther up seemed well nigh impossible. Inthe coast, and has a bully place the words of protest were on deed, there. If Id let him, Nora, Ven her lips, when, glancing up quickwould give me the shack outright. in dismay, she saw her husly Why should he, Don? Is the man bands face. indebted to you? And it was a transfigured face. He seems to think so; though It of a tired small its utter nonsense, of course. I Doy waswhothehasfacereached home. It had the luck. to save his oldest girl a into Noras throat. wrought lump from drowning; but it was all in the days work and his gratitude It brought swift tears into her eyes. Said Don, throwing open a casewas the only reward I wanted. ment window at the back: Isnt Youve seen Vens work, Nora. He ;his wonderful, Nora? The view on did those marvelous murals in Not Carl Venable? gasped Leo- a clear day is simply marvelous. nora. Dont tell me the Ven youve Isnt that fireplace a corker? It lakes in a four-folog not that talked about so casually is he? one wants to consider fires just The very same, lady. Don I was now! But well cool off soon as the grinned at her surprise. coast guard down there one sum- air blows through here. Lucky the rains not coming from all direcmer. Didnt you know it? tions as Ive seen it do. Well have Nora sighed helplessly. Some day, my dear, Ill ask for things snug long before bedtime, a list of the things you havent and He turned, caught her close, hunbeen. It would be considerably Oh, Nora, tell me Im not grily. shorter than one of those you have. And does this shack you mention dreaming! Its so heavenly to be contain the creature comforts? The away from all that clamor to be where its quiet to be back here, subject interests me. Don closed his eyes a moment dearest, with you with you! And what could a loving woman trying to see things with Noras vision. Then he said dubiously: say to that? Ive always thought it a wonderNo hardships or inconveniences ful place, dear; but you Well, I cant quite see how it will look to are ever so hard and inconvenient to man, as they are to woman. In you. Theres an oil stove for cookand water piped to the back that moment Nora grasped this first ing, door, if you call that comfort. Ven esson she was to learn of marused it only for a studio. Original- riage, and was forever thankful that ly it was an old fish house, I be- no word of hers had cast a shadow on Dons happiness. lieve. For things were not so bad as Though the girls heart sank at this description, one wouldnt have she had feared. Slipping into a d smock discovered in a guessed it from her instant: Why that sounds fine, Don! Is it close to closet, Don declared cheerfully that when all else failed he could always the ocean? earn their living as a houseman, His eyes brightened at this caret was amazing how rapidly he did enthusiasm. simulated fully As near as it can be and not get away with all that dust. And what washed away in winter; yet its far seemed stranger still to the bewilenough from the beach where the dered bride, he appeared to derive summer people bathe to give us pleasure from the performance! new-bor- ot that interview, but, knowing his girl, he understood that she could not talk about it. For James in his anger had been unjust, the first time in all their years together. At the last Nora had said, her face curiously colorless as she stood with her back against the door: You are mistaken, Father. I am not ungrateful. I have been thoughtless sometimes, but I have never Please believe been ungrateful. that. I love you terribly, perhaps more than I ever did before. It kills something in me to go like, this leaving you angry. But you have Ned, who is almost your whole world, Father; and Don has no one but me. Ty after Im gone, wont you, to see my side of it? Between us all we have done something to Don hurt him unspeakably. Hes lost faith in himself, and Ive got to help him get it back. Without my help he might never get it back. Father. And I love him as you once loved my mother. Cant you remember that, Dad, and and understand? Silence. A broad back turned to her. I 1 am going now, Father . . Wont wont you say good-by- ? And still only that dreadful si paint-staine- &0 '' 3000000 The revolting cobwebs vanished as if by magic while Nora was hunting through her luggage for some costume suited to the task in hand. But I didnt realize the crying need of aprons in the life of a married woman, she admitted with Where are the towels, chagrin. Don? Perhaps I can do my share i I pin one round me. I mustni; spoil my wedding gown, you know. Ill say you mustn't! Don to swung down from a embrace his Nora with all the ardor of a brand new husband. When you say wedding gown, woman, it sends a delicious shiver up my spine. And dont you worry about the lack of aprons. Jim Perkins general store up at the Port supplies every need in the life of a modern housewife from bathing suits to vanity cases. The towels are, or were anyhow, in a bureau drawer; but this filthy job is mine! The sun broke through the clouds at last, and with its cheerful rays streaming in at the open casement, the oil stove seemed less dismaying the lack of running water something that could be endured for a time, at least! After all, nothing mattered except this chance to help Don back to his normal, sunny self, thought Nora nothing, perhaps, save the parting with her father. The sadness of that parting still hovered near, when after a supper of bread and milk (The first bread and milk supper Ive had since I was six years old! admitted Nora) they tramped a half mile up the beach, and from a sand dune saw a full moon rise out of the sea. Sitting there quietly, watching that ever widening path of gold, hearing the soft, low murmur of breaking waves, Don felt that his cup of joy was running over. He said, drawing the girl closer: Happy, beloved? Happy, said Nora. He turned to search her face in the growing brightness, conscious of a reservation in the answer; and, loving her greatly, Don understood. Try to forget your father for a little while, he told her. For you to worry wont help him now, Nora; and and it hurts you. The fingers clasping his own tightened a little. But he's suffering, Don. It would be cruel if I forgot that altogether. I wonder Yes? he urged after a silence. Would .you mind if if I wrote to him once in a while, dear? Why should I mind, Nora? But hes unjust to you, Don. Terribly, terribly unjust. I couldnt have you feel that I wasnt loyal. Oh, my dear! Havent you given me proof of your loyalty? Write to your father of course, if it will make you happier. Who am I to deny him the comfort of your letters? Hes got only the shadow poor man! while I have the substance! Yes, write, even if you receive no answers. Hes angry now; but hell treasure those letters just the same. Not for years was Don to know how true a prophecy that was. Nora wrote next day, wrote as she might have a year before, ignoring utterly their tragic parting. Dad dear, were here on the coast of Maine, occupying a studio (it goes by the classy name of shack!) that belongs to a friend of Dons, Carl Venable, whose work you think, so wonderful. Its a darling place, right on the dunes with the broad Atlantic for a front yard, and a glimpse of pine covered hills behind us. Im out on the tiny porch (just big enough to hold a bridal couple. 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