| Show AN ia alf a A am A AN am THE STORY re n owing a C childhood attach m anent ant Dr Iceland of a WOI wealthy tIlY family la Is attracted by will todd newspaper artist liar sister bister T lillian urges her to break oft off tin the affair but r arnestine Crne stine refuses refuse A runaway runa way marriage follows loring i hamilton Iani liton waina wins LU lil lanna consent on 9 ent to 0 become h hla a wife will and begin their married life in humble chumbl surround I 1 inga john pools poole wills beat friend gives given a birthday party for or ernestine at tilliy Pa tanoa stanos resort Urn urnestine estin ft and W will have a V nals their first quarrel 1 as a re n u at wills father dim dien suddenly aud denly lit llan ilan lor lorane ng are ara married CHAPTER VII 7 the baby for passenger was as in surope mamma and rapa papa und had find gono to langley luke lake for fop tile month of august AURi ernestine entered into a 91 period of walting waiting of bonding through lays daya of unreality and nights or of patient endurance sometimes waking after site alio ili and slept silo looked about tile walls of 0 the little room wit with a fueling feeling or of surprise was tills really she elie ernestine Il iti iceland riceland in fit tills this airn room with tile curtains curt aloi planed pinned buck back to admit tiny vagrant breeze listening with tier lier heart suddenly quick in tile still night light for it lier er 1 l footsteps sir air poole goolo came often to visit aalt them ariestine began to look for him for late into sunday and the pas knuts were madness itself their shining cur car with tile hie dwart gi ailing chauffeur waa off often nt at tle the door one olio lay day its 13 sat rending reading wills another laid it swollen creased bond out oer ever tile the book and 1 rn estine looking up ut at tier lier si quickly find kissed biased tier her what Is it they talked ft a little about tile coining batty and tile plans and will find 11 it II ts Is hard for or your mother mot lier gold mrs todd with a n smile 1 I khlok it la Is ua till krent grent a mist alto to bo be stiff necked about favors as it ta Is bo be greedy kibedy Ki eedy perhaps Ver haps admitted it la Is hard to bo be exactly balanced one must choose a direction in will ll 11 to lenn lean they fell into a friendly 81 silence lence after a little wills mother inot lier pressed Erno stInes hand about will she said and hesitated and Erne stines heart bent beat a little foster faster be patient with him ho lit found yet hut but lie he will you vou are moro more li nature than will will incao amse the lie istance ns tance between your wisdom and ills just lovo love him hell collie ernestine know knew no answer but tile words fell into tier lier ludry us as though there were moro more significance to thern than their stereotyped importance for nil hour or more they sat in silence ernestine drenna ing of mra toad will I 1 mrs todd lived just long enough to to see tier her gA danilson nilson and to klai kiss ilia hla poppy silk ellk check will laid him in the hot hoi low ot of tier lier arms but after a ino moment eilent witt with a 11 word of entreaty slie silo asked hini to toko take the baby avay away ile iio did BO 50 and calling tile the narae rl arso to ills hla mother who seemed to bo be swooning lie took the little one back to E anest lue and so tho parlor of 0 tile ho little house was a bower for death the gray cotlin tto tile room filled with avith flowers tle the worn out shelf of the woman kirnos tine had understood so little i will accepted ills mothers death with moro more philosophy than L had ejected ot of him film tile the long waltane tle the clinging had been harder tor for him than tho the finial st sc besides the new little tire cuddled against ernes titles heart was so 80 much more than any loss fossit it was such stich nn an appropriate compensation tho the baby had finally established ernestine among her now new neighbors slowly but surely they hall came come to respect tier lier and now with peter in tier lier arms with her house clean and by tier own efforts effort 4 she blia found mrs settings und and mrs mra pryor and others showing tier bior real benl affection which silo sho appreciated anti respected in full Urit estIne felt that till nil sacrifice wits justified and they entered enton new of life in their own small home will nt at the oarse oars Hart rustine nt at the helm and tile baby for passenger it was harder to maintain the high level of contentment after returned front from and ami established herself tn in tier lor new home on oil the alio road out near inear loyola will went with urnestine Urne one noon shortly after their return mamma Al anilla was there lillian lililan wits charming to will kissing him when she greeted Iri lestine and the baby and flattering natt ering him jitni skillfully fully after will had left for tile sun sill tile the three women followed one another about tile the house passed tile tho baby back and forth between them and talked talked talked all nt at tho 10 sanio time all listening find nil intent nil ni catching up the hie olt old intimacy it was charming could not remember when she had spent such it ft happy afternoon there was wait no one like mamma no lao onel one I 1 1 I ve c got to go liec papa Is 13 bringing it new sw stone merger man mail home with him ham fur walter Oli iner I 1 nm RO go ing to liput put rock powder in a the coffee I 1 alamaa kissed them all goodley good liy with i ler n lier eyes in look md at an an and real izes n altti n shock tew chance chanced d she aha taylet tAyl tt 1 WK V was in the six all months since tier her marriage slie silo was satisfied with tier her lot and herself there wits was almost danger a challenge to fate in tier her complacency ency sho she was gentle and kind to ernestine but subtly patronizing it was wad especially noticeable sance main mamma ilia had gone for mamma kept I 1 lillian allian in check lint but it if lillian was changed loring was startlingly so BO ile iia seemed to Hun hounestine estine bigger handsomer handa omer lilt blond strength was now set in a robust vitality which was very different from wills volatile excitability ile iia kissed ernestine affectionately told tier her she looked well and admired the alie baby man mamma ina had trained a maid for lillian lililan and she alto served in silent corn com tin nn excellent dinner but tile bright vivacity of tile afternoon was gone the interwoven volubility of the three women vernon their constant interruption of ono another their lions and cries of astonishment or sympathy now disappeared and lor Ing talked and tile atie two girls listened ile HB assumed I knew till all about their european Iuro Uuro journey over there lie he said bald lie he had got a new slant on on thi ti lings jigs it was waa a good tiling thing for a man inan to acet t away from froin desk for a while now lie ila had deel decided deI to forego the idea of tile the bench beach and go in for crime I 1 they laughed and lie ile twinkled ut it they but nil fill tile alio soule lie insisted tie lie mount it tile iho judiciary qualities tire are excellent but not dative unless one becomes a corrupt judge from which fate heaven deliver mel luel tile criminal lawyer Is tile important lawyer of today ile HB Is the man mail with in tile courts it all be a new kind of litigation for our office but bill it if I 1 can got get tho the business I 1 cut can handle lii indle it I 1 went vent to see that greek check chap this afternoon and recalled to film our acquaintanceship and our latu mutual friends lie ire remembered me perfectly and naked asked about you iou lie seems much interested lit in you and will lies tile the mail to see tom Nelly told me at the city hall ile lias has the say about 11 all that eliat clark street colony theres no end of money there nud and im going to dig spine of it out for us its face was flushed lu shed site she could not deny tier her anger hut but it decilis inconsistent to roe me she enid sald quickly tor for you ou to take advantage of ills his friendship for will when you disapprove so of our knowing him I 1 dont understand bilat lias has friendship got to do witt with business loring halted and lit his a own face hushed flushed with resentment 1 I tell you ive got to make new contacts if if were ore to bring bilci it a differ different 0 n t kind of ell antelo into tile the office upsides besides I 1 disapprove of will vill knowing knowing him it was only its ills taking you ou to that live dive do you vou think I 1 would mix lillian up will that alint crowd 1 I cant see any grand difference retorted I lillian a n baby chos your wife anyhow lie sides shies tile 11 In a stanos are all right all of tile them I 1 know them well and the two girls are its ia fine us na any I 1 ilav havo c ine mot t theres not a month passes that we dont visit them or they dont call mr Ili will lie once hurt huit my feelings and lies been malting making it up ever since weve been friends wIt without holit asking about ills political lot it activities or liow how lie ha makes his leilh money its nil all very well for you to toke take tin on attitude with me declared loring but ive coine coal home with the determination mi to make money and a lot of it chicago Clil cago Is rich I 1 may na as well take some of it as others and it if 11 an n acquaintance with a powerful man manlike like falls falla to my luck ill pursue it will would wont want mo me to will would woid 1 admitted ernestine but tier her looks were cold youve youe changed loring you u used sea not be so a 0 ambitious ive acquired a new sense ot of valus values ho he admitted of course im not saying saving at it nil fill that a man mail should stick at nothing tu to make money d n mistake and no good at anyhow J nut but ive it been around I 1 saw one tiling thing everywhere it Is tile the poe pas mon filon for tile possession of abney as much as a mail can lay hands on dont bo silly loring said ills wl ale to mildly look flow bow happy floppy ernes tine la Is and ashes as aa broke as broke 1 I nm ant happy declared ernestine Ihne yes admitted loring but that Is because your sour capacity for fair happiness Is 3 groat great your pleasure in your marriage and your child be spoiled at all by wore comforts 1 I dont want anything cluin changed ged 1 l not now not at tills this Ino moment luent 13 nut u t it if be honest alth with yourself ond that one ona reason for your contentment la Is your our great expectations for tho the future you feet feel that your condition Is only come now that sot sol you are confident that there will ft III be money tor for you ou and will when ieter grows older arid and witts wills work ork develops doe lopa into more importance being poor can be a gamo it its ita only an interlude out but it you ion had to tool look forward to nothing else the truth of his logic ingle hurt kru estIne unbearably I 1 care whether WIT ther will ever illi alkes money or not elie declared passionately almost in tears teara you think you aou dont said loring inexorably but will t say any that thai nery every man wants nl money aey every woman wants her man to have hae it IV ita a symbol of power it if will do nt get it hell feet feel that lies failed 1 your confidence in him by MARGARET MARGAKET WEYMOUTH JACKSON 0 by bobb dobbe merrill 11 arill co service ernestine found herself trembling lillian pick edthe baby up and dan ii died him and spoke quietly to lorang you are disturbing E rnest lne and it a bit nice of YOU ion all tills this shouting in makes me wonder it if you doubt your own ability she ile took the baby and put him in its ills mothers firms loring apologized its a had hibbit I 1 have arran gln g my own thought in tin an argument it mean a tiling thing sophistry pure anil and simple I 1 know you anre sincere ernestine Eam estine dont pay any attention to me ali the talk fell into safer lines but ernestine was no ao longer happy loring got out his car and with lit lillian aion and ernestine in the alie back seat with the sleeping baby lie he drove to tier lier home they left her now as they had find left hern beran aj arle rie street disrupted unhappy and at odds with ith will vill site was awake when will caline in arid and she fixed axed a light supper for film it sh she a W was as S satisfied a its f je d W with I 1 th her lot and herself a and nd told him all that loring had said with soule some small editing lies iles a capable lawyer I 1 suppose will said arid and if stuby wants ants to gle give him film work to do and loring wants to do it the lies iles not the only lawyer that would like to get ills his lingers fingers into pie bilut anyhow ive ie got something to tell tel tellious liou you going to new york anti and tuckers to bo be head of tile the art room ernestine felt a cruel shook shock of disappointment a site she knew will had expected this had hoped tor for the tha job himself but tuckers so young she protested it that hes capable im glad lie he got it said will arnestine ih thought of what tills this jot jol might lime have bennt the pay was nearly double they could have rented tills this house and with the rent and the increase moved into nn an apartment in Ravens ravenswood wood olt 01 she elio cried to will aghast nt at 1 her ier own mental processes its so liard hard not to consider money not to want it I 1 not to care caret I 1 I 1 dont want to be greedy and grubby I 1 dont want vant to 10 crave success suc cesi hut but I 1 am 1 I do I 1 sri t it h horrible drible rr ible 1 he ie looked at her with some humor you arent greedy bome and nd grubby sweetheart and as for success theres a legitimate way to want thai not for the money buffor but for the work I 1 dont think tills has any effect on my future its really an executive position and im ilia a solitary worker id be no good lit at bossing I 1 its Is nn in editorial job and tommy has an editorial slant on things iles hes fitted for it A few days dass later he came home with a shining face im to be pooles Io oles assistant lie he said do you realize what tills this means to me its worth ten thousand lit in cash to work under him if a person went to him film and offered a hundred dollars a losson lesson he teach him to draw but would curse him out of the and hell teach me and ill be paid for it it means no more night work ten till six I 1 do detail in the art room until mr poole comes in an and then I 1 work for him all afternoon ile ie does a copy for a new york kyndl cute cate every day clay and theres always work to plan ahead and sketches to lay out lies iles been boozy a lot lately and I 1 think mcdermott feels that it he hns has to help him film hell keep and not run so close to bubli cation wiston want to send tile me in there but poole insisted on me lie ile sighed with happiness and added as nn an afterthought it rocana another live five dollar doliar raise maybe more later he was so thrilled and excited that ernestine commanded tier her heart to yield its disappointment over tommys tommas job hut but slie she could not see any real lea I 1 future for will in losing himself in the great mans shadow 0 0 1 I dont want mamma to know ernestine said im afraid she wont go to europe besides you know what v hat a fuss therell be then dont don t tell tier her said will la in ills simplicity it really any one alses business Is it ernestine Urnest lne sighed you dont know liow how take it of course its ita their business have enough to say and I 1 feel embarrassed with mamma shell wonder why I 1 tell tier her will kissed tier her cheerfully and went away to alu beloved job ile he was radiantly happy and his happiness seemed to affect her ber inversely every day was an all adventure to him film tommy gives me plenty to do he be 11 admitted ono one evening tommys tommas Tom mys a good boss ile HP keeps ua tie all 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