Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-13

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ni >r DON'T want to read It; I don't
~ care ~ Il Is from woman. You
~ a 81 mo orce-about that photograph
tt ..,,,e never tried to explain or tell
~ uhn shc was Oh. wish--1
AZ, "ro rou'I never come home !"
~ a.. worded him of with trembling
mir .sas when he would have touched her
y INA .ha ran INST him and out Of the room.
ls4 Ga tbe bridge OF kisses had fallen. as
\ Y A. Tortunc Hunter Ind known 1t was
", knund 70 fall. What was the use OF
vSycing on struggling to ma ke some sort
= f bsppiness, when the only foundation
which he could build It was lie?
g Tie took his hat and went down. into
sln he village wandering on restlessly
oul through the struggling street, uncon-
va ious of his surroundings.
a n was only whom he was crossing
b.he bridge where he had stood in the
Xain that wet afternoon with anne tnnt @
OIL saw Fecnie coming toward MN, Inc
rec o,tnne Hunters face hardened; he
.an adj not seen this man since the meet =
~ No an tho station platform, and, as
md srnie drew nearer, he deliberately
,rnej his back on him, leaning his
c,., bows on the low wall of the bridge
an nd staring down at the river.
~. ,sm Rut Fprnie was not so easily
: v|nubbed, and he sauntered up to the
mt. nrtnne Hunter, his hands stuck into
81 .he rockets Of his shabby corduroy
IreeChes.
I, 2 'iNice morning. Mr.. Smith"
q The Fortune Hunter looked round,
IN vut made no answer -,
apcf "Not tired of Somerton yet. them
he elder man went on. still in the same
Z. hsnuating voice.
liver The Fortune Hunter stood upright,
rs is eyes very fierce.
=, mot yet. Mr.. Fcrnie," she said
TRu )owly.
!, Ind nodded his head slowly. Going
me y give 1t another day or two, eh? Well
m not sure that l don't rather ad-
IL, oil
IT. nood morning" And he sauntered of
e.nl gain, whistling softly.
BEG The Fortune Hunter stood looking
: uSfter him, bis hands clcnched. then he
Tfy Ts1 ughed and shrugged his shoulders he
III as not afraid OF Ferne; he was not
's kraid Of any one in the world except
. I" n be woman who loved him.
z And during the next few days tho
Il between them grew to almost
1T. Irrifying proportions. There were mo :
den Tents when, half driven mad with his
HAs wn despair, the Fortune Hunter nearly
nsn;l rev up the sponge and walked back
'snt 's% the road again: moments when he
,onI IL 1t would be easier never to see her
s.d gain than to go on meeting the distrust
Nm S,S her eyes. and see the struggle she
mp, as making against her love for him.
IA When they were together, which was
dsn.| Pt very often, she always kept the
IND RnyersOtIon to gcneralitles she never
y poke Of the past or the future, and
had ply when Tommy or Mr.. Harding were
,,,t resent did she soften little toward
1t IN In desperate effort to make things
an, bpear TO be all right.
nn, ,n The strain was telling on them both,
pre- especially on him, and but for one
Y. Ing nothing could have persuaded the
10 ~ Ia hn,,1n a
an y longer, and that was-his passion
% Jealousy Of Geoffry Foster,
n Foster had been to the house on sew
w 1sl occasions since that night in the
!. V'sI ludy, but he had always treated the
ns oftune Hunter with frigid politcncss,
81, pa had made no other allusion to the
h. il was his voiled sort of pro-
y. letorship toward Anne that drove the
asol Noftune Hunter to such a pitch of
COZ alousy that sometimes he could hardly
GEM ntrol himself, and 1t was the knowl-
'ELI 70 mat Geofry Foster was only wait
btSy his opportunity that kept him
90 30 suDately where he was. Fear would
Al yer have driven the Fortune Hunter
sasE' only the desperate conviction
sr az he could bear no more. And then
den evening the climax came. Things
;BIE oeen more or less strained with
y me during the day. and when dinner
,Et Die. ' p'"e' was "o' i''u "' '"'
@ t@s The Fortune Hunter, entering the
nsi PM stopped dead In the doorway when
sSs saw the omission, and asked sharp
y. Anne--whcrC Is shc?"
y ; Harding looked up in surprise.
T. shs sent word she would not be in
poa dnner-that she had gone nm the
TRt l naturally thought you were
IN " her, John"
hSa bly. Tommy OroNe !"
IN one gone with Fostcr--1 saw them
under The bridge IN his launch when
y. s coming home just now"
W. angIe was painful silence the For
s. hunters face was liyld as he took
y Any without another word, and Mr..
fPAN,hs plunged into haphazard con >
ate sau0p' IT was impossible not to
WI sOrry Tor the man opposite him,
ID n when Tommy had departed Mr.,
81 kwardy: " "' '"o'' anu s"'u
- y there has been n little mIsunder.
sks5snulhg, John, | am sure you cnn mt
~. .Tss rlght. Just II lovers aunrrel-
,ELl b.n. Anne Is very sensitive, and
esl huere has been no misunderstood.
" shc Fortune Hunter said In n
VI mint, and there was something
w nm as he rose from the tnble
'a'e npr prevented Mr.. Harding from say
Ia. Sllsd went out into tho garden, and
csed up and down in the warm dark
~ tecth clenchCd on the stem of
,iaa his back. ''''' ''s''"'' '''
% beginning of the cnd-that is
ST. H1a. meant, ho knew. aud he felt
idsss m ~, TO DC utterly Incapable of meet.