Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-07


CHAPTER
N.Y. friend was ~ sltss'y tss ysS tSo o IGa
x,,, ,hs yet crossed his path with her hunt
And over him drew her net
,,,.. raversham glanced through the
~ which had Just been brought 10 MN
hy Nv Inc club messenger ana tossed IL "n
% m. table at his elbow. ..n,,o,v
NO answer" he said mecna
rbe rather hard lines OF nis o,os ~
,,, features deepened ht'ie d" "e
S,aared back IN his chair.
us was an notwithstanding man,
AZ an obstinate profile. and steely gray
SI.n shot had a curiously direct express
Tr-eaIn,ost challenging look al
s,Sorvb he was only four.and-thirty,
sround his ears and temples MS muir ""o
th,okly sown with gray.
u. was frowning flercely over the
.,rtsnts OF the note he had just received.
:, wos the third time in a week that
r..rtsr had turned him down., and, OF
t.,..a aa on both other occasions, Tor
tSs same reason--a woman
90 she meant business.
roysrsham threw his. dead cigarette
ereward and mechanically lit another.
irSors was a vague sort OF anger In MS
heart, a vague jealousy. .o,,os too:
Oar so long that II seemed hard he should
~ 10 the wall for the sake OF q woman
gSbose reputation, so gossip insisted, was
ro better than II ought to be.
How could Tranter be such q f9olY
Az IL ne had not had warning enough
ss n he had not been told
'Fayersham got UP and strolled over to
.,a window, II was raining hard, a
gsady downpour spattered on TO the
pavement ard on to The The Smsseso s.ss laoked 81
cSsef,ess enough, but Faversham was
rot thinking OF the weather. He was
iooking back reluctantly into the past
and Measuring his friends foolishness by
what his own had once been;
made lust such fool Of himself over q
woman as Tranter was doing now, Sand
hsd been prepared to ruin his life, to
sacrifice the future and all ambition !;
metaphorlcally. TO grovel at her feet and
allow her to walk over him.
Tranter knew the story. But appar-
entity II was not going to serve him as an
example or warning.
The club messenger came into the
% %"Mr' Miles Faversham! Mr.. Miles
raversham !" he sang out in his mo-
Niles turned, but the boy had already
seen him and was crossing the room. He
held Q letter on a tray.
%Tsat ,T.a l. Another" said Miles dryly'
The boy stood by interestedly while
Fayersham opened tho note. Then, as
before, he said: mo answer" and the
boy turned away.
10 the big chair by the fire and read It
through second time carefully
II was from Tranter's mother and II
was penned In small. precise hand that
seemed rather pathetic to Miles as he
read
. Ny Dear Miles.
Can nothing be done? cannot
bear to bother you again, when you
we're SO patient and kind to me tho
other night, but this morning Philip
and had q terrible scene when I
tried to speak to him of that unspeak-
able woman, and l am sure that mat
tiers are nearing a crisis. He will
marry her, Miles, unless something Is
done at once. and then my heart will
break i know that you sympathize
and can understand better than any
one else what this means to me, SO I
an appealing to you once more, to beg
efyou, In the name Of your friendship
FOR my boy. to try and save him.
Your affectionate friend,
MARIAN TRANTER-
Hs could picture Mrs. Tranter SO well
o. he followed her words, the slim state
q her face and the sudden glorifying
light that invariably filed her eyes
when she spoke Of her son, and he
howned as he tore the little letter
across and across and flung the pieces
breath. AIS
He leaned back with closed eyes, and
brown that frowned above them.
o., things had indeed progressed 80
tn ~
ment would be useless. He looked back
alspassionately at the man he had been
years ago when he had wrecked his life.
snd wondered II anything could have
,id turned him from his dogged determine
uon to make fool Of himself.
..Mothlng he supposed with q grim
Sue smile. Just as now nothing he could
Philip. MY 'neo' Oh
After all, 1t was up to q man to work
~. ~ n.s own salvation or damnation, as
.ne case might be. Why should he try
20 after the course upon which Trsnter's
feet were already setP
4, but Miles knew that he meant to try.
only for the sake OF the woman who
AwSar, Aiu appealed to him.. the woman for
''hAn an Tor any one else in the world,
me clock on the shelf struck s. and
S ns na9led himself to his feet with a re-
f,euul look round the comfortable fire- |
Ana an droom' o and went out to get his hat
A !%.2,t s,t'endsnt n, a., hurried up.
.ITes-no, no. thanks, I'll walk"
1ii'Ts Trral raining very hard. sir"
Miles turned up the collar Of his coat
mo mo walked out into the sodden Street
msn,s sehty M, ne came to block of apart |
n i'uS .tS Ihere he turned In and went up |
" NE NE elevator to the second floor.
Who "a Iranter in he asked of a man
NO sir, but expect him in anv mo-
S Til Rs,s Rsit dining out this evening"
a, Niles took OF his wet coat and pasa.d |
SurnatSo into the sitting room. A small Are |
room var IeatIy on an open hearth. The
4 iHt'Ssea, but Miles Faversham had seen
povs,,,n many times that II had lost its |
aps aapae,sy; and he went straight over to the |
"TI TN noIemg his hands to It's warmth.
would tsks trant anntS nad followed to ask II he
MmWine or whisky, sir?"
aMltes sanMiles shook his head.
"s,ppsMa'ns' thanks; and-Adams-"
.nySheSss' hsas'' asJgas JgansGyt!osraph !! of Mrs Dundas
room Sne man glanced quickly around the
ons no, S,i SIR I think not. Mr.. Trapter has
with ~, mink he generally carries II
y as ann SIT he added deferentiaiiy.
but MiIes me man waited a moment,
anu ne withdrew. ''ei 'o"'iheh''
and ss, ,uraEged up a chair with his foot
restInSs st down str addleweys, his arms rms
30 30, on the chair back
himi s,i, carried her photograph with
been pthhylng, curved his lips. H. had
hims.H through every stage Of the rsms
meant ana he knew SO well what Il ali
lived tbosuah unwilling Imagination he re-
tSet,ch t ne had been then, and with hwen.s = NY
ness of a tb sublime belief in the good
'he world He could laugh ss he
the rev revsrsnnw u now, laugh as he Thought of
offered 10 Ce n ' OF the love which he had