Show the girl who came back jck 0 B 0 by jack woodford 0 0 Q copyright W N U service THE STORY influenced by loneliness in chicago lillta fortes forbes youns and pretty yields to the importunities tuni ties of harvey torrence with whom she he fancies herself in love she dis discovers rovers his true character and leaves him taking refuse refuge with an acquaintance gertrude Gert ruile watson lolita Is accosted by the its son of the wealthy owner of the apartments fred watterson he insists on driving her to the store on the street torrence Is I 1 waiting and d the two men inen enrage engage in a battle in khith lorrence Is killed lolita spends a night of misery in a cell she appeals to her father bu but t he h answers that he never wants to see her again next morning the judge at the ansti gallon of A lawyer a stranger to lillta dismisses the case the lawyer gives her and an unsigned note informing her that college tuition has been paid for a vear lie ile refuses to give the name of her benefactor she takes up op short story writing and meets mr lillta writes a short story which mr praises highly miss pringle a member of the class harshly criticizes it the story Is sold tor for 1350 miss pringle discloses lillta Loll ta real identity discouraged lolita decides to give up the struggle and sets out tor for a cafe she allows herself to be picked up by a youth in an auto and taken to a roadhouse there her escort insults her she Is rescued by her unknown friend returning to her room site she finds there CHAPTER VI continued ID 10 there Is no telling where lolita lorbes may be ot at thi th i hour of the algat site Is the I 1 ari rl you remember ubo was holved 1 in a very disgraceful sernie over the death of a man named canica harvey Torre torrence itce not ong long ago ila abat daure vaure so concerned auch 11 a 8 gitt girl a good looking chap in arr e cul lie looked slid and tva dov doan n at her Sud suddenly dolly standing Is in the middle of the floor facing tier tie lie seen tol to bealle realise for the tee first time lime that lie was alone in a the room with lit he ile he burnet as 83 it if to go but she put out a hand swiftly nod and caught hold of his bis arm vitals your hui i 3 mr youe waited this ibis lorg you as well wait until she che comes in lie ile turned back bach again irresolutely and anyway she bile moed closer to him blin and smiled up at ilia archly arc lily 1 I 1 cant understand why all the concern over bolits ashes not even good looking pia wa figure became suddenly rigid she saw little tight tines lines form about ills mouth as ho he looked down at her disapprove disapprovingly ay iy miss lo fobbes illes lie said slowly 1 I 1 dont care a whoop nhat hat sister has done and as a matter of fact I 1 more or less agree with ith you that ashes not particularly good looking but d 0 it all I 1 love the poor little tiling thing as ive nehei loei a woman before and if I 1 can ever find lier her again if nothing dread fuls happened to tier so BO that tant she wont ever come back im going to ask hei bet to mar y me the elie moment that thai I 1 again see tier her loilta stepped back a pace as though be had struck he bes but she still carried on OD the masquerade pouted up I 1 it film dont you think that im pettier than my sister youre quite beautiful then ahr but bu she could coula see that her beauty be uty was as nothing to him compared to his evident worry tor for the safety of taj other lillta who was not beautiful she stepped close to him put both dinda upon his ghoul ders looked up lit his eyes mr air ive been you each time that youve seen me this evening its been in a dim tight light I 1 am lollin forbes the girl youve known as bl argaret farrar I 1 am the one who was up op to in that dread ful affair in the papers why I 1 dyed my hair all that sort of thing wore those awful spectacles and dowdy clothes with the long dresses and high collars ile he tooled looked swift ly about the room saw the electric light sul tell strode oer and pressed it flooding the room vitt hh light walking back to the center of tile the floor where she awaited him he looked closely at her and then hen was instantly conill convinced iced ills his arms were T anut nut her without dely delay As the she felt TAs T As tight embrace it seemed to lillta tia that site she was melting A thousand times she had imagined his arms about tier her but in her wildest dreams it had never seemed as good as it actually felt now ills his kisses rained upon her upturned face her closed eyes and finally settled upon her lips with a warm floa finality lity that hat was so delicious that lillta tell reil weak and drooped a little sensing this be picked her up as easily us though hough she were a eli year old child aili enil sat sal down with her in ID a large easy chair cradling her in his bis arms lollia ix llla burled her beald udon his sn moulder and cried softly it was all so beautiful somehow be made up for everything that she had bill missed in life tie lie sat ant and held her tightly until she had stopped crying and had find pulled a large handkerchief from rom his pocket and wile wiping her eyes upon it shyly hiding biding her liend head afraid to look at t him she spoke poke softly tire ive loved you from rom the first moment that ever I 1 saw you that day when miss marlon introduced us did you dear tie he lifted up her head so 0 o that he might look into her eyes you poor little thing I 1 was so afraid that after what happened in class today you had done something desperate it was when I 1 got to thinking about that that I 1 realized that I 1 loved you the word w rd sent a thrill thrift clear down to LOMA Iol llna a toes site she wriggled ecstatically how did you feel when you first realized it oil oh I 1 dont know how to describe it ive written the lie sensation into a hundred stories thinking that I 1 knew all about it but I 1 really nor have I 1 eer read tiny any one alses story that described it exactly but tell me she begged bagged breath less with the desire to hear oh let oe me see well first I 1 fell a sort of chill all over and then lettle prickly sensations came on my iny scalp and next I 1 was just breathless with fright for fear something had bad happened to you I 1 kept seeing there Is no telling where lolita forbes may be at this hour of the night you as you looked after that pringle cringle person told on you and I 1 just ached all oter ner for you but bul then all that anif describe it it was all just too wonderful for words all there to it and you dont care about all that stuff that was as in the hie newspapers not a bit bil not een it if I 1 vere nere to tell you that purl part of 0 it wis really true certainly not do you think for one minute that I 1 would permit my self to hold anything against any girl knowing what a devil of a proposition life Is as mery Y vi iter who studios it of at close quarters must anyone voth aili on an ounie ounce of perception con see that there a modicum of intentional lelous badness in you the fad fact I 1 that hat you made one mistake mile malle city any at all in fact it makes me want to love and protect you all the more and besides I 1 dont belied in all of the moral rights nit and wrongs that so many people so glibly alk talk about im not so sure that I 1 am wise enough to calmly point to one thing and any that Is wrong while liler thing filing Is right people who anre so sure about aboud rights rl ista and wrongs q ninke make me supremely sick cut bill suppose sup pie I 1 were to tell yon yet that even tonight I 1 had no more moral courage than deliberately to start out to misbehave because things filings had gone wrong im afraid im not as good as you think I 1 am the fact nt i f the matter Is I 1 let a sheik pick one me up op and take me out nut to a and kiss me that Is I 1 let him take me out there I 1 really let him kiss me he helped himself in folte of all I 1 could flu do but bill I 1 got away from him in time for which fart fact no credit cr e if I 1 Is due myself lie he looked a little thoughtfully of at her for a second but bill waved this aside too after i moment too ment not eien een shipping to comment upon it as he bent to kiss her again and again for a long ions time the lie fit wilhort a word as te he hugged bugged tier lier closely let 10 him suddenly however a terrific fear ear took look KI hold of bolits loving him with ar ak her heart she ehe realized that already site was wag again at the crossroads where one plain sign pointed to the right and tile the other to the wrung wrong ile he had bad nothing but somehow how a subtle change had come over him and over tier her it was almost like a re sence in the room A consciousness of at peril delicious dell cloua teeming seeming yet lillta liew fraught with portent por tint she rose roge and stood before him eyes averted when her words word came they were almost a whisper you had better so go now ne he rosi rose and stood before her taking anth of her bands must I 1 yes you you yon must at ones once too please but yoi yet told me you loved mel mall 1 do then 7 you must most go at once tie caught her in ills his arms and bending he be back allied kisses kl ases rp epou her thront her checks no aad her lips no no no no she ghe said pushing him from her 1 I want you to go pease almost violently site she pushed him from her without another word tie he turned toward the door but at a te door he stopped turned around smiled warmly little angel he said dont let lei yourself think that theres anything bad about you I 1 was as testing you deliberately libera tely youre true blue if yuo rou asked me to go it would have broken my heart I 1 coul dut huv have stopped loving you but it would have been different not halt so beautiful as it Is now with that he opened the door and was gone for a long time she stood in the middle of the floor feeling life hi kisses still upon her his warm arms annul afloat tier her then she sat down before a little enamel dressing table and started removing tier her clothing presently slit she drew on a pair of silk paja inis aal a nd slid in between cool covers slie lie sighed and hugged bugged her pillow anil and all at once it came to her that she had somehow iov changed tor for the better how was waa 11 II that site she had bad ordered him to go though every ounce ot of her physical be ing wished him film to stay it 11 aa nas somehow wonderful because it proved con elusively clu that she was not its as she had a little let herself gradually think she sh was A feeling of happy triumph shot through tier her for the first time since harvey torrence bad come into bet bei life she felt good clean as though slie she were really going to be able to lavit uv up to her highest ideals in spite 0 01 ei everything era thing CHAPTER VII tile the fol following loNIng morning loilta up to find it ruining raining heavily aroll harily a gray rainy morning like this one would have made her feel infinite ly sad and blue but this rooming morning lit its effect was just the opposite she enjoyed tile toady steady sound of the raft against the window even thought that the intermittent woo oooo of the fog horn born at the rivers mouth which slit all could faintly hear even though sit sh was a long way front from it was frIen friendie dIj and beautiful mentally she went nl at over the events of the night before and again so real that hint she blushed she could feel carrll Warr ll lla 9 warm arms armi around tier her feel ills his lips upon her own she wondered liow flow suon soon lie he would call her up perhaps be would come around or send flowers low perfectly de licious it was to know that one was wai cared for wanted by somebody by the one body in all of UK tit whole wide world that one most what want ed to be cared for hyl byl presently there was a knock at the door who be Is it loilta called out cheer fully its me came back the voice of ills lh landlady come in lillta called back the door opened and mrs hardy en alered slie site was a good natured happy go golthy lucky soul goul site she had find had two bu hus bands both of whom hud had died but ab was firmly convinced that the best hus bus band she had ever had would almost any day show up and carry her on off tc t an ivory tower she advanced and sat sal down upon the edge of the bed and handed lillta a long envelope will tier her name printed upon it it loilta lillta tore it open and a check tor for ninety dollars was revealed allot hut bogl commented mrs hardy sold another story glory youre going t tic be a big writer some day like mary roberts rinehart or funny fanny burst gee I 1 wish I 1 had your ability I 1 1 I should think with your esperi ence that you could write ten tea times better stories than L I 1 remarked lillta that sure was a swell fellow called here to see you last night mrs ilow ard begun began enviously TO BE BB CONTINUED CONTINUE IX I 1 fotiu tyoa o ta |