Show W T si A M M LI JL by E velyn evelyn campbell by estlyn campbell Carn service CHAPTER VII 12 loves labyrinths tier her step lagged a little out but us its slie she en entered terel the hotel tile the wits wa directly before tier und and she could lime have it with a tew few sapps abells slie she turned however hr weier anil and walled walked toward tin vint tile grilled elit losure cherf it i it lesser gentleman with filipi ahei milliner figures Hy ure vita in willed in hint flint curious ha lighty al 81 atit lt it rim Is pt to bligh priced hatela 11 mitis walk bulli wits MUS one of the rarest s she ilie pos seed site wits so siu till hill lintl thol slie she s lie beamed ul ays i ibi to t licina breglic ingler 1 ia he demaid of tarl Tn rl tier her wraps were henys oll iphi fromi tier shoulders hut blit nui fill did ilet hei eyes half belled fil to see nol lillig but slie she find alti irlan fly tile lie looks that folh followed owed itald git vivo her the hell hoys on herich pre watching tier lier furtively the st gentleman tit ill the tie desk benned on it ili pointed to listen to har cpr all tit if atheni saw the new lint the lie pearls pearla slipping from livi glicr rich fur ily letters plea please ae lindas voice atis is sweet and very low slie site spoke as is little at possible to such persons us thase tl itse abe letters were in her hand ednd tin and slie she wais ns turning away before ahe Ilu ink you in a negligent tone toile as though that ln in group had no ni enning her they looked after her hopelessly slie she seemed see ineil rich and prosperous the clerk looked doubtfully ut at a letter that find been separated from the rest finally lie tucked it away in a private pigeon hole it would not do to make a mistake tn in tills this ease case lout landu knew nothing of tills this she passed on to the elevator leisurely examining anit ning the letters in her hand linda no longer occupied cousin amys house when the family were cnway the fiasco of her marriage was a tinly told secret discreetly ignored by her relatives lathes le whose number seemed to have dwindled perceptibly it Is one tiling thing to clin peron und and champion a young girl very beautiful and pathetically poor but quite quita another to be responsible for a widow however young ancl beautiful whose affairs to say the least are in a muddle and deeply mysterious cousin amy It alston told some of the lie others other that she always felt a coll cold chill down her back when she beard lindas voice in the hall so it happened by b degrees her own voice so cold so brief that linda not wishing to give pain refrained almost wholly from communication with her sensitive relations she ila and plenty of friends A any ny woman free and pretty dressing more than well tind seen at her best everywhere Is bourie bon rid to hove friends and invitations only to linda the people who tool tont her about and entertained her seemed oddly less ess like friends than adversaries it was a curious feeling that had grown upon her lately site she wile wn on guard always standing on off a little while she smiled and talked softly it was as if a hundred pairs of eyes were seeking for a track crack in her namor which she was determined they should not find for a long time she had had a splendid time she was not in the strict sense of the word a woman of so society clety rather site ehe took what she of society and let the rest the bores the dull parties the committees clone the people she was seen with were ustia usually lly charming though some were it a little vague about themselves there were always plenty of hosak dazed hv by the ease the grace of linda tind tier her friends who rho were vere quite ready tit ti pay for the party it ft tind puzzled them till nil that she had not married again there must have been plenty of men to lunray her rich do who could give lier the setting slie site deserved deser veil but binda was faintly amused hy tills this won der or or anni ringe always brought poignantly before her tile the vision n of th the of her twenty four hour honeymoon for it had hart lasted no longer than that she knew but bill after slie site buet brian anstey she bagan to think of mur ringe again not consciously though thu Mar marriage ilage as a furm fonn or ceremony lid did not enter her mind she would have checked tile ideo idea in its birth it if her conscious self luid lind not been drugged by the rt ful that knows so eo well how to take its victims unaware linda could have argued hirsell herself out ou of lov with a poor youny young lutin if lovs lova had find not stolen upon tipon tier her and blinded blinde rj lier eyes with beauty and silenced her lips und deafened her with dreams site she dever n ever thought oi of marr bainge lape burshe hut she bebau begau to tn chafe tit at the life she led the hund handsome some rooms she occupied strewn with costly trifles tier restlessness site she wearied of being about and wearied of her gowns unil allot th meaningless jargon of her friends site she began tit gnu to think of quiet cool coal situ pie spots to 0 visualize what she hini never known she found herself re men every step of that pit grin grinnage tage nude made with irian anstey ansley in that snowy dusk and fe little houses house with their lamps one an red fires she would arouse from these thae memories try to elude hem try to hate them but it was vas no use time and t time e again they returned each bitne w with ith the humble plea of lot pence peace she dressed herself carefully for that first dinner with brian it would be simple because he must not spend much money tier ti er she constantly cont antly remembered that lie he was poor site she chose the plainest rock frock in her wardrobe and had ii fort line to look more lovely than ever against lis its plainness tier her bounty shone she had not fiille clytile lost that faint exah Kera tiou of every point that women always found a low at the lost last moment to she tiling filing tile the double strand of 0 pearls pearla courtney pres ent around tier her neck she was transformed tit at once to splendor but when site she tills this site she tore then them I 1 roughly ott oly and tossed thein into their case calle she nothing like that to have it 11 billave in their hour slie she knew lie file first that hint brian adored tier tin and so sweet wits tile knowledge of tills this gift alft that site she yielded closing tier hur eyes to t consequences she thought Hiou alit site she could draw back in time one there wits a party with the Fen tresses and she watched tile pretty hannd hl ind girl grow pule pale und and flush under a word avord or look from croin brilan who div entirely unconscious of it all she loves him thought linda poor little thing filing I 1 she has everything she lius has done everything to please and I 1 who have done nothing she felt suddenly humbled and ashamed she ought to go away andl and 6 because Be causa she has money linda finished as frankly as he leave these two alone they would come together as naturally as two birds alone in the sky pretty Pic tty arent they said simon fentress at her ear lie he was watching watch lna brian and daisy with a rather sardonic smile he afterward turned upon linda youth is always charming she said how those beady blackeyes looked into her now you are young too only a couple of years older than daisy and yet you ard not youthful youve been taught things ray my girl gir will never know because she has baa money linda finished dished its as frankly as he be not entirely it ft in the wid child to know she likes muslin frocks ills his eyes traveled over her long graceful figure how shortsighted nature Is ast 1st I 1 if you had been born my daughter 1 his kindling face bold with the light of adventure said what a life they would have had hadt I 1 what worlds would have been conquered I 1 you think I 1 hate muslin gowns said linda with tier her faint smile anle unless a they are made in paris you yon think I 1 could not endure pov etty eity site she persisted he looked at her ter a long time it would ile he it great waste my dear he bald said gently as it if he was sorry for her senator converse lid did not remain la in ignorance of all this ue ile fell ut at first into the natural error of that linda was attracted by the of the fentress entress millions but this impression did not survive watching her flance dunce with brian anstey one night TO BE CONTINUED |