raw TtWJSii Wv w'3s rTxWh ffTfflyw rm U'X&i W2. ki RJ? gflrt ivrnjt-' - t HJ02' mt TW f K ' !,W' i ' -rM i- ' rcsn ? ' EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERrPHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY.' DECEMBER 16, 1922 MTT Wg Subconscious Courtship A maitn toemarfa oxtraerdlnary tehtme te hoop $ttitert from intorfer if wM Ar ltf It told In thU fascinating nevel By BERT A RUCK Auther of "The Wrong Itr. Wrtght." "The Arrant Jtevtr." Bte. Copyright, lttt, Vedd, ttted 4 Ce, "hTR 'PS us jaR ES r. unH WHO IN THE STORY mtnvm ELMWBTONE. charm- u.,XaHa widow, who hai inntrtiea a .?,, ifiBBV (JARMIOHAEL. ZldWer veteran, man of nenenalitv, n.r'i "jmeiiy " i !.. iriH TTer veteran, man of persenamy, . .Litter who hnt invented a new "."'I ii.in'fli;u buiiimt" vropeti- ' Ul f M Ftalli rats ntrt itnuL m. fct t5s buiinc J? a PWy W 0 ins per ed. ffi&.l&BAD0W8, aunt, who ha .JK.V C'eeer f advcMiij and Thittrti with favert. ' giSDAL, younger daughter, a Hffi'HOLT, big, geed-natured eap, W"y " """ '""" ""-" r tfriOOD morning," she said as casu (j ally ns she had said it en every ather morning. "Geed mernine. aiu armicuaei it it. mme tone. "' - . , r.. ni 'Am T0U. earn luvi-r, kuiiik -t?" This, loe, she biiki ensunny. m hardly admitted te lierBcIf that she Sb. OO.TJ. Ul avtll. icy.' Jia DTtd iiM, ba in t mttb K5 .be; rauil tltM a iTmt tool ittll !Mj OVI 9li Ien. J 8 n - -..j ! ren iv wniuen 10 Jhflt this ih'ew-huibnnd of hers would SSt for thnt'mernlns! she did net & te no te the city that dny. She kid no bat en. But Carmlchnel had hat nnd gloves te his hand. "1'cb," he said; "I am '.WllbebuBy there all Probably," m?reed Carmlchnel. Be fore he meant te say nnythitig furthrr 1( remarUcd, "ieu are uenig w, mKU." mild Oever. On an 1m- Bulie, she looked up at him and nn ,7n;l: "I shall be lunching all by mflf at home today." There vas n second's pnuse. The -au hiinc In the nlr: nn invitation, If he chose M take them se. She thought defiantly, 'he can if he Ukea! I believe I shouldn't mind. Why shouldn't we be quite friendly? I den t lee why he shouldn't come bnck. There she steed, dainty ana desir tble. Any man might have considered himself in luck. Carmlchnel thought limply, "Well, why net?" A llKhtnlm? picture flashed before him of himself and her at the luncheon tublc, with the extra leaves taken out, and the servants told they could be. He would talk te her, all te himself: she would unile at him; thincs would ceme dif ferent. But instantly he pulled hiinxclf back. "Nene of that," he thought. "The less I see of her alone, after last nlsht, the better. She only said if for something te say." All this in that secend'H pause be fore be replicd in a noncommittal way : "Oh, well, eoed-by." "Geed hunting," said Clever lightly. Bbe turned toward the housekeeper's room and was gene before he had opened the front deer. Carrnhhacl's "Offloe" ecemed te him new such a different place from what It had been in the old days net se long ue. Then it had seemed u den where one had waked up hoping n gal list hope; had worked all day under Uie deadening handicap of the conviction thai work alone achieves very little in this world. One had llulshed up by thinking that probably here was another duy waited, end that everything one did was about ns useful as the nut which the squirrel dropped down the chimney et the empty iieu.'e imagining tuat it went te awca Its heard. few. however, the Husten rend place as the beating heart of his whole en terprise. Frem its two dingy little rooms ilewcd forth power that was going te turn u hundred wheels. It was the engineroem of hla hhlp of Am bition. One doesn't expect much spit and polish In an engineroem. CertRinly there was none here. The two windows looking out en Londen's BMit cheerless rend were se grimy that em could hardly xee out of them, and the whole place seemed te have "gene Jsnily" since his reluctantly taken trip te Paris. Sirs. Bates, the chauf feur's wife, who "did for" him us u bachelor, had been told te ceme in nnd "tidy" dully, but nn incredibly thick layer of dust lay ever everything, ever the long drawing table, under the greens-haded electric lights, ever the wide, linllew drawcre for plans; ever the leather top of his tall steel, usunlly as ahiey as glass from use; ever the tee squares and the French curves hung ea nails te the walls and ever the small rack with the bcore of books en en gineering. Te touch the long rolls that cluttered the shelves brought down nn unclean shower. There Is nothing liUe paper for attracting and accumulating dirt. Altogether, his absence hnd left the place in a herrible fctate. Be summoned Mrs. Bntce. 'Can jeu spare me n couple of hours this morning?" he nsked her. "If be W will huve a geed clean-up." He threw off his hut and cent, rolled JP bis sleeves and bet te work te clem tie long table, rather te the astonish ment of Mrs. Bntrb. She had read about we grand wedding, she knew about the ureen btiect establishment, and shu yv no reason why a gentleman that had done be wall for himself, ns you might sny. should tiouble te set feet again inside n plnee llke this. 'ills ehe thought as bbe took hui worn te bwvep dust and teu leaves wward the deer. Carnilehatfl. Mapping books together na wiping his weights and rulers, re- Siced ,hat tMa llttll- sprlng-clenning "'I all in the service of nla mast. mgs wouldn't be allowed te slide uiere new. he knew. Oeneial Hervey ? net the man wliu let things slide, already Hervey had forced neucsmry geasurcs upon even the Government, "enrey would keep Cox up te tills. It jf only n matter of days before the t?;rvlicw tlmt weul(1 Pt thln coins. Experiments? One's days full of fruit ' fterk, ehutting out everything else. Here the amateur "housemaid" smiled Jnmly ns a contrast struck htm. III. 7? Tnml Ile(, TlllH d,ny dugout ni that vast beard-room of a place t m8 li' ILrl10enl bad been first made Whim In effect. ".Marry me and I will ee jour mast through. ' Nell, she was keeping her word, he was keeping his, and nil ether thoughts ,Ui bU0Ved right out. Mt. nat. ft.ut u nuc t 'lowers, "fi .tc,"' ue "8Cested presently. Hern, v elets no. net violets " Nsrclss', sir?" SBi.iimi"th,n. t0 freshen us up nnd ntZun.lcei X m,h l' Imvlng sonie Pt' In here presently." 4)Hert. sir?" fall.?'' ' 81,(1 Ciinnichnel succinctly, i.up rem hls Wnckened hands, ril. .Jj tIl5 Pmce w"8 moderately SJ L drfc,,t- he Mt't t-nre. new. S. ? tlle ecntrlc little dugout OiVTi.-e i . wrk,l Cox had renlized ; (110 glitter of Crinn nrenf mMirl -V'l.ithei.r1. amX weu1'1 .net Iniaglne that ri,Jf!,i.C',raldl l, ,7 lodgings. tlV A snobbish thought; but does it net sometimes seem ns If the world were run en snobbish lines? ,".AnlL.tU0 etner room Majer Car mlchnel?" .. ,"0h, the bedroom," he glanced into this cheerless llttle box where he had eaten, slept, broken his heart for te long. "I hnd te go nreund three tlmcn te these laundry people nfter these clean sheets p' yours,'' complained Mrs. Bates. "I've only Just get them ! But you won't be wanting the bed made up new, will you, sir?" ' "Ne: I shan't." Thnnk goedncoi he need never ngnln turn in en that little green AVlllcsdcn canvas camp bed or wash his hands in that odious little bucket. The small folding serv ice chair could new &e packed up. As for the rubber-bath, Mm. Hate could take it. The mast (net Clever, but the mast) should pay for a very differ ent abode 1 "I might sublet the whole place, presently," he told Mrs. Bates. Suddenly, into the sound of her broom knocking ngalnst the corners of his room, there breke the sound of the telephone bell In the garage below. Cnrmlchael, as en the foggy morn ing when he hnd been summoned from his shaving, hastened down the wooden stnlrwny und took up the telephone receiver irem tue clutter nDeut It. "Helle." "Helle, this is O'nrien speaking." v unen, lox's rlglit-hnna young man. innt was geed. "Uli, good geed morning, O'Brien." "Geed morning; I say, arc you doing anything for lunch?" ' "Ne, I nm free todey." "Are you? Splendid. Will you lunch with me, then? I shall be alone." called O'Brien. "I should fee glad if you weuia. une e ciecit tuen at tne Clematis; I have get a table." "Klght-e; thanks very much." Five minutes te ene found Cnr mlchael waiting nt the Clematis. New the Clematis is a plnce where you can meet nn extraordinary variety of people Actors nnd actresses from the small thentre Just ncresti the street, artists, politicians, financiers, all meet nt this little re3tnurant where the cook ing is excellent if net exactly chenp. Yeu need net be surprised nt meeting anybody there; in fact, bitting down nt one's tnble ene instinctively leeks round te see whut notabilities and no torieties nre there. And the man who was planting a ranet en a mere or less grateful Gov ernment met the mnn who (also nent ns n new pin nnd nl:e a servant of the Empire) was pointed out ns " 'Bat man,' leek, jeu knew, the man who wret the piny." "Well, feeling nil right this morn ing?" O'Brien remarked, ns the men nittde their way te their table. "Perfectly, thanks," smiled Cnr mlchael. "I hope you get home in geed " He didn't finish the sentence. IIe left oft te stnre at foiue one. New the Clematis Restaurant origi nally hegan with ene room, nt the bnck of which Cnrmiiliael nnd O'Brien new steed. Later It hud been found neces sary te take in the room behind. It was into this room behind that Cnr mlchael new stnrcd. Fer, In its furthest corner n young mnn nnd n young woman had their heads close together ever a menu. Caimiclmcl waited for that menu te drop. It dropped. Ah ; yes. It was. He thought he recognized that hnt, the llttle toeue thing made of soft drooping featliers which covered her dnrk hnlr, mnde her leek nt If her hair were n shock of grny ever her young, fresh fnce. It wns his wife, and the mnn with whem she was lunching was Mr. Bebby Llewelyn. The Silent Storm At the sight of this, Carmichnel's fnce dnrkened te storm. That wns, for ene moment. The next moment it was elenr ngaln, out wardly. But, under that control, bleed surged nnd pulsed te the hottest, most Jealous wrath that he had ever known. That fellow ngaln I Hew mnnv times in the Inst twenty four hours did that make? Last night nt Clever's At Heme. Then, nfter the At Heme, Clever coming in te telephene te the fellow. Then, this morning. Only three hours age she had told Cnrmlchael that he was lunching at horn, thnt dny I New here they were; ha found them together in this clandestine place. He didn't step te examine these in cidents; only tee well they fitted In. That sickening fellow above nil ethers I Cnrmlchael remembered that dance where he had clulmcd his, Llewelyn's, partner. He Tiad thought that was going te be the end of Mr. Bebbie Llewelyn. Why hnd she bothered te get married at all if this lunch-nnC-ringlng-up-nnd-bunch-of-frecaias business was te begin nil ever ugaln? He would nsk her thnt presently. Presently he would bnve all this out with her, he would Mty exactly what he thought, straight from the shoulder. There would have te be nn end of this. "Helle," said O'Brien's cheery voice! an the waiter put the chairs, "bomebody ever there that you knew, isn't there?" "Oh. my wife, you mean? Yes," ssld Carmlchnel perfectly cool. "They seem te have decided en this place after all. I thought they were going te innke it the Hits Grill. Well, we will have n word with them presently. Yeu get that train or yours all right, last night?" Over the well-chosen llttle lunch they went en talking pleasantly. Of what Cariulchacl could hardly huve told seu. Fer under everything that flood of cngcr had its way with the man. A coldly planned assignation! That was hew he taw it. Hveu that con versation ever the telephene last night wus pnrt of it, probably. Yes, It wns probably en purpose that she hnd asked her husband net te leave the room while she telephoned. Dust in his eyes, the sort of tuctfulness she hnd empleyed when she fibbed te Cox about where she had get the frock. Her explanation why thnt fellow wns in the beuse at all, te Introduce his friend, the singer all that seemed lame. But nbove all, why hud she said she wns lunching at home that day? Of course she lunched where she pleased ; why should she have lied about It? Anybody would resent being lied te. He would tell her all that with out any beating about the bush at the first opportunity. All thin while he was chatting te O'Brien nbeut train services. Frem where Cnrmlchael Bat he could have seen Clever in n mirror. He moved his chair a little se thnt he could see her no longer. He wns net f;eing te waicn iter unoeservcq, nna ue ind seen nil be wanted te for the mo ment, Then, although his back was te her he felt In bis bones that she had seen him tee, nnd he knew he was right when n moment later O'Brien leaned forward, bowed and smliyd. CONTINUED MONDAY THE GUMPS Am I Hurting Yeu? 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