Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1907-01-19
iAPTER XVlI.-Continued.
lO21I2G2T 1915 ~ Z

to bed"
I'D like TOTO see your room
here you live" said |, more to my
If than to her.
81 sleep in a bare little box" she
piled with a laugh. ITS like cell.
friend of ours who has the anti-germ
d insisted on it. But my sitting
,om isn't so bad"
"Langdon has the anti-germ fad,
lid |.
She answered Yes" after a pause,
nd in such a strained voice that l
oked at her. A flush was just dying
1t of her face. He was the friend |
)oke Of" she went on.
you know him very well?" asked.
We've known him-always," said
le 81 think he's one of my earliest
collections. His fathers summer
lace and ours adioin. And once-l
uess it's the first time | remember
eeing him-he was freshman at
award, and he came along on
orse past the pony. cart in which
room was driving me. And IL
as very little them begged him to
Ike me up, and he did. | thought he
as the greatest, most wonderful man
lat ever lived" She laughed queerly
When | say my prayers, | used to
nagine a god that looked like him to
ny them to-"
| echoed her laugh heartily. The
lea of Mowbray Langdon as a god
truck me as peculiarly funny, though
atural enough. too.
Absurd, wasn't it," said she. But
er face was grave, and she let her
cigarette die out.
81 guess you know him better than
lat now?"
~Yes-better," she answered, slowly
nd absently. "He's-anything but a
od!"
and the more fascinating on that
count" said |. Il wonder why
women like best the really bad, dan
:erous sort of man, who hasn't any re-
pect for them, or for anything"
| said this that she might protest,
t least for herself. But her answer
vas vague, musing, Il wonder
Wonder"
I'm sure you wouldn't" | protested
earnestly, for her.
She looked at me queerly.
Can | never convince you that I'm
ust woman" said she mockingly.
Just a woman. and one a man with
your ideas OF women would fly from. y
Il wish you were!" | exclaimed.
'Then-Fd find it $3.50 impossible to
give you UP"
She rose and made a slow tour OF
he room, hating on the rug before
| he closed fireplace few feet from
ne. sat looking at her.
Il am going to give you up" | said
at last.
Her eyes, staring into vacancy, grew
larger and intenser with each long,
deep breath she took
Il didn't intend to say what I'm
about to say-at least, not this even
ing" | went on, and to me it seemed
to be some other than myself who was
speaking. Certain things happened
down town to-day that have set me to
thinking And shall do whatever
can for your brother and your father.
But you-you are free!"
She went to the table, stood there
in profile to me, straight and slender
as a sunfower stalk. She traced the
silver chasings in the lid of the cigar
cite box with her forefinger; then she
took a cigarette and began rolling il
slowly and absently.
please don't scent and stain youl
fingers with that filthy tobacco" sale
rather harshly.
And only this afternoon you were
saying you had become reconciled tC
my vice-that you had canonized i
along with me-wasn't that YOU
phrase?" This indifferently withou
turning toward me, and as if she were
thinking of something else.
so | have" retorted. But m!
mood-please oblige me this once"
She let the cigarette fall into thu
box, closed the lid gently, Leaned
against the table, folded her arm
upon her bosom and looked full a
me. was as acutely conscious of he
every movement, of the very coming
anu SOlIlS Vi the DICdtn tI hCl hOs
;trils, as a man on the operating tabl
is conscious of the slightest gesture o
the surgeon.
You are-suffering!" she said, an
her voice was like the flow Of oil upo
burn. 81 have never seen you Xix
this. didn't believe you capable G
of much feeling"
I could not trust myself to speal
If Bob Corey could have looked in o
that scene, could have understood 1
how amazed he would have been!
What happened down town t.
day." she went on. Tell me, il
may know
"I'H tell you what | didn't thinl
ten minutes ago. I'd tell any huma
being" said /. They've got m
strapped down in the press. At tie