Show wk PA by evelyn campbell service copyright by evelyn campbell CHAPTER VI continued 11 their isolation grew as he talked what had these hurrying people la in tent lent upon their own silly affairs to do with ivicin it wits growing dusk a jusk dusk that flint vanished as tt it came before the nood flood of 0 f brilliancy that flower flowed like a river liver upon the lie street shops hill is that liall to been but shops an hour ago were vere splendid now find thor wares were more splendid still faces silhouetted by tile the flattering light became beautiful and young arid final Is kind hind to lipsticks lip sticks arid rabbit skin the street became an enchanted ern hunted street with a main anil and woman walking walk ing arf it enchantment feeling it all while they saw nothing 1 always liked the lite spi vice brinn when I 1 ans a boy I 1 had crazy ideas about glory and princesses and hand kissing thill hat sort of 0 thing all bunk of course lint hut I 1 still wanted it when I 1 got go of old enough to have some sense wanted it and got it but somehow I 1 sot got it if the file way I 1 wanted it horribly hard to make anyone and e rest imil hl hiir eyes Ae searching arching for tiers hers again what does doea it matter ini itter so you got what you wanted wante fl tier bei clear voice a little hard come came nick to 1 ailin in 11 he e returned an adu indulgent I 1 gent smile ell child ild I 1 it seemed to say tile the way I 1 wanted wits was not the way it came to me I 1 have a family he fie slighted this as some men always slight the fact that they belong to a clan not rich folk awfully hard up to he be tranh frank but its the sort of family that can do miracles if they want make the lion lie ile town down or sit up and beg that sounds awfully egotistical hut but rians might say that they know whore where the body Is burled buried and ond maybe 11 lie he grinned reminiscently reminiscent ly the i binns would be right my aly dud dad and simon fentress Fen tresa lieI in lite hie millpond together when they were ere ald so you can imagine what fentress lid did when dad slipped it lint flint I 1 wanted nn an at ap point anent 11 lie made a wry face and turned to her for sympathy they managed it for you she hazarded lie nodded they dilwith did with a ven gehner and it simply took the blush off on the rose you vou see I 1 wanted to do tile thing myself I 1 had find already gone to senator converse Co averse lie he promised to put pill it through linda wits puzzled but what li Is tile difference it was only pulling wires no matter liow bow it II was done they were talking at cross cross purposes pui poses brian tried to make himself plain dont you see fentress Fent tossed it to tile me like a plaything thIng I 1 influence I 1 it has it bad bit triste taste and of course im an all ass liver ever body does aloes lt it uses everybody else if they nn art anti are jolly well glad to hut but it my boyhood dream by a long stint tie he lat glied shamefacedly and added a bromide flint took some of the serl seil ausness oitt of if lite hie discussion 1 I dont don t know why I 1 am telling you all tills this perhaps Peili aps because you never before met a woman etho understood she re turned instantly when their tough laugh was over they walked on in silence for it half imla block and then 1 inda reopen reopened erl the subject buhlert suh lert 1 1 wonder chy fly senator converses Co merse influence would ile he differ different eni front from mr air pentress lent rosa she said thoughtfully S alif he re leslly illy wanted minted to ti know it wits ns ing to hind flint brian young inkins arid elear minded and it 11 little rom mille regan led tile the senator with velh hut hill over slon it Is diffrient lie said and tile they went vent on slowly 1 I dont dun t li elpe I 1 all 1111 vinh e you lull bill I 1 will try put lt into words it 11 bountis fantastic or t what I 1 loat loullie lie gentl al them its ile he became ln ruine shanie faced again ns its wen nen tire me when they are forced to their aln lr inmost il longill bilal have to do with vainglory 1 to earn my spurs myself I 1 minted to in make them notice tire nie because bei inise of own ono bruins brains nut lite hie brains or aioo y if somebody boint lilily else elfe hut bill I 1 found we a flint dennys pennys ilys worth orth beside lie the hie fact that simon fentress favored tile ine and my grandfather controlled j 11 hage sized vote in his community unity if somebody else hit eliud bern been my illy lp son it II would have been the lie battle don I 1 you cousee see not myself but willit I 1 alood for I 1 had to 0 o take rny my ined medicine idne or leeve tt it and it 11 senator convirse tind had backed you said linda in a low voice lie ile it if lie he lun litt believed heller ed in me I 1 wits was on my illy own onn with hill ailin tind nril that made ull all the difference ill ills mind wits not no controlled by hill bill hl his un own judgment ah lie ile wits wn not no influenced liy fly your connections then 1 I don dona I 1 believe ellee li lie he knew I 1 had any said baitin simply you admire him flint slie she asked think in of alint lilt Io meise lilt luid rohl last night I 1 lit she could hardly keep tit tin biorn or trout houi bea voice llen pir pi said brian and she alie hoc had one of those illuminative glimpse ol of nien ca may toy te ke to one another and and vital they may be to it a bomil at the th sanie time little the great facade of was suddenly before them A liveried flunky flunks stori before before the file revolving luor door lila his blank mine was vas fastened upon vie the ills istance lance but it wits inescapable that h lie e know knew linda and expected her to enter 11 1 live here she reminded her corn com p anton rall pausing sIng wont you walk a little further I 1 1111 liine benl enl nl said halt I 1 wanted to what a fearful bore ive been she let him draw lier her on 1 I want you to understand 0 of all people I 1 know that what ive said sounds lite like a prig or a boor which Is nearly us its bud bad but it if its going to be like that I 1 wonder under W if I 1 really want wit n it I 1 tiny liny money and il ill I 1 need a to lot t expert expect me to live up to simon fentress entress lie he laughed with a tinge of bitterness slie she spoke impatiently 0 b but lit it if you loved it atif it it wits your dream so few of us get our dreams even in n way I 1 up lie ionised liked at her hopefully it seemed lint hint she had miraculously voiced his rait hall framed thoughts A billip could do di a lot of good go d over there if 1 lie he wits really in earn earnest est he said wistfully rimy its all such each a all muddle addle UK d inn j be it matter much how i to go 90 that Is true said linda eagerly as it if were pleasant to her also rhe result Is tile thing after nil if you vrn got results slie site was unconsciously oling courtney llota whom avei every y one imd had forgotten suddenly slie she renivie hered inhered him it was beginning to nilst in a line fine soft way site she wim tire tired front lite long walk and they tinned beeh obed obedient lent to a pressure front from tier her hand oil ID his arm lie ile begun begill to reproach himself fit at once youre fired youre awfully white 1 ought tn in tie lie shot I 1 As they neared the botel again lie sold said diffidently 1 I 1 meant to ask you hours ago hut but I 1 got talking about myself like a duffer will you line with me say that you will I 1 cut but linda sniffed smiled no DO she was always dining lie could not know ot of course flint alint tier lier free evenings were days attend they selected one toward the end of alip tit week brian was in new york for tin an elastic period while the Fen tresses tire are herel here linda suggested with sudden enlightenment and when he admitted that th it t as a matter of course she asked why Is miss bliss fentress against the appoint site she did not know lion how cold her voice sounded dalsy daisy oh I 1 think sties rather keumi on my kar kapping pang on with my profession fes sion slon im a lawyer a sort of 0 one yon knowl know dalsy hates foreign countries ind and nil their pi irude she thinks they arent real sties pure american can linda threw back her head and aloud the gesture released the lie furs tit at tier her neck and a coll coil of tile pearls slie site wore slipped through and iny against the lite dark soft collar her laughter wits was startling a little wild itka good I y sh il MID w r i left him anther rat lier abruptly in the shadow of the dampened doorman TO UE BE CONTINUED |