Show F 7 VI Y 0 D CHAPTER X C continued 0 thi mcf 1 1 3 1 I know in whit I 1 I 1 you yen m mo mean O she he said III tile thou a too much march servility 1 in it and let at oue one amov lcy these co courte mid Blea 1 bud and not let be senile afla I 1 always bird your year rather father rod and he be knew I 1 did it bee because I 1 wanted led to not because I 1 had to and I 1 shelf d do th the same rome w I 1 you yeat once im we a understand tand each or other h er 1 I think chink we As can accept that as working beat basis he agreed red she produced notebook and ad pencil s erv a well ot 1 air do ou on wish to die dic ter late gr grant afiafi found a little apartment on a bide aide street itella overlooking the he take lake here was a place where in the vi I 1 mo ion could leap pop out at without It hd being healon beaten back bach bv be barti barricades codes of atone and ad briell he rested rented his eves erms on the distance and assured the inveigling ift I landlady ft in that tile the rooms lonam would do and he would arrange tor for decorating at his own expense p rise A As he was arranging the books on his shelf a clipping with the account of Z zui n aI s wedding edding fell to the floor door lie he set bat down dean in his chair rod and read it slow I 1 ly ill tough rough later he m went eat out tor for a fonlk it was in his long lone walks that grant crant found tile only real comfort of his me new lire to he be sure sum it wenet was like idle ran roam ins tie t the he foothills there we was out not the tift it breath of the chinook I 1 nor the deep a silence of t the he nat mighty dily val all levai but bar there liters was use movement OF men I 1 bud and freed freedom OR and it 6 chance to thin think it the city offered Artil leiRl attractions in 1 the foot feet hills bills had not competed faultlessly kept parks park bud and lawns laune splashes of Perfo perfume perform om and color spraying too foun talus and strains of 1 music I tie he reflected that some merciful pt pran tip ciple ie of compensation has made no place quite its and no ph place r lit en tare lv undesirable he remembered a also 1 0 the toll of his life in the saddle th the e physical hardship b a the strain of long h hours ones and broken weather eather and here her too in a different way may he be was in the emiele and lit he did not it know which strain grain ants w ag the greater he was use beg beginning doing to have bale a miller bier regard for the men in the saddle of bust busl bee ness the world d saw only their suc mr less cess or it mav be their pret pretence pre tence ne of success but chwe ther was use A different story from all that which each a of the them could have told for himself OR on tills evening ph when his mind had b been suddenly turned let into did channels by the finding of the newspaper clipping cupp h OR dealing with the wedding mcd ding of Y IDS D daughter grant walked tar far into the outskirts of the lit alti P 3 1 little attention to his course it me was let late october the leates leaea lay thick on the aid and through gh the parks park there are P was I 1 in fall 1 the air it t list strange image bad ad sweet dreariness of the dying summer great grant had bad tried brill heroically ily to keep bep his thoughts away from film we G le a W ito ife the past had come came back on him had bad rather engulfed him in that title little newspaper clipping he be let himself wonder where the slit was F ass and whether nearly a year of married life had shown her the tolly folly of her bar decision he twit took it tor for granted that her bar it decision had been folly and he ar r rived at that limi position tion without any reflection upon up T ay iy only oly ac zen had been in loe ioe with him with him dennison De nalson grant I 1 sooner somer or later she ile roust most disco discover er the tragedy of that feet fact and yet he toll told th envall he be was big bl m enough ou sit to an pop hope 1 she I e might never dit I 1 ah most bruce I 1 beg your adon aa aled to a u cover it it would be best beat that she should hould forgot forget him a a he had bud almost t lot gotten en lier bar there was waa DO doubt th that at would id te 11 lost and yet let me there was wait delightful dona I 1 in thim thinking king of her alu all anil hoping that rome daus dahe day w at never able to complete the thought lie he had bad hem been walking doun dona 4 street of ft al dt homai the bare bale trees trec at pd I 1 into in I a city clear car and blue with ill H 1 fiaai I ch chill presage ot of plater A quick step felt fell unheeded by hit his side tile the girl passed hesitated then turied and 1 I 1 ke y you am re preoccupied mr me grant on oh mus bruie bruce I 1 beg your pardon I 1 am ui glad to gw e you even at that I 1 moment he pact hai been libi of if zen nd ad he h put more mom cordiality lot into ahli nords mord be h intended but ht be he had his krown green to hav re fard aid on na her at lotrn account for this un an A novel of the foothills by ROBERT STEAD author cuth of the cow puncher the homesteaders neighbors etc Coet cortright right lit by ROBERT STEAD bual laud girl who be was ale not afraid of him he had found that she bhe we waa what hot he be called it e it a good head 11 she could lit take a detached view she was absolutely fair she an was not let easily flustered her step had retire fallen into swing with his you do not often arm visit our part pact of the ile olt cili she essayed you live lire here hepe nearby arby will ve vou mine come to see 71 tie he turned BIG her at a c corner amer and they we went up P a narrow or street some 1 lying deep in dead ae leaves a friendly domestic could be caught through windows tile la 11 our home site she said atop ping before a little gate grants brant 8 ee follo followed ned the pathway toa to a cottage college set get back among the trees 1 I live lire into with mith mv sister and brother and ad moth main er father to Is dead she went ment a on poll hur friedly as though wishing ailing to place be role ore him a quick 1111 digest of 11 th the da h lod affa affairs and ad I 1 we h keep cep up tile the home ch lit hi living on with mother as boarders boar a r d dera e lin bonal eraas that I 1 Is arme and ad I 1 do hubert U b e r Is still la in high school wont you come me in ile he followed her up the path and into a little hall all halted Iteli ted only bv chance role raa falling through a halt half opened door she did not switch conch on the co current reent and grant ans as music of a comfortable se sense of her ber nearness quite distinct from uni nw office allies expert ence as a she took his lent hat in the liv lit ing room her mother received him with V visible b Is surprise she was waa not old but widowhood and the cares cam of aung a loung family had whitened her hair before its time I 1 IN a are glad to see TOU too M mr grant she said it la Is an unexpected ideas ure ore big business men a do not net often sir mr grant giant is different her ter daugh dauch ter interrupted lightly 1 I found him bill wandering tile the streets stream and I 1 just retrieved him 1 I think I 1 am a different he admit ed as his eie took in tile the surround ing which he appraised quickly as ai modest comfort attained through many my little economies economics and makeshift phd ills I 1 Is Is 1 a mat great help he p to me mand m and grace the mothr oloe Pit 1 I hope she is 18 a good girl in the office at tills this moment grace and ad hubert came tn in from the picture show to either and the conversation turned to lighter topics mrs bruce insisted on a serving tea ra and cale and when grant found too ad that he must go phi ills accord aenied ahn to the ile gate this all 11 beems earn so a funny she he was wa saving lou are a very remarkable man 1 I 1 think I 1 once passed a similar idu allor opinion about iou ou she extended her head hand and ad he held it for or a moment I 1 leal hae a not changed my first opinion he said aid as he re leased her fingers and rimmed quickly down the pavement flocculent CHAPTER XI grants grant first visit tell to the home of his private stenographer was not hla big last and the news ew leaked out GOT as it 1 is sure Is to do in such filch cases the social a set a confessed to being on the point of being shocked two ral schools of criticism developed over ater the tile the 0 clock tea tables one held that grunt great we was a gay dog who would lul when settle down dean end and marry in his class case when ie had had I 1 his fling g and the other that bruce race was an artful hussy who was quite ready to sell bell herself h era elf for the grant million and there them were ao 0 man eligible young women on the market although none of them were puts described as 88 fa artful bussies hussies hus sies rant s behavior blI or he however her r placed him under nc cloud in so far an m social opportunities were concerned on the contrary he found himself being show ile ered emd w with ith I 1 invitations it a on most of which hilb he managed to decline on n the grounds of pro pressure of TOM when such an excuse in e would have been too trans parent he be accepted and made the b best eat of ft 1 1 and ad h I 1 found 1 no 11 lack of I 1 in the in one or at two incipient amorous aural flurries will which ch Trial ted arme such positions pisit tlona ions he always suc sm carded in extricating himself with a quiet t mile at the vagaries of life he had to dealt admit that some of the amm foung women whom allow he had met had be of at more than passing moment he might 11 easily enough ugh find himself thou chas ing big the rainbow w attention but his attention was use at 1 once 1 to lie be turned tied to be wry vary different matters matter A stock block IT market erratic fur for some dave dava went suddenly ud denly y into a paroxysm grant cup it a with ith a as little lose loan a as possible pofi elble for or it tilma itself elf end and his clients unit anil arm after time three a sleepless called ill lila staff together they crowded inlo hito the hoard board room curious at al most at and he looked over them with will an enno emotion that that mas quite new ew to tile lili esperi experience ence even choa in the he bih their Gands lil had bad made ad it necessary for him to adopt there them had grown berlin up in his heart he quite unnoticed a tender sweet OOs of love ive for th these rica old and momen who fare ere part of h his m mach clint Dit now low he be looked ad in their face he realized how bow like I 1 1 tile child children r bit they leased leaned 0 on lid him ince how like little children they feared till his power and his hi how per imps hop like alk little run children tire it they had learned to love lave lit him too ht he d as he had never done before that they were a children 1 dran that thai her here and there them erke in the M mass of humanity la Is one who was wait born to lead but the great maw mass limit itself must br be children aldaya al vaya doing a as th they y are am bid M my friends tie be managed to say we a suddenly find ourselves in tre mo nedion times sum some of you know my bit attitude I 1 toward this business I 1 in which we are engaged I 1 did not seek it I 1 tried to avoid it ft yet when able the re al am was forced upon itman the me I 1 be ac elidee elided that responsibility I 1 gave up the life I 1 kitred mitred the environment in ID bach I 1 found delight the friends I 1 I 1 loed well our nation is now a in a Bom similar position it has to go into a business which it did not at seek of which it does not at appione app ioie but which olt fate has thrust upon it it has a to break oft off tile current of its be life bud and turn it into OdB undreamed Bd of ch channels 1 an and me e ns de wl who in a muke make up the nation must do the same nine I 1 have already v enlisted ft and expect ct that with alad nid atille in a few e hours I 1 shall e bt bit in uniform some ot of you are single me men of mill tarv age you yen on w I 1 am sure are take Blai llor steps for the rest the bual best mesa will be wound cold up as a soon pl pos bible so that vou ma may be mrs released for some form of national indicted service ire you will III all r receive ile three months month salary in lieu hem of ont notice mr me lidh will look it after the details when that has bee been done my wealth or such pirt of it as a remains will still be placed nt at the III of the government if we at win it will be well invested in a good baue an Is it if we me lose I 1 it I 1 would mould have hale bee been in lost am wv no one knew lut how tile the meeting broke up hot but grant had a confused remembrance of many handeli handclasps hand clasps tain and nd some tears he was use not sure gore the that t lie had not added one or two tuo to the flow but they were all 11 tears team of and of an small emotion born of high resolve As ai lie he stood in his own we 1 office 11 1911 again i trying to get the great evena of f tb these last few days dars into some sort of perspective phyllls eruce bruce entered he motioned continued ambi to ro a chair but she ehe mine came and le stood by h his desk herlacher her face was very ry white little end and her lips trembled with milk the words she tried to utter I 1 ran can I 1 go she managed to say at length an t go 7 I 1 don I 1 understand hubert lias has joined she said hubert the lie boy I 1 why by he Is on only I 1 Y I 1 in school beat ile he is ig sixteen and birge for his nee age he edme en me home coref confessing ing and sav bar ing it mas his first lie and the first important thing he be iner ever did without consulting mother he mid he knew he wouida I 1 be able to blind it it if he told her first foolish but heroic beroll grant elm corn meet dented be it be proud of him it takes take more timan alinn wisdom to be heroic and grace Is going to england abe he was a taking tailing nursing you know and so BO via gets a preference we can I 1 bit all test leave mother other tie he found it difficult to you wanted aenied to 1 go to tile the front I 1 he be man DOG I 1 end aged of course where riser her hand band was on the teak desk his big own ov slipped over until it closed im it on it you are ft a little heroine he mur lured aured I 1 no I 1 OT in not I 1 in a 9 little fool fall to tell you this but how bow can I 1 at stay why aby should I 1 atay when phen you are IT goner T she u was as looking down but after her she bhe raised her ale eves to ills big and he mon wondered dered that he had ne never e known he how beautiful she was wag ile he could have hava taken her in his arms arma but something with the doler cower of invisible chains held him back 1 in tbt hit su eu preme moment a 1 vision en am before him a vision me or of ft mountain stream backed by taunt foothills and a girl as beautiful a elm this phyllls phyllis who had wrapped him in tit arms 2 and it said we must go 90 8 ad d forgot forget and he had not lot forgotten when he did not r respond she din drew herself slowly away you will bell aate vac me she tie said it riat 1 Is impossible isible he be corrected quickly 1 I am very borry barry if I 1 have let y you it think more mom the than I 1 intended I 1 care tor for you wry very sety much indeed I 1 care for you yon so much that I 1 will not net let 0 ou u think I 1 care for you more can you u n delain that T yea as you like me but you love few some one a else se IS he a u was as abl dbl concerted ted by bv her intel i alon a and n it the I 1 terse terie frankness frank nesa with vo st eed walh hah she he the coca case 1 I will I 1 take ke you into my comp confidence tence ph rills I 1 if f I 1 mor mav he said bald at length 1 I do like you yo I 1 did love mom some one a else elm and that old attachment Dhun mu Is 1 still in so an strong that it would be hardly fair it would be hardly fair didat you yen marry her she he demanded becalm lie cause wine iome we one at else did 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