Show I 1 the ac I 1 I 1 he i ic 1 I 1 mm man with V e p 1 three names S I 1 V V ciza V W V I 1 it V i sy 7 le it N harold mac macgrath X i Q by bell syndic atla service CHAPTER X continued 11 with every drop ot of blood in ID him with every fiber ot of ills his manhood 1 where did he first see me ho he saw you in london one night at the savoy savor restaurant the following afternoon you went aboard the same ame hip fill 1 I knew it I 1 know knew that I 1 had wen en him somewhere lie he t know who I 1 was not at that time just saw nio me ln wonder just that lie ile went to your father the next morning and asked it if he might pay court to you your father looked upon the affair as a great joke not being able to gouge gauge sonny ile he made a sardonic proposal and bonny accepted it he was w as to come to bannister and make a name for blin himself self the newspaper presently became an obligation and recognizing that he be saw that he must give you up 1 I understand I 1 searched the crowds for him I 1 studied every new face I 1 saw strained my ears for some sign and add even now but for nancy rd never hai have e known ill 1 I tried to make you love me there was a pause the namo name of digby hallowell will mean nothing to you but your father would recall it my husband was a thief betty and he died in prison A the most unforgivable kind and shall my father sit in judgment on son Eon nys asked betty quietly y but go on 1 I was born in the south but tt at the age of ten I 1 was taken to europe by an aunt who saw that there was music in me that I 1 possessed interpretative preta tive lye genius my parents were dead I 1 studied in carls purls berlin leip ilc vienna all tile the masters suld that I 1 had a brilliant future when my aunt died the annuity which supported us ceased automatically but most of the beautiful things you see in this room fell to me I 1 had enough for the necessaries of life and a little amusement besides somehow I 1 had lost america I 1 was in the garten in vienna one afternoon when a very handsome man in the early thirties sat down in ili a chair near me me some children were playing near by one of then them stumbled and tell fell and the stranger sprang to 10 its assistance brushing the bruised knees poor little codger lie he said in english and at once I 1 knew that he was an american I 1 was alone in the world eighteen and bubbling with romance I 1 met him again and again oh I 1 loved him he fie was charming ile he was mad about children lie he inns genuinely fond of music painting books and his love for me was one great honest thing in his big life it have been so hard other we were married continued mrs sonny came there fol loed four wonderful summers digby would arrive in may and go back in october Or Ot tober the crash came the fourth A luler infer he was arrested for selling bogus lK is oil and mining stock lie he caught pneumonia in prison and died before I 1 could get to him hetty betty reached blindly for the speak ers hand found it and it strongly Y years ell rit passed when he was twenty I 1 told sonny the story I 1 told him hill tits ills name was for we were then using lifting the name of cathene Catli Cat ewe I 1 added i that hat it if he so BO willed he could live all his dabs da 8 in luxury have all ills his whims gratified he replied that he use ue tainted money and thereupon pae gave the money to a banker with it a plan to disburse it to the poor eventually lie he became a reporter on one of llie great newspapers and discovered that he could write e A month each summer he be spent with jtb me he h was wa at work on bis big seco second novel when tie lie saw you CHAPTER XI understanding the telephone buzzed in mathewes Ca office Il hello lello he be called rather grateful for the diversion this la Is the city hospital mr mansfield wants to see you immediately lie he instructed in me to emphasize the importance of this interview tell him I 1 shall be up as soon as I 1 can get a tax taxi around at the bo hospital spital mansfield greeted brandon tersely and grunted an order in my coat at the foot of the bed Is ft a long envelope open it one glance confirmed cathena Cat hewa gus pic pinions ions tho envelope lope contained the complete history lii of the trial and con of digby hallowell nal lowell well he be said calmly toady to admit that I 1 hold you in ibe hollow of my hand no cathene tapped the envelope do you call this fahrr fair youre an odd young mani luana tot come here originally because you thought you loved my daughter what was the main idea anyhow you mean regarding the money my father left to give it back to the poor to make the newspaper a bulwark between your kind find mine to build a great hospital endowed to which the poor from the ends enda of the world might come and find aid without cost coat A great free dispensary where the unfortunate woman might also find succor and not be callously sent back to the gutter with her baby the newspaper to doctor their minds and the hospitals to doctor their bodies to rebuild their faith in humanity to make american citizens out of them shall I 1 put this envelope back in your cont coat no she sat pat there in that chair all night holding my hand toward morning she slept I 1 was in a good deal of anin it was very still I 1 fell to thinking intend instead of counting sheep jumping over the fence I 1 looked myself over from your point of view from her point of view it if it should happen she learns learna the truth I 1 did not summon you to threaten you still I 1 had bad to test you your chin Is still up and the sign I 1 needed I 1 dont want that envelope desiray destroy the stuff make blake bannister your home build your free dispensary what I 1 really wanted was waa to have you take my hand to shake hands 1 cried Cat cathene Catli ewe figuratively swept off his feet why not dot I 1 needed a licking and you were the only roan man in the world who led had tile courage to attempt it im no fool I 1 know men I 1 want to be the friend of a man who in these hard matter of fact days has the courage to walk where angels tear fear to tread A smile accompanies that but its not visible to you on account of these bandages A curious idea thrust me into that shack last night oil oh yes I 1 saw the poor little tikes and was glad to save them cut but that it I 1 fought you because I 1 was afraid of you you were a menacing wedge between me and my daughter on the A I 1 to shake handel handal cried cathene Cat day she learned the truth I 1 might lose her nothing else matters now but her love she Is extremely imaginative A deed like last nights would appeal to her she would always have that moment to throw into the scales she has opened all the doors of my mind and my heart I 1 can see and feet feel yesterday I 1 would not have understood der stood you today I 1 do theres on another secret in that envelope you overlooked it you are cottar tile novelist but I 1 am offering my hall hand to the son of digby hallowell Ual lowell will you take it the strength of the land hand that closed 0 over er his caused a flash of still stinging ing pain the wince had puckered the burns you understand yes she has made all these things possible that makes our understanding perfect her beauty Is ili the least of her do you remember you sold said that you a saw aw in a glance what it took me three years to find out you and I 1 are going to make bannister a perfect city ent but I 1 must murt do my share in my own fashion I 1 simply cant have her know at least until I 1 have made substantial elal progress you shall have your paper back of course I 1 am growing tired just a little more you could hove have come to me ant and dern demanded I 1 fulfill my end of that mud mad bargain you were honest and you declined your whimsicality sica lity Is on the surface underneath you tire are unchangeable so it occurs to me that if you gave up betty it was not that you had ceased to ca care re am I 1 right yes As ag a man cares but once but once then go and ond her you mean that jbv not you are the son ot of digby hallowell Ual lowell but she he Is 19 the daughter of dunleigh mansfield between these two fathers wheres the choice I 1 merely stayed within the law and your father played the game outside I 1 threw away all the glorious hours that tha tare are before you I 1 sent betty to france because I 1 care to bo be bothered with her find her and when you find her tell lier her I 1 sent bent you and then both of you come back here I 1 Cat bewes taxi tax went up polygon hill after the manner of the tank tanh slowly ponderously and heartrendingly heartrending ly street care car got lu in ur the way other taxis luu luin her and coal wagons end pedestrians Eventual eventually lir he reached the mansfield place the butler upon opening the door eyed him film with repellent loyalty miss bliss mansfield Is not at home afir and suggestively started the door toward the latch just a mol moment nent I 1 am sent by mr mansfield himself he wishes me to find his daughter 1 I do not know where she went air it Is 18 probable that she Is with bliss ilass Mal maddox dox 11 may I 1 use the lie telephone reluctantly the butler ushered the enemy into the tudy study and indicated the telephone lione the maddox mald maid replied ti to the first coll call no miss mansfield Mans neld had gone across to the mathewes Ca the second call was not answered thou though gh he kept central busy for two or three minutes vaguely alarmed he returned to the taxi tax in the end lie found himself in lila ills own hallway breathless with the chase music she had come to hear bear ills his mother play piny tills accounted tor for the unanswered telephone call CHAPTER XII lovet loves victory ne he opened the door of the living room and stood on tile threshold never before had be heard beard his mother play tile the fourth ballads ballade with such ore find passion and the lie girl there seated on the floor her exquisite profile against tile dark wine of the rosewood as beautifully defined as a cameo I 1 her eyes were closed in dreamy ecstasy here after what had taken last night 1 there could be only one meaning inclining that hat she knew everything madduxl she had sent for the doctor and in some manner bad forced the truth from him on top of this carno came the recollection of the cub reporters confession of having sent eltty a complete series of clippings ai she had confronted maddox with them and the old fellow had bad told her the truth and somehow lie he must prevail upon her never to let her father know here 1 I because she knew also that lie he was the author of those letters letter sl 1 she come from nancys out of that abysmal gloom bloom of two hours gone his miraculous sunshine I 1 the performer dropped her hands the piano was still singing as shi she turned her head sonny I 1 betty opened her eyes and slowly rose to her feet numb with an inexplicable terror not unlike that which childhood finds in dark rooms what had ind happened this it was lue the arse first time lime she had ever seen the man who lad had written those wonderful letters the exquisite poems to the idyl of this hour our she had come boldly into his house bouse in the pursuit of happiness she saw now the he immodesty of the act the knowledge sent all the blood into her heart then hung flung it into her cheeks burgundy in an alabaster cut cup always lie he would think that she had sought him the shame hame of itt she blood with her back to the piano staring tableau then she reached backward toward the bench toward the arms she wanted needed she was afraid she turned desperately to find that she bhe had been betrayed the bench was vacant mrs rs cathene Catli ewe had bad stolen quietly from the room 1 I 1 she has fins gone betty stammered ile he crossed the room quickly but he did not touch tier her there Is no doubt in your mind doubt of what I 1 begian beginning ing to recover her poise of me that I 1 love you that I 1 loved you tile the first time I 1 saw you which of you three Is talking which of what do you mean bewildered Is it brandon carthee Cat Ca thee george cottar or brandon hallowell all three of us we all love you I 1 can you care just a little but you gave me up I 1 only physically for weeks ive been torn by wild horses im glad of that now dow sure of herself of him of all the world glad that I 1 was unhappy I 1 unhappy too you jilt roe me do you care welt well perhaps A pause im beginning to wonder it you really wrote those letters why well the writer of those beautiful love let leters stand as you iu do just asking questions what would lie he do falling failing into her mood ile he would sweep me into his arms kiss me put me ou on his big horse and ald ride away and ask questions afterward I 1 when she pressed back from him she was breathless and now im suspicious suspicious you did that overly well the wonder of you she crept buck back into his arras arms all lier her mischief gone love me always like that and dont be afraid of daddy im not lie replied your tour father tills bus made all tills this possible tie be sent me lie to you ile he did I 1 love him film and he shall never know that I 1 know to want to do one und and nuble noble things beca inte lie he has learned to love me another pause li IA there anything now on jupiter you want there was only one way to answer that THU THE kua marble Is tit doc rigid a slab under slow heavy pressure hlll wul bend uk auff tar lar or w |