Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-02

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n'ssts 90 . bench IN = park = young girl,
strongly attracts him. He hapSAn. to be
slready entangled with Lucille Master
~ oS 3 married m who is pianninfs
In mr. order asro T. marry him. HIS better ns.
tsse 10 alternative to carrying it
Adriance MAKES . determined earert to
oreak With Mrs. Mastsrson. After .
PAINFUL interview with her he enters the
mere TIE girl iii', whss rs ~ % so a,tract ted HIM him.
= Is Elsie Murray, the nurse Of the
mastersons little son. !.
!ony decides hat the only way OF
N which he has placed himself Is to get
eora OF town for q year or SO. In which
He meets Elsie again. n learns that
big break with Mrs. Mssterson.
that Il IS his best chance Of happiness:
the I've are married.
sad III e .na AXE : house in the P.1i.
dissovers that he loves his wife.
asa,lyin< . truck 'd'1 in lis aaas t.st sss f ssS
They continue to live happily for sev-
Then one day when driving his motor
meets Mrs. Maaterson.
Elsie Elsie is soon to become q mother
n,a nHny. resiizins !, that he should be
sxtra efforts in his work, and il. temper
asliS placed In charge Of sending out
Masterson. seeking assistance for a
SSamased machine: calls at the little
her e have r%enS mest him E', s ns : f ss.s
They Ind that Mssterson is imperson-
nting q female dancer at the restaurant
He explains that his wife has divorced
hi% 1nt and that S he is = ruined financially;
tertal prosperity. but Is worried over The
possibility that his father may take
steps 70 make things unpleasant for
Masterson steals Holly from his for
mer wife and brings him to Elsie.
cHafrm x11-oont.nuea.
1--WE told you what I did; I took
him away from her. Tell Mrs. Mas
terson that Holly has gone with his
ried him to my car and drove straight
here. You will keep him for me?
You and Tony? I have got to go; to
get back and make my last fight"
Elsie gently set down the baby.
She saw what Masterson in his dazed
and selfish absorption overlooked:
that she and Anthony were to ba
drawn into a conflict surely evil for
them. Mrs. Masterson must resent
this, and call on the law to undo the
kidnapping. She herself and Anthony
would be dragged from their happy
~oescurity, their long honeymoon end
ed. More %menacing still, Anthony's
position in his fathers factory would
be discovered and exploited by the
newspapers, with the probable result
that Mr.. Adriance would end that
situation by disnissing the impromptu
employee.
But she even thought Of send
ing Masterson away. The.baby hands
er at her heart. Also. this man in
need was Anthony's friend and one to
whom he owed atonement for a wrong
contemplated, II not committed.
LOT course We will keep him." she
promised, kindly and naturally. "But
you must stay, too. You are not well
and must rest for a while-its Is abb
can scarcely stand. Sit there, in that
armchair. Presently Anthony will.
come home. then we will have supper
and talk of all this"
The serene good-sense Gained and
cooled his fever. Signing. he relaxed
his tenseneSs of attitude.
II must 60" he repeated. but with
out resolution.
For answer she drew forward the
chair. He eank into It and lay rather
than sat among it's cushions. passive
before her frmness.
Elsie moved about the matter at
hand with her unfailing practically.
She took off Holly's wraps and i'm
provised a high-chair by means of a
dictionary and a pillow. To an ac-
compartment of gay chatter she made
tied a napkin under b fat chin and
superfntended the business of supping.
Hunger and sleep were contending be-
fore the bread and milk and soft boil
ed egg were finished. Afterward, Ell
sic carried a very drowsy little boy
into her room and made him a nest
in her antique-shop four-posted bed.
Masterson looked on, mutely attentive
to every movement Of the two as il
some dramatic interest lay in the SIM
pie acttons. When Elsie returned
from the sleeping baby, he abruptly:
tepoke: 3
You know, I only mean you to
keep him for tonight. not Away. I
will come back for him. You know
all I planned for him and myself.
This has hurried me. but I have
1 LAAOIiOS SAluA6a' Eel IVU IlVACSs LII
/ tell you Mr.. Adriance, Tony's father.
has offered me a considerable sum to
stop making a m~ountebank' Of myself
at the restaurant? No? He has. L
fancy her former husbands occupa-
ton CRATES on Lucille" He laughed.
moving his head IN the cushions Of
the high -backed chair. well, I re-
fused"
aYo, Lne. 7 wo,,1A, rher vou
grant me o = grace than abe did
She? You said Mr.. Adriance Of
tfered-"
He glanced keenly at her face. then
turned his own face aside that it
might not guide her cropping thought.
II must co." he said, again. But he
did not move. nor did Elsie.
The pause was broken by Anthony's
whistle. the signal which always adj
vised his wife of his return.
Bnt tonight it wa not the blithe
shaken. curtly eloquent Of sonne anger
Or distress. Acutely sensitive to every
change Or mood OF his, Elsis caught
both messages. the intentional and
the sent unaware. Dropping up
on the table 4 box OF matches she had
taken up. she ran to the door,
It opened before she reached It.
Anthony. his face dark With repressed
anger. his movements stin with the
lpeared outlined against the soft, clear
dusk Of April twilight. He looked be-
hind him. and. holding open the door
of his house formally ushersd In a
guest.
who. in his own peraon. has done