The Washington times., 1920-11-07

-why-why didn't you tell mer'
Because you don't trust mel
ought to have told you nothing"
"vilma!" and he approached her
humbly.
There's the letter. Read IT,"
'vilma-I am terribly sorry.
didn't know you had half-brother.
You've never told me. Forgive me.
Wilma"
Read the letter."
Please. dear. say no more about
1t. I'm desperately sorry. darling"
And he seized her hands. please
say you forgive me-" Wilma looked
up AZ him. anger and laughter
struggling In her eyes.
Foolish. Jealous boy!" she muir
INJURED. His arms few about her.
They embraced; the crisis was
past. OF course he did not read
the letter, and equally OF course the
letter was one that not for worlds
would she have had him read. But
Wilma was a trihe more skilled In
masculine human nature than he
was In feminine, and Wilma knew
Anthony enormously better than he
knew her.
isn't II lovely to make up?" said
Wilma. laughing into his eyes. "It's
worth the quarrel"
mo" he smiled ruefully. 1T
hurts too much" And for a mo-
ment he suspected her of contriv-
ing the quarrel with feminine guile
for the sake Of the reconciliation.
That, however. was a suspicion on
his part TO which Wilma had not
the least objection In the world.
A great man has said that love,
though added emotion. Is subtract
ed capacity. And that sound funda-
mental fact is what Anthony was
endeavoring to combat In the office
Of Cass Liggett & Company. He
forced himself to an exaggerated
briskness OF morning and aimed
that Winter at q more than usual
diligence. He scanned the news.
papers painstakingly every day.
chatted with the newspaper men
and talked glibly and eagerly of the
market He was strenuously con-
scientious. But for all that Lig-
gett, with the inscrutable eyes be-
hind his glasses, noted that the ..
boy was laboring under a handicap.
After seeing Anthony with Wilma
at the restaurant he bad no doubt
what that handicap was. He made
It q point to keep an eye on
Anthony.
II was characteristic Of Anthony
that people liked him. His youth.
his eagerness and his energy, his
liveliness and alert air made an In
slant appeal to those who came in
contact with him. Mrs. Nash was
fond Of him and sincerely hoped
that mo harm would come to him."
that he would do nothing foolish"
and that some day he would marry
the second richest girl in New
York. after her son Douglas had
captured the richest. whoever those
two prizes might prove to be. She
deprecated the paucity' Of his visits,
shook her head alphabetically,
hoped It was only light temporary
flame that was attracting him and
that he would do nothing Quixotic.
Old Judd. in the office. was OBJ
viously drawn to him, and. short Of
buying stocks on Anthony's sugges-
tions, he was constantly talking to
him, giving the young man the
benefit Of his wisdom. With his
villainously mutilated dead cigar
depending from narcotized lips and
his derby hat tilted forward he was
always edging up to Anthony. with
joke, q story or a piece of adj
vice. In q purely general way he
was always. urging Anthony to fore
90 the society OF women.
Leave .'em alone-that's what I
say. son. For remember, murder
will out, rough-hew them as we
may-as the Teller says"
And, finally, Liegett was fond OF
Anthony. and watching him mar.
rowly, rs he did, he could not help
perceiving Anthony's growing pre-.
occupation.
Anthony's growing preoccupation
was emphasized by his need Of
money. His salary at Liggett's,
NEARLY three times what he had re-
ceNed from his newspaper work.
was insufficient for his needs.
Wilma had an engaging way. when :
he sent her flowers or brought her
q gift, Of smiling reproachfully,
shaking her finger and saying:
Naughty boy! You mustn't
spend so much money" But she
accepted the gifts with delight and
then dismissed the matter from her
mind; and the expenditures for the
restaurants, theatres and other lux