Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-14
them under her wing for q considers

money.
II gave him shock to remember TO
what lengths he himself had gone to
remember that he was engaged to Erica
Jill went away without saying good
night to him, and he walked home
alone through the spring night.
The future stretched away long and
uninviting; there seemed nothing. to
look forward to, nothing to hope for
and the fault was his own
He had had chances, many of them,
and thrown them awhy he had held the
greatest gift Of all In his hand and al
lowed 1t to fall.
He could see Jill's face there before
him in the darkness: her eyes sparkling,
her cheeks flushed as she had looked
when she took her winnings from the
green covered table; he had hated to
see her there gambling with the women
Of his set hated the way the men looked
at her and We'd with each other for her
favor. He let himself into his Hat, and
shut and locked the door (; he turned on
the light aud flung himself into a chair
with a feeling OF utter wearinsss. To-
night he stood outside the locked gates
of what might have been, looking across
the wall OF eternal separation at toe
happiness which he had lost forever.
CHAPTER VI
tho moon MOI for sec" sa.r ''S qss ss,s rood
ss sss sss ssE Ss' q. SSsSi
A week passed away uneventfully.
Tallentyre hardly knew how the dsys
went; they were all 10 much alike In
length and boredom.
He danced dutiful attendance on El-
rica Hewing; escorted her to social
functions which bored him unutterably
accepted congratulations with a smile
and walked through his part faultlessly,
in the same way In which an auto
matte figure moves and speaks cor.
rectly, but without conviction.
"I don't believe he'll ever marry
her." Kathy told her husband again
when the subject was under discus
zion.
II feel SO sorry for him-Ralph,
cant fonts,y you see how Ill and unhappy he
Hillyard laughed.
''I'm afraid / can't you re
imagining 1t all, little woman. Gigs
all right--he never did look particu-
larly pleased about anything; he al
ways wears that bored expression"
But Kathy knew better; she was very
sorry for Tallentyre, and tried to con-
vey her sympathy to him in little ways
when they met.
was the one thing he could not stand |;
he had a morbid drsad that people
would know Of the muddle he had made
Of his life; he avoided all the houses
where he knew there was possibility
y, mso'ns Sn-i nc saw ner OUT driv.
ing, os IN tne PARK ne dehperateiy kept
ous OF ner way.
sometimes he thought he would get
ha.ria haso @ ana SO 80 sse an insuperaole
manV times the ,mnni.n @ c"s oe1~esn ~ b,e ,ne%
snn,.th,n asm L,sa 70 marry nim at once, but
bscS always 'ee"eu 70 noio MIN
t.yv,u s..,.
t,o dowyn dy ~" =" tITiHs TiEu set nlarled an ana SET
n;obt who, thny u a'neu nm one
"fheres 3 notbinC ,iEs et . % Soms she ., c,uo. Hn|.
M ne Tno nus out recently got married
TaI,a,. ,
aaa,,eniyre aa,,e laughed.
IN no nuIry end, after all
cyuics,I% c %aff'e' long t'me' ne added
hin, oiS Sp.;s ps;snmist! Hillyard looked at
farant a sneGt,ona.eiy shao toey were very diff:
fr;enS.,; f; taese Two men, put very real
thIasn'p tha Iasnp existed between them none
'"e
WITH SVme louna ana nave some dinner
.Nn. ~Sn US 'onisht ne said presently.
tbs bo.dns w;sas IGrmst.I,,u't lorna ourselves, and
"Mrs stnrss.. t,S. p"
-Nathy seems to like her to be