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J ry by Jf Evelyn T J Campbell U im-U JH Copyright by Evelyn Campbell C r Service l CHAPTER VII 12 12 t Loves Love's Labyrinths iler ller step tagged lagged n a little but Rh she ld as she he entered the hotel rhe ele ele was directly 11 re t I- I before her Iler i tint she could coul 1 have hn gained it with a n I tow few steps She turned however ho t and walked toward the grilled enclosure where a 11 gentleman a n lesser les er gentleman with at her r dimmer figures was nas In sir stalled sIn lied In tint that curious haughty sl i lence rite eue that thai Is peculiar to high hotels Linda's Lindas walk 11 was one of the ran rarest qualities she he possessed She he heus was us so tall lull and slender that she seemed always al ways wn s 's to ru fiend bend and break nn und under ler the demand of effort bier wraps we were always nl s 's slipping from frum her shoulders but hut never ne did tier Her eyes half voile elle veiled t. t appeared t to see ee nothing but hut she In had seen distinctly t he the looks that thul followed and greeted her The bellboys on the their f bench were watching her furtively ely tl the second scrum gentleman at the desk leaned leane on his pointed elbow to listen to ho her and find watch All of them saw the ne' ne new expensive hat hut and the pearls slippIng from her rich fur My J letters please Lindas Linda's vole voice was sweet and very cry low She spoke as ns little as ag possible to such persons a uS as these The Tile letters were Iner ins her hand hantl and she was turning away before she he said paid Thank hank you in a n negligent ne towns tow tone as ns though thou h that In grilled-in group had n no meaning for her They The looked after her hopelessly She seemed rich and an prosperous The clerk looked doubtfully at a n letter that had been heen separated from the the rest finally 1 nall he tucked It away In a private ate pigeon peon hole It would not do o to make maken mal e en n a mistake C in this case But Linda n knew nothing of this She passed on to time the elevator leisurely examining examining ex ex- the letters In her hand Linda no longer lon er occupied Cousin Am Amy's Amys s 's hous house e when the famil fatally family were away Time The fiasco of her marriage wasn wasa was n a told half secret discreetly Ignored by hy her hel relatives cs whose number seemed to have hac dwindled perceptibly It Is Isone J Isone one line thing to Chaperon and amid champion a ayoung ayoung ayoung young girl ver very beautiful and pathetically pathetically poor but quite another to he be responsible for a n widow however I young and an beautiful whose affairs to say the least are in a muddle and deeply mysterious m Cousin Amy Ralston Halston told some of or orthe the others that she always felt a n cold chill chilI down her ber back bock when she heard Lindas Linda's voice oice in the hall so It happened hap hap- gemmed that by degrees her own voice olce became so cold so brief that flint Linda not wishing to give I e pain refrained almost almust al al- must most wholly from communication with her sensitive relations She sh had plenty of friends Any woman free and pretty dressing rr morn mort than well and at nt her best seen evi er e every every- 1 where Is bound to ha have hae e friends andi and ji i invitations In Only to Linda the pec people leople m n who ho took look her about and entertained l her ller seemed oddly less like friends tl than adversaries It was n a curious feel feeling that that had grown upon her Int lately ly i iwas Sh She Sher d r was always s 's on guard always I f off olf ff a n little while she smiled and ami tall talked I it ft was as If n a hundred pa pairs I of e eyes es were w seeking for n crack In I her tu armor which she was W-Is' W determined tl they a 3 should not find 1 For a u long time she slie na had na had a li I b splendid time She was not In I the 1 strict sense of ur the word a 11 wnm woman tan m tit or titI I Ij Ii society Rather she took what s sh she wanted of society and let the rest re t. t t time tile I hot s. s the he hill dull parties the co commit i t 1 tees along alone The people she was se seen with were usually charming thou though thought n t ft some same were a n little II vague ue about the them selves es There were always nh s 's plenty or of 4 hosts dazed by the ease the grace or of mt Linda Unda and her friends who were quite II ready to pay lay for the tile party 7 It had puzzled them all that she hnot h- h had hadnot not riot married again There must ha have lIa It j been plenty of men to murT marry her- her 4 m h j rich desirable men who could t 1 Irl irh give he J 1 hc liar HT r the setting she deserved lit But 1 I lInda Unda was faintly amused by this won coon I a j dr dor Talk alk of marriage alwa always s 's brought I H I poignantly before her the vision of time the IJ 1 aftermath of liar her r twenty four hoi hour honeymoon for It had lasted no long longer 4 than that she knew 1 But nut after she met Brian Brinn Anstey A sh site she c d I began h nn to think of marriage a again a aln f I Not ot consciously though Marriage as ns a form or ceremony did nut not enter f her mind She would have ha havethe checked I the Idea Iden In Its birth If her ci conscious i self had luid no not peen heel drugged by the art urt I. I fun ful ul subconscious that knows s so well welli 1 i r ht how nv to take Its Us victims unaware Linda Unda could have argued arbue herself nut u Ii of Urn lu with u a your poor loor young man If t lo t t. t I ij h i had llad no nut not stolen upon Ullon her lIer and blinded l t her eyes e es with beauty and silenced he Item her I lips and mind deafened her with r l f She he never thought though of hut but sh she I began b alJ to chafe lit it the thc he life ii fe she led f rhe bhe li handsome e rooms she I I strewn with wit h cn costly ly trifles trInes d W IH her r m restlessness she he wearied of going about and wearied of or her gowns and time the meaningless jarl goti of her friends She began hegau to tu think of r quiet cool stet Pie sluts to visualize wha whal she hn hati i never ne known she he found herself rei re- re e i nil inhering every er e step stel of f Hunt pit III made malle with u-ith Brian Eirian An Ansley tey In that snow snowy dusk dusl and the little houses with their lumps lamps and red fires Jires s She would arouse hers lf from these mem meui- ries ories try Us to elude clinic them try to In hate e ethem IT them but it was was no nf use Time and 1 Jle I Ime me n again aln the they returned each ench Mm time the humble plea of t peace peate Sh She Sho dressed herself carefully for 1 that first dinner with Brian Urian it would i be lie simple because he h he must not spen spend much money entertaining her Sf She remembered that he wn was poor She Sho he chose the plainest frock rock In he her wardrobe and had hud li mt t to look more lovely ely than ever er against It its plainness tier beauty shone she had hind not riot quite lost that faint of every point thai that women always nh II s 's found a n Haw At the last moment moment moment mo mo- ment she lung limn the tile double strand o of pearls Courtney Hoth's sardonic present pres pres- ent around ent-around around her neck neel She was transformed transformed trans trans- formed a at once to splendor but when wilen she lIe saw this she tore them roughly rou lIly off and tossed them Into their case cn e eShe She wanted nothing like that to have havo havon havear n II place In their hour She he knew from rum the first that Brian adored her and so sweet swee was the th knowledge ot or this tills unaccustomed gift that she ghe yielded 1 deliberately clo Inn ln her ier eyes e es to consequences She thought thou ht she could draw deity hack back In time One night nl lIt there was a 8 party with the he and she watched the pretty blond blon girl grow pale und and Hush flush under inder a n word or look 1001 front from rom Brian UrIan who was rus entirely unconscious of It nil all n She Sire loves lo him thought Linda Poor loor little thing timing 1 l She has hns everything e g to please and und andI she lie has hus done everything er e I 1 who have hove done nothing nothing- She Sure felt suddenly humbled and shamed ashamed She hc ought to go away and v t 71 1 u t r r r r r rIl Il t Pa s Because She Has Money Urn Linda Finished as Frankly as He leave these two alone They would come coarse together as ns naturally as ns tv two birds alone in in the time sky sly Pretty Prett arent aren't the they said SImon Fentress at her ear car He lie was watching Brian and Daisy with a rather sa sardonic sar sar- donic smile that he afterward turned turne upon Linda Youth Is s always charming sh she said blow those beady ben ly black eyes looked into her lien Sow Now ow you are young oung too only i a 8 couple of r years rears older than Daisy am nn and yet cot you OU are not youthful Youve You've been beet taught aught things my may girl gir Ir will never nefer know enow Because she has hus money moue Linda a tin shed as frankly as us he be beNot Not entirely It Isn't in the time child to o know knot She likes muslin frocks Ms tits eyes e cs traveled over mer her long graceful grace grace- l ce ful ul figure I How flow ow shortsighted nature is 51 I 1 If you yun had keen been horn born m my daugh er- er Ills LlIs kindling face hold with the lie light llulu or nf it adventure sold said what u a splendid life they would have hn had hid I worlds would have havo been con con- 1 You think I hate muslin gowns gO sul said ild Linda with her tier faint smile Unless s they are made In Paris You think 1 could not endure pov pov- city ty 2 she persisted He lIe be looked at nt her a long long longtime time it would he Ji II great waste my dear he heId said Id gently us ns If he was sorry for her Converse did di not remain In Ignorance norance of all ull this Lie le fell at ut first Into to the tile natural error of Imagining I that flint at Linda was attracted by b the time of the millions hut but this Im- Im did not survive watching her ber lance ance nee with Brian Brinn Anstey one night TO DE E CONTINUED |