Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-05-03
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CHAPTER xxvl-contnuea.
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when you 60 away" she said at
Vast. Il want you to remember this.
q going to do my best. K. You have
taught me oil I know. All my life I'll
nave to overlook things: l know that.
Bot. In his way. Palmer cares for the.
de will always come back. and perhaps
sometime"
Her voice traiied of. Far ahead Of
6er she saw the years stretching out.
marked. not BY days and months. but
~ Palmer's wanderings away. his ~
0orseful returns.
DO Z little more than forgetting"
& said. TRY to care for him. Chris
line. You did Once. And that's your
strongest weapon. It's always n wOm-
ans strongest weapon. And it wins in
the end"
Il shall try, H." she answered
obediently.
But he turned away from the look
In her eyes.
Harriet was abroad. She had sent
cards from Paris to her trade" 1t
was an innovation. The two Or three
people on the Street who received her
engraved announcement that she was
there, buying new chic models for the
autumn and winter-afternoOn frocks,
evening gowns, reception dresses, and
wraps. from Poiret, Martial ct Armand.
and Others" left the envelopes CASUAL
dy on the parlOr table, as if c%ommunica-
lions from Paris were quite to be ex-
pected.
So X. lunched alone, and ate little.
Sidney came home at half-past two
came delicately flushed, as il she had
hurried. and with Il tremulous smile
that caught Katie's eyes ut once.
BLESS the child y she said. There's
40 need to ask how he is today. You're
all M smile"
The smile set just a triile.
Katie, someone has written my
name out on the street. In chalk. It's
with Doctor Wilson'S, and it looks so
SILLY. Please go Out and sweep it Off"
I'm about crazy with their old chalk.
I'll do it after II WHILE"
"Please do 1t now. / don't want any
one TO see 1t. Isis Mr.. X. upstairs?"
But when she learned that X. was
upstairs, oddly enough. she did not 60
up ut once. She stood in the lower
hall and listened. Yes, he was there.
She could hear him moving about. Her
lips parted slightly as she listened.
Christine, looking in from her bal
cony, saw her there. and, seeing some
thing in her face that she had never
suspected, put her hand to her throat.
SIDNEY"
"Oh-hellO, Chris"
~Won't you come and sit with mel"
Il haven't much time-that Is, l want
IN speak to X"
"You can see him when he comes
down.
Sidney came slowly through the par,
Tor. 1t occurred to her, all Mt once
that Christine must see q lot of II.
especially now. No doubt he was IL
and out Of the house often. And how
pretty Christine was! She was I'm
happy, too. All that seemed to be nee
essary to win KS attention was to b.
unhappy enough. Well, surely, in tina
ase--
'How is Max|
"Still better"
Sidney sat down on the edge Of tn,
falling; but she vas careful, Christine
saw, to face the staircase. There wa
silence on the balcony. Christin
ssewed; Sidney sat and swung her fee
idly.
'lDoctor Ed says Max wants you t
give up your training and marry hin
now" ,a
SIN not going to marry him at al
Chris"
Upstairs, KS door slammed. 1t wa
one Of his faillngs that he Away
slammed doors. Harriet used to b
quite disagreeable about 1t.
Sidney Slid from the railing.
@sThere he Is now"
Perhaps, in all her frivolous, selfis
life, Christine had never had q bigge
moment than the one that foll0we,