Show ra r L the real adventure I 1 A N NOVEL 0 V E L 0 0 0 0 by henry kitchell Kitche II webs lebster ter 1 1 i 3 1 I motul CHAPTER 11 limit continued it 16 6 there them ais was on aann nothing thing P peculiarly whirly horrifying to him in th the B exhibition he enn dolph aoa making king of himself hed bad never amea in his life taken a drink ex copt capt can and then he be took as utile little mis aa would pass ameter going off claw and fuddling cuddling fudd ling owe one alt as a a means of sc aping bat realities entities struck him so as a tin net act ot of the basest cowardice rut put tor for that picture of rose rome had bed have haie gone long ions jago and left randolph to bib tooled bemused cef lecUona only no row ind had asked kd him n to drop in on an the doctor fox visit blin did it she mean she he wanted led hire hill co try to belp helal lie he tried though not very arilo success fully ally to conceal his violent disrelish of me tin task k when he said look here jim plot ft hat is the luither with foul you bellith lIth A are re you yon sober enough to tel tell anc 0 bendolph Bin dolph put down his glass of 1 I juve told 3 sou an it hf eaid to I 1 I 1 I 1 III lie to s agist lpt av nin w well n kept oh A yes I 1 hk eijiu no UNITY kept I 1 re nothing but a pos in of at hem I 1 A trophy of sorts an ornament I 1 in morn ething she a 8 made IF t have a big practice ral im the most doctor in chicago they come a here bere the women wille in shoals basis I 1 leaner a doing I 1 in a faker a fraud I 1 pose for them I 1 play up I 1 give the them what they want nuat aud and theta that a her d aning ng they go silly billy about me barev t eyre in love with ith we me ihahn 1 haen t done alick a lick of honest work la the hist in yc y c I 1 caul at work she was wont t let me work she minot smothers ben me I 1 turn iam there than she is smooth ing things out trying tring to make it must crying cronig to UIT my nants lie only one evant want that s to he let alone she cant no do th it she a I 1 insatiable th there a always something lanct labig laore or shea he trying us to get and I 1 im ou always tiding bl a 9 to teen loch something a way away from he her a and it failing fal lnig and ad ho do you want to know why Ald aldriche that 8 the cream of the unni flung because were in love ft iab asch other ahe wants sn in me to 0 ahe o on a her love to be anie a with nothing I 1 og else to uve live on ve do TO you want at to it issow what my 7 notion of hou houn heaven n V I 1 it would world be t to 9 go off A atone alone with one suit of ea all in fa st handbag oh ell and ad fifty h f t y or a hundred dollars in I 1 re mv P pocket ocke t I 1 t mind dimind im buldo that I 1 dont darit want to be a rop to amne mining town or a slum where I 1 emidd tart start a general finc practice tice ft here the t things I 1 id d get would be a accident e el dent cases me confinement ells cases real things urgent things thing that right night and day dav Us are I 1 all alike to id like to at start rt again 91 and be e poor got get this stink of easy money oat t of my nostril rIP I 1 it like to see if I 1 could make long good on in mv own aback 1 I conse came back from new york after rabat oak look at rose meaning to do it keanig ax to talk tt it out with ic eleanor I c nd ad tell be her why and ad th then 9 go well I 1 talked talk Talks 8 cheap chent but I 1 dian didn t 9 go rit ill never ever go I 1 U go 0 on n getting softer free and more of a take more r dependent and eleanor will go on eating tuc me up until unit the last thing i in a me that me myself I 1 la gone goes aud and th then a some in it day fihs he 11 look at me a and ad see as t that h tim I 1 m rath noth anc then with suddenly thickened speech h ton tait PA perhaps fill he looked up at rodney nod and demanded what am aie yno rou so a solemn louf amit cati t you yen to take a lobe joke come alon and ad be have menh another drink no rodney on said it tin p going and you 6 better get to a be bed rodney kodney walked h home 0 a that night 1 1 it illie e ex di man dazed dated the vividness il a of one am mur idea blinded blinde it b him I 1 the e t thing I 1 that Rin randolph dolph had a been an ind and ic lacked a 1 B t the conrage eg to do the th thing I 1 ng ram rodney B de jibed mm I 1 him 11 11 for a 1 1 coward we r it for fit I 1 it having aim tailed flad Mt to d do tb that t th thing ing R rose ev as a had B done an a without aitho ut lamina knowing tt it yielding to a ball tart instinct tj rt ho be a want ablat ed d R roe to live on his love Hed he d tried W 8 noth thing sout top for her anticipate her wants bed he d wanted her bar soft help seas less dependent she it been even then something boa he d been blind to some bown thing bed blinded himself to that tore lars by itself w waa as not enough that it at canad to p poison son as well 11 as teed feed but she had woo won waseng among the rest not of tier Is of v victory t etory the thing she had originally set act out to get his friend alippi and hect friendship he be re her saying was vas a thing you had boa to earn when you if earned it it be withheld from you well tt it was right eight she he should be told that oude do to ed understand edd d it to the full fall 11 he coulden couldn t ask her to come came baik back to I 1 him tin I 1 but elm alie must know that her respect waa ana its as tore necessary raw now to him us as shed she d once aalde hia waa to hr he roust see bw R and it tell her that he stopped abruptly 1 in his him walk me his beales us as tile the psalmist said turned to samba he how n should he c confront 0 that gaze M N hers w which bieh knew so much und and understood so a deeply ab e with the orl of 1 his it two host a en semp untera iders with her belled behind himl him CHA CHAPTER PTER friend mx except a ept for the vacuum where we a tora and nd heart of tt it all ought to nave theeo bow life in new york duties during the year that put tier on the highroad to success as a dt higner of at costumes I 1 for the a ali theater be w waa a rood it life broad blood stimulating seasoning am it 11 meb rested meed emair B to b begin w with tu on art a foundation of adequate anti rial C comfort efort which hah the unwonted physical 11 id pei privations of 11 the Is 11 six months t h th it t i preceded it anade ad jj ahle L p positive alv kernel for se aei era eral months after she mine came to diw york rk to work tor for galbraith she found him in a in martinet she once caught tint grit tm twinkling inkling gleam of under standing 1 la h his er eye which fit h ad meant at so a much built to 1 lier during the reh earvel of the gut gul up lip stairs I 1 his iminter itin lower toward a her carried out the tone lone of the atter k ater shed she d got train from him in cht chi cao it ives stiff form formal 1 severe seven lie ile seldom praised her work and never anig ungrudgingly a lite hla censure waa one rare too to be sure but this obviously was hole because ve rose base it t over never 91 gae him nt in excuse f I 1 or r it working for far lim bilm I 1 in till tatt wood g gava his her the uneasy easy sanso thin one experiences exper lemes w hen ber w dking abroad under ada sultry multry overcast sky with matteri go and flushes flashes in it if and then oue one night eight tile lie storm broke alny had bad lingered in the theater after the tilmon dismissal I of a rin to talk over a change la in one of the num all bers ben rose had been working liffie on it refused to come out satisfactorily rose been thought she saw a way of doing it that would work better and ad she had bee been telling him about it eagerly at first and ad n with ith 1 a limpid A directness recta which however became clouded d and troubled Ild when she h felt celt he uso u so t pacing P 31 9 site bli tin alou 1 it was a difficulty with alth him she had encountered before but tonight a I 1 t after an angry turn abut thail down the aisle I 1 and ad back lie he suddenly mide rily cried out I 1 dont know I 1 don dent t know what hot you coave m been talking about I 1 don t I 1 know and I 1 don t care s and then confronting g her their faces not nota a foot apart par coruby for by now am she had got to her feet his him hauda hands gripped together end ad shaking baking his him too teeth b clenched la his eves at glowing ing there in the halt half light of the its audit auditorium a he almost ille lil e im an but adf mals mal s he demanded can you see the matter after with ith rea me haven t you seen CO it set at of elm course she saw it now plainly enough she eat ant down again ma man n aging an air of deliberation about i it t and ad gripped tile the back of the orchestra chair in front of her box he remained standing landine over her there in the aisle tt IN hn the he heightening tension of the kimt fo llowd this mit outburst burat hid grown absolutely unendurable she bile spoke but the he only thing she bhe could old find to a say my we was almost behl ludicrously ansly in adequate no ho I 1 did t see it until now am to bar sorra s you yon alto t see it he be echoed 1 I know you didn dian t you ve never seen me B at nil dimoth from the be beginning gaming nanny as any tile thing g but a machine but why haidn t you 0 youre a woman if J ever saw a worm woman 1 in my life you re one all the way through phy could rit you yoa see that I 1 we was a man it Is isn t below because I 1 ve a got get gray any haar air nor or la lae because e 1 im aft flati years old I 1 it don t believe you re like that put visa even back there I 1 in chi chicago the night we walked down dow th the aenne from that store or the night ve w e had bad a upper supper together after the show 1 11 I suppose I 1 ought to have seen she sm mid dully ought to have hae lam known that that hit was all there in was to it but I 1 dlan t well you yoa see mess it now a he be sold said I 1 savagely fairly and strode away up the main aisle arct ad then back to her file he eat ant one down I 1 in the east beat 1 in front of he her and ad turned around I 1 want at to see be your one ties fice he said there a something thi of I 1 ive ve got to know something you youve bak got get to tell me you bald one once a back i there in chicago that that there was I 1 only j a one pei son san who really mattered to you one ayou I 1 want to know who that per beroa is what he C I 1 is whether he hem a still till the our one person who really riat matters it if he ise t I 1 it II ube take my 7 ch chance n remembering the seen scene a afterward rose rome was a 1 little it cpr surprised d that she d been able to answer lit him as ac she it did without a hesitation or a at stammer at and w mith ath a straight goes gaze that held bold him bla un til III she had bad flu finished bAnul th the an only V in person co 1 in the world she said bald who ever has mattered to me or 1 ever will wih matter is my husband I 1 ml in love w m till ith him the day I 1 in met him eltoft I 1 was B 1 ia love lore with mth him when 1 I left him in I 1 al in love with him now deiy I 1 a thing I 1 do that 5 any go good oil Is just some thing he be might be proud of if 11 he im knew w it and evel eveia y failure I 1 is just fust something I 1 11 hope I 1 would make him understand und and not despise we me for it a months sin since lve ive seen him but there lee asat t a day there than an hour in ia a day when I 1 ilon don t think about him wrid and want him I 1 don t know whether ever see him agia again but if I 1 do don t it won t make any difference w ath that thit s why I 1 see hare bien edib about wool you it gasn wasn t possible tor ter ra me to see I 1 id d never have feea tt it if you badat indo t told me a 1 la so on many any words I 1 like ike th this a do you see two now he turned away from her bar with a nod and put his hands bands up to his tae face she waited led a moment t to me see whether he had ad anything else to say bay for the habit of waiting for far his d 6 1 was mas too strong to be be broken even vc lop far at situation t usa like this but finding that he be I 1 she got up and w walked out ol of it the if theater there that e was wal wit an hour after she had belted the lait heon ten of hr her t when hext she pretty well went to via pieces so 80 this was oil ail waa as it that she owed ha her illusory appearance of success to the amorous selfishness of a man old enough to be III tur r lattice father I 1 once goes more or she his blissfully q tot I 1 Y and ignorantly un suspect ing au ali the while it was love that had made her world go round the same aman attraction that james randolph long neo go hod it tot told d her short about all shed she d accomplished to complis hed a it I 1 in that bill bitter Y year by sin she he left radial kodney y had bad bun t to make an other loan a to tn I 1 n I 1 love with hurt berl 1 it vias natural of course a that the relation between them after that should not at prove poor quite so simple bod ad in manageable beside there were breathless days when the storm visibly hung in the sky there were 1 ai I rained stiff self co niclous moments meet ot 1 rigidly icahn enforced of it bollt as things got aid despite his bla resolute e that had as m resolutely to be ignored kut but 1 in the later inter vals of these failures there emerged a ren new thins thing gerowe genuine friendliness partnership it was BUS just after Chrls tamm unit that abe shuivan took her away train from I 1 and put her to work 11 on an cot botanic anic and the swift fit sequent e ot of eventa itaf a month thereafter I 1 launched bed lup 1 in un an independent best ness nebs the new imea partnership hip with eith the details detail of which through jimmy wl wal lace you are already nc al quen nor her partner was wag alice adee perosina nl she was aas the Asb laughter fis of a rich italian lew law a beautiful really a wonderful nath rd poison to look B at but bill a little unac toun amble tible eipel aly with the got gorgeous cloth clottis site wore wom io in the cirle circle ot of worn wars ext en uh bo did things ot of which rose roo laid had here become a PT part rome hose took toofe her time beat about that she he liked her but bat codicil by preferring her to all at the rest but the fact that uny they had become partners served somehow to dibut a relation between whid chih might oth otherwise ime have developed into a that 0 clas friendship not net that they bec rated or even each other 1 in the close clame contacts facts of the day a work week but at the end of the day a work the they tended to fly apart rattier rather than to all sikh together more and more items hose turned to galbrnth for a friendship that real 1 ly understood gripped desp deep there were cre long stretches of days ot of course to roe when they saw nothing of allic each other and ad sam rose a 1 long aa she bhe laif had plenty to do was neier conscious oll ahme of missing mining him but the im prospect of a an empty ply sunday morning for 1 in stance v was a always enormously bright ened crea if he called led up to say may that jt we was empty tor for him too and ad should t they go for far a walk IS or a fara ride its somewhere i all told she learned more about menas men as such much from him than the ever she he tied had learned consciously at least fro from rodney shed she d never ever been able to re gard her husband a aa a BC specimen he was a rodney all tal geric generis and ad it had bed never occurred to her either to generalize from him to other me men or ar to ex plain anything beat about him on the be ran mere ground of his masculinity ish ahe a be began doing that now am a little bad and t the he exist exer cafe opened her eye eyes in a load many ways galbralth galbraith and her husband were a good deal at alike ke be both th we were rough magic direct reet a little it lie remorseless mor nor seless and there w was be in both 0 of them right alongside the best s and ad threat finest and ad 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