Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-05-29
CHAPTER YVII-Continued
ODg7 b Losis Jassph Nnce.

| The man I've got in mind to dlrect
you In your first picture, Mrs Lee; that
! Is, If you can get hold of Barry. You
| couldn't do better, but his salarys ee- nor
| mour. I'll give him a ring and find out
| for you"
There's no hurry Mr.. Summerlad.
| Remember, Mr.. Lontaine hasn't taken the
| first step toward forming company yet
We'll, but I'd hate to have you lose a
| chance. Barry's a wonder. Even Griffith
| takes back seat when Barry Nolan picks
| up the megaphone."
| Lontaine interposed question OF tech
| meal nature, and as Summerlad answered
| him at length, Lucindas attention wan
| dered, she began to think more about the
| speaker, less about what he was saying.
! Undeniably a most satisfying creature, at
| least to look at. Bending overNthe table,
| his face glowing as he illustrated his
meaning with an animated play Of hands ::
| though his words were all for Lontaine
| Summerlads consciousness was constant
to Lucinda, his quick eyes were forever
| seeking hers Hard hit and max
| ing no secret Of 1t.
| Not that II mattered, more than for
! the good 1t did ones self-esteem to be
respectfully if openly adored by per-
! sonabfe young man whom one found
| agreeable. Vanity had been sorely sprung
| by Bellamy's sacrifices Of his wife's love
| to his appetite for flirting with women Of
| cheap emotions. Neither had Daubeneys
| devotion meant a great deal: being some
| thing too familiar through old acqnain-
/ lance not to be misprized. II had need
| ed some new conquest ms this to make
/ Lucinda think well of herself again: this
! Mt least proved her charms not yet passed.
Lucinda inclined to approve the style
| in which Summerlad maintained himself.
The bungalow, secluded In wide and we'll
kept grounds. might have served as the
warm weather retreat of grand duke.
| Fly merely turning her head she could
look out through an open easement to
! lawn where moonlight Ike liquid silver
slept between mysterious dense masses
of purple shadow. The breath OF the
night was bland and fragrant. In Chi
cago tho thermometer had ahivered IN the
nelghborhood of zero; New York, &C
cording TO telegraphic news, was digging
out from under snowfall second only
to that Of Its legendary blizzard.
Il want to purr," Lucinda confessed,
I finding Summerlad's eyes upon her. Il
am enslayed by California"
II must make the most OF these mo-
! ments. then. Presently we'll both be
busy you in especial far too busy 10
give me- any evenings Ike this"
I'm not at all afraid q being doomed
to enaui through any lack of ingenuity
on your part"
IF I'm not mistaken, that's dare"
It's as you care o take II"
/ He accepted with smile the smiling
gage o. her eyes. They understood each
I other perfectly.
I When II was time to return TO the
Alexandria. sammeriai insisted on driv-
ing them home himself
J Iuelnda fell asleep that night to dream
/ ~ conrsinS 4 wiil-o the wisp through
land whose painted Illusion failed and
faded as she fed, tin IN the end there
was no more beauty, only tho hare grin
Of the desert savage and impiacable.
She started awake with her husbands
name trembling en- her TIPS.