| Show de fightlin gnp chane ca 10 t cy by ROBERT IV CHAMBERS RS copyright b the curtis publishing comically Comi ally cops right 1000 1003 hi V nue hue retreated macli ard with mith a 1 gay nol dol of malice and turned to enter the house still and met landis f ice t lice face in it tile balinas you yet malixi I 1 lie ho whispered whimpered I 1 alen t on ishamel isba mcd cu muc b acar what for and catching sight of 0 jawaid outside in the starlight perhaps something 0 of f her hostess for she laugh ej ed unella unel lh ilke a child who winces under i I 1 stern stem cc ion oil don 1011 t suppose for a moment moin she login legan tint that I 1 haie hael yes I 1 in do loll 1011 ou always doll do ot anith that sort fort of man ian she re icil uthell ile he wont non L mih ir cerrill regarded her suspicious iv IT loll 1011 ou aIN alwis pick out c xa city the I 1 rong ni nun in to play N ith they had moved 1 ick side ride ba b side lido into tile the hall ball tile the bot cbs irin arm linked in the trill irm of the lounger oung er gai gill I 1 I 1 the IN giong I 1 ong in mm ili I 1 repeated ted selx kyhill ii instinctively freeing her arm tier lier straight bios beginning to bend in ard viard I 1 dian didn t me mem mein in that loll ion kanovi much I 1 cire care lor for his mother ind and for him the obstinate dov doll n NN nard ard trend of the liros brors the ing ts line gaze signaled mutiny to the woman nho knew her so well whit Is L s 0 so o wrong with mr bl bi 11 asked there was an affair this spi ing in town I 1 know it Is ig tilt tall yes for the present replied orice ferrall errall uncomfortably then I 1 for goodness sake sylvia dont cross ex online amine me that vi a I 1 I 1 care a great do de ll it for or that boy bov I 1 so so do do I 1 ive made it him im take my do dog there was vas an abrupt pause and pre antly mrs I 1 errall begin to laugh 1 11 I 1 me mean an lt it really said slvia quiet IV T I 1 I 1 like ille him immensely dearest ion oil mean it generously with your usual exaggeration you have heard thit that he has been foolish ind and because be a s so 3 oung so likable very r instinct enery impulse in you Is aroused to to be nice to him and it if that I 1 vere ere true there Is no harm barm dear mrs berrall hesitated her eyes softening to 0 o a graer reen then looking up its rather she slid said in a low ow voice kemp thinks hes toie role loomed doomed like all the its no in hereditary 5 failing with nith him no its damnation sinard after sheard generation after generation you rou know she bit tier her tip lip thinking a i moment ills grandfather was nas a mend friend of in mi grandparents brilliant handsome liand some generous and doomed ills his own father was vias found dying in i I 1 dreadful resell in london where he had ihen stupefied a bi ward think of it so you see iee what I 1 W 1 J r V a A mra kemp ferrall that hat outbreak of stephen a means to those hose whose families have been new lorlys since new loik was it Is ominous it li ii more than ominous it means that the master ice has seized on one more alward but I 1 shall tie ns er cr never admit it to his mother the younger girl sat bit wide eyed the elders elder s gaze was upon her hut but tier her thoughts remote centered on the hapless mother of such a son such indulgence was vies once faublon able moderation Is the present rash fash ion perhaps he vill v tall fall into line said mrs errall Fr rall thoughtfully the main thing Is to kf kapp ep him among peo pie not to drop him the artay be ahamed but if anything any incident happens to arise him outside by himself if he be should become solitary there a not a chance in tb the world for him its a pity I 1 know be meant to make himic the exception to tho the rule and look already one catouse of his bk has ian ladled led him in the dally daily papers lyllia flushed flus lied and looked up I 1 grace may I 1 ask you a question YM yes child she answered absently lias has it occurred to you will that what sou 0 u hae said about this boy touches roe cne deiy closely mrs fenalla Fe nalls wits returned nimbly from and she rhe shot a startled led inquiring glance at the girl beside tier her I 1 ou on you vou mean the mitter of herld hered ity t Y S sv iv il I l 1 c I 1 think my uncle major bel aie bethel ill e I 1 chast you ns if bib august mouth piece for thit that th it little sermon on the dnn dan gei geia of the dinger amiger of being abeln ignorant what women of in race hid had done I 1 cime came into the world they found so i musing slug 1 sevell beneral things i I told you mrs meriall aen ill composedly I 1 lour uncle thought it best for vou to knox know I 1 os es IN I 1 is it if I 1 understood YOU enough of dierce di orce or of general in discretion rind and irregularity arreg flarity to complicate any famiie tree and coat c oat of arms I 1 might care to claim avla the girl lifted tier her pretty liale bate shout aci dem I 1 ini m beery butco ild I 1 help it i wry very well NN ell all I 1 can do 10 Is to prove a docent decent execution N cry N well ell I 1 im ni do ins ing it im in I 1 riot lot p soared into the first solidly sil qui lail lalik marriage of re od the how ard n ath loth bands for fell lied he d get ax aw I 1 15 3 and leave leane we me alone with only a queer family accord foi company I 1 cly well now NON then I 1 wint to isk ask you NI wh ha LN in my case t go bitout with 1 i sanctimonious face und and i dolorous mien repeating alei grand mollii i eloped lid ilet mother ran abay lor child sheb doomed doomed 11 allin 1 I lc cs win they tints the wiy vly lit N tall bilk about tint that be bov out there she swept a rounded arm to w ml the bianda leg cs but lie he has bill almeady broken loose you I 1 so did I 1 neaily had it not been for vou volt you jou know well nell enough I 1 might have run away with that dread lul in at newport Nem port for 1 I adored him 1 I did I 1 did and vou leonn it and look 1001 at my endless es cs jucs flom compromising myself can ou on fount count them all those Indis cre boas when mcie living seemed to in toilette toi leite me that firt fira winter minter and only mi uncle and ou on to breil me int in in other word worda said mr derral I 1 slowly you don t think sir mr shard ard Is getting what la 6 known as ab a equate deal no I 1 dont major bellwether Bel wether has already hinted no not eien that but has somehow domebo managed to dampen my pleasure in mr alward mrs ferrall considered the girl beside tier her now noli beit lovely and flushed in hot hei suppressed excitement after ill all she said you are going to marry somebody bod else so wily why be come quite so animated about a man you mai no never er again see I 1 shall see him if I 1 desire to ohi I 1 1 am not til tat ing the black veil nua nm I 1 asked the girl hotly only the wedding veil roll dear ent but after all your husband ought to have ino thing to suggest concerning a inmon common co visiting list 1 ile he imy suggest in the meantime I 1 shall lie be loyal to my own friends and afterward eward tt too she mur inured to herself as her hostess rose calmly dropping dropp lill care like a mantle mantl front her ber shoulders I 1 go and be good to this poor young man then 1 adore rows and have a few on your hands ill IN variant ar let me remind you that your uncle can make it unpleasant for you yet and that bour our amiable dince banco wis has a will of lih hl own oin under his pompadour and silky beard IN ft hat a to ha have c it clash with minel mine I 1 said s ald the girl serenely mrs berrall looked at her mercy on us Hovi howards ards pompadour would stick up tip straight with knitli honor it if he be could beat 3 ou on doti don t be sill I 1 dont for an impulse for a caprice b break rl ak off anything an tiling desirable on account of I 1 man for N whom hem 3 ou on really care nothing ani amiable lable exterior and tiie misfortune merely enlist a I 1 verv err natural and geue ious sympathy in aou ou do i 3 ou on suppose that I 1 shall endure interference from anybody from my uncle from howard 1 I dear you tire are malang making a mountain out of a molehill dont be emotional I 1 don t let loose impulses that you and I 1 know about knew about to in our school years know all about now and which ou oil and I 1 have decided must be eliminated you mean subdued always ol A there very well veil inho ft bo cares as long as vou little have them in leash looking at one another the excited color cooling lit la the younger girls eirls cheeks choeI tB they laughed one with inith relief the other a little as ashamed hauLd neull will be I 1 simply must cut in hald aid mn berr ill haltli hastily y turning toward the sunroom miss landis looked after her subdued vaguely repentant the consciousness s dawning daning upon her thit she had abia made considerable conversation about nothing its it s been so all day she thought impatiently ive exaggerated ive worked up a scene gibout a man T whose hose debits ire not the slightest conceio of mine resides besides that I ive ie e neglected howard shamefully ll 1 she was walking slowly her thoughts outstripping her errant feet but it seemed that neither tier her thoughts nor her steps were lending leading her roxard tow ard the neglected gentleman within for presently ahe he found herself nt at the breezy veranda floor door looking rather fixedly at the stars the stars shir ing impartially upon tile the jut and the unjust illuminated the I 1 person of who tat hat alone rather limply one knee crossed above the othni he looked up ba b chance and seeing tier her star mar itari lit in the door way straightened out and rose roe to hla his feet aw ANN are of him apparently for the first time fhe abe stepped across the threshold thie thies bold meeting tits his advance halfway would you care to go down donn to the rocks I 1 he asked I 1 ibe surf burt la Is ter rifle ao 10 0 o I 1 don t think I 1 care the listening a moment to the stupendous roar A somewhere nt at ei a tic he concluded ancl aed I 1 Is it veri fine the surf iati chiv hue and cri relent relentless les lie he I 1 it Is an unfriendly cm due tile the sea vou IOU know knol site had begun to move tow torild 11 ild d tile oil catts irs lie he fell illo step beside IKI they spoke little a 11 word oro now ind then the perfume of the mounting sm irl I 1 it the night with wild flag do dew lii on the lawns she lifted her skirts enough to cleir clear tile the grass heedless that hei slik silk shod feet fec t note non soaking then oil at the cliffs cadge as she looked down into the white fura of the he surf tile the stunning crish of tile the ocean saluted tier her I 1 or a long oil while they watched in el F 1 lence once she fhe f he leaned i t trine trifle too fir 0 over lr the gulf ind and recoiling in stead steadied ld herself on oil ills his arm I 1 SuP suppose POc I 1 she he said no skimmer or could endure tint that battering batten ng lot ot long would be no chance ch ince not ot one site she lent faither outi ald ed stilled by tile the splendid fran of the br eakels 1 I 1 think I 1 ho he began quio tl I 1 then a linn hand fell over her left hand band and half enair cled by liv his arm bile found tier her self luck back spoke puke two she was as coolly aware of tint urged dimp dim a by some 1 thing subtly ir resi resistible g she 11 fj r hid bad leaned too tar far out from the kllc and would noula fw have leaned far sa t ther 11 had ad lie ile not ia taken matters in to his own keep ing without Nit hout apol she found i ertly ogy agy deaul back baa was I 1 la in any actual danger I 1 she asked curiously 1 I third think not but it was nas too much responsibility responsibility for me 1 I 1 see an ani time I 1 wish to bleak ma m neck I 1 am to please do it ilone in catule 11 exactly it if you don lent t mind he I 1 eaid III smiling they turned shoulder to shoulder w liking back through the drenched heil herbage lage ahat she said bald impulsively is not what I 1 said a few moments ago to a womac 1 bat did you say bay a few feni moments ago to a IN woman oman 1 I said mr six fulward ard that I 1 would mould not leavo lead ai a i i certain man to go to the flex deil 11 alone do you yon know any man I 1 w ho he is go ing to the an diall 11 1 do youl you I 1 bhe asked letting herself go 90 41 swinging ingoing out upon a tide of futima 03 sho she had neier dr dreamed earned of risking nor had she bhe the slightest idea deft whither the cutrena would early tier her thea the had stopped on the lawn ankle deep in net grass tie the boqi i i overhead bead sparkling and in ili their eals eais the out crash of the sea I 1 you iou nean me he concluded I 1 do 1 I lie he looked up oil into the loiell face her eyes ni were ere I 1 cry sweet N very cry cleir cleir with excitement I 1 I 1 et us sit here on the steps i little while A eifle will IN III you I 1 she ii a led so he found a place beside her one step lower and she leaned forward elbows on oil knees rounded white chin in her palms the stir starlight lIght giving her late laic aims and shoulders shoulder a maible lus ter all and thit tinting laig her enes ees it a deeper amethyst and now nonn mis slon nod and all she laid tier her heart quite hire bam one chapter of it and like oth el ci women errant who nho believe in the influence of their sex se individually and collectively she began wrong by tell ing him of her engagement engi gement perhaps to her pure disinterestedness lit in a crusade tor for principle only onla so it was when bitinas bhe most eloquent most earnestly hi inspired nay in the very nery midst of a plea for sia sweet cot ness and light and simple HN living lug that tat his found voice in the ma da tei teil lal il comment if I 1 novel imagined aou ou were en I 1 I 1 of course 3 vou on dian didn t loud ion d known me for about three houis bouts there on oil the cliff I 1 but quarrier ON aei ex his 3 youthful mouthful flee face a sullen sh ill ow ON hid bad fallen flickering not yet set tied ile he would not for anything on earth have talked freely to the woman destined t to be quarrelers s wire wife lie he had talked too much anyway anay something lit in hir something about her had bad loosened ills his tongue ile he had made ft a plain ass of himself that was wag all ft a garrulous ass and trul it seemed that the girl beside him even eien in the starlight could follow and dailue whit what lie he had so sc ircel expressed to himself or hei bet instincts had bad taken a shorter cut ut to forestall forestal his own oiin conclusion dont don t think the things aou on art arr thi thinking nUng I 1 fhe said in a fierce little voice leaning toward him hat do vou on jeanv mean he be asked taken aback you know dont it is unfair it Is i is faithless to mc I 1 am your filand wit wh not tows pres pr es it make any difford difference nee to you whom I 1 mar rv it if buch a friendship as ours Is to become worth north ani thing to sou to mechi ule should it trouble you tint that I 1 know and urn lim thinking of things that concern you Is it because the confidence Is one sided Is it became you have given and I 1 have listened and given ghen nothing in return to balance the account I 1 do gle ghe interest drip inter est ii sympathy if aou ou ask it I 1 gho ghe confidence lu in return if you desire it I 1 what can call a girl like volt ton need of he sald bald gu smiling alling ill lou oil dont know knon you don t know if Is a dark ista and it if von TOO must stare through it all your life in hind always on bourguard our guard I 1 do you think you are the only onea I 1 are aou ionone anc he be said bald I 1 les I 1 eq NI with ith an tax shudder not that WIT N 17 it Is easier for me 1 1 think it Is I 1 know knon it Is but there aie things to combat impulses a fecklessness leck something almost ruth ruthless leq whit what else ele I 1 do not know for I 1 la ahle IN e helel epperle experienced n ced emotions of any sort never ei een ell deep 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