Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-01-27
published by special ARRANGEMENT with The
Chicago Tribune eyndicste)
IN W. PARTS-PART TWO
The Story So Far

Il Inc Story 80 Far
Hartley Morel. young architect. goes west
and meets Jasper Hewlett and his daughter,
Resale. Jasper and Resale have Just re-
turned from a trip abroad, following scandal
caused by Jasper's fiancee clipping with Cleye
Rainey, Rosalie's hance. Morel is taken up
by Rosalie's set and he meets Bellew, an
architect who stands at the head of his
profession. Morel and Rosalie are often
paired of at various social functions, which
Resale accepts in a very impersonal man
nsr. They are returning from a cruise on
Stockday's yacht, and are standing alone at
the rail, the boat enveloped in a dense fog.
And now the story
And instantly every material thing
about them dimmed int ghostliness, in
to phantasm. intangible seeming, vapor-
Gus shapes suspended into eternity. Only
they alone In all this cool grayness were
warm with the mystery Of life, drawn by
the irresistible force to mingle fire with
lire and longing with longing. They did
not know If they moved, but his arms
held her and hers clasped his neck, AND
their lips came together. II 1T might be
only just this always-presence-no past,
no future-Just the moment Of beauty.
Pulled back as ever by that everyday
ness that lays beauty by the heels-by
shouts, the shrill scream of their own
poats whistle, the ~whooings and blar-
ings OF sirens; warnings. harsh, hoarse
and strident-dangerl dangerl dangerl
Keep off keep off I'm here in hte fog
here! herel here! Don come nearl don't
come near! for If we come together
there1l be the devil to payl
Morel looked into the face SO close to
his. white with the velvet white Of gar
denias, and a red mouth with softly part
ed lips, and dark eyes into which his
sank deep as the waters beneath them.
Then the depths closed against him. and
the lips smiled a little, and said the
throaty voice of Miss Resale Hewlett.
PLEASE don't shut the gate, Hartley"
At ten o'clock the next morning Morel
kept an appointment with Richard Bel
lew, and at ten-thirty Bellew offered him
a position with his own firm, a position
OF possibilities limited only by Morel
himself.
II know this is a momentous decision
for you" said Bellew. TT means q def
mite future path, SO think 1t over we'll.
/ believe you haven't completed the orig
inal itinerary you planned? But the at
fractions OF u city"-he smiled gem
ially-"I really expect them to-persuade
YOU" And he cooked a whimsical eye
brow over a-well-just a little bit know
ing eye.
Morel smiled back with no acknowledge
ment Of that knowingness. There was
some more conversation. expressions of
appreciation, qualification, a hearty hand
shake, an appointment FOR day after to-
morrow, and exit Mr.. Hartley Morel, out
wardly calm, inwardly shaken to the toes.
But what shook him was not the COW
eted opportunity, although this was
without further experiment the place
and position to which he could uncon-
~ditionally pledge himself; no, What shook
him was that cooked eyebrow, the quick
ly e~xtinguished knowingness in the kind
ly shrewd eyesl There was no doubt
that Bellew liked him and believed In
him, and also guessed him as possibly
the future son-in-law of Jasper Hewlett,
for whom he had many times expressed
his admiration and regard. That was
what had been In the knowing eye.
Hardly to be considered a catastrophe,
you'd think. nevertheless 1T was the too
charming figure of Rosalie that barred
his instant acceptance Of Bellows latter-
ing and substantial offer. 1t meant prox-
unity (of a sort at least) to Rosalie. n
the fact Is that I'M succumbs SO readily
to a temptation within a taxi ride, when
three thousand miles control the same
impulse with some stringency.
1t was not at all that Morel battered
himself that he had or would have n
chance Of becoming Jasper's son-in-law
-Rosalie's h-usband-ahl No, but he
might as we'll be honest with himself,
might better face that fact from which
he had been carefully averting his eyes.
the sweetly bitter truth that he was n
had been from the first madly in love
with Resale.
And last night had shown him, If he
had the slightest perception, that the
sane thing to do was to clear out before
he made q fool of himself, try the absent
curt upon that fever before 1t utterly
consumed him. Here he was, practically
broke right now. AS a bachelor he could
not really afford to keep up socially with
the circle into which his acquaintance
ship with the Hewletts had drawn him,
and he had certainly stated the situa-
ton mildly when he said he was In no
position to marry. Anyway, he didn't
want to marry Resale. spoiled n ca
PRECIOUS m~illionaire's darling; and Rosa
lie would simply laugh in that cool, au-
dacious and slightly ironical way Of hers
THAT made you van to shake her and
kiss her out Of breath for punishment)
at the idea Of marrying Hartley Morel.
True, she had kissed him last night,
but 1t was his own ecstasy that dreamed
things into 1t that Of cours weren't
there. Rosa@ie's technique was 30 fin
ished, and the setting SO conducive to
Authorizations of-well, you could call
them fourth dimensional vistas as being
the modern Of the old fashioned seventh
heaven. Well, then, II you are in no
danger, young man, why SO bent on
flight, valor's better part In this case?
Because, confound 1t, you don't go
climbing on the rack, ever If you know
you'll come off 1t with the breath Of life
still in your tortured body. There was
pain in this and there would be more,
and you'd better let pride drag you off
somewhere where at least your suffering
will be your own secret.
A horn honked in his very ear and a
smart little car slid In neatly alongside
of him, and Hello, therei' said q coolly
audacious voice. He struck earth. He
had been walking and walking. paying
no attention to his route, 80 deeply i'm
mersed was he in his problem, and here
darned II his treacherous feet hadn't
walked him out to within a block of the
Hewlett's housed Rosalie sat here at the
wheel OF the shiniest and niftiest Of two
s~eaters, fresh and cool as wild roses,
sophisticated as orchids, everything about
her dated six weeks ahead Of Paris.
You look like q trance going some
where to fall into was her fippant
greeting. I've been honking you for a
block"
He laughed quite easily. "Can I be
getting deaf as well as dumb, d'you sup
pose? / was Just walking out a little
problem with myself and, fact is, didn't
notice I was In your neighborhood at
ALL"
If you're not bound anywhere special,
hop In and go with me" she invited him.
II was Just starting out for there.
Thought I'd pick up Peg and we'd lunch
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