Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-21
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you runvnI,snd uvI next week. He thinks
savins a;nn with him---I have said
am svld snnld. / promised him not to
that ! Mtli mi The last minute, but /
telI yVhuroten yVhu that promise because
hsye h bscause want you to 90 In my
ple.sss,; ,,ored at Ralph Hillyard for a
M without answering.
mcmens "a never seen him look 80 much
sne snsst. n there was something almost
!neaah;ns y ea; in his eyes at that moment |;
pessstt pnrt out his hand and took hers.
m w, ~, know what ! mean. he said.
..r,. yo Ioves YOU. 1t was Kathy,,s great
Y. ~ w,sh that he and you should marry
e "snoke OF II to me often. She
III @Msr,f understand how things were Pc
s,um esn you. any more than oo'
ts,tn w. Jili wrenched her hands free.
'0..You're quite, quite mistaken-he
,,res nothing for me. sne spoSe ~
rssssionate tones, wondering niue ~.
Ssr own agitation, IL seemed 40 ioms
aimee she had cared ABOUT any'slnS e~
stpt the fact that kathy was oeau,
az ~ Son't want to talk about IT,"
..J IJ more quietly. ''It's quite,
M liz useless. You don't understand,
2Ib 2.Inb or you wouldn't ever speak
ssopt n TO me. Please say no more.
f fsm sorry you are going away
rh.rs was a little silence. Hillyard
vent to the window and stood LOOKING
sut at the pouring rain ana tne we.
ssreet with eyes that saw nothing Du1
ihe face Of the woman he had loved
| and lost. -. ,a, .o
..,d AZ last. jerkily. "And l know
~ ~ after all that has occurred be-
ssssn s YOU and me that It must seem
strsnee for me to even mention 1t,
nt-but life Is so short. Jill-if we
a. a. ever so happy, we only have that
ssnniness for such little while.
| ISd--and-" he stopped, Somc-
low he could not trust himself to say
II know you mean to be kind" Jill
| Md him. hoarsely. "But II isn't kind
II hate to hear-hear Mr.. Tallen-
tyre spoken about. He-he isn't any
thing to me. Please say no more"
Every we'll" He turned and looked
Il her with wistful eyes. II hope you
as not angry with me-" he said, diff
imtly.
she shook her head. 4
aNo--you know ! am not"
There was a little silence.
"Where-where are you going?" she
ssied then.
II don't know. It's all the same to
ns where We go, but Gig has to get
out OF London.
"Since he broke 1t of with Elrica, he
has had an awful time with his
creditors. But, of course. you know"
Mono, / didn't"
Hes only got himself to blame, Of
course, but it's useless talking about 1t
he'll be a poor man to the end Of the
story and afterward-if there ever is
an afterward," he added in bitter
parenthesis.
"Shall-shall you be away for long?"
jill asked presently.
Some months. Gig says he shall
never come back, but I don't know IL
he really means 1t; and for my own
part don't care either way" His
voice was hard and unhappy, and Jill
WINGED as il the sound Of It hurt her.
Hlllyard wandered up and down the
room restlessly; he seemed to have
changed into a middle aged man all at
once Jill thought as she watched him
before kathy died he had been one of
the smartest men she had ever seen, but
now--the shoulders he had held so well
dropped listlessly-his smooth brown
hair was growing gray-there was
hard line to his usually complacent
mouth.
What would Kathy say IL she could
zee him now? Jill asked herself with
sudden stab.
He looked what he was-a broken
hearted man.
Her. eyes followed him about the
room in his restless pacing-presently
came to standstill by the piano,
and she saw him look at the words of |
ms song lying there:
u dreamed thou vert living, my
-, darling, my darling"
!, jill turned away, and for a long time |
mere was unbroken silence.
Jill thought OF Tallentyre with nm
oac Oa mixture of longing and angry i'm
In spite of all that had happened.
~ ~ nad never ceased to love him, |
Iougn az one time she had tried to |
rse1s ~ herself into the belief that he was
no longer anything to her.
1t had been. ~
Hillyard came back and ,ooksd dour
At her. 'Ae' u'""
i. What are you going to do with the
,Ss,, ~ ot your life, Jill?" he asked,
The suddenness of the question
t;yISat the tears to her eyes, and she
%ssa 70 laugh to cover her unwonted
,.,NN What shall I do! Why there are
neaPs OF things l can do-heaps of
money" "'H"" Win my
,.hir brave. sounding words, covering an
Acaing emptiness
w iaere is no woman so poor as she
sm; ruU mas only money" Hiilyard said,
Sord.s ,as family. They are not nv
,rsmsl uss.-l read them somewhere-I re.
KsthSr, Kuuer showing them to
sn;.l,s s;ll can guess what she said" Jill
womaa ra,a Tor him. That there is no
love so rich as she who has only
,b,n VI something like that, didn't
siaill ahillyard nodded. In spite Of their
mindss' idea' coioring, Jill sometimes re-
lttIs MN painfully of his wife: a
of S., 'yhe OF her voice, a little turn
n Ksa X, mead, made him almost feel as
.M,y Many We're there beside him.
wen, II you won't allow me to
m.s;sse sse 10 you, must 70" he soid
wing .Iv.ins an effort to speak Ightiv
sh'e sba'e 70 me when I am away, ill.,
sP,, Sae raised startled eyes. ~ '"'
You pos ! snail see you again before
|ass s0' You're not going TIL Wednes.
|be dona nnow, T,, but there's a good deal TO
sSss svne Gigs affairs are In The most
i "s'sy seo muddle, poor devil I, Has oS hesn
v wish hsna ha,aae, 10 me just lately, Jill
BE WON'T iet me help him out, but
(hougb VIII as obstinate as a mule,
lake he,Mm WY II hurts his pride more to
done from ''q,n Nh me than II would have
|of, sbrnsa E'rica y" he broke