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fhelp. And then the whole thing
 wouldn't have happened. Larry
 feels deeply responsible. That's what makes--" s@ "stop, stopl" Ellen broke in. Put on your coat Mrs Harrow gate said firmly. "Larry's at home
 now and he's wretchedly unhappy.
 I'm going to take you to him. You
 can patch up this quarrel or situa-
 ton or whatever it is together. I'm
 sure it's too much for mel" Hurry, child," she added. I'm sorry. but can't come,' Ellen told her.
 Nothing Mrs Harrowgate said could persuade her. The older wo-
 man threatened, pleaded, even wept. Always she was defeated by Ellen's refusals. There was no
 triumph in Ellen's heart at the
 complete surrender of Larry's mother. There was nothing in her
 heart except burning agony. Long after Mrs IIarrowgate had gone. the girl sat in the darkening
 living room. At last she read Larry's message.
 "I'il wait for you, my darling,
 as long as you want me to wait. Nothing in your past, nothing in your future, can affect what feel for you. Whenever you want to
 come to me I will be waiting sin the studio. You can see the light from the street."
 That night before she went to Drearnland Ellen walked past the studio. There was a light there. Larry was waiting as he had prom ised. Ellen stood for a long time in the cold. quiet twilight. She felt again the sharp and burning pain in her heart. The yellow light at the window burned on steadily. The girl turned in at the apart
 ment house and walked through the lobby and up the stairs. She
 could not stop for an elevator. The door of the studio was ajar.. She went inside. And as she entered
 Larry stepped through the door from the adjoining rooms that were to have been their home. For an instant he paused-then caught her
 savagely into his arms and kissed
 her again and again. Feverishly she pushed his hands away and walked to the window to stare down at the roofs and at the
 men and women and children 'strolling in the tiny, dusky park. The children were screaming and running briskly. all of them but toned into leather 1eggins and lit- tie woolen coats.
 Ellen turned suddenly and re- turned to the divan where Larry
 waited in puzzled silence. Larry" she said, there's some- thing I must tell you-something that's been killing me. Larry,' she stammered, "it was Fergus who
 wrote those unsigned letters to you
 and he told the truth-at least a part of the truth. There was a girl at the house with your uncle when he died. was that girl. I thought | I was married to him--and after-
 wards the whole thing was such a terrible mess! I ran away rather than face it"
 Tears came in torrents. Ellen
 sank to the divan but she pushed
 away Larry's hand and steadily,
 told him the whole story. She tried to make him see her fear
 and indecision, her frantic desire to keep his love at all costs.
 You'll never forgive me, know. | You can't!
 "T cheated and lied and my only
 excuse is that loved you too much
 to risk your hearing anything that might make you love me less"
 She was crying bitterly. Hel | voice was hoarse and strained witt l emotion. Now I'm paying for ali my lies
 I'll have to give you up, to let yor go. And my heart is breaking!" | Her hair was disordsred, had
 showered from it's pins. Her face
 was pale and drawn with pain
 The ache in her heart seemed tc fill the world. Larry leaned for. ward and gathered her shaking
 body into his arms.
 "You might let me speak. dar- I ling The said My poor. fright
 ened little sweetheart! I've known
 all this for days. for weeks" You've known it all?" she whis. pered. utter incomprehension writ | ten on her face. was it Fergus who told you?"
 You yourself told me-" "I?"
 l "I mean you tried to tell me al l first. After I learned waht must
 have happened I could realize the
 thousand opportunities you'd tried
 to make and that like blind fool I'd closed them to you. You're moi
 q very successful faisifier. sweet | heart"
 l "I tried so hard--I did try and
 then just stopped trying! wal
 afraid. Larry"
 He held her closer. Do you remember that day ]
 went out to Long 1sland?" he asked
 after a while.
 She nodded. tightening her fin, gers about his hand.
 "That was the day learned" he l went on. AT was going through
 Uncle Stevens papers and one oi
 the first things I ran across wal
 his passport, made out for him and
 for his wife. Your picture was or
 that passport"
 | "Oh. dr .ling-to learn tha'