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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERrPHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY.' DECEMBER 16, 1922
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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.
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mtnvm ELMWBTONE. charm-
u.,XaHa widow, who hai inntrtiea a
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ZldWer veteran, man of nenenalitv,
n.r'i "jmeiiy " i !..
iriH TTer veteran, man of persenamy,
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' giSDAL, younger daughter, a
Hffi'HOLT, big, geed-natured eap,
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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.
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'Am T0U. earn luvi-r, kuiiik
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m hardly admitted te lierBcIf that she
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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.
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