Show lp zen 7 ne YD A NOVEL or OF bi robert stead J aar W M THE TH COW TH NEIGHBORS j TC C r STEAD CHAPTER XV continued phylus br brucca rather th r a nice dim name what was 1 I baying IY 97 oh am ea phylla I 1 ko grew to ilk uke b her very verr much but buit I 1 conduit i marry her you it know why denny you big big bov borl she obe murmured do you suppose barj man manlea hla his first choice it be has alwais seemed armed to me that a salonon saconon second choice 1 la a kieft makeshift kI ift it doean docant t am quite BAD square no I 1 few fan y some a second choices choice am re really orin first choices choice tt faau comes with experience I 1 vou f know biot As at any by rate I 1 coulden couldn I 1 marri 3 her while A Y heart was yours T suppose not alie ie answered red r und ad again he noted a touch to bell or of weariness wo ruiess in her voice I 1 know something of what flat divided affection it if one mie eat can eve even sa a it as d divided i mentis I 1 am A he denev a I 1 uli 1 auf make its it a conf confession I 1 I 1 knew kinen vou w would ll 11 come A bulk back I 1 atkas dr nas A eure am ann would old come came back I 1 then hear I 1 said to my by if fail see a this his AM man n G grant M at as tie he Is and the reality will III c clear i c at my b brain eat of 11 II 11 till this tit which 1 r have wole about be A him and so an I 1 he have encouraged you to room come here fi I 1 haie been meed mic unconventional I 1 know but I 1 was elweis mhd t I 1 have 4 a I 1 1 your tim ditt and dab dena 1 I nui so als app 1 l pointed red V disappointed then the mirage has to A cleared an at 0 on the contrary it grows grew more distorted A led every clely der dar I 1 bee A you foa ran tower I 1 ing at have above all 11 our fellow humans reaching aching up into a heaven so an tvr fir share above the them th that the they A door e even know of its existence I 1 see new ran ou as 5 really mally the ad n an the hill the idealism which hieb I 1 thought must fade away 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wro now for far nothing nothing nt n t bill in ill the shot ft hole world but at od tills quler quivering ig womanhood his mn arms ian ou must to io she he at jt it 1 IB late ana ad frank 4 habits are somewhat rw what erratic he be held her at arms length ills head upon pan her shoulders shou In dudra 11 do vou ppe p p tant ill fe fear of f anything an muke make roe me bin render r v vou A now not not ft tear perhaps I 1 know it could lit not net be I 1 tear but A senie arrola mav do it it nas aa not nor mil flat that made tile me send semi nou h home s I 1 aly fron from your pre previous ious calls it as a obi oh j lie a old eald a new law d dinning waa and he marveled atala 1 at her 1111 ea AA ada arthur hot but I 1 must tell lu ann she he allied pank it jr leaves on A business balance trip to M morrow night he will tie be run e tor far cine thas time and ad I 1 balf motor into film tion to 6 see him fill off AN I 1 am A ld crAg hurt about NV V 1 asi n blie hui i fail on a A HE thuarl not net 4 bain to seiph hep lards words shrah will ill he be a av t am tier Z xa hive blittle B little holiday and I 1 cont take lake ailion it into far town to with me are it 11 oi hlll I 1 I 1 I 1 be M let late the ihen wah ill a linear A of f r ofa she b spoke dioro a callb birli A IN ion I 1 billy if UK rea ifa no nn dennis 1 rank cook dica t know knore 1 have lot isarah harall 10 60 and ad 1 I 1 I van RAD t no ex dluhi her face share bhone pin and warn A in 11 tire hie fand as he s the A at glow wt of ingafu of f har avoids d antl aol I 1 upon him film ernnt awn inanely amrel c I 1 hot brair S of A f tire the gods and which could old bring rudi hit amr to he tout fi f I of at wan A tender ness such us as he had bad never have known sul but farad him her herow presence a IBAY holy bri bring the bov bar over ff and let rie the he algat ill me W we arf are sered frest chalot mid and we a shall 1111 get 1 aloni I I pl CHAPTER xvi orind orani spent his S ad forenoon I 1 Is IB an n sh tile it u bud fam puts life t on lh the in faran I 1 it not at conduct conducive to d dom domele tle dellacy bey when h r he h wa able to view is his hi bedi work with a feeling that first en lead nine eyes would find nothing to offend grant tit did an unwonted thing N hr wd unlocked clord the whim oblin main and opened tit the windows ad that the fee fresh 11 11 might irish play through the silent chamber NA ben behe bebe had full luched bed and 4 dressed ile he twit toot A troll it over or the en hills 1 IN thinking a great deal be but 0 lefing no an AA 0 on lit h lie desi descried ried the be familiar bair of under linder la in a kinal ant m oa the pah and ad under linder awall well worn aim mr car to in tire the how goes it linder lie said old ell cheerily 1111 as AN he ame A A up IN ih the he big lit idea going in fructify the fire big lit idea seeing acon to be all 11 right you yon planned it ft 11 well wall pa T bel bu but I 1 I 1 ie it if art going to be elf ork 1 M mean 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sons an account no oll need of that he can rue t ta it the held field with ith an on A prince he if 1 IB a great help with fill tire lie plowing I 1 at bure a she topped stepped up to grant and ad dw drew the h bv bov face it down to hers good court bv be dear deal be a good boy she 0 whispered and IN allson ilion wn waed ed kisses hisses to her he as the tha motor part down the he road cold undertook under tooh his departure tare soon boon after and it grant was surprised ned to old find him self elf almost 1 I 1 an embarrassed A sed in n the pres prea ence or of his little guest where here to start wrt on an the bedtime prep nestle rations was a P purzle pie ie but im him self elf came to grants aid ili with explicit instructions all about buttons and fir pins a Y tou A mint it A licar or mv prove p raver uncle man fan on in cheh ill a said I the be boy you tow 1 bay have 1 to sit it down dawn 1 in a cliatt fr ehl grant sit t down and atti th a stanze mixture of emotions drew draw the little chap between his knees as he listened to the long forgotten for cotten prattle at tire the third line the boy stopped lou an have to tell me am now maw he prompted but I 1 esoni cant willie I 1 have to for gotten am hull hub von van don t know much the child d and glibly quoted tire the remaining Alg I 1 lines N and god gad ide bless badde baid ad kf mimms oaid ad tedda bear and ad tuch man on the hill aill old and tire pig amen alto I 1 he concluded the h tast f word ord with a jump which IA I 1 e ads landed wh h him fm ehly in grants lap HI little arm arms went A up hl s nock neck and ad lilt 11 little if e cott it cin cheek rented of a to tanned A it and weather benton one A slowly 1 grant arm arms closed about bill w he fhe warm illa UKI and presses 11 to his in a low paton strange and ad tiala aid th taimi he be led IM him to ill the A ilni him room turned down the white hire ili in ach n alch no I 1 r boriff had e pier III inan flail ad in placed ad the I 1 ho bet een 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