CHAPTER X—Continued
TF —
, Will was only slightly aware of her
weeping. He seemed to have entered
into a new and stimulating plane of
existence. He had passed out of the
role of adorer and slave for Ernestine,
he thought, with some indefinable vex-
ation at her In his heart. He felt
himself a man grown now, and full of
sap. A wife was only one part of the
complex and fascinating business of
living,
He was late at the office in the
morning, as they had oversiept., There
was something heavy against the door,
80 that he could scarcely open it, and,
on entering, he almost fell over the
lifeless form of John Poole,
He had come back to the office after
his ‘birthday party, and had been at
work. The light still shone over his
drawing board. He had dled here,
alone, and Will, even in that first
shock, was full of the knowledge that
his death had come, not alone in the
night but with the loss of his gift.
Yet on the drawing board was a ple-
ture—his last. It was different from
his other work. It was a bend in the
stream with a great tree overhanging
the water and the meadow beyond
and the figures of half a dozen small
boys naked and white in the sunshine,
playing about the tree and on a spring-
board caught beneath a great root,
There was in it no mockery, no satire,
no clowning. It was simple, kind.
Staring at it, before he went to give
the alarm, Will felt sure that this
work of the skilled pencil was the ex-
ternalization after half a century of
some remembered scene of his boy-
hood.
Will grieved honestly for John Poole
and thought often and mysteriously
about that last picture. If John Poole
could draw like that, why had he
never done so? The answer to this
was disturbing.
Will established his rights to Poole's
cartoon ideas only to find them worth-
less. Contracts ran out, strips piled
up unused, and he found himself work-
ing against a vast indifference, more
crushing, more impenetrable than that
which he had fought for a place for
Poole's strip. But his new Inner
activity carried with it such personal
joy that he could not be sufficiently
chagrined by the collapse of his busi-
ness enterprise and the danger to his
income,
CHAPTER XI
The Rift in the Lute
“1 think you'd better go to Pastano’s,
don't you, Ernestine?” Will asked one
night in June, The children sat at the
supper table with them, and the heat,
turning more sultry with dusk, was
already stifling.
“It's one way of getting rid of us”
said Ernestine, a quality of familiar
bitterness In her voice.
Will made no answer for a moment,
then he sald, with more gentleness
than had become his wont, “I think
perhaps it'll be a good thing for all of
us. It will give me a chance to work
out some ideas here In the house alone,
and it will be a rest and change for
you. Anyhow, kitten, don't you think
you could dispense with a little of the
heavy irony? If I want you to stay
in Chieago it's in the hope that you
will die of the heat, and if I want
you to go away, it's to rid myself of
you. Let's think about only the chil.
dren.”
“Wrong agsin,” said Ernestine, and
laughed unhadpily.
They were poor again now, and it
was so hot. It was necessary for them
to go either to Pastano's or to mam-
ma's, and this fact spoiled the pros-
pect of a summer at the lake, She
wondered why she was reluctant to
leave Will when they rubbed each
other 80 raw!
It was sot like it had been, that
other hard time, when they were close
—heart against heart, sharing every
thought and feeling. For now, she
was poor, but he was not, She was
ionking upon the face of poverty that
John Poole had depicted for her years
ago when she was a careless bride,
But Will, either because of longer and
closer acquaintance with Lack, or,
more probably, because of his own
secret happiness, was not dismayed
was, in fact, unfeeling,
All day long, with the front bed.
room door shut, he worked In there on
drawings which he would not let her
see, but which he could not seem to
sell. Their difficulties, her fears for
the future, did not pierce him. He
was Intolerably good-natured and
happy. Ernestine was filled with a
deep despair and vexation with him
that he eould be so casual,
As she sat, trying to swallow a
little of the food she had prepared so
carefully, Ernestine saw ahead of her
a long vista of the years in which she
washed and ironed Will's clothes,
tended to his bodily needs, for food,
for comfort, for sex, and was for ever
outside the circle of his reality, a per-
#on whom he saw only to forget when
his glance left her. She could bear
any hardship, and pain. But to do
without love——this she could not bear.
“lI really don’t see why 1 shouldn't
£0 to mamma's,” she said. “All those
silly old quarrels with Loring--what
do they amount to? But mamma is
going to have guests all summer—and
you don't want me to go there”
“1 don't care what you do,” he sald
stiffly. “Only I'll never go to Lake
flaven again”
“I'll go to Pastano's,” she sald list-
fessly, “I'll write tomorrow.”
The day came when Pastano’s big
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stood at the door for them, to take
them to the train. Ernestine was ad-
monishing the children about keeping
clean, and Will put his arms about
her, so practical and stern In her
motherhood.
“Why are you always so sore at
me?" he asked, and kissed her averted
cheek, “You're so strange, and so dif-
ficult. I know it's hard for you, but
I'm doing all 1 ean.”
“Are you?" she asked, and smiled
in a secret annoying way.
Will's temper rose within
“You think I'm not?”
“Did 1 say that?”
“Yes — practically — yes,
Your tone—"
“Oh, then 1 must be careful even of
my tones?”
He flung his hands up in a gesture
of despair, and made no further effort
to woo her. After a moment she
turned to him with her great tragic
eyes,
“You know that I don't care how
poor we are. 1 can do without every
thing—you know it isn't material
things"
But Will had withdrawn his effort
at conciliation. He knew that she was
talking about his secrecy over his
him,
you did.
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|
Over the Lifeless
John Poole.
He Almost Fell
Form of
drawings. Well, he could not share
with her what was so ephemeral that
a stray thought in his own head de.
stroyed it. He couldn't talk about It.
All the strong instinct of self-preserva-
tion for the gift that was developing
within him forbade it utterly. The
processes he was trying to put upon
paper were nebulous. He was acutely
fearful for them. If Ernestine did
not like them, they would be destroyed,
“Don’t open that suitcase, Peter,”
sald Ernestine, and they went out and
got into the car, bags and all,
They met Madame Pastano and her
tall, silent, handsome husband, whose
expressive eyes glanced at once into
Ernestine’s with a penetrating look.
Will went into the coach with them,
kissed them all goodby, and went away,
The children waved to him from the
windows, but he did not look back,
hastening off through the gate, his
very back eager and relieved.
Ernestine leaned back against the
cushion and closed her eyes against
Madame Pastano’s friendly curiosity.
Through everything that had happened
to them they had been in love, until
these last few months, Would she
ever have Wil again as she had had
him once--his tender love, his gentle
passion, his strength? Not if she kept
on striking and wounding him, com-
mon sense told her. ut she sighed
with helplessness, In the face of her
knowledge the starvation at her heart
for the old love, the old confidence and
affection between herself and Will,
she could not control her pride, her
desire for revenge. The word brought
her up short. Revenge? What had
she to revenge? Will had not harmed
her, Bewildered, she could not un-
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derstand by what steps they had come
into this Impasse. Yet there they
were. The condition, however unreal
its beginnings, was now real enough.
It was beyond her knowledge, or his
either, that the rift in the lute had
been simultaneous with the awaken.
ing to activity In Will of a true crea-
tive gift.
CHAPTER XII
The Death Car
“If you came home again your father
would make a settlement upon you.
would destroy your marriage.
you came home, he would do it for
you."
“I wouldn't leave Wil. I'm still of
the same mind that mohey doesn't
solve problems.”
“But,
would be for you to be home again.
ean see that you aren't. We can all
And another baby! Of course, it's
mother would be so delighted, It's
impossible for us to be friends with
Will. We've tried—"
Ernestine smiled
glanced at Loring
that he flushed.
“Never mind,” he sald, “you don't
know how we have tried. You don't
know, Will doesn't appreciate you at
all, I don’t care what you say."
They were lying in the sand on the
beach at Langley lake. Mrs. Pas
tano's gaudy white and green summer
house reared its red roof back of them,
The water was very shallow at this
point so that the children could run
in and out of It
“Oh, Ernestine, If you would come
home, we would be so good to you"
Loring's voice implored her.
“We? she asked, turning to look at
him, “Is it that you want me back
in the family circle or that you want
to break up Will's home?”
“lI think he is by way of breaking
up his own home,” he said slowly,
scornfully and
with such disdain
against her loyalty to WIlL
ago.
be free.”
Ernestine laughed at this,
sald solemnly:
“At this time such
seem cruel to you"
“I wish,” she exclaimed impatiently,
“that people were able to Ignore my
so-called ‘delicate condition.’
all, Will has his own problems,
not talk about it
written
write about.”
different point of attack.
ean do for children.
summer,
cool water"
Ernestine
tened. to him,
wondered she
why
nights and sunny days.
-on her marriage. v
It only Will
Her longing for some word from him
was intolerable. She felt that if she
the children behind and go to Chicago,
pride had held her back. If anything
happened to him, the neighbors would
know. She wrote to Mrs. Pryor once a
week or so. Will wanted to be alone.
He wanted the tie between them to be
in abeyance, She could not go after
him. Not now.
“Oh,
hier tears, being unable to suppress his
feelings. “Why do you keep yourself
only unhealpiness? You have done
everything for him—everything. What
have you had from your marriage but
poverty and child-bearing and distress?
He needs to be wakened-—he doesn't
realize what you have meant to him,
She was listening to him now, for
the first time, and her heart trembled
under the dark suggestions of his
words, If she could hurt Will, as he
had hurt her!
(TO BE CONTINUED)
The following maxims were hung
in Baron Rothschild’s bank where he
could show them to ambitious young
men: Attend carefully to details of
your business ; Be prompt in all things;
Consider well, then decide positively;
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong;
tndure trials patiently; Fight life's
battles bravely, manfully ; Go not Into
the society of the vicious; Hold In-
tegrity sacred; Injure not another's
reputation, nor business; Join hands
only with the virtuous; Keep your
mind from evil thoughts; Lie not for
any consideration; Make few acquant-
ances; Never try to appear what you
are not; Observe good manners; Pay
your debts promptly ; Question not the
veracity of a friend; Respect the
counsel of your parents; Sacrifice
money rather than principle; Touch
not, taste not, handle not intoxicating
drinks; Use your leisure time for Im
provement; Venture not upon the
threshold of wrong; Watch carefully
over your passions; Extend to every
ona a kindly salutation; Yield not to
discouragement; Zealously labor for
the right.
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In a will you throw off all the sham
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Prints to Remain
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Wardrobes Abloom With
Frocks of Gayest Flow-
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Whatever may be the ultimate fate
of the printed dress it will survive
the warm season, advises a fashion
writer in the Kansas Clty Star. Sum-
mer wardr-bes are literally abloom
with prints—most of them flowered.
While those for street or town wear
are more frequently dotted, there are
endless small conventionalized flower
motifs. Afternoon and evening chiffon,
crepes and taffetas are sprinkled
with flowers of rather generous pre
portions, Al this is not without its
amusing side consideritg that not so
many seasons ago designers were in-
lined to scorn simple flower patterns
ind were agor over modern and prim.
itive prints instead.
Although last season found women
| topping printed erepes with tiny hats,
his summer finds the pendulum swing-
ney toward garden hats, even trans
and flower trimmed. Flowers
ire discreetly used, it Is true, but they
are used, which is something to prate
about.
Straw, being the rage of the season,
ind felts momentarily under eclipse,
It is interesting to record that highly
lustrous ones are worn for sports, even
to making berets, and that for more
formal pursuits lacy straws are best
liked. Pleats are a recurrent note for
hats of the linenlike texture, these
occurring at one or both sides,
Crowns continue to be as shallow
Bandean models find
nany the bandeau usually
neing of contrasting color and fabrie
and often of grosgrain ribbon.
Those Interested in the fate of felts
are contriving to interest In
hem by bringing them back in larger
| parent
as possible.
SPDONSOrs,
revive
r
| Quaintly Patterned Floral Silk Fash.
| ions This Dinner Frock.
isizes and with double or cushion
{brims. There Is naturally much talk
of velvet being used for fall millinery.
! Velvet berets are reported from smart
| places even now.
It is an exploded theory that coats
{are in disuse during the summer
| months, Sines the world has taken to
| trouping travel coats are in constant
| demand, and never more so than prior
{to the vacation period. Besides this
{ demand, one discovers that practical
{ly every
#0 what with one thing and an-
| other summer finds the coat more or
less constant usage.
The newest travel coats have up
standing collars. The exception to
this rule Iz the coat with searf col
{ lar, Recent reports from French re
| sorts are concerned with the return of
the scart in various forms, especially
as applied to sports costumes,
| Jecket,
| Three-Quarters Length,
Short Fur Jacket Next
Turn on the electric fan, sip an ice
cold lemonade and hearken to the fur
coat news from Paris! First of all,
notes a fashion correspondent in the
New York Times. styling is stressed
above everything else in the 1030 fur
coats, The dressmaker inuence has
brought about darted waistlines, larger
collars, flared treatments and longer
lengths—from four to five Inches be.
low the back bend of the knee. All
but the swagger sports types are
slightly fitted. Tie and leather belts
often mark the natural waistline. That
sler der look will be retained through
deft manipulation of the fur pelt.
Fur fashions that are on the way;
the three-quarters length fur coat; the
short fur jacket for street wear; the
fitted fur cape for evening; the elbow
sleeve ermine jacket for evening.
Furs that will have outstanding fash.
lon importance; caracul, kidskin, dyed
ermines, mink (including mink paws),
Inpin, beaver, persian lamb, some loop:
ard and seal. Squirrel is preparing
to stage a comeback,
Since the silhouette has had such
radical influence on sleeves, a similar
tendency will be noted In an even
more elaborately cut sleeve for fur
cours,
In some sections of the country it is
not easy to find cultured representa-
tives or other mations, bu. those sec.
tions are few. And certainly the ef.
fort of finding them and inviting them
and their children into our homes is
worth while, The exchange of courte
sles is perhaps the most convincing
proof of sincere regard that interna-
tional-minded men and women can
give to each other or to thelr children.
In our Ingrowing American pride we
do not always perceive the virtues of
the immigrant neighbors about us,
their courage, thrift and family
solidarity.
The care of food In hot weather is
the especial concern of every mother,
Leftovers must be put away earefully,
avoiding the use of any metal con-
tainer. Refrigerator dishes of colored
glass not only solve the problem of
space In the ice box, as they are made
to fit each other in sets of three, but
are of colored glass which may he
taken to the table. Silver dishes
(plated) for this purpose are also
available and very attractive.
The beneficial action of the sun bath
Hes in the the tonle
effect of the fresh alr and the biolog-
ieal power of the sun, The skin
through exposure to the sun and alr
regains fis tone and pigments, with
the result that it functions as it nor
mally should and its resistance to the
penetration of germs Is increased.
The circulation is stimulated and reg-
ularized the muscles regain their
firmness tone, There is a tonic
action the thoracle and ahdom-
inal organs. The appe » I8 recov
ered and digestion is stimulated. Un
der the sunlight, the vital
forces of life are revived It Is uni
that the
the
combination of
and
and
upon
action of
versally agreed
pigmentation determines
of the body to treatment :
hand, not he
exact gauge
this must
of the patient's progress,
Remember that a growing child rare
food. If you don’t
feed a f1
him a
has an instinct!
needed to
Balance a
new foods cautiously
balancing of his meals and not a great
variety of vegetables or
changes in menus
him a well nourished, well developed,
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luxurious
which will
While the
children's court today ls
established order generaily, along with
the public school system and free lihra-
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ward that yet to fall
in line,
states have
Folding chairs, with painted wooden
and backs
siretched
and, though
are not easily damaged,
are modern versions of the old camp
chair, having arm rests and a com-
fortable support of stretched
chalrs
gay at
and seats of gaily
canvas inex
not
are
waterproof,
hack
variety of
make a veranda
expense,
these
vers
For the very tiniest members of the
family there are amusing little suntan
suits cut away to almost nothing and
made in the gayest and coolest of
printed cottons,
Smart Tweed Ensemble,
Bag and Beret to Match
Strikingly sma. is this ensemble
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same material. It is most appropriate
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of.town resorts.
Sports Wear Designer
Approves the Wraparound
Thipgs that wrap around the waist
and then tie in a careless double knot
are the correct afternoon version of
chic, says a prominent woman design.
er of sports apparel,
The wraparound principle Is ap
plied to a spiral peplum which ends
eventually in a loosely wrapped belt
tied with a knot or two.
Scarfs which develop into belts
and surplice sections of bodices which
become scarves, tleable in various
ways, are variations,
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