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EVENING TUBLIO LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1921
The Winds of the World
ay nun i iu. AYliES
Author of "The Phantom Lover," "The Master Man," "The Second
Honeymoon," Etc.
dwrdlM. ltil, lu Bell Bundtcate, Ine.
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THIS STARTS TIIE STORY
' r.n nnd Kothv (titters) iakc care
'Air crtoSlrf brother. Kathy it
MthaA pictured a 'love i o cot-
4." lite, but Hillyard is rich. Don,
.iliriher.has little faith in Hill-
I7ri but Jill feels that i.ainy torn
.much for them, one ncgiceis
? m n.J rtehrs are a burden to
.' Cyrus Taltcntyre, todely do-
.Ata tallt in love with Jill, but
ffi' jSpow'i reveal his so truly selfish
(! 1 that she rejects, him and
Mrrits her employer, a. rich lawyer.
ru titters 11010 meet in toddy;
, rJttntyre, visiting at Kathy's house,
S meets Jilt, after " couple of
Z abwnee. and he could not
51 hat the Jill whom ho had
IZcn and loved had ever existed
,& hi) imagination. He had not
mmtto speak of the past, but some-
u'othe icords slipped out.
AND HERB IT CONTINUES
Ihh latched.
"You menn thnt T hnvo grown
Mr?" the fniri lightly.
"No no, I (lil not menn thnt," he
latwcrcil.
Her eyes mocked him.
"Wlter, licrhnp", then?" she sub
mitted with n touch of Irony.
He made no reply.
' "Knthy lms n fine house," nho anld
Irrelevantly. "Finer even than mine
You must como and see my
house, Mr. Tallentyro It's really rather
beautiful In its way after
Acacia Terrace, " she added whimsi
cally. , , . ,,
"Vou are very kind."
"I nm thinking of pivins it up nnd
eking n flat instead, " she wont ou
presently. "It's rather inconveniently
fine in some ways ; and I always had
' " ! .- II... - n Onf II
"Yes,' he said, "1 remember you
telling me thnt."
Did I?dld I, really? How funny
" she leaned back in her chair.
"T m afraid I miiRt lmvo bored you
rather dreadfully with my heroics in
those days.1'
"Xo, you dm not Dorc me nt an.
"It's kind of you to say that "
Tallentyro moved restlessly: a nns-
alonate lotiRiuK seized him to rouse her
from this self-possession; to make her
ftel If only for n moment: to sec for
himself if his old power over her was
icdecd dead nnd gone.
"Do you remember thnt Sunday
tnd the ranting Salvationist?" he asked
suddenly.
"Of course I do " and his
iwclal invitntlon to you ov was it to
ne? to come and have n dip in Jor
dan?" she laughed with frank nmuso
nent at the memory. "Oh, denr, what
a long time ugo that seems "
, "it is not so long only n year ""
"A Tear is n lone time sometlmps."
I she said, with a little shadow in her
voice.
He turned and looked nt her.
"It has bccmcd lone to you?" ho
tated quickly.
8he seemed to be considering th
Cjsestlon.
"In some ways yes," she said at
list. "When I think of nil that has
happened, and how my lifo has changed
"Tou have Jtot overrUiine you want
t-Rt last."
oho shook her head.
"Not ouito evervthlnrr: thnt tcoiiIiI
ha too much to oxnnet."
He dropped his monocle nnd picked
It up again.
'You onop tnld m f'nnt Tnnr Irlnn nl
happiness uns to be rich, nnd 'some
body,' " he reminded her.
J HI smiled reminisccntly.
"I was very sillv in those Horn; T
wiser now."
looked at her.
lou mean that you have learned by
xperlence that there nrc other things
-better worth having?" he asked.
Jiu nouaeu.
"So many things." she agreed.
He leaned toward her n little,
fell me some of them?"
Her PVPH rPStl'll fin Ilia tliln fnnn nn .
aUtringly.
,."Jt is rather difficult, " sho said
alowlr.
I ''There are so muny, but perhaps
-' yes, I think that of them nil,
l, WOUld llPKf llkn tn lmvn ,nv rlranmo
llaln mv Mllliulnno' T .,,,., ..
OUlU cal them: I npvor rlnll7n,l linn-
wonderful they were until 1 had lost
''You mean that you lost them
ugh me," Tnllcntyre snld uuletlj .
tortho first tlmo Jill flushed n little,
rot she made no attempt to evado the
WMtlon or deny it.
lbtt;,?s- she Mild, "I think I did mean
to3n ti " hcr namc soemtd
a lim!1 S h.',m ""consciously ; there wn
laiv U lr " ?L nnsulHh in hi usually
h, .t b$ l B0UC Immediately.
uL of T th c,thl,rKlC (.elf-possessed
nan of the world once more.
wm V.?, d0,.t tWnk I am blaming
''I L ' "aiu witli Bentle coldness.
KOd tn,.,, . t 1 """ "10 quite a
Ufa rI,,,,,nt,e,1 t0 i)c ,nn,1 we
e diil not answer.
omfthLnoLPsup1"aInR wo taIk nuo"t
lightly g.MVhnn '""""K." hUlll Jill
Lady Elni- n!. you ?oi,l5 t0. brln
rememhn, C" V su ."?' on't you
a njii" "uw "nwrestoa I nlway
r's was
net
VT.
"i'SIiW'!1!'? ru,d bIt h,s "p-
you ; 1 t ! del fhuted t0 brinK hcr t0
'0U, If I may ' hn nM nnnV.ni.i.
may," he said constrained-
"Do
I must get Knthy to
late w fp "b Hl ,r,cnils with your fu-
E'ftanM fnr ... ,nusc BCt entity
Tallenrvr ,11.1 i
l6tke nn .1. m "t move, uut tho hnnd
.-- . V' "ut ootween flinm m I.
haT.,"n'vely.. ..
STenlv "i V"U'""K or you,"
hn snld
)rok a ,Hm h"r' " ho
"ercamndrOS0 t04,hlB feot ns Owalil
Ta llVniS"fnciro,,s, tho room t0 lIlem.
tranrontfook, 1,ls valQ soon ftor
,taotmor.orfltho.nlnB had been
' a hcSnplf .t0 K.n,hv tho l1(,
i I Mt t ' ,,e tol(1 lln,Ph tllnt 1"'
Klrict ulX on.to t,r"'' t" meet
"o," !,"' 'B. "such u
Illlyar.l n,IWe,l1 with his Inzy drnwl.
nd a7' "u";d; he thumped his
"ttdhnn 0,mlely on tho buck.
"Wmn. 'K1.'? you can't de-
WdVnB?Ar,VVrcnUtodnnw
( " can in '"nde BOnVe liughlnjr reply;
'a "Ki 0f," ho co"ld; he sent
iaroom' "d,tola h? ,nnn to drive to
e;;Y1Ht1daeres.baUkl"th0d0rk-
n he sni.i .1 l . ?8 ,tnnn tho truth
elt n. i."?1' tlln-t I'l'i head ached: he
l' t.mplM.,"Jvc'e u knife stnbbing
I1 to keen ?Aitl,Cro was " Iofer
rtencp 1 .l "'e. I"-oteiise of indlf-
" to s nt .i .clf g0i o'd him-
nln ? m rc'norse that had been
iomu1 at h's heart all these past
hever i'nk A'P could ever forget
f!!Lm!),I1.f.hcp. tonight hnd undone all
...... v"' "c. loved hcr more now she
n.V; ,...V!:oc.nol:v lost to him thnn In tho
Tii 1 1 1 ,M "cld I,w "Rhtly.
cut I Tm . 7i OI nF wcuuintj ring hnd
fnmi , r"10 q,licki onco ho lind been
?i. uI.Ipn.ry burgees In a sort of
h... 1 . Cl.1 "ow "'nt he hated him
h I im. .,l?i1 won J111 cvc " on,r
oy virtue of liia tfonui.
,. An.(I sl'c might hnvo been his wife
the thought was agony; he would havo
5'v en anything for U10 merciful gift of
iv.fcviiuiuuSH,
nniV. ,'t ''own tho window, nnd he
S?pLed t" the driver: he cave the ad
dress of the hotisn where the "crush"
VJ " i? h,d,ut wh,ch Ilc had promised
to meet Lady lClrira.
. 'j.0 ,W01ld put an end to tho shilly
shallying once and for all; he would
ask her to marry him; he would force
forgetfulnoss somehow nnyhow; per,
imps the kisses of one woman would
lay the haunting Image of another
ner all, he would have to
marry some day, nnd Jill was nlrcndy
lost to him.
Up had no difficulty In finding Elrlcn
I lowing ; ho sat down beside her with a
sort of resignations lie had long ago
known that she wns to be his fntc, nnd
had given up fighting against the
realization.
Sho looked nt him furtively from
benenth her long, slightly darkened
lashes,
'rYiellrlrunnt.?" ,,Iie snld "Khtly.
ualleutyre smiled.
'I camo as soon nR I could I had
to dlnent the Illllynrds', you know
"Poor dear ! Was it so very boring?"
Iler voice was slightly sarcastic.
No," said Tallentyro shortly; he
did not want to talk about tho Hill
yards. Ho took up a big feathery fan lvlng
on her Inn. nnd opened nnd shut it
mechnnically.
"Do you know why I have come here
tonight?" he said.
She raised her bowa.
"To see me?" sho asked archly.
Tallentyro Inid the fan down again
in her lap.
"To ask you to marry me," ho said.
There wns a llttlo sllcnco; he did
not look nt hcr.
In n distant room somo one wns sing
ing ; Tallentyro found himself listening
npntheticnlly ; ho wondered how long
it would be before Eiricn answered him ;
lie moved restlessly.
Suddenly she laughed
"Well," sho snid, "why don't you
nsk me, then?"
Half an hour later, Tallentyro left
the house nn engnged man.
CHAPTER III
"Mnrrtttl for loe. married for lovo
Lifo ns Bwcot as a dish of honey;
Cut when nhadowa cover the ekleu above
wc mlsht as well havo married for
money!"
Ralph Hillyard heard of Tallcntyre's
engagement nt tho club tho following
day; it was bciug commented upon
freely.
"Pulled it off nt last, has ho! Poor
old Clg."
Hillyard looked up from his paper.
"What nbout Clg?" he nsked.
Ho looked nt (Jornld Trnntcr, who
hnd made tho half-sympathetic, half
joking exclamation.
"What about Clg?" ho asked again.
Tranter looked surprised.
"Haven't you heard I He's engaged
the fair Elrica has pulled it off at
last."
Hillyard stared.
"Hot." ho mill HhnrMr. "IT,. .n nf
my house last night, ami ho would have
told mo if " l,e broke off in
annoyance ; he wns very fond of Tallen
tyro, nnd he rather resented the fact
that he had been left to hear of his
engagement through a third party
"I am sure he would havo told
he tald acnln.
Tranter shrugged his shoulders. ,
"Woll every one's talking nbout it,
thnt's nil I know, nnd my sister says
Mio saw Elrica this morning, nnd con
gratulated her . . ."
"Humph," baitl Hillyard shortly.
noli, hero's good luck to them," he
added sententioudy.
He turned again to his paper ni if to
intimate that the dlscusbion was at ftu
end; but ho went homo to lunch,
although he had not Inteuded to do so,
nnd told Knthy what ho hnd heard.
Hillyard had pecullur ideas on somo
tilings, and ho very often stayed out to
lunch when he would far rather havn
been nt homo, because he considered it
wns nn excollcnt way of trninlug Kathy
to be like other men's wives.
Knthy wns delighted to sec him; sho
hnd quite prepared herself for a dull
afternoon ; she turned rather a wistful
face when the door of her littlo boudoir
opened, and her husband walked iu.
He kissed her fondly enough.
"I had to come home." he explained,
"to tell you the news."
Her face fell childishly.
"Oh it wasn't to see me, then?"
He laughed.
"Perhaps I wns glad of an excuso
to come, he said. "Oh, yes, I had
promised to lunch nt the club, but I
changed my mind. Well Clg's
engnged."
"To Lady Elrlcn?"
Ho nodded.
"Every ono's talking about it ap
parently he pulled it oft Inst night after
he left here."
"Yes." Knthy looked thoughtful;
she was wondering vaguely if it hnd
been through anything Jill had said S
they hud talked together for quite a
long time she knew.
"Well, I'm sorry," sho said, frankly.
Hillyard frowned.
"I hope you won't go about telling
people that, even if you are," he said
rather stiffly s his arm fell from about
her waist.
"Tallentyro is moit anxious for you
to bo friendly with his wife."
"I never shnll bp s she doesn't like
me, and I don't like her." .
'Mtubbbh."
Kathy's ojes filled with tears; sho
turned away to hide them.
There was a littlo sllcnco; Hillyard
fidgeted with 11 book on his wife's writ
ing table; this wus one of tho days
when sho unconsciously Irritated him;
ho wished ho hnd not como home after
all; ho half mado up his mind that ho
would not remain to lunch as ho had
intended; he turned sharply, and saw
tho tears in her oyes.
He win all remorse instantly; ho took
her in his nnn".
"I'm sorry, darling "there
was no doubt that ho ldved her, in spite
of their tunny little differences; he
kissed her ugaln unil ngain. "Wne 1
crosM? I m so sorry."
Sho put her urms round bis neck.
"I can't bear it when you frown I
know I'm always disappointing you,
but
Ho stopped hcr llns with a !1bs.
"You've never disappointed mo I
won't nllow you to say such things.
When you'ro strongor things will be
different you'll soon get into tho way
nf doing things liko other wnuieu
11
Knthy mndo no nnswer; somehow tho
futuro filled her with drend ; nil tho Joy
and delight she had felt when sho first
knew about the baby seemed to hare
been killed by the claborato arrange
ments that bad been made for Its re
ception.
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