Show ca I 1 0 afee T h e I 1 real I 1 eal it 0 0 0 adventure Ud A deventure 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 t I 1 ea J A N NOVEL 0 V E L I 1 0 0 0 0 0 by 0 0 X henry nry kitchell webster 0 0 0 0 lilt 1916 tits 11 urdu arrill Win vany CHAPTER CHAPTER MIA continued X 16 i here was vias something peculiarly hor laito him la in the exhibition ran pheas ph awas making of himself ile hod d in his life taken a drink ex at and then he took le e 44 h i would pass muster going off aae aind deliberately fuddling one f M a means of escaping M lu M gitles lit les struck him as an act of i cowardice but for that I 1 of rose hed have gone long li aw left hand randolph imph to bis his bemused 1008 ns on ott i rose had u I 1 hl m t to I 1 i it lu in on the doctor for ala J D d 6 slit 11 mean blie m wanted anted i izz as fa to help me fejt 4 t tied though not ery cry success 4 ly lyt to coneal conci al his violent dIsrel disrelish lh of ta emte when hen he lie bald said look here JIW Ilat Is the matter with mith you iella ay u sober enough to tell me I 1 jt olph put down bis his glass 1 I id you he lie said I 1 I 1 in s ban it well kept oh es I 1 baui ept I 1 lm in nothing but a pos awe of herd here I 1 A trophy of sorts an ii beat I 1 in made I 1 4 vola big pinc ice im the most doctor in chic igo they 41 ere the women in shoals doing I 1 im in a faler it crewl I 1 pose for them I 1 play up it them th cm what they want and 11 1171 71 belber arr doing they go silly about af ancy in loe loic with ith me I 1 iii invent vent done a lick of honest work thi beast llast year I 1 cant work she it lot 0 ork she smothers me ir I 1 turn there she Is smooth kg 9 out trying to make it aas go 0 0 anticipate my wants lo ile 10 s want mant to bo be let alone ft t do that insatiable h 1 ays something more get and I 1 ra in always tr trying in to ething away from her and i by do you want to know lawr the cream of the ax a because were in love with rhea ah er she wants me to live on javo 1 to have nothing isi to live A W p ayou r you want to know what my no of Is it would be to go f with one suit of clothes cio in ng g oh and fifty or a hundred n I 1 my pocket I 1 mind ont want to by be it tramp to ning town or blum where I 1 art rt a general practice chero 0 remd ga I 1 id d get would be accident in cases real things ings that right and dav day tire to rd like to start agall and get gt this stink of ey e y money not ly nostrils id rd like to see it if I 1 an t ike ke good on my own onn ills 10 e back from new york after k at rose meaning to do it to talk it out with nith eleanor nelo her why and then go well I 1 a talks cheap but I 1 go ithee ff r go ill I 1 it go on getting softer antei re e of a fake TOOT mare dependent minor nor will go on eating me up e last thing in me me n ot h gone and then some day r a ok k at me and see that im noth bestif I 1 to ith suddenly thickened tation perhaps ho he looked up efty 1 and demanded arc are you looking so s solemn ing All cant you take a joke come id d ot 11 have another drink euirn fo SlI lodney said rm g going and get to bed eky walked home that night like abed the vividness of one onre isa ll eldon iden bended him the thing k 13 s hud had seen and lacked the botie it 0 do the thing rodney de ing pa 44 1 for a coward for hiving id 10 do that thing rose itose had done out ut knowing it I eldIng to a five I 1 I 1 1 1 lr ionized instinct hed hem m want antro sal t to 0 lve lle on his love ailed tried ta ill i things out for her anticipate C u Is s hed m wanted anted her soft help gall doc adent hed sten even then chig 2 g hed been blind to some somo a blinded himself to that eight itself was nas not enough that had I 1 poison 1 uj aj well as feed c had won among the rest of the of victory the thing she had to it 0 ahw set out to get ills lite trend ed thaw rp friendship he re hd her saying wae unit a thing you 11 au na ben earned it it of be withheld from you well train P ht she should lie be told that ja oo 00 ot understate it to the full lie ile rice aasc bk a sk I 1 her to come back to him must know that her rt hect bettl jep ec cesary esary now to him as elied shed his tits was to her lie he must seo see t ri jall au arit Jc ell ll her that IV 0 ow ped abruptly in his walk ills ere il be the Psalm lot said turned to t t low should he confront that I 1 rs which knew so much ard od so deeply he with the of f hh two last alous va with her bevad him himl t CHAPTER r rr lende 1 e d a i for the vacuum where he heart of it all ought to nave L 14 as it lite fe in newyork new york durine during aw a I 1 iny aty the year that put lor her on oil tho the lil highroad broad I 1 to wl 0 a designer of costumes costume 4 for the theater las a good life broad cuing stimulating seasoning it rest cil cit to beatri with rith on n foundation of nd adequate equate material rout rial comfort tho the unwonted pha physical steal athons of the six months that preceded it made seem like i luxury for sen several cral months after sho shin came to new york to work nork for galbraith she found him a it martinet she never once caught that twinkling gleam of standing ns in his ee 0 o which bad hail bitant ho so much to her during the rehearsals of tho the girl upstairs up stairs ills manner toward her carried out the tone of the letter beed got from ailin in achl cogo cage it was mas stiff formal severe lie ile seldom praised her work and uever never ungrudgingly ills censure was mas rare too to be sure but this obviously waa was because roso rose almost never gave him nn an excuse a for it working for him in this mood gave her the uneasy sensation one experiences when walking abroad under a sultry overcast eky sky with ith mutterings and flashes la in it and then one night the storm broke they had lingered fingered in the theater after the dis dismissal minal of a rehearsal to talk over a n change in one of the numbers ilose rose had been working on it refused to come out satisfactorily rose thought she 4 w a way iny of doing it that would work better and she had been telling him about it eagerly at first and alth with a limpid directness which ho lio lioce vicc cc became clouded and troubled she felt he barnt w aint pacing pa log attention it was a dini culty with mith him she had encountered before but tonight after an angry turn down doin the aisle and back he suddenly cried out 1 I don t know I 1 don t know what yute been talking about I 1 dont know and I 1 don t care and then confronting her thir fares not a foot apart for by now she had got to her tier feet his hands gripped together and blinking shaking bis tits teeth clenched MR 11 eyes there in the half light of ho the auditorium almost like an ant mat male s he demanded can you see hat a the matter with me ila en t you seen it yet yeti of course she saw it now plainly enough she eat bat down don again managing aging an air of rif dellbe deliberation ration about it and gripped the back of the orchestra thair in front of her lie ile remained standing over her there in the aisle na hen bell the heightening tension of the silence that followed this outburst bad had grown abiol absolutely unendurable she spoke but the only thing she could ind find to soy say was almost ludicrously inadequate I 1 no 0 o I 1 see it until now im sorry lou see it ho he echoed 1 I know you youve never seen me at all from the beginning as anything but a machine but why by haven t yot yol youre you re a woman oman it I 1 ever saw a N woman oman la in my life you re one all the way through why aou ou see that I 1 w a man it because ive got gray hair nor because im fifty bears a old I 1 dont bellee youre like that but even back there in chic go the night u e walked down the avenue irom from that store or the night we had supper together after the show n 1 I suppose I 1 ought to have seen she said dully ought to have known that that was all there was to it but I 1 didn dian t Us well you see it now ho he said savagely fairly and strode away up the aisle and then back to her he ile sat bat do down doan an in the scat seat in fr frit it of her tier and turned around 1 I want ant to see bee your face ho he said theres I 1 ive ve got to know something you youe e got to tell me you said once back there in chicago that there was only one person who really mattered to 3 ou I 1 wont ant to know who that person Is I 1 what ho be Is whether ho he a e still the one person who really matters if he ill I 1 II 11 take ray my chance the scene afterward ilose rose was a little su ou rosed that shed been able to answer him as she did without a hesitation or a stammer and with a straight gaze that held his until ste he had finished the only person in the world she zhe bald aid who ever has matter mattered td to me or ever will matter Is toy my husband 1 I fill in lov love with emith him thedac the day imet I 1 met him I 1 was mas in love with him when I 1 lift him ain I 1 in la in love with mith him now ebery thing I 1 do any good Is just home some thing he might bo be proud of it if he knew it and 0 very failure Is just something I 1 hope I 1 would mako maka him hira understand ind nit not despise me rue for its months sinfo inee ive seen him but there isn t a lay there isn t an hour I 1 in a a il daiy diy ay iy when heu I 1 dont think about him film and want ant him I 1 don t know m whether ever see him again but if I 1 don t it wont make any difference with that that why I 1 didat dida t see what hat I 1 might have een seen about you it w asat possible for me roe to see I 1 d itneyer have seen it if you told no lie in eo so many words like this do i you see now lie ile turned away from her w with ith a nod and put ills hands winds up to his film face she waited a moment to see whether he had anything el clo elo o to say any for the habit of waiting malting for his dismissal waa was too etring to be broken even for a situation like this but finding that be he ehe she got up and vall walked cd out of the theater there was an lour hour after she the had gained jhb haven baren of her apartment when she pretty well went to pieces so this was wah all wt it that she owed her illusory appearance of to the amor amoroux oui elfishness selfishness of a man old enough to be her father I 1 once more the t he blissfully and ignorantly unsuspecting all au the while it was love that had bad made her world go 59 round the same attraction that james randolph long ago had told her about all shed she d accomplished complis hed in that bitter year lice she lie left rodney had lad aten bien to make an other loan man fl frol u love with berl t S jt w ei io so it wits natural nulu rul of course that the relation them lifter tint vint should not firme quite eo so bimble bud und manageable were breathless days when ullen the storm visibly sibly hung la in the sk there were strained stiff self conscious monie monic tits of crI enforced forced politeness got fluid suld despite ills resolute repression that had as am resolutely to bo be ignored but in the intervals internals of these failures there emerged a lie icv fhlug genuine friendliness partnership it N was as just nf after ter christinas christmas that abe samman took her away from galbraith and put her to work edlu artly on oil costumes and anti too the swift sequence of events within a month launched laune laun luni thed her la in nn an independent busl bust ness the new partnership with mith the details of which through jimmy a lace you are already tenly acquainted quain ted her partner w inas ag alice introini sho was as the daughter of a rich italian jew a beautiful really a wonderful person to look nt at but a little unaccountable especially with the gorgeous clothes scemore sh she wore emore in the circle of morn om en ell who ullo did things of which rose bad had become a part rose took tool her time about deciding that title liked glicr 1 but ended by preferring her to all the rest hut but the fact that they hud lad become partners part nera some somehow hoi to dhert a relation be between tileen them thlin which might ot otherwise herIse have deu loped into a first class fri friendship not that ali thy y quarreled or even disappointed d each other in the close contacts of the dos da s work A ork but at the end of the days work mork they tended to fly apart rather than to stick together more blore and more hose rose turned to galbraith for a friendship that really understood gripp gripped ld deep there were long stretches of days of course when they saw nothing of each other and hose rose as long as she had plenty to do was mus neur conscious of missing him but the prospect of nn an empty sunday morning for instance was always shays enormously brightened if he called up to say that it was empty for him too and they go for a walk or a ferry ride somewhere all told sho she learned more about men as such from him thun than ever she he had learned consciously at least from rodney she shed 1 I neer been able to regard her husband as a specimen lie was uns rodney sul but gener generis ls and it had neer occurred to her cither either to generalize from him to other men or to e explain X an thing about him the mere ground of his ills masculinity bhe began doing that now a little and the exercise opened her eyes in a good many ways galbraith and her ha husband were a good deal alike both were rough direct a little remorseless mor seless and there was mas in both of them right alongside the best and finest and clearest things they had nn an unaccountable vein of childishness shed never been willing to call it by that name in rodney but when ben she saw it in galbralth galbraith too she wondered vias that just the man of it did a man as long ns as he lived need somebody in the role of mother tho the thought all but suffocated her one saturday morning toward the end of may galbralth galbraith called up and wanted anted u to know it if she wouldn t come over oller to his long island farm form the following morning and spend the day she had visited the place two or three times and hod had always enjoyed it immensely there it much of a farm but there ther ewas was a delightful old farmhouse on it with belling cel ling seven feet high and crit ement w aindow and the floors of all the rooms on differ different tnt levels and there mas w as always quite at his at ilia sister and her husband whom he lie had brought oer from froin england when be he bought the place ran it for him hose rose accepted ea eagerly eager gerl galbralth galbraith met her with a dogcart and a fat pony and wha they had jogged their way to their destination they blent what was left of the morning looking over lie the farm then there was a midday farm dinner which rose astonished herself by dealing with nith as it deserved and by feeling sleepy at the conclusion of coming into tho the veranda about four 0 clock and finding her galbraith suggested that they go for a walk w alk two hours inter having swung her tier 1 iga gs 0 er cr it stone wall mall which had a comfortably inviting flat top alto remol ned sitting 1 hero here and let her gaze rest unfocused on the pleasant farm land below them after a glanco at her he leaned back against he lie wall nt at her eldo side and began tilling hie ills pipe bhe blie dropped her liand hand on his nearer shoulder r after nil nit these months of friendship it was the first approach to a caress that had passed between them yon yoh re a rood good friend 0 ehe she said and then ta hand that had bad rested on him so U lightly fitly suddenly gripped bard and I 1 guess I 1 need one he ile went on filling hl q pipe anything special you need one for fort be he asked she site gave a ragged little laugh 1 I cues not jut jutt ju tt somebody strong and steady to ald on to like this I 1 well he said gaid very deliberately yoa you want to realize this you say im a friend and I 1 am sin but it if there ie Is anything la in this friendship which can be of 0 use to you youre 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