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NINE THE FOG OF ORLEANS -By HOLWORTHY HALL THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2.2, Wii. 1 3 AS to girla, ha had always been somewhat or a aortic, but , m LUh v.".1 Ae "umm"r of his eighteenth year when a cer- tain friend came back from board- ing school that ho Anally Hummed up nis in anu arriveu 8t concrete decision. Thin friend was a plnk-and-white little buttcr-bsll of a Iflrl who would never Inspire the opposite sex with very much aentlment, but she herself was In dined to be a heart specialist, and at aohool b hud picked uv, number of useful formulas .'in waa oiuuiiuiiiK uira- tormina a group ui in I-. i m. -nn mn) -a i-nonie i extremity It overthrew him when Stuurt accidentally oiei heard: lie met her at u country club herU .. dance In a email Kaatern cltv. Me "Why. ahe was saying. here I wax a stranger to the city and he Js all the secret. If you w ant men I had spent a busv week of loncll to be crazy about you, Just treat neas. and he hoped that tonlgh' em like cabbage! ... (if course would put an end to it The men' they re horrid, nasty things any- however, had Known themselves a way, o to please 'em you've got to trifle supercilious and the women be Just the least tiny hit risque, j had been too Wull supplied wtth -once in a while flnly don't en ton , partners; so that Sluart's evening far ond then right afterward you! had merely burdened hlni with dr ought to talk about something aw-1 appointment until ho fully Intelligent, trasmigratinit nf.ed to the Kiri wno nad , rme aouls or something. Just to show In. Then he waa ho Interested in you've got a brain. I). .n't ever let her type that he didn't even cutch 'cm know for a minute what vnu , her name really think about 'em. even if they She was a demure little drt r bore you to death; and the nicer ' black laci. frock; she had slumh they are, the more you ouuht to ' r!nK eyes, an exquisitely aoft keep 'em dangling a. t s,,rt of voice, and an air of great intelli bored yourself, and then awfully ; gence. and he knew that the corn excited about 'cm. and then sort filiation Is supjiowed to be deadly of spiritual (you know what I furthermore, she received him lis men.) But that's the main thing; though the aconaintanee wen. keep 'em port of mixed up. and UP. flllir -iaepiiiR mi nil-inn arm never . o no ugu nu recognized the non knowing what you're going to sa vense ,.f it, yet he was pleaed to next Just treat 'em like cabbages emerge from the background Fin- and. my dear, they'll walk right I a I J . he say that in her um.bstus up and eat ouif of your hand " : ivo manner she was making a keen She was only seventeen at the I appraisal of him. and this renewed lime and eventually the best shehis spirit and wawhed on: all his could do was to elope with a stupid I lirevii.ua dissatisfactions, mortgage broker, hut her testi He was always absorbed by the mony had unk to the. very bottom I heginnings of audi a relationship; of Stuart's mind, and for several' '"'d his mood was that of a crafty years ne never quite got It out again. When he went away to the uni versity he took his suspicions with him was a part of his mental lug gage, but long before his gradua tion day they had ceased to' be luggage and became solid furniture. He was good looking, slow smil ing and sweet-tempered, so that most women found him attractive, but as he watched them and studied them, and dissected their motives, he was freshly convinced that he. had heard the truth when! the expression of her eyes, and the he was very young. The guile of: 'one of her voice, sent him away women was n clear as window-j with some exhilaration, for he lik glass; and all their frankness. or''l nothing better than to hear the their shyness, their worship or their wit j were merely different nd to know that they were be ' models of the same feminine wea-j'ns turned back, blunt, pon, forged for the same purpose. for the next half-hour h got To other men, they might Indeed 1 himself bored by a dressy dowa be dangerous, but to Stuart the 'fr In plum velvet; he had a waltz ceneor they were merely pretty and w'ltn a debutante who chilled him. diverting. nd presently, to throttle time un- To be sure, he had his moments '" his next appointment, he wan in rose arbor or Gloucester ham- dered off Into tho smoking room, mock, but hla mature Judgment i which he found occupied only by waa ever governing his youthful a youngish man he dimly remem emotions. and when he kissed a hered. The man regarded him professor's daughter In the moon- casually, but said nothing; Stuart, light, he hoped that she observed with an inward comment upon the the cynical aloofness with which local style for hospitality, offered he did It. He liked the frosting: well enough, but he was positive that the cake -was Indigestible. Even at twenty-four, he had not yet. been in love, so that he fan i ied himself Immune to It. and in discussing matrimony, he had learned to say some clever things i which were not necessarily arm- rate. Love, he said, as described to him, was like a runaway team of wild horses; and marriage was the blind guaranty, made by two paasengers who had never seen the 1 road before, that there were no ditches or turnings anywhere, and no traffic in the opposite direction. A for himself, he believed that love if any should arise out of pure reason; and so far he had never met a girl who was Arca dian enough to appeal to him. He doubted that such a girl could now exist, and his doubt was founded upon hi sown experience. But over confidence is a sin which, given the opportunity, jould destroy the angels, and Stu- bid Put it right up to Kellogg's Corn Flakes to do a master job sharp ening breakfast appetites! And, they'll repeat at lunch and supper for Kellogg's are irresistible in goodness! Kellogg's win every one because their flavor is delicious and because their crunehy crispness is unfailing! You'll prove that! Such a cereal you never ate before! You'll say Kellogg's are a revelation and they will be, in particular, to any one who has .eaten imitation corn flakes ! Kellogg's are as distinctive in flavor as they are in crispness. And, Kellogg's are never tough or leathery! Start eat ing Kellogg's Corn Flakes tomorrow morning! You can't afford' to miss such happiness as Kellogg's hand out to young and old alike! TOASTED FLAKES iUo maker, of KELLOGG'S WIMBLES i ,., waa ordinary mortal At tw nt -seven. ,.ft"r ill L a Luc .of Uie l""u"nt' " warlnoa. agaln.t the genuine, he lost h!a theories to i girl who. he knew l:i advance, was neither gen iilno i,r lnnoivnt. lie knew In. nom as n standard proposition, and from Hi.riftf data, for when she wan first pointed out to him across the room, he was told that iiho l what '., called a manklller- a crusher of hearts for the eheci I . , accomplishment ; he 11. in ii I m kTlllll-fl lillt li r. ta .,.. i ""'on on his logic, and In the laet 1 distinguished honor to herself ii.fUHKUISIIi'i Honor In hemolf n , I oni neld marshal who reaiN. at Ins leisure, the campaigns of all the generals he has defeated. le perceived, with complacence, that sin' took him at once for a strale gist; and after that, he was amus ed by her economy of ammunition. She knew already why he waa in town: she knew that his business would detain him there for several months; she could afford a slow, detailed reconnaissance. When he left her. he asked for .moth t dunce, later In the evening, ana weapons rattle against his armor, nis cigarette case. To hla aston Ishment, the other man, after bland inspection of Its contents, shook his head. "No thanks." he' Bald. "I've stuck to my own kind for eighteen years now; i d better not change." He sat down leisurely, and leis- ureiy tapped a Den. "Eghteen years?" repeated Stu- art. "Why, you must have begun in your cradle?" The other man gave him an al- titudlous smile. "Tou must take me for a cub -like youraelf. How old do you think I am?" Stuart gauged him carefully. "Twenty-seven or eight." The other man preserved his smile, and also shook his head. "No," he said, "I'm thlrty-slx." And he said it with a sort of regal nonchalance. Stuart lifted his eyebrows. "Well, there's only one thing that oc curs to me; what kind of cold cream do you use?" "It Isn't cold cream," said the aooetites of and little folks "Lti'n, you Htrbit, you Imt go of thotm Ktllogg't Corn Flaktt or you'll bo lato for Mchooland i won't wait for you on ofAer mi nut I" But please be sure you get KELLOGG S, the delicious Corn Flakes in the RED" and GREEN package. Look for the signature of W. K. Kellogg, originator of Corn Flakes. NONE ARE GENUINE WITHOUT IT! :. 1 7WUXV J KELLOGG'S BRAN, cooked and krumbled other man. with a shrug of dis paruKiiiiiunt. "It's tha way wo live up lien1. Hadn't yotl noticed It?" i "Why, aa a manor of fact. I've bisn here only a week, and I've been too busy to notice much of . anything" There waa a mental reservation; he hud noticed a de gree of bumptiousness which had begun to puz.lc hlni. because he could nee no p a-ible excuse for It ; ' That's Just the point, none of! the rest of um are luiay." Hy thU . time hla ow n cigarette had at .....I V. ....... I. fL-l- ............. I. relaxed a little. "We stay in lb leans six months of the year. iw. go South: we go abroad , we il. some entertaining and play go:r we don't have anything to won about and we all atny young." "it sounds very charming-- fur a man with an tnoome." 'lh. of course. " The other it i became regally confidential. ' I:., you take the rrowd that's 1i ere to ; night.' In praeflcallj ct'ery case : the money's been In the family f"rj three generations. No one hert has made money; one couldn't do that anil live us we .do there wouldn't be a perspective Not that Orleans la a colony of millionaires but we've got our decent incomes und we know how to spend them." Stuart was awed by the very simplicity of the man. 'They tell me the town isn't growing very fast. My dear fellow, we don t want it to grow. We don't want any i.ti.i ,..t-.,.t..ir.u. ..... want any more people here: we try to keep them away. As thinge are now, we practically own the town among ourselves. Say. thirty families." Stuart couldn't resist the tomp t:gon to egg him on. "Just a conipncl little group?" "Kxactly. There's only one street to live on- Maple Avenue and we all live on It. There's only one lub to belong to. and we're in it now--of course, there are outsiders in it. too. hut we simply don't consider them. We simply don'i pay any attention to them We live our own life and we don't like intruders, and we care very little about what the rest of the world is doing. For Instance " He smiled indulgently. "I've never In my life read a Sunday newspa per, or eaten an ice cream cone. or been to a motion picture the atre. And that isn't Just myself that's Orleans." Stuart was gazing at him ap palled, and almost convulsed "Hood heavens, man." he said slowly, "you come and spend a week-end with me, and I'll give you the time of your life." The other man missed it "Thanke. awfully . . . Yes, I've been pretty nearly everywhere, and I never saw a place exactly like It or anything like it. It's quite perfect. And. as I say, we all know how to live." The smug littleness of the man. and his colossal snobbery, remind ed Stuart of nothing so much as a dogmatic- freshman, who shouts to the world that his own college is the only fit refuge for a gentle man, hla own class the naraaon of all classes, and his own fraternlty the cream of the whole. The fresh man, however, has at least two virtues: he Is enthusiastic, and he expects to fight for his contentions; but the man from Orleans, who had built, a pedestal for himself, and clambered up to sit on It plainly held himself too precious to be challenged. He had, spoken; and the rest of the world should properly he hushed. Stuart himself was hushed; he was fongued tied. He cleared his throat, and tried to say something, but he could thijrk of nothing ap propriate which wasn't also dis courteous and he had to remember that he was a, guest of the club. Ho should have liked to pump the man Indefinitely, but the hour of his appointment was too near ,at hand so that, warmed by equal por tions of contempt and humor, he went back to the assembly room. His late companion has aroused his curiosity, and as he looked aP JLOaVLVXiD ' i 1 I I Ifll If llllk i'S' v.w."T JT0- I . t l t i - V I I " , I L - ' : . . - ( . , I II 1 1 I 1 I S .IT r- r.-vt V -. Til W 1 ." t 1 A II i - , M l i !l - OT7; i in in 'il l ii'i Jitt&!u2?i.. wvtr-. iwuKX i - . i s&.rss I'm - rz r about him he wondered ff the high society of Orleans should actually bo graded according to the sum pie. His survey impressed him for he sorted "-out a dozen men who gave off the same murky at mosphere; he speculated wheth er they, too, were in the third gen eration of money, and had yet, to taste an Ice cream cone. He caught a transient smile from the Utile girl In the black lac e frock, and of a sudden, he told himself that hers was the only truly Intelligent face In the entire gathering. Also, she was the only person, man or woman, to whom it seemed to make a farthing's worth of differ ence whether Stuart himself were among those present, or not. lie Waa sure, now, that she didn't be long to the Inner circle. She couldn't.- "I had an interesting little ses sion a little while ago." he said to her, during the final encore, with that rather Hritish-looking man over by the flrepluce. He was telling me about the philoso- ' phy of life up here." She glanced up from under her heavy lashes. "Did he think there is any?" "first," he said, "tell me if you're a native of this place?" "No, indeed. 1 was born in Phil adelphia. But did he think there's any philosophy of life at all in this funny little town?" "Well," said Stuart, emboldened, "even" a chicken coop has archi tecture; can't Orleans have phil osophy .' She gave him another of those Instantaneous glances. "I'm not he had finished, she became re Insulted yet. Go on. What made i fleet ive and very wistful, it so interesting?" i "I wanted so much to like you," "Why, his description of the way ! she said. "1 heard about you from they live. Of course, there's no people In town, and then iHst night accounting for tastes, but person-! you were Just as nice to me as you ny I snouid think It would be unbearable.' "Most of them don't seem to j find It so. They like it. "Do you live here yourself' "Yes. but I'm not blind." He would have taken his oath that ahe would share hla point of I dissent. "But you see, I'm noy view. "What's your real opinion ' really one of them. I'm only adopt of It, then?" j ed. Their families have lived herel "Why," she said naively, "you I for years and years, and had their' wouldn't expect me to make a con -) own money, nnd played around. I reaalon like that until I know you ' and they're quite satisfied to go better, would you? . . . What's your; along in what may look to you like opinion?" ia narrow sort of path. It Is pleas- Her Intonation deceived him, so'nnt: it's awfully pleasant; but Just mat ne Blurted out his thought, exactly aa It came to him. "Well I havent seen a great deal of it yet, but if my friend over there's a fair example, there's lust one ! thing I.can say about him." 'Tell' me." Stuart borrowed a nhrase from I a marrieo cousin. "He must have;" missed hla 10 o'clock reeding." 'He wondered how she r.tiuld ever! The mualc etODDed and as he' have quitted, voluntarily, n home! released her, ahe stood back a' lit-!"' tie, and laughed straight up Into I hla eyea. "I think, I'll let you tome to tea tomorrow afternoon and grovel for m," ah aald. "You see that gentleman happena to be my nusoana Aa he walked slowlv down : Maple Avenue, with the nbodeaLof of the blessed on either aide ,,f htm, ha was peculiarly crestfallen, Th field marshal had suffered himself to be led on, and taken from ambuah and It hurl hla nrn. feaaional jjlgirlty. He had (jot hlm self Into a weak position, and he knew that after he had apologized It would b stlH iweaker: ahe had him exactly where she wanted him, humbled -by hla own rash ness, because he had taken too much for gfanted. Furthermore, he hadn't yet recovered from his bewilderment that a girl like this could aver have married - a man Ilk that. To Stuart, he seemed to be a permanent apology for himself, and he marveled what en earth aha could hav seen in him. He had iauvfinej that b ahould find her alone In a quite room with cleverly arranged lighting, and he waa prepured to go into action on these grounds Hut he hadn't yet given her sufficient credlL: she had asked several others to come to tea, and for an hour she kept Stuart hovering about her, but never with a suitable occasion to present himself for sacrifice At a venture, he said to her In an undertone: "ThiTP doesn't seem to be any llklihond of talking to you today; perhaps I'd better run along She answered without looking at him. "Why, 1 naturally sup posed you'd wait until after the rest have gone, The tactics were familiar to hlni and he understood them perfectly He knew that Intimacy is doubled by tho contrnsr betwrecn the chat ter of many people and the din logue of two. Hut he had slurred her husband and until he had been forgiven, he could only dan gle as she chose to mako him he owed her an apology, and It was her set privilege to set the time and place for It The last of the guests was hard ly across the theshold when he planted himself before her, and made a very dnwnrujht statement. He didn't purpose to let the situ atlon get a grasp on him, nor to provide her with any additional advantage; he had no excuses to give her. nothing but a fiat ac knowledgment of the facts. She took it very sweetly and made him set down beside her, and sav it all over again; and when could he. And then you're rtit ferent from the people I see all the rest of the time." "I'd gathered," he said, "that different people are exactly the ones Orleans doesn't want." She made a pretty gesture of me same i could be giarl ot a til tie change, couldn't I?" He congratulated himself that he wasn't a bit susceptible. "Tour home was In Philadelphia She told him her father's name and title, and Stuart was again amazed, for her father had been ooctor or national reputation. education and purpose, to enst "er 't among the Sybarlties. He remembered then what ahe had' nald to him last night about con feantons, "Maybe It's because I wna brought up In a different way," he i .i .. I i . . . . . . . , . . , said slowly, "but the whole tone; Orleans doesn't seem healthy.) This mnrnlnsr I found nut some-l j thing else that baffled me. Most 'your friends do actually pretend; to do something useful, don't they? I I Judged from what your husband said that they didn't do anything at all." - She smiled faintly. "It la an odd thing; they all have money, and yet .there's a kind of com munity spirit and an Idea that a man ought to have some definite sort of place In the community. Bo one of them owns the Courier; he never goes anywhere near he office, but he Just likes lo own a newspaper; And one or two are lawyers; thelr fathers made them go to law school, but all It means now la a place to get their mall and us up some grand statlon- - ;lv Pfioffheil Strnlghl t'p Into HI "vos and fiald, "Yon Seip. That (ientloman Happens to bei Mjr Husband." ery. Oh. they're officers In banks, and they're In the City Council, and all that sort of thing, but " She shook her head. "They don't take It seriously. It's Just a funny little quirk; and It lets them run the town to suit them-Mves. Really they live on their Incomes. "It strikes me," said Stuart, "that if I were going to loaf for a living, I'd be runsistent about It, anyway. To loaf, and then put up a sort of false front, like a coun try grocery store, makes it look all the worse." He rose thought fully. "Of course, this isn't mak ing myself any too popular with you. And I suppose because I'm working here " He paused, and began to grin. "Still, I've got fifteen hundred a year from my grandfather's estate, and we've got a farm that's been in the family for seven generations. Won't that let me In as a summer member?" She had also risen, and now she . fifteen (15) . UC Better If Mh cigarettes ill r rx -better Virgin!, -better .Barley . Every cigarette full , N?. M weight and full eize Htv , CorraioTl922,LiociTr4;MYiaiToACCoCo. 't-i ' ' t.. Ii! in "We're uri n I "' i fiuui.l i, at "ttoin I .nu in ,.i .ni .1 rli'l'.Kr Tllel e 4 e i I t huiK lo t .1 i:,.:r li m,:- und I I. ling and si ,r n tor I... rot lu ll I. In t loo h 1 1 : 1 1 1 a nd n on h'e lake - Then eh u mi, laugh. lt.it iiitiii'iliiiec, en In llils )..iiail!r i r lean It l iln- ' A ml l hen "'' ' Tea she s. ,1 il l I'l'lng lies, 'm ii 1 n i4 1 eerie. I at ..'lock ' lie V as Hi rehltl helied I'l l.i.li'.iiicn! of her i h it i ti'l . hm ti i I. ill llhen he Villi llll.ll. he found ll'-lt In i-oiihl a little p'ty Into hl.- .1 l-.t p pi hi a 1 She w MM celialnll In- leiiiKint -in.) shii had I'ouie riom 1 1 1 laielled all of Philadelphia. "into the ilell-o fog . of Oil h.'i'e ,i Inn el ' hlilngl li.lni mean ,i hmier In the otfice ami i here people iirtually hoaalod that a foi-eheiii itiiin't mean a bi'aln In ile lie hadn't intended In 1 si. ny for her. but be iiuspected now. . that lub . ins was a trial lo her. u ii sorry for n hoevcr had' 111 1 I ..II' !:et ! I go.i.g' to I..- ti : i "I in .1 lot I" doon ' '.i .1 S'o. he hone. Wh, m h i ied her husband j she wanted to avoid hla gase, and Wiihlii a week lie had repeat I ye: It Mold her. as though. If ahf ..Hi I n lold to ben arc of hei. lo.-: ;t. fiie would have loat It fonj and he had .also been lold. by the ever . dnsM dowager m plum iclvet thaij Then quite without forethought, aoaslp hail him bulletined as an-, she disengaged her hand, 'ou other victim At the warning he iiiuint do that now." ahe attM, was frankly de-isne. but at the and her voice win low, and a trifle rumor he was slightly Indignant. ' unsteady. -and he informed the dowager i hat stuurt looked back at the lake, oi. n leiinnoips e,e upiio the leadlines of mil her Plato nor of Pbilo, he was fully competent to take care of himself. Ah a I matter of fait, although his shell ' had long been hardenpd, nature land lime were quietly at work 'ivlthln. ami to the present sltua- itlon he had already contributed both penitence and pity, which were livo of the least ahopWorn of his emotions. He knew what he knew about women, but he recognized several varying degreen of guill, und he thought that Helen Carson was too harshly Judged by her loving friends. To be sure li v couldn't approve, of her behavior either lo hlmaelf or to other incji. but when he had known her for perhapa a month he decided that her behavior was chiefly to her boredom, and that her boredom waa was duo lo hor Intellectual superiority over the rest of Or leans. When once he began to find excuses for her. his grip on himself waa gone, and tho next thing he knew the wild horses of Illusion hud run away with him. They had set out together on afternoon to walk to a wooded knoll which overlooked th lake, and from the start he was unusu ally preoccupied. She badgered him a little, and attempted gay finesses, but he responded with such utter lack of animation that at last ahe Joined him in the si lence. They came to the knoll, where a carpet of moss waa un der foot, and the sunshine was sifted down to them through the beech-trees, and there they sat on a convenient log, and gimed out over the lake, to the green hills and the browner valleys Just be yond." Very gently Stuart put out fils nand and covered hers. It wuan t the first nor the hundredth time that a man had held her hand, but It gave her a new and a puzzling sensation. She turned her head to look at him. and as soon us she saw his eves, she knew exactly what had happened. When she turned her head, she had been smiling; hut On the In stant, her smile flickered out. Tri umph, hard-won and long-delayed, had finally come to her, but the consciousness of triumph merely touched her In Its passing, and passed on. She had known men who passionately volunteered to die for her and went away with a dinner call unpaid; she had known older men who, when they thought' they loved her, swore vig orously about it, and she had known younger men who wept, -tn.l had known a plenty whl ; w.ie ..:ii t too buine!iltke to ha . Intel est lug t Hut hei. wn ii man who ha forjrifc' looked through and through ; her and hadn't the slightest hak- ihe liii'lnatlon uboiit her, he wl i ouln In yearn. hut he u old In experience, when he hatf I walked with her. and golfed flth I lor uud danced with her, ha hn nlviiil' Kiien her the same Inu imlnii tliHt he was very glad tt fe a piuiuiate, hut, fliat ahe woul unM" lier lime If she expected any other status Now in his ', ahf sin uh.i: frighteiied her. Has is Including I'l. i. y Caraon, had offer ed her eieri thing but tenderneM, hen men had aworn or crleJ or vo.uuU'tii ed to die for her, ah had ulj known how to ronduct herself, but when Stuart sat there looking gr.ively at her. and touehs Ing her hand with such repression she ii suddenly Incompetent. Th color crept up Into her chaeke and stayed there; she was helpleaa, and ,1, ii,.. ii,... .i... ...... and hi 1 1 1 frightened She wlahei be would apeak, and yet ahe dread- 'j ed what he might say; she draadeij I In t he ul. I spoil the moment i i n lIi. be aald. subdued. "I wlali thu train that brought me her had wrecked on the way." "I'on'l say that please!"- j "lie nodded to confirm It. "D( you know what I've done?" : "Yes," she aald, softly, "ye, know." He tried lo lunah It r.fr hut hJ sound waa hollow and unnatural, I Tlni one lliln. In .11 Ik. l.i I ,. thought Id get mixed UR in ma internal triangle, well. i i. ,i t help It. It's done. I don'; know how It happened, but it' done. And what am I goln to do about it? I've got to star In Or leans, and If I'm here I've got to see you, and If I aee you, and It I aee you I've got to tell you and that's Impossible." The girl shivered a little. "What makes It Impossible, Ptuart?" "Why. because you couldn't let me nny more than you could let me touch you after you knew, BT tore mat - Jin shrugged ha shoulders. "It wasn't the same." Her breath waa coming a, llttla faster. "Do you really, honestly, think I've as much conscience aa that?" "Why, I know you havn't." Ha hadn't yet looked at her again. "I used to think you were Just Ilka fill the other women, and then afj tor you told ma what gort of peo pie youi had for friends before you came here, and what aort of home you lived In. I knew what Or-t leans must have dona to you. Juat what It would do to anybody halt aa sensitive. Mad you laugh first, and then irritated, and then hys terical, and then deaperata. Why wouldn't 117 And ao you'v been stumbling through the fog, ready to reach out and grab anything that came along. But that Isn't you. I don't believe there's a soul In Orleans who knows you ex cept myself." Hla vole dropped almost out of hearing.. "I can't understand Itl I can't understand It!" i Her glance was both defenslv und appealing. "Btuart If you war -only aeventeen or eighteen, and hadn't had much fun, and earn up here and saw everybody having so much money and auch a Jolly time " : "Ten years It It would hav dat xled me Just aa It did you." The girl bit her Hp. "I should n't have said that. I shouldn't have said anything! Please f0r get lt--oulc.kly. Won't you?" I "But you didn't need to say It at all. Don't you suppose I knew that was the only way It could tt'OSflftfJ. ft fWfN
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