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EVENING PUBLIC LEDaER-PHlL'ADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1921
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BACHELOR HUSBAND
By RUBY M. AYRES
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luiier e "Richard Chatterton," Etc.
COMriflht, 11. b W. A Trait 4 Ce.
IIBOINB THE STOBV
(7iMfcr and Ohrlttevbtr
irirrfl rfll iyeini
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rj Mr AC because no nm
Jifced ncr
illfniicc
Jnrfe
HS ii?iS Ite '&c dte?. lt tow Mm
C'tti A"'1 Mtcr, 'ft , i.
WilffA.! 7iulanci flln r'end
"firceUM M. All unconsciously
ftK Arr, and , '. ft'
HjLTci en prompt him fe Je
7w Arr w 'ic ' J'r,u' 'V "
"Jnn 1 1 longereuB icemati, Mrs.
fiSiiten U'hrUh naUer, ever
W'SSZrane as he ceme read))
V '& iha concert lelth Mr. Lata
' 'XJfenhVpUillHB hrttllnnme
teW'M.l'nZrMZl. mSlhTfl Xcr.
AND IIISKU IX vux.""
i miit vda ... tin fni.
OJ. riven!" he snld solemnly. "Anil
.'.." l.l nn Unit If Villi Willi!
uitln time for the show, you'll have
I Ve without the water Ice wli cli I
W .? .?"' !iiu ... n the final tlt-blt
9 iney nuv -
'u'K.t'lifr lce." Marie declared.
.! i n. nnltn rendv when you are.
BW.S iV r l,bnnl.
"fliS"-.;" ',i, for me. my child," raid
lad. "iun ttWny nml amUB0 your"
H! . il. nV.1 nnlnllv
Marie rose irum i ". .i.-v.,,.
$TU just get my coat." she snld te
tbtrd. HI10 WUIKEU inJIYll m i;
5L.. th crowded tables, the eyes of
Hknvu m t 1 1m
kith men J0U0W1UB nvr.
Bhe ninde a pathetic little flKiire. re
w-.n,er theunlit. and was angry with
Ki.tf frtr tlm theualit. He did net
Rrint te think of her as unhappy. He
Could net Imngine why he always read
'BrnedVeChr'H. "Why don't you
nmavtu u ""VU ,""-- '";.,.
ChrH epencu i - " """
ihmeht. , , L '
"What I He penned up in a stuffy
...itt hnll nil the evcnlnc?" he snld.
E"Mr dear chap. It's no worse than
he 'billiard room," Feathers answered
nuihlv. "Yeu spend tee much of your
lme there." ,
Chris loeKea nt nun in uiicr umuic
tnt; then he laughed.
"Is it a Jeke or what?" he asked
Htialnltfcalr.
B .. . t. 1 l--f 1.l ldht 4llB
tratuers pusucu duck iub ciiuir ium
lelHiUy and rose.
"Think It ever." he said curtly, nnd
tllifd out of the room.
nipU did think It ever. He went
nt nn te the sea front, and starcl nt
K sea, and wondered what en earth
Is friend liau Dccn driving ni. ne urn
6t at all llke the way In wlilcn 1'catn-
hnd looked nt him or the tene of
Ielcc in which he had spoken. As a
ale, every one looked upon Chris
1th approval.
He tiirew Ms nnii-smeucu cigareiie
im .the sen wall onto the sand, mid
Wth morose eyes, wntched it consume
ir. , .
He was net going te no lectured Dy
'iithtrs. elil friends as they were! He
((into feel himself distinctly ill-used.
Kdw lie came te think of It it was
Miiv ninl nf him tn take Mnrlc Celeste
I te- a concert and leave him te shin
or himself. He was net at nil sure
hit he was lii'iuir fairly treated.
K" penny for your thoughts," snld
rt. Ilorlet beside him, nnd he started
rem IiIk reverie and laughed.
"Nothing. I uns just wondering
ibeut something, that's all.
lie was leally rather glad te Bee her
t was dusk out there en the sea
!rent. and Mrs. Herlet always looked
(r beat in a half-lieht. as de most
Ifemen who take the tint of their hair
ed complexion out of n box.
Bhe was dressed in black, tee. It
ultrd her admirably, and there was a
laity white fur round her threat and
leulilcrs which rather appealed te
Kbrls.
leathers had knocked n corner off
is complacency, and he was just in a
loea te accept the seething Ilattcry
htch Mrs. Herlet knew te a nicety hew
) administer.
"I've never seen you leek se cress
Before," she challenged him. "What is
Vie matter and where itfMrs. Law
Km?"
She's gene te a concert.
"Oh. jes. with Mr. Dnkcrs! I saw
hem gelne alone the read teeethcr just
iew." She paused. "Yeu don't care
or music, I suppose?"
wet particularly."
Neither de I. I don't think people
tee are verv keen en cnmcH are ever
and of music nnd artistic things llke
ht, de you?"
ferhaps net," he agreed.
She drew the fenthery wrap closer
eund her threat.
"Isn't it n lipnvnnlr niilif AVlint
f&alUede?"
I Chris lauRhcd rather grimly. "I've
nothing te de. I'm quite at your scrv-
ce."
"Rcnllv''" TT.r i ui. V,rnl,f In
J half-light. "Well, then, shall we
e ft beat nnd rnw nut tn meet the
neon?"
, 'let the moon!" Chris echoed
lankly.
8h8 IniiEhed. "Yes. Ikm'j thnt wlint
'mantle people de? I knew I'm net a
-muiic person, uut I'm going te pre
a te be, just for ene night "
eneinld her hand en his nrm. "De!
t will be such fun."
Her eXOltOllinnt wnu pnflin Infant fm,a
N after the smallest hesitation Chris
"iueu,
"(h, nil right. Cnn we get n beat?"
mm tliieiigli hh arms ns they went
Ewi tlie snmls te leek for an old
Mtmen fiein whom Mrs. Herlet de-
ljj sue nnd often hired bouts bc-
,.'v,0,5e Ninnt mc" te come nleng with
,w' 'IP nsklll. I1R lin ilpnrriri.il r tllff
Efn te the water's edge.
"th. Herlet laughed and looked at
k.'u? v,.e wnnt fhnren te row us en
"jStyx?" Mm. asked.
"I Mi"' ll W,'-V fliCP'
'thou? I V niI,f''t ,)0 nt,1 t0 ninnnge
1i" " '"'I', mi sniu.
e gau. ,er H hal)ll ,, foUeWL,(j
n. Inte the skiff.
tfSi. "! l',,rfwt night. There was
"lly a riiinii, .... !... . -...i i.
'llfta .. --,'i-v w.l 4111- ,lll'. Ullll IIIU
Zn.-M,'lN.rlM,1"B '" Bleain half -circle
::- iiiiriznil.
Jlr.i. lti..i .i.i. i. , . , ....
m,:' """' tiiiuuiiMi ner iinnu in tnu
ZMpr, and her (llamend rings gilt
"8. like sj.nrks of lire.
H ihUr ls" t,tlll heter than thnt her
.'."'.'."J' "I'l billiard room?" hhe asked
ni ""
Hchh T'1Pi(I' '"", II18 fr,0'"''H w0".
nt rn,n U ,"'"'"-' r me mo me
fuel' emc buck with werrjlng insist-
Pi.
"If
lv.tn.
orse than
no) wer
. leu snciul
hnd I'Vnthers meant?
SA tin. deuce
the billiard
tee much of
y"! J'Oll lii.nr .vl.ef
"vinatided.
nt ;" cuert.
neardyes!1'
Werte ..i "." 'V'V w"t 1 said?" Mrs,
AtlUJit --"" nna he rauhed him-
" nn effort
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tJiVi... n ' y011 agree?"
rb?ut.here
fw teintimUn.l mi, n ., ,
hflte te acrren nrltl, n,w n " ... .km
Slie leaned back and looked up at the
t ViT'.',s fcm'n's tlTel of the nlfhts In
India," she said suddenly.
UiriB inade no comment, and she
went en.
"It seems an If my life out there must
n,1,hnve been In another world."
llme pajses rte quickly, doesn't It?"
snld Chtls absently.
He had nt-ver seen her In this mood
before, and It rather bored him.
I WCnt Allt nb cmnn nu T -n vtn.
rlcil, she went en, tnklng It for grant
ed thnt lie w.ih Interested. "I watt eh.
"? ye.,,.n,tT;,'0,ln'r than Mrs. I.hwlcs, I
should think!" Hh0 lnughed rather bit
lerly. "1 thought I was going te he
happy ever after,' ni the story books
lmyc it, when I get married." She
h.ygged her fheulders.
"That's what comes of marrying for
money,"
"Yeu are very candid," Chris paid
innnsedly.
"1,nn; I think it always pays, don't
He shrugged his shoulders.
"I haven't thought about it."
I linve! And I knew that people
i l rh. .'"?. becnus I always Say
what I think."
"Don't they !" He drew In the sculls
" VM'0 .T'1, esttiitir en them, fum
bled for his cigarette case.
There wns a llltli- smile en his. face.
Mrs. Herlet wns anmslnp; him new,
though nneoiiscleiislj.
Hlie stretched out n white hand.
'f.lve me a cigarette." Chris handed
or his case, but she waved it away.
'Don't be se ungnllant! Mght it for
hip."
He did ns she asked.
"Dees jour wife smoke?" she asked
abruptly.
"Ne." He bent te the sculls again.
'I m afraid she's net very modern."
She caught up the word quickly.
"Afraid !"
Chris frowned. "I pheuld have snld
'glnd,' perhaps." He corrected himself
intlicr shortly.
Mrs. Heriet looked nt him in silence
for a moment, then she said, energeti
cally: "Don't let marriage turn you
into a bore. Chris!" ,
"A bore!" He was se amazed that
he dropped his cigarette, "les." She
smiled teaslngly. "It docs that with
most men, you knew."
"I think I cnn premise you it will
net de that with me." he said rather
warmly. "I hnve always loathed the
Idea -)f ordinary married life, staying
nt hernn night after night, tied te a
woman's apron strings, dropping all
one'H pais " " He broke oft", color
ins warmly. He hnd said n great deal
mnre than he had intended, nnd he
Knew thnt she hnd purposely led him en
te de se. "Don't you think we had
Dctlcr he getting buck?" he nsked
rather curtly.
"What, already?" she laughed, and.
bending forward, looked at n small jew
eled watch en her wrist. "Why, it's
net in ' hiie turned and looked out
ever the smooth sen. "Let s row out te
that Deat," she said suddenly. She n
dirated a small anchored fiMitag imack
with furled sails that looked llke a fairy
snip in tne pntii ei tne moonlight.
"We can ret en beard if there is no
body there. De! It will be such fun!"
Chris had the uncomfortable feeling
that she expected him te refuse, nnd be
cause he made it n rule ncer te de wbut
in' knew wns expected of him he agreed
JIe pulled the little skiff about and
innrlt' for the nnchered beat.
Thcre was n lljlit en her mast and a
iintern tied te her bow, but apparently
she was deserted.
Mrs. Herlet made a cup of her hands
mm caiieii n long uoe-ce.
"There's nobody en beard," she said
"Ge closer te her, Chris."
hen they were near enough she
stretched out her hand nnd caught nt
a i epe hanjinc loosely nt the side of the
snip.
"It's a ladder!" she said excitedly.
"Oh, we must go en beard. It'a se rb
mnntlc!" "It's n fishing smack It will be hor
ribly dirty probably," Chris objected.
She was standing up, holding te Its
siue.
"Of course it won't be." She looked
around at him. "I believe you don't
went te come, she said laughing.
Chris drew in the sculls without an
other word and steed up.
"If jou're be bent en trespassing,"
he said, and held out his hand.
They scrambled en beard together and
looked round. The ship was quite de
serted and rocking gently en the smooth
water. Mrs. Heriet clapped her hands
like a delighted child. She wns quite
a geed nctrcss when she wns In the
mood nnd given the right environment.
"Isn't this lovely? It rcmindB me of
the days when we used te hlde in
ruined castles when we were children."
She spoke as if ruined castles were
te be met with In every street of every'
suburban town.
"There's net much of n ruined cnstle
nbeut this." snld Chris. He was net at
all amused. He thought the whole ad
venture silly, which merely showed that
he wan net with the right woman and
net interested in the woman he wns
with.
The moon was high in the sky, nnd
the twinkling lights of the town looked
a long way off, though very faintly in
the distance they could hear the sound
of the band playing en the pier.
Chris listened npnthctically, then sud
denly he spoke.
"It must be late. They're playing
'Ged Have the King.' "
He looked nt his watch it was half
past 10.
"It's tlme we went back," he said.
He wondered uncomfortably what
Feathers would say if be could sec him
new.
He went back te the side of the fishing
smack where he had left the skiff, then
he stilled nu oath, for the painter he
had fastened loosely te the rope-ladder
hud come untied and the skiff had drifted
away.
Mrs. Herlet uttered a shrill scream
when she saw what had happened. She
was really net In the least frightened;
she loved sensntien and what she was
phased te call "thrills"; and It was
rather exciting te find herself in such
a predicament with n man ns good geed
looking and difficult as Christopher
Lawless.
"Whatever shall we de?" she de
manded in horror, and then, with a
quirk glance at ills fniv: "Oh, you
don't think that I let the beat go en
purpose?"
She had net done se, but probably
would huve done had It occurred te her.
Chris eiiHwercd vehemently thnt such
en idea had never entered his head,
which was the truth. He was far tee
Indifferent nnd unsuspecting te credit
her with such nn action,
"Hut what en earth ere we te de?"
she nsked ngaln, and Chris laughed
rather mirthlessly.
"I must swim out nnd bring it back,
of course."
He took off his cent ns he speke and
Mrs. Ilcriet screamed afresh.
"Yeu might bu drowned I The water
leeks nwful In the moonlight! What
will become of me here nlone If any
thing hnppens te you?"
"Nothing will happen te mc or you,"
said Chris, impatiently, "and we can't
stay here all night, caiiwe?"
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