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I L 5 r- : IK fl: j ; J s t S ' 1 ; i I .'I.;- if i ll, : I; . I 'i 1 1 TEN THE FOG OF ORLEANS r'atfawef trim rrf4lt ttf Jiiinren? And when 1 ife you u luihappy " fl She caught her brtli. I n liappy? Who ssa I nm?" ' "Why, I nay o I know ll " '"Ha:" ,5 "Oh, there's no u In arguing fiibout it. Just bemuse u dash t'.iround to parties, and laugh, and iimnce, nnd fit i-l that doesn't prove tiinythlng. I've watched ynu limp ISund again. And I've wished no Jji.ften His voice shook momen tarily, and then he umtrolled It. C'Tve wished so often that I could I something annul It, insiean oi ;hat. I've only made It wonwv ' You haven t made It worse. ftroart. 'You've made It better." M-3 "I wish I mill. I think so I'm-only-sorry for ymi. -- Oh, don't mind me!" snld Htu- rt, and laughed, wretchedly. "Tell me how 1 could posslhljt have made things better for you." 'Just by ... by understanding. There waa a brief pause, and then he turned his head and saw that she waa crying. "Why. Helen.'" he said thickly. 1 "Hli!" She had no teara; she waa cry ing In greaat spasm which racked her whole body; nnd Stuart, rigid beside her, was nearly mnd with din tress, but he fought back every I' pulse of aympathy. save one, her t.ngers clutched hla own. At length ahe waa quiet, nnd another lone;, perilous silence had come between them. Stuart, who had been (cowling down at the mnaa, lifted his head. "If I'd ta ken you In my arms." he said, half to hlmaclf. "If I had tuken you In my arms, the way 1 wanted to, and klased you to try to comfort you you couldn't ever have for given me could you?" For the aake of his faith In her. the could look atralght into his eyee, and tall a deliberate He. "No, .Stuart, I couldn't have ever." Stuart got to hla feet. "You see. I'll aee, 1J1 be aa Rood to you as I know how to be." . "I know you will. Stuart." 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Let's K" ' home " I He could easily imagine how the 'society of Orleans might have at tracted and Intoxicated a girl whr. ! win jet In her teens. Indeed, lie i was fiank enough to admit thai a few years ago, he himself miiiht have been deceived by all the ailt and glitter. A for Iilckie Carson, the man was undeniably baud aome. and when he chose, be could probably ha engaging, and cut nn impressive figure to u debutante tut aa Stuart reveiwed the li.isl of Mf" on Maple Aeimc, a basis of champalgncd Idleness, he wan dreni bed with suo esalve waves of contempt; he cuuld prale Maple Avenue for only a single circum stance. The majority "f these families had enjoyed their money for three generation; nut einh nesa and fashion hid prevented the arrival of a fourth. Ha had too much courage to shirk meeting Carson, but ho was embarrassed, nevertheless. lie was embarrassed In spite of his knowl edge that t'urson, for all his pride of place, was devoted to h: wini cellar, and wasn't above the tak Ing of his other pleasure f here he found them. Carson was:i t par ticularly Interested In his wife this was another principle which had Its habitat on Maple Avenue and he didn't seem to care very much what she did. or when, oi where; ho waa a very poor iiset to hla country and a worse hus band to Helen, but Ktuart. who had prlmlples enough to aerve them both, waa restless In his com pany, . for he allowed himself no alibi, and felt that he had been un fair to Caraon. He alao told himself that he had been unfair to Helen; he told him self that he hadn't acted the purl of a gentleman. A gentleman, finding himself In love with a mar ried woman, would either conceal hla love, or leave the neighborhood. I H couldn't leave the nelghbor ' hood, because his mission In Or 1 leans lacked perhaps a dozen weeks betore completion. Further I more, even though ho bad failed of i ,,nc l alment. and now waa con trite about It. he couldn't avoid her 'entirely. unbs be wished to arouse I notice and rommcnl The wisest course was to go on with his lior I mal schedule; but to put hla own I sentiment nnd her patient unhap-nlrn-ss out of his mind. The prescription was sensible. , but lie found that he couldn't awal luw it He could manage hla ac tions. I. ii : he couldn't manage hl 'thoughts; the vary best he could do was to arrange so that ho was seldom alone with her. He count curb his tongue, but he couldn't ker the messages out of Ills eyes " Kven when they were a Ion-. they never mentioned the after noon by the lake side. They talk ed calmly, and with much restraint of the places they knew, and the books they had read, and the music they had heard; but now anil tnen their eye met, and fell again sometimes Immediately, and aome- times after their world had hung both of them were more conatraln iUHjrcnded for a few neronds and ed than ever. She was eager to bold hla good opinion of her, and once she tried to explain her current actlona. "I fton't want to flirt any more, 8tu Hrt. I don't want to. but when I'm over at the rluh. or anywhere. If I looked as though I d reformed all of n sudden " lie nodded. "Women have sharp eyes." .She blushed, and the subject wac.t mentioned again. Hihad been In love, however, for only a fortnight or two, and he had been aueplclous for nearly a decade. Her behavior toward other men had certainly changed but she wasn't yet by any me,ans austere. Her explanation waa sound enough, and he waa willing to concede that a sudden and com plete reformation la quite aa note worthy aa none at all, but he was next attacked by a devaatatlng thought. What if ahe. had merely struck from an unexpected quar ter; what if all her actlone were in accord with his anuient the ories, and not with his modern faith? In other words, had ehe made of him the moat glorified fool that the world had ever aeen? He adored her, but the new con ception atnggered him. It couldn't be true, and yet!t waa always pos sible. When he looked Into her eyes, and say tho deptha of them, he hated himself for his misgiv ings; but when he left her. he couldn't prevent them from grow ing in weight and volume. The more they grew, the more he was steeped in contraditlon ; the more he cringed to think that she had mode a fool of him the more he knew that IiIh experience, had been worth the cost. It might be come dy to Helen, It might bo tragedy to himself, but even if It were he knewj that ho wouldn't exchange it for all his previous complacence. If, dating at least from the af ternoon on the knoll, she had been iindeslgnlng, ho couldn't accuse her without insulting her; and If. before and since then, she had been playing the game as he had once believed all women played It. he couldn't implore her without Increaaing the importance of her victory. And although he knew that he had no right to speak to her about it he also knew that he should he tortured' by doubt and fear until She had assured him. Ho could go out of her life, but he should be less miserable in cherishing a futile love than In I FRES-CO-LITE THE PERFECT BRIOR PAINT On walls and ceil ings produces a i durable, sanitary, washable fiat en amel finish. In white and eighteen beautiful soft colors. . J I4T1JJ I -h DEALERS Hendersonvllle Hardwnie Company Black Mountain I.umher Company H. A. Osborne, Canton, N. C. 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All that ahe had to tell him waa that a message had come to her from a little village, twenty- rtve miles ont. to say that Carson's runabout was lying In a ditch, and Hint Carson himself had been ta - ken out from under It. Once In the car. she sank weakly against him. When they came to the little village,- they learned that Caraon hail tried to make a hairpin curve at forty miles an hour. There wus only one reasonable explanation for It. and that explanation prov ed to be correct. He had been rich enough to mm k the lawa of prohibition, but when he dared to tamper with the lau s or physics, he had made an irretrievable mis take. The families on Maple Avenue held the management, among them, of the local press, and the local government, and of the local banks; so that In Carson's obituary there waa nothing aald about the actual reason for the accident, nor about his companion, who eaeaped with a few alight brulaea, and was kindly assisted to disappear. .Maple Avenue may have hod its aerloua defects, hut it alao hud a strong community spirit. There waa on interlude during which Ktuart had no cause to spare hla sympathies, and during this time, he waa far too aympathetlc to think about liimaelf. He didn't even stop to think that Dicky Car son haft been useless to himself, and all his neighbors; a poor ex ample to hla city, no credit to his ancestors, and the worst poaaible husband to hla wife. Hla thought as occupied entirely by Helen, and the shork she had suatalned; and he ahowed himself to be the staunchest of her friends and, In cldentally. the only bulwark that she could And in Orleans. There came a day, however, when he Inevitably went back to nature, but he found that his mis givings hadn't been decreased. On the contrary, they were now source of even greater torment to him. Before this, he had known that his love was futile, and the only question waa that of Helen's grace; but now It waa a question which could rule his life for htm. He ventured to speak to her about her own future, but she was still too supine to have made her plane. "I hardly think I'll stay in Or leans," she said, wearily, i "There's nothing here for me. I think may be I'd better go home. He was glad that she found no solace in Orleans; It seemer to Jus tify a part of his belief in her "You don't have to worry about money, anyway. Her smile puzzled him. "Oh no," ahe said. "I don't have to worry about money." Her smile had puzzled him, and when he thought about it after ward, he was convinced that there waa something behind It. He took palna to hunt up one of Carson's associates, and to auggest that Car son must have left a very hand- some estate Wes," said the man, nodding "yes, he did. But Dicky always had his wits about him. Know how he left It? Helefl gets the In come unless she marries again. If she does, It goes to some of his cousins. That's all right. I don't know that I'd want to leave any thing to support any second hus hand, myself." Stuart wanted to say Indignant ly that in view of Carson s own failures, he had practically owed ON DOOMS On ksr Wtter Mm Sua nAVB 100 PORE Remember the cost of applying ordinary paint which hats about two or three years ia tha a same aa tha cost of ap y plying this aristocrat In paiat which lasts from two to Are times longer iH. a DAVIS COMPANY PAINT AN O VARNISH MAKCftS 25 Per Cent Off on all Baby Car- riages, Strollers and Sulkies This Week Only 'Phone 3716. her a second huaband. but he re strained himself. tjh craved companionship, and he was with her constantly; she didn't want to talk, but she liked to listen, and so he talked to her about hla neweat project. "Yes," he aald. "when I get throuah here. I'm going out to Weatern Australia. My relatives have aome mining Jntereats there, and I'm going out aa assistant en gineer. It's a queer aort of place; two hundred milea from a town; and there's only three white men to about million natives. They tell me there's wonderful riding and hooting, but that a about all. One of the white men's the superinten dent; he's a wild Irishman; and then there's the chief engineer I he's Scotch; and the mine boas Is a lHwede. All of 'em married. I .'only hope they'll form a league of nations "I'm afraid you'll be lonely, won t you?" Well.' he said, "there certain ly won't be much danclnd, and 1 understand it takea two weeks to vet to the nearest tennis court out think of the advantaces. No dinner clothes, no taxi fares, and not ti Ins to spend your money on after you get It." Her expression wss Joyless. "I boje lfllbea food thing for you, Stuart." " " "" 'Jh, financially." he aald, "It Isn't anything wonderful. "I'll have have four thousand; and then I've a little bit of my own. But It could lead to almost anything." He had told her these things because he wanted her to have them In her mind, and to think about them carefully. There was nothing of the flirt about her now. but his memory was active, and he didn't Intend to leave Orleans until he understood both the pres ent and the past. Eve If she refused to marry him, even if It developed that she had never real ly cared for him. yet It would he a comfort to know that she hadn't merely dangled him nnd It would he better to know the opposite than alwava to (USDSCt It. 8hs had begun, apathetically, to make arrangements for quitting Orleans, and Stuart, who waa dis mayed by the prospect of Orleans without her, suddenly realized that his own work waa coming to an end, and that he faced not simply an cmptly Orleans, but an empty to Wu Now Touring . . . $1375 $1235 Roadster.. 1350 1235 Li' 13-16 Walnut St world. He felt that It waa nut Set proper to apeak hlo her of him self, but a your or two on snother continent, and he knew that he could never satisfy himself by mall. Hut who was he to offer the ex change of a wilderness and a few dollars a ye:ir for clvilixntlcm and the Income of Hicky Curson's es tate? Then sbruptly. his work was finished; his aniline tiny wus sf I ; the calendar w.n clutching ut his throat. Hho waa fond of walking, and she liked best to leave thu trav eled highways, and to go at ran dom through the woods and mead owe, searching fnr new views and vlatas. l.'ntll today, Stuart hud shared the preference, hut nftor the first half hour, he was cumul atively annoyed. lie hnd a great deal to say to her, and It couldn't comfortably be raid while they were clambering over frosen Melds, and crackling through the under brush. The country was strange to both of them, but they knew that Or leans Lake waa somewhere to the West, nnd so they went on stead ily toward the sun set. Unexpect edly, they broke out of a thicket Into a little clearing; and there below them waa the lake, and a view which waa Instantly familiar,- They stnpnel short, and looked at each other. "Nobody's moved tho log," said Stuart. Aa they sat down, he was visit ed by still a freah anxiety. Sup pose that his first Judgment of her, and his last hope were equally cor rect. Suppose ihat she cared for him. but that her habits of be havior were Ingrained and Inerad icable? In that event, could he be happy with her after the glory r possession 'had once worn Itself asvsy? "Well." he said. In reverie. "This is pretty nearly the end. Helen. I've got to go In !er than two weeks. What do you suppose you'll be doing all this next year?" "I don't know." Her tone was vacant. Stuart gazed at her. "Do ait you care?" w "Sometimes I don't think I care at all." "Tou mustn't feel that wsy about It." he said, consolingly. "I'm sure that hspplness Is waiting for you Just around the corner." 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He turned to lier. as once before In .1.. ..r. i.e he had turned to her and saw th'it there were tears in her eves: and at that Instant,, he was shorn of all the Inhibitions which had surrounded him since boyhood. He didn't care the snap of a finger what she was, or what she had Ueen; his fears and his un certainties fled out 'Of him; she could trent him as ahe liked, and she could trent all other man kind as sho liked .If only ehe were true to his one supreme Illusion. "You can be so busy." he said hus kily. "I don't see how- you'll have time to miss anyhoity." She dushed the buck of her hand across her eyes. "Money can't buy your way around the corner, Stuart." "No, hut when you're home with all your old friends to flirt with, and laugh at " "Don't you know yet." she fal tered, "that some women are Just thoughthfs and some of hem are Just devils nnd some have had their hearts broken first, Stu art ?' He bent toward her. "Could you could you stand Jiving in a place where there am t any men at all? And not much to do? And not very much money? Not a fifth of what you've got now?" Her eyes were studiously on the ground, and her voice was all but inaudible. "Don't you know yet that one man in a desert might make It heaven when all of Or leans wouldn't make Orleans even livable?" Stuart caught his breath. "Do you do you mean that you'd be willing to come out there after a few months? I've told you all about It. I've told you everything. Do you mean you would do that, Helen?" trounle no adjustments. Telephone Quickly Conquers Constipation Don't I constipation poisooyoarUooi so4 curtail jour eaertr. If your lirer and bowels S ft I i isd your , trouble will 1 cease. For dlzslneas, lack of headache and bJotchT sain nothlM can equal them. Purely Ttf etaUa, w SataD 110 Saaan Pass assail riie "No," she aald, "I I didn't mean exactly that." Stuart coiled from the tremen dous blow to all vislonlngs. 'vWill you please tell me then," he said, and his voice was strained and heavy, "what you did mean?" . There was a silence and then she lifted her eyes to him eyes whl h were misty sweet, and fearful. "Why don't you take me with InsfantRelief WhoopingCbuflt OroupSColclf Q&iedo .$1875 $1795 .... 2095 1950 2987 r ( appetite, 0 I
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