JACKSON WNU Service Copyright by Bobbs-Merrill Co, CHAPTER XIV he KE Will and Ernestine Choose Will was nalling up a wooden box, The shelves and the table were empty. Ankle deep on the floor was a litter of papers. “Ernestine!” He stopped, a mer in hand, to stare at her. “What are you doing?’ she ex- claimed, and then, with a little cry of horror she stooped and picked up from the rubbish on the floor, a torn picture. “Oh, WII, how could you tear it up? It was good—it was wonderful, Why did you destroy it?" With trem- bling hands she tried to put the ragged wiecés together on the drafting desk. fle looked at her astonished, voiceless. Before her, racked against the wall, was the sketch of herself, with Elaine on her arm, “I'm glad you away—oh, Will, 1 what are you doing? ing? “What do you mean, Ernestine?” he said sharply. “Did you know about this office—when have you been here?” “Of course I knew,” she sald impa- tiently, confused to find the need for explanations, now, at this vital hour. I've known you had this office, since last spring. I knew, long before that, that you were hankering for something -—80me new work, You remember the night you made this picture?” picked up the sketch of herself. remember? Of course you do. I knew then, that you were working. Lillian had told me she saw you in this neigh- borhood, and I came here the next day, and looked at all your work. Oh, Will, don't look at me so! I wasn't spying on you! You were so strange, and I was very unhappy—I had to know what you were doing. But aren't you going to work here any more?” He laughed strangely. “Rent’'s due tomorrow,” he sald, “I decided to let it go. I'm closing this office, and I'll never open another. 1 suppose, since you knew I was work- ing here, that you were worried about the cats—but you needn't wor. ried—TI'll stay with the job. I've given up my wild ideas, We'll keep the In- come—that's what “Why WiL" swiftly, don't think any conflict tween your desire and mine, do you? That's what I've heen for—all this time. } I knew that you would want to quit the cats, and I've saved a great ham- this But mov- didn't throw like it so! Are you She “You have counts.” she said “you be- there's saving deal of money—you'll be astonished. It's made it possible for And should 1 cats? Do you think to stick to the eats, if something bigger, more ling upon you? Why, Will, Will—all T want is just wha want.” Suddenly she ren errand, with a wall, tano wants the for Loring—a bribe, Loring’'s in terrible have to go %o jail, but. finow, build a reserve, why WOrry I want yon about the y 1 there's sometnl compe you “Oh, Will, Pas money He'll don’t want to give them the money for bim. It's your money, Will—don't give It away—don't let them take it from us.” He caught hard. “Are her wrist and held It you out asked sternly. money? of your senses?" he “What do you mean What money have you?” She opened her purse and took her small savings book from it, She opened the book, and put it in his tiand, the total across the narrow page, His eyes were wide, incredulous. He rubbed his hand across his face. “It's yours, Will" she said with sud. den gentleness. “I have robbed you cent I could get from you, nd I've lived as cheaply as I could, and I've banked fr for the difference vou,” deposit of every Deep within her ing bell, She that bad much to tell each other. She laid Lier hand upon his arm, and said in the came low tone: she heard a warn. remembered they Will." He looked at her—his brilliant black eyes fixed on her brown looked at her deeply, with astonish- ment, and suddenly Ernestine was illed with a strange power and wis- dom, “Look at me, eyes he She passed out of self-consecious- and was controlled and guided by deep instincts and ancient mother wisdom, She moved toward Will, put her face up to his and kissed his lips, “Will,” she said, smiling up at him, her lovely face alight with feeling. her tender mouth curved In a smile of sweetness, “Will, 1 you, You forget it. You ignore it—you make love a burden instead of a support, I've seen it In the deeps of your artist's mind—that love betrayed and entrapped you, instead of letting you free. Haven't you thought that?” His arm trembled a little under her hand. “Only once,” he sald, and his face fluslied, “only once—the day after I had made that picture.” He motioned to the picture she still held in her free hand. “The next day, I knew that I could not go on with my dreams, 1 knew I would have to quit ft—that day, I felt soit seemed as though" He paused, stumbled on, with courage. “It just seemed to me ~—@ woman is 80 sweet and warm in one's arms--s0 generous—-so lovely; and then, suddenly, there are a house, and a car, and children, and nurse malds, and cooks, and doctors-—a thou- sand things— just suddenly. I shouldn't {have felt so I fought it—but It got 1ess love me. I'm telling you-—-you asked me” Her eyes were full of tears. “I knew, Will—-not just that way, but I knew-—that's why I've been sav- Ing and been silent—that's why 1 didn't ask you any questions. ut, Will, 1 love you. It's the biggest thing in the world to me, Will. It means to me what these pictures—what this work means to you. I'm not an artist— I'm not even artistic—but I know what your work means to you, because I love you. And when you shut me out, Will, it was for me just as it was for you when you were shut off from your work, I want you to be happy.” She was solemn, young, uplifted, filled with the glory of unselfishness, her face a blurred and lovely picture seen through tears, “Dear heart, what does the money matter? Why, Will—even more than the children—yes, though I ought not say it—more than the children, than my people, than myself. You've told me how you felt, and I'll tell you, that for a little while, for one dark time, 1 was Jealous of your work—of your love for it. But not any more, WIL Deep Within Her She Heard a Warn. ing Bell. to have you to any I want you; I There desire you want isn't conflic and and mine, mine, Will because I He reached her hand and held it. “Ernestine,” he : stopped as head y face began to shine, took whispered, forward, shoulder she leaned against his . so, while she went on I knew you were tire Will, 1 spent only about yon prob- ably woul from 1't take, the money I'll and from have papa, it's sav. earnings, Will. It's grandmother some day. But this is yours ings from your for your stake.” “You “LTE We Bil, understood,” he sald hoarsely. " she sald again, and now her Arm was around his body, the picture up between his shoulders, “I'll tell you [—’ “No, no, Ernestine” quick can’ he sald with can't let me: ' Do you know what It means? A living—I think I could make that t it will be precarious—I've been into It all with some thought. It will be years before I can make even half what the cagloons bring me. Even if I get darned good—there's not the money to be found— [I've thought it all out. I've been up and down and around this problem. [I've tried to Save some, But it won't work, It's it's too scanty. I've been through it all, and made up my mind. Don't tempt me with your say- ings—they wouldn't last us a year.” “If we went back to the West side, back to the old house, I could do my work, and the children and i could live on the trust fund, until yon got started. You eould keep this studio, and you could go to Philadel- phia and to Paris and study.” "Would you-—wouid You do that-— for ? Ernestine, my wife." He kissed her, and she shook the tears from her own lashes and drew him down and pressed her lips against his eyes, “It wouldn't be necessary for you to do that, darling,” he sald to her, and he laughed a little, “It wouldn't be that bad. 1 could make a living—and mssion, “you wo 1 i go back. 9 too, precarious own me you've your trust fund, and your grand. mother has promised you the house at Langley lake, No, you won't have to go back to the West side—you can keep Molly, I belleve, We can manage that much, Ernestine, with good luck and good management.” “Oh, WIL” she sald to him, “1 al. most wish it would be hard like that again. I've been so lonely—longing to help you, feeling outside. What does the car and the house and the thing mean if I'm cut off from you? I know I can’t help you with your painting. I know that travall Is yours—that's your work-—your life, It must be first with you, Will. And that's right. Gifted people can't choose, jut If your work must be first, to you, you can understand what love and mar. riage mean to me. That's my life, And If I can feel that you can go on -because I understand—" They were both crying, his arms were around her—tight—tight. As their tears mingled and they stood together In the long embrace, the kiss that was free from passion but frought with tenderness, the purest and hollest feeling, true married love, welled over It seemed to Ernestine, strain. ing so In his arms, that for the first time she was truly wife to Will. Not only bride, bride of his body, star of his Imagination, object of romantic adoration, not only the mother of his children and the keeper of his house, but wife—wife—In the the secret places of love, “Ernestine,” he whispered, them, deep name so on his lips as he had whis- pered It first they loved, “for that I didn't didn't confide in when give understand, that 1 You med always to have a child in ¢ t I fel me you , fi thousand needs, other was a foe to stupid, blind, 1 wanted the money were hard with me fore I made the cats, back to that bad 't know how wonderful you You're my good luck were, I'll never forget it srnestine, I'll will” A clock somewhere boomed two, § his arms. had remembered Loring—at last, withdrew herself from her husband’ arms and made a gesture of Ness, “But here's this business of Loring” she You. Was 1 thought ou ou needed it time again, 1 are, you agaln, do big things for you Ernestine started in helpless said, “What Is it about Loring?" he watching her. So with the enchantment, the throb, 1 asKedq, of love still on her, she told } that morning im about Pastano had Loring—about all her that “But of sald at yu must let me take the money for sald to course,” he once, t the slip of you-—-at once, Give me paper.” She gave it to him with a relu sigh, and he whistle looked at It, “How could you have refused Pas Y t i what gave a tano? he asked “Think mean to your family—to you e mud 1 he ust money's we've t's your chance” been don't need twenty thousand dol. lars,” he said quickly, and then gave an laugh of pure happiness. “Why, Ermestine,” he sald, “if you under. stand know what it's all about ~if you can live that economically and if you're behind me, I'll take a chance on it. Give the money for Lor ing—we can wangle It. After all.” he added more seriously, “the understand. ing—~the way 1 feel now-—is worth more than the mouey. Let Loring have the money, we're rich. When we were young and poor we did as we liked. But after we got a little money we weren't free agents any more. The big Income restricted us more than the little one. Look how Loring was bound by money! Let's let it go. After all, only beggars can choose I “It you'll quit the paper and go ahead with this work, If you will stick to your own dreams, I'll gamble with you,” she sald. “It's done,” he answered. He reached for his coat and hat, and looked at his watch at the same moment. "We'll have to go right back to the bank. Thank God, you've got the money and don't begrudge it. Noth. ing can stop us, now.” And before they went out into the dark and narrow hall, they kissed again, hand In hand, simply, like chil dren pledging a secret, Ernestine saw Ruby Pastano near the bank entrance and, though he bowed formally and did not speak, he gave her a flashing, radiant glance, like the flash of a mirror held In the sun. She knew that he understood, from the happy countenance and from Will at her side, that they were look- ing after Loring. (TO BE CONTINUED) f you Dwarfs were the lapdogs of medi- eval times. And so popular were they that many merchants specialized in selling them to the nobility. “Mare Antony owned a dwarf,” writes M. Il. Werner in Liberty, whom he called, fironically, Sisyphus. In Rome there were dwarf merchants who, when they could not obtain nat- ural specimens for the emperors and nobles, manufactured dwarfs by un- dernourishing normal bables, or by binding thelr limbs to prevent full de velopment, “Tiberius, Domitian and Hellogabu- lus paid high prices to thelr dwarf merchants, who experimented con. stantly to supply the demand. Cath- BEETS ESET human Exploiters erine de Medicl, In order to secure a regular supply of dwarfs for her court and as presents for her friends, caused all the dwarfs of her establishment to be married In a large scale effort to produce a race of midgets. The mar. ringes, however, were uniformly bar. ren, and her majesty was sadly dis- appointed.” ————————————. Get What's Coming to Them A youthful actress has written a tragedy in which all the characters are strangled. This will be a nice change from the too-familiar type of play In which all the characters ought to be.~Passing Show, London. A upit $ Building Up-to-Date Community Looks to the Future The planning of cities and towns is a growing elvie activity, It was only a few that the first city plan was worked out. Now thirds of American cities and years ago plan commissions working for the or ties, of Commerce, less than 25,000 population, individual commissioners planning for the growth, the facliities and the nat- tractiveness of thelr respective places, While the great possibilities of cour realized the most planning will be centers, some of ageous city in the large interesting will be In sn nlier pla Ol, tively paratively achievements doubtless where reln- with co! 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