Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-04


her couch. brought her anxious quess..
tionings. Had jim suffered? Could
they have avoided It? And an insistcnt
demand to know who and whnt had been
the girl who was with him..
In spite Of his own feeling that ne
would have 70 20 TO Norada quickly,
before David became impatient over his
exile. Dick took few hours to ma
the answer to that question. But when
he found It he could not tell them.
The girl had been dwellcr in the shady
byways Of life. had played her small
immoral part and gone on. perhaps u,
somc place where men were Kinder ana
less urgent. Dick did not judge her.
He saw her. as her kind hnd been
through all time. storm ccnters OF the
social world. passively and unconscious.
is blighting, at once the hunters ana
the prey.
He secured her former address from
the police, three story brick rooming-
house in the local trnderloin. and waited
rather uncomfortably for the mistress
OF tho place to see him. She came at
last. a big woman, vast and shapelesss
and with an amiable loose smile. and
she came In with the light step of the
ovcrtleshed. only TO pnusc in the door
way and to stare at him.
MY God" she said II thought
YOU were dead 80
I'm afraid you're mistaking m" for
some one else. aren't your
She looked at him carefully.
"T'd hnyr Sworn---'' she muttcred.
and turning TO the button inside the
door she switched on the light. Then
she surveyed him again.
/ "What's your name
"LivinCstone. Doctor Livingstone.
| c0lInd---''
IT'S Tint for me-. Or for the nolicHE'
"\ow soc hcre.' h" said pleasantly.
~ don't know who you ore mistaking
me- for. and IN not hiding from the po-
lice. Here's my card, and | have com"
from the family Of Young man named
I Wheeler. VINO was killed recently IN an
automobile accident
She took the card and read IT, and
then resumed hrr intent scrutiny Of
him.
"Well. you fooled me al right sh"
said at last. I thought you wore
well, never mind that. What about
this Wheeler family? Are they going
TO settle with tho undertaken? Because
I tell YOU fiat, can't and wont. She
owed mo n month = rent. and her clothes
won't bring over seventy-hvo or hum
drrd dollars.
As hr loft he was aware that she
stood in The doorway looking after him.
He drove hcnr slowly in the car, and on
Ii" way he made up a kindly story to
tell the family. He could not 1rt them
know that Jim had been seeking love in
the byways of HE. And that night he
mailed check in payment of the under
tnkers bill, carefully leaving the stub
empty.
On the third day after Jim's funeral
hc started for Norada. An inferno
from a local hospital. having newly
finished his service there, had agreed
to take over his work for time. But
Dick was family Jealous when b" in
stalled Doctor Reynolds in his office.
and turned him over to II myst!h"i
Mimi" TO look after
"Is he going to sleep in your bed:
She demanded brlligerontiy.
She was only partially Modified when
sh" found Doctor Reynolds was 70 have
the spar" room. She did not Ike the
way things wer" going, she contded to
Nike. Why wasn't She TO let on TO
Mrs Crosby that Doctor Dick had gone
away+ Or 10 the old doctor! Both OF
them away. and thai little ups'art IN
I'll" "ti"c ready 70 steal their patients
aud hang "U' lis own sign the moment
they got back.
Unused to duplcity MS he was. DICK
found himself touMder!ug along an OK
trcmoly CrouhHd path. lie wrotc hal.
dozen pleasant non -Comm.ttal letters %
David and Lucy. spending an inoHd'note
tiIuo on tl"m, and CAV" ihrm to " n.irr
Wh""lpr 90 mail - stated intervals.
Bu' his chIrf dittirutiy was with l-l!&a-
beth. prrMups he world hnv" told her
there we"o tunes WA"n he had I" hGht
Iii, desire 10 haN" he" share his anxiety
A. wol NJ know tA" truth about him.
Nq' slc VAS nWrau" carrying h" burden
pt Jam tragedy, ana h"r inth"r too,
was .ns,>trnr that She b" kept in ig-
uoranrt.
"I'ntu shc can have the whol" thing,
y" said, with rho new heavIn"SS which
had cr"p' INTO his voice.
Beside that r"ul trouble Dicks looked
dim ami n"buluu.'. bthcr things could
be- set right: there was always tight-
jpg chance. !, was only death that was
fnn'
Elizabeth wen, 70 the station 10 see
him off, snail slim thing IN black
frork. with eyes that persistently sought
.',,,aI tI ",',t - ,irongh hi. so No migtt
~ - ,,l a,,I w7hor h. fuunJ I'm
.,n ves y'"arj1g hor ring he drew her
avon ,'..cn y'i,H n wayr Of puS,iouo,c
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ot,a,. ,bo, oocI, ,m cheer tLn nther A.
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