| Show PARADE by evelyn campbell copyright by icelyn cmpbell service erak it li Is an old claying flaying say g that one hall ball ot or the he world know how the other hall bal lives until recently it had always alway ali 0 been applied to the poorer hal halt ath the so called submerged merged ejection for there h e was I 1 little ll 11 mystery 0 or r uncertainty arwas in regard to t the livelihood of the abbed ric rich h or those reg regarded as being in th the prosperous class but all things thing change a and nd the security of 0 wealth Is I 1 not so fo treat irr t as it onro once was vas bl market arket up upheavals h davai new inventions and the tani tendency d ency to add more speed to th the e ow swift p pace ace of mod modern i rn affairs may change n a do days Ys time the complexion of a austn business ess and wake hake the foundation of a fort fortune ne the man with a job ob to la often better placed than the one with a topnotch top notch commercial ommer elaI rating rat instead instead of a pour poor man 9 wondering where he Is going to get tomorrows tomorrow e breakfast it to Is more than ever the case that thai such a distressing t r ems ng problem confronts condrot to the so c called rich man one has only to ook look 1 round around to note many executives of yesterday yest vest t who are job seekers today one tendency has not changed name jy that of striving to be a part of the pra parade de maintaining appe appearances ra nees k keeping 01 in R a up the bluff th the e mystery ran an to h how w these pa live Is even greate than that which surrounds sun sur lounds the livelihood of the unpretentious poor their tory story Is an interesting one and ts Is he handled nd ed with fine dramatic insight by the distinguished die t in novelist evelyn campbell in her book entitled parade here Is ig fiction of 0 thedac the day fiction ot of an absorbing and enlightening sort I 1 in n linda haverhill Haver hlll the author has drawn a heroine who commands the r readers eader a prompt understanding sy bym in p pathy athy and rega regard d her tempt temptations temptation atio no adventures defeats and triumphs cc comprise a ecord thet that will ling linger r long anth in the memory e mory CHAPTER I 1 I 1 behold the lily it was lindas father Ua haverhill who planted tile the idea so firmly in berg her mind that it took the root of all noxious J 0 weeds and flourished there ile he ud lo 10 loved v the child and the hardest thing about dying was nas the thought of leaving her yet site she had to live and face ace life and he honestly believed that he be was telling her the truth they were together in the big third floor front bedroom that looked upon the avenue sounds bounds came dimly there but far away breaking through the sullen eurmar of the streets they could hear bear a band playing it was the sixth of september and that year it fe fell 11 upon a monday the house was not their house bouse it belonged to a distant cousin of lindas mother who had lent it to the haver hills while she was in europe she did not know that she had provided a place for jim haverhill to die in linda was just then seventeen with all the promise of the great beauty soon boon to be hers everything about her was of a slightly exaggerated scale her slimness the excessive grace of her young body lier her eyes were a trifle too large and deep too foo black iler her pallor and the pathetic line of her red lips were too compelling one looked at linda with suspended breath pitying tier her for her loveliness because it Is well said that women who are too beautiful are niver never happy and I 1 linda was of that sort it was a warm day with the uneasy sultriness of september lindas long lone white whit a arms had drawn the daybed close to the window and her father lay there gasping tor for the elusive air lapped in vie the staid magnificence of the borrowed house and longing through his unruly spirit to be out find away from it all even while his bis flesh clung to the girl beside him ile he ws wits the spectacular ruin of what had been a charming person too fine for what had bad befallen him hut but not big enough to evade it even now he be wore a purple silk dressing gown and his bla linen was so pure that even the in tense humidity could not degrade it ile he was as carefully dressed as lie he had ever dressed for dinner and lie looked with disapproval at his daughters crushed frock and open collar there Is time to change before luncheon lie he said with the faintest reproof hut but my dear you should riot not be negligent because we are alone you lou know father that there arent any servants I 1 shall have to cook the luncheon myself haverhill Haver hlll shuddered ile he infinitely preferred no luncheon at all and told her so it if an unfortunate circumstance compels you ou to perform such such a duty treat it as play pla make a jest of it my dear never admit even to yourself that there theme Is necessity that is the only way you ou can conquer conquer ills his cough overtook him and was smothered by a square of soft linen delicately cell cotely perfumed when this was over linda sat with her perfect chin cupped in tier her hand gazing into the almost empty street white hot breathless 1 I wish father fat lier I 1 wish 11 what my dearest den rest 1 1 I 1 wish we have to pre pretend by october it will nil all be over ie cald with another cough threatening not even dreaming liming of tile the pat pathetic hetle truth he uttered you will ferget till all talc ile he sent a contemptuous glance fiance around the h handsome an 1 I some room tm m if in ills his eyes eves its comfort wal a 4 squal squalor nr it has merely been a little resting up for us both once I 1 pet get my health again it will be so easy with my connection connect lon ll 11 jim aln haverhill Haver hlll had bad been a financier that Is he sold his good harop his big impeccable appearance and a few other things for stock in various enterprises terp rises that might or r might not have cn selling gold bricks or their equiv j alent nobody but himself knew how varying his success had been but when the string snapped it caught him with empty pockets and a vast anil and poignant regret ue was sorra he hal had ever had a child 1 I 1 could get hold of enough to see you through until youage you are married be said looking piteously at linda site she wanted to hide her tears henrs look father she cried gully gaily leaning over to peep into the street beneath the haughty brown and ochre awnings cooki therea the mounted police and theres abaid a bund the first one and dozens coining what a funny drum major wrent they queer so far down like lend soldiers linda was ft as young enough to be thrilled it was really a magnificent sight and costly enough to command tz s linda was wa just then seventeen with all the promise of the great beauty soon to be hers her respect the city had lent every public spectacle it possess possessed pd the cheering became prolonged linda parted the geraniums until a little tunnel gave them uninterrupted view 0 dear the nice shiny ones have all gone by she said aa 88 if she had been speaking of pebbles the procession chanced its cearn c ter the horses the allyer and the dancing drum major vanished and other men were coming now walking abreast in tights eights marching men in ordinary drab clothing red faces pale faces awkward bonds some of them sl shambled ambled some lifted their feet gingerly as if they hardly knew how to use them like a long gray turgid stream they merged into the dimness of the street that was presently lost lo in the cavernous distance these outnumbered their gay leaders a hundred ten hundred to one yet they were content to follow dumbly arri trying g with a sort of pitiful eagerness to keep step to the music who are they cried little linda with a childs eagerness then she drew a vivid picture with a couple of words they remind me of a grub and a butterfly those men jim haverhill Haver hlll looked in long and steadily at tile the never ending procession the first monday in september he said slowly labor abor lay day the one day in tile the year when the workers of the world come out to show themselves and see what they have haie done linda lost interest 0 they are just workingmen she sald said how stilow many there arel are I 1 where do they live what do they find to do haverhill gave gae her a strange took look it may have been that in that moment he glimpsed glimpse tier her profound ignorance and glimpsed his own iniquity in leaving her sa so cut bill it was too late lare lie he uttered his short harking hacking laugh the most mirthless sound imaginable TO BR BE CONTINUED |
