Show r P ARAD BY evelyn campbell bell J 0 service 3 copyright by evelyn ta n r campbell beu SJ CHAPTER VII continued 13 s so 0 it Is the boy bi lie fie suld suit WIng iio hl his yellowed teeth youve fillipa to tit pi plating abing aying about with the binds A had sign in a i I 1 youre not old enough for flint lie l admires youl linda cried scornfully ile he dues does ell eh well then hed bet bel ter let you alone there wits baini 1114 thing idair ill if threatening yaul in his voice that IL left ft a ser litch upon he tier soul soni now find and t then lien lie he hit tind let lei ile aci feel tile tig b teal i g tot of a bond flint did iii not actually exist and sheal slip always wIlYs re aisted like a desperate fly cousin caught I 1 lu a web Y you 0 cannot choose my friends I 1 she cried furiously hut I 1 shall have a word to ea 8 a a bout about your lovers lie he smiled entitled delight ed by her impotent unger anger but he decided flint brian ansted must be sent out ot of the witty one day dav he lind had a talk with ft ath simon and found the financier strangely sely gely reluctant to tall full la in with ills his plan 1 tile I he boy hns hits been keen about a 8 career enid fentress but I 1 dont know 1 dont know politics has ruined ninny a man and hell he be a fine institution some day if money or vanity or women dont pin pill nn an our oar in and spot spoil what Is well bis be gu gun n youve louve changed your tune consid converse Con erse slid ril rudely dely lie could afford to be ude rude to almost any one well perhaps I 1 have but second thoughts ure tire sometimes a lot better than the fir llast st MI ily daugh daughten tel thinks ills diug daugh literl teri converse toi nersie nearly laughed aloud what a fellow till ahli ansley wasl vast one women holding him film buck back and another SLi sel idIng him film on oil HP fit was ns bitterly bIll Lil envious of tile others other youth and at the same time con on wily should women care for a figurine pushed about here anil and there at the will of others there are dangerous dunge roua women at al home hoine as a well he suld said significantly ile he told lindi linda of this conversation conver atlon wily why the fellows a d d 8 Iw lul doll he cried lie he t enough backbone to choose for himself but she knowing what she knew smiled want a same game of blInd mans buff life can be she thought cross purposed 1 brian anstey ansley ans so fur far from weak that he wits ready to give up his fit am bivions bemuse because they came to him front simon fentress hands lentres fentress wh atlin n was his friend I 1 yet he would blindly accept tte tle same gift from converse Co neree who tossed his name nn me about like a childs bubble and would set it his 18 h heel e pl upon it when it pleased himl him I 1 she tried to worn brian subtly aga trim converses Co merses seeming friendship hilt but she discovered at once au ad un looked for opposition you are all woman in your jud ment he tot told her he fie Is 1 rattier rather un tin lovely ill admit it you consider ex e ennals but as a ma man n lies hl liesl I 1 think or the things lips hes anne one to lo ile he spun spain bored by him Is a guarantee of ones sincerity linda lowered tier her eyes were men always blind to one another slip she ann dered could they never see with it eyes ees slip i her br ellith with a sensation of arend re ink ing back to the time wll alien n slie she lind find first known converse till and it hern heon she who led the any him iylah glimpses of desire hint flint would rever eon gnip e to fru illon slie she was appalled hv by the fleeting vision of fit what she saw love I 1 oe wits i unveiling her eyes ees am I 1 like that she asked herself with sharp con t tempt eni 11 t tile llie appointment wits ana a thing brian wits going to brian had find ste stepped plied amr the ahe heridi rl I 1 men who had find spent henrs tit in tit alir ser lee ice it was n for far e enough no 11 gh away anav from the hip seats of HIP mighty to veil tell ills his inexperience enough for film to benefit by the ml mis takes and failures tit if others daisy fentress ren tress the hie one objector was becoming reconciled father Pat lier says sa flint if brian makes no mistakes no false nines moves he be in a few years the domig girl sold wistfully ter her secret was there in tier her ey et q for foi till all to rend ru d khe he it lili little liero worshiper in bilte silte of tier and tier chirin she would lieve been quite content tn in be a doorman doormat for the man site she it if he fie had wanted to walk upon her if fie makes no filase lioves slip repeated as it if the th words tad gimp baneful linda stirred restlessly possible int mistake strike could ae re make the stage la Is till nil set fur fair hill I 1 daisy chanted 1117 rather says ali terrp rp are so many for a states nian the mends friends the lie wrong enman bomon their eyes met balsys were as aa hillo innocent cent as her name name she had meant mean nothing something netted melted in lindas heart A flood of sorrow that she could never offer iter the me gifts that this thin young girl without knowing that they were i 11 re hers herg from the years one event 11 a pid out at tier her w which aich seemed to remove tier her for all time from the nur of f ant youth and happy innocence the mow blow across her face from courtney hand seared geared as it if it had been struck let iet I et us believe it if we can that the woman he loves lovea will be the right worn won nn I 1 slie site said gently CHAPTER VIII call to action from washington brinia wrote in i way flint revealed his heart with a al mf cruel clarity linda could find no douht there only tile humility and reverence with which some aime men ap an triin cli tile the they love tills this till I 1 laid P touched her profoundly ten ipri wits new to her but what haq to cille of it RII all when flint till estion persistently aroe uro e to tn torment her slie she tried to put pill it as with will all the easy excuses excuse s t that 11 at tire ire hie file hullt of the procrastinator 1 brian would go awny circumstances would them thein they would both forget nut flat in these reflections there was no nn solace in lead fur far from for elting she found the need tor for gilm growing lay by day there other troubles 1 stoney money tile lehl check nir arrived rived from tile the broker will a stiff notation of the deduction luct lim lint flint was credited t to 0 senator converse tier her cheeks burned when she saw that tant and recalled tier her humiliation for a moment site she felt a stinging desire to look the truth in the face to he be honest with herself she was not dec deceived elved with this ehab orate pretense but unless title she accepted it nothing remained but bill chaos the check was comparatively small but bat it came at a moment which exaggerated ag its importance As if warned hy by telepathy poor lindas creditors seemed to have chosen that flint morning for a united forny she was fricina a pile of bills and letters some of them even threatening in a deadly polite sort of way when the dove of pence dropped the blue slip henring hearing tile signature of stevens into tier her lap the money vanished low did it i happen tappet linda who thought she had learned the lesson of prudence dis discovered her purse parse almost empty once more some home new pride within her rebelled against sub with these people who had trusted tier her and she paid it free freely ly out to 0 and milliners while it lasted they were placated and urged by tier her to buy bay again hut bill she would not although spring peeped temptingly templin gly through the new little leaves of the gray trees in tile palk paik the shops were full of lovely things filing hilt but she bought nothing the lint hat she had chosen on that flint walk with brian had been the last purchase A feel ing that in onie till nn invisible 11 vein c losing closing around hr h persisted an and there was nothing in the imma diate dudte outlook to raise her spirits time crept hy by and brought march she was still in the elty city alone alon e so f far alt as tier her circle of friends was c concerned for the frightful weather had find driven every one away but she did not miss them she was mark I 1 ng time until brian would he gone then slie site believed slie she would be sit safe fe it would he be pr sible then to til come to some conchi sinn to look things in the foce face return to tier her old way wa y of living and thinking or to ind find that other channel tier her soul was dimly striving for but not while brian ans there with ills his pedestals that would inake it II much too hard better to be silent fur far better to let him think of tier cold while he was 1119 near lien r converse wrote her a brief note front rom washington where he hit had gone into session why noi lint ran pin down here for a few weeks theres lots going on nn all and you yon might amuse yourself playing chaperon to your friend ancey find tittle little miss fentres she was astonished tit at the aurye n of feeling those few sentences il rolled in her slie she had bud coupled brian gilld naisy it in tier her own thoughts hut hilt tills this was ivia different tills this as deping them through hie file worlds wor lils ees tills this made possibility of conjecture arp TO BE |