Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-19
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Ehsgbefh' NTH Uhon, he 10 snftfen'
r,ur summer passed slowly. To David
and Elizabeth It was n long waiting.
,u. with this differ ,nce, that David
uas kent alive by hope. and that E'i~-
,ho,b fclt sometimes that hope was
.;u,,g hcr To David each day was n
NOW day, and might hold DICK 10
tlizobcth, after n time, cach d"S was
tnt one more of separation. ..
U"nr REYNOLDS had become nN,ure
4, ,bo old house, but he was not ike
m,oL Ic was heavy. silent youns
a,nr shv of intruding into the 1am.i.S
Mso % and already engrossed in n ouudlng
.#o;r with the Rossiter girl. Davld toi
aI, anun VIM hi,, but with u sort of smoi.
.orng icolousy increased by tn" iact
u,,"e w.. be Ind introduced innovations
mor;d Tuc; resented: had for instance
aovad Dicks desk nearer the. WINDOW,
ond instead Of doing his own LABORATORY
n.ork had what David considere" a., a
Somnohly Inzy fashion of sending ms
ittlo tuhcs. carefully closed with COT
tnn 70 Il hospital in town.
David found the days very long nn'
Infinitely sad. lie wakened rnch morn :
inc 70 renewed hope. watched ior 'n1 I
nostman from his upper WINDOW, ann n
for I.ucy's step on the stars WIN Nv.
mail. Ills first glimpse OF her alw"Es
nod insisted on talking about Dick. nut
be saw that It hurt her. and OF lhte
thov hod fallon into the habit OF long
silenccs.
Tho determination to live on nntll
TINT return which he never ceaScu 10
eyprct only carried him 20 FAR, now
erer lie felt no incentive to activity.
There we're times when he tried Lucy
sorely. when she felt that il he would
only move about. 60 downstairs ana al :
fond to his office practice. get out INTO
tbe snr and sir. ho would grow stronger.
Rut there were times. too. when she felt
that only the will to live was carrying
him on.
Nothing further had developed. so f0r
as they knew. The search had bceh
abandoned. Lucy was no longer 50 sur"
as she had been that the house was
under surveillance, against Dick S pos,
sible return. Often she lay III hcr r"d
and faced the conviction that DICK wns
dead She had never understood the INK
that at first had gone on about her. when
Bassett and Harrison Miller. and once
or twice the psyche -annlygt David had
consulted in town, had got together lii
David's bedroom The mind was the
mind, and Dick was Dick. Th'~ thing
about habit. over which David pored
at night when he should have been
sleeping, or brought her in to listen to-
with an air of triumphant vindicntion,
meant nothing to her.
A man properly trained in right
habits OF thinking and of action conlt,
not think wrong and so wrong. David
argued. lie even went further. He said
that love was habit. and that love
would bring Dick back to him. That
he could not forget them.
She believed that. of course. If he
still lived. But hadn't Mr.. Rnssetr.
who seemed so curiously mixed In the
affair, been ont again to Nornda with.
out result No, it was all over, and
shc felt that it would be comfort to
know where he lay. and to bring him
back to some we'll loved and tended
jgravc.
I Elizabeth came often to see them. She
looked much the same as ever. although
she was very slender and hcr smile
rather strained. and she and David
would have long talks together. She
always felt rather like an empty vessel
when she went in. but David filled her
with hope and sent her away checrrd
and visibly brighter to her long wait
ing. She rather avoided Lucy. for
Lucy's fears lay in her face and were
like n shadow over her spirit. She came
across her one day putting Dick cloth
Ing away in camphOr. and the act took
on an air % iinality that almost crushed
her.
So far they had kept from her Dick y
real identity, but certain things they
had told her. She knew that he had
gone back, in some strange way. to tho
years before he came to Haverly, and
that he had temporarily forgotten
everything since. But they had told her
too and seemed to believe themselves,
that it was only temporary.
At first the thought had been more
than she could bear. But she had to
live her life, and in such n way as
to hide her fears. Perhaps it was good
for her, the necessity of putting up n
bold front, to join the conspiracy that
was to hold Dicks place in the world
against the hope of his return. And
she still Went to the Sayre house, sure
that there at least there would be no
curious glanccs. no too casual ques-
tons. She could not be sure of that
even at home, for Nina was constantly
conjecturing.
i sometimes wOndcr----' Nina began
one day, and stopped
Wonder what?'
"Oh, well. | suppose ! might as we'll
90 on DO you ever think that if Dick
mad gone back, as they say he has,
that there might be somebody else?"
Another girl, You mean?'
Yes, Some one he knew before"
, Nina was watching her. Sometimes
she almost burst with the drama she
was suppressing. She had been Il Small
girl when Judson Clark had disap-
peAr'd, but even at twelve she had
Known something of the story. She
wanted frantirally to go about the vii,
iaSe and say to them: "Do you know
VINO has been living here whom Won
used to pntroni2p? JudSon Clark, one
Of the richest men in the world !" She
Ipullt Cay dreams on that foundation
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