Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-17
ne Winds Ofhe World
gF By RURY M. AYRES
u .Tbe Phantom Lover "The Master Man." "The Second
Agfhe' :" ,' Honeymoon" Etc.
A3S oory,ont w Ben Syndicate.
Rv RURY M. AYRES
coryrent. 1885, Nv Deii Syndicate. FAC.

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- sIowly she turned her he w
Iocksd AZ .ince nee you knew was cd r,c.
W }. ~ yo,i'ye discovered you ioVe'
rcnen ,n' esked cuttingiy. 80.
|rsf sne ..,,od tone of her voice wa
ne SUNNI h,,t Tallentyre only laughe,a.
u Insult ,an,ent vn he lost his heaa Nv
For re Iv s,ms round hcr---he held nei
Inut hls a,,hh shc would have dragged her
ast when MIN he bent over her. kiss-
sIf free ., c,ao"ber lips, her eycs, crush
ss g is Ssr TO him in 0ve'w''
'sni; n love you'll always1 a.s1v naST ,'Tbere', rs
10 whispered hoarsseS World for
you, hsen any one IN .ne e,,,onths Nv,
hev@ rou. All these oi'" y
ne pu' sor a sight OF you. no. ,of.
ftsrsea, ~ imply in his arms nt' sJs his
shs ~ cold and dead benea.n .,an %
Iys |,ygs..ntIy sst he let her go ne W'' s"'N
tng n y,, oyer. be said hoarsely. say II
'Weh rnu loathc the sight OF me.
LAY tina, son't care. You can take
Hay y. ~ away. II ! never see ,' yo,u
Shis nnon,em, nor, nv life. you cant undo TINS
-or forget y" nos no storm of the nm.
But M tne'Vh ho had expected; she Just
q hsr face In her hahas, i Nv IL seemed
% s hsesrtbroken sobbing, anu ,o,nent ~ The
~ gTsllentyre that In tna. @ ns a'a 10 n had
Y 4 ear was swept aside ~, ms ut,roess.
~ sesristrd it was not J,il o. .. ,Sars
asver .an,an ea,, Of the world, who sat tne,e u,
ne wohr 'h,, ony more. but Jill. tne NJ
tsue M, hs had first known, sopping ~.
Ele ~, hear1 her sob that last higu.
nc hSs hhsscia Terrace when she s'nt MN
tway. !. don't-for Gods sake ne
"Don hnskiiy. "Jill, | beg OF you
broke a ou' me / was mad. Oh, my
aanins ~. ;r,ed to control herself. :,
nqe mo alone. Please. please.
,,rrnd farr away, and there was q
~ silence: then she spoke with u
- ~ Of weary mirth IN her 'o'ce
'si.S as II was with sobs. ,.,,
|NTt's all right-l'm oyer-tired. ~
my ] cried Aren't we "e''''
0us ns Ala not answer. This was the
Il ali, he knew. She. would
ae 80 forriye this. He very lack OF
w .s tolS him more surely than any
us .sscs could have done that there was
Erp'"s Sone of ever winning her forgive
" ~. They had nearly reached her
Rsr..Snow. He made last appeal ~
M ear slowed down. ,
"Jin, forgive me-try 10 forgive
nj sbe did not answer. and the car
stopped. H. ...a,v r,ov
|vhst he was doing; his pulses were
|,hrohh,nr on fire. He turned to oher
IN. hand but she avoided him. She
ss,.sd him without a word and went
|sn to the house. ,.-
/ NJ waited till he saw the door open
and shut: then he turned away.
This was the end of 1t all.
Ehe would never forgive him.
n, wondered mechanically what ne
kAould say to Merredew when they met
how he should explain his conduct.
Id had not only been a wish to save Jili
|irom Rigdcn that had prompted his
|artious that nIght--in his heart he knew
|that well enough, 1t had been the mad
desire to get her to himself. to snatch
a few moments from the past before 1t
M left behind forever.
AZ the car moved slowly away with
lam again, he looked out Of the window
|apd IN at the house--Jill's house.
He had never been there-never seen
|hs home she had made for herself witt!
|oA Henry Sturgess' money. lie tried
10 picture her now How she would
b hating him-hating HIM.
But Jill was lying face downward on
BE- bed in the darkness, sobbing her
heart out-the hand which he had kissed
Dressed close to her own lips.