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wore. They had the peer1 ng look
At
this
point
in
the
account
she
A beuuhful young WOUUIII f lin t *
o
f the near-sighted, and this con
gave
Eve,
Stella's'
sobs,
grew
so
herself on the sidewtilk in u »(range
city She ciiiinot reniembei*' her louil thut Eve feared that they stant effort to see clearly had lin
name or where »he mine from. She might draw Miss Duvenport from ed his forehead ami tufted his
bus nothing In her pur»« Io tell lie next Apurtmeiit. She mention thick gray eyebrows.
"I wish I knew what this meant,
herself who »lie 1». A young muu 'd this danger to the raconleuse,
who has »ceil her In the hotel when who stifled the expression of her he suid ut last. “Perhaps you’ll
»he 1» »lopping notice» her and jrief. It was no part of Stella's tell me. But take your time.”
She made two efforts before she
take» her Io the hotel in u cuh. plan to make Ivy a confidante. But
There »lie find» Hint »lie 1» regis nr plain face wa» tear-streaked as could speuk. He was some one
tered, in French us "Mi»» Eve No •he went on. und Eve experienced »he had known, but her inner
body of Nowhere.” The clerk hut i deep sympathy not only for her panic proved that he wa» also
been calling her Ml»» Pursons. Tin ".ml for the reg’lar who had been someone she had reason to fear.
young niiiii tell» her »he 1» In New .objected to this sort of scene. She did not know Idin now, and
York. Ill» iiumc 1» Eric Hamilton I'liere may he girls who are heuiiti- she would let him see that she
of Chicago. She 1» terrified nt hei ul when they weep. Poor Stella did not. It seemed the safest
course.
loss of memory. He asks hi» frlem auk not among them.
"I lel'm see why I was there,’
Dr. Currick, u nerve specialist, 1«
"I'm always rather nervous with
cull nt the hotel. Dr. Currick talk- ilellu gulped, "an’ he was that )«?- strangers,” she admitted, and then
encouragingly, but say» Hint In ite he broke my heart. I'd taken asked breathlessly, "Would you
will »end a nurse to sl»)L with tin iff my cout all' hat before he come cure Io dance?”
mysterious "Mi»» Pursons” Hint in, for of course I thought he'd
He laughed ut that, on a sudden
.eep me to dinner anyway. Don’t
night.
hursh note; und again lie took his
Mi»» Nobody listens while Hum they always, in stories am’ pic- time Io speak, his eyes on the
Ilion tells her what the doctor has uresT But he didn't. He got my cigar as if he were thinking deep
said, then steps Into another room. mt an’ coat, an’ he pul ’em on ly-
When the nurse arrives, the girl gentle an’ kind, like he was dress-
“Strangers!" he repeated. Stran
n' a kid, with soothin’ noises, an’
hus vanished from the hotel!
gers!"
le told me I wus too nice a girl
Eve'» departure was simple. Sht to put myself in compromisin' po-
"1 think," she suggested, ’’you
went out of u back door into the dlious. Wasn’t that the el’phanls are mistaking me for some one
servants hull of the hotel, wh. re muckiest An' he got me to the you imagine you know.”
she encountered a young French
loor an' outside it, an’ the first
He straightened us if she had and with an emphatic push helped ' connected with it all . . he was voice—"I shan’t be around to it
for a couple of hours. I'm just
man po. ter. who claimed to recog I knew he had the elevator up
struck him.
her through the window that op in the very heart of it. At nio- awake. Will eleven o'clock be
nise her. He had seen her in Paris mil wa» puttin' me in it an* sayin’
was
just
within
grasp
"My God! are you telling me I ened on the alley.
i menls she
•‘Then you knew my name?" »he good-by. Oh. Berson, it wus aw don't know you?” he cried.
of what it was . . . something lift convenient for you?
It
was
all
quite
simple
now.
The last of her panic had slunk
demand'd eagerly. But the portei ful! For of course I caught on
"1 think you’re misled by a strong Three taxicabs stood in a waiting ed, brightened, ami suddenly dark
away at the sound of Hamilton’s
had for, ollen that. He would write right off. I seen 1 was a woman likeness. There are some amazing
ened
again
even
as
she
was
holding
front of the side door, and with a
voice. With Hamilton in the hotel
at once to u friend in Puri» and find
resemblances, you know.
tcorned I”
crisp command she entered the her breath in dawning understand
the name of the American young
she
was safe.
ing.
She
was
convinced
that
she
The phrase seemed to please
Jake passed the table as she
She rang for the chambermaid,
lady they had both admired. He Stella, for she tried it again on a spoke, glanced at the pair and hes first.
hud
fled
to
avoid
him
and
that
to
"Sixth Avenue and Fortieth St.
who came promptly, and offered
tells bi r of nn apartment house uglier key.
itated. Eve did not see him, but Quick, please,” she directed and return to her normal seif would
the girl five dollars for the loan
where I ic janitor, he think» would
be
to
return
to
him
.
.
.
to
him
....
“A woman scorned," she repeal- the stranger did.
the chauufcur, who seemed used
take liei In. Meantime, while Ham •d. "Berson, I give you my word
The sun rose, bringing with it, of a hat, a dress, a coat, and a
"Jake says you’re working for to such instruction, started with a
pair of shoes.
ilton 1» anxiously hunting up the I cried all the way home. Now, him," he brought out with difficul
suddenness that made her bite her first, endurance, then reviving
The clothes fitted fairly well, as
nerve s eciulist for advice, Eve gets what d'you think I ought to do? ty. "He tells me you're substitut
courage.
tongue.
she
had expected them to do, af
into a taxicab and drive» away.
She wa» awakened by a tinkle,
ing for another girl. That’s about
live him up?”
She paid him and left the taxi
ter
her
first glance at Margaret’s
She a range» w ith Marcel's friend,
"Yes. Stella," Eve said with a the limit, but we won’t go into it cab at the point she had indicated sharply imperative. The telephone
the jan lor of a dingy little apart ■Iraight fuce and a comforting pat now. However, I know the rules and when the cab was out of sight was in her sitting-room and she trim figure, but the general effect
was that of a young working girl
ment house on the Eust Side of
she took another that was passing, rose to answer it. At the first of a flamboyant type.
,
New York, for a »mall furnished
ordered herself driven downtown. words that came over the wire, her
An impulse came to her and she
npurtimnt. lie tell» her not to be
heart
caught,
then
leaped,
and
re
The Garland, she had decided,
stopped to consider it.
be frightened if she hears the young
was her only refuge. She dared viving couraye lifted her like a
(C O NTIN UED NEXT W EE K )
.
woman who occupies the next
not return to the apartment to wave.
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apiirtnii nt come in very late in the
“Miss
Parsons?”
It
was
Hamil
which she could easily be traced,
morn in ¡. live wonder» what sort
How She rook It
and no other good hotel she knew ton’s warm and friendly voice,
of u pi ice she lias got into.
Blobbs— "I took a chance and ktaoed
of would take her in at that hour holding tlie thrill of controlled ex
The girl in the next apartment
of the night without luggage and citement . Robinson has just told her In the dark.” Siohbs—“How did
is Ivy Davenport, u professional
me that you’re back,” he continued, she take It? What did she say I"
in evening clothes.
Blobbs— "She said she never wan tad
cabaret dancer with a weak heart.
During the swift journey, she "and it seems too good to be true. ta M t my face again."
Eve help» her one night when she
planned her story for the hotel I don't want to be a nuisance, of
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is ill. ivy sugggsts that Eve, who
clerk. If Jenkins, the night man course—’’
is short of funds, should lake her
A n d It't Not Worth It
“Oh, I shall be glad to see you!"
wa» on duty, she was sure he
place in the cabaret. Eve thinks
It costs a lot of money to bring ap
would take her in. She left the Eve gasped. "You can’t imagine
it over, dislikes the idea, but reul
cab a block from the Garland and how glad I'll be. But—" with an a boy so he won't be able to support
ixes that she hus Io do something
and her panic lifted a trifle when effort she controlled her shaking himself when be becomes » man.— E x
change.
to earn a living until she finds out
she entered the lobby and saw the
who she really is, Ivy has twisted
plump face of Jenkins confront
the name of ‘‘Personne” which is
ing her across the night desk.
the only surname Eve knows for
“Oh, Mr. Jenkins," she began
herself. Into “Berson.”
with a desperate effort to 'speak
Eve finds "Jake's a strange sort
"Well, young lady,” he rasped out, "it’s time to drop this chic naturally, “perhaps you remember
He Isn't the World's Oldest He Looks It
of place and the girls who dance anery of yours and come to an u nih-rstunding."
me—”
there even stranger, though kind
—
"Miss Parsons? Of course. How-
" f
"T -
to the stranger who is taking Ivy's
do you do? I can give you the
on the girl's shaking shoulders. If of the cabaret game. 1 mustn't same rooms you had before, if you
place.
take the time of his people for
She meets a young man named 1 were you, I’d give him up."
like,” he hospitably added. They're
She had believed that with the nothing. So here’s a »op to him.” vacant.”
Hunt, who frankly tells her that
With extreme deliberation he
possible exception of Queeiiie,
she doesn’t belong there.
"Thank you, yes; I’d like that
One evening when she 1» talking Stella had the keenest sense of took a roll of bills from his pocket very much.”
to the friendly young man named humor of any one at Jake's. Now pulled off a ten-dollar banknote
Eve took her key, gave him a
Hunt one of the other girls tells she realized that one's sense of and tossed it on the table before forced smile, and went on to the
her there’s a man from the West humor often perishes under tin- tier. In her increasing panic she elevator, breathing more natural
whom Jake wants her to entertain. first assault of ones emotional hardly observed the action.
ly.
The stranger saw that Jake had
nature.
-
- j
A warm ball) partly soothed her,
"Well, If you say so, I will,” passed on, und his niunner changed the familiar bed was comfortable,
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
Stellg agreed with a pathetic snif as abruptly as if some nerve in and the quiet neighborhood was
fle; and she drifted away, greatly him, tense till now, had suddenly | free from the car-clanging that
Her own life. Eve was begin relieved by an outburst to which snapped.
had disturbed her at the apartment
"Well, young lady,” he rasped With a mighty effort of will she
ning to think, would mean accep- sin- never again referred.
lance and reconstruction, Marcel
Yes, one could do a little for out, "it's time to drop this chicanery tried to draw mental shutters be
and l.eon seemed broken reeds, these girls, Eve reflected, as she of yours and come to an under tween memory and the episodes
and her present condition might depressedly walked at Hunt’s side. standing.”
of the night, but the grayhaired
go on indefinitely. If it did, she She was earning money, too, and
Eve stared at the man in u froz stranger pushed back those shut
would at least continue temporar saving most of it, and beginning en silence.
ters, with compelling hands. The
ily in this new environment. Sli
"I don't understand,” she falter room seemed full of him. The very-
er readjustment, and doing her
was helping Ivy, whom she hat
lecping in the daytime, and not ed, after a brief duel of eyes be world seemed full of him, and of
persuaded Io sec a specialist am
aving to face black nights, her tween them.
some horror connected with him.
follow his treatment. Miss Morri
aide returned in some degree
He smiled wryly.
The horror was worse than the
had hinted that she would like t<
"I’m afraid neither of us is man himself, because it was in
very time she met strangers.
Doctors who have examined Zar Agha, the Turkish visitor to the
learn some French, and had aildc
Tonight, she told herself she had meeting this very well,” he said tangible. Like those trailing ends
United States who claims to be 156 years old, say he is certainly of
great >- e and . >oj for many years more. He fought in 1-* wars, has
leen mad to come. Deep within wearily. "I'll admit it’s too much she was always striving to catch,
frankly:
lost 1 ’ wive -, rii !--.hs nothing stronger than milk, eats no meat, and has1
for
me.
But
we’ll
understand
each
er
an
alarm
was
sounding,
solftly
"Sonic English, too teacher.
it lay beyond her reach, just back
had three sets qlAtctbu----— ------ -
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ut persistently. It grew louder other all right when we've had of him . . . In some way he was
Don't think I ain't wise to the waj
.s she approached the man at the our talk. Go and put on your coat
I spill words,”
■orncr tabic. He had risen, and and we’ll get out. This is no place
Even Stella wa» mole human will
Eve Ilian with others, and on one .loud winching her with an air of for you. and God alone knows why
He took u you came here."
Hoover Visits Her A
occasion had sought the novice'.- ense expectancy.
Eve stood up quickly. She must
apartment to make a tearful con piick step forward when she
cached the table, and then under end this nightmare.
fidence of a sort not often given
"I must go to the dressing-room
Eve gathered that Stella had s< ler conventonal smile stopped
and
get my wrap." she said.
■hort
with
a
look
of
incredulous
far forgotten her prejldire agains.
Queenie was in the dressing
men as to fall in love with one nt .lupi-faction.
lie was a big man, six feet tall, room. Eve caught hre arm.
the reg'lnrs at Jake’s, and to throw
“Is there any back way out of
.month-faced,
of dark complexion,
herself violently at the head o'-i
the unappreciative young twin. middle-aged, and inclined to stout this place?" she asked desparately.
When lie failed Io respond she ness. lie had a large head cover Her expression forbade questions
'd with thick gray hnir, brushed and Miss Morris rallied to the
sent Inin notes.
straight
back from a good forehead. obvious crisis of the moment.
When he ceased coming Io Jakes,
“Sure there is," she remembered.
obviously to avoid her, she called 11 is gray eyes, just now fixed un
“The
boy's dressing room has a
swervingly
on
hers,
were
partly
at his room» late one afternoon
window
on a back alley."
ot
concealed
by
the
thick
lenses
of
and waited there till he came
bet She hurried Eve aero»» the room
the
horu-riuuued
spectacle»
bom«.
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