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PAGE SIX THE CAPITAL JOUKNAL. HALL A, OllkiiUX iiiKAV. NOVfcMBKK 21. 19M WILDilBEAUTY CHAPTER 11 A MESSAGE FROM THE BtA NoUunf more wa Mid about Se at tie ml least In Fanny's hearlnf It was 24 hours before Sheila was out of all danger, three days be fore she definitely brjran to mend. Then it suddenly turned hot a:td Sheila wilted and waa ordered to the seashore In her grandmother's change. "You mean I am not to go mitli her?" a&ked Fanny, She wanted , to cry out that site would not per-; mit Sheila to be taken from her, tliat Sheila was as much hers as David's more hers titan David's; a thomand times more h?rs than Mrs. Frost's. But her humility, her cniihlfiK sense of guilt and failure at rang led her courage. "Someone lias to star and look out for nte." said David, avoiding her eyes. He never looked at her now if he could help it. "Oh, but Sheila does need me. David. You know the cries U I am not with her." "She ll aoon get over that. She'll have other children to plsy with, aand to dui in end all the rest. She U be all right." David missed the glance Fanny gave him. It had been Fanny's sal vation tliat Sheila, waklnjr to con sciousness, had turned from her grandmother and the nurse and de manded her mother's constant min istrations. Sheila needed her dsy and night Fanny hugged the thought. And David would take this staff from her! Not to be unkind, but because he had so far withdrawn hlnutelf tliat he couU not se lwi desperate need. She had failed her husband, wrecked by her carelessness their hopes of a golden future, endanger ed her child's life. But neither did fine forget that when the black wat ers had flowed over her David had left her to breast them alone. Fanny was nearly always respon sive to David's moods, but his abun dant humor, his habit of Joking at hlrnaelf, had blinded her to the strength of his natural melancholy. Nor had Fanny realized how deeply hurt, how cruelly humiliated David had been by his abrupt dismissal from the position Into which for years he had put the best of him self and every possible ounce of liard work and hottest endeavor. (The man who has been fired let go as unnecessary! The man want-, ing to work, without a job! Can any sheltered home woman ever un-, derstand? j The pay plan of moving to Seattle j had put an end only temporarily to Davids bitter brooding. In the black depression following the abrupt colla pie of his hopes he had small room or energy for visualis ing Fanny's suffering. He was a failure. He had defied his family, first by marrying Fanny, then by Ills Insistence on setting up his own householl gods. Now he was being lHinished. His reason told him that this was rank nonsense; his In stinct, far stronger and more po tent, warned him that furtlter de fiance would be followed by further punishment. He was too proud, much too re served to ay to Fany that he needed tier far more than Sheila. When Fanny began to sob hystsri- rally, crying out that she could not, could not let her baby go away from her, he told her quietly not to cry that of course If site felt that way she should go to the seashore with his mother and Sheila. At the elation he spent the last minutes before the train went fuss ing over Sheila, making her comfor table among her pillows. As the conductor called "All aboard." he kissed his mother hastily, then Fan ny's rhfv-k. "Have a good time, he 5 by MATED. HOWE FAXMiVA said to her. A cood tune! There must have been In Fanny a residue of Vtking blood. She had not aeen ttw sea since she Sheila's axe, but instantly It spoke to her as a fnend speaks, claiming k'pjhlp. nrriftf as in a zi int ly, strange, age-old primordial memories. It required no self-denial on Fanny's part to refuse all invitations and spend her days on the beach. Mrs. Frost had selected quiet hotel, on the Jersey coa.t, frequent ed largely by Philadelphia!) Sheila, by the grace of lier Brown beck blood, soon found favor in the sitiht of a arioii of one of Philadel phia's oldest and wealthiest fami lies aged four, happily in Uu cliarge of a dependable uniformed EnlUh nurse. After heavily tipping tlte nurse. Mrs. Frost Joined tiie row ot industrious knitters on the hotel veranda. Fanny had hours every day to make acquaintance with the wind and the waves and herself. Slie found that alie waa tired; desper ately tired. Even to say good mum in to strangers was now an effort. Hour after hour, day after day she lay supine, watching the sea, lulled to a delicious larlness by the cease less rhythm of the breaking waves, the hot caressing aun, the yielding yellow sands. All the while the sea kept mur muring, murmuring; as If It were trying to whisper a message. But it was not until Fanny was rested and her Inertia ended that something clicked and the message got thro ugh. It was on a stormy alternoon when she had gone for a long walk alone the deserted beach. Fanny. now battling her way, now caught In powerful arms and hurried help lessly forward laughed for the first tune In weeks. Life after all was good, signifi cant, consequent. Here today, gor? tomorrow; but coming from some thing, going somewhere. It must be paid for as all things worth while were naid for; paid for In pain, sac rifice, struggle, fortitude. That was a hat the sea had been trying to whisper to her; and tired of whis pers, was now saying in a roar. Courage! Courage. Fanny! Forward. Life is to the strong never to the weak. You have been savagely pun ished. What of It? Fanny came back from that walk and other walks, harder tf not wiser. She told herself tliat ail tier life she had been swayed, driven this way and tliat by the desire for approbatloin and by petty iear. first of her father's displeasure. then of David s. Now she was re solved, come what might, to con quer her fears, win for herylf a place in the glorious company of free souls who dared be themselves; at any cost at any cost! Meanwhile David, back again in the bank, counting his uncle money, subjected again to his uncle's hated dominance (the more hated perhaps because it was kind ly i, David had not yet found it In his heart to forgive or condone Fan ny's weakness. He missed her des perately. Most of all, David missed the flat tery and stimulation ot Fanny'J adoration, her passionate convlc vlctiion that he was wiser, stronger, handsomer, more gifted than other men. ("I know you're not the hand somest man in the world but I think you are," Fanny had once aald.t David was conscious per haps too conscious of his weak nesses; realized that he was limited, over-sensitive, too easily discourag ed. But In Fanny's eyes he saw him self reflected to godlike proportions and basked in and drew strength from the Image as from tlie sun. Poor lovmg foolish Fanny! The last thing he desired on earth was to punish her. Rather, he ached to comfort and give ease to her f Continued on Page lit A l' MOMS t AltKMrS a, urat ta- Solution of Yesterday's Puuta In a, iiMf-h-tk 14. Uurwtrrre la. lrraltr It I. lit- wtM tmliHio nt India If. l UKllkd thvvt 15. t;irtir4 lfBHttrital ! St. runittlrwrM ol MurlUf ft. 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