Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-07-19
Copyright 1919, The Bobbs- Merrill Company
CHAPTER VI-continued.

Rose acted on this request-told about
her life before and since her marriage
to Rodney, about her friends, her
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS that came into
her mind. But she fingered before
getting out of the car, to say:
II hope haven't forgotten single
word Of your preaching. You said
SO many things want to think about"
Don't trouble your soul with that,
child" said the actress. GAIL the
sermon you need can be boiled down
into sentence, and until you have
found it out yourself, you won't be-
neve it,"
'"rry me-" said Rose.
'"Then attend. How shall say It?
Nothing worth having comes as Il gift,
nor even can be bought-cheap.
Everything of value in your life will
cost you dear, and sometime or other
you'll have to pay the price of it,
1t was with very thoughtful, per-
picked face that Rose watched the car
drive away, and then walked slowly
Into the house-the ideal house-and
allowed herself to be relieved of her
wraps by the perfect maid.
There was still an hour before she
need begin dressing for the Randolph
dinner; when Rodney came home this
vague, Scary, nightmarish sort of feel
Ing which for no reasonable reason
seemed to be clutching ut her, would
be forgotten. She wished he would
come-hoped he wouldn't be late, and
finally sat down before the telephone
with half-formed idea Of calling him
up.
Just as she laid her hand upon the
receiver, the telephone bell rang. II
was Rodney calling her.
"Oh, that you Rose?" he said. II
sha'n't be out till late tonight. I've
got to work.
"But Roddy, dearest" she protested,
you have to come home. You've got
The Randolphs' dinner"
"Oh!" he said. II forgot all about
It. But it doesn't make bit of differ
ence, anyway. wouldn't leave the
office before I have finished this job
Tor anybody short of the Angel Gu
briel."
Butt was absurd that her eyes
should be filling up and her throat
getting lumpy over thing like this
"But what shall I do? Shall tell
Eleanor we can't come, or shall I offer
to come without you?"
II don't care! Do whichever you
like. I've got enough to think about
without deciding that. Now do hang
hp and run along"
"But Rodney, what's happened? Has
something gone wrong?"
Heavens. not" he said. "What is
there to go wrong? I've got big
day in court tomorrow and I've struck
snag, and I've got to wriggle out Of
1t somehow. before quit. It's moth
ang for you to worry about. Go to
your dinner and have good time.
Good-by." The click in the receiver
told her he had hung up.
The difficulty about the Randolphs
was managed easily enough. Eleanor
was perfectly gracious about it and
Insisted that Rose should come by her.
self.
She was completely dressed q good
three-quarters of an hour before it
was time to start, and if she drove
straight downtown she would have a
ten-minute visit with Rodney and still
not be late for the dinner.
She found a single elevator in COM
mission in the great, gloomy rotunda
Of the office building, and the watch
man who ran her up made a terrible
noise shutting the gate after he had
Jet her out on the fifteenth floor. The
dim marble corridor echoed her foot
falls ominously, and when she reached
the door of his outer office and tried
It, she found it locked. The next door
down the corridor was the one that led
directly into his private office, and here
ihe light shone through the ground
lass.
She stole up to it as softly as she
:ould, tr;..d it and found it locked,
90, 80 she knocked. Through the
tpen transom above 1t, she heard him
p,ftly swear in a heartfelt sort of way,
nd heard his chair thrust back. The
lext moment he opened the door with
Jerk.
His glare Of annoyance changed to
,ewilderment at the sight Of her, and
he said: "Rose! Has anything
happened? What's the matter?" And,
catching her by the arm, he led her
Into the office. "Here, sit down and
yet your breath and tell me about 1t ~
She smiled end took his face in both
her hands. "But it's the other way
she said. "There's nothing the matter
with ne. came do1&9yod poor old
boy. D see what was the matter with
you.
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hat her touch was actually distaste
"0h, he sud. Il thought ] to11
Reu over the phone there was nothing