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Show Houses $TGlasB Bj,- ESDWIf BLISS I (CONTINUED rBM YESTKttDAY.) In awaking that morning. Norris waa again visited with his dread of tho previous day. that Ethel should hear of Myra's Inatallmerrt In his cottage tWore he had an opportunity to tell "hor This troubled him so. that he ato no breakfast, but hurried to his office. truEtlng the exactions of his business to take his mir.d from the annoying thought. Ha had a violent nwlacha by 11 o'clock, and attributing It to the fact that he had netfeeted his breakfast, break-fast, went to an early lunch That was why. when Ethel called him a. 11:30 ho wm out. His lunch gave him immediate relief, and he felt a thr 11 of confidence In himself and the Tightness Tight-ness of things In general; an aavor-ance, aavor-ance, an optimistic outlook most of us have bem conscious of aftr a dinner that leaves nolhln In the way of food ' to bo desired. He tried to analyze this sense of bouyaney as he walked along, back to his olhce, and thought-of the presumptuous conceit of Mn in fancying fancy-ing himself fine, spiritual, aspiring, when bis material appetite satisfied, he turned urgently to the pursujl of 'better things. He saw he had allowed al-lowed himself for a moment to grow, misanthropic a thing unfair to thoj beauty of the day a thing unfair to those fine stirrings which perfection in any form beauty always made on him. and he laughed his cynicism com-Dletely com-Dletely to rout. He bought an "extra" from a news-1 boy, folded It carelessly under nl quiet, wild look." as the porter afterwards after-wards told, "on his face." It was all very clear to 'him now her subtle trickery under the mask of "Injured Innocence" Fall with hLs unspeakablo reputation their discovery in a compromising com-promising position by Mrs. Fall, and th rosultant divorce suit and now ! b-th of them together at the beach! Had the Insanity which now possessed him taken a violent form he might have been apprehended and prevented pre-vented from doing any harm; but it v.-as visible only In his crafty eyes and unnaturally quiet bearing as ho Jumped into his auto and started for the ooast. 4 , .... Fall bad seen tho "extra before Korrls. and his wife's drastic action had made him suddenly afraid. He sipped from every flower" and recked . not the cost, but this thing, copied by ' all the papers throughout tho land might, and very probably would ruin him He fait particularly aggrieved In that for the thing he was about to be punished, he was entirely innocent. IT,, took an early train for the beech where he endeavored to placate his wife, and make her withdraw her charge- but she had ceased to think 01 him as a positive quantity, and was unmoved by his appeals. When Ethel arrived, he went straight to her cottage, which she found deserted. Myra and her father had gone to the shore. She drow in her breath sharply as her anxious , oyes, after searching the living-room for signs of Its new occupant, fell on a large floppv straw hat Hung carc-losly carc-losly on a chair She picked It up and examined It eagerly, her essential rm ascenacd to h!a office. As ho SreW t& sheet on his desk it fell face ward and the words "Attorney's V,7e Is Co-respondent In DivprOB Silt " taring out at him In big black gpi stretched clear across the page. Maybe 11 waJ somo onP nnw- ? fook the sheet up and cajyffclly rjafl the sub-headings: "Mrs. Wlllaid iaJi rFair he gasped) charges she found ifff BaTNorrta and Mr. Fall em-bracing em-bracing " The eheot fell from hie nerveless i fln-ers and ho swallowed hard a few pes to moisten his throat and mouth. SSch had suddenly become dry. Then Sne a reaction from his noseless un-r??hzatlon; un-r??hzatlon; he felt a weak shaking throughout his whole body, and wan ionlous of hie heart pufelng In great, uneven jumps. The monatrousnaea, the bold assurance of that rttarlng type Jnu incredible. It was hideous foul. Hl wife and Fall! Why. they hardly knew one another! Ho tried to under-atand under-atand it tried to put hi thoughts in the same consecutive order he always had them when ho pleaded a case in court The effort was not successful, but ho got sufficient control of hie reason rea-son to look back broadly over tho events of the lost few days- The one event that distinguished the last few days from a year of happy uneventful marriage was Ethel b insistent, in-sistent, hysterical demand to send Myra Foster away from his office, in explanation she had expraMa an un-Wl un-Wl ling doubt, ta doubt nevertheless), that his relations with the , girl ware all they should be- He knew his relations rela-tions with Myra Foster were slmplo. honest, businesslike, and that thought, combined with his wife's suspicion, suggested to hLs insidiously, but certainly, cer-tainly, that her suspicion of him might be but a blind for her relations wlth Fall Good God, what a hideous thought! He picked up his 'phone receiver, re-ceiver, clicked the hook nervously many times, and after what seemed an unusual wait, waa oonnected with his home. "Hello, Mrs. Norrifl, please. This is Mr. Norris." , ,4 "Mrs Norri9 is not In, clr She left full an hour and a half ago. and loft' word she had gone to the beach cottage. cot-tage. Yes. Good-bye." She had gone to the beach! a place he could never prevail on hor to visit' Why0 Had she heard of Myra Footer being there? He knew gossip could travel as fast, and faster, than that. But if sh was using his relations with Myra Foster as a blind to cover her own affaire, (this damnable thought kept persisting), If she were, was I H possible that she would have the temerltv to seize on Myra's presence In the cottage as justification of a suspicion sus-picion she knew to be false. Ho cursed himself for hVs vile suspicions. But she had gone to the beach. if not for that, then for what? The thought of Fall then entered his mind and took his whole attention, and he glanced hastily, searchlngly across the court to see whether he was in his office. If this frightful thing were true His Hps met In a long, hard seam as he unlocked the bottom drawer of his desk and without looking look-ing hastily withdrew something and ellpped it into hi? pocket. He rose desperate, and leaving his office crossed to Fall'a Fall was not there. He queetloned the porter. "When will Fall be in?" "I don't know, Mr. Norris left word he had gone to the beach, but didn't leave no message when he'd bo back again " Ray started, shooked at the advice that Fall had gono to the beach. Ho said "all right" In a preoccupied volco that seemed even to him not to have emanated from his own throat, and tralked unaicc-dlly way, "a aorta feminine bimdmff her tor the moraont to lta indication, and causing her to wonder what he could e in THAT; then reaUzing 1 eJgntflOBHoa he dashed"? freely to the ground and started for tho coaat She walked aulcklv tirelessly in the aoft sand, and waa startled when, after a sharp turn round a ledge of rock, she came upon Wtllard Fail. He wan aOtared by his mmtiSm -rt uiai to listen to his entrcat-SfSaTS? entrcat-SfSaTS? Wa a his trivial nature wouTd allow. He lifted hie haL "Qood afternoon, Mrs. Norris. Thoueht you didn't like tho seashore." Howd?edo. Mr Fall. Oh. I coma down occasionally. 1 - "I've wanted ever since that frightful fright-ful day to let you know how sorry I am that you should have teen placed in such an unfortunate position." He said nothing, however, of tho divorce ult, thlnliinK she munt already know' Sho wanted to bo rid of him wanted to .fly on wildly wanted to find them wanted and feared to feared every siev that took her eager, urcent feet' further and further along the limitless stretch of beach He kept on talking, solicitously trying his Utmost to asSU7 hor of his regret, all unconscious that her tortured, anxious anx-ious fearful mind was Intent on another an-other topic, and that she grasped not a word that he utterod. Racing caroenlnc madly down the beach came Norris' auto Its flying wheel sendlnfr up a ewifh of sand In their wake. It stopped within a few yards of them, and Norris, a strange, wild expression on his face, jumped out He had seen them half a mile off and the sight of them together I changed his crafty, quiet look to one I of terrible rage. Dashing wildly up I to where they stood, he thrust the frightful headline under Ethel'a eyes, his faco twitching in frightful contortions. contor-tions. "Is it true? Is it truol Is it he gurffled chokingly. Ethel's eye took In the glaring headline and followed dorn to tho subhead. She started back, goaplng, realizing fully hat what sho had 1 dreaded had come to pass that he had learned from another source what she had not tho course to tell him ' that he had doubted her as she him that it Waa all a hideous misunderstanding misunder-standing fed on by Gossip and that tho matt before her was a raving maniac Fall hfcd edged off. But Norris, watohlng her. needed no answer, hor ' startled gasp ae she shrank back con- vlctlng her utterly. His hand went deep In his pocket, . and when he wheeled and raised his i arm thoro was a rmort sharp flash, and Fall dropped In the sand. He I rose, and with faltorlng stops started liko a drunken man toward a cliff overlooking tho sea. Stumbling, fall-, fall-, ing. desperately rising, he made his t way ur through the rocks to the cliff's ' top, as Ethel wrestled frantically with the madman before her. He broke looee from her clutching 1 Angers, and again raising his arm, pointed It toward the cliff's summit I where Fall tottered. Another shot a sickening splash and the softly J lapping, halcyon waters of the Pacific closed over the dead body of Wlllard Slimy Scandal, born of Doubt and Misunderstanding, had come Into its ! own- j, I I . a. w . ,-, r- , Laves were rum -a, uv wc? v. j Because a woman couldn't hold her I tongue the penalty was paid pad paid. WHO PATS? The seventh story in the Who Pays series, "Blue Blood and Yellow," fiH3 ! begin in our next i3Uv |