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Her eyes cowered-stricken--
the color left her face.
And sometimes sitting before
the fire she grew quiet with
smile that was too steadfast on
her lips. She was seeing. In a
momentary flash, that low chair
where Mark sat. empty.
What Is troubling you, Roen,
dear?"
Nothing! Nothing For she
would not bicker with Destiny.
She would be glad for the little
she might have-live in this glow.
ing NOW.
Often she felt powerful about
II. AS though she might give
thanks and a God would under.
stand. He would know that she
needed so piteously this love of
Marks. She needed this from
Life. And so it was given to
her.
Even for 4 little while. She
would not say a word IL it were
retaken. She would go down the
years and It would glow like a
holy torch In her heart, always.
There would be no emptiness
because Of this immortal glow
that no sorrow and no restitution
would ever extinguish.
She leaned over and ran her
hand gafly, tenderly, through his
soft, black hair.
Nothing troubles me, Mark.
Only sometimes l wonder IL
you've said all the things I keep
hearing. Or IL I've imagined
them. I'm so glad you've said
them, Mark"
Truly, Roen? Sometimes 1.
wonder about this"
'No-never wonder. Only
speak again" She took his face
in her hands and laughed softly
and kissed him.
His heart swelIed. He found
her WOndrous In her vital sweet.
ness incredibly dear. More and
more so.
She was more bcautiful-iYlfi.
nitely than his dream. She was
HIS. !.
Nothing would now alter this.
And this fact wiped out the past,
that only in an external way be-.
longed to him. All that was real
all that was living in his heart
and spirit was Rooms.
He sat In his deserted home
STEPPED in the dream Of her--in
the flame of her--in the wonder
that this had come to pass.
His one thought was to make
their union enduring.
The image Of Claire passed
across his rhaps0dies. He viewed
It quietly--coldly- -distantly.
She would not suffer. Only her
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-10

And she, seeing his lowered
head. the soft black hair--seeing
his lips pale and shaken, She
listening as to sweeping, heart
breaking music. And moving to
him in a warm, intoxicating com.
pulsion--a divine, inevitable com.
pulsion. putting her arms about
him
Thus--across the infinite sense
OF loss there came now fulfill.
ment. 1t came in this sad, ter
rible way. Yet for all this with
a wounding beauty.
She could not bear to be away
from him. She needed his voice
in her ears; needed his nearness
and the feeling that then oblit.
Grated thought-the feeling of her
whole being moving toward him
in q divine, heartbreaking com.
pulsion.
She stood in her garden. Twi-
light laid filament Of silver on
the leaves: the buds were closed,
dropping little in the misty
chill.
Rocn touched the buds-touched
them softly. The twilight, the
dropping roses. the garden all
hung with silver mist affected
her achingly. She had longing
to withdraw into the misty twi-
light: be lost in this loneliness
that was chill and quiet, vet
hurt her penetrantly.
All her life she had prayed for
love. As a little girl she had
come running out here to gather
that handful of purple pansies
that Dearie might look thrilling
as an angel for Bobby-dad. She
had watched those two and asked
that love like theirs be given her.
Love that laid her heart bare to
all this wounding beauty that set
her moving about the garden.
touching the buds: pressing her
race against the honeysuckle
vines: love, that made her close
her eyes sharply against the little
stars now strewing the slxy--was
hers. And everything--the Sab.
bath night, the dropping flowers,
the silver mist, he and his eyes
ana his voice. sInote her spirit.
She needed him erestanding
at her side, Needed his hand
touching hers. That the night and
its beauty and her thought would
be shut out by the music of his
voice drowning her ears.
He came. His eyes, Worship.
ing. humble. uncertain, went i'm.
mediately seeking hers: seeking ii
the dark Of the scarlet garden.
His lips moved pleadingly. Yet he
didn't speak. He, too, needed.
He was like q boy needing her.
She flung her head back, blink.
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let her eyes wander over the
waves glad that he suddenly put
his arms about her 80"
1T is going to RAIN said she,
and put out her hand :
as he remembered her doing once
Almost as she spoke-the rain
fell--in thin, silvery hairs.
He took her hand and they
went swiftly, their feet making
light, sopping sounds in the moist
earth.
He paused suddenly and turned
her to him. looking at the rain
drops sparkling on her hair and
on her lips. He said, his voice
breaking: "Roen-I so love YOU"
She felt his eyes reaching into
her heart, drawing it unalter.
ably
They stood in the dim hall. He
closed his arms about her. He
said all those things that pas
sionate, stormy hearts have al.
ways said. "Roen--take me-
Roen, love me, Roen, only you
and this only-p
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Evesham on board vanishing
from her.
And in front Of her the drab lit.
tie frame station, the elderly agent
going inside with his lanterns. 4
bundle Of nag signals under his
arm. Nothing else except a road
that looked sad and deserted in the
late afternoon light, and beyond it
fields and more fields.
Please-could you tell me-that
is, how far back it IL to Newport %
Eleven miles, lady. Next train
IL ."
The next train didn't matter.
Sally half closed an eye, and
studied the old agent. Now /
wonder what he'd do IL / asked him
to give me a ticket, lend me tine
money!"
She gulped a little. Such a thin
old face-he wouldn't understand.
But she was well-dressed. Shed
just say very quietly and firmly
that just what would she
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about me-" She felt as If she
were talking like someone who is
sick, very slowly and deliberately.
in 4 monotonous low tone. You
thought that--you didn't even
give me a chance to explain!'
Il was afraid to. After seeing
you Herewith him. Hiding like
that. I was crazy when saw
you that night-out Of my head
almost. Why Adrian Martin
you don't know"
Because he has lots or at
fairs, do you think every girl"
LISTEN he said, raising his
voice a little angrily. Have
you any idea of what that man
is like? / know-though he
doesn't know that know-about
something that happened in South
America, last year. He came
down. There was wealthy
rancher with a beautiful wife,
beautiful. and Adrian Martin saw
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NOO Go On With The Story

saw you in Adrian Martins,
didn't I? Hiding. Late at night.
With Adrian Martin. You didn't
go there to discuss Greek poetry,
did your"
You're horrible-hoFrible. L.
never could hate anyone the
way / hate you now"
Silence. Just the train rocking
and rafting on, child whimper.
ing three seats ahead, a laborer
asleep across the aisle, two girls
giggling, whispering.
And Sally white-faced now, her
fingers locked together tightly so
that the blood had left them.
Then all at once his mask went
from him. He looked wretched
and unhappy.
Forgive me. III ought to be
kicked. ] say things to hurt you
because you hurt me. Only
when you told me the other day
you hadn't any money, and then
saw you--at Adrian Mar.
TINS Why, I've been tor.
tured, wanting to see you, not
daring to. Afraid to. ] know
what 4 fool / was now. I know
everything must have been ali
right. But you've made me SUI.
fer too much. j lose my head
say things ~
His whisper came disiointedly,
in fragments. as If springing from
hard thinking, battling its way
through a tide Of emotion. But
she couldn't forgive him, not
right away. though in her heart
she had forgiven him already, as
she would forgive him anything.
That was the terror of It all,
knowing that she cared so much.
that il he hurt her, betrayed her.
she would still go on caring.
that IL she did not see him any
more, said good-by, she would
not forget him. tg
But you thought those things
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a. I don't know. I'm . cry.
~ baby. / weep over anything.
Why one day / cried five times
for five different reasons
He nodded. He looked a little
cruel now. II can't imagine your
crying over anything except
disappointment-in one Of your
your love affairs
The words came out with
snap. She WINGED, and her hands
gripped each other. How could
he, how could he say thing like
that? It was brutal. Shed never
forget, never. And she'd never
forgive him
Tickets, please, tickets" The
conductor came slowly on his
Sally felt feverishly -.
her purse. She hadn't brought
one.
''I-my money! forgot my
money"
Jerry gave her q swift look.
She saw him paying.
I'll send you the money right
away. It's awfulIy kind 81 YOU
She was speaking, but it didn't
seem her own voice, not her very
own the little cool, for.
NAL, meaningless phrases.
He shook them off. You did
get on this train because you saw
me! You weren't going to Fall
tees 5SsSa uSaHyvly1anv.a nlNApa
The tears they came yelling
MP into her eyes again. She
struggled hard. She mustn't
make a fool Of herself, not sec.
Ond time. But her little tragic
voice faltered and gave her away:
Jerry, how could you--how
could you say that-about-ab
my having love affairs? When
you know-''
Know? What do / know? /
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her. Then one night the husband
was shot in the dark. shot, killed
do you understand"
"0h. do you mean"
II mean, Adrian Martin did
that. mean that's the kind Of
man you visited at night and ax.
pected me not to think that
that
why don't you let me ten you
why / was there?"
"WelI?" Was there q lingering
spark of disbelief in his voice, q
suspicion that insulted her? Per-
versely she closed her lips. Tell
him now-that she had gone to
Martin to ask for better Job fer
Jerry. to try to help Jerry? Her
pride rebelled.
I'll won't tell you now. You've
got toto believe in me without
that
"Oh--so that's IT."
They had swung back again,
and Sally felt her hostility re.
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turning. so that she longed to be
anywhere, anywhere In the world
except here. The train was slack
ening speed, coming into a way
station. She jumped up. He called
to her, surprised. startled. She
almost ran down the steps.
"Sallyv' He was calling. Sally,
I didn't mean ."
She was hurrying down the
platform. Then the train started
again. She saw him for one IN
slant, looking back, standing on
the lowest step. She had had
her wish. She had gotten away
from him. But now she was un.
happier still
CHAPTER 20
"oh. why--why do l do every.
thing wrong? Everything"
Sally stood desolately on the
lonely platform. In the distance
was q black speck, already vanish
ing, the train--the train with Jerry
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SOULS : By Elenore Meherin

CHE went one Saturday to take
~ care Of Jackie'e little girl. She
had now none Of the violent. des-
perate emotions that made her feel
that she could absorb the child
absorb It into her very flesh She
had only 4 brimming Iove-a joy.
Gus delight
But suddenly she found herself
acanning the features OF the baby
comparing them to an image in
her nind-a vague, rebulous
image that long ago had first come
TO her and they had gone away.
And was now returned the
shadow image OF child.
They walked over the long,
green hill. turning their glance
to the ocean. It's vast, lonely
quiet, then its gusty charge of
waters to the beach, gave them
5 feeling Of immensity-of utter
anoIafion
s.Far out there, Roen-dim-do
YOU see the Farallones? 1t would
not be 50 III living there"
She knew what he meant and
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He had been cruel, he had said
unforgivable things. but try as she
would, it was not Jerry she was
angry at. It was herself. she
kicked the hard packed earth with
one toe, kicked 1t furiousIy. r..
membering.
"Oh, I deserve to lose himl / de.
serve to lose himr' he whispered
fiercely to herself. jumping of
the train like that, crafty, with far
less reason than she had jumped
on. Refusing to tell him just why
she had been in Adrian Martins
house that night. He had a right
to know. And out OF mere per.
verseness she had refused to ex-
plain, demanding everything from
him.
IF / think hard enough how
sorry / am, il think and try TO
tell him how / really feel, perhaps
he'll get the message"
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-10
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say? He had locked the door. and
was walking away with slow, care
full steps, an old man-all his life
behind him She must stop think.
ing aimlessIy, she must speak to
him He went around the
back Of the building.
Sally made up her mind, and fol-
lowed quickly. But not quickly
enough. He had climbed into
small car that was parked there,
fumbled for the switch, jolted down
the road in a cloud of dust. Now
she was all alone.
Eleven miles. Well, she could
walk. There'd be cars-Iots of
cars passing. 1t would be easy.
"P1l be very particular about what
kind Of car l elect" She laughed
at the picture Of hundreds Of peo-
pie begging her to accept lift.
Twilight be ginning to come
down, a mournful twilight. Sally
trudged ahead, thinking, worse
still-trying not to think.
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accepted 1t with this pathetic,
trembling gratitude. And did not
murmur that it came UNFAIRLY
covertly- unhappily.
She tried not to think Of this.
But sometimes when she would
be waiting for Mark-when she
would be walking restIessly about
the living room she had to fight
against a dread--a chill, forbid.
ding dread Of q time when he
might no longer be hers.
And when she went to Jackie's
home. when she played with the
little girl she often found herself
on the verge of tears.
Once when they were having
dinner. Jackie spoke to her three
times. She heard, but vaguely.
She did not answer. For she
was lost in a dream. Marks
image was in her mind and the
echo of q thing he said with such
kindling tenderness "Oh, Roen--I
so love your
For the third time, Ron, did
you play golf today? Why the
lapse2 You must be in lover
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ing, swallowing tears. She said
softly: Marx" and stole into
his arms.
Now, when she walked through
the park, inhaling the pungence
of eucalyptus trees and would
sometimes chance to see q white
cloud trimmed with purple fire:
fog drifting through the branches
or even the new. tender leaves
curling, she felt an immense
lump depressing her throat.
She never remembered a spring
so piercing in its loneliness. She
was hardly able to bear it. She
felt sometimes as though her
heart were laid over her whole
body because everything affected
her so sharply.
And He, most of all. She felt
grateful to him because his ewes
whether they looked at her gaily
or with q wistful yearning return.
ed to her the love Of her youth
included this love In the great
love she felt for him
The love that all her life she
had awaited was now hers. She
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-10

promoters the fighters and the ticket pecuators! Of
interested in the cash than the contest
And will the ringde rumms right back with
other big banro when the fight staged BY the Beasco
Of Boxing?
Surss thing know! They wouldn't miss wordl
WHY?
Because the real FIGHT DOPE today big bayhoo that
builds the interest in Of these gala grab fess
The trick get the fool fans fpht
dope that they will price be just within of the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-10
!, 50 they ean say they were

hOung Anywhere inside gates they can say they were
there!
The big fights today SURE THINGS! And BY that
mean that the promoters know for thing that the fight
viii "ay down" the coin at the box office!
And believe those birds interested
than the contest!
It's fight that really goes "ino training cuartersand
half dollars-for big fight!
And, boy, the fan notion 20 o. the box
ocebeieve lot of those will have %
to work for living!
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She might Object-she might
fight him.
But he mastered this fear. No
she was too proud to fight. She
would release him with hurt,
quiet reproach.
CTO Be Continued Tomorrow
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-10
Life, Love and Adventure Are the Lot
Of an Obscure Girl in
High Society.
Read This First:

eaIy Marsh thousand dollars ana
M0nuerfu education She keeps house with
enogapy and decides after three marry fails 10
ner IDEAL and Dan ShevIn shreWd
0duce her into smart society through
c9ny VIII him sof
which ne dictates Sally recsssy the that
Through Mrs Brooke she buys wonderful which
81 Mark ITelaw cripple She for SWIM climbs
an ugly little sail boat
most attractive young man who takes for granted that she
wealthy sally with
discovers 6s g secretly married This information Of
erest 80 Shevln Sally wishes she had
Rom9g letter She oyeears Mrs Brooke talking shevIn and
bFCks censses that she y Il sheyln and Tuby
s1 IS makes violent oye e her and e him che dives OF M
tells her he mad about her but be hasn't got nickel
somehow
morning She realizes she has fallen desperately
NOU Go On With The Story
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pride would suffer. He would
provide well for her.
In these plannings. there came
sometimes a disquieting sense OF
alarm. Claire was rigid in her
ideas. She had strong conven-
tional bias which she interpreted
as her deeply spiritual nature.
hMVE nTRa N eAtT
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-10
BY Fay King

There be doubt and difference opinion
whether Dempsey from Sharkey by foul fair blow
There Be some who feel that the fight framed and
thing SURE and that that the big fight certainly an
THE BAG" the morning after And to the million
bucks
And everyone Of the ngsde suckers who went the big
show may be certain that the winning punch in
box office And he delivered true the highest hopes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-08-10
This Dau II Our History

an August TO- 1885, Smithsonian Institution At Washington
- was founded The founder james Snhson, English
man. who bequehed his the United States for the
pose Of founding this important institution
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] Gil OrcIaestra ConducIor

lHE Symphony Orchestra Vienna conducted by
22yeaod girl Gertrude Hrdlka, in important concert
Critics praised her work conductor highly She made her
cess overnight concert yolfniste.
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-20
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 90 1927

"There must be some good in
these pictures Sir Frank said, "but
doubt it. They are the sort of pic
lures that could be painted by any
body except an artist. The painters
are not artists. and think this is all
that can be said for their modesty-
they know they cannot paint and so
they endeavor to attract attention
as contortionists.
Il do not know quite what their
object is: whether they want to at
tract attention or whether they are
just mentally diseased Unfortunate
ly, they are a danger to art. They
do not study drawing and painting
and they are liable to attract to their
ranks young artists who might have
made good, and who under their
influence, will stop studying and pro-
duce this kind of picture instead
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-20
Cooling Around the Clock =

light. We both drove off, and start
ed out for our balls; he was holding
the light in his left hand and began
sort of spraying beams along the
fairway as he walked. Well, wherever
it stopped there was big luminous
bulb, or pair of them, just as II
there were golf balls suspended IN
the air or up in the trees, which
didn't accord with nature, somehow
GAS we went along there was ter
rible scurrying, and then we saw that
the place was full of deer and smaller
mammalia which had come to see
what was going on. And then along
came warden who had been patrol
ling the place for poachers, and ar
rested both of us for hunting game
with lights, which is against the law.
SO we decided to play by daylight
after this. But while don't think
the new scheme is going to work out
l will say that night golfing up in
the, woods of northern Vermont is
about a = exciting a pastime as fell
low could ask for.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-20

years of railway service, says young
trainmen do not realize what a
blessing short-skirted athletic ladies
are to the railways.
why, when the ladies wore hoop
skirts we had to turn ourselves into
ladies' maids and squeeze the dear
things into the narrow car doors.
Then there came another tussle to
get them seated without disaster" :"
declared Prior "1n the days when
they wore bustles and hoops it was
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-20

twenty 1,400 horsepower electric 10
comotives on the Metropolitan Rail
way are to be given names The first
locomotive is named FLORENCE Night
ingale." Other names chosen are
William Penn, John Hampden, John
Lyon Dick Wilmington, John Milton
Michael Faraday, Oliver Cromwell,
Benjamin Disraeli, Sherlock Holmes,
Charles Dickens, Sir Christopher
Wren, Sarah Siddons,. George Rom
ney, Sir Ralpph Verney Lord By
ron, Sir Francis Drake, Edmund
Burke and John Wycliffe. Locomotives
are also named after England's kings,
the largest British locomotive which
has been on exhibition in America
recently being named after the
reigning king, George v.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-20

not so much dream of the past as
most people think. Such gift from
an anonymous donor has just been
handed in at the Queens Hospital
for Children. A woman in black
handed small cardboard box in at
the secretarys office, and hurried
away. The box was opened and found
to contain $1,000 in sovereigns and
alf-sovereigns. On piece of note
paper was message stating that the
money was a donation for the hos
pital with every good wish"
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