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The Winds of the World
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" By RUBY M. AYRES
Author of "The Phantom Lover," "The Master Man," "The Second
Honeymoon," lite.
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i nlvoltonttt exhorting people to
S 'l and have a dtp h Jordan"
S A" ottenlion "" cr'3
Ir.iA? KfcW Hr care of f.eir
fteW oro'"' 7'Aci are poor and
g,Skmd teokiorv&ri to a life of
'J&$ '" ;!in .h,V othcr
uRv-tht pleturen the tall man
nJL7ec--0lna out to dinner and
ti.ll voutto an" provtn to be a
,',, ? Ifr. Sturpcat. Thru rccoo-
tlXh other ehen he calls at tie
Rt?ere " ' employed ' JP-
5iLV(H Ae call lVAfii o
?XL holoZpV the hi that 'he
iZcitrvlhlno he ever wanted. Jillt
? ".7 1-.! in 'different, him
ZlnU rlcha and poiitlon in the
"and hkbb it continues
WIIB 'r. oiiHsti. vr .---
nd called to her, she was sitting
Ult, her hands In her lap; sue. sinricu
Kopinimv .
"I vpant yo " in,"; ""
(or mc , ,
. gbo fell absurdly nervous as die fol-
jod him Into his room ; she could not
' ride hr eyes ns she went across to tho
thilr he Indicated, though sho did not
look at him she knew that Tnllentyre
u stantllnj back to the fireplace ; her
handhook as she began to write.
t was perfectly ridiculous, she told
liMMlf angrily ; as If It was any pos
ilble concern of hers who was there In
( room: of course he had not even
flren her a elance, why should he?
i She raised her eyes quicKiy unci mm
j Ttllcntyrc's.
A little faint smile cromed lii face ;
bat he looked away at once and went
on talking to Mr. Htiugcs.
Jill sat silent after n moment
"That will do, Miss Atherton bring
that to me to sign as quickly ns you can
I wait n moment '
Sturgess crossed the room and opened
the door leading Into the clerk's office;
ha itood with his back turned tnlkhiR
t some one there; Tnllentyre moved
i jtep nearer to where Jill sat
"Will you come and have tea with
mi'thls afternoon?" he asked in un un
dtftonc. Jill sat very still ; she thought she
wi dreaming; she was afraid to look
up..
he
'Did you hear what 1 bald?"
liked, a trifle impatient!.
She forced herself to raise her cyca
thtn.
"Yes," she said in a whisper.
"Well will you come?"
Ycs," she said again.
lie moved away instantly, and when
Mr. fiturgess came back ,1111 was dis
missed. She went back to her dcnk
hardly knowing -what she was doing ;
htr cheeks burned; her heurt was beat-
inr up In her throat.
She w
"It'dJIll Jill Athcrton."
'Millt Is Jill a nickname?" he In
quired, i "XoT, T don't think so I've always
been called Jill."
The. tnxl stopped, Tallentyre got out,
turning to offer hh hand to Jill; Mic
put out her own tq take It. then drew
t bnck swiftly the hole In the glove
had caught her eye she Mood beside
him In misery while he pnld nnd dU
missed the taxi; she followed htm
timld)y Into the tearooms.
,T'lcr were very grand, she, thought
slirlnkingly; every woman in the room
except herself was well dressed; she
kept as close as nhc, could to Tnllentyre ;
she tried to screen herself behind his
tall figure,
Ho seemed, unconscious of her em
barrassment; he put her Into the mont
comfortable 'chair he could find And
ordered ten nnd hot cakes; he took off
his b g coat and the Homburg lint and
sat down bo-iide her, leaning a little
forward, his hands, clasped loosely be
tween his knees,
Jill looked at his hands ; boautlfully
kept they Were, with manicured 'nails ;
Mm tossed, up rnpldly In her mind to
decide whether gjoves with a hole In
them, or uorkworn hands were the
lesser of tWO evlU. Wlian lite ten
was brought she dragged off her gloves
(irepcraicir anil niuirccl them out of
sight behind her on the chair. She
wished for the twentieth time thnt she
hod not coma: she rcallznl Hint It wns
no use trying to creep out of the harbor
to the open sen If one was not properly
equipped for the voyage. This experi
ence left her dazed and breathless. She
never felt so shabby and unhspuy In
nil her life.
"You arc not eating anything," said
Titllcntyre. "Would you rather have
Mime cake? "
"Xo no, thank you " she
began to ent her toast hurriedly ; she
wished. she had not come. Oh, how
she wished thnt she had not come !
She was sure that the waitress was
cjeing her superciliously; at n toblo
opposite a pirl with wonderfully dressed
hair nnd expensive clothes liml looked
nt her and made some toughing remaik
to the mnn at her side. Jill s cheeks
burned.
"Have you been in Mr. Sturgess'
office long?" Tnllentyre was asking her.
"I don't remember seeing you before."
"I haven't been there ' long only
three weeks. I had to leave my last
place because my brother was 111 and T
stayed away to nurse him for two
dnj-H "
"Your brother Is nn Invalid?"
"A cripple; he never has been able
to walk he can't do anything for him
self. Knthy nnd I look after linn.
"Kathj !" a little reminiscent smile
lit Tnllentyrc's sleepy eyes. "That's
the second time this week I have heard
that queer little name. Is Kathy your
sister?"
"Yes nnd she's oh. she's
just benutlful!" snid Jill, her eyes
sparkling. She had forgotten to be
nervous now, unconsciously he had put
her nt her ease by talking of her family
inxlcnd of his.
"I have a friend who is engaged to n
girl named Kathy" Tallentj re wont
on. 1T took Jill's cup and refilled It:
hr hod done all the pouring out himself ;
Jill wondered If he were nfraid that
she would mnke a muddle of It. "It
quite a romoncp n genuine love
story " he looked at her. "Do
von 'like love stories?" he asked.
"Yes." said Jill. Her ecs were
shining; her face was flushed: she
l.nkml voiv nun and eager like a
,.1,11,1 nlmn't 'to enter a room where
there is a wonderful surprise waiting.
"WpII this is ii real love story.'
Talh-ntvre snid nimln. "My friend is
a verv wealth man the son of wealthy
people. 1 don't know where he met
this gltl he hasn't told me. though he
nnd 1 arc great (hums; but apparently
he fell In love with her nt liwt sight
and he'H joins to marry her. 1 assume
from what ho told me that she is a
little Miss Nobody, and she thinks thnt
ho is just a city clerk, and that when
they are married they will livo in n
cou'plo of looms, or so, and he most
romantically poor, while all the time
" he laughed, meeting Jill's in
terested eyes. "All the time it is the
story of King Cophctua over again
Have joti ever heard of King
Cophetun?"
"Of course I have." t,nid Jill: she
was too Interested to be indignant at
the question. "Hut how perfectly
lnvel and will she be rich and live
in a'big house
"And have diamonds and a motor
car," he finished for her with n trace
of cynicism. "Yes she'll be able to
have all those things if she wants
them."
Jill drew a long, breathless sigh
"Oh if it were only I!" she snid.
A curious little expression flushed
into his oi os nnd was gone instantly.
"You would like to be rich?" he said
quietly.
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SOMEBODY'S STENOG Enter Reginald Van Stupe
ns going out to ten with this
mm she looKeu uown nt ncr
thibby serge frock nnd sudden tcar
swim into her eyes.
Oh, he could not really mean it ! it
must just have been a sort of joke.
How could such a man ob he enre to be
Ken with her!
She would not go even supposing he
had asked her seriously, she would noi
ro; she returned to her work; she tried
not to listen for the opening of Mr.
Sturgess' door ; she tried to believe thai.
Tallentyre would go out the other wny.
But he did not: he (ame thtough the
clerks' room ; he paused for a fractional
econd beside her
"Five o'clock?" he asked coolly.
Jill tried to say "Yw." but her voice
seemed to dio In her throat : she could
not raise her eyes; when at last she
did, he had gone.
CHAPTKK III
"A omthln brlcht anil beautiful.
Which I must ti.h inn to fort;?;:
Ert t esn turn to meet the dull reAlltlet
that linger ytl,"
It was ten minutes past five when
Jill stepped out into the gray evening.
There was a line drizr.'e of inin fall
lag; the street looked verj dreary and
deprcbslng.
She glanced hurriedlv up and dour
the street; he was not there of course
he was not. She had not really ex
pected that he would be. She hurried
en. She felt ashamed now because
the had lingered to do her hair afresh ;
became she hail borrowed some pow -e'er
from a typlet in the offlcp below
Mr. Sturgess; Tallentyre did not mean
tO rnmi l,o Vim,, I fnlf lint nml nnrrrV.
And at thnt moment he miw him I heaps of mono? . nnd lool dothes. mid
laming leisure! towartl net. In ,i Dig i. in n lieuiimui House, nun know
"tertoat with an upturned collni. and . ever IkmI who was nn.bod "
the Inevltah'o dgar belwetn Ills lip, i Hlie bioki' oft, she looked nt him npolo
He fell Into step beside her igetlrnll. "Thai's my ambition." she
"l have bnen waiting fifteen mm -ia,i 'Not n er. nob'.e one. is it?'
utes," ho said. "I thought o'i weie i SIC iniighed. "lint thill doesn't mutter,
I'Ot coining HV raining miner fas' as ,'h never liU'lv to come true."
"KlWlrt ftilSe'lJffi'-muIrt, ; who-,!, "t l.,.h; mfft n1.W, things thai
ta opened ,,e door of the taxi and h.j, pen ho ohlhe
-uvu HRiur lor ncr to enter nrni. sm- ..;:..".. i i,n ii nil
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nn life in" folic Mopped.
'"In the hnibor " she mid with n
Utile griniiue. "As our friend told us
lust Snturdiij."
"Did he say that? I don't le-
membei'."
"He told us to turn from the trouli'c
some sen of the world, and find lost
In the penccful harbor " she
laughed a little. "That's jiifct what I
don't want to do." she said eagerly.
"I've been in the harbor all in
life "
"Such an oteinit !" he said whimsi
cally. She shook her head.
"It norms n long time and I want
to go our out to sen, and feel the
winds of the world on in face
Ho looked at her without speaking
for n moment
"It's out at sea thnt boats are
wrecked." he told her at length. "Never
in hatbor they arc bofe tlwie."
"Safe but o dull," she said
qulcklv. "Kathy thinks I am mad to
talk like this she likes to be quirt
humdrum! she added Im
patiently. He laughed lazily.
"You ought to be going to many
Hillyard." he mid. "How, would you
like to be going to marry Hillyard?
tilllvnnl!" Jill echoed the nnmo
sharply. , , .
"Yes mv friend--the man I have
been speaking of; Ualph Hillyard his
name is no sai up wun ruu
Humbled and nearly lell oter the slop;
! was horribly nervous she wished
he had not come. Tullentyio sat on
the seat opposite to her; he hud thrown
"Is cigar away ; Jill paw a nigged uichln
tcramb'e for it ns the tnxl moved off.
Where would you like to go to tea?"
he atked.
"I don't know I don't go
anywhere as a rule."
Her hands were clasprd together to
n'de their trembling nor cheeks burned.
Talljntjre sccmid unaware of her dli
comfort. , It's very good of ou to come out
with me," ho imld.
one looked at him quickly ; h
"Sought ho waB laughing at her; she ill 1
not know what tc answer.
Oh not nt all," sho said stiffly.
?.. S? U Wfls not lhe riSht ll,i"K lo
"y. She looked down ut her hands
?' inspiration ; to her horror she snw
t there was a large ho'u in tho tin
nr ot one glove.
.rt." covered it up hastll with the
nanu sho raised her eyes in an
S?vr sl""o; but Tallentyio was
iwaing at her. not at her worn gloves.
. ?,n wondering if I may iim; jour
"?c?" he said. "I hnve told ou
.' .R.nd we are to be friends
tJl?' I"11 011 enn'i waut
"fit. ,l,n w'
to be
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'Ti'. """me, ciu in .iiii. urcainii'Hsi .
W r ",B tQ0 silly!",
mil. nJyre " pyrt wrinkled up into a
W.. i . Tno moment his fnco no
nooocl d worn ! 1,e (lrPl,e(l ,,i''
Bti!2'.h is ll Bl"y?" "c asked. "You
alin. me you amuse me, and (iod
'on knot i,. i ii i.. .i
Inn. .. - """ iuiih II. in nilivu un.)
loUr ?n: thing umuswl me." H
ftowB ""'o0' ,tl,c window with u little
.M tk. . a" " yu win ul ow me to
H ?' yU out to tea somellmos. I shall
iddeil,?f ,bc nrofoutHy Brntefiil," ho
I not i ' -")0init. "A.id luu uuu
not know your nama?" .
den attention, struck by something in
her face. "Why. good heavens!" he
snlil tunelessly. "It's not
your sister?"
Jill laughed hysterically; her ihecUs
were crimson with excitement.
"It is," she said. "It must be
Kathy!"
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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