The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-18
(Continlcd From Yesterday

When the house was fairly reduced
to order Chris went in search OF Molly.
He looked in her room, but she was
not there, and he knew enough of her
TO be sure she would not be seeking
solace either with Miss Myrtle or her
father. He Went 10 his own room,
wondering ii she had gone there to
look for him. but that, TOO, was empty.
And when he went down to the sitting
room he found he had been forestallcd.
Miriam whose life had taught her to
think OF cvcrNones feelings when the
work In hand permitted her to do 50,
had no sooner done all she could for
fraulcin than she went in search OF
Molly. She had seen her rush from
the hall and had realized what the
whole affair must mean TO {: girl who
probably had never come across any
thing worse than n cut finger in the
whole Of her life. She had found
Molly hiding her face in the cushion
and shaking all over.
Growing up is Il perfectly natural
process ii the ordinary time is al
lowed for it, but when a normal law
suffers violent upheaval 1t can be-
come unnatural and Molly had done
all her growing up since the morning
before. The nervous and mental strain
rad consequently been very much
more intense than If the usual cN-
pericnces OF life had gradually UNI
folded themselves to her step by step
That little nightmare Of a with
ing figure in brown and the knowledge
OF what had gone to bring it TO thai
state WAS so ovcrpowSring TO Molly
that in the shadow of il tn" whole
scheme of lite seemed wicked and un.
bcarabc. She supposed she lov"c
Chris, but, after all what was love II
the face OF these events Which il wa:
so pOwcrless to affect She did no
think, as she would have done thu
night before, that because chris di'
not come to her, therefore he did 30
love her. She knew that he conld no
and WAS even able to feel that sh'
would have loved him less If he had
But nevertheless, in the whirlpool. o
these events which took no need o
her. as a person negligible to citht
side, she felt terribly atone and uu
happv. She needed personal comfort
and Miriam. who had long out%roW1
any such thing for herself. knew ;,la
such must be the case. As u woma
who has suffered much will, si," s.i'
her own youth in Molly and "Hss t"n
der of it accordingly.
Miriam was feeling rather shattcrr
herself IT. had not been pleasant I
realize by fraulcin'S sudden conviilsio
mt the police station that she ma
managed to take poison. II had ne
been pleasant, if it came to that,
witness the fury and misery of IN
Two women when they found the
had been trickcd. Miriam. like Chri
had moments of loathing the necessit
of her Work. The drive back to II
housc had partahcn of the nature
II nightmare. herself and the doct'
seated on either side of the uncor
scious but con",llscd form. The IA
that fraulein in her mania had bee
quite prepared to sacrifice half
dozen lives did not entirely dissipa
the discomfort Miriam felt that. pr
marilv through her action, this o'
life was drawing to such tra@
close She, too. was anAous 10 k''
doing something. and her though
had turned to Molly because she kn'
that there she was really needed.
just as Molly was feeling fran'
almost to hystcria point strong arr
came round her, she felt her tangi
hair being smoothcd away from h
wet face. and her dressing GOV