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When docs human nature
crash under the strain of
ear and tragedy? Mutt it
pull down al loved ones
in disaster?
THE BREAKING POINT
Mher of "Dangerous Days," "it," "The Amazing Interlude," and many ether striking and suoeesaful novel.
Copyright, 19tt, by Geerge it. Deran Ce.
nits iw.aixn the story
Or David Livingstone i the eUl
family doctor of the quiet town of
'llarerlV- f'Mt ' ', em ,,'
Ytttrr Lucy is lr. Dick Livingstone,
..:.!. ; ,i,lln nf his thirtu imnt.
find a mvstcni ichich envelops him.
'Be i dci'iily interested in Elisabeth
Xi'hcclrr, leveiu aa-Mncr e tuu
ttantial tcsident M the town.
Wealthy It eilie Sayre is in love cith
tr. her sister Xina declares.
AXD HERE IT COXTIXVES
DAVID did nut s1P well tlint night.
He I ml net had Ills golf nftcr all,
for tlie IIemiT Imby lind Bent out his nd
ranee net It- early In the ntterneMt. nml
had himself nrrlvcd en Sunday evening,
t tin- hmir w,"'n Minnie wan winding
hrr clock iind prepnrJnjc te retire early
for the Monday wnnhlng, and the Sayre
hiillcr was iiineuncln dinner. Dick
1,1,1 come In nt 10 o'clock weary and
trluniplinnti te announce that IMchnrd
ii.lngotenn Hemer, pex male, color
white weight nine pound, had been
ufely delivered Inte thin vale of tenrs.
David lav in the great walnut hed
which had been IiIh metherV, nnd read
his prnvcr book by the light of IiIh eve
ning Iflmp. He rend the Evening
Prayer and the Mtnny. and then nt
laht lie resorted te the thirty-nine ar
ticle, which usually had n soporific
effect en him. Hut it was no geed.
At last he get his keys from his
frouserx pocket and padded softly down
!)( stairs and into his office, where he
,liew the shade nnd turned en the
Jlrhts. , ,....
Through en open deer was Dick's of
fice, a neat place of shining linoleum
and small glass stands, highly modern
ami businesslike. Deyend the office nnd
opening from It wns his laboratory,
which had been the fruit closet once,
and into which Dick en occasion re
tired te fuss with slides and tubes mid
etnins and n microscope.
David went te the bookcase nnd get
down n large book, much worn, nnd
mitImI It te his desk
An hour or se later he heard foot
steps In the hnll and closed the book
lustily. It w I'Ucy, a wadded dress
ing gown ever her nightdress and n
gln nf het milk In her hand.
"Yeu drink this nnd come te hed.
Dnvid," she snid peremptorily. "I've
been l.lng upstairs waiting for you te
come tip, and I need some sleep."
lie hud no sort of hope that she
would net notice the book.
"I just get te thinking things ever,
Lucy," he explained, his tone apolo
getic. "There's no" use pretending I'm
net worried. I am."
"Well, it's In Ged's hands," she
paid, quite simply. "Take line up nnd
drink It slowly. If you gulp it down
it makes a lump in your stomach."
She steed by while he replneed the
book in the bookcase and nut out the
UltliK Then in the darkness she pre
ceded Mm up the stairs.
"Yeu d better take the milk yourself.
I.ucy," he sild. "l'eu'rc net slccninc
either."
"I ve had some. Ooed-night."
He went in and slttinz en thn side
of his bed sipped at his milk. I,uey
was right. It was net in tlieir hands.
He had the feeling all at once of hav
ing relinquished a great burden. He
crawled into bed und was almost in
stantly a-lcep.
he oine time after midnight found
Can evil Identity be lest
in geed? See lioie this
throbbing story of mystery,
regeneration and love selves
these problems.
"Beverly Carlysle," commented the night editor. "Back with bells en!"
ie wen up tne piioteKi-apli. "Doesn't leek much elder, docs she?"
David sleeping, nnd Jury en her knees.
It found Elizabeth dreamlessly uncen-
s. "leu mignt e.-,k. tee. what sdic think'
- ... - ;- --.' '. ..mw..- , nji9 uvuim ui .fuusuii i.mrK. no nfiiieii
scieus in her white bed. nnd Dick My. I "I huve an idi-n she known, it any one
ngstene asleep also, but in bis cloth- doe."
Ing, nnd In n chair by the window. In ?,, KtIllr,i , ilim
the light from it street lamp his face I Jt"sseJl s ",r(l nt ''im.
showed Mines of fatigue and nervous leu re joking, nien t jeu?"
stress, lines only revealed when during "Ym. Hut it would nuikc n darned
mi-eii n man casts en mc mastt with ' goeU story."
which he protects his soul against even
friendly ryes.
But midnight found ethers awake. It
found Nina, for instance, in her draped
French bed, consulting her jeweled
watch and listening for Leslie's return
from the country club. An angry nnd
rutiier heart-sick Nina. And it 'found
the night editor of ene of the morning
papers drinking a cup of coffee that u
boy hftd brought in, nnd running
through a muss of copy en his desk.
He picked up several sheets of paper,
wmi a pnoiegropii ciampeii te tliem,
and ran through them quickly. A iftn
In a soft hat. sitting en the desk,
watched him Idly.
"Beverly Carlysle." commented the
night editor. "Back with bells en!"
He took up the photograph. "Doesn't
leek much elder, docs she? It's a iiupcr
world."
Leuis B.t&sctt, star reporter and fea
ture write.- of the Tiliics-Uepublican,
smiled rcminlsccntly.
"Slie wns n wonder," he said. "I
interviewed her once, and I was criv.v
about her. She had the stage set for
me. all right. The paper.s bad been
full of the incident of .Tud t'liirl- nml
the night he lined up liftecn Johnnies
in the lobby, each with a bouquet as
When he finished medical college Dick
Livingstone had found, like ether men.
that the two paths of ambition and
duty were parallel nnd did net meet.
Along ene lny his desire te focus nil
his energy In ene direction, te fellow
diseam into the laboratory instead of
the sick room, nnd there te fight its
unsung battles. And win. He felt tlint
be would win.
Along the ether lny David.
It was net until he had completed his
course und had come home thnt he had
irnlized that David was growing old.
Even then he might have felt that, by
the time David wns compelled te re
linquish his held en his practice, he
himself would be sufficiently established
in his specialty te take ever the support
of the household.
Fer by that time Dick had made his
decision. He could net abandon David.
Fer him then and hereafter the routine
of n general practice in u suburban
town, the long hours, the railed re
sixiiisibtlitlcM, the feeling he had some
times that by doing many things pass
nblv he was doing none of them we' I.
But for compensation he had old Da
vid's content and greater leisure, nnd
Lucy Cresby's gratitude and love.
.new und then be chafed a little when
eig ns a till), nil et them In top lints hn read some article In n medical jour
...... .........., Lu,i,n, nun KuiiiimiK in i inn ey one el lilt
Se she nlnved im the lienvv ln.
for me; knitting or sewing, I
u row
mestli
forget
"Fell for her, did jeu?"
"Did IV Thnt wns ten jears age,
and I'm net sure I'm ever it rt."
"l'rebnbly that's the reason," snld
the city editor, drily. "(Je and see
her, and get ever it. (Jet her views en
the flapper and bobbed bair, for next
.Sunday. Smith would be crazy about
it."
He finished bis coffee.
s fellow enthusiasts, or
vtnrn in 1'iiinee im saw men younger
than hljnself obtaining an experience in
their several specialties that would en
able them te reach wide fields at home.
But mostly he was content, or at least
icsigned. He wns building up the Llv Llv
ingstenV practice, and his one anxiety
was lest the time should come when
mere patients asked for Dr. Dick than
for Dr. David. He did net want David
hurt. .
After ten jears the strangeness of
his situation had ceased te be strange.
Always he meant some time te go bnck
te Neradn, nml there te clear up cer
tain things, but it wns u long journey,
nnd he had very little time. And, ns
the years went en, the past seemed un
important compared with the present.
He gave little thought te the future.
Then, suddenly, his entire attention
became focused en the future.
Just when he had fallen In love with
Elizabeth Wheeler he did net knew. He
had gene nwuy te the war, leaving her
a little girl, apparently, nnd he had
come back te find her n woman. He
did net even knew he was in love, nt
first. It wns when, ene day, he found
himself driving past the Wheeler heusu
without occasion thnt he begun te grew
uneasy.
The future at once became extraordi
narily important nnd se also, but some
what less vitally, the pebt. Had he
the right te mairy, if he could make
her care for him?
On thn Monday night nftcr lie had
asked Elizabeth te go te the theatre he
went into David's office nnd closed the
deer. Lucy, alive te every movement
In the old house, heard him go in, nnd,
rocking In her chnlr overhead, her
hands 'Idle in her lap, waited in tense
anxiety for the interview te end. She
thought she knew what Dick would
nsk, and what David would unswer.
And, In n way, David would be right.
Dick. fine, lovable. iinstandliiL Dick.
had a right te the things ether men
had, te lore and u home of his own,
te children, te his own full life.
But suppose Dick Insisted en clearing
everything up before he married? Fer
te Lucy it wns unthinkable that any
girl in her senses would refuse him.
Suppose he went back te Neradn? He
had net changed grently in ten years.
He had been well known there, n con
spicuous figure.
Her mind began te turn en thn pos
sibility of keeping blm awny from No Ne
radn. Seme time later she heard the office
deer open and then close with Dick's
characteristic slam.
On Wednesday he was in u state of
alternating high spirits nnd periods of
silence. Even Minnie noticed It.
"Mr. Dick's that queer I hardly knew,
hew te tnke him," she said te Lucy.
"He came back nnd asked for needle
soup, nnd he put nbeut all the hard
ware In the kitchen en him nnd said
he wns a knight in armor. And when
I took the soup In he didn't ent it."
It was when he was ready te go out
that Lucy's fears were realized. He
came in, os always when anything un
usual was afoot, te let her leek him
ever. He knew that she waited
for him, te give his tic n final pat, te
inspect the laundering of his shirt
besom, te pick imaginary threads off
his dinner coat.
"Well?" he said, stnndlng before
her, "hew's this? Art can de no mere,
Mrs. Cresby."
"I'll brush your back," she snld, nnd
brought the brush. He steeped te her.
according te the little ceremony she
hud established, and she made little
dabs at his speckless back. "There,
that's better."
He straightened.
"Hew de you think Uncle David is?"
he asked, unexpectedly.
-u'Ill!ter tnan llc 1,ns bcen cars.
vhv?"
"Because I'm tlilnl;ii- ,,t i,iM e
little trip. Only ten days." he ndded.
seeing her face. "Yeu could house
clean my office while I'm away. Yeu
knew you've bcen wanting te."
She dropped the brush and he steeped
te pick it up. Thnt gave her n mo
ment. "Where?" she managed.
"Te Dry Illver, by Way of No Ne
rada." "Why should you go back there?"
she asked In u carefully suppressed
eIce. "Why don't ou go East?
You've wanted te go back te Jehns
Hepkins for mouths."
"On the ether hand, why shouldn't I
go back te Neradn?" he asked with un
nffectntien of lightness. Then he put
his hand en her shoulders. "Why
shouldn't I go hack nml clear things
up In my own mind? Why shouldn't I
fitid out, for Instance, thnt I am n free
man?"
"Yeu are free."
"I've get te knew." he snld, ulmest
doggedly. "I enn't take u chance. I
believe I am. I believe David, of
course. But. anyhow, I'd like te see
the ranch. I want te sec Muggic Don Don
aldeon." "She's net nt the ranch. Her hus
band died, you knew."
"I have an Idea I can find her," he
snld. "I'll make n geed try, nny nny
hew." When he had gene she Ket her salts
bottle und. lay down en her bed. Her
heart was hammcrhi'' uilillp
Elizabeth was waiting for him in the
i!i , '"."" " tne "1,lst "f ber family.
Mie looked absurdly young nnd rery
pretty, and he hw n meincntnrv mis
giving that be was old te her nnd that
heaven save tlie mark I that frhe
oeked up te him. He considered the
blue- dress the height of fashion and the
meld of form, nnd having tnken off his
!W 'be hall, tried te put en
.Mr. N heeler's instead in his excite
? ,i Ise' bc,,min(t very dlgi.Ined
after the overcoat Incident, nnd mnk-
mi "It which should conceal his
wild exultation nnd show only polite
P ensure, he stumbled ever Micky, se
f IS l ,lr"illy dePnrtl te n series
of staccato yelps.
He felt very het nnd slightly ridic
ulous ns he tucked Elizabeth Inte the
i.ei t ?''' 'pi"g vcr' Pnrtlcular about
her feet and Marling with extreme core
f-VnfT1- l Jnr llpr' , ' ,,a'I the feel
ing of being entrusted temporarily with
something Infinitely precious and very,
lnfXrlr,i f",m;,llnK that must never
suiter or be hurt.
Te he continued tomorrow
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