The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-01-14

bit OF application, a bit OF necessity
TO spur you on, and we'll be proud OF
you yeti"
North laughed as he opened the
door and stepped out; and Archibald
Mcbride, looking through his dlngy
show.windows, watched him until ne
disappeared down the street; thea
he turned and re-entered his office.
Meanwhile, North hurried away
with the remnant OF his little fortune
I'm his pocket. Five minutes Walk
brought him 10 the building that had
sheltered him for the last few years.
he climbed the stairs and entered the
long hall above. lie paused, key IN
hand. before his door, when he heard
behind him light football on the I'M
lcarpeted floor and the swish OF wo'
mans skirts. AS he turned abruptly,
| the woman who had evidently follow
ed him up from the street, came
swiftly down the hall toward him.
Jack" she said. when she was
quite near.
The short winters day had brough;
an early twilight TO the place, and the
woman was closely yelled. but the
moment she spoke North recognized
her, for there was something In the
mellow full-throated quality OF her
speech which belonged only 10 one
voice that he knew.
Mrs. I.angham, Evelyn he ex-
claimed. starting back in dismay.
Hush, Jack, you needn't call 1t
| from the housetops." AS she spoke
she swept aside her veil and he saw
her face. a superlatiyely pretty face
with scarlet smiling lips and dark
luminous eyes that were smiling, too.
do you want 10 see me, Evelyn
lie asked awkwardly.
But she was neither awkward nor
embarrassed; she was still smiling up
into his face with reckless eyes and
brilliant lips. she pointed to the door
with her small gloyed hand.
open II, jack" she commanded
For a moment he hesitated. She
was the one person he did not visa
TO see, least OF all did he wish TO SEQ
I her there. She was not nicely dis
Greet, as he we'll knew. She did many
things that were not wise, that were
indeed, frankly tmprudent. But clear
lly they could not stand there in the
hallway. Gilmore or some or Gl!-
mores friends might come up the
stairs at any moment. Langham him
self might be OF these
Something OF all this passed
through NoEth,s- nind-aS-he-s STOOD
there hesitatipg Then he unlocked
the door, and standing aside, motion
ed her 10 precede him into the room
This room, the largest OF several
he occupied, was his parlor. On en-.
tering IL he closed the door after him,
and drew forward chair for Evelyn,
but he did not himself sit down, nor
did he remove his oyercoat.
He had known Evelyn all his life,
they had played together as chill
dren: more than this, though now he
would have quite willing TO forget
the whole episode and even more
than willing that she should forget
IL. there had been time when he
had moped II wretched MELANCHOLY
because OF what he had then consid-
cred her utter fickleness. Shortly al
ter this he had been sent East TO col
lege and had borne the separation
with a fortitude that had rather sur
prised him when he recalled how bit.
ter a thing her heartlessless had
seemed.
When they met again he had found
her more alluring than ever, but more
devoted to her pleasures also; and
then Marshall Langham had come
into her life North had OWNED that
the course OF their lovemaking was
far from smooth, for Langham's tenn
per was high and his will arbitrary.
nor was he one to bear meekly the
crosses she laid on him, crosses which
other men had borne In smiling I'M
complaint, reasoning no doubt, that
II was unwise 10 take her favors too
seriously; that as they were easily
achieved they were quite as easily
forfeited. But LAngham was not like
the other men with whom she had
amused herself He was not only
older and more brilliant, but was Civ.
ing every indication that his profess
slonal success would be solid and sub
stantial. Evelyn's father had cham.
pioned his cause, and in the end she
had married him.
In the FIVE years that had elapsed
since then, her romance had taken
lts place with the accepted things OF
life, and she revenged herself on
Iangham, for wha. she had come 10
consider his unreasonable exactions,
by her recklessness, by her thirst for
pleasure, and above all by her ex-
Itravagance.
Through all the vicissitudes OF heI
married life, the smallest part OF
which he only guessed, North had
seen much Of Evelyn. There was a
daring dangerous recklessness In hei
mood that he had sensed and under
stood and TO which he had made
quick response. He knew thai she
was none too happy with Langham
and although he had been conscious Of
no wish TO wrong the husband he had
never paused 10 consider the outcome
OF his intimacy with the wife.
Evelyn was the first to break the
silence.
"You wonder why I came here
don't you. jack" she said.
"You should never have done IT,
he replied quickly.
What about my letters, why didn't
you answer them?" she demanded. Il
hadn't one word from you in weeks.
II quite spoiled my trip East What
was / TO think? And then you sent
me just a line saying you were leav-
ing Mount Hope" she drew In her
breath sharply. There was a brief
silence. WHY" she asked at length.
'It IL better that I should" he an