White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-11-07
by Evelyn Campbell
CHAPTER vIII-Continued
Copyright by Evelyn Campbell.l
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Youth, wealth, ambition. Their fu-
/ ture was limitless. Suddenly she felt
! old and on the shelf. What was she
doing, immured in her solitude, under
gray skies. when the others were find
ing life gay and happy together? She
had been cheated Of her girlhood. and
| now womanhood had as little to offer.
But If the senator's letter plunged her
| into deeper depression, on the other
hand it aroused her from lassitnde
and made action imperative.
She went to see Stevens. and laid
long manila envelope on the desk
before him.
Il want to leave New York" she
said "These are the last. Will you
see what you can do for me?"
The broker, a dry. fat man, drew
the corners of the crackly parchment
papers from the flap of the envelope
and glanced at them. Light and
Maud Oil. ). He smiled imper.
ceptibly.
well. we have placed great deal
of this stuff. :. Perhaps
"You said this was good, and | have
kept it until the last she interrupted
impatiently. She was biting her
lip an amazing sign of nerv-
BUSINESS in her.
Mr. Stevens raised his yellowish
brows.
"Only month ago we for
warded our check ;"
"What of that? The securities had
been in your hands since October!"
very we'll | will do what cam
He turned away. Brokers have uni
form antipathy to | liable clients"
Linda, who had always swept in
and out of that office as queen lin
gered hestant at the door.
"There Is an obligation which is
troubling me. My bill at the St.
Sewer has been running for long
time. They must have a payment
from this money" She spoke thought.
fully. as IF the stock was already sold
and she had only to disburse it's equiv
alent.
Mr.. Stevens was shocked. This
was an error in tactics for which he
was unprepared. He had nothing
whatever to do with the liabilities or
embarrassments Of his clients.
"The bookkeeper will forward the
check to your address, Mrs. ROTH he
said frigidly.
And so Lirda assured the manager
of her hotel that he would hear from
her within the week. She was giving
up her rooms for good-leaving New
York. Politely asked for an address,
she answered vaguely. washington"
She had been in that city many
times, but now her heart beat as mad
ly as any sixteen-year-old's who gets
her first peep at the world through
the historic If utterly dull and Pile
beian hordes that migrate to and from
the political center at every season.
She had sent no word Of her coming
to the two men who would be inter-
ested in seeing her, but twenty min
utes after her bags were brought up
she telephoned Converse to come to
her. His response was so pleased and
triumphant that she was smiling faint
ly when she turned from the tele-
phone.
When they met an hour later, he
still wore the manner of victory. but
this disappeared at her first words
II have given everything into
Stevens hands," she said. "Soon the
last bit of paper possess will be gone
and then-you will be troubled with
my poor little affairs no longer" She
tried to speak lightly, Disgusting the
meaning of her words with mockery.
His face altered at once, but not
with chagrin-rather 1t was with a
closing down of pleasantly, tighten.
Ing of every muscle In that visage
which beneath it's purple mask of flesh
remained crafty and sinister.