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BEACH CLUB GIRL
·By MABEL McELLIOTT
his thin, nervous, long-fingered brown hand laid over her small white one.
CHAPTER XXV.
Boots slept under their combined scrutiny. She looked thin. The fine
"Yes, do you mind 7" "Bho's a very alck giel," the doctor bones of her small face stood out
Her eyes were closed now and twoj said to the dark young man, traced sharply in the rock-gray dimness of big tears slipped unheeded from bo against the distempered wall of Mirs, the room. A shaded bulb burned meath her lashes. Her voice was very Mooney's sitting room. "She ought dimly over the table.
faint. to have a nume..
I don't
"How-how did you happen to be The dark young man followed the know
doctor out into the hall.
hare? Oh, I'm torribly con- "She can have a nurse," the dark) "That was a close shave," the fused. young man stated coldly and with older 2.0 aald affably, shrugging big Armness. "Get one. Twenty-four shoulders into his coat. She had a hour duly 7"
peculiarly virulent type..
man
told
"You'll have the nurse come right; over then?".
"Ho
#
10
Ho began to explain quickly and
Bald. he
vacate it not for at
"I know a good girl. She worked went on, discoursing learnedly of the gently, in a low voice. He had got under me on a case like this last habits and curiosities of induentu and back to New York just a week ago, His friends, whoso apart- winter," the gray, plump professional the dark young man listened, nodding ment in Washington Square he ex-
him. "You're her-her
occasionally, unsmiling.
"Well, well, I'll look in to-morrow. pocted to lease in their absence, were brother 7"
""Just a friend," said the dark young she's coming along splendidly, my not ready to man. "I know her family. I only boy. Lucky girl to have such a friend least 10 days. So he had, come to discovered last night we were living standing by You could see le Mooney's, his old room, he In the same house."
waited for, expected a burst of con- amplified with a smile. He had ilved he'd come to Now York fresh from on his big driving gloves, eyed the he went out briskly.
"Ah, I see." The doctor, drawing idence but none was forthcoming sound worked in that very room wher college. Everyono in Greenwich Vill- younger man with interest,
Church bells awoke Boots from herage knew Mrs. Mooney..
"When you fainted Monday night "Within an hour. May I use this deep slumbers,sily on a child does. Mrs. Mooney called me," he went on. reluctantly, as a "We saw the wire. I-everything
it couldn't be Sun- Sunday? Why,
remembering. has been done,"
Russ was gone. She couldn't take day! She frowned, In the dim, untidy room Boots slept That gray Monday and the customer In a stupor. Her skin burned with who had lost the money. Coming it in. It wasn't true,
Boots "I was delirious?" the raw flush of fever. She scarcely home in the rain to find that dreadful Denis, talking about it, so it must be. know where she was when she woke, telegram.
# Iler in a quavering volco. "Oh, I
He nodded. must get up. except at dim intervals. In her
"And dreams it seemed to her that she was hand groped for the bedside lamp in her own room at home with the but she was startled to find it was thir, dellentely darned curtains blow- already slight and a girl with red ing at the wide windows and October curls and a nurse's cap was smiling rakes blooming But when she came back
to con: clousness, which was only occasional- outlines of the sogging
telephone7"
beneath
emdown
at her. Want anything, child?"
"I-I have to send a telegram." The nurse smiled and said in a
But here was
asked
you got the nurse-you've been looking after me?"
Another embarrassed nod. "I hope you don't mind...
ly, she saw the tho gray square soothing, voice, "Later, perhaps. Just story of the lost money at Lacy's came
hureau painted of window beyond It. Trucks ever the
cobblestones and uretfou!
cried in the streets below and taxi home honked, honked incessantly. Beyond, in the narrow streets edging the river,
fog horns boomed with ary regularity. dreary
There was something she couldn't remember Just now that troubled her. Something about a $10 bill and.
Here
fired.
"Oh, mind!" Her voice broke on the word. "Some day I will pay you Meantime And the back.
voice faint and now you have nothing to do but to lie tumbling out in
"Don't worry about that. It's all and get well." "How long have I been 17" "Nearly a wreck, dear. But you're all fixed," he told her definitely, you talked about it in your illness, ail the right now. You're splendid"
Mooney know which department you Boots' eyes filled. She was splen-time, I went up to the store. Bire. did. But Ruse, with his strong body worked in and I saw the fellow, Bliss.
It's all Axed." lay stilled in death. What was it the wire had anid?
"Russell Lund killed in motorboat so good."
afternoon. Wire, In-
tall, stern fnced young man at accident this Lacy's. She had the feeling she structions." babbled about It in her sleep, but may-
And she had faitted. She had
Į bo she was wrong. It was all dream- failed Rum, finally and wholly.
on
"My husband," she began faintly
"ho's
said "We know, dear," the nurse Noothingly. "It's too and, but your friend has scen to all of it. Every thing was arranged.”
Romeone
She opened her eyes again. "You're Miss Ryan was at the door, her starched skirts cracking.
tire "Mustn't
the child out. Enough talk for just now."
Denis Fenway rose. Boots could catch the good scent of tobacco and lavender water and fresh linen,
see you in the
morning, he said gravely. He went away.
She hadn't thanked him properly, she thought, with weariness. She
like. Even the cool hands of the gir! In white, Inid on her feverish brow and
n dream wrist, were the hands of Vin
angel.
People came and went in this dream. Although Boots was unaware of it the small square room was scrupulous. What on earth did she mean? ly tidy now, with the tidiness of a Boots began to cry, tears of utter would later. It was enough just now hospital room. Clean scarf the weakness and despair, and the young to He back and sip the cool, delicious
the doorway, drink the nurse held to her lips. Bureau. Clean patched spread twich- nurse, tiptoeing to unseen. "I
Tears trickled again from beneath ed four-square over the thin blankets, beckonel 10 Tumbler and spoon--everything shin- think there's someone waiting to see her closed lids. She was too weak to make plans now. God had been good ing. Tumbled clothes hung behind you," she said.
The young man in the doorway was to send Denis Fenway to her in her the screen out of sighi.
had д
almost Ane deep trouble. He was On the morning of the sixth day the dark, blue-eyed. Ile
stranger to her, and yet he was be ductor, straightening his plump back, drawn look about him.
a little cry. "Mr.having like a good Samaritan, folling the stethoscope enrefulty and) Bonts uttered
"Russ, Russ the wept inwardly. } tucking it Irto his pocket, allowed Fenway!" himself a smile. Two, in fact,
"I'll be right down the hall in the "You're gone and I'm left all alone for the nurse and mother for the kitchen. You call me if you want me and what am I going to do?"
Later, perhaps, when she dark young man whose eyes had been Don't talk long and tire her," Miss searching his face.
Ryan warned in an undertone, slip stronger, she might find an answer
And then Denis was to this problem. "She' do." he said, benignly. ping past him.
To Be Continued.) “She'll do very nicely."
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