THE SHINING TALENT.
By Eleanor Early.“
CHAPTER XLVIII
Hed had promised to come imme diately. Moby paced up and down the hat, wringing her hands. Sometimes she pressed. her fingers to her lips, to state the screams that were in her throat.
"Oh, God." she prayed, "don't let him keep ita. Please don't let him keep her."
When the bell rung, she rushed past Nutsu, to open the door herself, To her utter amazetilent, It was not Iled-but Jack-whom she ad mitted.
"I've read Ashes of Desire," he announeed surprisingly.
And, stepping in, he closed the deur behind him.
"You've what?" she cried. "Read Ashes of Desire," he peated patiently. "Your book. never reid it before, Molly"
She stured at him.
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kiss her. It was bad enough the way you held her hand the night Sacrifice opened."
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didn't!" he protested, flushing. "Honest, Molly, I never did thing but draw plans for the old lady, and pick up a lot of Italian antigues."
"And "I know," she whispered.
if it wasn't my darling's fault, the willy creature went and fell in love with him."
"Heavens, she didn't do that, Molly. Don't talk that way. She's a great old scout. Honest she is. I told her all about you, and she's awfully anxious to meet you. We ought to be pretty grateful to her at that, honey. If it wasn't for her com- remission, 1 couldn't have bought the
I little gift 1 got for you."
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"i don't know what you're talking sbaut," she told him foolishly. "Itita's gone, Jack, Bob's taken her away. What shall I do?".
"Rita de repented" didn't come to talk about Rita,"
Natsu and Marie had disappear ed, and the two were alone. Sim- ply, as though he had done it only yesterday, Jack put out his arms. And straightway, like a chill, Molly nestled in their circle...
"Dearest?"
He held her closely, as though he could never let her go
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"I don't understand." she mur- mured: "Did Red send you? "you know about Rita"
He shook his head. "No, darling. I went back to New York, when I learned you had left town. I didn't ever want to see you, or hear of you again, Red Flynn had sent me Ashes of De aire. I never meant to read it. meant to return it to him. But last night-oh, Molly, it was an awful night! It poured and poured, and the wind howled. I tried to get you out of my mind. I didn't want to think about you. I nearly went crazy, trying to forget you. Then I picked up your book, and glanced through it.
"My Lord, Molly. I hadn't rend a dozen pages, when I realized! You wrote that book for me, didn't you?"
"He raised her head from his fin- shoulder, and putting his gers beneath her chin, titled her eyee.
"Tell me, dearest! Tell me you wrote it for me."
"Of course I wrote it for you. Jack."
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From his pocket he drew seven small white boxes.
"Walt a minute, until I get them I'll be you no other girl in order. ever had an engagement ring like this before. Here you are here's 1.".
"A diamond circlet!" she cried, "Oh, Juck, that's beautiful! It's like
Ettle wedding ring.
"Put it on," he ordered.. "Now wait a minute. I'm just starting.
"Emeralds Twp rings, Jack?"; "Seven," he corrected gravely. "Amethysts for A.. Rubles. for it. More emeralds for E. Sapphires for S. And turquoise for T. What dues that spell; sweetheart?"
"Dearust!" she cried. "Oh. Jack! Jack, you angel. did you think of that yourself ?*
"All by myself," he admitted modeatly. "Can you get them all under your knuckle?"
*#
"They just go," she proclaimed, slipping the turquoise circlet over the upphires. ly.dear, it's the Kirl loveliest engagement ring a ever hud !'”
Soft-footed Natsu stood at the
docr.
"Mr. Flynn," he announced. "Oh, heavens" she cried, "Id forgotten all about Rita! That's how much I love you, Jack Wells."
She greeted Red hysterically. "Look! I'm engaged! See my ring. Oh, Red, I'm so happy! I mean I'm so miserable. What do you suppose Bob's going to do with Rita?"
Red took her, left hand, and con- templated the seven little sparkling rings.
"They spell Dearest," she ex- plained. "Jdek thought of it self."
Dun clever approved Red,
to- "So you're engaged to Jack "And those fool reporters thought night
"Oh, it's forever this time," she for Bob Newton!" He it was laughed shortly. "I don't under-assured him. "You know yourself, sweetheart. You weren't Red, I never loved anybody else really engaged to Bob, were you?" but him."
"Yes," she admitted. " mean
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Red shook hands with Jack, and ᏗᏓᏅ That ... oh, Jack, he's taken kissed Molly. Rita!"
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cabins, and a propelled by two 375 guesa maybe he knew you was yo- A doctor was summoned and in horsepower Thornycroft engines. It "I'm glad." he told them simply.ing to buy me some fee ereani, Un-jected morphia; and declared, "This is capable of exceeding twenty miles
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scue of aeroplanes which may come Reserve Funds either a 1," she confessed. I suppose you've counted the ways felt better by and bye. Is this
down in the Channel, and will be by and bye, mama?" "It's awfully mixed up, isa't it? Front?
"I'm Jack's sweetheart," she de-1
stationed at Dover-British Wire- leas. "Oh, darling, I know you'de, It'selared demurely. "I'm not a mathe. the most wonderful thing in thematician." world. And, Mally, I never stopped But you know Bob will keen
Rita." loving you, sweetheart."
"But you wouldn't marry me?" she moaned.
I love you, Jack."
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"I was just a fool," he de- clared. "Let's get married to-day," "Oh dear!" she cried. "If I only had Rita, I'd be the happiest girl In the world.",
"I'll get Rita for you," he prom. ised. "I do anything in the world you want me to, Molly.*
"But you can't get Rita," she waited, "because she belongs to Bob, and he won't let me have her, unless I marry him."
"So that's it! That's why you got yourself engaged to Bob?"
"You wouldn't "marry me." she said. "And I didn't want to marry anyone else, so it didn't make much difference.'
He kissed her hair the way he used to.
"You're cuckoo," he told her ten- derly. "You may be a bright young woman on Broadway, but you're only a little nut after all."
"I know." Her eyes filled with tears. "But I guess Jack and I might have a little girl of our own Of course she wouldn't be like Rita. But she might be nice, don't you think so, Jnek?".
"Hello! What's this?"
Red and strolled to, the window. and was loking down the street.
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Molly few to the window. "It is she cried.
She throw the window open, and leaned out.
"Rital Rital"
The child lanked, up and waved. "Hello, mama
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Only this part of it, dear. I woke up, and I was very frightened. It seemed so rent. And I went to the desk, to see if this book of yours.
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thought I was psychic?" "Topened the drawer, and, there He nodded.
"Now I know I am," she exulted. Fixed Depoalis, Terma on Application. it was, exactly where I left it. I
She moved toward the circle of
Every description opened it, and began to write an the first page. The words came his arms, and her hair caught the acted.
wrote glint of the sun as slanted imply and naturally. I
And there was without any hesitation. When through the window, so that it' ied his poems wth her? Years fished, I read over what I had glowed like a halo. afterward his friends persuaded written, and it seemed to me one a sort of luminosity about her, him to have his earlier verae pub-of the most beautiful things in like a mystic light. lished. But his loveliest things the world."
She turned the page. were in the grave. In the casket,
"Let me read it aloud, sweet; with his wife. Then his friends convinced him that he should have heart. Nothing is sweeter than the grave opened and the casket. love; nothing broader, nothing And that he should take the beauti-more pleasant, nothing fuller, ar ful verses that had never been pub- better in heaven or an earth, for Hished away from his dead wife's love is born of God, and can rest possession. So Rossetti did as only God above all things
crented.***
She hesitated. they urged.
Natsu must have seen her first, since he was on the doorstep wait-
"But, when the grave was open- ing. It was he who carried Rita triumphantly into the house, and el, it was discovered that his wife's hair had grown around the up the stairs to Molly,
"Where did you come from, little manuscript in her hands. "Come in my sitting room," she
She had long golden hair, and it and had proposed. "Red will be here any sweetheart?"
"Daddy's going away." explained had become loosened, minute. I'm afraid he'll think I'm fickle, if you don't stop klasing me. Rila carefully, "where little girle fallen down over her shoulders. Last time I saw him, I was engaged can't go. It's on a big ship. And To take the veraes away, they had to Bob... Oh, dear, if I only knew he said would you take me for to cut the strands that had twined about Rita! There are about a mil-your little girl. He wrote a let-themselves about the verses. lion things I want, to ask you, Jack ter, and I have it pinned with a big Wells,"
"What sort of things?" he asked. "Oh, that dreadful Mr. Bulwer- Eaton for one."
"Molly, you didn't believe that drivel" He regarded her sternly.
"No," she said, "of course I didn't. But you've a lot of explain ing to do, just the same."
"Well, she was rich as old lady Crocus," he declared, "and I was
antety pin. Daddy pinned it him self, so I couldn't lose it."
She unclasped the pin, and held an envelope to Molly. Molly took the paper out, and read aloud:
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"Rossetti's friends did not tell were him that, and the verses. published. They made Kossetti famous. But his success was tinged with melancholy.
"Years later someone told him the story of the way his wife's hair had grown around his poems. Then Rossetti went insane."
Molly paused. "That's an awful creepy. story," declared Jack.
a poor young man, trying to get changed my mind. I am going to dreamed last week that I died, and
along. Besides, I did some swell houses for her. I got paid pretty well for my time, of course."
"That's as it should be," she de creed. You didn't ever kiss her, Jack 2-
No Whatever made you think of a thing like that?".
"Oh, I didn't really think so," she
"I am going away. Will you keep Rita until I come back? It may be for a year, and may be forever. When I took her away to-day. I meant to keep her with me. guess all I need say is that Avstralia. I reckon that's farthost place away there is. hope you will be married and happy, when I come back. Maybe then we could be friends, and vou wouldn't have to hate me. Goodbye, and God bless you."
the
Red cleared his throat. "The poor sap," he said, and his
"Yes. I know it is. Well, I
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"But it's no strange," she per- slated. "I want you to know, won't tell you the rest of the dream, if you don't want me to..
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"That passage," she said, "is from The Imitation of Christ. I looked it up next day.. I never read "The Imitation of Christ' in my life."
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