The midland journal., 1917-02-23
CHAPTER VIll-continued.

the lc' EYES,"
yard powell, this is the question: She's
and fra.tting better. SHELF be going out
Tho ON. Don't you think something
cun-svnght to be done to keep her from
+bird ,oing back?"
C+o+o There was q shadow in KS eyes
S,,tto ,now. She was so young to face all
his; and yet, since face it she must,
Firaow much better to have her do it
destroSquarely.
along "Does she want to change her mode
owned,f life?"
Curtis Il don't know, of course. There are
= 1ome things one doesn't discuss. She
ares great deal for some man. The
staer day propped her up in bed and
ave her a newspaper, and after a
pieHhile found the paper on the floor,
and she was crying. The other pa
Wiltients avoid her, and it was some time
years, before I noticed it. The next day she
War void me that the man was going to
chemimarry someone else. He wouldn't
dead marry me- of course she said; but
=, he might have told me-"
Up. LIE Moyne did his best, that after
cifcul' 'noon in the little parlor, to provide
comm Sidney with philosophy to carry her
F. Evfhroueh her training. He told her that
codify certain responsibilities were hers, but
countyhat she could not reform the world.
eanBroad charity, tenderness and healing
Mills were her province.
ago / aeip trein an YOU caAi Ae iih,eneu' :.
oan+1> feeling inadequate and hopelessly di-
pital! uav.c' Cuie tne" eenu '4elr ~ ~
the Almighty"
Tb Sidney was resigned, but not con-
G. ~. AInn
sess world, she was rampant reformer at
nett once Only the arrival of Christine
Mrs. and her fiance saved his philosophy
D. from complete rout. He had time for
a question between the ring of the
A bell and Katie's deliberate progress
negT from the kitchen to the front door.
sum "How about the surgeon, young Will
mill son? Do you ever see him?" His tone
Sou was carefully casual.
was almost every day. He stops at the
door of the ward and speaks to me.
1t makes me quite distinguished, for a
pan! probationer. Usually, you know, the
the staff never even see the probationers.
$13 "And-the glamour persists?" He
81. smiled down at her.
tom II think he is very wonderful" said
Sidney valiantly.
moth $1,000 80 eu tho 1;+tIo room Her
VILE ,,o,oo ,,h;oh r,os frocuon+ ord rona-
Inc trating her smile, which was wide and
u showed very white teeth that were a
ence' trifie large for beauty, her all-embrac-
Clay fno good nature dominated the entire
VI lower floor. X, who had met her be-
-, fore, retired into silence and a corner.
go Young Howe smoked cigarette in
- eAe hall.
"You poor thingl' said Christine,
and put her cheek against Sidneys.
80 "Why you're positively thin! Palmer
gives you a month to tire of it all ;
n' but / said"
rele dolentlv from the corridor nThere is
~ the look of willing martyrdom in her
For face"
roo Howe was a good-iooking man, thin,
Dbl smooth-shaven, aggressively well
- dressed. This Sunday afternoon, in
s cutaway coat and high hat, with an
W." English malacca stick, he was just a
1 little out of the picture. The Street
ooi said he was 'wild," and that to get
sef into the Country club set Christine
u" was losing more than she was gaining.
" Christine had stepped out on the bal
cony, and was speaking to 4. just In
bide.