Show the FLY IN G M ely by eleanor M ingram author of the game and the candle 13 by RIY WALTERS nio 1910 br bobbo X arrin nill continued from last issue black eyes eyes opened a slow blow grin ot of appreciation crinkled streaks of dust duat and oil as he surveyed the young girl ill put ures tires on every wheel you run into control day and night shifts shift he acknowledged with sweet cordiality but im no horse chauffeur thanks I 1 guess ill walk he Is a gentle pony she remonstrated st any one can drive win him he turned a side glance toward the motionless car all right but im used to be ing ng killed other ways ill be going jack rupert do you mean to tell me that you will race with lestrange strange Lc every season and yet youre afraid to drive a tat fat cob cried the delighted dick im not telling anything I 1 had a chum who was pitched out by a horse 40 you are mot most kind be lost control of and broke ble neek neck im taking no chances how many men have you seen break their necks out of autos i in bus business thess pronounced rupert succinctly im going on oil dar for you ling its only a two mile run here wait dick urged emily ill stroll around to the stables with him and make one of the men drive him down you dont mind my leaving you no emily answered 1 I will wait she might have walked jackalone back alone it if she had chosen but instead she sat down on a boulder near the hedge bedge folding her hands in her lap like a demure child the house was so dull so hopelessly monotonous contrasted with this fresh wind tossed outdoors and lestrange in his vigor of life and glamour of ultramodern ultra modern adventure you and mr ffrench are very good lestrange said presently 1 I am afraid I 1 appreciate it more than ru pert though Is he really afraid of horses 1 I should not wonder I 1 never tried him but he Is amazingly truthful their eyes arf m across the strip of 0 sunny gunny road as I 1 sy ey smiled again emily felt the f faden confidence the falling away 0 all constraint before the direct clarity of hla his regard you won yol r rice race she said irrelevantly relevantly lyt 1 I ws wa w a s glad since bine you wanted it thank you 0 a returned with equal simplicity but I 1 did not want it that way so tar far as I 1 was concerned yet it was the next step yes yea it was the next step I 1 meant that one does not care to be victor because the leading cars were wrecked there Is no elation in ID defeating ft a driver who lies out on the course but as you say it helped my purpose you he hesitated tor for the right phrase you are most kind to recall that I 1 have a purpose it was the convent bred emily who looked back at him earnest eyed exaltedly serious 1 I have thought of it often every one else that I 1 know lust just lives the way things happen there are only a few people who grasp things and make them happen that Is real work so many of us are just civell work we do not want she broke off it if we do not want the work it Is probably not our own said le strange Bt range unless we have brought it on ourselves by a fault we must undo 1 I need not speak 0 of that to you one must not make the mistake of as suming some one alses work ile he spoke gently almost as if with a clairvoyant reading ot of her tendency to self immolation but may not some one alses fault be given us to undo she ahe asked eagerly may not their work be forced on tin u no he be answered no bewildered 1 I dont think so each one of us u baa s enough with hla his own at least so it csecs to me most ot of us dle die before we finish it ermily paused contending with th ahw loneliness and doubts which impelled her to speech the feminine yearning to let another decide her problems this others ethers nonchalant strength ot of decision allured her uncertainty 1 I 1 am discouraged she confessed cont essed and tired 1 I there la is no reason w why hy I 1 should not speak of it you know dick how he can do nothing in the factory or business or in the places where a ffrench should stand all this roust must fall into the hands of strangers to be broken and forgotten when my uncle dies for lack of some one who would care and ana undo uncle ethan seems severe and hard but it grieves him all the time ilia his only oaly son was nota not a good kanbe man be lives abroad with his wife who was an actress before ho he married her you knew that as he moved 1 I heard something of it in the village la ge lestrange LeB admitted gravely please do not think me fond ot of gossip I 1 could not avoid it but I 1 should not have imagined this a family likely to make low marriages it never happened before I 1 never saw that cousin nor did dick but he was always a disappointment always uncle ethan has told me and since he be failed and dick falls there la Is only me you she nodded her lip quivering only me not as aa a substitute I 1 am not fit for that but to find a substitute sti tute I 1 have promised my uncle to marry the first one who is able to be that tho the silence was absolute lestrange estrange I neither moved nor spoke gazing down at her bent head with an expression blending many shades it Is a duty there Is no one except me she added only sometimes I 1 grow to dislike it too much I 1 am so selfish that sometimes I 1 hope a sub statute will never come her voice died away it was done she emily ffrench had deliberately confided to this stranger that which an hour before she would have believed no one could force from her lips in articulate speech and she neither regretted nor was ashamed although there was time for full realization before lestrange answered 1 I did bot believe he said that such things could be done it Is nonsense seap it Is the kind ot of situation miss ffrench where any man la is justified in n interfering I 1 beg you will leave the affair in my hands and think no more ot of such morbid self flee fice stupefied emily flung back her head staring at him in your hands since there are none better it ap pears why his vivid face questioned her full and straightly you imagine that any man living could hear bear what you are doing and pass on ily aly uncle knows your uncle is not for me to criticize but do not ask any other man to let you go on her ideas reeling she struggled for comprehension you what could sou do she marveled the substitute there wont be any substitute replied lestrange with perfect coolness 1 I shall train dick ffrench to do his work you 1 I can and I 1 will he can not oh yes ile he can he Is just idle and spoiled the firm lips set more firmly he shall take his place I 1 can handle him emily sat quite helplessly her eyes slack black with alth excitement slowly recollection flowed back to her of a a change in dick since his light contact with 1 lestrange his avoidance ot of even occasional cas ional highballs high balls his awakening interest in the clean sport of the races and his halt half wistful admiration for the virile arher manager 1 I almost believe you could she conceded 1 I can repeated Leatra lestrange uge only he openly smiled it will be hard bard on u dickie Dick lil it was the touch needed the antidote to sentiment emily laughed with him laughed in sheer mischief and relief and leap of youth you will be gentle poor dickie ill bo be gentle he to la coming now I 1 think he took a step nearer her you will leave this in my care wholly you will not trouble about a substitute 1 I will leave it with you but you are forgetting your own doctrine you are taking some one alses work to do 0 pardon I 1 am merely making ferench reach do his work I 1 have seen a little more ot of him than you per perhaps hap know I 1 understand what I 1 am under taking moreover I 1 would forget a great many doctrines to set you free free she echoed she had the sensation of being suddenly confront ed with an open door into the duex anex pecked free he quietly reasserted free to live your own alf lire and draw un hampered breath and to decide the great question when it comes with thought only of yourself she drew back a prescient dismay fell ell sharply across her lato late relief a 8 panic crossed with strange delight hes off called dick emerging from the park 1 I made anderson take him down with the limousine at least rupert Is driving while ander son eon sits bits alongside and holds on hen they came to the turn in the avenue your previous took it full speed and then apologized tor for going so slowly because as he said he was au aia amateur and likely to a upset Is he really a good driver lestrange pretty fair returned lestrange serene serenely ay iy troia from his seat on iee the edge ot of the ditched mach machine lite when imort im not asting usting him hes employed as aa on of the factory car eaters and otien were racing I 1 give him the wheal if I 1 want to however im obliged to that steering knuckle for breaking here instead ot of leaving me to a long wait in fit the wilds bine down to the shop tomorrow at six and rupert and I 1 will even up by taking you for a run who me youre asking m why not its exhilarating dick removed his hat and rat ra his bis fingers through his 11 hair air gratification gran nation and alarm min mingling ieng in iii his expression with somewhat the effect of the small boy who Is first invited into a game with his older brothers clique you tou er woul dat smash me up ile he hesitated 1 I smashed up rupert or myself so far it if you feel timid never mind of 0 course ill take my usual companion dick flushed bushed all over hit his plump face the ffrench blood up at last 1 I was wa only joking he be hastily explained pla ined ill come its only that youre so confoundedly reckless sometimes lestrange and i cut but ill come lestrange Lea gave his fine glinting smile as he rose to salute emily all right it you dont get down to the factory in time ill call for you he ha promised TO BE CONTINUED |