Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-29
+ HOUSE
By KATHERINE NEWI1N BURT
BY KATHERINE NEWLIN BURT

"a. i think. He doesn't quite
Jane was silent; then III q Jow.SSvtst-
ful vo4ce she said, .'Tnen no one aver
Clare threw aside her parasol,
vafhnred, her supple kneesi in bher
hands, and thought, frowning. 70
Ethreaten Rufus and not to hurt jana.
TO imperil his success with the, nan
Dyke and not disturb the possipl!lty
Of his success with its LIVING
nation. It was q somewhat delicate
matter. sha began to- test her grouna.
'.Ths Van Dyke never ays
Breeme House." Claire said. Witnout
why" flashed Jane. .'the very
thought is impious. Besides, Its nor
a possibility! It's out Of reason. we
could never be 500 helpless 81 70
have to part with II" .
a painful memory Of some kind
here returned upon Jane n her ace
shadowed, sS
ALEC Would never sell IT" said she,
.sno matter how he might need-the
money. He told me so. On. Clare
kyou wouldn't let him sell III. /,
Claire slipped from the wall ana
walked some hasty steps away. For
q few moments she was in g mind to
! wash her hands OF Breene- House,
and to leave the portrait to Its tate.
BUT the spell vas very strong upon
her. She turned and came back TO
Jane. 1t was characteristic Of both
kEirls that there had been so few con-
fidences between them. Jane, with
her strange; shy aloofness; Claire,
with her cleaning self-reliance; the
did not really need each other IN that
sense.
ping before her, when she looked up,
puzzled, from the grass. don't you
know that Alec loves: Aline Parkes
with all the best Of his hearth"
1t was the second rent in James
veil of dreams. The first had come
when Rufus fremont, white and
shaking, with lowered yes and tight
ened hands, had -hreathed out to-
wards her that astonishing you"
Now, Claire tore-a great, relentless
slash. Jane stared drought it, aghast,
evidently reconstructing IN n dizzy
second her whole point OF view to-
wards her brother and Aline. 1t.took
a minute to play over hundred
childish games. to see afresh hun
.dred little scenes, to live through a
hundred incidents. and to play and
9 ana live into them a new, illum-
mating. meaning. What was left Of
protest voiced itself weakly in James
usual phrase.
\ IT'S quite impossible!"
"Why?" asked Claire, keeping the
"Oh, because! ANne?. Alec?"
] This might have been, "a cat? The
King?"'
ciaire's lips took on : scornful
curve.
What is Aline Parkes,, please. to
your eyes, Jane? A piece Of furni-
Hture or remarkablesgirl with a rare,
winsome personality and most beau
tiful eyes! Do you suppose that a
man lives at the elbow of such a
woman day by day unmoved? The
first instant T saw them together, that
first day Of Alec's return from Lon
don, I began. to guess Do you re-
member how he went over to herr"
"Oh, Claire, you know I love her
dearly! But anything like-Do you
suppose II Aline dreamed It she
would have stayed here?.
I""Put yourself in her place. Re-
member, ,she has brothers, and sis.
tiers. And then, IT,. she loves him
.Claire! Cfaire! Hush! You make
me wretched. IT can't be true. Aline
would have told me. I'd have seen
for myself"
.Dear Jane. you see so little.''
''Sir Godfrey Brooke is In love with