Show no TZ wr mIMI akara BY evelyn campbell service copyright by evelyn campbell jiMi THE STORY linda haverhill a tather father ne tie erdo well dies when she Is seven teen CHAPTER I 1 continued 2 do they do everything eve ing live tl TI ey live everywhere he sent ill his long white hand blind fine as a woman s in a gesture that indicated Indita ted all that vast sweep of the lity alart from tl air own environment they have been around you yon child all of your life only of course you never saw tbt you never would you never will they built the houses you live inthey the streets they spun the cloth iou wear mear the food yiu u eat Is handled by them in a t undred ways rays all this passes through tl it air tatios I 1 an Is yet you have never knowingly seen themi them I 1 he ile stared struck with this stupendous th h i ht linda looked pulled and faintly distressed she fel felt as if sl at e I 1 ad been cau caught ht mekin mackine at something which after all was not amusing or ridiculous bhe was as in re thoughtful than girls of her ae usually are ano ana there was novelty in this viewpoint that caught her attention but before she could reply the procession changing every minute yet always the same had claimed her wonder again the music came fainter and fainter from its distance fhe best and show lest test of the ban la Is had gone by and the tall of the comet was escorted by the leftovers of drums and fifes there was not a splendid automobile to be seen and no bowing homing the tall silk hats had become extinct patrol men appeared appe ired on corners they shouldered the crowd and women and old men began to garner their flocks of startled awry children before I 1 long n g it t w was a s I 1 impossible m p 0 q ab 1 e t to 0 te tell I 1 1 w where h e r e 0 ma s t the e marchers a r e b e r s an and d the h e e crowd r 0 w d w were e r e d di 1 vided for the street was as a nn miel elstrom of pushing worry ln bodies striving against one another for tl tt e right of way to nowhere authority lost pa tience hence benin he the bravn awnings safe and sound from all this flurry in lous in amy s fine house on the avenue jim havera 11 talked to his daughter and used the sight they had J wit ne tie sed to po nt his lesson and send it home look down in the street and you will see life I 1 could not show you a fitter picture if we walked liked all the galleries of the earth tl TI ose poor fools grubs you ailed themi them I 1 would tie it e crowd come out to natch match them march who cared or after the band and the cars and the uni forms went by it its s their one day of the year when we our kind are out of the city and it ey can play at caling ailing it their own yet even then they ve got to resort to fine feathers to make mike their own oun little show worth while I 1 or gru grill q I 1 si art butter flies files I 1 I 1 et era em d g and sweat and struggle gle until doomsday and ft ey 11 never be half halt as in I 1 ort cortani to the world as a red coil it with a dancing stick that s life I 1 in la it doesn doean I 1 seem fair she re marked fair he sneered of course it lent fair nothing is fair and it Is itself thit th it emoi inges bleds unfairness As ion as mei me have eyes they will be caught I 1 with color As long as they have ears they would rather hear music than groans its the birgle tint counts I 1 inda linda my love and they e learned it atthe abe peo it ie v who ho want to get thins done you can put yourself over with a brass bras band bind and a ho v wl en you night braml craw on bour our knees to the edge of the rel sea and never be heard trim lin la a who at sixteen owned sables that mere erp much too tine fine to be w rn she haq twenty the had already brushed close en uh to the s amp f I 1 verav to w its chill breath tt TI en e lived in ausin at anys iv q house it stat at sum mer slept in graid grard mahogany beds bedi but tl it ev ey used the servings ser vints sheets and there was wai only a grouchy c caret iret iker in the basement liv ni ti r onis she carried secret pad pact ages from the c gr cerv hits of f d tl it at did n t require experienced co king slie she d d not like this tl TI pre teas s me thing fearsome feir some and frightening about it much too near tie tl e grews grem me pro cession that thit w liked after that day she attentively to all nil her fa her ther had t say he ile tried to crow crom I 1 all the dubious w is lorn of his past into the few das dais that remained and she reacted read ed for it avi ily ly amy I 1 alston returned to ta america three weeks after Haer hills death she was very much ann anti ved not of ci lt arse because the poor creature crea cre tuTe iture was dead she admitted that no orre one ha control of the life forces and she knew that the end had hat to come to every one but she thought it inc of him to die dle in her house blie had expected to begin a series of dinner dances immediately and this neica nees situated a period of ar m however brief mourning called for inor clothes when her trunks were al at ready bursting with fresh paris parts toilettes it was comforting to reflect that only the family and a few old frienda friends knew about jim haverhill and whether he was as among the quick or the dead there Is the daughter she said speculatively to her tier husband who whistled off key but was much too valse to offer suggestions A girl like that may t e a frightful responsibility or an on asset as her poor father would nave said but when she saw linda in her slim black poised with a gentle grav ity fly that placed her grief la in a sacred secluded background the first pleas arable moment of the whole sad affair presente I 1 itself the girl Is a beauty she exulted as a good showman always exults over beauty she looks tike like her mother R w 0 was a fool ir nr she never would have married jim haverhill Haver hlll but it if tb this Is child Is as clever as she looks linda was as clever bhe was not yet Rev seventeen enteen but her mind was twenty seven a mind as keen and nd super refined as her lithe body she knew of life as a game in which cleverness and savoir faire counted largely and 1 V e I 1 the girl Is a beauty she exulted as a good showman always exults over beauty she calmly reg regarded a crded her youth and beauty as tru trump mp cards the girl was not romantic she was tree from silly complexes and she had no heroes her tips lips curled when some one spoke of movie gods and she was never known to read a modern novel cut but with all this linda was a charming creature polished and ine CHAPTER II 11 poor jims daughter when the sad business of erasing jim haverhill HaNe rhill was well over and ausin boubin amy 8 house was coming out of its coma linda put on her cl se SP little hat one diy daiy and went to see senator anverse there was not dot the slightest dim culty in getting an interview As she fol followed lomed the blerk through one room after another she th u aught how rich and powerful the senator must be ahe carpets were mere like cusi ions under I 1 I 1 er feet and everything gleimer with ith shining s and silence only a very ery man colad comman om matil silence like that in the he feirt I 1 rt of the city senator benator converse was extremely warm arm and sat pati pail atle in his reeling greeting he ile heined his conler us b dy from his swivel chair and wa wit I 1 lied tied to meet her As his hot limp hands cl sed over lers I 1 ers she felt herself smothering she lo 10 ked led loin in lmh and discovered tl ti it his feet denorn ous long and bat flat and encased in teL t eilmess liess patent leather shoes that accentuated their sta sl antless poor urns daughter he wheezed leading her after him ua n ray my word I 1 I 1 have hae just hearted lean why you telegraph me at onie once I 1 auld w uld have ome come or sent lie ile fell into a long silence I 1 king at I 1 er in suri rise TO BE CONTINUED |