The Washington times., 1915-06-28
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SEVENTH EPISODE.
Chapfar xxx


tommy had not gone mad. From the
great roll OF shirting material he tore
enough broad strips to reach to the
sldc ak. knotted them together, made
double bowline (Which is almost as
easy to sit in as a chair made Celestia
sit in it, swung her out of the window.
and lowered her to safety. His own
escape was not as easy, Ior every mo-
men. the tire ga ned upon him, and ne
vas unconscionably scorched, While
h.aking the upper end of his line last
= moment after he reached the side
walk the line burned through and fell
/ ommy was so dazed that when a
reporter asked him what his name was.
l.u told him, and all his friends had the
pleasure of reading about the rescue in
lhe afternoon papers.
Barclay and st litter we're very much
disturbed. and Mary Blackstone was SO
furious with jealousy that she succeeded
IN making Fitch, who was with her
when she read the paper, furious and
jealous, too. But he kept this to him
self.
Mary was not only angry with Tommy
and Celestia, but she was angry with
herself
TT was in my power she thought.
Ito pull the minx's claws. Tommy
brought her here and l refused to take
her in. l was a fool. It's natural enough
that In a surrounding of common labor
ing girls she should shine out like a
super. or being. She is good looking
there's no doubt about that. And she s
probably got a magnetic voice, and
knows how to roll her eyes and make
men feel sorry for her. And so she S
made a fool of Tommy. But put her
among the kind of people he's used to
and see how she'll bear that comparison!
When ne sees her trying to eat oysters
with spoon for instance. and mistak-
ing fathers butler for the President OF
the United States-if I'd only taken her
in for a few days and asked people to
meet her;-I wonder II it's too late
now"
The more she thought along these
lines the less she thought that il was toe
late to do anything. Celestia's address
owing to the notoriety of the Octagor
fire, was now common knowledge, ano
without any exact plan Mary deter
mined to visit her-as a preliminary
10 d'sillusionng Tommy.
She contlded this idea to no one.
Six months of persistent love making
could not have advanced Tommy's cause
as far as one lighted cigarette butt
thrown into a pile of greasy rags. She
the messenger from Heaven, had beer
saved from hideOus death, not by any
direct Intervention of Heaven, but BY
the ready wit and strong hands of q
young man who did not believe in her
or her cause, but merely loved her.
During those moments when it had
seemed as II death could not be pot on
Cclestia had thought very little about
saving the world. and making 1t hap
pier. Like any other young girl in the
same situation she had thought prln-
Cipally of saving her own skin. And
remembering that this had been so. she
could not but be a little shaken as 10
her own powers and worthiness. She
believed herself a human being for the
time she should remain on earth, but
not a human being born of human
parents. In Heaven she had been ali
Celestial. and would be Celestial once
more when she returned TO Heaven
She had merely been changed temper,
arily into q human being by the Divine