Show 4 j Uy By 11 FABIAN o WHIT T M HAT HAS S H EU SO 1111 rM 1 Derry Thomas an nil attractive bu business girl while whilo shopping per per- permits mits Tony Landor Lando a n young man Inan mane I e horn she has not m met t to to pay for I dress fabric which she sho cannot Ho Ito leaves her without I 1 airing arning her namo name Mr Ostrander dialer In antiques her employer 0 o o H abroad leaving lea his Ills business In h her r charge on her promise not notto to marry for tor three years Derr Derry wins wine many admirers among them Beverley Beerley Preston Smith Smitha New w York alderman Dick Otley a wealthy dilettante Martin Marlin Cole Colea a playwright and Professor Blakely an expert In psychoanalysis vats ysis a cousin of Greenway's Wit Wll French leading lady In Coles Cole's plays turns out to be a friend of Derry's Green Green- Greenway way Green a way offers otters to divorce his wife If Derry Try will marry him VIII Willow Willow- Willow dean ow- ow dean becomes Interested In Blake Blake- Blakely Blake ly ly They all meet mett frequently at atThe atThe The a n fashionable night nigh tub lub Derry sees secs Landor there buthe hut but ho he gives no sign of ever having mether met mether her Marlin Martin Cole becomes Jeal- Jeal jeal jealous OU ous ow of Blakely and Derry urges to go slow Landor calls at Derry's of office rice on a matter matler Qt business and takes her to a 0 ball gam She Sho goes oes sailing salling alone nione with wilh Otley They are caught In a fog Cog and forced to spend the night on the boat The next morning Derry n I icon cn en by a swimmer ort oft one of thel the bore oro clubs brings one of Blakely's hypnotic globes nd leaves it In Derry's room Mar Mar- Martin Martin tin Cole gives a 0 party and Willow Willow- Willow dean dean implored Implore Derry to make malee come Tho The swimmer who I cognized Derry on the boat ap- ap appears ap appears pears and Derry gets gels Tony Landor to take her to a secluded corner on the roof NOW GO CO OX ON WITH THE HIE STOUT STORY J CH TIIt 18 Landor looked around at the spot to which Derry had Guided them With dIfficult difficulty he spelle spelled out a saintly visible road sign which Coll must have lifted on some auto trip trip- Ip r P 1 BUT DANGEROUS Derry Den made mado a Q face Cace at It I r won won- wonder wonder wonder der It If anyone under the age of Q a hundred ever turned back for that warning Already he had unpinned the curtain It It seemed to be the end of something He stropped stepped In Stay back he warned this lends leads to the street street-a street a couple of hundred t down Is Is there room for Cor two to sl sit down It It If they're thero careful careful and and close Its It's a n Ire fire escape terminus Then Im I'm coming Cautiously she seated herself with ith her back against an abut abut- abut rm nt he beyond her I I want to put up a problem to ou ou ho he eald said Ever Eer since that at the ball bail game Ive I've had an Insane desire to tt lake take you In my arms and kiss you Insane she murmured You are not loo 00 flattering Its It's been done before by some quite sane people Checked by the flippancy how flippancy fat fat- was It real real-he real he he leaned back studying her face dim and exquisite exquisite site with that quality of eerie cerlo love love- loveliness liness which half halt light gives to a certain type the Inscrutable half hair halt the clear and fearless tearless and anel questioning eyes Those lips lips-It lips ithe hf he he dared dared he knew so well in 1114 hl hurrying blood how they might cleave sweet shivering to the touch ot of o his Yet he was afraid not of ot being repulsed but ot of black disillusIonment That risk was not for him I T told you ou before that If It I sa saw you again It would be purpose purpose and not chance And then you never never appeared until by chance you ou run cross me here It wasn't by chance It was French Frenell Willow 1110 deans dean's a crook crool declared Derry with more dignity than veracity Sho She should have ha given me warning You see sec Ive I've been been trying pretty hard bard to forget you ou but you ou would not stay forgot So I I 1 closed my m d desk k one day and took tool you OU walking half the length ot or Manhattan Is- Is Island Island and la-and land problem You were a tougher lem lent than any I shut abut Into my desk The eternal mystery of or wom- wom woman wom woman an she gibed Tony Pony do you OU realize that your OUI stuff paid paltI duty when the customs custom's officer met Noah o lh at the pier I r know Its It's old stuff Love Lo al- al always always al always ways Is ts It was said so 50 casual casually so much with the effect of ot voicing an es- es established es established fact tact that Derry did not even blink You deal in big wor words s I have been dealing with whit a a 1 big Ig the issue the biggest and biggest and Im I'm not making makinI out too well w H Derry J f dont don't like women That Is ts I like Ulie em cm cat well enough In their place but I dont don't want to get that trou troll trouble trouble ble problems mixed up tip with my other hems lems until Is that why you sent your our wife away She had yielded elded to 10 the perverse or perhaps defensive In- In Instinct In Instinct to bring Mrs Lander Into tile the talk I didn't send end her a away he reo re- re responded responded evenly enly Does Docs she Interfere with your our business lne Not Not noticeably You dont don't really like my speak Ing speaking of ot her do you That isn't tant very ery sporting ot or you ou I I dont don't In tho least cast mind It if It amuses you ou It doesn't said aid Derry U It bores boros me You might be more amusing ng It If you didn't have a wIfe You'd certainly bo be moro more danger danger- dangerous It If ous you weren't erent a summer r bachelor I 1 should chuck huck you OU be before Cor you had a chance chanco to get ct lan danger dangerous er- er ous an and ous-and ous and while you still stilt held that hat Insane desire you OU boast of or under perfect control Ah All that was wan a little more than ho would stand from her And now no v she lIe was slowly ly tantalizingly lift tag I- her face Invitation unquestionably He Ill tc burningly longed 10 1 crush her to him hard and close to taste from that smiling waitinG S mouth the fire tira and sweetness of o f oher her youth He lie drew his arm s her shoulder houlder leaned slowly to bet lips Inconceivably the he figure which h he clasped had become that ot or e a statue Inert rigid lire lifeless less By B Y what black art ot of girlhood had sh she without movement or word set lItt v up tan lon Impalpable barrier Should he draw back or back or go on en Derry nerr conscious of ot her lieI own 0 n power to create that atmosphere Intensely sensitive to Its Ita effects Celt relt his bewilderment and vaunted herself upon her success Ho de deserved served to be bo bedeviled He should ciss her and find her an iCe iCe- malden maiden In his Ms arms She Sho would leach him not to 10 expect to play the tho leisurely and conquering mate with heel heri Afraid she taunted and tempted Deadly afraid ho returned with wilh utter inter I seriousness sane san And safe Still She leaned to him Mm a little and he to meet her Their lips touch touch- touched touched ed etI and In a fla flash h by a golden miracle of sweetness the statue came camo alive alho and in his arms What hat had befallen Derr Derry the Ule malden malden maiden the self assured the tho boastful boastful boastful After ACter a brief moments moment's shock the lie uncontrollable surrender Derry drew back breathing quick quick- ly ly quickly dismayed quivering Sho felt changed and wondering and a little frightened With Bev she had not been frightened With Otley she had been at all alt times limes in command of ot herself o Now OW she knew knew- she could care and she was afraid of caring afraid of ot an un unknown un- un unknown unknown known more pretentious than any that had loomed before her III previous experiences Tony lony Landor spoke first In a shaken voice I never meant to todo todo do todo that Sorry Derry I dont don't know whether I am amor amor amor or not She lifted her eyes ees to his hla like te a child la In a dim place wondering venturing half afraid Its all nH right t dear deal Ills His hand dropped over hers not drawing her but remaining there stilt still and quietly protective Sh She lifted litt-d I ft cI her head sharply ar- ar arrested arrested ar arrested rested In her hel thoughts b by a tu- tu tumult tumult tu of o voices beyond the barrier hats happened now A hoarse and baritone from tho Improvised lsd barroom raised Itself above aboe tho chorus III ht lament and accusation Take Talc it a away nw way ay an show me mo the ot son son-of-I I wont shush hush Im I'm gonna tell you ou about my sea deep girlie fore 1 I go any further There Ther she sat on the the thc rall er rall er with tier her hair hall and her eyes eyt's at me OIl and the tho sun on oat her face and such lIuch u H facet face Cace I A siren Im I'm you ou heart crusher A a heart crusher If It ever there was one Would you know her It If you saw her again some one ono asked Know her Iler ter Id I'd lovo love her Id I'd marry her Even EVell It If she was out all sport sport-Jn night with teller feller sport sport- In on the moonlit waves Im I'm gonny buy a yacht soon as I find that glory girl The Tho exuberant voice olee fell lell to a note of depression Im herbut New York for Cor her but I cant can't find her lIeI anywhere When I do- do do Thought that ferry Derry that means Ivo Ive got to stick here until hes he's gone or 01 sunk Why doesn't Dick work faster workS Copyright 1926 by McClure Magazine International Publications Inc TO BE DI CONTINUED op 00 I |