Nogales international., 1930-12-30
Second Install1nent
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

Rodney had killed himself because no
torious woman, julie Farrow, threw him
over. Giles is introduced to julie FarroW
by his friend Lombard, in Switzerland.
He resolves to make her fall in love with
him. then throw her over as she threw
Rodney. She tells him she has made a
bet with her friend "Bim" Lennox that
she can drive her car to the top OF the
St. Bernard Pass and back. Giles chal-
1enges her to take him with her. and she
accepts They start out in the face of a
gathering snowstorm
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"He must have been unbalanced to
take his life as he did,
She shivered a little.
"You don't think then don't
sou think it was an accident?"
Chittenharn looked steadily at her.
"Do you?" he asked
She shook her head.
I'm afraid not . but oh, wasn't
it dreadful"
The deep sincerity Of her voice sur-
Drised him. She almost sounded dis
tressed instead of being utterly heart
less and callous about the tragedy as
he knew she was.
1T seems rather pitiable," he an
swered in a hard voice.
She did not answer for a moment
or two, then she said with a not OF
evaporation in her voice:
1T would interest me exceedingly,
Mr.. Chittenham, to know the real rea-
son why you wanted to come with
me-"
II told you. To see if you are
really as defiant of Mrs. Grundy as
you pretend"
She shook her head.
"That's not the real reason, though
yesterday I pretended to believe you;
There isn't anything at all dreadful
in you and / taking this drive to-
pether. I've often done more risky
things. We're doing a perfectly harm
less and ordinary trip which plenty
Of other people have done before us"
She laughed. "Oh, no, that's not your
real reason for wishing to come, l
know"
Chittenham sat staring before him
with frowning brows. - This woman
was more than a match for him and
he knew it.
"If l told you the real reason you
would not believe that either" he said
deliberately after long pause.
In some strange way he felt as if
Rodney were close to him, at his elbow,
prompting him, whispering the words
of that last tragic letter.
kto:.,1r
making her pay. / believe | could
even manage to laugh in He'll, or
wherever I shall go, if I knew that
you were making her suffer as she's
made me suffer-"
And ne thought of Rodney as boy
"a little CHEEKY fellow whom he had
adored of Rodney in his first Eton
suit, shy and little awkward, trying
to feel older than he was . of Rod
ney :. oh, the pictures came crowd
ing fast and thick, leading up to that
one last picture which he had never
seen save in his bitter Imagination
Rodney dead
And it was the fault of this woman
who sat beside him, speaking of Rod
ney with that little note of pretended
distress in her voice. He shrank
little from her with a feeling of re-
pulsion. Women were all the same,
heartless and selfish.
He felt her eyes upon him.
Tell me the real reason?" she
said.
Chittenham turned his gaze from the
wet road and looked at her. There
was a little flush in her cheeks and
her eyes were deep and unfathomable
behind their thick dark laShes.
She looked so young-hardly more
than a giri-and yet Chittenham knew
that she had been through the divorce
court, and through experiences OF
which no woman need be proud.
"Please tell mel" she said again
and now thee was little breathlesS
catch in her voice that seemed to speak
of deep sincerity and interest which
she was trying in vain to conceal.
Chittenham asked an apparently irrele-
want question.
"Do you believe in love at first
sight,"
Love at :" She caught his
words up, then broke off to ask almost
in whisper: ooh why?"
Because" said Chittenham deliber-
ately, that is my real reason"
You should not say such foolish
things" she said, sharply.
Il told you you would not believe
me-" he said calmly.
Il don't understand you," Julie said
in jerky little voice.
Chittenham said no more, and it
was she who presently broke the 81
lence.
81 can't understand you, Mr.. Chit
tenham If it's "a jol1e-I don't
think it's quite good taste, and if IT'S
not joke l keep remembering
what Rodney said of you, that you
despised women, that you had never
cared more for one than for all the
rest"
Even Napoleon met his Water
loo," Chittenham said. He laid a
hand over one of hers that held the
driving wheel.
Julie did not answer; she was not
+ening. Her thoughts were in a
EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS. on