Show a tk ast by EDNA r zake illustrations ONS 0 ito PA by CLAW CLARK C OV 7 r DOW rc 0 co lavea from baxt weak P go ail innocent beet top with tit wt you like me better than spy man you know mo birge I 1 do just my 1110 welt then then let a take these bec in she ena le a pretense of lift irig the y basket dirk snatched it ay aut of ter hand so that sap gave S little cry arid looked ruefully down 4 0 I 1 you lik like me better then than any man you know at t the red murk mark on her palm ought her by the shoulder even hook shook her a little look ook here paula do you mean to tell me you bonu e mairy a man simply because he happened to have a it lot of money I 1 perhaps pel he not became because he had pad a lot of money but it cert certainly attly would be te a factor among other magn 11 bix mint inter paula arnold wn was married to rh eodore A ac moral a man af fifty a n friend of lier tier fathers 9 bead of to so miny compan companies coin panie les stockholder iv fir eo many banka banks di director diren tor of so many corpora corporations tiong that enea old auff kuz ile aein del te a reduce fron from in com compares paris n blie neer neier culled called him tedd no 0 o one eer eier did Theo theodate dote storm was a large ann mannot nat exactly tout stout pei perhaps haps but clubby ills inches raed him hira from gross nema lie ile had a law large hite serious face ace fine thick dark lair graying at the temple temples athia three years paula paulk had two a boy and fl girl sr there L 1 ahat A done ehe she said her marriage wae wits a great mistake and she he knew it for the war coming in 1014 a few months nio nth after her beading sent the hempel arnold interests skyrocketing sky rocketing tw ut of pounds of american beet beef end and prk ark mere shipped to europe in two years the hempel fortune wae ivas reater greater than it ever had been paula via wa up to 0 o her tier ebes a In work for bleeding belgium Hel tuna dirl had not seen her tier tc ic months she telephoned hie tile phoned him unexpectedly one afternoon la in his ills office at hoi 1101 its it I spragues ea coak a P out and spond saturday and 0 hullity with AM vs us vont you were aay to the country this aft anoon ini IM so 0 o sick df of Rlee bleeding ding bel flum oa cant imagine rin in sending the C hildren out tills rooming 1 cant can t aft W away go so early til III call for or you in the roadster thia this afternoon at tit four and 1 I drive you out I 1 I doa don t think I 1 ill III call for you at four ill 11 be at ali the carb curb dout don keep ae me waiting walt lne will your youl chapter alf in h town dirle dirk llyod llad la in a lare large front OOM and alcove on the th third floor door of 4 han lian deonie doome old fashioned three etory story and basement house ned used the room ai 81 a X hying lying room the alcove ILA A bedroom tie and ellna had fur 1114 mehel heil it boget together tog ethe hee all of ile ce room orl original sinal except ile tle il e bed bell a table aad and one fat itt comfort able la faded old arm armchair anush thair lr whose bre brocade surface hinted a put past grandeur men he had got ot hie him books ranged in han thelver along one wall soft abad ea limps on t table able and deek desk the place looked more than livable lived in duria lag g the process of furnishing se lana g got ot into the way war of coming into ion fur for a day or two to prowl the suc room and the second secondhand hand atla sho hf 4 a genius tor this sort of thing haard the epick spick and epen pan var li and veneer of ahe rew furniture to 0 be cot got in the regular w slie elie enjoyed these rare trip trips town blade made a holiday of them birk would take her ta 3 the theater ana and ahe she would tit sit entranced strangely enough considering the lack of hut the corll orl I 1 call calls romance and adventure cd venture in her life ehe she did not like the motion pictures all lie the difference in the world she would eay say bet between meen the tile kovics and lie the thrill I 1 get out of e play at the theater sly year like fooling with paper dolls when you could be playing with ith a real live baby the day wag was marvelously mild for or march in chicago spring usually so coy la in this region bad flung herself at then them bead head first As the masslie revolving door of dirks office building fanned him into the street he saw paula in her tier long low sporting road eter ater at the curb she was wa dressed la in black all feminine fashionable and chicago was aas dressed in black all feminine and middle class america was as dressed d til eased in black two year years of war had robbed parts paris of ite its husbands brothers sons all paris parts walked d in black america unto thed bayly borrowed the smart of mourning and now Ulc bot boulevard levard and fifth avenue walked demurely in the gloom of crepe and chiffon chitron black hats black gloves black slippers only black was mas good this year paula smiled up atham patted the leather seat beside her with one band hand that was wax absurdly thick snared fini ered la in its fur ur lined glove its cold driving button up tight where 11 we ue stop atop for your bag baff he ile climbed into the seat beside her her ifer manipulation of the wheel waa was witchcraft the roadster slid in and out of riffle like a fluid thing an enamel stream ellent allent as is a swift cur rent in a river when his house was reached I 1 I 1 m n coming up ehe she said 1 I suppose 3 ou haven t any teal tea gosh not no I 1 do you think 1 I ami ml A young oung man la in an Lag libb novel I 1 now don t be provincial and chi dirk they climbed the tareo flights of stairs shar looked about her gluz 1 was as rl PA disapproving this abad abo J ho did it she dad adl I 1 N ery nice dut but of course you ought to haic hae your own smart little apartment with ith a jap to do you up to do hat for aou ou for or example I 1 I 1 lea es grimli its 11 sas packing 4 hia his bag baggot bagnot not tl row roi ing clothes into it but folding them dettl neail as the eon son of it 0 mother lacks my eal tit atry bryd d just about keep him in white bite linen house coats coa 1 I m going to send i 3 ou on some thing for your room dirk I 1 for ge ads d 0 sa sake ke don t r why not I 1 two kinds of women aomen in the world learned that at ot college those who nho ferll u men things for their rooms and those that don dont t I 1 youre very rude lou asked me there 1 rm all ail set he ile on tipped the lock of his ills bag rin sorry I 1 con cant t give ghe vou anything I 1 a thing not ot even a glass of wine and a what Is it they eay pay in bookal oli otlo yeh a biscuit in tile roadster again paula main talked a fierce and steady bleed steed tor for the remainder of the arlie we call the place plate St paula told him f and nobody outside the diar di ar family know knows how fitting filling that Is dont boil lo owl ira I 1 ot not going to tell I 1 a ou my marital woes oes and don dont t you eay say I 1 asked for it how 8 the lob I 1 rotten you don t like it the 1 I 1 like it welt well enough only well ou see we leave the university archi textural tec tural course thinking were alago ing to be stanford whites or case cass gilbert gilberta tossing off a woolworth belld lag ing and ad making ourselves ours elres famous overnight iva 1 pent spent all yesterday and today planning a dry goods box that going up on the corner of milwaukee avenue and ashland west and ten years from nowr ten years from now maybe they 11 II let me do the plan plans for the dryg box all alone why dont you drop he was wa startled drop 1 how do you mean d chuck chack it do something that will bring you quick results this 1311 t an age go of waiting suppose twenty year years from now you do pinn plan a grand gothic office building to grace this new and glorified glori aed michigan boulevard they re alway always shouting outing ab boltl you be 11 e eged aged man mail hying la in a middle class house in a middle deal cles suburb with a clam wife maybe slightly nettled they turned la in at the 9 atos of St A final turn of the thedr drive ve an avenue of tw treen A house bouse massive pilla pillared red coed coeL the door opened Is they drew up at the entrance ent ranc A and 0 tood in the wafa in cap yron pron continued on ott page 4 IL bey boy a pair it f elephant N a il an I 1 a banjo ud ho docant care wh who 0 maks tte H matieu na tieu lawa south belill 1 tribune tribute banks ank are ar in telegraphing graphing ehk and the ra sio ng io lt liry of e the tuo moraine a milk possie 0 ii n t ery err far aa avar chitako neail ne new AIL 14 fine dawie theatre thoi nl of f years ou baa has bean dug up in aela asia ml mi bor rwjr if tt 1 a for or konrat v omen I 1 tte vf 6 unger gfrer atlon em seem to bai e frawd the old boz u tri d be it eler so humble biltres lil tres no vio place fit li 11 ri TJ oe daj la washington tom ought to mae nure more than one on governor of am state look 1001 thoughtful achl eago a now in it threatening a hut town of oft soft roul coal dinelt john U lemli h has ello chosen len nice esther ut or it N sen eu S magnus johnson danles he has a any hankering to b be governa gover nu of maybe magnu magnus bat has at jait last taftt ft A A X arvic statesman tat eDian 4 be he juar o 0 farmer to a ponnu ciul wb to elected to con ars a statesman or a SO BIG continued from rage pace 3 doorway A man appeared at the aide side of tho the car coming seemingly from nowhere greeted IL baula aula civilly end and drodt th tb car off the glow of an open lara clr in the hall welcomed them bell hel tiring bring up bag aid said paula pauls lowre the bau bamps anna ia mr storm got tot herel here I 1 t r lift telephoned ra storm he be aws he wont be our nu 1111 late latt mayo waybe t T anyway your youre r sat t to rait wait dinner paula from limp eppell stark driver 0 ot ih the hilb pa 0 wlad ster was now cod denly very much th tm tal stress of the houm housa quietly ob note sat atves an order with a lift of the th eyebrow or a nod 0 of the bead head would dirk ilk like to t go jo to hia his room at on once dinner at seven thirty he lie aress jt aa as he liked kv ev ery bing thIng we was very informal here they roughed it it dirk had counted thirteen servants er ranta by noon next day and nd been near the kitchen lie decided to baade and change into dinner clothe clothes aad and as alad of thia this when he fond paula in black chiffon chifton before thu the fire in tho the great beamed room she he had ballel he the library Ilbra rT dirk thought ehe she looked very b beautiful in that diaphanous tuff aith the pearl pearls I 1 heart face with ita its large res that slanted a little at the cor zero her ionic slim throat hr dark hair wr piled plied high and away from her lit tie ars n he ile decided not to men inen von it t diak 1 himself that p ilia bad I 1 aown her be li mn Dind ad would not be home until ten an adf hil hd d deliberately planned a tele tete meal lie ile would cot not the afore confess u himself a little net bletl 1 when paula eald said 1 lve I ve asked the emerys in for dinner and well we 11 have a game of bridge d 1 phil emery empry you know a the third he lie used to have it visiting card like royalty rho emerys were dry goods had been dry gooda for sixty years were nere accounted chicago aristocracy preferred england i rode to hounds in pink coats along chicago prim prini and nd startled suburban pral rl they had a vot vast e on lie the lake near St arrived a trifle late dire had been en tle tures ot or old phillip emery phillip the first he be th out with IL BB winivard grin and decided decide d too 34 1 at fit the rather anemic third edition ed that the stock was wa running a little thin the dinner we was delicious but angly simple I little more than selina othild have ghen chen blin dirk dirt thought tho ugh t aad tad tie he come tome home bome to the farm thia this week irk end the talk wa as desultory and ard rather dull doll and wa this chap chop had bad ell aid said to will seif pill no scratch irig in an architects office 1 nce for ihli this lad at bridge after dinner phillip the third proved to be sufficiently the son on of hie his father to win froin from arl more money than be he could conveniently at af ford to lose theodore stona storm caule la in at ten and tood stood watching Ant ebing them when the guests had left the tile thre diat at before the ore fire something to a drink stona storm asked dirk adlar dh t refused but storm mixed a etim highball for himself hini elf and then li notheL the whisky brought no flush to his large lia impassive face he s talked almost oot not at hii adir naturally silent WAS as loquacious loquat ious by corn com person but while there wai was nothing bothin favl about dirk a silence lence el thu this maies as irritating ilia paunch hia his large white hands his great bit face care the effect at 0 bleached bloodless bulk 1 I dont se 04 how she h stands him dirk thought husband and wife to be on 00 terme terms of p storm excused and took himself off with a word swit r out being tired and cring boeing then in the rooming morning after he tie had gone he ile likes you I 1 fwd id paula important uld said dirk diric it if arle but it is important he ile can by you a lot ulela me howl I 1 doot don t wa wan t do I 1 want vant you to be at arc C ce cesera serJ I 1 want aou ou to be you c an be youre got it written all oes oner you in the iny you tand stand and talk end dunt talk in UK the vay ou look nit lit people in abot something in the way you carry its what hat they cell call force I 1 suppose anyway any way youve bot got it IL CoutiL ned next keeli |