Show A v R A V 12 S 31 ag w ATI N q WYNDHAM faiq 14 STA TIli ai L nut I 1 Is to avoid allone bir ber from contant atsa af U yes yo balliet bad liet heard id the theaone iton tone i e baxon would better ile wilt mr to 40 rt 1 all the little disgraceful guthat al 01 hurt bait the ui R axon sf reputation the tha reco i romr r has built builta upwell bi trilled in n th the e m mud ua lio robin bla about bli his futher 3 1 have bave heard BO machof thi the nets of kindness which he bides from tie tho world ld ue e hes has educated hundreds of poor 70 children hildren for or example and iad people dont donl know it because 0 that rather t bluff ovi overbearing earlna manner manner how an 1 I deny having helped to send I 1 04 the father of my my robin io dingi disgrace ace duent for a moment 1 I can sei see him losi losing hla his self respect and sinking lower and lower ills ilia wife andson wont understand g it will be horrible tor for them I 1 have sent away th the e i naan man ilove I 1 love bell believing belletini evini that I 1 sol art heartless heartiest altho ut faith orbo or honor norand and I 1 can never open 6 my Y i lips to J justify tio myself there U 1 nothing that can CAD save either cither I 1 of us ua 0 dont say that malel cried ile he was deeply moved there ta 18 alwa always ye a way out when it it richt that there should be and if avei ever a thing was rightist right it lathat la in that you and be should be longto long to one another something shall W bedone doue t there tio nothing thIng any ally one can do she eald one exaggerate after din nerr berr he holau laughed glied my aty niece go to W d and sleep the least of all your ii s oi on lob job lt it was to peter ullman that he farsi first Eddres addressed sid himself milman he be bagan im very much interested in i ake aie outcome of wro a romance mance that hew be gin eyes eyed at great roc bock Malj e flung Iluk himself down in a chair und slid lighted a cigarette you knoy know that to men i I 1 of middle age who have of nes necessity siti passed packed by the time of bf love and roses there Is 1 very fascinating to in seeing splendid youth in its great moments poter peter ullman did not show his visitor that this interruption was wa unwelcome ullman was engaged in plan bill nang how bow to get paul union to this house eager ajor and yet unsuspecting and floyd malet was beginning to talk of love and youth 1 i I suppose so he assented cour te oual Tin talking about nita walet went on OIL 1 I 1 suppose suppose 1 of 0 in men ell have fallen under her fascinations jle he laughed ruefully 1 I am one of the oldsters who admit IV it sodo so do 1 it bald theother to me the is 1 one of the most lovely creatures I 1 have bave evet met ne toan na she fell in love with pa lialete continued she tell in love with milman demanded realty really interesting her father did not tell me who wits it 7 young robin by name he will be very rich said milman and barnea bames objections can be overruled I 1 have never met the mckim bers ben but he ll 11 Is said eald to be a juan man of good clia character ameter accy cant possibly t loarry malet declared she hat has broken it off with him and aid she ont change her mind poor child lt waa a wound that may never beav why if and he loves her shon should 14 she do 6 because she sh knows knovis that she Is acting tor for the edem les of his father we alenot ite M enemies Mi malalan lalan retorted we put in ll maxona axons i hands what will ma for ever ba ave not too strong it a term we to sell mckim ber body and wilt sul to paul aaion do you knowing thai lalta alta can macj charry Mci timbers eimy wn 7 lallman frowned dear dear tie he said eald almost ies testily tily nita went there for a 4 ocote ako se which had an as much todo father personally ii if had far you biadin bradney gy or myself f thise complications complication i va annoying moston most annoying burthey but they cannot affect one plans i my adear milman Malet BaW it if you sri are alta for falling in making the arii absurd 1 heard to drop from your lips love comes unsought unexpected often in its if beginnings onvan ted I 1 te llyon You I 1 saw W the tha whole thing bhe liefield held bai back a be tried to lo witold if old him but if clicc were uch such thit the there wire were d dunce in e er A a bud m adte tennis anis parties riding ix ex P fand kolf golt nita could not ron ran ajax she as is you remarked there for forai purpose u hla way asahe its ilia let Is I 1 qi allba adly bi broken olLen C out i see he cannot understand onder inder stand staid U allyX she finot c kiv jive him evains ev W f v ll gf TM ionna immeasurably you had bad to tell mi me abw this wd said peter moonan malet demanded I 1 be because cause 11 it infuse an element of in what was wholly a mood of v victory 1 I 1 am sorry for them bukeno both wc but to Is it not possible that you with your artista artl art sta lats sensitiveness live have put this in too 6 vivid a ilist if anything ive understated it malet M alit could i see that thai veler peter unman milman wei was genuinely disturbed r let me put it lt another aniber dij way iset not possible that you with your ready sympathy sim have imagined the horary infatuation a tion that to Is 86 often seen in ii house bou so parties to 16 be bea a grande passion something epic ha as was wai the love of dante for beatrice Port inart allman Mill nou said hald malet slowly nf it I 1 could believe you were right I 1 should be perfectly happy but I 1 saw them together I 1 spoke to each of them when they had aalde ald good goodby by no it was the real thing they will never completely recover nita has slain her own happiness because of the loyalty loyally she thinks she owes to as I 1 Th thinks Iriki ullman allman revea repeated ted 1 is I there any doubt about that was wai it lightly do you suppose that I 1 stooped to what we have donet I 1 have never deluded myself about it we have done what men of honor do not attempt what punishment baton nixa n de deserves sOrves Is not ours to administer I 1 peter allman allma paced up and down lh room T after I 1 hava bava forced him to pay I 1 shall never be bulte alte the clean mad I 1 was I 1 shall be something a little less I 1 knew this very well before I 1 invited you to join me you must not expect me to be swerved by anything now do you think I 1 am trying fig to swerve you Us as you call it for what other purpose have you told me this you have said in so many words that if wo we do as we have planned we are breaking heard heart you will he be malet asserted but never know it from her how she defines loyalty have you forgotten what your life has been be ten of lite late and tp whom you owe all your unhappiness 1 I 1 am past airty malet i answered and what to Is left of my I 1 we life evans 8 very small and h i A compare it with P an t of V J in owed nita V by Pulp comparison arlson I 1 see myself ase aluli in a very poor light milma laniis e but there Is in barnes to think ok bf ju branney bradney malet sighed it was too big a thing thin to tio expect I 1 had to tell you what jour victory meant to nita I 1 wits was going to appeal to the others ather s but as you have refused it if will not be of much use peter milman allman paced up and down the th boora what U at at bsh said made him by kiture nature just and not reil by what life had brought awk bf was confronted with i a un ua paral wed in his careen he remembered them noticing that It aiwas depressed unlike her vivid joyful selfa she pa do drooped like a tall llly now he knew why hy and abe hask ot of 1 im ay iy 44 i 1 I have not fugia 1 he said 1 must think in all its if bearings in ili the end chii therel ji little doubt but I 1 thi half jill baie ha veto de declele aldi against you I 1 wisht had not happened I 1 sin am unsettled 8 suddenly he held out bisband his band to ti the iian ninn who wes willing wad tol ro 4 thlu gand and makithia make maki the thi f must add tojun to my strong personal liking for you an lucre increased y respect not many would hav 0 don done a come and nd cee mahout this before breakfast tomorrow N fleming bridie bradney was wad brooking g a lw t pipe alpe when jialin ji molet alij entered lite ills coonc room the physicist ws relaxed and happy ilia domestic duties sa been ea a atrain train and he was now concerned with the growing of his beard 1 fleming balet began do you like nita ake take her herr ara bradney said warmly war rol she la Is the most delightful girl I 1 have bote ever ever net mo or hope hop e to meet she li Is 00 0 0 an only woman who lija has ever made me wish it 6 I 1 was as young faung and good took look ink ai as robin McKi niber it if she ahe were my daughter I 1 eboch haul think fortune had made up for everything else aon must dust have haie noticed she was looking rather unhappy 1 I taxed her with bilth it it its tile the train ashes been living under she will soon pick up shell never be really happy again F fleming it if her father wins kins she loses our victory Is in won at the cost of parting her from the man luau she loves the man who loves her ber welt well enough to alak losing his fortune malet told bradney in almost the bame words what he be had bad just told peter aliman the first rush of sym sm pathy which bradney felt for the lov ers re was tem tempered on reflection when he considered what the effect of yielding to it would mean the work he belle believed Y ed he had to accomplish in the world would not be done again he would be compelled to seek some uncongenial coll gentil position hot ho said as much to his friend but it if you admit im putting you in an unfavorable light it to is evident you son thlik think you are choosing the wrong thing malet retorted im k choosing to enjoy the rewards of an adventure which might have landed me in jail and may yet im very sorry about nita hoof she Is young life la Is before her whereas im past middle age floyd you are intoxicating yourself not mot with i me chent lit wt but with x sentimentality i en ita it a symptom of a generous nature but it yields before a logical I 1 am not going to throw away what we have gained you must not ilk ask it if of me my godl god I 1 floyd do you suppose I 1 am content to so go back to my job at the ri kinery nery again when theres a chance to es escape capel 1 I suppose not inlet said wearily the way of Is too hard bard bradney frowned he did did not rest easily under the imputation that he ha was choosing the selach way at least I 1 have hae peter milman with he said me 6 4 r y rw im noi not io so sure cju you lineup line up with him whichever way be d decides I 1 1 I shau shall b be with him in aidy any alcose but I 1 dont think that hii help you much seeland keeland barnes was stretched at length on a chaise lougunia lougue in his room lie he looked up with a smile what brings you ou here 1 I thought id drop in and have a cigarette what are you barnes bad a notebook note book and pencil in n lils his hand band planning my ranch in california I 1 shall keep hurkes ill get one ne for you with a nice easy gait 01 0 1 I 1 had a curious adventure with a if horse once malet amid it mut murt have been almost thirty years yeara ago I 1 went with some friends into mexico to do some sketching sketch tig naturally there was a revolution on and we n got into the middle of it it we were all mounted 1 I remember when my horse W was allotted to me I 1 felt dis disappointed he lacked the graceful curves of at thi the sai tiller forsea he was tall long thin thid elderly and a pessimist it was only when we were being chased by that I 1 pa was different whereas my iny friends were captured my aged beast raced clear away and I 1 was the only one who to pay a considerable ransom ah cried dames barncs ills bla eyes lighting up that tall long beast you jou were afi on was thoroughbred or 11 11 take to I 1 water drinking TO 0 no BE CONTINUED |