New-York tribune., 1910-10-30
CHAPTER XII.
ing with Fire

cut MIN short
Ii Mr. Northrop wishes to give me the c
benefit of his advice she had stOrrned at him.
let him come to see me himself. l don
recognize your right to question my habits O
Il don't question them. / simply state
facts. You've already spent your balance and
most Of mine I'll have enough OF course;
b,f- should suggest"
''YouU pardon me- but I prefer to choose
nv own advisers. I've dOub, that there
viii be a to ind more money. And i O
least what ! spend will not be wasted IN idle q
experiments. ! shall live as / have always
done. for myself and Tor my friends -
There was nothing left TO be said. Brooke
Ga-rOtt had bowed and let the room chilled and dislLu
stoned However valiant MS bearing IN her company IN
secret he wrthed the outcome d, their venture He
could not understand how he still loved her when every
nerve IN him rebeIled her souess frivOiry. What
1t that still chained hin2 Her beauty 1t could be
that. Her charm, Hardly. Or 1t only pIque be
he had not won her Measured by the intensity
OF M feelings he knew It was something more tate
m tlan these 1t seemed though he alone had peeTed
the depths of her spirit and caught there glmpseS
of secret virtues of warm, kindly impulses OF homely
goodness. purity. and moral courage. They We're every
blrchrgnt. II she lost them her way through
the nazes OF lie. the fault with society.
He was a shrewder nudge O.. than OF women, but
II seemed very certain that the ways she was choosing
could lead only misfortune. If Natalie had betrayed
sign of weakness her relations with him, that
only an indication of the degree of her dislike for him.
What time and a hazy moral atmosphere might do for
her was better left unthOuEht OF. Only side or her
character had been revealed to him; but, whether the
lE,
his wife. He must trust her Ii evil came, he must
take MS share OF the blame.
4 BBY KENIPTON caught him on the rebound When
he left the library he sent q to her rooms:
The Vas-y is waiting Won't you 60 with me-
And in half an hour dressed in fanncls and motor
cap she 1Onel INN on the terrace. soon they were
ving toward the harbor mouth the little craft the
flying high about them the low counter settled
down into the which fled astern the Nas-y
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sound past the stately Alicia, where sailors leaned
over the rail and watched them 60 by The engine
hummed nerrly and the increasing vibrations showed
that It going It's best PAGES
Even CIarr1Ou professional interest in the perform
not proof against the attractions of his
paniOn, who looked more than usually handsome and
amiable The puzzled wrinkle his brows had told her
OF new dSCOuture and 10y contrast to the cool enuItv
his wife her tendness seemed more attractive than
Friendship the greatest thing in the world.
he thought Friendship after all only love brided
1t seemed certain that his friendship with Mrs
hempton had qualities that almost atoned for his other
misfortune She asked him questions; but talked
nm galv. that awhile he was as CAV as she.
With II mordanc humor she went over the falings
and tOlDles OF the people ne mad met was to meet
splrng none not even her husband or herself.
m afraid Jack has degeneraed since YOU knew him
al college l think We had bad effect him. 1t so
easy 70 Observation-Disclosures offers maLE convent
encc5 Tor dslusI0nment m that In another are
Jack would love quite rs madly aa ever: but this
i5n the century of romance. Love Is only a mood,
after all, and mood don last. That's lucky in a wav
because love age one and the only crime nowadays
to grow Old. That's AIr5 Wcthcr1Is rnIsortune-
she been trying al her lie keep ND with the fashions
III husbands, and II her. Addison Grange her
Tst, mad red har tvou remember the Titan rage. but
poor Addison died. lost his money, | forget winch
So she took Gilbert DarroW He was very good looking.
but quite worthless, and when he business she
married Wetherau- Anyone could have told her they
would disagree, and she's looking around for q
fourth. Poor woman! Shes beginning loo, like "a
Gothic rum"