Show THE STORY linda flaver hIlls father neler neer dowell do well dies die a when she Is in seventeen CHAPTER I 1 continued 2 do they do everything live they live everywhere lie ile sent jill ills long white hand fine as a womans comans wo mans in a gesture that indicated all that vast sweep of the city apart from their own environment they have been around you child all of your life only of course you never saw them you never would you never will they built the houses you live in they paved the streets they spun the cloth you wear the food you eat is handled by them in a hundred ways all this passes through their hands yet you sou have never knowingly seen them ile he stared struck with this stupendous thought linda looked puzzled and faintly distressed slie she felt as it if site she had been caught mocking at something which after all was not amusing or ridiculous site she wa was smore more thoughtful than girls of her age usually ar are ennd and there was wall novelty in this viewpoint that caught her attention but before she could reply the procession changing every minute yet always the same had claimed her wonder again the music came fainter and fainter from its distance the be best stand and show lest iest of the bands had gone by and the tall of the comet in uis is escorted by the leftovers of drums and flies there was not a splendid automobile to be seen and no nd bowing the tall silk hats bats had become extinct iatrou I 1 ruen raen appeared on corners they shouldered the crowd and women and old men began to garner their flocks of startled awry children before long it was impossible to tell where the marchers barchers mar chers and the crowd were divided for the etwas a maelstrom of pushing worrying bodies striving against one another for the right of way to now nowhere lier authority lost patience behind the brown bron awnings safe and sound sound from all this flurry in cousin amys fine house on the avenue jim haverhill talked to his daughter and used the sight they had just witnessed to point his lesson and send it home hame look down in the street and yon will see life I 1 could not show you a fatter picture if we walked through all the galleries of the earth those poor fools fool s gru grubs bs you called them I 1 would the crowd come out to watch them march who cared or watched after the band and the cars and the uniforms went by its their one day of the year when we our kind are out of bf the city and they can play at calling it their own yet even then they ve got to resort to fine feathers to make their own tittle little show worth poor grossi sm smart rt butterflies f let em cm dig and sw ent and struggle until doomsday rind and they 11 never be aci half ns important to the world as i a red coat with a dancing g stick life linda it heern fair she remarked marli ed fair he sneered of course it 1 afar fair nothing nathin Is fair and it Is humanity itself that talat bleds unfairness As long ion as ag men have ey aythey eyes they will beleau be caught glit with color As long as they have ears they would rather hear music than groans its the parade that counts linda my love and learned jt it the people who want to get things done you can put plit yourself over with a brass band and a bow when you might crawl on your knees to the edge of f the red sea and never be heard from linda who at sixteen owned sables that were much too flue to be worn until site she was twenty five tw liti already bru brushed plied close 0 bothe o the swamp of poverty to li know its 16 chill they lived in cousin amys house that summer slept in grand beds hut but they used the alio servants sheets and there was only a grouchy cac taUer in alj the e basement living rooms often she carried secret packages froM lilie alie corner grocery bs of food that did conking silo she didlot like hire this thero tharo was acome thing fearsome and frightening about it much too near the grew some procession that walked after that day she listened attentively to all her father fallier had to say lie ile tried to crowd all the dubious wisdom of his past pait into the few days das that remained and site readied reached for it avidly amy ralston returned to america three weeks after Haver hills deatti death silo she was very much annoyed not of course because the poor creature was dead she admitted that no one had control of the lire life tows forces und and she knew that the end had to come to every one but she thought it inconsiderate of him to die in her house she had chad expected to begin a series of dinner dances immediately bat ond this necessitated a period of mourning however brief mourning called for mori more clothes when her trunks were already bursting with fresh paris toilettes toi tol lettes it was comforting to reflect that only the family and a few old friends knew about jim haverhill and ther he was nas among the quick or the dead there la Is the daughter site ghe said speculatively to her husband who whistled off key kes hut but was much too the girl Is a beauty sho she exulted as a good showman always alway exults exult over beauty wise to offer suggestions suggestion A girl like that may yb be a frightful responsibility or tin an asset its as her poor father would have said but when she saw linda in her slim black poised with it a gentle gravity I 1 that placed her grief gr lef in a sacred secluded background the first pleasurable moment of the whole sad affair presented itself the girl Is a beauty she exulted as a good showman always exults over beauty she looks like her mother who was a tool fool or she never would have married jim Hayer hlll but if tills this child Is as cle clever veras as site she looks bohs linda was clever she was not yet seventeen but her mind was twenty seven a mind as keen and super as her lithe body she knew of life as a game in which cleverness and savoir faire counted largely and she I 1 calmly regarded her youth and beauty as trump cards the girt girl wits was not romantic t site she way watt free from silly complexes and she had no heroes tier her lips curled when some one spoke or of movie mole gods and she was never known to read a modern modem novel but wath with all this linda was a charming creature polished and fine CHAPTER 11 II poor jims daughter when the sad business of ern en ing jim was well over and cousin amys house was coming i out of its coma linda put on her close d little hat oze ose day and wont went to see senator converse there was not dot the site slightest idest difficulty in getting an interview As she followed the clerk through thi ough one room after she aha thought how rich and powerful the senator must be the chii carpets pets were like cushions under her feet and everything gleamed with shining surfaces and silence only a very important man could command com marid silence like that in the heart of the city senator converse was extremely warm and sympathetic in his greeting lie leaved his ponderous body from his S swivel wi vel alitt chair ir had and waddled to meet her As his bl hot ot limp hands heinds closed over hers bers she felt herself smothering she looked down in embarrassment and discovered that tha I 1 his feet were enormous long and flat and encased in heelless patent leather eather shoes that accentuated their shapeless unpleasantness ant ness poor jims daughter he wheezed leading her after him upon my nordt word i I 1 have just lear learned neI why you telegraph me at 0 once nee I 1 would hava come or sent lie ale fell into i a long silence looking at her in tta TO BE CONTINUED |