The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 17

A Romance of Love and Fortune in the Big Northwest aan AWAY (Copyright, 1018, by Street & Amith,) SYNOPSIS OF PRECRDING CHAPTERS, acre homme, ha tenanted house. But apart they _had left it thirteen jo foot had crossed 6 pile of wood and the threshold. WHAT A CHARMING LITTLE Girt | COME AND SHAKE HANDS with THe MINISTER . lay beside the fireplace as placed it the morning they Harel, belatedly “ ‘Be it ever so humble," Bill left the line of the old song unfinished, hut his tone was full of jubilation. y threw wide every Between them th CHAPTER X, Neighbors. UR days tater they stood on the deck of a grimy little steamer breasting the out- The cool evening wind filled the place with sweet, pine- ‘Then Bill started @ the black-mouthed fire- look natural, to hobble his horses for the night. In the morning they began to un- pack thelr household goods. and bearskin# found cach ite accus- tomed place upon the floor ck on the shelves, With mag- ical swiftness the cabin resumed its old-home atmosphere, And that night Bill stretched himaelf on the grimly bide before the fireplace, noae in a book until Hagel, who was in no humor to read, fretted herself proaching a temper. as sociable as a be broke into his absorption through the First Narrows, ‘Wooded banks on either hand spread dusky green in the hot August eum. On thelr left glinted the roofs and white walls of Hollyburn, dear to the suburban héart. ewung around Brockton Point, and Vancouver spread its peninsular clut- Tugs and launch puffed by, about their harbor traMc. A ferry clustered black with people hurried across the inlet, above the harbor noises, across the intervening distance they could hear the vibrant hum of the induatrial hive. “Listen to {i on the deaches. WHAT A CHARMING LITTLE GIRL You HAYE N& JOHN 1 LOVE CHILDREN | into something Ap) ter before them. | Ieoked up in surprise, then] chucked the volume carelessly and twisted himself around till hia! head rested in her lan rhe asked cheerfully And, like the surf, full of treacherous undercurrents, a bad thing to get into unless you can swim strong enough to keep your head above water.” “You're a thoroughgoing pessimis! " sho retorted, our spirit is dommuning with those musty old philosophers. “Oh, be good--go thou and do like- he returned impenitently. “I'm tickled to death to be hi I'm fairly book-starved, be deprived of even a newspaper for twelve months. “No,” he shook his head, Tl be @ year get- know that it's @ hard game to buck, under normal conditions. the fortunate few, that’ “You're not going to spoil the pleas- ure that’s within your reach by pon- dering the misfortunes of those who are less lucky, are you?” she inquired urself neglected becay nee have my nose stuck in a ‘Of course not!" ashe denied vigor- The childish absurdity of her attitude struck her with sudden force. “Of shoes and ships and “Not much,” he drawied. that isn't my chief objection to town. 1 simply can't endure the noise and confusion and the manifold atinks, id the universal city attitude—whlich gouge the other fellow before he flung at her He picked up his mandolin tuned the strings. which he set out to do, Bill had mas- Like most things | to 1 tered his instrument, out of it all the harmony of which {t He seemed to know n't any mission to remedy go¢ial and eco.omic ills, the egotiatic view that n't concern mn@, that I'm perfectly in enjoying myself y. seeing that I'm in @& posi- ‘We're going t h id could coax was capable, music better than many who But he brok midst of a bar. die tld get a plano in here "I just recol- on to do 80. cur fun as we find it, Ju: he finished thoughtfully, be pulling into that ranch of ours on the hurricane déck of a good horse as approaching Vancouver's water front. ‘This isn't any place to spend money a! or to see anything. overgrown Village, overrun with busi- and real eatate sharps. a city some day. "At present sfill in the shambling stage of eivie youth.” In so far as Hazel had observed upon her former visit Now, this was something t) had many a time audibly Wished fn BGS the prospect aroused no enthusi “That'll be nice,” she WOuld Mere ila TT eee IVs w big, noisy, Bald it @ yoar arrowed @ trific, ber over there,” he enlightened. can see the fresh like they'd been follow this track @ wa The tiny meado' the north by a grove of poplars. yond that lay another level land, perhaps forty They broke through the belt of ts—and pulled up again. One side of the meadow stood a cabin, the fresh peeled log walls glaring yel- low in the sun, and lifting an earth covered roof to the autumn sky. whistled softly, “l'll be hanged,” he uttered, “if there it side of the ak of side of this a man guided the handles of a plough drawn the sttangest yokemates Hazel's eyes lind seen for many a day. nese exploite: earlier, Blil'y eyes but he still smiled. And auddenly he stepped around behind her chur, put re I marry my vife, who te born in I vork in der tig brew Afder cot I learn do be @ car- Now Tam a kink, mit a cast! Iam no more a vage were no more than domiciled under the Marsh roof than all friends flocked to call. Tactfully none 80 much ef mentioned Andrew Bush, nor the five-thousand-dollar legacy the disposition of which sum atill per- gentioman’s And once more in @ genial atmosphere Hazel concluded jeoping dogs lic Many @ time in the past two years had looked forward dead as they had cut her during that unfortunate period, But once among them, and finding them willing, nay, anxiou f her, she took their prof- fered friendship at its face value. It was quits gratifying to kno’ many of them envied her. She I from various sources that Bill's for- tune loomed big, had grown by some mysterious process of Gra until It had reached the ¢! rea of convention # That in itself Was sufficient to @s- tablish their prestige. that lived by and for the dollar, and measured most things with its dollar both hands under her Lp gles god chin, and ulted “Ah, you're plumb sick and tired to was fringed on thie, if « trifle main correct, Ho she had no regrets when Bill con- fined their stay to the time neces- ary to turn his gold into a bank ac- count, and allow her to buy & trunk. ful, more or less, of pretty clothes. ‘Then they bore on }ajted at Ashcroft, to commit himself positively to a duce for the eastern pilgrimage. He want- ed 6 see the cabin again. matter she did, too—so that their so- there did not carry them over That loomed ahead Those weary the Klappan Range with the subtle poison of @iscontent, for which she felt that new faces would death of ever: sald soberly, hing, aren't yo You've been up h He laughed a his own concelt, a freat, roaring bellow that filled the Jong. You sure need a change, have to take you out and give you the freedom of the cities, let you dissipate and pink-tea, and rub elbows with the mob for awhile, Then you'll be glad to drift back to this woodsy hiding place of ours. When do you want to worthy executors. the right track.” t's a pity more people don't teke the same notion, What do you think of this country eastward and Bil had refused briefly and with unhesitating cer- Vor der boor a * she protested. ton't the cow realized in @ flagh that Bill could read her better than she could Few of her emotion could remain long hidden from that keenly observing and merailessiy logi- She knew that he guessed where she stood, and pb; hud gotten there, know. And it made her very tender toward him that he was so quick to to forget that untret tollara und hiss two hants he jome make—und & uf- meadow ran a brown an himself a réad herself. Beside Hagel, Lauer's wife absently coressed the blond head of her four. I don't think I'll ever gat lone- “I'm too glad to be Yere. And ve got lots of work and Of course, it's natural I'd miss @ woman friend running in now and then to chat, But a person can’t And I'd do anything to have a roof of our own, and to have it some place where our livin’ don’t 1d On a pay envelope, O whon your next almost depends on your man I've lived in town new scenes and prove the only antidote. @ wagon road he told her. in there by the B, X, stea \'m afraid we couldn't buy un ourtit “ty go on. 1 guess a pack outtit from the end of the stage line will be etout right.” From Asherott whirled them swiftly into the heart of the Gariboo country-to Quesnelle, where Bill purchased four head of in an afternoon, packed sud- nd hit the trail at daylight in the morning. It was very pleasant to loaf along @ passable road mounted on a light- footed horse, and Hagel enjoyed it if © more than the striking con- to that terible journey in and out of the Klappan. t-breaking mountains ree of files was well nigh took the road provisioned, sleeping In t nights, camping as tho . ‘That’ nville tattle, “That's true pioneer spirit for you,” Bill spoke absently. his way Into the heart country, and he's breaking sod with a That's adaptation vengeance— “We could go “He has bucked would have In a society mule and a cow. to environment with a “T want to stack a few tons of hay he went on, disr arding her exciar . “PH need it in the spring, if not ig winter, Soon as that hit the high spots. We'll take & dollars, and while it lasts wo'll be a couple of-—of high. Huh?) Does “There's a woman, too, Bill, who'a carrying 4 baby!’ pointed excitedly, “Let's go ov opened—indeed, to herself and which would otherwise have remained their fastenings. pleasant to be #01 Much of, and it pleased her to think some of her quondam friends were genuinely sorry ence stood aloof. 5 it would seem. weeks Mey lived in an atmosphere of teas and dinners and theatre parties, a giddy little whirl that more attractive, so far as Hazel was her hushan: four thousan el He stirred up bis "What did F tell you abaut hanker for iots of alhow They're coming.” The man halted his strangely as- sorted team to watch them come, The woman stéod a stop outside the door, 4 Daby in her arms, another toddler holding fast to her skirt, bodied, short, square shouldered man was this newcomer, with @ round, holdin’ his job, r since I was fifteen. nt out and made hot» weutner, ad everything, un- ave plenty of money. Many a time I've gat and cried, just from 4 1 wanted a ‘ittle Place of our gwn, where there waa ¢ Pass and trees and a plece of ra garden. And I knew we’ he able to buy It. ahead enough.” “Und so," her husband took up the tale, “I hear off dis country t can be for noddings got. scrape und pinch und dimes for fife yea ‘All der vay from Visconsin in igon, yes, Mit two Asheroft I buy der cow, #0 dot ve hat der fresh milk. Vor yon mule | ied vigorously, bad air, bad milk, “High-class tramps,” hat sounds fin Perk ip, ten,” he wheedled that they had They attempted ah mustn't take me too seriously. “T took you for better or for worse,” he answered, with a kis Here were no We couldn't get want it to turn out worne. you to be contented and happy here, to make our I know you love me quite a Nature fitted us ina good many ways to be mates, through a pretty aan “Hello, neighbor!” Bill greeted. The ploughman lift hat courteously, “Ach!” sald he, ‘There had been changes. a 2h Ole. SOs had consoled himself with a lve planned paat. 14 stages, well good bed spirit movi eeam crossed their rouse all about them for variety fet and the sport of hunting. So they fared graph Range, a ¢ water, and came to Fort Geo way of a ferry over the I “Phis country ix getting civilized,” Bill observed G.'P. P. haw steel laid to ree hundred miles east of omin’ road'll be done They're grading all bought that c “Neighbor, Dot tas und safe nickele @ goot yord in diss country vere dero is# no neighbor, But I ain slat to me you, Vill you come do der house und Hetle, parann, in the popular phrase, at The Marshes, had previously known them, had been tottering on the edge of shabby real wstate game. rather grim country, and T gucss it alluring place I don't want you ng until It beeo nes Bill responded Did you notice a cabin ahout half a inile west of here? doesn't seem such it did at first nurse that feel die on der road, ' ain plow oop der lant und haul my vation mit von mule und Gre Hagel had a unrelated hardships by the way, and were using their pile to cut a lot Kitty Brooks's hushand f the biggest ad- now the head vertising agency In Granville, was glad of that mild success, Brooks was the one porson for whom she had always kept a warm corner Kitty had stood stoutly unequivocally by her when all the others had viewed her Aside from these there were acores of young people who revol in thelr same old orbits would be goodby But 1 wiink 1 know the cure for your malady.” That was his Gnal word, conversation The word escaped peculiar rising inflect ton, “I haf saw dot cul on of the Teu- laugh and his wife smile over It the ptiffing heat streets in midsummer, and the hun ery longing for cool, green shade, the had seen something of a city's pov- ia another year. along the tine. dred and sixty acres on ment, but it looks ttke it may tung » business transaction ig going to flood this with farmers, ment means a network of railroads and skyrocketing ascension of land in her heart Und [ pick dis place mitout hope a netghbor, 1! is into other channels, In the morning he began ola, hay with a dubi- Id vill rest de out & proftabl: his scythe and » That railroad Ho rolled a blue eye on his incon. gruous team and grinned widely, “Come,” he invited; “mine vite vill to the house Rut she knew also the privations of Two thousand miles in a wagon! And at the journey's end only @ Tude cabin of loge Tsolation in a huge and these folk were She wondered briefly If her vn viewpoint were possibly askew. that she could not fa such a proapect except in utter re- The bleak peaks of the Klappan rose up before he mind's eye, the picture of fiv dead in the snow, snapped and snarled over thelr bones, She shuddered, She was still ponder- thia when she and Bill mounted at home. CHAPTER XI. The Dollar Chasers. RANVILLE took them to its with @ haste and earnestness that made Hazel investigating a mystery,” suid he, ra untouched change or no change, she found herself caught up and carried along on a pleasant tide. She was inordinately proud of Bill, she compared average Granville male herself wishing he would adopt a little more readily the Granville viewpoint He fell short of It, or went heyond she could not be sure wh had an uneasy fell he looked upon G Granville folk with amused tolerance, not unmixed with attracted attent minded to talk he found ready listen They found her a matron of thirty- fregh-cheeked, round-faced like her husband, typically German, with- the Fatherland. Hazel at once appropriated the baby. It lay peacefully in her arms, staring minute ago—a regular barnyard bel- The vanguard of the land hungry cow bawling ‘ould cattle be doing Up and down the Ni y and bordering upon the Fra- cabins of the pre- The roads were dotted with neoming. A sizable town had sprung up around the old away up her That's what yet she found want to know ‘ve never seem a cow north of the Fraser—not this side of the Rockies, anyway.” ‘They saddled’ their horses and rode the direction avisen the bovine complaint, d was not repeated, 4 begun to cha BIN about a tio vivid {magination when within clearing he pull the teams of the | “The little dear!” Hazel murmured, “Laver, our name iss.” the main said cagually, when they “Wagstaff, mine is," Bill completed the Informal introduction, “802 Lauer German sotnt the wolves ometines, that le doings and at. yeome like bees when the whence had were Seated. rush stants,” Bill remarked. ving Fort George bebind, they vonever he wag dot name, yes xenerations bac! ‘as I'm as American as mile of the p short in the mud'e of @ various functions, 1 sunset they rode bin, all forlorn in its ‘ass waved to their Apd one evening up to the little cal | and the pigweed stood rank A YOY BORF ae vad a gray film of dus ace and | The wack of a He fell naturally into that me broad-tired wagon “Vill you shmoke? had freshly erushed the “hick grave. ; mit your wife's permission stuffing the bow] of his pipe with a stubby forefin- ger, "Tam from Bavaria lpon a farm brought oop, I light mine Bill squinted at gaze swept the timber beyond “well wat is it, Bill?” Hazel avked, Romebody bey been culling Lp en everythin, felt a huge satisfaction ea is mais a's Dere T vase Marshes took possession of Ameriea, them upon Weis axsivel and they ee nized that quality in Bill Wagastaft It you were on this earth and your eweetheart vel one of « hundred queer and original complications in NEXT WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL - IN THE EVENING WORLD, THE GODS OF MARS By Edgar Rice Burroughs (Author of “TARZAN OF THE APES,” &e.) Did you read “UNDER THE MOONS OF MARS,” by Edgar Rice rougs, in The Evening World a few weeks ago? MARS” ts @ sequel to that great serial. It is also a complete Don’t miss it. Remember “THE GODS OF MARS” will Monday's Evening World. om Meret That's ‘Was it not better, seeing that they did know some one there? enough to afford practically all the advantages of any city. es, L suppose so. All right: julesoed. "That's settled.” week they were led com. fortably in a domicile of five rooms In an up-to-date apart- ment house. And since the social demands on Mra. William Wage! ‘ow apace, a capable were added (0 the Thus she was relieved ie onus of housework. her own, at her own dis- 'n an she elected. But by imperceptivie deg: diverse roads in awirl_of life which had caught them up. There were ao many little woman affairs where a man was su) ‘There were others whieh refused to attend. tight here, We'll take @ run over ¥ I want to get some books and things, Then we'll come back here and got a house or @ fat. ow,” he laughed m going to renig You can play! not unpleasantly, * ‘on this society game, it as hard as you like, until aprin I'll be there with belle on when comes to @ dance show—when a god play comes along. mix up with silly women and equaily silly ehe- more than {s absolutel; And T'll go to # But T won't establishment. "hy, Bill" she excla ‘s Kitty Brooks—ahe has certainly got intolligence above That Lorimer girl has braing superimpored on her artistic temperament, and ghe uses ‘em to ad~ Practically all the rest that I've met ere intelectual nonentitios—- strong on looks and clothes and amus+ ing themselves, out. sfeause they've tages, Th into two types \onily. the average, vantage. “Hen parties,” he d them, More and more he re- © no excuse, had unlimited advan. men divide ‘One that chases tl dollar, talks business, thinks business, knows nothing | but their own special line of business at that; the oth follows, and mained at home with his books. In- variably he read throug! and unless to take H. or a drive, or some hich they could ind’ er type, like th Dave Allan afd T. Ford~ ham Brown, who go in for afternoon teas and such gentlemanly pastimes, airenuous exerc! wie of billiards. " ‘a real man in the lot, ova some people who don’t -by-four view of life if T stay around Jong enough, but It hasn't happened to me yet, an intellectual more than I'm pul poning to be stronger than t would dross and go gladly. At such, and upon certain occaalo: when certain little group would take supper at some cafe, he was apparently in But there was alwaye « apd wh his element, ¥de sunde him to attend anythin; nature of a formal the line at what he defined as social tommyrot, and he drew it move and more sharply. CHAPTER Xt. A Business Proposition. HE cycle of weeks brought them to January. had dropped into something of @ routine in their daily lives, Bill's interest and partlelpation in eociel affairs became negligible, Of Hasel's circle he classed some half dozen people as desirable acquaintances, and saw more or less of them—Kitty Brooks and her hus- band; Vesta Lorimor, a keen-witted young woman upon whom nature had bestowed # double portion of attractiveness and «@ talent to gentus for the. take a t T hope I'm not snob, little person, any ffed up over hap- little bigger and he average person. ‘Dut say that the habitual conver- alone people gives mo @ itudinous discussion for instance.’ Hazel chuckled d ehe recalled d once or twice during that rs P eould nee only the She was fascinates jes and the surround~ he had drifted into, sation of these pain. of the play to-night, “That was droll.” at the recollection, bey the weary loo! at ha fitted over Bill's face after-theatre 8 But she hersell humor of It. the social nicet ings of tho set @! The little dinners, the light chatter and here of luxury more than couns 4 any other lack, She want~ and she was prepared orm of pleas~ st analysis tt teas, atmosp! terbala : ed only to plays ize avidly on any, f Usha SelM FA volon the mental tered, and think even when he had earried her bodily vacuity sho encoun’ into the wilderness aguinat her ex- pllett And he was now exhibiting an un- suspected p: amusedly if he were p a physician, wi wife was one of Hasel's ne mates, Of that |} ways a peilling mei he met courteously pelled to meet them; otherwise be ith that vacuity 7 fit Ww potning of factors which ire that memorable time. went those material made for ease and ente side of her wi y and the mild excite cial life that took noth up Bill was al- ber, The others hen he was com- igh, She used to wonder The physical ibly the alert same Roaring Bill whom she had ments of # #0 with her own es seen hammer @ man inaensib) his fists, who had kept frontiersmen Ci warily side-stepping him in Cariboo passed them up entirely. u w the things those were ee a eee For « long time she ived of them. ed opportunt- jot absorbed in & book or magazine, he spent his time in some downtown haunt, having ac- quired membership in a club as @ con~ 4 been totally depr’ Nor had suc Meadows. Certainly he was a many- ties ever before been in wided individual Once or twice she conjured up a vision of him getting into some busi ness there, and utterly foregoing the North—which for her iready beginning to take on the aspect of a * bleak and cheerless region where °Tal there was none of the things which daily whetted her appetite for luxury, nothing but hardships innumerable— cession to their manner of life, Once he came home with flushed face and radiating an odor of had never seen him “Yeu, that was droll,” she repeated, Rill snorted. Perhaps,” he sald. tant ignorance, coupled with a a to appear the possessor of culty thing amusing. thing it simply trritates, you enjoy yourself, take things as they come, overbright eye drink to excess, ingly shocked, and took no pains to feelings, But diy undisturbed, ju don't need to look #0 horri- “I won't beat you up nor wreck the furnalture, “You're hard piled. and gold. The gold had been their PMS reward—a reward well earned, she thought. Still-they had been won. derfully happy there at the Pine River Cabin, she remembered, They came home from a theatre vertently I took a few too many, that's Nothing else to do, anyhow. Your ' Carlton Club ts as bar- ren a place as one of your tea fights. They d.n't do anything much but s! around and drink Scotch and soda, and talk about the market, Ho shrugged his shoulders and re- ined ‘ my he sald presently, ‘we'll o New York day take that after to-morro Hoe Was still sitting by the window party late one aight. Bill sut down when Hazel was ready to go to bed. by their bedroom window and stared Out at the street lights, twin rows of yellow beads stretching away to a vanishin @ cloudy night, Hazel kicked off her slippers and gratefully toasted her slik-stockinged feet at a simall coal drunk, and glad of It. dows, now,” he coy owlishy, “I'd have some fun wit You can't turn yourself It's too blame civilised I had half a notien to lick @ Johnnie or two, J { and then T thought She came back into the room in @ if I were in silk kimono, and, stealing put both hands trailing softly up behind him, point in a pitoh-biac on bis shoulders ae eee ee Ww} you thinking so bard boy? she whispered, 1 was thinking about Jake Lauer, grate. Fall had come, and there was and wondering how he was m & nip to the air, ‘3 el fi have mé up for assau! Just recollected our social II, what ‘do vou think of it picturing to myself how some #9 far @s you've gone?” be asked those abrupty. May ebe wave~in ” had to follo’ “Your repatation o things up if they Hang it, 1 don't know but OL what?" she asked, jarred out Di, steps. of meditation ‘ just witnessed” the play they had we'd be better off if we were peg- be poplanished ifany one saw come in in that condition,” she cried In an- ging away for a foothold somewhere “surely cout gry mortification, a find something better to do than to "All this.” He waved a hand oom. !K#, old prehensively, ‘Thi 4 eat inte! 8 giddy swim we've “If we had to do tha “I'm going straight to bed, little person,” he returned. “Soold not, nor ‘ ‘ a etalon) think {t's fine,” he candidly fo. why wih for it? admitted. “I'm enjoyii i Tike It. Don't you? Meet. T "Asa diversion,” he thoughtfully. "T- ‘don’t nee ie These people aro ail vary affable and ant, heir way to enter after all, What the dickens dow It William will be himself again ere yet the morrow’s sun shall clear Let us aveid recrimina- Money mak things pleasanter.”* “If jwoney meant that we would be compelled to lead th most of these peop nd thes’ “I'd take measures to be broke as soon \ey've rather gone out ay possible. What the deuce is there The women get up tn the morn~ ing, spend the forenoon fixing them- the horizon, The tongue is, or would seem rt of existen: ."* he retorted, the trenchant blade quiescent in its nous, But, to ii with my fists, or even a gun. Good mor o? Ti rend 4 running In ugeless circles, | should think they'd get wick of It You will.” He made his unsteady way to their extra bedroom, and he wag atill there with the door locked when Hazel re- turned from a card party at the Kabblefest after luncheon. get into their war paint for dinner, and rush madly off to some Swell rags and a after dinner rguardly, Billum, she smiled, other festive stunt, years of iso be remarka! tion, I think we must people that we didn’t fiat Like and dogs, For elg teen months, you know, there wasn't @ soul to talk to. and not much to think about exoept what you could do if you were some place else” “You're acquiring the atmosphere,” It was the first night they had spent apart since their marriage, and Hazel was inclined to be huffed when he looked in before breakfast, dressed, shaved and smiling, as if he r had even a bowing ac~ quaintance with John Barleycorn. fused to take her indig- nation seriously, and it died for lack e're merely making up for two giddy round.’ would be all right were just fun, at But it's the ser ‘ein the same boat collectively don't amount snuff, This thing that the ness is mostly somebody else has sweated to produce, They're a soft-handed, soft-bodied lot gambling with he remurked — sardonically, she of incompetent egotists, if you ask me. thought. fl “No; just enjoying myself," she replied lightly. “Well, if you really are,” he an- ewered slowly, “we may as well settic here for the winter—and get settled right away, I'm rather weary of being & guest of another man's house, to tell you the truth.” Why, I'd love to stay here all win ter." she sald, “But I thought you intended to knock around more or jess.” “Rut don't yoy see, you don't par- tleularly caré to,” he pointed out; “and it would spoil the fun of going A week or so later he became sud- lenly and unexpectedly activs, He house as soon as his break- ten, and he did not come home to luncheon — a circumstance which irritated Hazel, since it was rare daya when she Any of ‘em would tick your boots in @ money in it; and they'd just as cheer- fully chisel their best friend out of his could be done in a business way. They haven't even the of physical hardihood,.” Hazel commented, one of those hereelt lonehed st home. afternoon he telephoned briefly that he would dine downtown. : he did return, at nine or thereabouts in the evening, he clamped a ci between his teeth, and fell to @ sheet of paper with in- terminable rows of figures. axel bility of his saving grac: “You're awfu Bill snorted again. row, you advise our hos! we're travelling,” When we come back we'll make head~ quarters at a hotel until we locate a place of our own—if you are sure you want to winter here.” Her mind was quite made he instructed. ans place for me if you were not In- spend the winter there, and she frank- terested And when it comes to a showdown I'm not aching to be a bird of passage. One city is pretty much like another to me, You seem to have acquired a fairly select circle of friends and acquaintances, and with the Scote! leved her o! strained her curtosit: eelsed her. ‘The e Scratching of his pen began on her nerves. $89 Be Continued) nad provided he had no other to winter some- They had set out to spend a few months in pleasant idlen: could well afford that. And, had other plans definitely formed, was ly said #0 and + choice f that fear, and she yOu May 48 well bave your Ging aot Granville as good ap any place? Cos shi ie Se ae