Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-17
WHO'S WHO IN THE STORY

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nAvID was brought home the next
II day, n shriveled and aged David out
with a fighting fire in his eyes ana
careful smile at the station for the
group of friends who met him.
| David had decided on course ana
meant to follow It, That course vas
to protect Dicks name, and to keep
| the place he had made in the
world open for him. Not even to Luc!
had he yet breathed the terror that was
/ with him day and night, that DICK
had reached the breaking point and mad
rome back. But he knew it was possible.
Lauler had warned him against shocks
and trouble, and looking back DAVID
could see the gradually accumulating
pressure against that mental wall OF
Dicks subconscious building; overwork
and David's illness, his love affair ana
Jim Wheeler's tragedy, and coming on
ton of that, in some way he had not
vet learned, the knowledge that he was
Judson Clark and fugitive from the
law, The work Of ten years perhaps
undone.
Both David and Lucy found the
home coming painful. Harrison Miller
rode UP with them from the station, and
between him and Doctor Reynolds DAY.
i'd walked into his house and was as
sisted up the stairs. At the door Of
Dicks room he stopped and looked in.
and then went on, his face set and
rigid. >He would not go to bed, but sat
| in his chair while about him went on
the hustle of the return, the bringing
up Of trunks and bags; but the care
full smile was gone, and his throat,
now 80 much too thin for his collar,
worked convulsively.
He had got Harrison Miller S nara :
tive from him on the way from the
station. and it had only confirmed his
suspicious.
"He had been in stupor all day. y
Miller related, - and was being cared
for by q man named Bassett. l dare :
say that the man Gregory had referred
to. He may have become suspicious of
Bassett. ! don't know. But n chamber
maid recognized him as he was making
his escape and raised an alarm. He got
n horse out of the court yard of the
hotel and not sign of him has been
found since
1T wasn't Bassett who raised the
alarm
"No. apparently not. The odd thing
is that this Bassett disappeared. too.
the same night. | called up his paper
yesterday. but he hasn't shown up
And with some small ampitications,
that is all there was to it.
Before Harrison Miller and Doctor
Reynolds left him to rest, David called
! Lucy in, and put his plea to all of
them.
1T is my hope he said. "to carry
on exactly as though Dick might walk
in tomorrow and take his place again.
AS ! hold to my belief III God, so
hold to my conviction that he will come
back, and that before before long.
But our friends will be asking where
he is and what he is doing, and we
would better agree on that beforehand.
What we'd better say is simply that
Dick is called away on business con-
nected with some property in the West
They may not believe it, but they'll
, hardly diSprOve it.
So the benevolent conspiracy to pro =
tect Dick LivingstOne's name was ar
ranged, and from that time on the four
' of them who were party to it turned
to the outside world an unbroken front
of loyalty and courage. Even to Minnie,
anxious and red'ey"d in her kitchen
Lucy gave the same explanation while
she arranged Dayids tray.
He has been detained in the West
on business, Lucy said.s
He might have sent me n postcard
And he hasn't written Doctor Reynolds
at all. "
He has been very busy. Get the
sugar bowl, Minnie. Hell be back soon
! I'm sure
But Minnie did not Immediately move.
He'd better come soon If he wants
to see Doctor David" she said with
Mrs. Crosby. The talk ,E~t's going On
IN this town is something awful.
Il don't want to hear it, Lucy said
firmly.
! She ate alone. painfully remembering
that last gay it'll" feast before they
started away. But before she sat down
she did II touching thing. She rang the
bell and called Minnie.
After this, Minnie she said. 1--WE
will always set Doctor Richards place.
Then. when he COMES"
+ Her voice broke and Mimic. ,rrutlng
II tragedy but ignorant Of it, went back
to her kitchen to cry into the roller
towel. Her world was gone to pieces.
! by years of service to the one family
she had no other world, no home. no
ties. She was with the Livingstonrs,
but not one of them. Alone in her
kitchen she 'felt lonely and cut OF
She thought that David had he not
been i'll, would have told her.
Lucy found David moving upstairs
Some time later, and when she went up
she found him sitting in Dicks room.
on n stiff chair inside the door She
stood beside him and put her hand ON