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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
ll Harold Craw
HE ROSE frc'cl
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
IN THE DARK
Chapter It
COHKLftfcD
Dr. Lytton vjiid Urmnnock the
ext afwrnooa. and found hlra
lcaram to leel hi way about Uir
roat eardrn, under HaWe'i guid
ance. "Mug Cor.aldine has been teach
ing me all day," explained Gran
nock. Lyt ion. tongue-tied, could
only draw fiercely at his cigarette.)
He listened to the talk of these
two lovers. Between instructions
aud directions, always casually
given. Halite as leading Grannock
to speak of Africa. Tune slipped
away among the roses. . . .
"I ll go back to the house." she
Said, suddenly rising. "You'd like
to have a professional look at your
patient, doctor, no diubt; and I
have my unpacking to llnish."
'Unpacking?"
Oh, didn't you know? I've asked
myself to stay. I angled hard for
the Invitation yesterday but Baxely
Is so dens?! or so very, very proper.
I can't quite make out which It is.
Perhaps you'll smooth him down
lor me, will you?"
Both she and Grannock laughed
the caressing and Intimate laughter
of acknowledge! lovers. Lyttoa
laughed, too. and hoped he would
never again see such misery as lay
In this girl's eyes while her lips
Curved and pouted so gaily.
"She wants to stay here (or three
weeks that Is, until we're mar.
ried." said Grannock when the
sound of her footsteps had died
war. "Heaven knows what South
Cliff will say!"
"Forget 'em." growled the doc
tor. He rubbed his hands nervous
ly together. "You're to be married
In three weeks then that's settled?"
It's settled in this sense that
Z still don't feel I ouht to marry
at all and that she Rose abso
lutely refuses to budge from my
sidf until X ran live a tolerable
life without her. Well, what am I
to say to her? What Is a tolerable
life to a blind man? And If I could
see would life even then be toler
able without her? ... Id like to
believe that she's getting her own
way because the puzzle Is beyond
me but. to be honest. I haven t real
ly tackled It. I'm afraid of it. And
while I'm busy dodging it, she's
Simply settling everything."
"I see." said Lyt ton.
"I heard from Lester this morn
lng." sold Orannoek.
The doctor started.
"I had a wire yesterday," went
on Grannock with careful quiet.
"His letter confirms It. He has ar
ranged to marry Nurse Ellesmore
within the next few days and to
take her abroad. After that, he
wants to sell this place and settle
down in New York."
"He never liked Southcltff," Raid
Lytton, for the sake of saying
something anything.
"No. It wus mother who loved
It. Of course, Lester will be free
to do as he likes with nil his prop
erty once he Is married. ' He
laughed shortly. "It's too bad. Isn't
ft, and yet sort of funny that all
the elaborate machinery mother set
up to insure that Lester should
many suitably Is to end In thisl"
"Your brother felt that the Elles
more girl had a claim on him?":
Dr. Lyt ton had found a temporary
(solution of the situation by think
ing of Nur.se Ellesmore and Rose
Conaldlne as two separate people.
"He did; and I was bound to
arce with him. In other words, ij
gave my consent to his marriuTe
and by the terms of the will that
Is enouuh to put Lester In complete
authority c.cr his poroesMons. . . .'
Lyt ton "
'Cm?"
-What's the girl like? I don't
mean physicully I've been told
she's dark and hand'-ome with one
crooked eyebrow or something i
but what kind of a wife wil she
make Lester? I
"Is she-well, rou know what T
meant Is site going to be his social
drain-warrant or not ? Because Les
ter will never find any kind of life
outside toe society of others of his
type. He is gregarious or nothing.'
Lyt ton shifted miserably In his
seat. He was not used, he told him
self, to this stepping gingerly about
between lies, half-he and evasions
He said, desperately, "Old man, I
wish I could tell you what you
want to know but I can't. And
that's the truth."
Grannock evidently accepted thfe
as normal.
"No, I suppose you wouldn't
know," he said. "You only knew
her as a nurse. . . . It's odd, doc,
how Lester's description of her has
stuck In my mind. It's the uneven
eyebrows, I suppose. I find myself
thinking about her quite a lot not
in relation to myself but as the
woman alio Is to be my brother's
wife."
The doctor grabbed again at the
pretence that HalUe and Kate were
not one but two.
"I should have thought." he said,
"that you had someone else to think
about."
Gannock smiled.
"I don't somehow, actively think
about Rose. said Grannock. "She's
a part of my mind and of my spirit
She is my life. . . . Sory! Didn't
know I was given to that kind of
thing, did you? But perhaps It's
because I've never actually seen
her."
No. of course you ha vent"
"I'm told she Is very lovely.
Nurse Casey very sweetly told me
so. But, Lyt ton. here's a queer
thing! Casey got mixed up with
Rose and and that Elle.smore
woman. She said Rose's eyebrows
weren't level, that one was higher
than tlie other. When I exclaimed,
she said she'd confused the two."
"She's ft foot"
"They aren't alike, are they? I
don't know why it should have
come as such a shock to believe that
they are even of the same type.
"There Isn't a shadow of resem
blance between them," lied the doc
tor heftily. "As for eyebrows or
whatever it is. you can take it from
me that damn" few people have
got perfectly level eyebrows. You
haven't. I haven't. Your brother
has one of the very few symmetri
cal faces I've seen and that's one
of the reasons I don't like It."
You were always a little down
on Lester," grinned Lester's brother.
"Very likely. And talking of
faces, old man, just let me see If
that swelling of yours is gone yet."
He plunged into a discussion of
Grannock's general health and kept
at it until HalUe was again visible
between the trees.
I'm here again, Saxely," she
called, and Lytton recognized this
as an agreed signal which would re
lieve Grannock of speculating on
her nearness. "I find I've left some
things at Mrs. Bartholomew's. Will
you give me a lift there. Doctor
Lytton?"
"With pleasure."
"Nurse Casey will be bark from
her walk soon and, in ar.y case,
Saxely likes a little time to himrell
occasionally." Her hand was
Grannock's shoulder and Lytton
saw him carry It to his lips. Then,
Instead of releasing it, Grannock
felt it with his other hand.
I must learn this bu Iness, next,'
he said, chwrfullv. "This hand ot
yours. Rose, is a little different Irom
the hand of any one cite in the
world. I must learn to feel that
little difference. And then I must
feel your face. Bend down Just a
second. Lytton says faces are rare.
ly symmetrical. Perhaps I can tell
in my finders where one halt is out
of line with the other, now that my
eyes aren't able to deceive me."
Ha Hie had whitened but, after
one startled, inquiring look at Lyt
ton, she had bent to the groping
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