Show P A A aljy s by evelyn dampbell copyright by evelyn campbell bervice it is in an old saying that one halt half ot of the world dorsht know how the other halt lives until recently it had al ways waya beeri applied to the poorer halt half the oo eo called submerged section tor for there here was little mystery or uncertainty in regard to the I 1 livelihood alvel chood of the rich 0 or r those regarded no AB being in the prosperous close class hut dut nil all things change and the security tv of wealth Is ir rot mot so ireat as an it once was market upheavals new invention and the t afi 7 dency to add more speed to the swift pace of modern affairs may change an n a days time the romp complexion lexion ot 0 a business and shake the found n n of a fortune the man with a job Is often better placed than tile the one with a topnotch top notch rating fript instead erid of a poor mans wondering where he is aning to get tomorrows breakfast it IP 19 more than ever the case that such a cite problem conf confronts rovis the so fo called rich man one onedas hac only to look around to note many executives executive of yesterday who fire are job seekers today one tendency has hac not changed namely that of striving to be a purl of the parade maintaining app keeline up the bluff the rhe ni ar to how these pa live Is even than that thai which the livelihood of the unpretentious pour door their story Is an interesting one iani and Is IP handled with line dramatic insight by the distinguished novellar novell no st evelyn campbell Camp beH in her book entitled parade here Is fiction of the day fiction of an absorbing and enlightening sort in linda haverhill the tha author has drawn a heroine who commands command the readers prompt understanding sympathy and regard tier her temptations adventures ventures oci defeats and triumph com coin prise pries a ecord that will linger long in the memory CHAPTER I 1 1 behold the lily it was lindas landas father haverhill Haver hlll who vio planted the lie ideth so firmly in her mind that tt it took tile the root ot of all noxious weeds and flourished there lie he loved the child arid and the hardest thing about dying was ivas the thought of leaving her yet she had to live and face life and lie he honestly believed that he was telling her the truth they were vere together in tile the big third floor front bedroom that looked upon tile the avenue sounds crime came dimly there but far away breaking through tile sullen murmur of the streets they could hear a bund band playing it was the sixth of september and that year it fell upon a 11 monday londay the house was not their house it belonged to a distant cousin of lindas mother who bad lent it to the haver hills while she wits was in europe site she did not know that she had provided a place for jim haverhill Haver hlll 10 lo 0 die ale tn in linda was just then seventeen with all the promise of the great beauty stion eoon to be hers everything about her hei was of a slightly exaggerated scale lier her slimness the excessive grace of lier her young body her eyes were a trifle too targe large and deep too banck her ter pallor and the of her red lips were too compelling one looked at linda witt with suspended breath pitying tier her for her loveliness because it Is well said that women who are too beautiful are never happy and all linda was of that sort it was a warm day chiy with the uneasy sultriness of september lindas long lone white arms had drawn the dayber close to tile the window and tier futher lay there gasping for the elusive air hipped in the staid of the borrowed house and longing his unruly spirit to tie be out and awny from froin it all even while bis flesh clung to tile the girl beside him tie he wits tilt spectacular ruin of what had been a charming person too tine for what had befallen litin but not big enough to evade it IL kven even now he wore a purple silk dressing gown unit and hla his linen was so pure that even the lie intense humidity could not degrade it ile he was as carefully dressed as tie lie had ever dressed for dinner und find tie ie looked with disapproval at his daughters crushed frock und and open collar there Is time to change before luncheon he said with tile the faintest reproof but my dear you should not tie be negligent because we are alone you know fattier father that there here arent any servants I 1 shall have to cook tile the luncheon myself haverhill shuddered he infinitely preferred no luncheon at all aud an d told her 0 so o if jan an unfortunate circumstance compels you to perform such such a duty treat it is as play ninke a jest of lt it my dear never admit even to yourself that there Is necessity Is the alie only wily way you cup run conquer conquer ills his cough overtook him and was smothered bi a square ot of soft linen dellen delicately tely pe perfumed I 1 when tills this was over sut ant with her perfect clan cupped in tier her hand gazing into the almost empty street t white hot breathless 1 I wish father I 1 wish what my dearest 1 I 1 wish we have to prel ciul by october it will all be over tl ao said bald with nother cough threatening not even dreaming of the pathetic truth lie he uttered you will farget all this he fie sent gent a contemptuous glance around tile the handson hand le room hf it if I 1 in n fits eyes its comfort was vita squalor it tins has merely been a little testing uri up for us tie both onee once I 1 get gel my health again it will be so easy with my condei connection tion 1 jim lin hid been a inan finan cler that Is he sold his good bump his impeccable appearance ond and a few other things for stock tn in various enterprises terp rises that might jr r might riot not hae been wen selling gold brickel a or r their evoly j alent nobody but himself knew how varying his fits success lind been but when lien the string snapped wi it him birn witt with empty pockets and if 1 vast and poignant tit regret lie fie wits lie he had ever eur had n hald clifta 1 I 1 conat gel hold field ot of enough to see you through until you vuu tre irr married tie he said lonk liiK piteously nt at unda linda site she willi ted to tilde tier her tears ak look miller she rile el filed led lenn ing liay over tu to peep into tile the catreet bo h the lint and ochre awnings look I 1 1 theres gerej the mounted imily ilare il lre P and theres s a haild the first ine and Col what vital a irum arent they queer so fat fa dolvil diitto iche lend soldiers linda wim young to by thrilled it II wits really a sight find costly to coti linand linda was just then seventeen with all the promise of the great beauty soon to be hers here respect the city had lent every public spectacle it possessed the cheering became prolonged linda burled purled tit alip geraniums until a little tunnel gave them uninterrupted view 0 dear the nice shiny ones onea have all gone by she said it its as if she bhe had been speaking of pebbles them the procession process loh changed its character the horses the glitter and the dancing drum major vanished and other men were coming coining now walking abreast in eights elg lits marching men in ordinary drub drab clothing red faces pale faces awkward hands some of them thein shambled some lifted their feet gingery gingerly as 48 if they hardly knew how to use them like like a long gray turgid stream they merged into the di dimness of the street that was presently lost in the cavernous distance these outnumbered their gay ey lenders leaders a hundred ten hundred to one yet they were content to follow dumbly trying with a sort of pitiful eagerness to keep step to the music who are they cried little linda I with a childs aage eagerness then she drew a vivid picture with a couple of words they remind toe me of if a grub und a butterfly those men jim lin looked lonk and stead lly ily at tile the never ending procession tile the first monday in september lie he said slowly labor iny day tile the one day in the year when the workers of the world come out to show themselves and ape what alint they have done ianda l lost Inte interest resL 0 they are just workingmen she said how many there arel where do they tire live what do they find toldo to do haverhill Haver hlll gave tier her a strange trige look it t may have been hot dint in that moment he fie glimpsed her profound ignorance and glimpsed hla his own iniquity in leaving her su so hilt but it if was too late he uttered his short lint linc king laugh the most mirthless sound bound imaginable TO RE BE CONTINUED |