THE HUSBAND HUNTER
CHAPTER XLII.
Alan did not want to think of Natalie,
rushed as he
up to to the Bernadine's in response urgent summons from Dr. Wag nall, but he could not put her out of his mind..
She was always present in he went thoughts whenever Bernadine's. "It's because
BY
RUTH DEWEY GROVES
be a
Alan, on his way now to Berna-] dine, despairing of seeing her alive, felt, infinitely grateful for Phillipa. She would help him;
real mother to she would Bobby.
He always thought something pleasant about Philipa when Nat alie threatened to obsess his mind. to It helped him to forget her. But Phillipa was not unfailingly ef ective. Even to the door of
Alan Bernadine's house
thought of Natalie.
hla
we
used to live in Westchester," he told himself, half angrily, half ex- cusingly. He did not want to be lieve Natalie, now held even the tiniest place in his heart.
Oh, why, why, why couldn't she have been as good as she looked?
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last letter-She wrote it in anger though he kept it where he could read it often. "Just to re mind myself what an utterly cal lous creature she is," he would
He rang the doorbell, with say to himself. "Giving me my feeling of hopelessness. Why was freedom! What gesture! As it, he wondered, that people.
a though she had not ended every ways expected
to meet thing through what she did to these crises with undaunted cour. Bernadine!"
age? He would have given any- thing at that moment to have
A row of houses in Leopold- Natalie at his elde. against Natalic. Whenever he Always going back to Natalle! street, Birmingham, in a congested looked at the sick
woman's He recognized the unformed wish district, narrowly escaped des- truction by fire. A sawmill, sunken cheeks and deeply re-in his mind as an outcropping of where the fire originated, was badly
wave what he called "his damnable damaged, and firemen fought des cessed eyes, he felt a new of anger come over him.
perately to prevent adjacent dwel For Bernadine had never left which he was ashamed. Why
lings becoming involved. The fire her bed after Dr. Wagnall had couldn't he sustain his disgust burst through the timber and said she must stay there until he and conterript for her? Why were brickwork at one point, and Joseph gave her permission to get up his heart and his mind alwaysWilkinson, son of an occupier, had To the medical man, the end was engaged in warfare
over her? to be rescued by the brigade, hav-
weakness." The
weakness
coming about as he expected, but Well, no matter. His heart Alan could not escape the belief won once-now it was time Bernadine had suffered shock his head to take control through Natalie's act from which destiny. she could not recover.
23
of
had ing been overpowered by heat and
for smoke.
of
Bernadine door
his
over His anxiety deepened the moment the was opened for him. It was not Nellie's tear-stained face that he wasew.
charge of everything, doctor," he said when they reached the lower hall. "Mrs. Lamont arranged it legally, I believe."
The doctor looked at him keen-
Had Dr. Wagnall, or Bernadine either, guessed what was on his mind, they could have told him
wrong that he was
what happening had been inevitable for a long time.
But Alan kept his bitterness to himself, and strove to be cheerful Nellie speaking to Bobby, ev-to stay and go into some of these when in Bernadine's company.dantiv trying to restrain, the boy matters with you, but I've nes- He thought he wns making her from, going to his mother's room.lected my patients too long as it believe he was happy, but when Her voice wrung Alan's heart. is. Fortunately none of them she closed her eyes, to rest,
"Hush, darlin'. hush. Mother
A strange maid told him. iny. "I'm glad to know the boy ushed and frightened tones, that is going to be well looked after," he was to go up immediately.
Halfway up the stairs he heard he said, extending his hand. "I'm sorry I've so little time I'd like
13
he imagined, it was because she can't see you now. Be a good boy, were in danger."
"I feel I might thank you,
could not bear to see the hidden pain that lay in his.
I
she
Her heart ached for him be cause he had lost the woman" was certain he loved, but she did not guess he was constantly burn- ing his memories of Natalie on a pyre of hatred.
Bobby, please."
Bobby's childish treble, raised doctor, for devoting so much time in protest against this interfer-to. to." Alan's voice broke ence, caused Alan to reach hastily over Bernadine's name; he could
not utter it. for his handkerchief.
Alan watched him go with re- "But I want to tell Mummy I've
alone, with builded a bridge," Bobby cried.gret. Now he was
grief-stricken servants. and A "She wanted me to build her a
motherless, boy. He never talked to her of Nata-bridge, and I've bullded it."
The sound of Nellie's sobbing, She'll- darlin'. lie, or of Phillipa either. Only "She'll know, Bernadine's almost supernatural know everything you
do: when now beyond her control, came down to him. Slowly he mounted perception enabled her to see that you're a good boy and when you're the stairs: Surely she would wake
had not." he was suffering. Once he * come close to telling her about Alan went on, but an icy chill Bobby, and he would have to tell him... what should he tell him? Phillipa-with a vague idea that had gripped him. He waa,, then. What should he do with him? they ought to meet and discusso late. The maid's nod when he Bobby's future welfare together.had whispered in the hall: "How But in his sensitiveness he shrank is she? had meant that Berna- from bringing such a suggestion dine was gone... of the end to Bernadine.
One of the nurses who had been He decided it would be best not
constant attendance upon to speak of Phillips. Perhaps it Bernadine of laté, opened the would worry Bernadine to know door and said in a professionally that there was already a girl subdued voice: "Come in.” chosen to be Bobby's foster- Alan looked hastily toward the mother. For Alan had come to bed. Dr. Wagnell was bent over accept Phillipa as a fixture in his his patient. Alan stepped to his life with equanimity.
in
side.
He was rather glad of her. She "She will not know you," the adored Bobby. Her disappoint-physician said, straightening up!
would she's in a coma." ment because Bernadine not allow the little boy to leave It seemed to Alan that he stood the house-Phillipa wanted Alan there in a state of soul-trying_in- to bring him down to the office-activity for time unending. The touched Alan.
helplessness of
he When Phillipa's disappointment was would hold a soul from departing real enough-there were so many mortal clay appalled him. Beads things that Bobby, while enjoying of moisture dotted his brow, but sun-baked a big dish of ice cream, might his lips were dry as have told her. Things that she sand. didn't like to ask
man
Alan directly. In reality it was less than half- And there was no other way of an hour before the doctor looked finding them out, for Alan was at him, and said gravely: She's maddeningly reserved these days. dead."
Alan stood
a moment longer,
She wanted to know. for in- stance, just how ill Bernadine silently wishing God-speed to the was. She could have asked Bobby voyager
on her long journey.
mind
how many times a day the doctor Then he turned with the steps came to see his mother, and of an old man and went out." weighed the answer for herself. Life seemed heavy, crushing, a She could have asked him if any-burden. Had there even been any body had talked to him about joy in it? Would Bobby amile going away to a school-a plan again when his childish that Alan told her had been sug-grasped the sorrowful fact that Kested in the event of his mother's his "Mummy" was not there any dying.
more? But Alan did not say that the Nellie was at the door of the plan had been suggested by the nursery. Bobby had tired. him- nurse, Nellie, who was fearful self into his afternoon nap, long that Alan's guardianship of the delayed, and freed her to-go-to
mean that she would her beloved mistress. boy would lose the child entirely if he were She saw Alan walking wearily taken into Alan's home. She knew down the hall and one glance at her shortcomings, Nellie did, and his pallid face told her it WAS she had a very earnest conviction over. With a muffled
cry Bhe
she would not be engaged to look stepped out into the hall and after Bobby when a sterner misclosed the door of the nursery tress than Bernadine was doing behind her, instinctively thinking the engaging. She had in mind of Bobby. professional housekeeper, and She ran to they were "worse than the wives," to Nellie.
She could at least, she figured, visit Bobby once in a while if he
Bernadine's door just as Dr. Wagnall was coming
aut. He told the nurse in charge. to let her in.
Alan loked at her as she flew
were in a school. Alan had not to the bed. "I'll wait," he said to seriously considered the plan, but Dr. Wagnall, "to help her with he had spoken of it to Phillips, Bobby."
without giving his opinion on the "In the meantime," Dr. Wag- subject, and she had fed herself nall replied, “will
you come
with the hope that it might be downstairs, Mr. Converse? It's carried out. To have a kid like imperative that we 'discuss certain Bobby around the house would matters at once."**- drive her wild, she declared-in Alan knew what it WAS he secret.
wanted to talk about, "I taikę.
He could think of but one per- son to help him. Phillipa!
(To Be Continued).
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