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3Y HENRY BELLAMANN
NCA SERVICE. INC.
MIXED EMOTIONS
CHAPTER XIV
TR, TOWER , smiled (gain.
"" "Wht r your plant for
liter, Pirrla? After Vienna?"
1 "I want to be a doctor out at
the asylum."
' "Hera In Kings Row?"
"Yes, sir."
"'What put that idea into your
head?"
: "A man who works on our
place."
-"Indeed. You seem to have a
number of influences."
' Parrls related the story of Lucy
Carr and her death, and explained
the way he had felt, even at the
outset of his acquaintance with
her, that there should be some
way to seize her flitting mind and
bold it still.
"And there's another thing, too
somebody else."
- Parrls told Dr. Tower of Benny
Singer and of old Tom Carr's
theories about curing him, or at
least helping him. He finished, a
little disconcerted by Dr. Tower's
silence. The doctor pushed' the
papers aside.
"You ought to be a fine doctor.'
' There's just one thing I feel a
little dubious about." .
Parris waited.
It's your idea of coming bade
here to Kings Row."
V "Well. Tom Carr was the first
one to suggest it, and then I kind
of mentioned it to my grand
mother, and she spoke right away
to Colonel Skeffington, and he
spoke to Dr. Nolan out at the
asylum."
r Dr. Tower laughed once more.
"Young eagles should nest far
from home.' Ever hear that?"
r;Wo, sir."
"It's a good saying. There's a
curious rivalry between the old;
and the young. It's everywhere,;
but it's keener, and ifs more ruth-,
less' and more cruel in the home
Best, so to speak."
TTE had seen Cassandra several!
times this year "whenever
she could slip away," as she said, I
He had never felt any unease of i
conscience about it Those meet-)
ings with Cassandra were in ai
world apart i
Cassandra! He could not pre-i
clsely say to himself how he felt'
about her. He knew exactly how
hm felt about Renee still. He
knew bow he felt about Drake,,
and almost anyone he knew well.
But Cassie. That was a different
relationship. .
.Just bow he was once more
aware of the disastrous conse
quences that might follow if Dr.
Tower so much as suspected any
thing. There was a quality of
threat about the man that was not!
comfortable to contemplate.
JJ ARRIS hurried toward home.
Ha was nearly at the end of
Federal street when Drake over-,
took him.
f "Hbp in. Ill drive you home..
I got something for you."
t- "Oh." Parrls exclamation was
fduU and disinterested.
: " "Is that the way you receive a
iBoto from your sweetheart?"
;:' Parris read the few lines hur-
jrledly. '-"She wants to see me at
lyour house tonight" ,
I ,Dont you want to?"
j Just can't see her tonight"
' "What's the matter with that
Igal, anyhow?"
V'She's just well, strange,,
(Drake. Cassie gee, I feel terrible;
talking about her like 'this. You!
know I wouldn't to anybody else.;
(But she frightens me, sometimes.1
IShe's so intense."
j 1 know." i
I ."She's pretty swell, Drake."
1 . "Maybe a little crazy. Like her!
eld man. Else why would he try I
Ito keep her locked up at home like'
fee does?"
Parris thinned his lips. "He's,
mot crazy, Drake. He's more in--"telligent
than all of Aberdeen Col
llege put together."
. "All the same, there's something
pretty funny about that house.;
And old Cass you Just now said'
yourself ..."
"All right an right But I can't
isee her tonight And I haven't got,
lany way to let her know."
Til Just tell her you couldn't;
kome."
, "It's my grandmother I'm wor
med about Drake."
""Well, you're not her doctor
toot yet"
I Anna listened carefully to Par-;
Iris, She controlled her face and!
(answered him calmly, remember
ling Madame's warning.
"To tell you the truth, Parris,
fMadame did see Dr. Ladd."
; "Consultation?"
j ' "Yes, Dr. Gordon thought she
ought too. There's no use deny
Ung.sha ain't been so well, but'
lane's better. Don't you think she
Hooks better?"
"No."
"Madame's not so young, Parrls,;
and little tilings get wrong with;
you when you get older. But you;
shouldn't worry now."
He felt mightily relieved. "All;
right. I guess I just got a little;
worried when Dr. Tower said he
"thought she didn't look so well."
"She's 2nd a little cold, you
know. That pulls a body down,
too. Look, Parris. The cookies are
none."
'Parrls grinned. "And a glass of
nllkl"
"Good. I get it right away."
"I've got to telephone, too. IH
be right back."
pARRIS was Invaded by the
strangest discomfort he had
ever known. He was unable to
analyze it but he knew it was
more acute and arose from deeper
NOurces than the normal unrest of
spring. He roamed the place from
end to end.
Madame von Eln observed his
restlessness. Bo did Anna.
i."Anna, what Is the matter with
,' ' A.
Parris? He seems unlike himself
these days,"
"Yes, Madame, I have been
watching him. Ho no sooner comes
in than he goes out again."
"Where is he now?"
"Up there at the beginning of
the orchard. He's standing there
looking at a tree."
"A tree? Looking at a tree, did
you say?"
"Yes, Madame."
"Anna, I understand you less
and less each minute. Of course he
looks at things. How could he
avoid looking at things? Come
now, what are you talking about?"
"It is peculiar. He walks all
over the place; he looks at the sky
and at the ground and at the trees.
He picks up a stone and stares at
it as if it were strange, then drops
it and picks up another."
"Anna, maybe there is a girl!"
"I don't think so."
"What is the mntter with this
young gentleman, then?"
"I think he is in love
"But you said "
"Oh, not with a girl, Madame,
but here with this place."
"I have no Idea what you are
talking about"
"It is this. I think Parris feels
something. I think he does not
know what it is. I think he feels
change. I think he is afraid some
thing is to happen and he does not
understand. Oil, Madame, you
know I have watched him grow
every day of his life. I feel,. in
here, sometimes just what he feels.
I think he cannot help but see that
you are not well "
Madame was silent for several
minutes. Anna kept her hands
tightly twisted in her apron.
"You were saying, Anna, that he
ia in love with this place."
"Yes, of course. It is home. Ma
dame, I remember it well, when I
knew I was to leave my home for
ever, I could not see it enough. I
looked at every bush, every little
leaf. It is like that Madame, with
Parrls1
"(To Be Continued)
Barroom admirals and back
street brigadier generals contin
ue to expound how the war
should be won. Guess we'll
have to buy a gas mask.
Throw this at the Japs. T. H.
Fisher, East Liverpool, O., bank
er contributing a 30-ton bridge
to scrap metal salvage commit
tee. The California fisherman who
netted a 9000-pound shark
should be sent out after ,some
submarines.
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