Show W M r vall IG ey illustrations LIZ CLARK la ar a 4 oa from last week dot toy a ure life would have imme stop topped pea they all 11 II were doing some hare share la ia tit ol wort work to be done asila had bad thought about het her own otte nic la in thi this war welter she had bad anted wanted to do canteen work in bit tat bar decided agals agair at t this as belli bolli bellia the thing C for or cle me to do be said aid is to go e on raising vege stable stables and ad hog hogs as a fast last as 83 1 I can she sup piled countless household households with art frt food while their men were gone gh herself worked like a man trie lot la the place ot of the able bodied helper who tio had been employed edon on her farm facia was lovely lu in he be red lied cross uniform she persuaded diric dirk to go into loto the liberty bond selling drive ind sod lie to was unexpectedly effective in colquiet Lol quiet serious way mot most convince lot B and sod undeniably thrilling to look took tt to little air Q pos session had grown until now it en blin him she want playing now was ai deehl and terribly in love with him when in 1018 dirk took off hia big aul fonn form be went into the bond depart meat ment of the great lakes trust com play in which theodore storm had a large 1 interest lie ile said that the war nar had disillusioned hick what did you think var ar wa was going td W or mid vald selina purify I 1 it never bas fc airet tet it teas uns understood under by selina at least less that dirk dirks abandoning of his profession was a temporary thing quick as she usually wag was to arrive at conclusions she did not realize until too late that this eon son of hers bad had def i deserted for bonds that the only cauree he would rear were tr her oui detles in spain ills fint to month months is a bond salesman betted netted him more tjan clan a years salary at ill his old post at hollis when he be told this to selina in triumph the she said suld yes but there each much tun fun in ia it Is therel there this selling on paper now architecture that must ae 1 e thrilling pitting a build tag ing down on raper little marks here her straight lajes 11 ies there figures calculi cal cula bious blueprints and then suddenly one day the actual budding itself steel aej atone and brick mill ith engines throbbing inside it like a heart anil ana people lowing in and oat part of a etty A piece of actual beauty conceived by you I 1 oh dirk I 1 to see her face then must have given bam a pang it was ea so alive so oo eaber ke found 1 or himself sella ell tag fat bonds that make mike that building pos abble isn t eo so dull dult eithe but ehe elie that aside contemptuously what nonsense birk dirk it its a like selling beats at the boi box of a theater tor for the play in alde aide dirt dir had made many lew new friends in tee 24 last year and a bal hadt MOM word than that he had acquired it new now manner an in air of quiet authority of asur ance the profession of architecture waa was put definitely behind him he did dot t bay ay to selina that he had put the other work frem from him but atter after six month in his rew position be knew that thit he would never go back from the start hu hs was a tAic tic cess athin one year be he was so successful that you could hardly dIstIn distinguish gulab him ilia from it hundred other successful chicago business and professional men hoe hose clothes were made at feels reels pho ho it at the noon clot club on the mot roof of 0 the first Nat tobt al bank where millionaires ate ull h whenever that plebeian dish appeared on the bill of fare he had had a little thrill out of his first meal meat at it this club whose membership ship was mile ile up ot 01 the I 1 big bit men of the cit ya circle now vow he could even feel tl a little nicker flicker of contempt tor for them m he had known old aug hempel of course tor for yeara years as well as chad chael arnold and later phillip km em ry theodore storm and others but ce be had expected chelte men to be differ eat they were ere not at all the american el 4 9 business iian ilan of e the comic papers and of fiction that yellow nervous dyspeptic leptic creature who lunches off milk and pic plea they were divided into to definite types the older men of btty aten IPA afy sad and sixty were great high colored fellows of 0 full habit their faces facts were impassive their eyes shrewd hard their wk wj colloquia ul 1 I ind frequently neatly illiterate they often 11 was for were was you 0 aing 2 to see baldwin about that south american stuff or ts Is he ha soing boing to ship it through without with outi most of them had kno little of play 1 in their youth and nd now they played ponderously and slid 44 e sadly badly and yet eagerly as does ile e to whom honi the gift of leisure had tome came too late they mined their palt pett sit anc ane livers with strong cigars linking thinking ili 01 arette smoking undignified ild cd pipes common only a few were 0 0 rich so assured as an lo 10 smoke cheap light old ang aug hempel a cne one of 0 these dirk noticed notIce it that ia 40 V 11 when he made one of his rare alts to the noon club his entrance was met v with tha a little stir a deference he WM was nearing seventy five now was A as still till straight trong strong zestful of life a mag cent ola old among tha the pet I 1 ter crew T his hl had bad been the direct and brutal method awash t u and his anemi walked the rl n I 1 the younger men tuen eyad h hl with a certain amusement and respect these younger men whose agea ranged from twenty eight to forty five div were disciples of the new system in business they were graduato grad uRte of ver Atles they had known luxury all their live lives they were ere the sons or grandsons Brand sona of those bearded rugged and aa rather terrible ble old boys who in IMS 1833 or 1840 had come out of county limerick or county hil humenny kenny or out of scotland or the HH neland to mold thia this new country in a their string strung hair hairy bavda dirk listened to the talk of the noon club looking about him carefully ap the president 0 of f an ad ver ana arm lunching with a banker a bond salesman talking to a r rare are book ca collector li ector a packer seated at a small smail table with horatio craft the sculptor I 1 two oar cars end 1 dirk had learned to i grab the century I 1 tn in order to save an hour or so of time between chicago and new ew lork peel aall it was a pleasure to fit a coat to his broad flat tapering back and ers to bla his strong sturdy legs ills color incur lied from hia his red cheeked dutch an brought up in the fresh tea laden air of the hollan I 1 flat flats was fine and arid clear sometimes selina in pure sensuous delight passed her gnarled work ork worn hand over his shoulders and down bis fine strong straight back he had been abroad twice lie ile learned to call it I 1 running over to europe for a few days it had all come about in a scant two years as Is the theatrical uny ft ay la in which life speed speeds in america selina was vias a little now at this new dirk hore life was so fui without ler e s she did not see him for to tuo weeks or three ue lie kent ent her gifts chih she smoothed and mouthed delightedly and put away fine soft almen things hand made which she could not wear she habit of year yeam was too strong upon her though she had always been a it woman of 0 dainty habits and fastidious tastes the grind of her early married life bad had left ite its indelible ni irk fun lun and wind and arid rain ani ant the cold and heat of the open prairie had wreaked their vengeance on n her flouting flout lag of them tier her ekin akin wa tanned weather beaten her hair rough and ana dry her tier eyes in ia that frame startled you by their i edness they vere ere to 0 o calm so erene serene yet so alive they were the beautiful eyes of a wise young sirl la in the fac face pf p a middle aged woman lite life was wa still till ao so fresh to her there was about her ber something om ething arresting something compelling you felt it it ill 1 I don see bow how you do it I 1 jule jula arnold one day as selina was paying her one of her rare visit visits in town tour your eyes are as bright as am a and mine look like dead oy stere they were up in julles julies dres dressings sins cd in the new house on the north side alde the new house that was wits now the old house julle julie was massaging her eyes had bad an absent look took suddenly Ll listen sten selina dirk and paula are together too roach much people are talking the smile faded from selina a faie fave glinse Go Inse s know knows im n not at strait laced tou can t be in thia this day and age if I 1 hid bid ever ti thought I 1 d live to be fe e the time when well lvell since the war ef of cour anything all right seems hut flut paula has h no tense sense everybody know s aliew insane about dirk that all right for dirk but how low abbat paula I 1 she won t go any where traless hee invited to gether all the tile time everywhere I 1 asked her it if she was wits going to divorce and ehe she said no she enough money of her own and ind dirk wasat earning enough hia lils salary tilo 11 1 m is 1 bot but used to millions million well I 1 they were boy and girt tirl together selina interrupted feebly mere roon pont t be 0 not any BUT a silly illy selina youre not aa 88 young aa all that ho ate was not ae as YO young as a that when dirk next paid ono one of I 1 Us is rare called him into visits to the tle farm she her bedroom the C WI CI I dim shabby bedro otil with the eld black walnut bed lain as pervus de li la walta she had hall bride more than thirty years yea jong she looked somehow neT girlish in ago the dim light her great soft eyes 9 gating at him lip UP side of dine diric eit sit lown down here ber a at the my bed the wa way y yo I 1 tj td to rm dead dena brej thred mother twenty seven holes of alf t before I 1 came come 1 out W MW M W 4 IF I 1 know yo you aase all nac kind of ache I 1 us ased t to fed like that h et I 1 id d worked in the he ceula reids all day vu pulling ailing get aiges or planting zite 11 II a silent bh ought his tits hand TIM t like jik i hat my lint m i dian didn t bui it to feel had ana ilir dear 1 I kw k w you didat mather MX lier dirk DIM ao 10 do you know ahat hut ilat wom j i nn who artlen the alet naw ic ia ibe I 1 bunday railed you lom today no what r never read 10 it i she aid said you were ere one of the Jeu jeunesse riesse dot daw dirk grinned goehl 1 I remember enough of 0 my french at its mss lister school to know tint that that means tiled gilled me that thava in ran not even spangled angled ep dirk I 1 her tier voice waa was low vibrant brant il dirk I 1 don t want you to be a gilded elided youth I 1 don dont t care hov thick the gilding that ddn brint t ak what hat I 1 worked in the ada iia and cold for I 1 im m not re proa yng au ou I 1 didn dian t mind the forgive me for tor even mentioning ment lonin it bat but dirk I 1 dent don t want ant my aou son to be known is one of the jeunesse jeun easo doree dor I 1 a I 1 ilot my eon son p I 1 mw now ihlen Il liten mother that si ia if ish if it your roure cobat to talk ilk like ut U 0 t t like a mother in a melodrama tons son a eone gone wrong I 1 work like a dog do you know that tot rov get the wrong bonc angle on things atuck stuck wl out here on thia this fitle mile farm she t W in bed looking down at the U 0 in end of her braid ai as ahe the twined it round and round her finger a dirk do you know sometimes I 1 actually think tat it if you stayed here on the tann farm good 1 d what aorl 1 oh I 1 dont know time to dream time to no I 1 suppose that lant true any more I 1 suppose the lay day Is past when the genius came cam from the farm machinery hill ha cut into bis his dreal dreams ng patent binders plows reapers hes a mechanic lie he climmont time to brer s well she lay back looked up at him dirk why dont don t you marrar marry why theres n no a one I 1 want to marry no one tree fre you meaer he lie stood up 1 I I mean so no ei ano he ile stooped and kissed her lightly her arms went round him close her hand band with ith the thick gold edden band on it hia his head to ai tir r hard so bigl he was a baby again you called me that in years he ile was laughing laug hinc she reier reverted ted to the old game they had played when he was a child chil chow how biff big Is roy my sent eon I 1 how bigl she was but her eyes were somber so a biter answered dirk end tend measured a very tiny space between thumb and forsinger u for inter cinger so big she aced ced him sitting up very straight in bed me little wool shawl hunched about her shoulders shoulder pirk are you ever going back t architecture the war Is history its now or never with you pretty soon it will be too late are you ever goinz bick b ick to architecture to your profession I 1 A clean amputation 0 no o mother hother bhe cae gaie an actual gasp as though icy vater had bean thrown throan full in her face she looted suddenly old tired her shoulders naga d he ile stood in the doorway dooray braced for or her reproaches pro aches but when she spoke it was to reproach herself then I 1 m w a fail allure oh what nonsense mother I 1 in happy you fantI tan t live lve somebody e life you used to tell me when I 1 was a kid I 1 reme remember niker I 1 that life wa waro n t just ar I 1 I 1 I 1 ir I 1 so abiol anard dirk an adventure to 0 o be taken as a it came with the ho hop that something eom ething glorious lori oin waa was always hidden juet just round around the corner you aid sold yon you baa had lived that way and it baan t worked too you bald sald she interrupted him with a little cry I 1 I 1 know I 1 did I 1 know I 1 diar did suddenly ole ie raised a warning finger tier eyes were luminous prophetic dirk you cant desert ber her like that I 1 desert who he lie wa was startled beauty I 1 self expression a whatever you want to call it you heiti shell turn on you some day same day wint want her and she he wont be there inwardly he h had been resentful of this bedside 11 with his mother she made mode little of him be b thought while outsiders appreciated bin his success he ile had aid said so bit big measuring a tiny apace space between thumb and fo foret la in answer to herhalt her balf playful question but he bad had not hon etly meant it he ile thought her ridicule busly usty old fashioned now la in her view point and certainly unzel enable but he bet would not quarrel with her you wait waltz too mother be cald aid 2 now emiling smiling some day your wayward BY eon son will be a real success walt till the million millions roll tn in then well aee sec she lay down turned her back deliberately libera tely us mn him pulled the covers up at out her if i hall I 1 turn out your light mother baid open the window windows Mee teena nall it do it she always does just call her goodnight good night lie knew know that he had come to be a rather big man in hta his world arid influence had helped lie ile knew that too but out he smut lila ids mind to much of ok paula a maneuvering and wire pulling refused to acknowledge 4 that her lean dark eager fingers had mun gunnip nip the tile that ordered his career paula herself wise enough to know that to hold bold him she must not let him 1 feel indebted to her she knew that the debtor hates his hi creditor alib lay amwake at fit night planning for him scheming for his advancement then suggested these schemes to him hila so deftly aa as to make him think he himself lil had devised them she he had bad even realized of late that their growing intimacy might handicap him 1 if openly continued oa on page 4 L SO bib BIG continued from rags 3 commented on bat but now the she roust must seo him dally daily or peak speak to bilm her iter telephone waa vlas a private win wire leading only I 1 to ler tier own bedroom droom he shi called him blut ur the first la the tb moraine morning the lait lost 1 thing at night |