Show bross by A E THOMAS copyright oy dy dojk mead anti kiil Cm company pany atil W N U CHAPTER if continued 2 tul call it 11 flint Ver hups nut not but atly luilly alke look titre here tit re biilly It tillY she alie reli rivo ill all I 1 ush la Is you shrill mailie ciocia to tn ale you aint clr unit wd uil lirla molliy tol 11 liy hy in ii nt iiii adier illk r it you liin t imaki UIKI I 1 protect thyself ill ii tile kin lal ant if you cull halit I 1 lt anyhow hinr i 1111 in I 1 to n do and you think title she all atlie hii word oi against mine ini illi sure of it if there was in tier her vole colw but tit lie he only urI servI try it rile girl sill 11 wai und browsed nei liri lets comfort 11 liev tie she contemplated the ie tit tip tit of 11 patent leather shoe reder dively vely before she alif continued your memory very good la Is it luilly aly flour dear hows flows hut 7 he suld said its true she ghe went on you have written nie me oo no letters lately but at st you were not so cautious lutious ca t and you auve appt them you blood I 1 and its been a io long ng time since the believed that santa units came aown own the chimney that may be responded nina lit tle ie daunted but I 1 imagine that till n girl about to wake malse a marriage would rellah a first class first page breach or of pro nilse scandal which site she could read on the way to the altar of st j considered again ue he was nas not altogether unprepared for or this development indeed he had prepared a definite defense against it now lit he fired the opening yuo gun of tha lt t defense it would be unfair to him film to say any that he upon this course with will out rt gret but in view of nl alf tile the clr cir lini stances surrounding his present he felt driven to it t all right then he said paid lets cullie to in business 1 I 1 van to said nina in a tone I 1 that left jeff no doubt of tier her intention 0 go o to miss couy said water imin and tell her your sad sad story 1 nenn to she eho said sad again waterman sat on the corner of Stati leys desk groped for support be lilina him with one blind band among tup flip utter ilith of vipers upon the blotting pud pad ineil ill continued good dont leave out any harrowing bar rowIng details de put them bliem all I 1 ill mental wen tal anguish and everything lont leave leare out anything that will arring irring her tender heart with pity and lr her to finger anger against the wretch who hug bus mistreated you go ahead 11 ll 1 it II in pile it on RO go as far as you like ilke h nina sulfred sull Ted dont worry about that ill attend to the det details nils splendid splendid I 1 I 1 have only otle e slight suggestion to make us as to tho 0 o construe construction tion of your scenario and that 41 1 I dont like the lain name of your vu vil jm ought to its your own es ea the I 1 aie point what whai are you getting ut at I 1 suggest you yet strike out th ne of rollin wilter mari und and ahe he agui kaiue ot of james stanley chaty V precisely you mittit me t to tell miss colby colb WI it la is St stanley unICY und nut not you exactly had find been beef startled sturl sturt led to hor her feet down iris unexpected ed till turn a now ghe ehe sni sill fulti i ald again suddenly vall Vp ll slit al taftt I 1 i little lettle elili lessly 01 ol of all 1111 tam ps you wll will fell ell me file MH via anh 1 fill d dos do tant 11 lionil ill you with Wen hall mend ae 11 all wt 1 all bere it r 04 M arli rig alv truth dutli varl 9 hill 11 rw or at tell II 11 0 1 ot rul foi not 1101 el i IN ali truth fruit well you wont get it no no because I 1 havn t got it opener her mouth to scenic but bu ha B hurried harried on blistein im down out anu youre ie a 0 of tills this firm slip shi retorted he admitted but bill trl intern I Is so HO small it aurely glus gives rue iw n H thing hi birks IV tips hes the fhe inn ina with the nna nun fills been borsoi i I 1 one olve everybody in tile hp world in im short it ii in till ii tit k lit in it dull nin ret tit ill hp fie wilold tip out it f the hi hsi earps on it lit lii short im till in kiil ill one ofle cilny thing min ain sine silve nie imir ringe e to it riah wilman well doris volla h 1 ahm n very ury rh h now yol yoi 14 ll 11 alv fill lit smil ill II 11 slick mill k fly y you skin mat nt if niDine ninin erit rii in somber bellee urn jim at ai cenath hp said 1 I 1 catill cant lilli IHM mill hilti aimin wi of lit tin nn swiftly it t avii dwir tie lie lii lip flip ifill in 1 hiie have to he sali ive nol to cmike ikirt inird with vim you im I 1 it 1 I 1 ilin t viii till 4 inn 1111 iier ii fr flip with will al aloo to ill lit titia glnn either or oui youre vou re u avry rv prett pifie id xin tu chy fly if you romp in on this find e p bet awny with etli it sou in do mirther atif ther stroke of work w n ri us fig ions iong rig nf you vou lle live ile he walled united hut still she said noth nith tog lug why tie lie went on ile he reason tible look till lip facts lu III the lie face As things are now the door into the outer office opened abruptly to admit wilson oh he said ile he purdon know there wits wait anybody here and went out again neither of the pair paid the slightest attention to him well said sald Water ninn yes of 01 wr the girl turned her black eyes 05 cs upon tipon the die ninn man but mind she threatened if I 1 go through with tills this hot bet ter go straight with me inc if you yon dont look out my aly dear girl he with a laugh ive got gait to us iia far tas as I 1 can see its painful but I 1 dont see any way out of it abe geel I 1 kolly holly she suld and he could hear the cluse of tier her white teeth as site she ground thew them ft what hat a i rotten lotten egg yuu you are and to think there vas a time when I 1 loved you well he jeered jet red we all make these little mistakes vest la in vie an and q now I 1 would very much ampre of what you mean to do a hint that could reach we me before I 1 go to see miss colby I 1 am dining nt at the St rollers club will you telephone rue me there no rhe phe said briskly dut but consider 9 1 I have considered I 1 am considering but I 1 will not tell you what I 1 mean to do before ive done it one thing know before you get there find that Is that ive been there becom you dut but nina he said you cant mean that you cant leave we uie in complete ignorance of what youre going to do I 1 1 I can and I 1 shall said site she and ft with ath that she was waa gone swiftly anil fail silently as site she had colli come five minutes later twenty below at the bottom of the rou houi tug cun can yon called broadway waterman Wate rinau stepped into a taxi the St rollers club said he be and stop at Thorl Thor leys cys CHAPTER ill III doris suld said her fattier why the deuce dont you get married murr led want to get rid of me she asked d not exactly he answered with alth a twinkle in his bis eye 1 I 1 just wondered doris was dining en fu futrille taille that Is to stay with her papa since burring a few female cousins cousain fin he was ull all the fatuity she hall bad they dined together together get lier strictly together at hom hoille every saturday evening from october until may unless of course one or 01 both of them was waa in the south or abroad it was a custom they had adopted the year that doris came out tor for they found that otherwise they scarcely met at all so full and busy were their lives to a quite uncommon degree doris MS her fathers child and he was fatuous famous for that quality to an extent unequaled by tiny any lawyer of his bis gen er ti rallon allon again like tier her fattier outlier tut lier doris was un good gd looking to say bay till leftist tile felie t could be co contemplated en ell dively without vain pil site alle was an ex cellena example of that hat nordic type h so the scientists tell us ua Is fast pearling pearl ng from our north amerl a that Is to pay cay she an all absolute tib solute blond her eyes eye were tin till color of barma Ilar itin violets her liala tans was bright find and sunny her figure nil fall I 1 slim find and the corners cornera of her n ap pp IP barrie says ft were ere full of 3 since her mothers death before she had lived alone six year r wib lie hei fill blither in D the te tl big house 0 on flit avent le walli had been built by tier grilla when the HIP railroad nill road to ascend ii fi i tin ii s H it nl ill tell you i that alu 1111 hull 11 1 tu get gel in ill no flit hun hill so si I 1 oilmen e suld said air colay coll lt let me file see in tile nurse course of the lie lust two years there hus has bein been quite a 0 re m beding liin of gentlemen upon whom you have conferred clio order of the lie grand Bo louico loui utice for I 1 was worried about that tins tills slun shin opera singer you have been sho laughed laut lied you notice lile title line and there was that young sculptor lints ills jin name itie 7 gordon comin net mr colby tor for a time bitne I 1 wax tire mire tie fie was going to charm you oil off your lie ile was chur charming mIng the girl aid ad lut but I 1 should always auve been pl alog second fiddle to botus enss ot of wet ut t luy or other artists are delight rul rui but lo in domestic life they are often all ali well sighed tier her futher im im provincial I 1 hope it will be 10 tin n american it will ft euld eald duria lu ill the pursued tier parent we hiie ut got any neighbors ItiL yve ull all chucked up nurses end liae have taken to apartments und and if ll it col flies to that tills great caravanserai thul we live lu in Is rather absurd tor for one old nian and fits little girl what do you ou guy we give it up and go 40 over to park avenue 1 I 1 think said doris demurely with tier eyes upon her plate that if I 1 were you I 1 make any definite nite plans at present pre Beut 11 aliu he fie grunted grouted and what do you wean by that nothing site she said lightly FUd fudge gel I 1 eald tier her iroda dont dent try to spoof me you neva never say anything that bienna nothing but doris made no reply mr air colby col by dropped the subject lord I 1 the changes chui iBes ive seen tit in tills town there was a time I 1 walk walh a block on fifth avenue without seeing a dozen people I 1 knew all ot of chent anglo saxons nowadays when i gu go out fur for a stroll I 1 feel positively conspicuous 1 I 1 suppose pupa papa said dor dorisa that you wish I 1 had been a boy 1 I do to not he answered promptly ind with conviction 1 I a hair of your head fur for any thing on earth but if you ask ak nio me 11 I 1 wish you had a brot brother ber I 1 hlll sn sa yes of course for I 1 atu am the last mm mini of the colby tribe you speak said doris gently at as it if you were a hundred and ten you were forty nitie nine lust last week her fattier grinned 1 I 1 get your point lie he said but we were bleith ing ot of your marriage not of lil liellie llie papa said eald doris und and tier her volve took on it differ different eat note do you think a girl con can love two men at the life sump guine time bod god bless us groaned tier her faff fattier er eliut should I 1 know of what the fe niale mule heart Is capable theres nto no to its possibly possibilities I 1 ties I 1 suppose but bur if you must have un an answer I 1 say that to tile me it seems extremely flit 1111 likely 1 I 1 dont see why not said doris rebelliously rebel bously 1 I 1 dont see wily you vou shield assume that every domun Is so oo instructed constructed thal ull all the tie newn ot of tier her nature can ile be met oil and sal laded completely by one being tills this tills this ald lid mr colby are you tile opinion hat flint a woman should he en ell titled to two husbands at the sunia time im not announcing any opinion at a 11 suld doris 1 l am asking for instruction st 11 in ii nt el mr r coly 0 y yo 11 ll 1 10 telling III tit iiii you be 1 11 in fit trial dill I 1 irig doris considered a 11 too torment ment I 1 mn not lot lit till BUIL she said that hint arbil might vot not to bo u very good tiling filing llin tier bur blither laughed so the lilon oc to tile shot eliop order at husband have him sent seat homo home oil 00 well said doris anyhow it could be made to work ork both ways it 11 w would auld bo be ua as fair for or one as 08 for or another 1 I 1 tell you doris why dont you fail take I 1 a avi week ott off and reconstruct so cloty willu youre about it there UN tire bulte a few little mutters matters of this burt that hut need attending to you begin monday morn morning lug say dud and our nur sill nil conflicting divorce buwa of our ur forty nine states whose present 0 contradictions are tilling filling our ivanne asyl asylums uius with the unfortunate lawyer it who have to struggle with thern them tile the trouble with you said doris Is that thiet you have a lawyers ln in mind ind you think because a thins thing has been legislated by it a lot of morons marons called congressmen it thereupon thor euron becomes sacred it if I 1 had my way I 1 we would lid empty till all the jails of tile the minor criminals who are there at present and flit them tip with congressmen my child suld said mr colby with n grin you really havo tho the makings of a constructive states statesman ninn and as f for r tile the constitution anti and tile the statutes 1 I 1 would substitute the ten tell coni you yon binke roe me dizzy complained papa in one instant you can leap from froin the bolshevism of 1024 to the consert conservatism antisin of three thousand years yeara buforo before christ I 1 ever thus I 1 can easily remember the time when a fellow abo advocated an income tax ana rated os as a dangerous chap who would bomb the city hall or shoot the ill or it if he watched and lak laii tit at us now I 1 the radicals of today ore are tile the conservatives of tomorrow all this got to do with my demuri ded doris find ny any dear that the income tax has a very strong bearing upon the subject of marriage maybe so eo but how ho Is that going to help mo me about these two men llo lio ho crier cried tier her father so this la 13 really a personal matter and not tin an academic discussion well and it if it Is she suld now give ear my child doubtless I 1 am a good deal of an ass in lutiny WON ways youre the cleverest man I 1 know she interrupted an all ass in some way tio ho answered nut but one form forin of ity fly I 1 am certainly going to steer clear of wid the form forin of hone bead edness which I 1 have made up my mind to lodge dodge ts Is interference in my love affairs within ren na n a sun son of course if I 1 happen to know tunit my child Is becoming sentimentally interested in ii scoundrel or a fool im going to tell tier so and give her the r sources of my information also it if she sh my opinion in tiny delli tite vase she shall have it it aside front froni that slie silo may warry marry the lee ice man if she likes and my blessing shall he hers bers doris was silent for a momi moment rit with tile lie tall fall of her eye she followed the quiet movements of tile the ancient butler buffer its is he be placed the coffee urn before her and left the room As 1 he door closed behind him she said sald I 1 nin am asking yur your opinion thore wa 14 never any need before I 1 never and tile the denst intention of marrying tim of the rest of them nut now its it s different dIf Terent ell eh m wn fear dear yes she said now it Is very iff dlf ferent tier her fattier father rose from tits his eluce walked around tile table drew up un tin other chair close to ills daughters of el bow leaned still further toward her fail and remar remarked remarried lied tell ine 1110 more I 1 dont be silly suld said his child you know who li I 1 amin of co course TO OS BE CONTINUED |