| Show ZEN ON OF O N THE IL JL M E Y 0 CHAPTER XVI XV continued I 1 fa th the nainie of ph phillia bruce mine fame to asim with almost a shock knock he had bad been BO a eckand occupied set ni hia far farm and ad edhah fin with zen that he bad noth thought ight but little of her of late As lie turned the mat at tor ter over in his rated mind now he fr felt I 1 that he had iise and phyllis rather grant lit in a cigar still and bat ant dust down to make and think the matter ol of needed ceded prompt formal settlement Bett lement it aftel deda K means to burn fee bridges behind him and great tilt that I 1 it would be just ne aa well to cut at air if all of retreat fortunately tile the situation was one that could be ex id ined to fibrin lie he had bad told himself back in those days in the east flint it would old not dot he felt fair to marry try phillis B bruce while like his henrt heart was s lie ile lind had bo be it that tile alien now he knew tile the real reason was that he led allowed himself hini elt to hope all reason ream list 7 zen tr div vet be me his he had bad harbored anchored a an M unworthy by desire and mile called d it a virtue A well ell the die was cast he tied had definitely lie Y ghen zen zan un he donld till I everything that thai I 1 ta she he needed to know it would be beat to a settle it kt at once tie the I 1 so sooner a tier the better he meet benr to his desk and took out writing paper he addre sd a note to illia pon pill dered a minute kate in a giant hush bush in tile the storm and arte 1 I 1 am sure mare now lie mai I 1 come comet den ilon 1 this him done it he be I turned iid id to the tele role phone lame hurring 9 as an one me tie lw t beara a for far the duration of if him hia good resol resolutions timen he gae A a the number lumber of laidre a rooms mines to ID fredit town it was likely linder had bad remained oil I 1 in town loan hut but it was a question wes has whether the telephone ball would aid wakes waken his him he had ree lifter lims or of lander as 11 a 0 bound old sleeper hot but men a as am this kim raa possibility hinty entered his him mind lie heard lindel a bolm 1 in at alb air oh ob under linder 1 1 I 1 in so BO glad I 1 got vou re pis a message I 1 want drill del hered ered to miss mile brace under lt lio den darl there was no an anwer answer nothing thang but a bellow empty sound on an the w ire ns as th though ugh it led into the on universe 1 verme in general he tried to call the oper star ator but without success tile the wire KM lown lie he turned frocks it with a sense of cute a I 1 impatience plan W aa this him A an omen me or at ole obstacles cles to bar him now new from ph brucel bruce sudden suddenly y came a quick k knock kat at the ah door the Ini dle itlie turned and ad ft nInd fai thoi figure with if libOi mind led wet act be hair and it while title drawn draw farb face burat I 1 in upon ill him it waa ZA Z n Tian Tion itley alay CHAPTER zen 21 how 1 is tim he lano how 1 la ilsun he demanded sound as A u bell he answered alarmed by her manner III 1 lie self assured led Z was I 1 f fur from self belt assur tile now cone come see make he Is asleep ile he ltd id her late into ill the wk ahn room 1 and ad t turned i card up the lamp the lad vas wa leeping e cialli soundly his lemily bear clasped in his arms hia has little pink and white face serene under tile the tangle skies of imbiana ImbI and to ant expected that flint zen would old throw ks if upon pan the child in m her b but she did d not a S t e drew tie her jung s mantly gently a iao h his 1 s brow biff then turning to giant RR bather r na im unceremonious way to ber it into your house tilie she wid bald with atle A little lausch I 1 hope you van a ill pardon su s I 1 was us anany bout about ft it II OB but lell we how ubbie did iou in tome is 1 17 7 from town tawn I 1 st et me stand in your kit kitchen ili or ans I 1 bek dosu lite wet through I 1 can cant I 1 offer fattu an ell ahm I it jiel met bt As besa yon yen hist flat nw al me slie he bal old willi I 1 smile i ill 1 I I 1 guiv good waterproof but my her hat faase off me h A roker too biere on an the ile read mud I 1 we ia sw tit rouKh the lie windshield As 0 o I 1 put I 1 awad out and amay auay it il ent 1 1 I he as hat thea the bell laughed lne hoil and ad an at aninos pher that had been tense began to ettle ill back to grant led tier lier out to the ill lulof awn removed loved hor her met coat mal anil imbed ness they bat ant la in kiltin flentke ter tar floirie tire lime and nd they be bers became enere on are of B fray 97 light the yellow if glow from tile the i lamp am and the he ruddy roddy them of if tile firs are it 11 Is in hamming bald grant 1 I bellee believe the be jwia be bs tie cleared ill if he food beside her their chair and ad took he her hied hd I 1 in ids hia LOI let th us nelch at tile die baua her ise im I 1 he mountains an tie he mid aid and ad together ili liny 11 1 anvid 1 d 1 to 1 alie as windows ad I 1 bubl he I 1 too overlooked tie of ahe A kellk fallry and it the RI am 1 16 1 runes 6 blynd already halts of crimson lekht were filim the die altered att rated ered drift of at lud far over or herd head Deak ablon hs he sold said at least li turn lura ing her felt face 1 to liln him 1 I hope you will unit mixed int but I 1 h have flu it all 11 fer ever I 1 rose have bol at hidden my luy heart froia you F for the file hoi bill wk and for your me make bake and for far tile like inke A of f a amr or ahm was what the war wab over t it I 1 know lie a whispered whimpered 1 1 l I line know ihen ion he ba been thinking tork toot I 1 is itin bd glad in the e light he could old tf arm mo 1 tit 1 in aft be bright air gelstin and it seemed to him this wild ild daring dough tor bu of tk akui hiir bills had bad new blen awn formula A novel of the foothills by ROBERT STEAD author ol of the th a cow pun puncher chee the a homesteaders etc Cal makila in br ROBERT STEAD than in this moment of confession rm ajon and of big resolve 1 I 1 am BO 80 glad blie bill repeated for your ank sake and od tor for in mi own now again g I 1 I 1 you u are r really cally tile the his an the hill we hn ha been in the ily of late irto lou I 1 on can go BO ahead now with your you bah plans with your big idra idea IOU ion will ill murry marry miss bruce and target forget 1 I shall remember with chasteney chastened chat chast ened memory but I 1 abala never diget he slid eald at length 1 I shall bell never let l target forget aen of if tile Y D and you yon what pleat will you yen do I 1 have tile the to bo I 1 did abc it ure how much I 1 had find until suit sud dedov it came me upon we me that he waa sea event everything bing you wont want understand dennison but as 5 we grow older our or hearts crip up around our children with R Q lole loe quite dif different terent fr from that which expresses itself jn he this love bile ches gives give gives lavishly unselfishly asking nothing thi thing in return 11 I 1 think I 1 understand it lie bald aid again I 1 think I 1 do they turned their e aea ez to the moun mean falls and its as I 1 they bey I 1 looked ill the e ali millis of sunlight fell on an tile white peaks old and set at them dazzling ilk like mighty diamond points point against the blue besom bosom ol of the ll ft kad est it ft i Is morning on an the be mountains and on an you brunt trel zen you yen ore are very very ery beautiful HO he raised tier hand baud and pressed tier her im fan gets to hla him lip lips As am they load blood watching tile sunlight pour into ain the a sharp knock sounded on in the door come came old dennis denelson Denn lson m and the t moment it enung open and Pl ivill bruce entered followed immediately by linder A question leapt into her eves at the re mark mariable mar bable his a situation t u a tl m which greeted used wili thion them and kii she e p paused a in reent grant exclaimed you here it would world seem act that I 1 we was not at ex parted it in nil 11 very simple grant ex with a laugh I 1 title little NN 1111 Tra Tran niley sicy n es my 1117 guest on account of tile the storm his ha mother be came caine alarmed lar rd and droe dra A 1 out I fro rom tie eg aly this morning lor far hin him nice airs Trani lev let me introduce miss M A bruce role philla arme of whom here I 1 have told you zen s cordial handshake handi hale did more to res rea tsure philis phi ills tell an adv amount of explanations end and timely ob b berv a atlon the that t it he L knew yin V alson n as the there are and ad nas mas wondering about him had valuable a lualle corroborative effect but now eav bour eipl mat honsl said kid r mir G grant at he how canies conies k it limit hample enough gh from our elde do I 1 got foul our telephone call all II 11 I 1 could catch was the fact that iou ion were war mighty glad I 1 to get me a nd ad had bad some oak urgent meshac me shae tor far miss arru bruce a lace alie it connection acle I 1 gee am and you of course murad insured miss mile bruce that I 1 was being murdered or meeting some same such happy and et ef fee ending anding an our here in tue rue hildri I 1 I 1 not that but I 1 reported koh atut ori J could on d a and n it ulas insisted apo upon coming out at 1 a tile 1 roads I wre were dreadful but we limit imd dill light also we have a trophy lie amder let went im out I 1 and returned in a moment with a sadly badly bedraggled hat my poor hat Z zin fumed 1 I 1 lt lost it on an ill atie war it I 1 fa the beat kind of e evidence that you yen im had it but recently recen recent tl li came assent e over oer the road said under linder 1 ut 1 I 1 think ink no I 1 more n kikm need end be called said aid Ili illis may I 1 lay off my mv th ings get Y certainly grunt gnon akin apolo kited but bill I 1 in must I 1 introduce A duc a one ke more lure he be handed im tier tile the aide b he hd had written title annn tile the night atia that 1 Is the he roes naffe I 1 wanted red L ln der to lo nith ab to lie he said baid and a as she all read it lie saw linw the color deepen tie epin in lie lier cheeks ire I 1 m going to make breakfast mr it grant zen i mitti ith a sudden burst barka of energy keep out or it e I 1 kit 1 III fred feed up for you ion lilt tills morning barrun old lisp aid I 1 inder know ugly at tile door he be at e meed ined bok I 1 think lk l k 1 mian I scale brine lias nell g to say any to you he added r agrimi 11 i they were vve alone and den delfiro 1 he gill her hand bond 1 in his him end and t led her to in t the a F ren 1 window s T the be run was figun ifill the ill arlev with tin a 8 flood of aller an and there one hag funi hine to too 1 n 1 tie is h henrt of De dennisnj Denni sni clear lie he tied had dl dunk k life cup cap of A but lie he lind ad wt not dreamed that ul of the bottom lie a phoil so flo beautiful philil he be breathed n he reached ren clied out rt a lake abier her 1 in his him aran in bik but bill bhe he held field him kenily way when I 1 be looked in her eye erem face wb on me DC bank baik at him through rear oli D denny may yi u annei anne I 1 im BO ask ony marly you kni ken w low ou have b been t to tier lie but you won were so an sons long M tone long I 1 Y dwy t promised under linder in the 4 davit that followed Dr annall great grant drunk drank hla him cup cap of re renunciation fall see anew he worked till his field felds eaily all and late he noted meed the tin martin of smoke ke like ancene e from zen r coe it lamn tage on but he be went cut no is ms m the a anley Pr home than glen the tha end of in MB furrow forms he had bad handed wk baik trans transit e B w 1 wife trum frum ill clr edge edee of the th byu he ha had made up hla him mind led that much ili was sell settled I 1 ad III I 1 he battle that raged within him now amov watered centered about under linder and bruce eibers ft hen he had recovered from the first shock of phyllls phyllis revelation and was vai able to think larkely lie he we was sine that her heart might still be his if he went after it and took it it a was another case caie of 0 a mn man bene being worth himself ills salt but under linder was a not grunda 1 r inslee ile he bed pared ernsley could he be less lesa generous with lindell and sell t with of if Pl Ullis would she be happy with Lb linder ollar then truth stood up before him in the to furrow w as lie ike plowed its slow length one hazy say summer afern af afternoon and called him a hypocrite lie he heard tile the olce ua as clearly as ai tile the of his larsek horses on their bits try hypo po crite ailed inith to him J aara ion coile A treat great virtue of law bour generosity I 1 to linder lilly the that while in 1 I vou an Imi continue time to ako anc zon truest down by the river a I 1 of sm smoke ke wound and upwards upward from tile the ch chimney hacy and even as am grant looked art it lie ina an AD automobile trail trailing our dust about the lie shoulder he 1 der of his hll hill it was as trues trans ley antu returning ig to his home Tra niley a wife had fortified he her good reso resolutions luthen behind un on outburst of activity ti ity but there mere w ere times when w hen it the rile ing to be quito quite alone fee where she could re survey or ev he her life and bask bak for a moment 1 in tile alie luxury leury ot at till oil imaginings beame irresistible on mah su h kner occa stona bm glie ile would old fall follow the road mail that skirted the cliffs of the river book bank to a point where here it turned it fr the basin of a now deserted quarry ibe old quarry toy ley on the edge of tile the atil fill like a cup from which a side mile had broken and fallen let into the river rier which boiled 1 in a green foam fee s hundred feet below use onla alv access to ties this cup cap was by the rod no longer nard w hirla zen had chosen for tier her solitary rambles ble once inside the qu quarry she nas I 1 isolated from tile the world here hr her vision could sweep the sloping loping bluffs bliff arms across ahn le phyllia phyla he breathed the vaclev or the ircle drle of blue sky at alove 01 I 1 and her th thoughts meld could rove re at win will without I 1 r a I 1 pett le t of being inter arr the hie road mail by elie ile e en I 1 rated the he CLR we was the rise road rand bv w mav 1 intruder I ad must anat emer ait it 11 ana A A also us ika u zen was audd suddenly Bud denly 11 I 1 to dI fLOer tile the kl only ady tod road anaf by which on one n con could id escare escape it w is up upon it the ft etien be I 1 aruth confronted f domain Dpn nisin I 1 in kruth his 1 furrow I t that at an ande ill that hot discovery kalf tusks corn cont for the dika dav she ah shured tin tile fr fruit I 1 at ill ians tie aiom her and thanferd than feed lailla lie lier frk and ad look the lie now new I 1 in tier trall frail up to the quiny I 1 H J be bulk in un an hour she h told d b bh airali h ilk 1111 suing 1 9 to the ju just a to I 1 coif of and ad I 1 in vire to my son juul tile the so hirt upon sidrah kill abo be took refuge in tin hot hiir s gift ia of 1 ailese A at a p po nt it where here ile the road rose high aro enough okill tu to rho view of st the 1 I tin rounding iley mile etie stopped and swung a blow linof guilty ganne 0 to tile tiie mouth waid ahert T sure was us tile the kid ulle elough 1 plow I ft team of at die dinnison i brune w warping irani ift its alow 1 tile bulk baik und and ran onti 1 adu a tile the blow blown inirio tor kill a hm luna she slie ra fe he her et ain tier lier be lart rb ajen r it tier lier slow low course to hi the quarry inside the its 9 great it cup like wan Is ou A son blau of a bense of minority zin an seated in a half even ing on all A lacut nt it ank and ad fell into a do dali daam the buile with sog ea the ink poo pr of at white it to clouds w hi h it alne A aros the ailt line of blue sky iky alone above her Perli erhan apa 1 il a ws wi ill limauro am ut of the pa pl rhou bah balch elie he is bad 4 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