The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-29
"PAPER ROSES"
By RUBY M. AYRES
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CHAPTER XIV
The cherry smile with which Eu.
tace Mycrs had hidden old Fcrser-
BON good bye soon faded. as he sank
back In the corner OF the taxi and
ktared moodily before him into the
kutumn afternoon.
mThcre was q worried furrcw be
Fecn his kindly eyes. an agitated
Troop 20 the corners OF his firm
mouth. He looked like a man who
had some secret trouble.
'Oh. Eustsce works too hard"
RNs what his wife always said care
Pealy. when one or two Of the many
people who loved and admired her
husband remarked on the careworn
Expression which his face 60 often
rore when IN repose. In q strange.
urnaturish way. she was bitterly
alous OF his work: II seemed like
r~h enemy gradually drawing her
husband from her. she had really
ecn much happier when his prsc.
ice had been small and preearsous.
Ind he had been able to spend a
greAf deal of his time with her. She
vas . lonely woman. and brooding
|Qpon her loneliness. she had no eyes
with which TO observe that the doc
tors breezy manner and hearty
laugh had lately become less spon-
taneous ana more mechanical.
Could she have seen him this au'
tumn Afternoon. as he was whiried
away from old Fergerson's house at
Ktlburn to the buster streets OF the
WeStend. she would probably have
put Il all down 90 business worries.
s'Euu9acs worries himself to death
" = child dies Of Group" che would
|eay. with . sort OF inpstiencs. $50
absurd! Children have got 10 die
|oomttimes- Mrs. Smith isn't the
(Pnly woman who has lost one"
This was with returning bitter
nemory Of her own baby girl. and
be drawer fun OF dainty. unused
.fttls garments upstairs.
But Il was not Of Mrs. Smiths
|1ead child. or indeed OF any OF his
|1pg. ~ he sat back In the taxi and
tar~1 ~ the gray autumn aft
|ornoon.
sis mind vas away--far back In
|the past. In the days OF, his careless
[youth--befors he had met Brenda.
[befofe he had become . successful
|pr1ctitioner; far back In the ssruE
king. student days. when nothing
seemed to count for much but amuse-
ment and Bohemian rcveiry.
There had been . giri--quits q
|poor gfri. with no fortune but her
|pretty fAce. ana her warm. loving
heart.
During ths hast few years Myers
'ha6 almost forgotten her. II seemed
such an stesnity SINCE they had part
"a IN anger. and she had walked out
~ hts life foreverl lie could net un-
oerstand why she had 80 perslssentiy
haunted his thoughts during the
fpAGe ~ days. She was dead--iong
|1GaA--he knew that well enough:
land ~ her little grsy-eyed ghost
|ha4 vn1ked beside him during al
moot evsry hour Of the past week.
He eould not eufstxfp u. Try ~ he
mlghe: when be hastsnsd his steps.
" fnnclsd he could hear her patfsr
lng fsee tryfng - keep up WITH him:
when he turned hts head. he irnag
/ ined Il was to meet the pleading Of
kher syes that seemed TO beg some
hlng Of hfra
He was not . .superstirous man.
y "a NOT 0eli1re In ghosts. or
eama ~ the supernatural. and yet
~ tojd himself he must be III: that
y ha6 been working too hard: that
The utf1o ghost was the result OF q
weaslod brain. but no common sense
orgunneat would dispei H. He was
Da1nz01Iy conscious OF fits presence
oven nov. - he sat back In the cor.
ner % ne taxi.
~ = rule Myers enjoyed being m
k<ou10n- He had even occasionally
|kAbs1ontsd sxcuses TO take him UP to
[c1e Gruat city: he had even been
ZUl11ty ~ ssndfng = Delayed on bust
Enonrs w1re 10 his wife. 20 that he
u1xht sneak on to . music hall and
~ on1 split his sides with laughter
II the absurd songs ana jokes.
Bre1dA had nevcr been TO . music
haJ1 n her life: she had the oid-fash-
Ioned befisf that they were places OF
1n1quify. Her own experience Of Lon
E1on theatefs was limited to an occa-
o1Qna1 front seat IN . dress-circle At
y highly respectable play In which
nobody ever presumed to fall In love
With another mans wife.
But today Myers had no eye for
he traffic and passing crowds that
Usually interested him. He felt mis-.
rably oepressed and detected: the