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1 n Aairicu girl irtth whom he ha* noth
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ie JaHe Farrow who ruined Rodney,
. her cowirt el the' me mom. She
com him when be cooieaae* hie love and
, _ inability to mUXT W. -Tfter meet later
K t.infcn. *|ere M i* f*?l tkc 9*cthat
[TUa. Another man/ Lawrence Schofield,
puts to marry b*r> in apt* of her wil i life.
Tkroeghhij friend Lombard. Gilu Chit
ibam meet# the "othar Julio." the no
ioua woman who bad ruined Rodney'*
1 NOW CO ON WITH THE STORY .
She sat besides him, and her voice
ber laugh, and her little tricks of
inner sometime* made it seem im
jMtble that she was not the same
[romau who had come so happily to
is arms in the cold, bleak room o
little hotel high up in the" moim
Latns.
She told Giles frankly that she hat
[Men a little nervous ot meeting him.
"I thought perhaps the family ruitret
id extended itself to you," she saic
wtterly. "Life is very unkind to some
if us, Mr. Chittenham. I am glad you
not hate me as badly as I nad ex
ited you would."
Chittenham hesitated.
"When I was on the other side of the
[world my-hatred for you was a very
jreal and vital thing," he said gravely,
l"! used to hope for an opportunity to,
l well?" He shrugged his shoulders
I and smiled. " 'Avenge' is such a mel
'odramatic word, isn't it?"
'There is no other word that gives
} quite the same explanation." she an
swered. "Don't vou still hope for it?"
"No."
"What made you change?"
Giles looked away from her down
I the crowded little restaurant, and in an
aching imagination he saw aeain the
bare, ugly room of the mountain hotel,
and heard the wind howling as it flung
the soft snow against the windows.
"Something happened?" he said.
She did not answer at once, then
she said quietly:
"Well, whatever it was. I am glad.
I don't want to be hated any more. I
don't think any one?even your mother
?could hate me any more if she knew
what I know."
"Whftt io fm mm* r
iylk tuwdndT hfr >ofc?.
^f you would IfJfac ?o drive home
?tei nK a/teriyard? l will t?li yon."
"What is it you were going to tell
we?" Giles asked after they got into
car. He felt an immense curiosity
k> this woman, and alio an inexplic
able pity*, tor her, which somehow
angered him.
According to all accounts she wai
worthless and heartless, and yet . . .
once before he had blundered into
.fagedy through listening to and be
lieving the things otlier people said.
The car stopped.
"We are just home," Julie aaid.
"Come iu, and I will'ttll you."
Julie threw: herself xtown inu, a big
chair with a half sigh.
Giles said nothing. He stood lean
ing against the maOtel-shclf looking
4bwn at her, vaguitfy conscious of
something tragic that'seemed to have
stolen into the room during the last
few moments. Suddenly Julie raised
her eyes.
"I'm glad you don't*$k thousands of
questions," she said. ''You're luch a
restful person, Mr. Chfrtenham. I can
be quite sure that you won't say 'Oh,
my Godl' or anything-like that when
t tell you that I am going toi die."
"I don't look fike it, do I?" she
queried whimsically. "But its true,
all the same. It's quite signed and
sealed, with no hope of a_ reprieve.
I've been to every specialist in London
who would take my money, and they
?ill say the same thin*. There could
he an operation, but 1 won't haye it.
{ hate the idea of the knife, especially
as it can he a cure?but only just a
way of prolonging lift for a little
while. \ don't think I want to prolong
it either! It*s not been such fun when
one looks bask."
"What are you going to do then?"
"F? going abroad. Couldn't bear
the idea of dying here in London,
where so many people know me, so I'm
going right away where I shan't know
any one, and nobody will know me.
What do you think of it, Mr. Chitten
ham?"
"I think you're a very brave woman,"
Giles sfid, and suddenly he leaned
down and took her hand. To his sur
prise the tears welled up into her eyes
and splashed on to her frock.
"'That's foolish of pie, isn't it?" she
said. ' And they're not because I'm
frightened . . . inese tears 1 It's just
because the way you took hold of my
hand reminded me of -some one
She dre\v a hard breath as of pain.
"Some one I really lov^d. There was
a map I once really loved, Mr. Chitten
|wm."
'?'l am sure there was."
"He died. . . Julie sat very still
for a moment, then <he gently drew her
hand away. "Tliat finished me, in the
fame way that something of the kind
has finished the other Julie too. He
died. an?l then it was as if I died too,
#11 that was best of mc at least, and
all the hateful rotten port lived on I
My cousin Julit it like that now I It
must be in the family. Perhaps you
don\ know her well enough to see it
or recognise it, but 1 do I I knew
directly she came home from Switzer
land. . . . We're never been great
friends?I told you she didn't approve
of met But the day after she came
home?about six weeks ago, I suppose
it must be, or more?she came to see
nie, and she said: 'I want to ask your
pardon for ail the hard things I've
said to you and thought of you. You've
been right, and I've been wrong all
the time. It's no use trying to be good
?it's 110 use trying to lead a decent
life. The only way is to get every
i i u ?
party. And Lawrtnee SchofieM?"
"What made /on atk him?"
"To please Mitt Farrow, oI own*
They're alvoayt together I I.realty to
lieve they will mak* a natch h.
"I thought you didn't Ilka ^Mitt
Farrow?"
"Well, just between ourtehree, I
don't t But I find that ooa must be
broad-minded in thfte matters. Yog
see, it takes all sorts'to make a worUr
"It certainly does. Who elte?"
"A lot of people you don't know?"
. She rang off and Giles turned any
from the 'phone with a shrug of hB
shoulders. It was only when he wit
in his mother's house that he sodfenb
realised that in all probability Sadfc
"Isn't it a scream?" Sadie demanded. "Fancy meeting you in your
own mother's house and she no', knowing that she's entertaining a
daughter-in-law unawares?"
ounce of pleasure |>ossib!c. never min i' would be there also. For a moment
at whose expense. That's v.hat I'm he hesitated, a sudden chill feeling At
going to do in the future?that's wli: t his heart, then he philosophically
pushed the thought aside and went on.
She was almost the first person ht
saw when he entered Mrs. Ardron's
crowded drawing-room.
She was talking to a group of people
which included Julie harr.nv and sev
eral others whom Giles knew slightly,
you?something I want you to do for'ami it wa?. Julie who first caught sight
me. Will you be kind to Julie??tlv of li.ni an I waved an airy ha.id.
.die said.'
"I said: 'Vuu poor little tool!
there's po man in all the world wort'j
breaking you lieart mer?she wouldn t
admit anything, of course, but I
knew!?" Julie laughe<l softly. "An I
now there is something I want* to a -k
other Julie? I'm so sorry for her. 1
know just what she's going through.
I've been through it all myself, vo'i
(iiles went straight across to her.
Me did not know in th ? lea?t what
sort of reception to eKj?ect from his
see. And I think you could help her.; wife, but after h* had greerf l Julie
You're the sort of man who under- and the others whom he knew, it whs
stands. If you'll just be frisnds wit'i she who >aid in her insistent way:
her?" ' "Present your friend."
Til do anything 1 can. bat..
"She's got amongst a horrible set of
people," Julie said. "Not really vic
ious people, but silly and worthless!
They make her drink too much, and
swear?and sit up ail night, and she's
not that sort! She won't be able to
bear it as well as 1 used to. I saw
her the other night.. She's got hold of
a i*eW friend?"
"You mean?Schofield. He's not
a bad fellow?"
"No. Its a girl?a common Httle
American?"
"American?"
"Yes?a girl named Sadie Barrow
why. do you know her?" for Giles had
made a sudden convulsive movement
"No?yes. ... at least ... no. I
don't kiwy her." Not know her!
Sadie Barrow ? His own wife.
So Sadie had come to London with
out acquainting him of the fact. Giles
Chittenham felt cold with anger.
How tbe devil must be laughing at
this success Tul doubk-cross which had
not on\y brought Sadie to England
when be least wished to see her, but
had thrown her across Julie's path.
Confound all women! Chittenham
thought, then he looked again at the
one sitting crouching in the chair he
fore him. He stooped impulsively to
wards her and took her hand.
"I should like to be y?ur friend, too,
if I may. I should like to be able
to help you."
"Thank you, and, Giles?"
"Yes."
"I was never quite so wicked a*
people have made out. It was not my
fault about?Rodney. I told him so
many times it was useless?why, he
was only a boy compared with me?
a spoilt, weak boy."
"I am afraid he was."
"So don't think too badly of me."
She drew her hand gently away.
"And now?please go. I'm so tired."
She did not look at him or rise iram
her chair, and Giles walked reluctantly
to the door, pausing when he reached
it to look back. It seemed horrible
to leave her like that?alone! Hor
rible. to think that of all the friends
and lovers she had known there was
not one to stand by her now and' hold
her hand as she went through the dark
valley lying before her.
A day or two later h? saw a small
announcement in a newspaper to the
effect that she had gone abroad, and
would be absent for some time, and
that no letters would be forwarded.
It was the same night that his mother
rang up on the telephone to inform
him that she was giving a party.
"When ?" he asked, ruthlessly cutting
short her voluble explanations.
"To-night. Twelve midnight, Giles.
There'll be ham and eggs and hot
coffee about four."
"Good Lord!"
"Don't talk like that. It will be
such fun. Every one's coming!"
"Who is 'every one'?"
"Doris, of course?she's bringing a
It WM Jottc who obqai.
"Mr. Chittenham. Miaa
"Pleased to meet you,"
impudently.
There was a twinkle in her m fa*
which Giles could have shaken her.
Schofield was with JuHe, beaming
happily upon every one.
"We haven't met lately, Mr. Chittao
ham," Julie was saying. "Whew hlVO
you been hiding? So kind of yflM[ ,
mother to ask me here to-night."
"So kind of you to come," GOea an
swered formally. He could sea thai
Sadie was manoeuvring to Teach Ma
side, and presently they ware a llttlt
apart from the rest.
"Isn't it a scrtmmr Sadie it .meal*
"Fancy meeting you in your owm
mother's house, and she not knowing
a daughter^
frodjil
that she's entertaining
law unawares?"
"You are at perfect liberty to ktt
her if you choose," Giles. A?|WW?i
coolly, though inwardly ba waa owl *
"I have no dovibt that yoi havt toll
other people already."
Sadie gave a little scream pf
diation.
"Tell any one 1 Not ma 1 It would ,
cook my little goose once and for all !
if it was known that I'd got fad
iaS:
tnames, rrccoocn for mc ail cm nin^
and if there's anything left oTtr. frH*
dom again."
"Why have you come to Londonf
Her face chained subtly.
"Not to find you, my lambiria, ??
don't worry I I've come to have a
pood time, and don't you interfere, or
tt will be the worse for you."
"Sadie, the situation is impossible?"
She laughed in his face.
"Rubbisn! Don't pretend that you
want me to come back to you."
Sadie shrugged her naked shoulder*.
"Times change I" she said. She moved
away from him, her slim. scantOy-dad
body swaying with a little impudpat
movement.
Giles watched her with hard eye*.
And this was his wife! This common
little . . . he pulled his thoughts , up
sharply, ashamed of them. After all,
he h&d once thought her good enough
to marry. ? .#
Giles turned again to Julie.
"I suppose it would be utterly, useless
for me to ask you to drop this damn
able play-acting?"
"My deer man, what on; earth do
you mean?" > '
"What I say. You're never natural
for a single moment. You hafe this
sort of?of piffle?as much as I hata
it. You?you despise people like?like
these people here?" .
Julie laughed serenely.
"I brought Lawrence and Sadie Bar
row. By the way, what do you.think
of Sadie?"
"Is she a new friend of yours?"
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