Show rap by y kp calizo 0 rqn we R 10 LOUIS LOUI S JOSEPH VANCE author of the false faces ta the lone wolf etc MIRROR illustrated by irwin myers copyright by the author au SQUEALED SQUEAL EDi synopsis pait vaguely eon cona clous selous of 0 a double personality but without any idea of in meaning tile the gill lck 1 t nora mattes makes lier her ACCUSIO way ii lito to the street or of st 1190 FAI 1 n e thoroughly at 1 l home in the under worlie horld of 0 yew new york leonora lakes her course to tier her appointed rendezvous mario joins join her gready in ili love and seeing the llie ine fine qualities the llie girl really possesses possess marlo alo to turn 1 ler er from rom tile the path I 1 0 ill inevitable evitable debt destruction ruction lie ite tells tella b her ot of ills his love for tier her anti anil bess begs her not to keep keel on to lo the lenden of 0 criminals ill THE MAN marlo MARIO continued 2 and you also I 1 mean you could love nie me isyou if you mould n and in my love in the lie life I 1 otter offer you become the self that today you tilde hide away so jealously your real self a woman ine fine and strong and true rint dot this adventure loving companion of at rogues and vagabonds and corsel worse ile he gave cave an imploring gesture ah leonora it if only you would give thern diem up site she looked up with wistful eyes all effrontery abandoned 1 ed only the woman remaining tile the woman whom ahorn this man alone had the secret of perceiving in her in tills this indeed resided the lie true reason or r her fear of mooting meeting marlo he n I 1 disastrous to her peace of mine mina hex aei elf complacence when she li lt alteno tiDa eno i him satisfaction departed ind in iti sti ad came inquietude with the tt sh h to he be what ahat lie he would have lie hei to b what intuition told tier her she mid id e it if she would but sot set herself a 0 overcome her own resistance she searched ills his face in wonder ali ahn n he disturbed her so profoundly why did she like him film so much what vas mas it that gave hm power pomer to charm clearm tier her wits away discontent tier with all that had otherwise seemed excellent and complete make nothing of the steel of tier lier set purpose was it his love alone ite ile loved her she was satisfied of that but with such forbearance such on tenderness and understanding ot as left her incredulous in the street love was another thin thing entirely a fiercer cruder business brusque and selfish without disguise something open direct and casual but ns as essential as a meat and drink hut but hn was dif different Terent this love morin had bad for tier her yes and it wits was true what ahat he be asserted lie too was different there was no one like him so gentle and strong and brave fastidious reserved and thoughtful in her world vor he made a figure striking and incongruous yet lie lingered on obstinately in part lie he told her because it was iss his passion to study every side of life but mostly because he loved her and nev never er would willingly give up hope of winning her ile he would mould never leave he protested till she elie went with him Leo leonora noral I 1 lie pleaded come with mith me in a moment of determination she tried to put sentiment aside with a hard bard little laush laugh of scorn 1 I guess you dont understand red would kill me it if I 1 chucked him lie he would mould never find you where I 1 would take you to my home in spain or it he be ever did lie ie would mould not dare lift eais ei ag yg to you or know to in you a t 0 czi fv F wa 1 az k j c 4 11 7 you love me Leo leodora iora at last judy moving in the world for she he was born bom the girl he knew fig as leonora find and loved after ills his fashion with whatever feeling it Is lie he calls love come with me leonora and be your true bo balt if lite life can be beautiful lie he played shrewdly on her most secret weakness she was fond of believing bergelt somewhat better than her milieu through some gome romantic accident superior in point of birth as welt well aa what hat was undeniable in spirit and intelligence vistas of powerful se I 1 w tier lier contemplation at heart ell nil arraut arrant egoist she saw herself as site alie had seen oilier women in fit her birr excursions into tile hie linonis ur f llie lit voll to o ilo flo radiantly lit lu gowned at nil furred anil and jee heeled Jen cleil led lollin follin lolling folling ing insolently ina ID i luti limousine ouline cur car marlo at lier let sule side dres lri sied ed like u gentleman hut ut this vision violon wis was dissipated by recrudescence brude cence of 0 that fear which red inspired in linnem conviction that no earthly power could sale sac tier from lils his yo you u dont know inow red she shook lier her head cad solen solemnly jilly in a spirit of fatal leop prophecy allecy hed croak iou too lied hed croak us bodi marlo sallied faintly 1 I am not afraid P youre not afraid ot of dying what Is life without your love ile he had a moment who knows but death may prove infinitely more wonderful than this life of ours there Is lint but one way of finding out i slie she lioard heard him in a store stare the woman in her could hardly be unaffected by the handsome gravity of that extraordinary tra countenance whose salient features gained so much through that p play of deep simo shadows lows and dull light under the spell of his mentality she acknowledged now for the first time that he be wits was essential all else was lio thins and of a sudden care fastened cruel claws upon her heart and wrung front froni it a cry of self betrayal maibe youre not afraid marlo mario I 1 dont believe you are but I 1 am afraid for you I 1 go away you love me her hands bands lifted in protest lie caught find and Inci osea them both in his big own ills shadowed face and eyes grew luminous his sonorous accents vibrated with emotion you love me lite leonora at last ite ile was draw dram ing tier her steadily toward him all her strength seemed to have ebbed from tier her limbs there was madness in the beating of her heart beart madness mounting like mst mist into her brain now the fhe was in his arms and glad ills lips closed on hers bers for or a long breath slie site was a were mere was thin of reeling senses you love me 1 I dont know she murmured maybe tomorrow you will marry me and we will aill go away stung S by realization of what had happened slie she struggled to be free 1 I dont know perhaps yes I 1 will nut but not tomorrow not right away why 21 let me go ill tell you lie ile released her she stepped back shaken with love aej fright looking fearfully up and down the street 1 I cant marry you just yet ive got to break with red ked sos he wont know it him that broke with me and ive got other thin bilings s to do things I 1 cant tell you about mario things ive got to tend to before I 1 can marry you but you can trust me ive promised and I 1 will as soon as ever I 1 ran can 1 her voice quavered and she thrust out tier her hands bands fending off ills arms ilea please ilease se dont kiss me again please let me go now how if anybody saw us and told red ked ife he made a sign of submission As you will so be it leonora I 1 will see you again u when lien tomorrow ill give you it a ring about noon and fix to meet you uptown to n I 1 guess now ive got to run goodnight good night dear ile he uttered in resignation goodnight with a smile of fondness she turned and left him film her slight young figue flitting swiftly through the shadows beneath the lamp at the far street corner she turned looked back saw him motionless where here slie she had bad left him blin surmised I 1 his look of longing and waving a hand ran on wild joy in tier her heart contending with voth cold fear for now ste st e had find done it ond tl eret be the th devil to pay but it be helped though hell bell and heaven were leagued against them she would go through slie she always ditl oner once abe be got Star started tet and with marlo mario he knew it was as with tier her lie he too would mould go through now lie he knew she loved him though red and at all file world besides should try to stop him at length well out of her cohao coura she alle stopped imposed coherence upon lier ber thoughts got her hen hearings rings orld and started on anew in a cooling mood constraining herself to forget marlo mario and concentrate upon the bush ipsa tant waited halted for tier at tier her destination but tile self outside lier herself self of whose abose constant company she was wholly vil lolly ignorant never ceased to yearn back toward that gri gallant llant lonely figure they two had left behind in the quiet by street IV she turned sharply halfway half halt way down n block in the shadow of the elevated and with till the calm assurance of tier her lip ap parent kind entered what had once been a dwelling of some pretentious ness but now was dedicated to the th decadent uses of according to its pointed painted signboard table chote dinner with wine 1 luncheon goc 11 in the hie corridor at the head bead I 1 of 0 the first flight she turned to the b back ack of tile hie house anti laid a confident hand upon the knob of ilie lie furthest door it turned but tile the door was stubborn with a movement of impatience she knuckled the panels with a triple knock of peculiar timing A hurn hum of voices in it the closed room died away a heavy trend became audible a key grated the door swung open slie she went lit in nodding lightly to the man who had admitted tier lier and finding herself under tinder the concentrated regard of eleven pairs of eyes paused in the middle of the floor and struck a spirited pose good evening folks alpe my new rags the silence that answered her was broken after it a little by red Car carrighan richan who said heavily Il hollo lello kid sit down ignoring ills his invitation to an empty chair on oil his right she dropped tier her pose but remained where site she had stopped lifting tier her brows a little and reviewing eming the company with quizzical gaze though both windows were open closed shut shutters tern prevented any drought draught froni from vitiating tile the stuffiness of the private vate dining room a bedchamber bed bcd chamber in the intention of the architect in an atmosphere stilling with smells of food alcohol and a truculent per perfume furne the smoke of imitation turkish tobacco bung in lazy inzy lilac reefs discolored paper of a morbid pattern was parting in reluctant spirals front from the walls dust of decades weighed down tin an elderly carpet find and obscured its florid design scorbutic paint disfigured the fine old woodwork the roan man who had biad let leonora in having resumed his chair twelve were seated at a table littered with debris of a meal unclean earthenware plates and those high shouldered bottles of dark glass guiltless of labels which seem to ie be the sole habitat of the aln du pays anys so generally known as red lne in that to name it by this alias no longer excites a smile because of the beat all the men but one mr harry the nut had put off their coats an and collars while title the women had loosened their blouses at the throat sweat beaded faces of vario various S 11 complexions completions complex ions ranging from the sanguine countenance of red to the pastiness of charlie the lie coke leonora looking from one to another I 1 found oun d each with fill ahe he exception of reds sullen sollen of cast if not openly hostile she sketched a lofty smile the funeral red carnahan Carn ehan red of liend head and linnol hand anitllo beltle product as slender supple and sinewy as a snake ond and as deadly replied sufficiently no blodys yet and banin waved wave a firina toward the vacant chair cynt yon s sit down ue he added you youre I 1 re pre ty late what about it the girl flounced to the table and threw herself sideways into tile the chair english addie blonde blossy b ausy ond and fill 11 1 1 off led sprawled halt half across the table and without removing the elga carette front from tier her mouth spoke in accents of cloying affect affection lon flatly denied by tier her senti semi sober stare of jealousy lealou y maybe you wont mind tell iii us wat nilde mide you lite deorle dearie leonora experienced at qualm of misgivings givings had Rome somebody body spied on her rod nod mario and hurried ahead to tattle tattie so 0 o that was a matter between red ned and herself nothing to excite ill ili feeling in the ot others herit cut but red was apparently unruffled un ruffied although unusually subdued for him and perhaps a shade suspiciously impartial in ills his attitude she lied readily without a quer naming two alain clothes men she had noticed in the street of stran strange e faces bild corbin colbin camped me on the way here it if its anything lit in your young life addle addie dear ani bad to chase all 11 over to lose em you ditl did shake em ein kid sure red flern demanded with keen interest sure if I 1 I 1 be here bere now haibe maibe be 0 charlie tile the coke coe co e dra led I 1 li i vo vol as colorless s as the lesh flesh of lit MB face maybe pot not where do you ajl got get tit that at stuff S all this anyway I 1 want to know her eyes ranged again the array of free challenging ench each lit in turn and tatting no satisfaction fur for aall in ill own bin averted ills gaze with an all elpi espres CS pion more or less sheepish h and disconcerted all but red re d harry il it rry the N nut ut and inez the third and only other oman present well it nil all about start something somebody why dont you if onY things gone wrong let me in the know I 1 guess ive got as much right as anybody ll 11 the nut shrugged and with supercilious nonchalance selected another cigarette from froin till flat gold case he was fond of displaying a circumstance which according to ones bias might or might not be taken as inal indicating that the case had bad been honestly come by inez seemed eager to speak but red forestalled her its like this kid eddies been pinched tue the fact that the parson ta in question being under indictment for burglary had bad for time succeeded in remaining nt at large solely by grace of his loyal associates might have beon been thought enough to rob this alil announcement of some of its staggering quality put but to lo leonora it come as a genuine shock and she showed it istak ably no not she exclaimed and added adde of a 11 most unladylike phrase of r mixed ao 20 incredulity and regret squealed led just it inez affirmed significantly antly 1 I wonder who leonora needed a little time before she wag mris m ris able to couple the thinly vi cited animosity of the gathering to which site she had been sensible ever since entering with fill the tone employed by inez something which tills this lost last would ordinarily have lacked audacity to attempt then immediately her temper grew incandescent meaning rue me why lion hon 1 inez dra drawled led rounding tier her eyes whatever ha t ever made you think that hint cut but she committed the grievous error of trying to exchange with rod red a look of malicious understanding which leonora intercepted instantly never you mind what made tile me think that she said in cold rage 1 11 I get you I 1 aint blind and dumb but X INN za I 1 W iw wa W 6 want to know where you got those clothes take it from me inez you chuck it and chuck it quick if I 1 get one more word out of you trying to in make ake tile me out a stool pigeon it if bever I 1 ever see you look that way at red again your peo have no kick coming oh Is that so inez demanded with kj tit mistaken pertness what do you think do irish you leonora informed her sava savagely gely irish you till all need will be a wood kimono lined with satin and trimmed with tin and you know ill do it it too her small emphatic fist struck the table reds keds hand closed cm it rasy easy kid dont run rua away with the wrong idea 1 I w wont 0 nt dont |