The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1919, Page 9

PAGE 9 DEC, 20, THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, 1919. ie ils wit Ai fil &Jo the American must face in their efforts to provide satisfactory railroad service. By Kathleen Norri COPYRIGNT BY KATHLEEN NORRIS in married to Rachacl Breckeprigge—young. deavtiful hack Althd Ie daush b foruver wife, than ‘Be do. pple ih everyone |e je Is Gevoted 19 Cart tefeated In strat me imine Ra Tides. alone, Ut of her girt ho gyerdrigking, Is in bed. Re a En cnshiman, jad lived in a girly p and How her farher and mother te New York by M t Breckenridge Then bad come tne » ng her husband married life in Calif of her mot d*when she was 14 years old won and was brought back to r love afteir wup 8 splendid young Englishman ended wh fe mnacried Mim. kbd atvempred. to hatter dun} yeatiestivg thet Breckeurideg war fun of the denly ofdead Heeckepridges 4 @ ph va ppIDE remembers 3h¢. # Wad taken her 10° ene nek devoted $0 win the We wetlh T is the declared purpase of the United States Government to restore the railroads at an early date to the cantrol of their owners. 10 him to have this wondert ed how Hie mother, with whom ered the wite of ¢ Mrs Warns aawinet a diy f attaleg th the Br€ekenri@e W > WIth Joe Mokerfng—=a' men tnuch wie Ip evitiy fata Bee ther ntoataréd, crea! gory # intends ft the home reflecting Hirst claim om his dev hae Was Visited by hugband’s sipte BIkiig too much pyout the Unhappy ¥ usd the dang But w Warten Gregory sTtuation It is hoped to engage the inter- est of the whole American people, whose welfare is so vitally dependent upon adequate transportation. Teave the ™m IF Qiecd we kn aning eens, (hkew ome, and’ regory Yn hi (Continued From Yesterday) |solation in that. Rachael Brecker | Bitence. They were running smooth | ridgo was not Pirting pow, forces far| ment. Rachael—ove peyer does along the loxely country roads) greater than she had ever known) said Florence. ‘Tell me, dotyou go were bowergd so generously i) wore Threatening the shallow waters) to the Villalopgas* sh green that great feathery/ of her life, and she might well be] “Clarence and Billy will, 1 hs of maple and locust brushed | troubled and afraid the other woman sald, with an Inst the car. The birds were still She ts not his wife any more! » and the suniight gone, githe all} Warren Gregory said. half aloud, as ‘world was still Nooded with a soft! he turned back to his car From m light. The first dew had fallen.) now op she belongy to Bhe phall ing forth Brom the dust a sweet | be ming!’ pungent odor. From that day on a bright under-| Haviland looked a bit puraled hinking gbout what I said to you! current made bearable the trying mo “Things are be aren't night?” asked the doctor, sud-|motony of her life. Rachael did not| dear?” she asked, delicately y at once pecogyize the rapid change “Things?” that began to take place In her own Between feelings, but she did realize that War) meap.” |ren Gregory's attitude had altered! “Qb! everything in her world. He was| Changed. flirting. of course, he was only balf in| “How earnest; but it wag such delicious | flirting, it was a halfearnestness #0, “Well, jt copldn't go on that way! wonderfully satisfying and sweet | forever Florence,” Rachael ‘ sald.) She did pot age him every day;| pleasantly | i} H The Association of Railway Executives represents those upon whom at that time responsibility | nigmatic aie. will again rest for the prompt and | “Perbape:'t don't know, Florgnee.| successful movement of the coun- nee andaeape ‘cantntegh. * Ate try’s commerce. "So glad to see you alone a mo sup The country can grow only as the railroads grow. The railroad problem must be solved—and solyed rightly and soon—if our country is to prosper. ' It is to promote that prosperity —permanently and in the interest of the whole people—that railroad ex- ecutives will present to the public the situation as they see it. om landscape contentedly. Mrs./ they Those constituting this Associ- ation are keenly conscious of their accountability to the public. y T am afraid I am—a little.” and Clarence. 3} el answered. meeting his qui ce with another ag fleet "*And what do you think about it? asked. For answer Rachael only hed wearily, and for a while they ft on in silence. But when they i almost reached the Breckenridge teway Dr. Gregory spoke again “Do you often have a scene like t One just now to get thru 4 edlor rushed jnto Rachael's at his friendly. pot too sympa | tone. She. was still shaken the encounter with Clarence @ still thrilling to the memory of talk with Warren Grogory last | ht, and it was with some pew lity of hesitation, almost of be Germent, that she said | t—that wasn't anything §n Greg.” Dr. Gregory stopped the car at the of her own steps, the noise of engine suddenly ceased, and they | each other, their beads close to-| you Yes. perhaps they perhaps do you Florence was Instantly ip ar mean ch They have accordingly de- termined to present as fully as they can, the fundamental facts and con- siderations which they themselves | sometimes she did not see Bm for! Rendered profoundly upeasy by two or three days, but no 24 hours| her tone, the other woman was gilent| fl went by without 4 message from hit. | for a moment i A day or two after the toubied Bun-) “Perhaps it is just as well to mpke| day on which he bad driven ber pome| different pigns for the summer,’ she stood silent a moment, in the lower hall, ope band resting on the little box of damp, delicious Freesia jigs, the fingers of the other twist: | good.” | ing bls card. The lttle message! Dr. Gregory! Dr. Gregory! At the seribied on the card meant noth-| telephone!’ chanted a club dipeabi | | tly, “We all get on each |} sometimes, apd change does us a world of sald, prege other's ner i ASSOCIATION of RAILWAY EXECUTIVES | {I THOMAS DEWITT CUYLER, Chairman or separation ing to other eyes. just the two j Pasting thru the tee raom | words “Good morning!” but in some subtle way they signified to her aj en | morning in a wider Sense, a dawning| hi of love and joy and peace In het ie. The pest day they met—and/ how wonderful these casual meetings among a hundred gay. upseelng folk.) had suddenly become!—and gh the|/hour ago; he and Joe Butler went following day he came tq teg with) down to the courts without caming| her, @ little hour whosp dramatic! into the club af all." Hach sald iF and emotional beauty was enhanced 1 wonder what he's doing thia rather than spoiled for them both | summer!’ mused the older lady when Clarence and Billy and some) “I believe he's going to take bis friends came in to end jt. mother abroad with him.” sald the] I On Thursday the doctor's man de) wellinformed Rachael. “She'll vixit Uvered into Mrs. Breckenridge’s hand] some friends in England and Ireland, | a package which prexed to be @ lit-|and then join him. He's to go the tle book on Browning of which he| Alps with some one, and meet ber in jhad spoken to her. Op the My jeaf| Rome.” | was written in the donor's small, fine “She tell your’ |bandwriting, "R. from G. The way! tiand, interested as Caponsacchi.” Rachael put the! “Ie did,” the other said. briefly hook on ber dedside table, and wore 1 didn't know shp hed apy June colors all day for the giver's| friends,” wan Florence's next com sake. Greg, abe thought with @ fut-| ment. “I don’t see her visiting, some tering heart, was certainly taking { how!" things with rather a high hand. ‘Ob, my dear! Old Catholic tam Could it be possible, could: it be pos-| ilies with chapels in their houses, and sible, that be cared for @ woman at|nuns, and Mother Superiors!" Ra last, and was she, Rachael Brecken | chael’s tone light. but as she ridge. a neglected wife. a penniless | *poke a cold premonition seized her dependent upon an uploving hus-| heart. She fell silent. band, that woman? A moment later Charlotte, who had Half-forgotten em tions of girlhood) been hovering uncertainly in the began to stir within her; she Bushed,|doorway of the room. caine out tol smiled, sighed at her own thoughts, | join het mother with @ brightly spon. she dreamed, and came bewildered | taneous air. ‘On the tenals courts. said. without turning her You had better make tt nemmse; explain that he's playing! 1 didn't sep him go down.” rp marked Florence, diverted “His car,came in about half an * Mre. Breck a Rie Cc. E. hey a President ogy Brinton @ Quincy Railroad Ca lway Co. Wonk i. City Railway Co. OTTER, President aie held & Ohio Rathy SAMUEL R President Pennsylvania HE Company But since last night,” Rachael! , smiling after a moment's “I know I haye a friend. I now, when the crash comes the whole world begins to talk, one person will not misjud f. and one person will not misun- tang.” nly that?” he asked. She raised glorious eyes quickly, trying to ile, and it brought hig heart to a fick stop to see that they were ming with tears. Only that!’ she echoed. “My dear » after seven such years as I bad as Clarence's wife, that is @ small thing!” heir hands were together now. | he felt hers cling suddenly as said: | Don't—don't let me drag you into OMAS D. HEED, R: ct THE Mas PM ie lilinois Tealroad lon J. M. HERBERT, Presid St. Louis Southwestern Railway Go. c. W. HUNTINGTON, President Virgpiap Co. J. H. 1. HUGTIB, 5. Tem pporaey Receiver Cc. EIN INGERSOLL President Midland Valley Railroad Co. L. E. JOH SON, President Lyn Wester Railway Co. A. JONES, | President Ce i shreveport ot HVCR, ees ce MORGAN oe has HOWARD G G, KELLEY, President Grand Trunk Radway Syscem watiall T. KEMPER, Ree: The Kansas City, Mexico @ Orient J. R. KENLY, President Adapuc Cogst Ling Railroad Co. JOHN B. KERR, President New York, Optanio & Western Railway Co. JUL US, KRUTTSCHNITT ident & ie hain of Ex. Com een company H. R. KURRIE, President Thicago, Indianapolis & LouisvillcR ailwayCo. A. . LAWTON, President Central of Georgia ‘Railway Co. . M. LEVEY, President © We Pasa? Relnoad Ca %, E - OPM J. H. |. REED, 4 REPL EY, President 3 PAULEY, ot mm ROS Pre, W.L. ROSS, President & iver Toledo, St Lowis & Western Railroad Co C. E. SCHAFF, Receiver 5 %. UMACHER, President a SciuM? MACHER, asked Mrs. Hay LAI is what I want you to be Warren Gregory told her. it you are not his wife, you are ng to him any more. And some , some day, you're going to be Wy agai Wonderful color flooded her face; } gave him a jook half frightened. won. Then with an almost in e “Good night,” she. was gone. Gregory stood watching ‘slender figure mount the steps not turn to nod bim a fare- ~* wanished like a shadow into shadows of the doorway. Yet _ enough of a lover to find con 93 OLDS ly you want to know more Dr. Humphreys’ Remedies B the information given ground i SMITH Mi red © Mn ee, MILTON H. SMITH, Pri Lomisvalle & Nasheslle W.T. PEW ORT Yi Vice-President R. H, SWABTWOUT. P Presiden I BSED Erste Railrocd ce W. H. TRUESDALE, Pr Delaware, Lacka Lackawanna & FRANK TRUMBULL, Fraldent and ce fh fete Vv Railway Co. ro F, B. JINPERWOSD, President O. P. NS) INGE) id p VAN S 3 WERINGEN, N, | Presidene ROBERTS WALKER, President Chicago § Alton Railroad HENRY ¥. WALTERS ‘Adland ¢ Cue Co. Lowissalle oN So mad Co. WILLIAM H. WHITE, President Richmond, Fredericksburg § Potomac R.R. Ca Washington S way Co. CHAS. a A Wes Rat Rada to Pres. wae lwcry of DANI RD, AMEE WIARD, Frcs W. ui. 1 AMS, President B. A. “WORTHINGTON, President Cucinnati, Indignapolis & Westem RRG Ge | Counsel ‘extem Ma may € KAD E PENNING 4iSaap President Gulf Coast Lings Chcago, Rock ident @ Pacific Railway Co. A. R. BALDWIN, Receiver Cogiss Railway Co s. T. “BLEDSOE, Generel Counsel t and Ui ah Counsel Missouri Pacthe Se ag Per Francisco Railway Co. Central New E: Railway Co. Counsel RC. her Railway ALFRED P. THO*,, CARL R. GRAY Etptident CLA, A, PEABODY. Cheitman Ex. Com, °. FRANK ANDREWS, \ OHN H. MOND, Ac Pres. Caereos tonnd Biron JOHN 1 HAMMOND. Agfne Shs 6 Adare Raiezy Co J. A. BAKER, Receiver CHAS. HAYDEN, Presidents Internasianal & great Northern Ry. Co. Chairman pf Minneapolis & a Railroad Go. Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Ww. rm RDSLEY, Prepident Ww. & ‘G. BESLER. ee, Eves, & & Gep. Mgr. New Jersey Atchison, Topeka @ Santa Fe Railway Co. W.G. RANTLEY, Adonis, Birmingham & Adansic Ry. Ca HARRY BRONNER, } President -§ N. I BROWN, Pres. & “Chairman ie vay Co. ‘ALLL BUCHANAN, President W aM ¢ UCHAMAN, Per E. G. BUCKL OND, President nd Preset gd peel @ Hardord RR. Ca RALPH PH BUDD, Presi lent out of her dreams, like a child. What} “Oh, here you are, M’ma! raid 4 F_BYRAM, Ps Prete Ry. Co. Clarence did, what Carol did, mat-| Charlotte. “Are you ready to go?" , NTER, President . tered no longer; she. Rachael, again| “Been having a good time, dear?”| M. 1,CaR ine ees Pretent Ry. Go. had the center of thd stage. | her mother asked, fondly P; Weeks flew by. The question of| “Very,” Charlotte said. “I've been JAMES T. CLARK, rerigent a summer plans arose: the Villalongas| looking over old magazines in the li Chicago, 5+ Pal, Minneapolis B3.Co. wanted all the Breckenridges in their | brary—so interesting!” W. A. CLARK, President Canadian camp for as much as pow| This literary enthusinam struck no| Los Angeles & Salt Lake Rqitroad Co. sible of July and August. Clarence} answering spark from the matron. | W. R. COLE, President Nashualle, wile, Chattanooga & St Lowis Ry. Co. WALTER P. COOKE, Sten KR Ca regarded the project with the embit-| “In the library!" said Florence.| tered eye of utter boredom, Billy was| quickly. “Why, 1 thought fou were| | far from enthusiastic, Rachael made! with Charley!" no comment, She stood, like a diver.| “Ob, no, M’ma!’ answered Char-| President snd General Counsel ready for the chilling plunge from|otte, with her little air that wae not) | New Great Northern Railroad Co. s, President which she might never rise, yet, after|quite prim and not quite mincing E. R. DARLOW, President ‘alley Railroad which, there wag one glorious chance:| and that yet suggested both. “Char.| Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad Corporation L B pm Presiden Dela é ste ed Se thern Hee Company ROBERT s. LOVETT, Pres. Union Pacific Railypad MORRIS McDONALD, President Maite Central Railroad Company C. H. MARKHAM, President Minois Central Railroad Co. N. & MEL PROM, Pron. & Chairman i Si tater Ce. A. H. PAY SON, President Northwestern Pacific Railroad Co. she might find herself swimming | ley left me just after you did; he had strongly to freedgm. The sunny, safe|an engagement with Straker.” She A. T, DICE, E President | - meadows and the warm, blue sky| reached for a macaroon, and ate Philadelphia @ Reading Railway Co were there in sight, there was only | with a brightly disengaged gir, her {W. M. DUNCAN, President Wheeling @ Lake Erie Railussy Co. that dark and menacing stretch of | ¢ behind their not unbbcoming waters to breast. that black, smother-| glasses, studying the golf links with HOWARD ELLIOTT, President Northem Pacific Rajlway Co. ing descent to endure. absorbed interest NEWMAN ERB, President shred ‘ow was the time. The pretense) “Any one.else in the library? tha: Ann Ashor Ra es, was her married life must end,| Florence asked in a dissatisfied tone she voust be free. In her thought she; “No. I bad it all to mygelf!” the . | Went no further. Rachael outwardly | girl answered, pleasant! bottle of “Heventy-seven.” for! wan no better than the other women | “W bey ada’ Fea go fers 10 the and Colds; that bag served you! f her world; inwardly there was in courts, dear? 1 thin Papa is play 1, her nature an instinctive niceness, a| ing!’ are described in a simple| sired for what was coarse or base.| “I didn't think of it, For years the band between her and | Charlotte, lucidly. ¢ | F in & Medical Book published | Ciarunce Breckenridge had been only| ‘What a dreadful age it ts," mused lish, French, Spanish, Portu-}an empty word. Sut it was there.| Rachael. “I wonder which phase is and German—mailed free to| n the less, and before she coul@| hardest to deal with Billy or poor lit atrées in the world i ¥ new plan into definite form, |tie Carlotta?” Aloud, from the full it drig-cn4 opnnicr stores. }even in her own heart, it must be/pess of her own happiness, she said | | Homes, Medicine Co. tog | UE den |"Buppowe you walk down to the| im st. Many of the women she knew/|courts with me, Infant, and we will} would not have been so fine. for! see what's going an?” H mere than one of them no tie was) “If M’ma doesn't object,” said the} sacred, and no principle as strong as} dutiful daughter. | their own degire for pleasure. But! “No, go along.” Florence said, with | she was different, a8 ail the world! vague discontent. ‘I've got to do should see. Neo carefully chaperoned | some telephoning, anyway.” girl could be more carefully guarded Charlotte, being 18, could think of than Hachael would be guarded by|npthing but herself, and Rachael herself until that time—the though!| wrapped in her own romance, ef it put her senses to utter rout—| amused, as they walked ® until such time as she might put her|/sce how different her ‘ON, Pi id t § M4 sp ELTOR Wekem Ralrocd Co. \W. H. FINLEY, President Chicago & North Western RailunyfCo. . R. FREEMAN, Receiver He RTM AN Relay Co CARL M. GAGE, President Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railzoud & Coal Co S. R. GUGGENHEIM, President Newada Northern Railway Co. M'mna,” said So NN Give the folks at home a treat for Christmas. Choice Salmon Weighing 7 to 9 ths. dresseu with me, and Billy has plenty of ad:|who had seated herself, miration of a sort, and I suppose that/in her and gave | satisfies her! But, in short,” finished | tention to the game Wasi went on to; leaned back a devoted at “and we have a good laugh over it, and are all the better friends! That is, said @harlotte, thoroly en: ory took his mother to England, and during that week it was asrertained that he and Mrs. Breckenridge saw step by clearing the way. How sure he was, how wonderfully, quietly cer tain of his course. Carefully packed in fee and re-iced daily by express company until des- tination is reached. Express prepaid to ¥ express office inv. & Guaran 4 to arrive in excellent condition. Write or phone us your order. Kast of Mion. Hive | | | | jher place | bis moods in silenc hand poldiy in Gregory's, and take honorably by his side The taste of f. Clarence’s house, nd imparted to Billy that half-seornful, balf-hamor ouy advice that alone seemed to pen etrate the younger woman's shell of | utter perversity. Mra. Breckenridge, as usual followed by admiring and envious and curious eyes, walked in a world of ber own, entirely oblivious went about ony on BAN FLU FeRES lof the persons and events about her, Per an’ 1525 aie (Poot of Pik TY, Phone Main 904. TP remain open all day inday to take orders for xt week’s shipments : : wrapped in a breathless dream too exquisitely bright to be real it was @ dream still so simple and| vague that she was not consciguy of wiehing for Warren Gregory's pres ence, or af being much happler when they were together than whep she was deliciously alone with her thoughts of him Bi fee he ’ ' About a month after the Whittaker tea Rachael found hersgif seated in the tile-floored tea room at the coun try club with Florence. There had the group, sheoret ly for tea, but these tere scat- el now, and among the various bottles and glasses on the table there was no sign of a teacup. ‘dom already began) to intoxicate her even while she stiil| boret youthful egotism was from and yet how typical of cence Isn't Aunt all adoles-| if it a wonderful Rachael?” Charlotte one in duty bound to be entertain: | ing. “I do think they've picked out| | such a charming site for the club!” And then, as Hachael did not angwer being indged content to drink in the last of the long summer day in si-|y lence, Gharlotte went on, with an air blended of comprehension and amuse ment: “Poor Mma, she would go like me to be a little fluffy, empty-headed butterfly of a girl, and 1 know 1 dis | appoint her! It ign't that I don't like} | boys,” ." pursued Charlotte, the smooth |and even stream of her words begin | ning to remind Rachael of Florence, “or that they don't like me; they're} t always coming to me with their con-)t fidences and asking my advice, but it's just that T can’t take them’ seri ously. If @ boy wants to kiss me,|t why, I say to him In perfect gock faith, ‘Why shouldn't you kigs me. John? When I'm fond of a person 1 always like to kias him, and I'm sure I'm fond of you!’ Charlotte stopped for 4 short laugh full of rel-| ¢ ish. “Of course, that takes the wind|a out of their sails completely,” she} afternoon said, as|t ‘ € ® «| joying traordinary way of an iey boredom while it other girls are so crazy aly Aunt brightly sensible head to me herself, “I treat my men exactly as I do my girl Do you think that's so ex Aunt Rachael? do anything different, really T can't! be natural—that's the best said Rachael fram the depths riends riends, can't now Just “Ot course, some day I shall mar ¥." the girl added in brisk decision, I lov and I love hildren, ood mother to children my hooks and But mean my han all these stupid boys! Why is ut hows, varlotte, “Of cour I like and all that, but I can't see ie of all these notes and tele and flirtations, € told Vivvie Rachael?" asked hem, he we Bartoris that 1 was afraid 1 knew all hese boys tog well; of course, Jack nd Kent and Charley are just like therg! Tt all"—-Charlotte smiled, ighed, shook her disillusioned young t all seems so awfully silly she said, and before Rachael ould speak she had caught breath gain and added, laughingly: "Ot ourse, I know Billy doesn't agree Becaune | you! nd I think I would be a} friends | mean @ thousand times more to me |Charlotte, giving Rachael's arm a squeeze tennis courts, “in ghort, you have an exacting little niece, Auntie, dear, and I'm afraid the man who is going to make her happy must be out ef the ordinary! | Rachael sighed a long deep sigh, bup no other answer was demanded, |fof the knot of onlookers welcomed | them eagerly to the benches baside the courte, and even the players jardner Haviland, Louis Chase, a fat young man in an irreproachable tennis costume; Warren Gregory and Joe Butler found time for a shouted “Hello!” “How do you Ao, Kent?” said Char lotte to a young man who was | sprawling on the sloping grass be tween the benches and the court The young man blinked, sat yp, and snatched off his hat “Oh, how do you do, Charlotte? 1 didn't know you were here! he said enthusiastically, “Some game. what?” “It seems to be," said Charlotte, with smiling, deep significance, Both young persons laughed heartily at this spirited exchange. A silence fell. Then Mr. Parmalee turned back to watch the players, and Charlotte, as they came out upon the Gregory came to Rachael the in- stant the game wag over; she had known, since the first triumphant in stant when his eyes fell upon her, that he would, She had seen the | color rush under his brown skin, and, [alone among all the onlookers, had known why Greg put three balls into |the net, and why he laughed so ip- explicably as he did so, And Rachael | thought, for the first time, how sweet it would be to be his wife, to sit here |lovely in lavender yes and loose white coat; Warren Gregory's wife “You mustn't do that,” said, sitting down on the bench her and wiping his hot faee. “Mustn't do what?" she asked. “Mustn't turn up suddenly when I don't expect you. “It makes me dizzy. Look here—-what are you doing? I'm soiling up to the pool. Pye got to get back into town tonight. When can I see you?" “Why"--Rachael rose slowly, slowly unfurled her parasol suppose we walk up together?” They strolled away from the courts deliberately, openiy. Several persons remembered weeks later that they went slowly, stopped now and then, No one thought much of it at the time, for only a week later Dr, Greg. and why, }laughter, of flirtation, was utterly each other only once, and then were in the presence of his mother and of Carol “Breckenridge and. young Charles Gregory as well. here was no tiniest peg for gossip to bang scandal upon, for where old Mrs, James Gregory was, decorum pf an absolutely puritanic order prevailed, Yet that stroll across the grass of the golf links was a milestone in Ra- chael Breckenridge’s life, and every word that passed between Gregory and herself was grayen upon her heart for all time. The aspect of (Continued Monday) The average man’s acquaintances are filled with astonishment when they see him tackle a glass of near beer. NASAL CATARRH Th hk Very Common, It In a Scrious Dinease—Werse at Thin Season. Tt is an inflammation of the m cous membrane, Causing aiechar 8 aggravate, abn Satie et weathe on “it on an impure condition of the . Myhen chronic. it may develop into Hep ion 4 breakin, lown the ae heat tissues and impairing the general heaith, Begin treatment with Hood's Sar saparilia at once. This medicine puris fe aves blood, Pemaves the cause of Re el vee ar chy} re- ntirely tory to three menerations thai absent today. His tone was crisp and serious, he spoke almost before they were out of the hearing of the group on the courts, “I’'ye been wanting to talk to you, Rachael; in fact'--he laughed briefly —"in fact, Tam talking to you all day long, these days," he said, “ar. wuing and consulting and advising and planning. But before we can talk, there's Clarene®. What about Clarence?" Something in the gravity of his ex- pression as their eyes met impressed Rachael as she had rarely heen im- pressed in her life before. He was in deadly earnest, he had planned his campaign, and he must take the drst ii aie