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THIS HAS HAPPENED. SYBIL THORNE is going to have a baby. Only two people know of her marriage, and both¦ were pledged to secrecy. Sybil thinks she had rather dic.
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"Oh, Craig, you're wonderfull Batavia You're so good you hurt. I-I'd alaleuca most rather you slapped me!”
Sybil was trembling violently.
my teeth are
Dangkok
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The father, of her unborn child "
is RICHARD EUSTIS, an adven-ch.....chat....tering. I'm so turer and a philandorer. Sybil shivery!"
lived with him only two weeks, "Nervous reaction," he told her, during a period when she was and bundled her into her coat. Then supposed to be vacationing in he called a cab, to take her home. Havana with MABEL BLAKE. He tucked her in warmly, and Terminating a ghastly honeymoon,xratefully she pillowed her head on Sybil returns to Boston with Mabel, his shoulder. His arm about her determined that no one shall ever shoulder held her close. know of her sordid romance.
When she learns, however, that she is going to have a child, she is forced to tell her secret. Mabel is helpful and sympathetic. Her brother, TAD, is quite wonderful about it. But VALERIE,' her: brother's wife, is inclined to scoff she cried. and taunt. Poor MRS. THORNE,
She raised her head, nd he afraid of a scandal, sels immediate-touched her lips Hghtly with his, ly about getting announcements
"Good night, Httle girl." printed.
Then Sybil tells CRAIG NEW- HALL, who has loved her for years, and hoped that sone day she would marry him.
CHAPTER XXX.
Only Crain's lips twitched, and a little cord in his neck Sybil thought of a sketch she had seen of a foreign dictator, with a leonine hend. People called him the Tragic Man of Destiny.
Now Crain louked like that composite of tragedy. She saw the agony in his eyes, and could have cried aloud. Her own were full of fear-wild, hunted fear. And so they sat-reading one another's misery, in dreadful silence.
She renched hand. It lay on the tablecloth, mo- Lionless. And when she fondled it, it felt like ice,
and touched his
He opened his mouth to speak. "Why.
Words came hard. He seemed to wrench them out, with effort.
"Why didn't you tell me .. before?
The steps at her house were icy, and, lest she slip, he carried her to the door. There he shook hands, and stood for a minute, speechless, with bared head, and his face, as wintry as the night.
"Aren't you going to kiss me?"
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Mother!"
"I couldn't," she told him. Ineffectually she patted his hand. "Don't you think we had better "His name was Richard Eustis. I date them July?" she had naked hate him now. 1... I left him-tearfully of Tad.
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I hadn't even met him!" Valerie shrugged her, shoulders eloquently..
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She talked in small, Jerky sen tences. "I think I must have been, crazy... It was all so mud- den..
The Captain-and thore women... Mab begged me not to... And then, that very night. .. Oh, it was awful. ... "Drink- drink-drink.... Five monthaneros
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of Craig's face, and an obsequiousing herself with tea cups and a waiter, hovering near, stared in delft cracker jar. There were spicying, who retire and offer themselves
carnations in a blue vase, and a for re-election, startled surprise.
crackling fire, and a kettle hum- ming on the crane,
"Oh, plenae!" Sybil Interrupted herself nervously. "Send that man away. He's latening to every word --I know he is."
Then Craig shifted his dreadful, penetrating gaze from her pale face, and motioned abstractedly.
"Bring Miss Thorne breast of
mushrooms-und coffee."
Mr. Crandon had learned that a confidential atmosphere is a de- cided aid to psycho. He drew a Bostun rocker a little nearer the blaze, and helped Mrs. Thorne off with her moleskin wrap.
Nothing ever surprised Mr. Cran- don. He pressed his finger tips to- gether, and shifted his mild blue gaze to near-sighted contemplation of a hangnail.
"I must have your help," Mrs. chicken, please, under glass, with Thorne anid, settling a turkey red She remonstrated, feebly, shak-cushion at her back. "It's about ing her head. Tears were in her Sybil. She's going to have a baby," eyes, and a little hysterical laugh on her lips. "Oh, Craig-Craig, you angel! Who else, in all the world would feed a bad girl with chicken under glass!"
When It etme, she toyed with it, and tasted a bit when Crate berged her to-and poured large cups of fragrant coffee.
"Cream, my dear? Three lumps. Isn't it?"
Like a bit of pleasant domes- ticity. Tragedy set with the socin niceties,
"I want you to tell me what line to take with her," continued Mrs.
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BILANCHES-ar "I certainly do!" acclaimed Mr. THE DANK OF CHINA Crandon.
(To Be Continued.)
And then, from the beginning, she told the story as best,she could. She told about John Lawrence, and she used to kick her little puff off what a difficult girl Sybil was at 18. at night. And the way she threw She reviewed a few earlier affairs, her bottle out of her crib. But, and told, what she knew of some tell me, Mr. Crandon, you don't The wafter handed a steaming later anés. She led tactfuly up to think Inhibitions" cup to Craig, and discreetly with Craig Newhall,
"I think," the hazarded, that drew.
"Oh, life.
Sybil threw there was a sort of understanding out her hands. "It's so funny. I between Carig and Sybil, but of tell you that I am married. That course can't be sure, You see, never tells her mother any- I am going to have a child. And Sybil then--I pour you a cup of coffee. thing." Mrs. Thorne pressed Quite as if it didn't matter. Iislack bordered handkerchief to her I break your heart and then-1 eyes. "Now when I was a girl" "Yes, yes," soothed Mr. Crandon
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give you three lumps of sugar. gently, and, patting her hand, led Life's Ro... comical "
She laughed nervously. "I sup pose if we weren't so polite you you'd beat me soundly.... You don't hate me, Craig?" He shook his head.
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"I think I'll go away month.' She pressed her fingers to her mouth to quiet the trembling of her lips "until May,"
"To... him?"
"Oh, no ... no! Craig, you don't understand. He doesn't know. I haven't seen him since Havana, ever to see, him I don't want again."
They were quict then. "People will probably say dread. ful things," she hazarded, at last.
"I suppose so," he agreed.
•
her tactfully back to the subject in hand. "Mr. Newhall is some- thing of an austere young man?"
"Why, no, I don't know na you'd call him that," demurred Mrs. Thorne. "Maybe he's not just Sybil's type, but
"As to that," Interrupted Mr. Crandon, has passion always been a strong factor in your daughter's Het"
Mrs. Thorne bristled a little. "Passion?" she repeated distaste fully. "Why, as to passion" sho floundered a bit helplessly.
"I should think," continued Mr. Crandon without waiting for her to go on, "that your daughter's In- hibitory and repressive powers-- you see, my dear Mrs. Throno-It Is like this.... It would be better, He was thinking of their crowd. perhaps, to consider her case from Dolly Wenton and the Graysons, the beginning. Let us, for a mo- Valerie and her friends, and thement, consider her Infancy. Do And all the you, by any chance, remember righteous Mrs. West, drinking, loose clique at the coun- Sybil'e Brat lawless action?" try, club. People who commit onl conventional slas are always in- tolerant of the unconventionalists.
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