The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1915, Page 9

The Evening | NIGHT CAP TRinnen wile FUR FURS war SiGe ( USED Nore mr — ATEN SIVELY : a THAN Ever 4 Bs WINTER rn + Se ee ee eT in her Gunestamh 9 . Pee ewe ereLneTe Phytie er companied him te the \ ! = om ony on ve Peeeee eemeet” Ue Me dey m (oere fore few enimuier Wey NoT ANID eee + Deven of ¢ pate Bonen, hem teiking we him about Alles ond mab On \ PATAMAS es be cme tc o WE him promins to come often, He ’ ch me Ce cunetinn ter SETOO4 Git) her (hel thie mech pre eit 6 eee eemmntion mate we Ph grees made « fond deni mere enight Aes Herneges cheng on suomi 8 follow HM 1eed 00 come best} re 8 tee ee etre et eet ose 00 mee of & 4 gain thie #he Nee, yeh don't,” «narind thy very soon Oe dove ltramp. ae @he Med on “y+ wren oe oe posmibie OT met git ber au wetehing them, out of ear S ston” living room @here he Ti call 1 equare h nol™ eaplained Payttia, 4 § ‘ean wheeled. sow Mhptiie emi) < ber chalr ume, and then, os : nyiie'e heart wood open menace, bul abe ran |oudéeg thought same | 414 not gem satiatactory the orm of Atane = “¥ been abie to ) Op et bee triend, Nagering | him, #iving Bim bor wl, amd he eam. too.) Hewitt's rapt interest and long leave. | taking - it the door alesed. and Phyiite Feremen! nt demine 6 maming dante fo came back to him, @ushed and ani. Files comsany ant, mettemtalty, remem het ated He realised, watch! her) Pengromeme is te cheer wy Alem ted te tole POCURN With Chet ewift lightness of| ew ereding bam wh eet foot her long yeare of w had tent tangs =e amines the umwnery that the & her, how young and sin and jovely Sa Sau n vod imams eptee Tahoe wae, with the rose color in her Po he le our ty the vist of 8 cheeks und the Heht from above » trae consciously tried “There's my money Ko wet 11!" she make the muscles go till you @asped—and ran for ber vife The Stronsy excited 1 broke J tramp, a# she had hoped he would, just ae people ean kk after it and gave her the ' delirium of exeitement thet t abe needed could Breathe rifled to death, 7 raced on, tearing her frock, dropping kissing the library cards and parasol abe eti!] Of Der neck irreievantly, “If some. |had held in her hand. Once she bedy'd tried to shoot me up five years 7 Fur ) TRINNED STOCKING - —s making ber hair qlitter weil caumbt ber sash on a tree wire, Once man 4 CHAPTER XIII. And suddenly her silm young her slipper heel caught and nearly 2! word of (Centineet strength and her brimht vitality threw har. The chase seemed unend- E'PIli8 inhibition, What « lot seomed to mock him, Instead of bein in 10 rf “ She could hear the dreadful foot. oa if you won't be serious!” said 4 " LOLA produced 4 prempay that sey pag * Comfort and support as heretoto of the tr behind ¥ time to remember the pro. 4 YUN, beautiful, kind girl Mike that anarling, swearing voice p “We'll have to be” ald ; pro. At war natural she should like Hew- threate. He was drunk laughing, “for here's Wallis, and ee fessional doctor's visite 1” "hia it was going to come natu r thrill of horror, live the direction of the don't usually have cards. or thought " happenin i thought they carried our Geah he q fo look at the card for enlightenment, ‘#! t0 Hewitt to iike Phytite, He] 1 she stumbled and fell, (amp out through the flo the surprise was coi when Ould eee that plainly enoum. fs caught herself-—tut ¢ 4 tramp had i ny ‘© gone all the way | ‘Tired, Allan Harrington?” she ja@ained, Then at inet the almost in- i* Wee secretly certain Be doctor appeared, sked brightly, coming over to him | Slathie map tn the hedge, and she fled Wallis hed been crying ‘a ttl, | ‘Johnay Howitt!” ejaculated Allan, and dropping o light hané on his | through 1 all he said w “We've taken throwing out both handa in greeting, “00 “1OPPINE Oe itie way she Han! Allan! Allan!” he tramp to the lock-up, str.” \ reamed, fleeing inetinctly to b oha “Of all people! Weill, you old fraud, pretending to be @ doctor! The inst 1 beard about you, you w trying t@ prove that you weren't the man that Ged @ mule into old Sumericy’s hair at colinge.” “I never did prove { reaponted Jounny Hewitt, shaking hande vigor- ously, “but the fellows eaid after- had dared lately. . . . Kindness! Yeu, she wna the incarnation of a- fess, Doubtless she had spoken to and touched those Htte ragamuffing she had told him of just #0. He had got into a habit of feeling + Phyllis belonged to him absolutes He had forgotten—what was tt she had sald to him that afternoon, But his master a were not so dignified Ey ‘The rose marden was like a place of boon exhaustively that Allan enchanted peace after the terror be iy stand and walk, a: outside. Her quick ion as whe cemonetretes it, and Welle nearly rushed in was of Allan still there, ree again. moveless in his chair, with Ittle hen they wont tn, for Phytlie was Diack bulldog lying asleep across his ore Aten heeded @ thorough rest arma and shoulder like @ ebild h or all this, the was a! from Tt often lay #0, As she entered, "ed to foot herself with Jo: ‘Exe the scene broke up before her eyes Shay ep but #he did not even knew like a dissolving view. She saw the And it wae long past dinner time, | FUR TRitined UMBRELLA th wards that I ought to apologize to though every one but Lily-. hulf in fun—but, oh, doubtiess haif in little and make what y to the mule, He was a perfectly 6004 eqrnest!-—about marrying him for a foemed ono flying spring to the pom the happy news had ~ mule, Wut I'm a doctor all right. 1 nd sink his teeth In rgotten it, | a Af rowe-warden? bjt he a ay ve always wanted to hold you ] live here in Wallraven. I wondered “she had done just that. She had it or cream, #PFIOK in my arms thie Ww. i ” gaid Allan late if it might be you by any chance, Allan, when I heard some Marring- tons had bought here, But thi the first chance a promising y |from his chair ¢ | "Phyllis foot everything at the sieht foae.gurdentagein® of Allan, standing, Wallis and the peyer would, never made any secret of It--why, how could she, marrying him betore she '® had spoken @ half-dozen words to | him? ut how wonderful she had | been to him sinco—sometines almost | as if sho cared for him. “Ite what's left of me," said Allan, ie moved ungraciously, “Don't smiling ruefully. “And—Phyllis, this touch mo, Phyllis!" he said teritably doctor-person turns out to be an old “Wallis! You can wheel mo into my friend of mine, This le Mre. Harring- room, ton, Johnny.” “Oh-h!' sald Pbylite, behind him, "Oh, I'm 90 glad!” beamed Phyllis, The little forlorn sound hurt him, but springing up from her hammock, and {t pleased him, too. So he could hurt bg looking as if she loved Johnny. Hare her, if only by rudeneas? Woll, that 28 more than your duty, child, dispirited, and his volce was listle it outdoor ‘man, who had run to the You ever want me ior | nvilie did spot at Phyllis screams, were deal- EYE GLASSES WITH FUR RIMS | ing with the tramp, who was writh- | It was too beautiful a moonlight | ing on the graas, choking and atrik- Bleht to waste in the house, or even y, Pp) the porch. The ing out wildly, ‘But neither Phyllis pF nor Allan saw that. Which caught to ite accustomed place in the other in an embrace they never the rose-warden, and knew. They stood locked together, forgetting everything eise, he in the But it was hard Iden of her peril, abe in the wonder ‘,neke him stay there, of his standin, 7 “Oh, you must lie down,” said “Oh, darling, darting!" Allan was hurriedly, trying to move eeu saying over and over again. “You mustn't stand till we find how mush Her quick steps finally took her to she was being happy on $60 a month, #r@ safo—thank heaven you are safe! is enough. . . , I'm going to wend ou 3 bu Senta ‘bette pee Oh, Phyllis thought, if Louise Frey the outskirts of the village, to a little And perhaps some of the women she Oh, Phyllis, I could never forgive my- for the wolfhound ‘week. Was exactly What was needed—some- was 4 satisfaction. "Shut tue door,” PUL als vould better fo away, had only been kind enough to die in green stretch of woods, "There she had watched then bad had heartaches self if you had been hurt! Phyllis! won't mind him now, will yout body for Allan to play with! ho ordered Wallis swiftly, vive's ‘beurt. turned ove babyhood, instead of under Allan's Walked up and down for gwhile, try- under their furs. . . . Speak to m . ‘Did you ever want to here in Bho made herself delightful to the _ Phyllie, her hands at her throat, 't @8 bad as this? Was he automobile! What could there have ing to think more quietly.’ She found ‘The children, already aitting in a But Phyliss own safety did not my arms, Phyllis?” newcomer for a few minutes, and ®20¢ burt and frightened in tho of her as this? been about her to hold Allan so long? the tide of her decorous ring on their low concern her now. She could think “Of course not!” eald asa | middle of the room. It y occurred “You mean—you think,” she falter- She glanced at his weary face aguin. f seemed after the first surprise to only of one thing, “You can stand! modest young person sho! , then excused herself, They would to her that Allan was jealous. or \n- have a better time alone, for awhile, dved th: . This would never do! What had come librarian lin- You oan stand!" she reiterated, Then but*——— to be her dominant instinct, keeping t was a mistake—our mar! ping & wonderful thought camo to her, “Well, my wife?" prove of ry fr Ti he could care enough for “quiet--thinking of gered for a little by way of aa i Oh, Allan, Allan!” den pailor of fright. little longer? It sounded heartless that she crossed the marble floor of Greenway Branch, watched her go #h¢ sald hurriedly, to cover her cone When he had settled himeelg almost forgot the tiny hurt {t had — She did not want to cry downstairs, to her after she had sald it, but it the village library. She felt i her to be Jealous. he said restlessiy. * +++ Allan's spirits up, 6 ed to put him reso- order if It should be necessary, striking across the others, as ve often wondered just where I'd ~ way, and there was dinner to ie way talking about Louise Fre: It wasn't fair.” bend forward, and even laugh a little, !utely from her mind, and think about watched the competent sweep with stood locked {n this miraculously reach to,” said Phyllis ina rush... . | order. phe sald. “That, and Dr. Hewitt ghe had no means of knowing that _ “Come, Allan!” she gald, “i her own future plans, The first thing which Phyllis gathered the children Falsed Allan's arms. She spoke with- “Allan, please don't stand any lo: 4 j Maybe this Johnny Hewitt-doctor bringing up old Umes. Oh, why did I h ' ene : we're not going to stay together al- to do, she decided, was to rub up her around her, heard the opening of out knowing that ehe had sald it ‘Til lie down if you'll sit on the would stay for dinner, He should i¢ 88% about her? was contented-- %¢ meant It was unfair to her, She ways, wo might as well be cheerful yey work a little, the story, and left with an air of aloud, “Do you care, too? she said couch by me,” 4 ehe could make him! She sang a I know he was contented! He'd gotten beld on to herself, though she felt till we do part. We used to be good t was with an unexpected feeling astonished approval. very low, ‘Then the dominant thought ‘Very well,” said Phyllis; and gat j Tittle on her way to the house and alike, Paving ine with him—ne even her face turning cold with the sud- friends onough. Can't wo bo wo a of having returned to hor own place Phyllis, lato best story teller of the returned. "You must sit down agaln, ohediently in the ourve ef If pho with @ bit of professional triumph in fi jon, and what she had said, ld position, the sre it > ahe “I think it can be annulled.’ she | much more natural been when Allan seemed so sad- ®? She ran for her own room, Ther seemed the only way to speak, She Ought to hurry down to the, cloak her heart. Pleas jan, alt down, Please, dear i 4 she threw herself down and cried into id steadily, “No, 1 auppose it amiled at lim bravely. room, Instead of waiting leisurely at you'll tire yoursel Mine, every bit of = be dened when speaking of Louiso F & pillow Lill most of the care was wet. wasn't fair.” Allan looked at her mutely for « the desk for her card a aE be cole “e children stories til the ~Xnan sank into his chair again, atiil sald exultantly. | “Heaven that | Bhe had no right to feel hurt, she She was » she knew she was silly, She stopped to get her breath moment, as if she had hurt him It all seemed uncannily like home-- story more.” She had not forgutten holding her. She dropped on her talking ous akeacsatat | lenew. It was only to be expected Sho tried to think of all the things and catch at the only thing that mat- You're right,” he said suddeniy, tere Was even a girl Inside the desk how, she found. But she never told knees beside him, with her arma talking about annulments.! . dla ps . that were still her that Allun would always love Lou- (Oia y te et, ise's memory, She didn't know much gowns—-but nothin about men, but that was the way it of you remember that little leisure after mother died? I was mp neatly With grief and physical the gurden, the tered—steadiness, quietness, ability “There's no tine but the present, Who | leisure, the pretty to soothe Allan! after all. Come over here, closer to OWN G nothing aeemed “It can” be annulled," oked like Anna lack of her them the story of “How the Klephant around him. She had nway Brauch. Phyllis could Got His ‘Truuk,” that foolish, fas- now to observe that she said, mo, Phyllis. You've been awfully hear, with a faint amusement, that cinating story-hour classic that she resourceful, had tied t! 3 s td ie Y consequence beside the fact “Allan, |! will ¢ quite & while, good to me, child—isn't there Y the girl was soolding energetically in had told Allan the night his mother with the outdoor man's suspenders, Wéllis went after you. I always wap in stories. that she had not kissed Allan goed It can't be vione to-nikht, or before thing—anything | could defor you, AMR Black's own Way. The worda had dled; the tory that had sent Which were nearer the surface than him to Bat he trusted ‘A man's heart would die, under an ™'# P you aro stronger, So for your own gomathing you could remember after- St?UCkK on her quick ears, though they him to sleep quietly for the first time his own, and succeeded in prying oft in with hy ‘al And you i ; a seemed the most intolerable thing sake you must try to rest now, ward, and say, ‘Well, he did that for W@ not Intended to carry; in years, .. . Oh, dear, was every- the still unappeascd Foxy, who ovi- !" at ewitt, automobile or anywhere else, and all that had ever happened to her, Bverythiug shall come righte t Man any i “That's what comes of trusting to Wins in the world connected with dently was wronged at not having Jour 00 I've sean you there was left for anybody else was ——— Bramiae you it shall be annulled. But pnyiiis's eyes filled with tears, “You volunt he Telephones atthe Allan in ome hy Md other? he tramp to finish. Tey carried him Pg merged rm ye vy leavings. It wasn't fair! , lormet it now, please. Il am going ke no eve: . last moment ‘she has a hi it wae nearly 6 en she wont up, off, into the back kitchen garden. ry al ‘ol pret a’ tha) Eovilig: cheaw: bask der CHAPTER XIV. Molle antees for saudi seuce ee are als matthine hor het nai, Hot a single soul tovicge anes We gnagulied Ho op lares. 12 ce eireulat: PL GOe ataF Be WAS ceriein oF inee one ora was py. cite or you, ou fo bac , 2 0 ! | a em nol o shoulders and laughed, ns she had T was Just as well, perhaps, {5 sleep." didn’t foot as if she could stand much 10 wel here diventhgncnldren are Citght hor, She had evidently been least tion.” OS {ou-! don't remember how 1 . sometimes in the library days, and that Phyllis did not do She wondered afterwards how she more of i ae just have to send them Wi to try to wet Phyllis for more = "Did you mean it?” he eald pag- Dut I know you eat the reminded herself what a nice world much sleeping that night, Could, Haye apanen a phat hase every ng? gett 2 (d' the other with looking up atoty-houra, for sho did her best % sionately. “Tell me, did you mean ™* and took both my wrists in yway, . vs h . “Tt! make her promise, what you said?” strong little hands of it was, anyway, and that Atlan was for at about two Wallis steadily’ on with story after story, every gitl wante—a well, wirong man fate to wet anohoge cine ‘ang at? they talked shop together for per- “Phyilix dropped her dishevelied head talked to me and ‘quieted going to be much helped by Johnny knocked at her door. It reemed like powm after poem, till Allan's grip on to be her husband—the health and ness knows we cant get it In!” haps an hour and @ half, Then the on Atian’s shoulde: fell fast asleep. You ne Hewitt. That was a cheering thought, history repeating itself when he said: her handa relaxed, and he fell into strength that any man in the street ought to have another wing twilight reminded Phyl “I'm afraid—i'm ing to cry, and “tt consecutive brig rane in n “Could to Mr. Allan, please? # heavy, Lired sleep, has.” fretted at it time to back, She 4 1 know you don't like it!” she Months. It felt as if life a , anyhow. She went on einging, and you come nm, p Sh retted the girl who looked irk ‘cing home, she nei ‘4 ordered a beautiful, festively-varied He seeme very bad.” eeteeat on the: Aide of the bod and <Oh, don't apeak that way, Atlant” ke Anna. "They could afford tt wall had been shirking. going Rome & panted, Allun half drow, half gulded Yove Om atrength ere pe pm > " » ly! ja bent ov i hetically, enough, it t J - : er up into his arma. : %, a dinner, & very poem of gratitude, She threw on the silk crepe negiixee wide pillows. mond Ue ive wonaa: ympatnetically, enough, with (hel soldiers’ moad- sata gued-o¥ to the might-librart “Was it true?” he insisted, giving “#leep. ‘Then she pounced on the doctor as und followed him, just aa sho had | Sie looked and looked, and present- ment the misunderstanding might — Phyili he was leaving and made him stay done before, on that long-ago night IY the tears began to slide silently have been straighter and went on down the vill wt ha t 7 imiled to herself whi t have her an Impulsive little shake, She sat Out, if {t had wag Investianting the cond Coieleee lagsing unconsciously. it must Have uF on nis knees, wide-eyed and w y Ue. been abou time. ange o tor It. After her mother-in-law had died. anda 'to wipe them away, she pat POs, 2ee8 for his reply. 1 Hiall nounded so exceedingly natural, "Tt" was tS thile back tothe house, CheeKed Mike a child. alongi” one HIM. that, bonene a coe now, bi, pe aay Be er had to you at Then that swift inatinct of hers to She could have taken the trolley part H u 1 ra} t Allan's eyes were bright and his ‘Did Dr Hewitt's visit overexcite and cried silently, openly, like a deso- gyi!" he id involuntarily. In her h Ach 10 eald. “That was why I felt so hi Was afraid of you fret. But I | nvoluntar n her help caught her over to the desk, and of the way, but she felt restless and 4. Tt was you that I thought félt that, too, as tf I were giving you | face lighted with interest. Phyllis, at him, do you think?" she asked as they /4t# unkindly treated child, yy Sensitive state of mind the hurt was she heard herself saying: i Iking. She had forgotten that ™!! ui, ‘Mra. Allan! Mrs. Allan, ma'am!" 9)) she felt—not the. deeper meaning “I've had some experience in story Ls Miho e ght through well-known, 4dn't caro” —— my streng tee Ee RONG of the table, Kept Just went. came ‘Wallis's concerned’ whisper All And then I enough in the talk to push the men “I don't know, ma'am,” Wallis said. from the doorway. “Don't tale it Pi telittect ides telling: maybe I could help you with well-lighted city streets and going in (Milan laughed joyously, | your shoulde i wae #0 glad I could! i] ” . ll relleve you of my presence for the story hour, I couldn't help hear- x count byways +. on A I on when it seemed flagging, which “He's almost as bad as he was after hare an that, It's just a little relapse. awhile,” she flashed backs Before she {1x ry eu tare lalloe hard Waited ben arena fee? She was did, first, last and ail the time! Why, anne e tela me that,” said was not often. the old madam died—-you remember?” He wax Bvareregs i shouldn't h Vo gave herself time to think she had pointed you." destined to be reminded of the difter- Phyllis, child, didn't I behave like a Alla” reproachfully, Phyllis laughed Bhe learned more about Allan, and = “Oh, you," aid Phyllis mechanically. 69/04 YOu, Put you always quiet him jet, {he warden, with something which | The girl like Anne fell on her with ence . Bruce neceuae. & £04 ena Maou "There never seemed to be any incidentally Johnny Hewitt, in the “t remember.” Phylila brushed off her toars, and peaple may things lke ther to yout “Eittaven must have gent you," she .,.C&8 you help & poor man, Indy?” Pv se "ie wan the first man you hag Pont In our conversations where It talk as they lingered about the table, Allan lay go exactly ay he had on smiled. You seemed to have to do ghe nad os wie Walked away from said. ‘The other one, evidently slower sald ® whining voice Deni ee WIE en since you married mo—attrac- “ited In neatly,” she sald demurely. than she had ever known before. tins other night, that the strange aur. 89,inuch smiling in this house! | him, “it's carrying being an invalid a and more cautlous by nature, rose fy Ko tive, and: wall, and clever, and all that Area launhed, fe a MO By vi liber= . y Ws jasc orry about jittle too fs too, and came toward her. “You hy ‘ to see a dig tramp, @ ~!t would have been natural enough c hould one. Bul She and Allan had lived so tha roundings seemed incongruous, Just his condition too much, But you see ANAK heaed (ha side dcorielam: die @ cara here, tavent wcuh pie. unk seers ee - nalfepropitial if you'd liked him.” what I was going to tell you wasel ately in the placid present, with its the same, except that his restlessness - he’'s—all Dhave, . . . Good-night, nad never auspec before that Phyl- "I think I've seen you.” ing, half-fierce look on his heavy, | “Liked him!" sald Phyllis in dis think I began to be in love with you almost childish brightness and inter- wag more visible, because he had more Walls i ; ls had a temper. And yet, what “Yes,” Phyllis said, with a unshaven face, Sho was desperately fain. “When there was you? And I ee we ean’ know ft, but I did. ests, that she knew scarcely more power of motion. nee out of Allan's room, she ran could he have said? But she gaye speaking the name she had « frightened. She had been spoken to thought-—T thought {t was the mem. And, lt mot vores and worse but I about her husband's life than the She bent and held the nervously Si ,full speed till she gained her own him no opportunity to find out. In love bearing: “I'm Mra. Harrington Onee or twice in the city, but ory of Louise Frey that made you act didn't know what alled me tii! Jobany bed, where she could cry in peace just about the time it might take to Phyllis Harrington, We live at the there was always & policeman, or a that way. You didn't want to talk drifted in, bless bis heart! Them I De Guenthers had told her before clenched hands, as she had before, til) 1 f she wanted to, with no find gloves and a@ parasol, another other end of the villag house you could run into if you about her, and you sald it was all a did, Ob, Phyllis, it was awful! To ahe married him. “What is it, Allan?" she said sooth- That was all right. door clanged in the distance. The “Oh, In the house with the garden pad to mistake" — have you with me all the time, aet- But she could see the whole picture tngly, sen eaaale was going to be next street door, Phyllis had evidently ai) ohne of from et Nena! ong tne But here, in the pnauaried dusk ed at was & brut fd Allan again jee Je oe ae eee oe me 7: "i eh ”" orniny wone out air ¢ Anna, delightedly, ‘Tha ntry lane, it was a different mat- “lt was the memory that T was about han . ot knowing of tt an oho Vatonsd ow; the active, Nothing,” vaid her huaband s4v- But somehow, when morning came, "Phyllis, on her swift way down the lovely old houss that used to belong fer Ths. ion gold chain that awunr as useful ax a rag doll, and that the Whether you had any use for me or merry, brilliant boy who had worked agely, “Nerves, hysteria-—any other the old routine was dragged through streot, grew angrier and angrier, She to the Jamegons, Oh, yes, T knOW. teiow her waist, the big diamond on world was full of live men with real ot And you never kissed me and played all day and danced half silly womanish thing a cripple could With. Directions had to be given the to persuade herself to make al- You're bere for the summer, aren't her finger, the gold mesh-purse—-all lege and arms, ready to fall in love ’od-night last night,’ the night; who had lived, it almost have, Let me alone, Phyllis. 1 wish merrents usual, Narsiie sorarrs nees for Allan, but they refused You, and your husband has been very ine jewolry she took such & chibaiise with you." A Feri ae Bos Knieha She only 3 - : and amusement aeen to, just as if to alt me 1 “The obody rf penta little, and kissed 7 seemed to her, two or three lives 18 you could put me out of the way al- Aathine haa Manpened. Tr wae 4 ner be Wings She eek more BARE OTe iow. aut . monn, i ee ee meets Peres nobody, Dut vou 1p, tne on the fie, Vere eweath pe ng i one, together!" fect day, golden and perfumed, with ein her life. If she only hi though she wished people wouldn't she was no brown-clad little work. you ou will be soo of her own accord e / € over him and been sorry for talk about Allan! ‘They seemed pos- ing girl now, to slip along disregarded, she added joyously. Sho slipped away Nothing then of | ¢ just before she got u slap in the to mention him. ‘And the tramp did not look like a from him. “Allan, don't you want to balf-happy, half-wrete ike that! 1 be obliged forever if you'll deserving object. try to stand aguin? If you did it then Si had loved him and never even And then the ohange to the darken- Phyllis made herself laugh, though Just that little ane of fresh wingt 7 sf ness i June days ha in ne 4 room--heipless, unable to move, her heart hurried with fright. Sh® Nornern states, And Allan iiust not with the added sorrow of his sweet- had geen Allan suffer badly before ithe must be wheeled out into “She walked rapidly down the main do it.” said the other girl, evidently "If you will come to the house to- you can do it now.” hoped he would care for her. There heart's death, and his mother’s delib- be apathetic, irritable, despondent, the garden. street of the little village. She hard- the head librarian, “Can you do {t morrow,’ ahe said, lrurrying on as she “Yes, by Jove, I do!" he sald. But Was time for all that. There’ were erate fostering of that sorrow, It was but never in a state where he did not She came out to him, in the place ly knew where she was going. ¢ now? The children are waiting.” spoke, ‘I'll have some work for you. this time the effort to rise was notice. Boing to be long, joyous Years to- almost a shock to see him tn the cling to her. where they usually sat, and sank for had heen called on by most of tie "Certat gaid Phyllis, and fol- ‘The frwt house on this street that you able. SUll, he could do it, with Phyl- years of | being a" LJ e . a moment in the hammock, that after- jocal people, but she did not fee! like lowed the younger girl straightway come to.” She did not dare to give him lis's eager help: as she had so pagsionat wheel-chair at the foot of the table, “1 can't let you alone,” she said noon. She had avolded him all the heing agresable, or making formal to the hasoment, where, tt seemed, anything, or send him away “It must have been what Dr. How. Wished to be that day in the library, bis face lighted with Interest in what brightly. “I've come to stay with morning ealls, just now. the story-hour was held, “Won't you gimme somethin’ now, itt called neurasthente (nhib'stor,” the would never again need to envy he and bis friend were saying. you tll you feel quieter, . “T just came to see if everything And what was the use of making ¢ wondered Ley all right," whe said, leaning to- friends, any way, When she was going pirl envied he hing the mirasie of any woman happiness or love or What if he did care for Louise Would you rather I talked to you, ward him in’ that childlike, sarnest back to her tars they went, if the lady?” whined the tramp, continuing #aid Phyllis, wa t, if n. “That was what laughter. It was all before her now, xpenmively perish- to follow. “I'm @ starvin’ man.” # standing A poor little Cinder- able summer organdy, with | ; ; flyin, 1s dared not o7 er purse and we were talking about by the door youth and joy and love, and Al Frey's memory sti!!! He'd had such or kept quiet?” way he knew #0 well, "I don't need ella that she was! Pelow and around 8 and costly accessories; if t 4 an : re, fo] ary nee money-— that night, you foolish pov! * e 9 ¥ *lan, soon to be Well, and lot @ Bard time that anything Phyllis “Oh, do your wifely duty, what- t0,8tay here if 1 worry you." and above everything else cama the ought ahout her awinging Jew- etehad too much with her. That morn- Ob, how tall you are! 1 never Tol »ving nobody ¢@lae but her! 4 ould do for him oughta't to be teo ever it is,” he said. . ba 9 f ramen zone stay. if vou don't stinging thought that ahe had given nd endiess leisure with a wish ing ahe had received the check for !2ed you were,tail, lying down, somge a, IT love you, Allan!" was al £4 mind,” hi ewered, Phyllis looked Allan ao much--that se had taken eo for hereelf, She had her monthly {pogme from Mr. De how! she said, Gasaain! @ mistake, the whole thing. You've at him intently. He was white and much for granted. things, she knew, when Guenther,sent Wallis down tocash i, “I don't bate fo bend very far to (THE BRD), 2 : i \ “)