Show gEARS BEGGARS CAN ChOOSE E Eby by Weymouth Jackson tl W BerYl r b by Co ro I 1 Ernestine rh nn had CHAPTER XIII IU 12 12 Hankerings good for Cor Wilt Will Tie was as minty regular hours He Ite looked kf bed adored the chila chil He lIe well h b more than ho hor them tad nd enjoyed a ever had a 8 bail bad and nd no woman r husband husland than Ernes Ernes- Jo TWO or three times a week they to concerts theater or the t I to g a s starved long hunger hanger for Cor ot of sight light and sound for mover move move- uty had picked color Ernestine and r I of f the old thread living In to as though she had been LJ IS ther other city ull ill this while The old lii closed around her as os naturally though she he had never been far fromm from Crom trend m and In 10 a 8 little while the Jargon m. m familiar Jok joker the odd Intimacies back with I Ir rr again m e money flowed In 10 uncontrollably bought a i second car and there t y 1 beautiful clothes new Jewels and andi Ernestine charge accounts a ahr ay i for tor or hr at an on expensive V riding demy y 1 for tor the children They talked baying Ing the house they w were re In la In but dy it seemed small Will thought would like to be nearer the lake lakeI I farther tarther north lIe He felt that they leJ rd al more room ne a. day In the fall when Hilly filly the if was lIas two t ye years rs old od Ern Ernestine s n ruined her bridge club and ana that moon seem seemed Id I'd to her ber a perfect exle ex ex- le I. of ot what life lite might be for a B ian an She was proud of ot her home ud of ot her thin china her beautiful er or her grac gracious lous friends The nt now Ud d was 1181 well trained The cook slated by flattery had hod outdone elf self The children came In and ike ke to to the guests who all exclaimed mell r them They went out with their ito e to walk alk to the lake Even E Lit Lil who ho had become silent and reC rebe re- re be C since Ilace her last trip to New ew York rayed flayed some of ot her old go gay spirits talk fell tell Into happy reminiscence their childhood and girlhood Iter fter the till guests were gone and ond was helping the maid to tor r the living room putting cushions lace lare folding the card table covers ers the he girl set the furniture back Liti Lit Lit- i stayed on lying back In a chair Ired red Id v velvet het her fair head pressed lost last the fabric her arm hanging fj y over the side of ot the chair choir amoka amok amok- cigarette a a watching I Ernestine the maid went out with the tables I covers rovers and a tray troy of ash osh boxes estine tine flung herself down m with an Carnation of ot weariness Lillian as as- shed Iff tor bats the matter with Will kitt kit kit- t j hes he's all right Ties He's a little but bat hell he'll pick up He Ill always i weIght In hot wea weather ul at ut Its It's October now It hasn't n really hot for weeks I 1 saw him North Clark street toda today while I waiting In the car for tor Loring was 1185 visiting one of his Greeks came and talked to me He tIe looked r white hitI and thin I 1 thought thought and and eyes ejes were too bright bright feverish feverish must give ghe him milk and eggs I Is la the type linear I think you youl youIt I l It that runs rUM easily Into T T. 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B lies lie's ra 18 too much tine was silent thinking swift swift- Wills all right I 1 think she said the shortly but she looked grave fan Ian Ica arched her brows In but said no more After Atter a while left In 10 her own car cor while I sat ton on oa the big couch the silk and pillows the wide low room with I charming furniture und and carved caned la lace e forgotten In an un Instant hat bat was wM Will doing on North orth Clark Clarke II lie III e an and Mr- Mr Ir 1 Poole had load had flee there long ago Will hall had strange range of late ro rose e abruptly and went to tom room m l to change her I child thin dress before I ren IJ returned to climb upon I her lIer er mind went ent reluctantly to cond as though Rh forced 1 against itself r consider ed f dangers Perhaps P he heI 6 I W 11 lie I was subject to toI od ot of i I kL nervous and mental depres depres- because Manse he V t could not remember h had bud a body hody long lonS enough to care of It She Sil wondered If I t he worried aut anhut mone money money- They were dIng It Id I'd like water waler but there so much of It C children king came ame In rosy and from their walk and crowded her She tOYed loved d to have ha them then They down eagerly as ahu with Ith theta to their simple supper the sad and nursemaid 1 snail once talking tal s to 0 her lier with a P pretty y iber i. i later She and arul wm Will had dinner half bait hatt liner after the children WW n had bad an Ur lIr with I their father tone Cune up to be Ill bed l But Iut 10 I Wl Will 1 dill did not notto It to t as ne he n n ny the leu- leu Ihl final finally trailed lit l a and nna nd I Ernestine won won- she Ile load had missed ed Will a u Mr tr brew lu In ea In Molly 1 the garden maam ma'am tho the fl led eti ne e Om went out Ut through the din din- III POrch s the tiled and i 1 at the garden arden to u stare Will 1 alta sway stood about fifty from her leaning against of ot the garnge hat off 01 1 back tilted tilled bolek k and hl his ees fixed ant OIlI tree that stood on the tue lot r tree g U never s. s In en hIm m h look l lk III like this The slight habitual tot twist of satire that had hall became set on 1 hl hu mouth was gone une Ills His Zips were tre le ce lazed laxell and full Tike like a childs Ills Is black blak eyes ejes always so bright and alert were soft now and strangely In his pale thin face A And 1111 II In his hu conn cotton was such earning earn In such nuch polA poignant ant beauty that hold scarcely forbear crying out bit He lie had not noticed her and silently she sloe turned hack back to the house and si s1 closed the door behind her for or what was Will hankering there In n the dusk dURkt What did he worship warship hlll s Some Something nm im thing she did dill not nut know see seo nor feel Something bl beyond ond her Again In III the absorption of life he had slipped II away WilY from her Into some secret patio path he had to follow alone Again hl his mind had escaped while his big body only remained by her side The poplar tree he tree he was ailing as he had ailed before She Sloe gathered herself together with witha a spiritual gesture She strengthened herself herselt Something was Imminent something was to befall them She realized with horror that they had nut nt saved laved a cent In all their new pros pros- She Sloe was confronted with the necessity to cease puse her butterfly whirlIng whirling whirl whirl- In Ing and turn squirrel again For Kor Wills Will's run of ot luck would Inevitably end In disaster of ot some gome kind that she could not even n Thinking of ot the longing and the sorrow of ot his fu fire fave e I Ernestine forgot for tor the moment how but a short time ago she hUll hail loved lowd her hous loons n and d blessed her possessions Was there nothing she could do for Will I t Noth Noth- ing She load hud learned this thU hard fact once anti nOli let Itt her not forget It now Was he lie always to he be lonel lonely Could not her bOIl body encompass SS him her love 10 en enfold told him At times she could be bp close cloRe against his heart At other times he hl would be remote from her from all of ot them Her lIer spirit s cried out In protest against the sense of atHena aliena alienation tion that was sweeping down ton ion Ion her Her throat t netted ached bitterly She shook herself t. t gas ras as non non- sell sense Ill Because e Will stared at a tree tret and a star sloe she was us In Invoking liking disaster He lie had come In to purl early and und Rime gone out In III his garden ardell to enjoy the evening p and the light tight hud made him hint look w wun un Hut tut these thin mental comments died unheeded Nothing could shake the deep fatalistic conviction that had bud laid Itself Itel t upon her heart rt I Ernestine watched Will ill during the winter months that followed tollO without making much headway In her efforts to understand him Ills abstraction at nt times was so Intense that he m I moved d like a II somnambulist The children bloomed Ieter Peter was us a tall tail strong boy hoy with a u lively mind anti and body It was WUl evident that Elaine would be able aule to start with her le lessons sons In another year earThe ear The baby would be he three In the summer sum aura rater mer mood and he was every ver ones one's darling Mamma was sending him things from New ew York She could not shop without remembering him lint Hut none nOlle of ot Ernestine's Joy In her children could compensate for Wills Will's strangeness Sometimes he came out of ot his absorption and und was feverishly te bright and active He lie was guarded with tier her and put on an artificial non lion chalance She accepted this casually without the Irritation that tint had almost disrupted them before Ills His whole air and manner were the air and manner secret love 10 of ot u man titan who is pursuing a affair alTair but Jut knew that Wills Will's grief was IIO not so simple as that Nevertheless e she begun III In a quiet unobtrusive way WilY to liP spy upon him heIng being hoeing be hoe- ing compelled by the need to know know- something more morl Ills habits awn away awny from home bottle were revealed r to her by small patient inquiries Sun SunI He lie spent every er morning at the till I office and kept ept his strip well upend ahead u L n k mn man did his lots worK in III an HII orderly war un u. u like manner In the afternoons It was the common belief that he went to the small outside studio where a n youngster young young- OlinI ster named worked on the movie mo cartoons for tor him hint lie spent pent I some time there arid then either II her played bridge at nt the Press Iress rp club duh or ut tot one or another of ot the clubs duhs on nn Michigan Michigan Mich lIch igan boulevard rd where noon men had money the curd card spend l around and leisure to tables In III the late winter afternoons Krues- Krues One hoe day downtown n shopping llnA movie mole studio tine went over ester to 10 this Ibis but the boy hoy greeted her tier inquiry for tor that such astonishment Mr Todd with she knew Will wits was seldom there therl lint Hut the movies mo 1 lie Ill comes comE'S In III I once me a 8 week or so and works all afternoon He Ill can cun do more work In to an hour than on anybody hody I ever I. Todd saw saw- We keep keell them theOl up Mrs III said lId Ernestine Im sure you ou do smiling nt nl him She talked to him for tor a B while but hs work told him how Will h 0 received his IIi training train Iraln tug ing doing Just such ch chores for John than a more little 1 Foote was sloe she saw tint hut buthe legend to this youngster mud and nattered flattered by her hoer he was interested confidences filled with con con- went awo away Ernestine without more 1 reason of or Instinct LIb Lil Lillian than thun th the the- Instruction Clark North orth Will on lian liar had loud seen hi Lois his time spending street He lie was vas not lie He was Drub at the outside studio ably not playing car cards u as swell as she thought He tit had hud opened the old studio where he toe and John toole had hall worked for tur 0 over O cc two years jears and he was Wll working t there now lOW n every try n afternoon and sometimes uI probably l at night What hat 0 wu was he doing She he thought she the would ask him hut hoot I that thaI e evening when he came cable In slip she woos was Just the stairs stain with nuked on till her arm She Rhe was Will K going in t to tn the kitchen to 10 get t some sume olive 1 oil Iii to warm for fur she had found the skin dr dry on the childs child's arms Will had hod come 1111 In the front door and stood Moud drawing his scarf from within the collar of nt his hll great coat staring up at ut her Ills his face ruce unshed Hushed at her und and he said sold Imperiously Stand still She stopped In amazement and stood lul pulsed poised ld on the stairs the cloud child on her arm her simple house dress dres falling against l her long limbs and Will looked up at ot them with concentration concentration concen power slater In III his eyes ejes After a R strange Interval Inter he toe began to told fold the silk scarf about his throat thront to button Ms Iola coat cout to draw drow his gloves glo over his fingers still staring at them and th then n without a word but with a smile mlle of excitement he turned and left leCt the house It was nr very late Inte when he returned but Ernestine was awake waiting for him He lie came directly to her In her I i J The Office Was Wat Empty and She Entered Entered En En- and Shut the tho Door Behind Her room roum and his face tace was like a drunkards drunkards drunkard's drunk I ards ard's flushed and relaxed and happy happ lie III caught her tier In his tots arms and kissed her passionately Will where Will where have you ou been Why are you rou so strange she asked him For answer he pressed his lips tips against her throat he be put her short dark hair back from her brow and stared at her ber entranced with what he saw Youre so lovely 11 he said so beautiful Ernestine Not ot even en the old masters ha have hae e a face tace as lovely ely as DS yours Your ejes your our jour eyes ejes ore are sad my sweet Why are you Ou sad 1 He lie ran run his Ids lingers over o her face his Ms strong lingers that could touch lightly won WOD Ernestine felt as It If her heart would break Will tell Ill tell me What ails alls you 1 sh shoe she Implored him You haven't hll noticed me tote for weeks and weeks weeks all all Inter winter v and now now now- you ou haven't hu even seen me you come In III like this thIR Me Ire moved pd away from her He lie was erect triumphant under the Impulse of strong excitement Ernestine Ive 1 done dune It What have ha you jou OU done lie made a gesture with his fingers h a a stroke In their air either eUlier bru brush h or pencil and dl dif Ive 1 made something new ferent frent Something Ive I've wanted a longtime long longtime time Ill I'll tell you jou about It some day tillY when Im I'm ready ready- Hut tut now dont don't question question ques quIs tion me Just love Iu me As you jou ou used to Ernestine Cant Can't you jou ou come corne to me meas meas as os you jou OU u used ed to come corne My II love 10 and mine alone He lie wooed her and she yielded to him rinding finding an Instants Instant's hurting Jo joyin Joy JoyIn In his Iola old eagerness his eagerness rne s his old flaring human love lo enthusiasm Thi lots tide of ot was not new to her Its Us sameness was enchantment Hut But after alter he like an all was sleeping by hy her side 1011 she shoe wept Even Kven Evenin so strange secretly He Ill was warned her deep honesty In III hl his Iola ardor that not her beauty not her hr love lo not nother nother nother had hud had allured he Kahn her dearness been Impelled hod towa toward rd her h by something within himself Ills deep and secret secre awakening of artistry were lre springs stirring Solitary even en III In his hili pas ins Ion slon and his Iola love 10 she rose with he her The fhe next morning determination with heart ha hardened downtown she and after lie hI had land gone the those theold theold her possessions hunt hunted Ill I'll out nut among ln 1 her su so long loni had land given he old oli ollie ofte e key and went back backo the bus hus Sloe She took ago ugo familiar la laway walked wl the old oiL to loJ o Trie Irle street again and came to the old office way fitted her ber key In the lock and aDd open opened door The ollice O was empty an and the she shoe entered an and Ib ha shut the door dour behind her The light In the place was us One line Along A Along long window crossed the balk back of ot the room and here wits a slanted table tahle and stool Ernestine moved mo to this |