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7.e Second Honeymoon
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By RUBY Af. .4Yi?ES
Author ot. "The Women Hattf and "The Black Sheep
.. qtatiTS TUB STORY
'.""-Mmrnv CftoHoner, clue man, depttd
. -7um4 rom an elder brolAsr,
paiitoji"" break her n-
Jorrow, ?lrefj , v. tha rich
sWSSrttek. "W
'ft JnrJ. o
ut cannot tear 10 ow
jeperaion, ruij
,,'ffl iuTeolheart. in a momen of
Kin pa. """ PPOe mar
A .. ArtitlM. .Moii with tnsmo-
,', i',llsZ he loves Christine. Bang
V' "lMtndot Jimmy', cing Chris
ffi faUe petition, chides Jimmy
in'.itu tor hi "Pit engagement.'
?"'. this iuncture Christine's
T ;i nlacs ot ones. w ua
L ? Cynthia begs Jimmy to
ni her back, but Jimmy resotves 10
4?. louol to the mothtrless girl
,3'Sfl 'finding the could not ptr
'' CJ. ?J immvtc return to her. civet
jf o detailed account other ao-
"' .i.tfliTe with Jimmy, ayninia, out
maintanetwHn seriously
luhridi an accident. Bhe send, tor
'.E? ut before he can reach her
x2Tas pasted away. Christine, learn
ff Ji Simmy's wish to Oynthia, ar.
MJ1. to return to her old home. On
raostttoreiurn Kettering,
Znd for the same town. They 6;
' - niaualnterf. Jimmy, heoHnp of
V.m,f.a"s freguent visits to Chris
Kftttrtno! J?th) ealousy. lie oon
t an illness ani is laid up. Bang.
IS notifies Christine. flh does not
rwpem, i anxious, pale and pre-
AND HnilB IT CONTINUES
(1 DOiiEi, ll"t U-.O wr
XX dajs Bho naa irieu io ucvmo
whether sho ought to wrlto to Jimmy or
tiftt Her snarp cye ii ov. ..-
ry first tne way muiso .
with regard to Kettering, and Bho wm
SSd of the responsibility. If any
thta happencd-lf Christine chose to
Zw wick her llfe-ofterwnrd they
mAt alt blame her: she Knew that.
?Kw fond of Christine, too .And
though she had never approved of Im
JV. ho would have done a great deal to
'them happy together.
It was for thftt reason that she now
poke of him.
whf.n aro you going
to London,
4
?Chr7tlno looked up; she flushed.
"Oolng to London ! I am not going
. . . i never want to go there any
"afrfy. made no comment, she , had
rd the llttlo quiver In the younger
"MIS.. yothlnI ought lo goto
.Hmm"Shrlstlne broke out v'mwij
ili suppose you nre hinting that It
rmv dutyto gof You don't understand
Sit'h mmh nothing about me-that
feayb SWalSM
S.VeeV really wished to marry me."
U'V ? isn't as bad as that. I amure
tTw don't know anything about .him.
Tom i don't know what I went through
during those hateful weeks .before-bo-foro
I came here. I don t care 11 i
r.ver seo htm again : he has never trou
fcted about me. It's my turn now
sm rolng to show him that ho lsn t the
tnlv man In the world. ,,. fniu
Olsds had never heard Christine talk
ilke this beforo; sho was frightened at
the recklessness of her voice. Sho broke
ta''?Uwont! listen If you're going to say
euch things. Jimmy Is your husband.
ind you lo cd htm once, no matter what
you may do now. You loved him very
Jearly once."
..Chrlitlno laughed.
-.'To got over that He wasn't worth
Breaking my heart about. I was Just a
poor little fool In those days, who dldn t
know that a man never cared for a worn,
n If ho Is too sure of her. Oh, If I
could only have mv tlmo over again. I 1
trw h m so differently I'd necr let
him know how much I cared."
Her voice had momentarily fallen
bck Into Its old wilfulness. There
were tears In her eyes, but Bhe brushed
4hm mlllr1v nwflV
.Don't talk about him: I don't want
to talk about him."
But Gladys persisted.
"It Isn't too late: you can have the
ttms all over again by starting afresh
nd trying to wipe out the past. You re
so young Why. Jimmy Is only a boy.:
you'io got all your lives beforo you.'
She Rot up and went around to whpro
Christine was sittings She put an arm
about her shoulders. "Why won't you
forgive him and start again? Qlvo him
another chance, dear, and have a second
honejmoon "
Chrlitlno pushed her away ; sho start
ed un with hnrnlnfr chpelrn.
"l'ou don't know what you're talking
ooui. Leao me aione on, uo icuvu
me alone." Sho ran from the room.
She lav awako half the night thinking
of what Gladys had said Sho tried to
harden her heart aga,lnst Jimmy. She
tried to remember only that ho had mar
ried her out of pique; that he cared
nothing for her that ho did not really
want her. As a sort of deoporate de
fense she deliberately thought of Ket
tering; he liked her, she knew. Sha was
not too much of a child to understand
yh that look In his eyes had meant;
that suddon pressure of his hand on hers.
Ana sna UKed mm, too. sue tola ner.
felf defiantly that sho liked him very
much; that sho would rather have been
with him over at Heston that afternoon
than up In town with Jimmy. Kottorlng
least aougnt ana enjoyed ner society,
hut Jimmy
Bhd plpnnhpfl tioT linrwltf tr lfAPn linotf
tho blinding tears that crowded to her
es wnat was Bhe crying for7 Thero
was nothing to cry for; sho was happy
"uc irtppy; Bile was away irom Jimmy
JM only tortured her during Uiobo last
u)n, sue was nome nt upton
House, and Kettering was thero when
ever Bho u anted him. Sho hoped he
would come In tho morning again ; that
Jie WOllM nnma nlltfA .n.ln A f.Aw KrAqlf.
Jatt, Blia wandered ubout iho house rebt-
"oij, naicning for tho Hound of his car
Si th0 .drlvo outside ; but tho morning
B?d nwuv nnd he did not come.
.hrlstlne ate no lunch; her head
.",.. 8ho flad pettishly when Gladys
questioned her. No. sho did not want
fi ?ut 'here was nowhere to go.
Oladys did not know what to do ; sho
... 'i?plnif nnd praying In her heart
i.i, .K'tlerng would do as srw had
"fed him and stay away. What was
Hid KOOd fit iln r.nmina' nirnlnf TVhnt
?J?,. tne ?od of Ms making himself
"1'iiisaoio to Christine?
ine day passed wretchedly. Once
?? , found ChrlBtlne huddled up on the
!Rc,rylng; she was so miserable, she
wooed , nobody cared Tor her; she wan
bo lonely, and sho wanted her mother.
oiada did all she could to comfort
ner, hut all the tlmo she waH painfully
Wiscloua of the fact that had Kettering
walked Into the room Just then there
would have been no more tears.
Sometimes she thought It only
ffned Jimmy Challoner right; some
times Bho told herself that this was hln
Punishment that Fato was fighting him
with his own weapons, paying him back
Jii his own coin ; but she knew bucIi
uiougntB wcro mere foollshnesa
e una ChrlBtlne were married, no
watter how strongly they might resent
The only thing left to them was to
make the beat they could of life.
She sat with Christine that night till
" girl was asleep. She was not vory
much Christine's senior In vears, but sho
en somehow old and careworn as she
J't here In the silent room and listened
to the girl's soft breathing.
mu i ? l UD on(1 wont over to stand be
side hor,
So young, such a child, It seemed Im
possible that sho was already a wife,
tlm fl''ng thero with her soft hair
Ulllng all about her.
win ' "'gnea ana watxea over to the
I...T". ". mum ue a. groat ining 10 oe
haJ r; " thought rather sadly: nobody
mire ' ven ner; no man over looKeu
" ner ni Tfntllnn Innl... nf llffl
pi.., v. " ivuiienns looaon
ff-ilV"9' . She opened the
b llbllO
u.. , ana looked out into the dark-
it . - .. ...
list i.Tu . .t."1""' "mp nignt. uray
MBrH, J..T Yi ."v., Mm niiuv inui nn
Influence with Christine, herself. She
olosed the window ana went back to the
bedside.
Christine was moving restlessly, As
Gladys looked down at her she. began to
laugh In her sleep a llttlo chuokle of
unaffected Joy. , . ...
Olodys smiled, too, Involuntarily. She
was happy In her dreams, at any rate,
he thought with a.. sense ot relief.
Ahd then suddenly Christine awoke
with a start. She aat up In bed, throw
ing out her arms.
'Jlmmy I" Dut It wan a cry of ter
ror, not of Joy. "JimmyJimmy don't
hurt mo 1 ohl"
Sho wab sobbing now wild, pitiful
sobs.
Qlftdys put hor arms round her; she
nciu ner tigntiy,
"It's nil right, dear. I'm here nobody
shall hurt you." Sho stroked her hair
and soothed and kissed her; she held
her fast till the sobbing ceased,. Them
"I've been dreaming." said Christine
trembling. "I thought'' sho shivered a
little "I thought thought somo ono
was going to hurt me."
"Nobody can hurt you while I am
here; dreams are nothing nobody be
lieves In dreams."
. Christine did not answer. She had
never told Gladys of that one moment
when Jimmy had tried to, strike her
when bosldo himself with passionate
rage and mlmrv h had lifted hl html
I to etrlko her.
She fell asleep again, holding; her
friend's hand. '
Two daVH tmnKfid unevAntfullv nwnv
but Kettering did not come to Upton
House. Christlne'B first faint resentment
nnu amazement naa turnea to anger
an anger which she kept hidden, or so
sho fondly believed. "
Sho hardly went out She spent hours
curled up on tho big sofa by tho window
reading, or protending to read. Gladys
wondered how much she really read of
tho books which sho took ono by one
from tho crowded library.
The third morning Christine answered
Sangster's letter. Sho wrote) very stilt
edly; sho said she was sorry to hear
that Jimmy was not well, but no doubt
ho was all right again by this time. She
said she was enjoying herself in a quiet
way, and very much preferred tho coun
try to London.
"I have so many friends hero, you
soe," she added, with a faint hope that
perhaps Sangster would show the letter
to Jimmy, and that he would gather
from It that sho did not miss htm In tho
very least.
And Sangster did show It to Jimmy;
to a rather weak-looking Jimmy, prop
ped up In an armchair, slowly recovering
from the severe chill which had made
him quite ill for the tlmo being.
A Jimmy who spoke very llttlo nnd
nsktHl no questions at all, and who took
tho letter apathetically enough, and laid
't by oa soon as ho had read It.
"You wroto to her, then," he said In
differently. "Yes." .
"You might have saved yourself the
trouble: I knew she would not come. If
vou had asked mo I could havo told you.
Of courso you suggested that she should
come."
"Yes."
Jimmy's eyes smiled faintly.
"Interfering old ass," he said affec
tionately. Sangstor colored. He was very un
happy about Jimmy; he had always
known that ho was not particularly
strong, and, ns a matter of fact, during
tho past few days Jimmy had grown
most surprfslngly th'n and weak, though
ho still Insisted that there was nothing
mo mauer wun him nothing at all.
There was a little silence.
"I suppose that's meant for a dig at
mo," said Jimmy presently. "That bit
about having so many friends.
She means Kotterlng, I suppose."
"I don't seo why she should," said
Sangster awkwardly.
Jimmy laughed rather grimly.
"Well, It's only tit for tat If she does,"
he said. "But I thought" He did not
finish; did not say that he had thought
Christine cared too much for him ever
to give a thought to another follow. He
turned h's head against tho cushions
and pretended to sleep, and presently
Sangstor went quietly away.
He thought that Christine had well,
not behtued badly. How could any one
blam.i her for anything she choso to do
or not to do, after what had occurred?
But otlll he was vaguely disappointed In
her; ho thought she ought to have como
Just to see ow Jimmy really was.
But Chrlstmo was not thinking very
much about Jimmy In those days at all.
Somehow the foreground of her Ufo
seemed to ,have got filled up with tho
figure of another man ; a man whom
sho had never once seen slnco that drive
over to Heston.
Sometimes sho thought she would
write a little noto and ask him to come
to tea; sometimes she thought she would
walk tho way In which she knew she
could alwaya meet him, but something
restrained her.
And then ono afternoon, quite unex
pectedly, she ran Into him In tho villus-.
He was coming out of tho llttlo post
olilco us sho iaos going In, and he pulled
up short with a muttered apology before
lie recognized her; then well, then thtr
i ? auu w iuo Jiamo
crept,
inn jvwiierinKa eyes,
"I thought I was i
1 was never colnir in
you any more." Christine nnlrt nil,..
nervously. "Axe you angry with me?"
"Angry I" Ilo laughed a. little. "Why
over should I bo angry with you 7
I tho fact is, I've been In Iandon on
business."
"Oh!" Sho looked rather skeptical:
sho raised her chin a dignified Inch.
,,Y.iiL?,liBh,t t0 have told me'" Bh8 -la.
unthinkingly.
He looked at her quickly and away
agnln.
,.'.i,mli,sea yu" 8ald ChrlBtlne naively.
"That la very kind of you." There
was a little silence. "May I may I walk
a little way with you?'r he asked dim-
"If you caro to."
nJil?r ,,hckei- j1, Bmlle-, "I shall be u
lighted," ho said gravely.
They set out together. ,
Christine felt wonderfully light-heart-ed
all- at once; her eyes sparkled, her
cheeks were (lushed Kettering hardly
looked at her at all. It made him afrntu.
becauso he was bo glad to be with her
once more: ho knew now how right
Gladys hud been when she asked mm
not to come to Unton tinman nmin u.
rushed into conversation ; he told her
that the weather had been awful In Lon
don, nnd that ho had been hopelessly
.,ed' ,. - n?w so fcw People there," he
said. "And I kept wondering what you
we.T.XZ " bro off..bltlng his HpV
i.Pu'1 wJiB dol,n?? Christine fin
ished it for him quickly. "Well, I was
sitting at tho window most of the time,
wondering why you didn't como and seo
me Bhe said with a laugh. '
"Wero you"
She frowned a llttlo; she looked up
at him with Impatient eyes.
"What is tho matter? I know somt
thlng Is the matter; I can feel thut there
Is iou nro angry with me; you "
"My dear child. I nnnur vmi i nm nni
Thrre Is nothing tho matter except, per
haps, I nm a little worried and and
un ha liny."
.. 10..!u.?ned to cover his sudden grav
ity. "Tell me about yourself and and
Jimmy. How la Challoner?"
Ho had never spoken to her of Jimmy
before: his name had been tacitly un
mentioned between them.
Chrlstlno flushed; she shrugged her
shoulders. "I don't know; he wasn't
jory well last woek.but I dare oay he
Is nil right now." Her voice was very
flippant. In splto of himself Kettering
an hocked ; he hated to hear her speak
like that; ho had always thought her
so sweet and unnffected,
"Ho ought to como down hero for a
change," he said In his most matter-of-fact
tones. "Why don't you Insist that
he come down hero for a change?
Country air Is a lino doctor; he would
enjoy It."
"I don't think ho would ; ho hates the
country." Sho spoke without looking
ui mm. i am sure inai no is naving a
much better time In London than he
would have here " She broke off. '"Mr,
Kettering, will you come back and have
tea with me?"
Kettering colored : he tried to refuse
ho wanted to refuse; but somehow her
nrown eyes wouia noi tei mm: some
how "I shall bo delighted," he heard him
self say.
Ho had not meant to say It; he. would
have given a great deal to recall the
words as spon as they were Bpoken, but
It was top late.) Another' moment and
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