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During the next mile or so she
stole slanting peeps at him, not
ing definitely things she had noted
only in a general way before.
''Not handsome" she thought, her
artists eye alert to imperfections
Hes very attractive. So big.
Nice eyes. They contrast with
his skin, he's so brown. Why
doesn't Gay like him, I wonder?
Or doesn't he like her? He does,
though. Awfully."
The last of her glances he inter-
cepted turning his head unexpect.
eddy. And he half smiled at her.
Funny world, isn't it,"
This made them friends. She
couldn't think quite why it should
but 1t did.
Alan settled lower in the seat
and slid his hands down the pol
ished wheel until the thumbs
touched. Without preamble he
began to relate what he knew Of
the accident. cit seems they'd
been to some roadhouse out near
Stamford. They'd been there all
evening, and by the time they
started back Davis was pretty
well crooked.
Gay says she begged him to
let her do the driving and even
the fellow in charge of the park
ing place tried to reason with
him, but he wouldn't listen, and
away they went-going like hell
They hadn't gone many miles
when Davis missed a curve COM
pleteIy---just didn't see it, that
was all, although there was a
white rail fence there, and a sign.
He kept straight on.
And by the :ime Gay realized
that he wasn't going to take the
turn. 1t was too late--theX crash
ed through the fence and down
this embankment into a ravine.
went out yesterday for a look at
the place" He shook his head.
"It's a miracle they weren't both
killed"
Dolly emitted a little wordless
tormented sound.
"They didn't turn over" Alan
continued. 1.-THE car stayed right
side up-luclkily. 1t shot down
the bank and hit a tree. head on,
and then it slithered sideways and
hit another tree, and stopped. 1t
was the second tree that-got
Jerry. They struck it broadside,
you see. On mis- side. And the
door beside him had sprung open,
or he'd opened ir himself instinR-
lively, trying TO escape-though
Gay thinks he couldn't have had
open and his leg WAS hanging out
and was caught betwe-- Oh,
I'm sorryp'
Dolly's face, blanched and twist
ed below the hands that sought,
by covering up her eyes. TO blind
her imagination, had given him
pause. I'm SO sorry he said
again gently. II shouldn't have
told you"
"Yes-you should-1but how
frightful--" After an instant
her hands came away, fell to her
lap. go on, have to know"
That's about all. Some people
driving just back of them saw
them go over and stopped. And
somebody phoned from a farm
house for an ambulance-That's
ALL"
They were unconscious?"
"Oh, yes
''I see." Dolly considered, gnaw.
ing at her lips. There's HIS leg,
and the internal injuries-and he
was cut. too, suppose when the
windshield broke
THE windshield didn't break,
said Alan. 1T was enc OF the
kind that are guaranteed not to
1t cracked into a million spIinters,
but didn't fly apart"
Very evenly and articulately
then keeping his gray eyes on
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why, because-oh, don't
know. He was always sort or
pathetic to me, Jerry was. He
meant 40 well. You talk about
his worst enemy--he himself was
that! And he didn't know what
10 do about it, or how to help
it," She broke off, struck with
an awkward thought. Perhaps she
was annoying this man whose
wife had n1otored late at night
alone with Jerry-once at least
that he knew Of. Perhaps even
now. when Jerry lay SO i'll, he
would rather not hear him de-
Consideration for A1an's feelings
OVERRIDE her loyalty. She ended
weakly. "Oh course, that doesn't
excuse him"
mo- agreed Alan. And her
auepicion became certainty.
But I'm sorry for him now, all
right" he added. Poor devil.
He told then of a visit he
had paid to Jerry's bedside the al
ternoon before; told OF 1t care
fully, so as to prepare her with
out narrowing her unduly. He
told of Jerry's cries for her, and
OF the physicians expressed opin-
ION that il "this girl, this Dolly"
could bs found, her presence at
the hospital might help :
HE didn't mention your last
name, and nobody knew who
Dolly was. We didn't ask Gay.
Didn't want her to know he was
deIirious, for one thing. I found
YOU finally through a clipping we
got cut of Davis bill fold. 1t was
. page torn from some fashion
nnagazine-two photographs adj
vertising dresses Posed by Dolly
Quinn
so I knew you were either an
actress or a model, and when I
got into town / went to the office
and looked you up in the Studio
Guide. We're an advertising firm,
you see, and we employ models
sometimes, so we keep a copy on
hand. And sure enough, there you
were. I'd have called you last
night. but it was so late-and the
doctors had said no immediate
danger"
He pondered then, briefly, while
Dolly waited, perceiving that there
was more to come. Gas soon as
I saw your picture" he said, Il
remembered about Atlantic City.
I'd forgotten your name, but
recognized your face. And" he
paused again. Tell me some.
thing, Miss Quinn. That night
Gay went to your table and talked
to you-she knew you knew Davis,
didn't she? That was her reason
for introducing herself?"
''Why-yes.
"And you talked about him, you
ana She" Alan unused aloud, but
as II no himself. ''And she pumped
YOU, and. OF course" He nod.
ded. lips compressed. 1T all adds
up"
II guess there's no reason why
shouldn't tell you" he went on
somewhat later, Dolly having main
tanned a confused silence. Gay
and have separated. Perma-
nently. We-agreed to disagree
about two weeks before this thing
happened, and she's going to get
q divorce. She's going to-"
He stopped. What it was he
had started to say Dolly could not
know. but she sensed that it was
not what finally, once more, he
did say: divorce me-"
Again she was at loss for a
suitable comment. Words of sym
pathy rushed to her lips, but she
: crecked them before they were
uttered. In the brave set of her
companions rudy head, in the
determinedly ronchalant express
sion of his profile, she read that
he cid not want 10 be, wouldn't
10 eommiserated. She kept sti1l.
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, the road before them, he spoke
the thing that was somehow, or
all these CHASTITY things, the most
intoIerabIe. 1.-THE glass that cut
Gay--wasn't windshield glass. It
was 4 whisky bottle Of Davis'g.
She was holding it for him until
he wanted it and when the crash
came shedidn't let CO."
CHAPTER 40
There was first a group of
buildings OF varying shapes and
sizes, fastened together with pas
sageways enclosed in wood and
glass. Brick buildings. dark red,
with porcf1es here and there
wherein invalids in wheel chairs
sat motionless in the warm Sep
TENDER sun.
A long lawn stretched between
the buildings and the street, and
there was a drive with pebbles
that spattered out behind APP
preaching tires. Then three gran
tie steps. Then a huge glass
door, like a giants picture frame.
And beyond that, gray Hnoleum,
nurses moving tireIessly on chalky
canvas shoes, and quiet, and the
dim breath of ether
To the left OF the entrance
there was little room fun or
two men and a woman and q
child. Reception Room-Please
Do Not Smoke" read a placard.
At the right of the entrance was
an office, presided over by two
nurses. One of them was talking
into a telephone. mo. No
change" she said. And adjusted
a hairpin more securely in her
precise black hair.
The other nurse, a freckled one,
smiled through a. wicket and
chirped, Good morning, Mr..
Pomeroy"
Good morning." said Alan.
Flows the wife?''
Getting along nicelyv'
"I called up earlier. They said
she'd had rather restless night"
"Oh, but that's to be expected.
Really, she's just perfectly fine"
Sand Davis?"
The nurse hesitated, glancing at
Dolly.
This is Miss QUINN supplied
Alan. 1.-THE young lady he was
calling for"
ooh, yes. Certainly. We heard
a good deal about you yesterday,
Miss Quinn"' the nurse declared,
and smiled. It's nice you've
come. But" Here it was az
though invisible fingers picked
off her smile and pinched her red
eyebrows together. I'm afraid
you can't see him today. Not
until much later, at any rate.
He's in the operating room"
Alan asked it, because Dolly
could not. They decided to
amputate?"
The nurse nodded. This morn
ing. Very suddenly. DR.. Gresham
and DR.. DeWolke came out from
New York, and half an hour
after they got here the patient
was being given the anaesthetic."
Her face was sweetly grave,
professionally grave; an express
sion like soothing syrup, like a
cooed. There, there" Dolly looked
away When she looked
back the nurse was forming noise
less words with her lips for
Alan's benefit. Two words. "Only
hone - ""
\ II
Then there was an hour Of wait
ing. The longest hour Dolly
Quinn had ever known; as long,
1t seemed to her, as all the hours
OF all her life combined. She
waited In the little reception
room, with the two men and the
woman and the child. The
woman was weeping. Dolly didn't
weep. She couldn't now. She
enyied the woman shedding the
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and of her escape at La Charlie
from her republican protector
whom she left unnamed. She had
hoped to shelter at the Chateau de
Blossom, with her cousins there.
But to her disnlay on reaching it
in the dawn, she had found II
closed and shattered. the family
gone. Thence on a weary horse,
she had plodded on to Verrues, 10
miles away, where another cousin
dwelt. She found Verrues a
bIackened ruin, and in her ex-
haustion and despair, she sat
down and gave way to tears.
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! There was more fury than the
vicomte reckoned. Something
bright cleaned suddenly in the
boys hand. On the instant Cor.
bal had him in a Wrestler's grip
which pinned his arms helplessly
60 his sides. He Rugged the mur-
dernus rascal close, intending to
throw him. Instead, as il contact
with that young body had burnt
him, he thrust 1t sharply from
him, and stepped back.
Name of Heaven he ejacu.
lated.
The supposed stripping stood
before him, breathing hard with
head little bowed, making no
further attempt to escape.
who are you? What are you?
And why are you dressed as q
MANI Answer me. viii not
hunt you.
The sudden gentleness OF his
voice, more, its highlbred inflec-
ton, wrought change in the
others attitude. He threw back
his head showing q face that
CLEANED white and ghostly in the
half-light.
who are you? What is your
name?n came the counter-ques-
lions, In voice and delivered
on q note which left CORDIAL little
doubt OF the masquerader's
quality.
Until lately / was known as
the Vfcomte Corbigny de CorbaL
Since then I have enjoyed GER
tain peace as ci-devant. At the
moment scarcely know how to
describe myself. But this land IL
still mine, and that house up
yonder, in which am prepared
60 afford you shelter If you viii
deal frankly with me. =
You are q gentleman
You my call me that, hope"
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her salvation to the charity "
peasants. "A farm Lad had found
her staggering weakly along Ia
prey to fever, and accepting the
risk Of yielding to his invitation
she had accompanied him to his
homestead, and there, since her
spent condition left her no choice,
she had disclosed To the mother 81
the household her sex and quality.
CTo Be Continued Monday.l
(COpyr1ght. 1928. ~ AEetr0politmm
right, 1875 ana 1877. " Mafnan
gabattni. All rights reasrved.l
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what ajar. but a screen had been
placed just inside 1t, 50 that moth
ing was to be seen Of the room or
Its occupants. Dolly listened;
nothing was to be heard.
Diffidently she raped on the
panel.
Anurse appeared promptly from
behind the screen and thrust d
chocolate brown head, topped with
a cap like q dab Of meringu
through the aperture. "Yes?'
Gould I see Mrs. Pomeroy just
for a minute? Dolly Quinn"
The nurse vanished, and Dolly
could hear the indistinguishabI
drone of her voice as she consulted
her patient. Then another voice,
petulant, high. mo, No! 7 don't
want to see her!" The voice
climbed hysterically higher. Don't
let her in fere--AIan-ol1 tell her
to go away ple-e-ase"
Dolly did not wait for the nurse
to reappear. She went away, tip
toeing down the corridor. Poor
Gay" she thought, and whispered
it to herself, striving to rout from
her mind the little resentment, the
sense of injury : She had
gone several yards before she saw
that she went in the wrong direc-
ton; the elevator was at the other
end. But there were stairs ahead.
She kept on. Poor Gay. didn't
meant to upset her."
Then suddenly all thought OF
Gay was ripped from her mind.
She stopped moving, stood ar
rested. her fingers convulsive on
the purse she carried, her eyes
starting.
The stairway she had glimpsed
was in an alcove. Deeper in the
alcoye, at the left of the stairs, SO
that she faced 1t squarely, there
was a double door. 1t said
Surgery" Beside the door stood
a stretcher on wheels. A gaunt
white thing. A significant, q grue-
some. empty, waiting thing.
She got back to the reception
room somehow; she never knew
just how. She remembered q dizzi-
ness, a round rail under her hand,
q mechanical setting OF one foot
ahead Of the other, countless times.
Then she was back in the stiff
little room. crying terribly, with
her head in her arms on the arm
Of the wooden rocker.
The freckled nurse came from
across the hall and patted her
shoulder and crooned that It was
all right, things were going to turn
out all right, she mustn't cry, she
must be little soldier. And Alan
Pomeroy came. The nurse trotted
off and presently returned with
something liquid and cloudy-white
in a glass. and Alan sat beside her
and held her hand and said, Drink
1t, will you, Dolly? Come on. now,
let's see you drink it." Pleadingly,
patiently. until she drank 1t.
She made valiant effort to calm
herself. and in time succeeded par
TALLY; even to the point where her
eyes stayed dry when she dried
them. The freckled nurse departed
again. took up her place behind her
wicket. Alan remarked that what
he had come for particularly was
to ask her to pardon Gay. 1t was
just nerves; he hoped she under
stood.
How much longer do you think
they'll be?" she queried.
II don't know. Not q great
while. surely"
"Will you do something for ms?"
''Of course. Anything I can"
''Will you." Dolly besought him,
ego up there, near where he $50
you'll know the minute there is
any news? And I'll wait right
here
She was alone again in the little
room.
One thing she knew; she would
marry Jerry lf. ne lived. with
out process Of reasoning with
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woman suffer. They gave her
shelter for some days, until begin
ming to fear the consequences to
them OF her being discovered there,
and also because to lie in hiding
was too temporary a measure to
suit her impatient, eager spirit,
she procured from them the peas.
ant garments in which she stood,
and departed, hoping to make her
way on foot ACROSS the Nivernais
and Burgundy, and thence slip
over the frontier into Switzerland.
The Nfvernais she had almost
crossed. for Poussignot was only
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4 few miles distant from the con-
fines Of Burgundy. But the jour
ney had been one Of hardships
beyond all that she had feared.
And this notwithstanding that
fortune had singuIar1y befriended
her. She had made q practice Of
travelling only by night, never ven
turing upon roads until they were
deserted. BY day she would sleep
hidden IN some wood or buried in
the straw of q barn or the hay of
i stack. Twice she had been
discovered, but each time BY
cfaritabIy disposed peasants. who,
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without suspecting her sex Of
quality, had given her food and
shelter.
Commonly she had suffered hum.
ger. and once at least had been
driven to steal, 30 that she might
stiH the pangs Of ii. Once she
had lost her way. and Tor two days.
travelled north instead Of east. Nor
would she have known Of her error
but that ia the nefghborhocd OF
Very she was taken III az the
result Of d drenching endured
whilst endeavoring to sleep under
q hedge. Here again she owed
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Thus she was surprised by q
group OF sacred peasants, a half
dozen members Of a family moving
out to labor in the fields. She
staked all upon their being people
not yet infected by Revolutionary
notions, and disclosed herself to
them. The disclosures increased
their fear. They were folk who
still believed in God and the King;
but who kept the belief secret lest
it should bring evil days upon
them.
Nevertheless, 1t was not In their
simple hearts to let a gentle
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out debate Or question. this was
settled. 1T was ~ though 1t had
been decided for her, delivered 10
her brain - an ultinatum BY
some parent mentality which
must be obeyed. She would
marry Jerry IL he lived
She would help him, care for
him, shield him from hurt, kiss
Ing his eyeIids To blind him to
the pity In mems eyes, filling
his ears with endearments so
that he could not hear them say.
Poor deyfiy' She would
be very gentle, very kind, his
whole life long
She did not love him. Almost
ever since that May morning
when she sent him finally away.
she had been aware Of that.
Quickly. with the passing Of the
first sharp shock. amazed reali-
zatiOn had come; and she had
said to herself, II don't bellows
ever did love him, really" But
he was 80 dear to her. He was
dearer to her than any human
being. save only Bee. She could
pretend to love him. II 1t would
help it all, IL 1t would make UP
to him in any smallest measure
for things lost and irrecover-
able.
She found hereAlf praying H.
lently into the palm Of the hand
that supported her chin. God
please let me do that-give me
the chance. Because maybe it's
my fault this happened. If I
hadn't sent him away that day
God. oh, don't let him die"
Hers was q simple. perfect
faith. She had prayed, and she
was comforted. She sat relaxed,
her hands softly folded, waiting
for Alan. And when at last he
came she said before he spoke.
81 know. He's going to get
well"
And It was %.
CHAPTER II
When Gay was told, q fun
week later. what they had done
to Jerry for the saving OF his
life, her first dazed thought was
that now he would never b able
to dance again. Beyond that,
for a moment, her mind refused
to go. 1t was appalling that
Jerry would never dance again
he who had danced so n1mbly,
so tirelessly.
She thought Of their foxtrots
together at the roadhouse that
last evening. early, before he be-
came unsteady on his feet. Beau
tifully they had glided to the
wall of the lovesick horns. while
the pink lights tinted them, and
the people peered. She closed
her eyes and felt the motion OF
that dancing, as one who had
sailed feels the motion of the
ship when he lands
Never again. Never any more.
To Alan, who had told her,
she said in a dead little voice.
He'll just have to sit and
watch, won't he. It seems-so
strange"
And he wouldn't be able to
walk very well. That was the
second link in the chain OF her
full comprehensions. He wouldn't
even be able to walk very well.
Twice that summer she had gone
to see a motion picture called
''The Big Parade" In 1t the hero,
who looked not unlike Jerry. came
back from the war manned as
Jerry was manned. Scenes from
the film flickered through her
mind now, and she knew just how
jerry would walk, just how he
would appear. Clutches under his
armpits. launching his shoulders
high, shortening his neck. Tall
body swinging from the crutches
forward. onerouslyb Steps that AL
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