Show 1 1 athe the reali real adventure 0 V II 0 1 1 0 1 1 L 0 denry fy kitchell by webster 0 1 1 0 y aiom lalji CHAPTER XIV cati continued d 10 ton tom wont a voa me la ill alla p satisfaction of ama knowing what yen your doing dware Us be sold td rd lov knoll to t she ho said to be 1 able his to orllo to you bear from free you a aey cry fl day but I 1 do dont 1 t half balta you w want ant i to I 1 ke liaw I 1 think it would be too hard ill f tor or 30 iou u B y you on it have to promise brain ill so not let t to a va W to get 1 buck bk not d to come 1 I ard d fason ma if I 1 got get into trouble find bud thwan so nent t badly bad and I 1 t lull know cholik to in turn could you promise that rod fly Us ho g div groan and it barill ile bis 11 ace la I 1 hla hould bands go ibon no ko he said furiously aftem ot course III I 1 adl sea ion euSer lug and ad stand by with roy my hands in my pockets and watch I 1 ha sprang ap aad seized her bar by the arms arina in a grip that actually left bruises and fairly shook her in ID the admy of his entreaty tell me it a a kose he said tell nut ma it I 1 isn a t true lie wake waka mo me up out if at tt it no but it under the indomitable resolution of her ber blue aes e Is he turned away this was the last it appeal we of if that sort art that ha be made ad tit promise she ats maid bald presently to be sele sensible sible not to take any risks I 1 do don t havo have to aleo take tit ril regard my life and my herlth and all us 11 something put keeping in he trust if tor ayou you ill tabe falls plenty of wann marm sensible I 1 him cloth clothes ill when I 1 to go let lota or of chose and stockings things ilk like that and it if you 11 lit it rue me I 1 II 11 borrow a bull hundred dolann to tart start myself off with wit it isn I 1 t a tragedy not that part ot of it you would t be afraid tor far buy anyone she else as I 1 big and strong mug end and healthy as aa I 1 gred gradually any out ont of A writer welter of scenes coal bit alte that the thing got get itself itsell greeng mind Is 03 sou something nathl that wes wag to happen bolm ent but the parties I 1 coroa at I last it in a little dil different way from any they hall had fore aroda eed rodney r carre came home from his office ini marly early one afternoon with a telegram that sum him alro to N new york to a conference of counsel in a big public utility raw case he had bod been worl working din on tor months he must leave Ithe if he were going at ar at give five he ran a socked the hotels honse vainly at first for 1 bhae I nd ad found bar at I 1 last t in I 1 the h I 1 trunk blank room dusty bishov dis disheveled hov md sobbing ebbing wetly quietly over 1 something sh abe hugged bugged in her bar arms ams but she dried her bar eye eyes and I 1 cant eve to him and ad asked him what it was son that had brought him home I 1 so early he showed allowed her bar the tele telegram grout ht h to leave 1 la aa hour he be mid eald if rm im to to go she paled it at that and ad eat but down rather giddily gil delly oa an the trunk you tou must let go he be wild it or of course amm and beondy ito dy I 1 guess be the easiest a sin way ill get toy my tel telegram tonight pret pretend fuld to get it arom portia pont and you com can she ghe me the hundred dollars and ad theo when velem you come a back I 1 11 be gone th the thing C she he had bad been bee balding in h her head hands slipped lipped t ta the floor he stooped t O P and ad picked it lip D stared at it witha with a sort soft of half wakened from aon 1 I if f ran found it it she explained among one some mine old filing portia fortin sent sat over or when she moved do you know knew what it Is 17 it a one of the a notebooks that got wet that first night when we were put off the t he street car and hodd look r she bhe opened it to an am almost blank jaee age and ad with a weak 11 little a tough pointed to the thin that w 8 mitten ritte there I 1 march 15 YOW your birthday Y you see me and the day me met each other and then down donn below the only note is she he had ma made d e during the whole a hole of that ler lecture face he be re read nd never marry a man with a passion tor for principles 1 that s the a trouble with us you yen see me she he said mid if you were just an erdl dl uda nary eum without ony may big p passions it I 1 or anything it t atter Satter rf much it if so your life got get spoiled pulled but with us me you tee see we ve e got get to try for the big test beat toll thing there I 1 Is oh bodily roddy feeling liiri lug no hold ill to me tilot tor for just a minute all and ad the then in III come a and help you pack dk CHATER CHAPTER XV the WI W world I d A alone an heres hurez tile the first week a rent but then them aalde to rose roa handing building the I almly three d dollars imars and it I 1 think you it d better git ell me a 1 bollt I showing hawing till when IV ife pat it to for tile the landlady had bud tight gray bair and a hard bitten hatchet hatcher face she hod bad no chums charms one would amid haa I 1 milk bald of person mind or manner but it we wa nevertheless ithel fr true bell rose as inu renting illes this II room largely I 1 on the t 2 strength th of the landlady she be was waa so 0 much I ill more human humanly possible them than am any of the others at whose placarded pla carded doors doms rose BOBC hd had knocked hearted or I 1 run 1 th the landlady rant way away I 1 to write out a ron closed the door after hot her and it locked it she dlan did I 1 anat at to leep keep gurrod out but in R semie 1 in whim which U OBO bad U near been quite true before ROSE ALDRICH LEAVES HER HUSBAND ANO AND THE twins AND GOES FORTH INTO THE UNKNOWN WORLD TO MAKE A LIVING AND LEARN LEARH LIFES VALUES I 1 SYNOPSIS rose amt a onna living 1109 in modest ell clr finnus aidrich and lid for fop at anoro tile lhnn a le I 1 1 1 in ima nad ad tomps I 1 I 1 less T a 9 life tier her she sha llma to d do something useful but tools fuels I 1 that 1 at lie pr alun of motherhood 1 la big enough enin igli for foe say any non iiii mot dinolo fo of d eagerly to the birth ot of her or baby she has lie t twins dwor mid their ells Is taken cut euten ly out of al her 1 inner by 0 I 1 collia intense hh ohp lie us ce I 1 ufa ire I 1 ot f luxury to lines hoie she tdeo out or u binl ad I 1 cut 11 I 1 living imes to nalce agod awil on own D hook book she and her 0 ting I hulin hamd nd have some boino bitter a ones met vw im afes kc 9 whim what elio I 1 go doeu mici and don doea 1 la ascribed la in it ali lost austn linear this anns as her room ft 4 room where aono aone ani lacking inciting her sp specific biffin invitation to 0 enter would built be an ft corall condl 1 lion I on which had bad not obtained either in her mother a house or I 1 in rodney s she smiled uldry oer mer the absurdity ot of mInI gun in a pleasurable telling of possession tosi e in I 1 a squalid little cubbyhole II 11 v this alio llio wall paper ana stained and ad faded time we was an I 1 iron bed the mattress mat a tresa on DO the bed was lumpy there we was a dingy looking old bureau with n small mail in tor a marble topped block walnut washstand and B pitcher tend stand 1 ing 19 9 1 in bo be 1 on top ot fit 11 AM aa roc far the hI dirig rig life she he looked out upon pon fr from he her grimy window the differ difference a her it and that which bho bhe had been float to contemplate through florence exquisitely ended casements was we simply imply planet ary a ry and bd yet queerly enough in terms 0 rl f literal lineal measurement ties the ill dl tance tamm between the tha windows was ras less than a thousand birds tile and such ill 1 ta the enormous social let find ad iqual distance between north dark clark street and ad the difu shae sh she was ae as safely hidden here a as completely out of the orbit of any of her friends or even am ad of her ler ti servants as she could have lave been in new york or san aran cisco of course wherever she went what w but ever she he did there them d always be the all that someone who could carry bulk back news items to rodney a friends would recognize get z s her it was waa a risk that bad to be taken take at the came blue time abed she d protect the secret as well ell us as she he could there were two people though it couldn coulden t bo be kept from po portia Us and her mother the story given out to rod bed be ney a friends friend being that ron hose was 1 in with her mother and portia left the chance always open pe for far a some contretemps which would lead to her mothers discovering the truth in a sur or prisms and it shocking UY nay but the truth itself confidently stat sit d not at as ft a tragic ending but us ca the splendid hopeful beginning of a life of if truer treat hupp happiness loess for rose and her hus how band needa t be a shock so this was what ross rose had borne down upon her in her letter to I 1 have hav f found and B the tha big thing could coulden I 1 bo ba hd without light fight she in wrote rot you t ha b because you VII a probably to I 1 found f out t tor 1 that noth in ing a worth wor having of cornea 0 very easily 1 but na you re not to worry emy about me an ncr no be afraid tor for roe leaeu I 1 in going 11 to win I 1 BI making looking the fight somehow andi for CM I 1 ou la well BJ to or if II 11 I 1 boat I you in to mow II 11 ill that 1 I think that I 1 was waa ihm amne your 1 ll 11 I 1 a well as mine 11 what hot has etui given ol 01 me to th 0 courage 0 to start I 1 ve go got plain ideas but I 1 m not going to a tem tell Y you what they thay TO am B but t write j to you every u week fand ad tell 11 you a what I 1 v mu cone are oa I 1 want abt you to 1 write I to had rodney hadi I I 1 want rant to be ure that you met understand remd t hol tills 0 o an t is t bis blame for what happened auw Us liatto it t tim quarreled 10 and ad 1 bonva we wa I 1 farther farina I 1 in I 1 love with each other tea than wave we v 1 ever I ba been before beah I 1 know w X m with him break thi th lb thing to mother ag gently afy me aa you lika ilk but be toil tell her bar before hot you stop slop i this letter written end ad dispatched he had bed worked out the ottaus of her departure with a good deal ot of care cam in her own clen awse aimse before tile the ranta se nuts all she 1 I had bad tiled bled to act juat as ehe he would old hava hat it done had her me really fly come from clr lias lag wasi a fr eam fr p hauked ed her h trunk m was gone hr bir motor halting ailing at tile the door to tate take loi bir to it the st itam when rho tile maid bid doris dona brought the twins twin be flom iben bell ailing luls ibis be t chance but give them a to me kuae said aid and ad the then you may my go up bed and wl mr rest buston he ebe may my hae the them 1 in a few minor at she bhe took them thein into her and laid them side by side on lui bed ilay had bad thriven thrive finely j us so far as a that tant vent real Ua holdas irleta it ajam to in lovar favor of bottle battle feeding had ill she dice back thele in that bell of paul neer come coin a I 1 out ut at 0 the ether at oil all d still be juat like this plump placid methodical rose hose hod had that of 1 that a hundred humah ed times but bill it wann v don it what she was waa thinking of wm ao eshe 11 ahe ill tiling it eliat caught 1911 llcy Us as she was looking do n on file them 1 as I a rave nave of sudden pity she sw ill bud ly a us persons person with ith the rho long it roid ld dead all at of them as a ino bo and a gill a youth and a rould maid a mun man and a she shed d never I 1 thought of ill them ilk like that here defoie s 9 ahe be baby elie ill hd bd looked amodid to th the baby she lie buffet t lood bad never II 11 ava bp thought of that any Y either it to lie something to pro vide ido her rous itose fill en occupation Imp don lo 10 1 make maka an n alchemic change in tile ery cry byte of her te life ibe transmute muta item lindo bade t taken place she surmised now if daml felly that she bada bad t it should you yen in y cerer had bed a ill at all 1 you poor door little mites she sold bald but lone youre 01 goine 9 to in he hate be ow some day Y you on re boing to be able to mine come to in her se with fib your trouble because she he it have had troubles trouble h herself 11 she b 11 help you be bear I 1 1 I I 1 hurts mrs because be I 1 has had hurts be of her own and shell hall be able to teach yon to stand the gulf ean her abes stood it het balf if 1 I per w tile first time since ince they mere are but boin ill she wua till thinking kim of then need ot of her rather than of her need of them a and lid with fill that thought mon came for tile the fl faist if alnie the bulge of lie its me ma love that she iid had ui u united I led for far so be long ion in vain 1 ahto I I 1 ana as suddenly an intolerable ablie I 1 I 1 tn her hep b breast cast tant could only have been satisfied by crush cob ing ug th them in up her incest iila hns ing as all their belr barele linnets thell their feet be rose stood them quivering giddy with tile f force fir ir of it oh iou no do dar the anad ad ait wait u all un ze llor wit til fit I 1 de cesene it 1 I A and without touch tonch ing them at all she ID auit at to the door and opened it mrs ruston bad and doris were both malting in ill the hall bell I 1 imet go 90 now nou she bhe said good by keap them enter of IY tor for me let eter voice fee win 1 and though her eyes rele bright tiles was mas no DO trace from of to tears T m upon her cheeks but tile 1 11 was me a kind of story glory shining 1 in her face that me w as too much tor far doris w ho he turned easy away and ad sobbed ebbed loud lend y alven MI boston 8 eves were wet good by said maid ren koae again aud and went beat dono done composedly enough to her in car I 1 she rode md down dona to the station shook hands with otto the chauffeur at al boned lowed a per porter if to carry her big bg lure into the uniting room there she tipped tile lie poti porter picked up the has bog herself and it walked out the other billet d door r cr crossed 0 s e d oer to clark street and took L a s t r e e t cu car I 1 at chicago a avenue denue she got off mid anil walked north ic keeping her by ayea pon open tor for placards advertising rooms to 0 let it vas it at the end of about half it i mile that she found the hatchet faced landlady paid her three dollars and locked her door as a symbol perhaps haps of the bigger heavier floor door that she had locked upon her past life strongest among all the welter ot of emotions boiling up within her we ana a perfectly enormous relief relict the thing n when she he had first faced it as aa the only thoroughfare to the real met ufa fro she so me passionately anted had seemed such a veritable nightmare was ons an accomplished tact fact tit the week ask ot of acute agony she had lived through while she we was forcing her sudden tell res upon rodney had bad been a all 11 I 1 to but u t I 1 11 0 he ha was wa co Counting B t B aal Aloud a d the be bars of the musio music unendurable nith w ich it the en con cam if of the moment of parting aluch ft inch they buelt bi ought me ao relent relentlessly Imly arr there them had been a terror too lost when ihn the moment actually actu acta illy mine came she coulden couldn t do it 11 well and ad now low it tied had mom come and ad g gone I 1 th the surgery ot 1 it he thing was im over ever base dusted the mirror with tt a towel a reckless act as a slie she saw for lur hit self flinn the she was ran going to have to use that towel ton el for far a neeli and took no an appraising look at herself lier self tile bhe he add nodded confidently thare was nothing the matti matt I 1 with ith her looks lohs and n her her lubbers and her ber umbrella for it m was as the kind of Dec december embLe day walh called to for ul 11 three th than glowingly I 1 ann cnn hf loua that she he I 1 was a nickel by so sa tilling doing she be set off downtown donn town 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