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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because he had so far withdrawn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
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