Show he girl irl who came back r BY JACK woodford gp S copyright W N U service THE STORY influenced by loneliness without relatives or real friends in chicago lolita loli tl forbes young and pretty yields to the importunities tuni tunit ties les of harvey torrence with will whom alom to the she fancies her herself in love she discovers his true character and leabes le aies him taking refuge with an acquaintance gertrude watson loilta Is accosted bv th lh ton ron ol of the wealthy owner of 0 the it apartments part ments fred watterson she repulses his advances but lie he in mists on driving tier her to the 11 tore store on the street torrence I 1 Is wall wait ing lie he puts tile the worst construe construction on on Lo Lolita litas 8 being with watterson and the two men engage in a battle in which torrence Is killed lillta spends j r night of misery in a police cell she informs her father ather by wire of her situation but he I 1 that hat he never wants to see sec her hei race ace again next morning the judge at tl the e instigation of a 0 lawyer a stranger to lolita dismisses the case the lawyer gives her and an unsigned note informing her that college tuition has been paid for a year lie he refuses to give the name of her benefactor she takes up oho bhart t story writing CHAPTER ill continued 6 youre not fooling me cut in lo 10 lita so intrigued with tile the thought ot of beCU becoming MID a alter writer that she could scarce refrain from hugging the girl you really think that hat I 1 hate latent intent ability that I 1 could ever my dear girl I 1 know L flow you could and then aitio too so much depends upon ones ties to succeed if you had that in ili addition to what mint bently seems to be a slight sli lit trace of tile subjective temperament attributes attribute cf tile hie writing type nothing in all the wide wide world would please incase me so much declared lolita enthusiastically alil id try awfully hard bard 1 I know you would vo uld encouraged the other 1 I felt just then there was voas an interruption Il illarion lardon I me said a pleasant voice in m the doorway for intruding but I fl it i T vont be a moment I 1 just want to get my list of new registrants I 1 left it upon the desk tup top lie ile entered and reached for the alie list and turned to go when the registrars secretary stopped bilm mr XV arrill I 1 want you to meet mahs farrar miss larrar farrar is thinking of taking up the short story mib farrar farmr tills this Is mr V arrill our in tor of slum story lie ile Is hemsell a writer of short stories as you ably haie noticed if you read the ninga magazines lolita stood up A pair of deep brown ebes ejes met hers she felt tier liand hand taken in a warm handclasp site she looked up a a gralie graie understanding face looked for a mo ment above the face at a neatly clipped hend head of nf dark hair flecked with premature gray gnirs she beard be lie ard ird the de voice satinig saTi tig reassuring things to her but site she did tint it low what the things were it was as though thou she hart had suddenly been struck fly ii and wa die he hardly knew what she tind had said hw how slie she ili biad gotten find out into the rattle and bing bang of tin the treel S I 1 slie he knew that she hid had arranged to for baudy in the ile ih rt class an and as she balki d ly cloward the L station st alim slie site also know knew one other oiher tiling filing that slie she could indle of nt least one story theine th hiie even if it were an old theme slie she coald write a story fi lUf a girl who hud had neier belli helsted heli ted ed unit flint ruh a thing exsted falah madly in love ut of first alt ait CHAPTER I 1 IV V one afternoon hardly more than two months after tier her enrollment she the worn storie stone steps of the lie huil building ding with intrepid and a bulky bundle of pa pets under her arm tier her beart brat beat like mud mad as aa the elevator jerked jer ed and staggered toward tire the fourth niri iu ID charge of a dental student 10 lo a ie coat coal who was helping helling hell ing to pay his way through school by running I 1 the le e clevn tor for she vol walked liked toward t llie I 1 class room through the school library smiling in at miss marion bl arlon in the reg istra rs office as slie she pissed passed it and rg getting etting a heartening smile in return which somewhat encouraged tier her lint bill tier her courage left tier her again is as slie site en A tile the little holmi where the bhart mory class clas limited to thirty students met most of the class was there sit ting around the hie long table walling tor for mr bir to come in 11 II will ind nd dull within the room ond anil loilta I felt depressed as she ghe took a apai spai split at tile long table somehow the alie beat hanri wert went out ol of her in nil of 0 the time that she lind had been in the lie lasu so far mr bir lind had only spoken to her once after ted ing his Is introduction to tier her and upon Occo slon lie had merely reminded he be that slie had out not yet turned in any kind of written iehl Ton lalit tha others were not animatedly chattering us usual muni every one tire ond and dull ultra kocio 10 abl king if t tier her rather th only onix rel ailie atle stif ane had 1 nd that she ehia knew tit it alio ho still remained alle remembered that hint she die find practically no friends since the ghastly ming that thai bad happened to ill tier slie she longed to go honie home to elgin for a night flight rr nr so hear tier lier father ablow grae crae dellb era erale to voice meet annj talk to some of 0 the lie girls gills in the little town wilh the hip river running h it IL put nut slip she could not go home finnie elter eier her father hall had said just then mr walked in briskly it II was as a breath of fresh coot cool air had come into the room as though the lights had started to diance tile the entire class silt up tool on new life there were smiles and cheery greet erect ings frogs around the room mr flown down a timeworn black brief case tiron broin nt at the edges where t he either was curling away from the slen sea ms well dead tie he rem remarked arVed cheerily A tough laugh went around the long iong table nobody now 1 ventured one of the prettier girls iris daringly mr war rill regarded tier will a smile which lolita begrudged since it hid had oot noti tic hc en directed toward her tant the case he continued gr gracely gra icly acly 1 I suppo suppose e theres no real need for the lie music from lint flint ghostly glias lly shutter theres enough VOC ide me like at ionosphere mo InO sphere in here tonight god coil kams without it reminds me of the first sentence in tile tie fall of the house of usher two hoys boys rose ond and man figee to silence the ohp sh shutter ritter sudden ly lolito felt mr War rills eyes upon her As I 1 live he began miss for far has rit nt last favored us with a bit of narrative quite a bit judging by the tze size of the parcel under her arm since were never rend read anything of hers perhaps wed better have hare a look miss farrar f please beasl frightened almost to death allta l handed over the bundle of manuscript paper she wished to heaven that flint slie she tin and tint not brought it written the thin thing tit at all slie she would positively die in tier her chair if he should rend read it aloud slie she kalched in mule agony a as he undid hie file stran string shumei the papers of manuscript a look of am ement upon his face tann thanks tremendously miss far aar he said with the slightest hu glean gleam in ills his deep brown eyes for haah broken one spell anny how at last a member of file he class lias succeeded in getting beyond hundred words will a story this must he tile lie thousand words fit at least I 1 was afraid it to in any of nf yon As he talked bilked he glanced over the pases rending snatches to himself here and there SwI suddenly denly he leaned hick back in his chair und corn fenced reading from the elie ginning lolita squirmed and writhed but ns as tie lie read slie sho realized that flint it was after all not half had she had poured tier lery ery hearts blood blond into it trans filed the agony of those hours in a cell the he brutal quest questioning loning of the po lice captain the horror of haney dawl at tier her feet the lie un morality of gertrude CSer trude into a living piece of writing so and so coan that it would be linins aible for aicone reading it or hearlin it read to identify the thing with the story which ripp appeared eared in the papers smie time previous slie she looked armind at the file other moin members hers of II tle e alks to see how they were tal ang it they sat at for file he most part with blank ex expressionless on less faces with the lie exception of ili the port rather pretty girl who icho hid made the lie corn remark to mr volien he had find come in slip was grin ning in a contemptuous sort hurt of way nv 4 loilla bit her hei tongue and twisted be her r lingers fingers under the file balile ohp only ef feet apparently that the hie alory was having tile the class was to bore all of I 1 e except rne ene to the pistil or of annihilation find to make that one think ahio it was ivas funny funny of nil all things those pages chih ii if seemed to lolita loll ta fiust be almori red at al last inq mr finished the story lie he laid the manti fript upion llie file table vor for a moment it as ery e y quiet anulet in the room lolila loilla could feel tier her foce ance burning sir mr sald after a coment a mile little impatiently well menil hill d does deg eg the lie class think ot of it the class began to express itself its a knockout 1 contributed one youth 1 I 1 too its a ioco uw ov I 1 substantiated another tile burriesi berri esl esi lo asted a thard heller better than lots in the lie magazines offered another but loilta ini alced ilia flint there nil fill lis suddenly mr tinned upon miss the young lady who imd had h him I 1 ili she wis was a dil rity little thing a postgraduate enst graduate of wellesley she ine wrote dainty little sterges heli storks stories of the lle hundred hurl dred words full of fragile lea cups cup s anil and nale nahe emotions well if I 1 may liny be pardoned pard fur for saving so ro she prefaced 1 I 1 thought lint flint it was a little crude that Is I 1 holiece that perhaps it might have sonic some commercial possibilities but ohl oil be yourself reproved mr air cutting in its far und find away the best thin thing turned in yet in fact its the best tiling thing ever turned in to me since ive been with till southwestern in any class its alive its real the chura ciers in it are living breathing human beings nut but the lie sentence structure find and the style objected another rather pretty feminine member of the class style be han hangell gedl retorted sir style Is secondary to the allu illusion ion of reality tint it has that hint in large chunks ill willingly gly trade style for anytime antime suddenly lollia who dared tot cot look up felt his eyes upon her miss barrar this Is the first thing turned in yet that I 1 feel eel justified in ili advising submission ion to a magalde mag alne since it Is a confession story in the popular lo pular connotation of the lie word a birst person story to put it more correctly I 1 wish that flint you would send it to a ran ond and let me know the result several of the girls tittered littered even the boys looked incredulous 1 I have an idea went on mr a little disconcerted by the titters that it coill sell for a good price since he el evidently dently was not hohing the lie others liters stopped taking it as a lobe joke throughout another hour of class lolita was as oblivious to what was g po 0 ing on in as if she were in another room front n was it really possible that site she could write and be paid for it had she really won the approval of sir or was he perhaps just kidding din tier she decided to remain after the class was wa over and make sure but then she reflected that would tint not ln do any particular good either tor for the th ro feminine mInIne members of tile the class always remained and even some of the boys poor mr had find a terrible time getting away from them it suddenly occurred to tier ber hoener hoe cr that lie he hid had seen him film late one afternoon gain into a little old fashioned greek creek restaurant about a block from the school possibly ni always went there for supper after clasp clas after he had gotten rid hot of the students who him flint when class anns its over she went to the little restaurant and chose a table over in one corner sure eno engligh ligh after whit seemed like hours mr W arrill ca caime I 1 n e in glance chanced about the room saw tier her oil and came over and sit sat down well you ceita certainly handed me a surprise tonight lie he began 1 I 1 suspect eliat it I 1 was in you that flint story it was marvelon marv mar veloue elou it stays in mind sell it beyond the sit shadow adow of a doubt and then your troubles will troubles reclined lollen who had bad hi hoped avd that tile the end of troubles might pos icily be in fir sight whatever on OD pit th young lady lie reproved dont try to foot fool an old hand I 1 know now liow how you came to write that hint story youie lived most of it oh I 1 dont mean ex oatly as it was written but youve lived live something mighty close to it the fact that inu could to do it shows that flint you lime unquestioned talent and talent latent ability nit the que sibin is will you haie the grit and flint lence to ftp to clop into a writer of purely lm 1113 live five tale that Is will you he alile able to fabricate stories out of whole cloth now that youve gotten your own story off your chest with your help hell I 1 urn am positive that I 1 can call and ill try ever hii bo hard buird im studying every moment that I 1 possibly ea can n lie ile stopped to give hl order and then il arross 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