Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-29
p xv1-Continued.

CHAPTER XVI-ontinued.
Elsie set down the salad-bowl with
which she was busted; her rain-gray
eyes grave, she considered her bus
band.
"ot what are you thinking, An
thony?"
Adriance looked away: Even to
her, he could not bring himself to
speak of his lost confidence in his Ia
ther or to say whom he now feared
as an enemy. Mr.. Adrtance could not
divide Anthony and his wife without
their consent, but he could make it
bitterly hard for them to live togeth-
er. Anthony had known of me who
had incurred ais fathers enmity. and
the memory was not ~reassurtng. Be-
fore his interview with Masterson, he
would have ridiculed the idea Of such
a situation between his father and
himself; now, he was uncertain.
Put on your hat and coat he
evaded the question. Come for a
walk; I want to show you something"
And our dinner" she demurred.
scrambled eggs"
Laughing, she complied.
What am I going to see, An.
thony?"
"a house." briefly.
/ The walk took them quite away
from the neighborhood of such small
cottages as their WI In fact, the
house before which Anthony finally
halted was standing so much away
from any others as scarcely to be
called in a neighborhood, at all. 1t
stood out on a little spur Of the
Palisades. delightfully."- nestled in a bit
Of woodland and lawns Of its own
There" he indicated it. "Pretty?"
Ele!e looked, with a satisfying seri-
BUSINESS. The house was so new that
the builders Acknowledgement still
jost!ed the sign offering for sale: this
modern residence, al! improvements"
."I love it." she pronounced. Those
white cement houses r adorable; it
looks as if it were made of cream
candy. What deep porches, like caves
Of white coral; and how delicioue!y
the light CLEANS in those cunning.
s~tained-g!ass windows!, I suppose
they are set up the stairs? It Is a
nice size, too; large enough to be quite
luxurious, but not SO large, as to be
appalling. How did you Happen to
notice it, dear"
.I took this road for a short cut,
one day. Look what a view you have
up here. One must see twenty miles
up and down the river, and over half
ton: let US go in"
IT, she fell in with the sport. Eyes.
and we will be very critical indeed;
find flaws and finally reject it. Real
~, Anthony, it does not at all com
pare with our present residence"
You'll do" he approved, drawing
I her up the broad, lazily-low steps.
It really was an enchanting house:
a house that developed unexpected
charms to the pair who wandered
through Its empty, echotng rooms and
halls. It INDUCED in hooks, and In
consequential little balconies: it dis
played/a most inviting wtndow-eeat
halfway up the stairs that could only
have beer designed for lovers.
But none have been there. yet
Elsie observed. lingering on the stairs
'Just think. Anthony, that 1t Is a mere
debutante Of q house. with its ball
book all unified. No one has sat be.
fore its hearth, or nestled in It's win
dow-seat, or opened its door to let N
love OF give out charity. It is an en-
dine house whose soul has not yet en-
tered it, coolswhiteness. oh, I hope
the people who buy 1t are both fair
and good. and respect its innocence!"
Coral caves and Undines-your
sentiment Is all deep-sea, today" ne
teaAed her. Elsie. doesn't al >tnu
make you want something"
"v>. abe nronptlv returned look
in1 ovar her shoulder at him az she
descended. IT want something that !
saw in the Antique Shop. yesterday
Will you buy II for me?"
n depends, what Is it,"
"a ruitar. A GUITAR that might
,avs ha.n n,.da - 70 with our ivory
and 3ade chessrnen, Tar some heavy
Hdded slaye;s:rl 70 touch, while so her !
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