Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-17


T TOWARD WARRINGTON wa
released the next day. Their
were neither apologies nor eS
i i plantations. The closed han
of the law opened and re
leased him. He was free.
For all the change that the las
As hours had made on the surfac
they might never have been. TIL
office greeted him with grins AM
cheerful badinage. So little had h
counted there that his absence hat
been scarcely noted.
I'm just reporting" he told Mis-!
Sharp. II can't stay. There's beer
q death in the family where I live.
Il thought you looked kinda shot,
said that young woman. You JUS
go along. I'll fix it,"
But, as he started out. she called
him back. Say, Mr.. Baylie's got
that suit of yours. Do you want tt
take it along?"
"Ill get it tomorrow" he told her
and made his escape.
So it happened that Warrington
and James Cox. who had suffered most
through her, helped to carry Annie
Bayne to her quiet grvae. And later
they went back together to Kelsey
street, where the heavy odor Of flowers
still filled the air. and the rooms had
been only hastily restored to their
usual order.
II hope you'll not hold against
me what I said the other night. said
James.
You weren't half as violent as
would have been under the circum'
stances" Warrington assured him.
And that was all.
a HnnfarpnCe
the dining room that night, but War
rington was not a party to it. Only
Holly could have brought him into it,
and Holly was still dazed. He was
not hurt: after all, what was he to
them? For little time he had been
one of them, had lived and suffered
with them; but now that was all
over.
BY that small, unconscious omis-
sion, they put him where he knew
he belonged, in his third-foor room
again-in the household, not Of it.
And, as time went on and James
into the family circle. 1t was he who
held off. If there was some pride in
it at first, it became sheer self-de.
Tense, later on.
He could not see Holly in her black
lrocks, looking thin and white, with
out wanting to take her in his arms.
And he would not do that; he would
not drag her once more into poverty.
She had had enough of that, and of
the things it sometimes led to. She
was comfortable now. Let her alone.
Certainly she was comfortable. With
the coming of James and Margaret to
live in the old house, it began to
take on a new. If slightly vulgar. vi.
tality. The furnace roared under
James mighty welding of the shovel;
lights blazed, and Warrington, put
ting his key into the lock, would be
met sometimes by the smell of frying
onions. and. on passing the drawing
room door, would find James there
in Mrs. Bayne's old chair, his feet
on what had been the tea table and
a cigar in his mouth.
Come in. Howardv' he would call
genially. Come in, and make your
self at home. Shove that dog off,
there. He's too fat and lazy to
move"
James secretly adored the dog.
Warrington went in sometimes. II
Holly was not there, he would even
stay a little, listening to James, and
even putting in a word, now and
then. Occasionally, Holly would be
there, very quiet and very conscious
of him, and then he would take him.
self in hand and resolute1y go up
stairs. If James ever noticed this, he
made 40 comment.
James was very happy. He was
enormously proud of his wife, of Holly
! q nd of the house. He would take the
Cog out for walks and, using that as