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By RUTH DEWEY GROVES.
Author of "The Innocent Choat," etc.
CHAPTER XXXV
Tommy light a cigarette and pick up
Among the carda Beryl, held her game with Tommy there one ace. It was a black nce- she hoped it would trump anything
In
was
and
a newspaper. Then she put the palm of her hand down hard on the button that sounded the born of her car and sout forth a raucous that Tommy could produco. call. She repeated it in rapid suc should, she thought, rus she drove
ove cession several times, making it slowly toward the Larkin house, too peremptory for anyone to g It had cost her enough to impressore-least of all Tommy whe anyone with the alightest sense of might reasonably expect that it was
And she could not believe one of the crowd calling him. that Tommy's character had become completely undermined.
onor.
Beryl held her breath as he came to answer the call. She had pur- The look of worry on her face posely parked her car in the shadow to-night she did not often drive of a large maple tree. Tommy did near the Larkin place at night) was not recognise it until he was within marked. She had not seen Tommy speaking distance. Then he aware' for three weeks. The avalanche under his breath and prepared to she feured had descended upon her retreat, but Beryl was out of the only the day before and she was fear in a tash and clinging to his certain Tommy had not heard about arm.
it.
The night was chilly. It was early fall. Beryl had not brought a wrap and the sweater she was wearing was scarcely warm enough. She shivered lightly. "I'm al ways either to het or too cold," she thought impatiently,
But impatience was such a slight burden compared with the black despair she had known. She hoped never again to feel as she had when Dr. Auguston told her, "Your volee is gone. Miss Borden."
They had left her alone. She had sked them in. And what she had thought and what she had suffered bad blocked out her youth--left
her & WORIANT.
|
"Don't be n`coward!" she chal- enged. "Besides there's no one home, is there?"
"Why can't you mind your own. business 7" Tommy retorted.
"That's just what I am doing," Beryl acid. "Please come with me Tommy somewhere where we can talk, i want to tell you something about myself. I'm in trouble foo now."
Tommy drew back and tried to peer at her in the semi-darkness. People rarely thought of giving Beryl sympathy. She never seemed to need it. Beryl continued urging while he hesitated. Her voice was fraught with despair and it was genuine. She clutched at Tommy. suddenly afraid with a blind un- reasoning fear, that he would not listen to her.
She was a woman to-night as she went to find Tommy. She felt charitable toward ini. She might have lost her voire anyway without "Please, Tommy. You've always tramping in the dow and being out helped me when I needed you. when she should have been in bed. Don't you see, I need you how? Tommy hadn't asked her to do that. There's no one else I can talk to." She couldn't blame him. Besides Tommy turned back toward the Tommy had helped her. Its need
"Get in." he said grutily. "1 wns the pries of her misfortune, don't want you hanging
around Her future should not be sacrificed
here.
Pol won't stand for it." for wothing.
You drive."
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Ever since the thought had come slipped into the seat at the right. to her that now she could make an She was trembling so she could not appeal which Tommy must listen i have held the wheel steadily. to Beryl had been resigned to the Tommy breate aware of her in-
| hopelessness of her situation. Sheerensing agitation.
even, found it a reller not to have "What's the matter with you?"
fo worry about the inadequacy of he asked bluntly.
Her sweater. It wouldn't matter Words to answer him were jum- now if she caught cold. Her voice bled in Beryl's mind. She did not was gone. Something in her throat | know which to use. How could she I had hardened. The voice wwon't tell him?
[coming back.
Suddenly she put her face down
Her face was a little white but in her hands and Tommy was ns- in her eyes there was a vision of tenished to hear the sabs that were Tommy-tall and slim and brown torn from her lips. He drove the Tumi gay. Tommy us he had been, car to the side of the rond and
not the unkempt loafer he had-be-stopped. come. How she hated these blood
shot streaks in his eyes.
fle had even taiked roughly
her when she hail dogged him until
he was exasperatel
It had happened the night
Pol
Beryl, crying. Was
a complete stranger to him. "Glee" he said awkwardly like a little boy. "gee. Beryl, don't cry."
Beryl lifted her head. "I know," she said, "It's a nice way to act
had put into trouble. Pel bad got after dragging you out here to lis- out of it, but Tommy wouldn't have, ten to me." She dabbed viciously He'd have been made the goat. Lat her eyes. "I've had a tough Heryt had parked her ear in break Tommy. It's tough for you. front of Pol's house when he and too, because I've got to tell you the Tommy came out to get into a truth. My voice is gone. may truck which stood in the driveway, never sing again and
. and Beryl went over to them and in they say it wouldn't have happened sisted she would follow the truck if if I'd obeyed the docin." Tommy went with Pol.
Pol looked at Tommy. "All right," he said sharply. "we'li, Heitle this later, Tom."
"I guess you know what that means." Tommy exclaimed to Beryl as Pol drove away. "I'm in bad. Pol's had about enough of you!"
"Then quit him," Beryl returned coolly, "and save yourself from be-
kicked out of his gang." ing
Tommy had sworn angrily and walked away.
dumpy in seeing him
"Why didn't you?" Tommy asked logically enough.
"Because I couldn't." Beryl told Jim. FIL
was you. Tommy. You needed a friend. And you can't deny that there were times when you'd have got in a lot deeper with Pol if you hadn't had me on your trail."
"Yes," Tommy admitted. "I guess that's so. Do you mean that He paused and Beryl finished for hilm.
H
Pol was arrested that night. It "I should have been in bed when didn't
come to anything but he I was chasing all over the country blamed Tommy and thereafter looking after you," she declared. Tommy had
evaded Beryl with com- "And now, Tommy. It's show. plete success except for one acci- down. I've paid a big price to help dental meeting.
you. I'm not going to cry any more That was three weeks ago. Irene but I can't endure it unless you hadn't written and Bery) had no make it count for something. excuse to lempt Tommy into a talk. you do I won't care. I'll even be After to-night she would have no glad."
or she Tommy stirred restlessly, "What not want to see him, "For can I do?" he asked vaguely. I'm not going to crawl to him if he "You can be yourself now and ian't worth it." she told herself. quit the Larkin gang. You know She wouldn't have planned a test you can't stick with them forever, for him but this one that had been Tommy. I'll bet you're sick of it thrust upon her would measure already. They know how to take Tommy's character for all time for care of themselves better than you Beryl
ever will, but they'll slip some day. To put a soul upon the directing You're not a fool, Tommy. You tablo is not an agreeable thing. I know that. Come on back with me Beryl, in her night of struggling now-come to our house. We owe with her new misfortune, hail you a lot our family--but you owe grown more tolerant, yet she knew me more. And I'm licked, If I've that if Tommy falled her now she got to admit that all I had to hold could never believe in him again. to on this old carth has gone down She was not frightened as she before the viciousness of Pol Lar- might have been for
for believing. In
Tommy 'was all that was left to her of th Tommy," she hur
of
The
thread of doubt that ran ried on,
"my whole future--every- through her hope was a thin one thing that has given me a chance to bat suficient to make her realize lift myself out of the routine what she was doing. If she lost, working in a grocery
I'l her, life would be barren indeed.
store. have to go back to that now, and After arriving at the Larkin I loved singing. I love the luxuries house she sat awhile in her do I I never had before. It's horrible to cropit old car and weighed the po- think that I lost all that just be tentialities of her venture. She cause certain men are crooks! But) could find nothing to Induce bar to won't mind It proves you're what turn back.
think you are. You've never And
or a double-crosser,
Yo matter what she thought been
there was Tommy. She saw him as 13524 1'We've always been reg“
he stood in the middle of the Larular. And now up to you to kine living room to turn on a light make good. I've bought your ro The shades were up and the glaring lease from the Larkins with ever light flooded the shabby room with this I had. Will you take it a-hard white brilliance, turning it wil you let me down into a stage for Bery She saw
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