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THE SHINING TALENT.

By Eleanor Euri).

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Molly wondered why she hated Bob's hands. And why she thought they were horrid, because they were white.. It might, of course. have been because they were also moist. And cold.

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you came. You know, Red, he's sim- he said tonight? He asked me if ply impossible! What do you think you made love to me!".

Red grinned. "He's got a nerve.. What did you tell him?"

You don't actually make love to of casually affectionate. Of course me-do you, Red? You're just sort you put your arm around me, some' times... And you hold my hand In the theatre. But I shouldn't call that making love. Should you?"

Red looked startled.

"I didn't tell him anything. I Clammy, she thought. And, sent him home," Molly considered her guest quizzically. Her eyes shuddering slightly, "drew her fing-were amiling, but her voice was ers away, "You

serious. don't like me, Molly 7"

Bob's face was flushed now, and his mild blue eyes were brighter than she had ever seen them.

"Why, of course I like you," Bob." "Well, not much you don't. "Not very much," she admitted, trying to laugh, as though it were a quite unimportant matter. "You see, you're not a bit my kind of a man, Bob. Not the type, I mean, that I particularly like. That is ... oh, dear, I'm afraid I'm not being very tactful... Anyhow I do like you.

me to make love to you, do you? "Good lord, Molly, you don't want

"No," she said.. "I think it would She laughed at his alarm. be simply poisonous. I should prob ably want to slay you.

"No joking, he told her solemn- "What type do you like?" he de-something we couldn't finish, would ly "You wouldn't want to start manded.

you, Molly?"

"Oh, a sort of an athletic type," sbe declared, smiling. "A big.

She shook her head. "Because," he continued soberly,

brawny he-man. The tender, pow-"I should love you so fiercely, my erful sort. You know."

kid me, Molly."

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I mean it," he insisted. "Don't dear. So unrelentingly. So terribly of Wales will shortly resume hla

I think you would be afraid to be loved the way I should love you." It

it might be rather won-

She laughed.

"Personally," she said, "I've a lamentable weakness for the shock-derful," she murmured. ing, fascinating kind. Most women have, I guess. But the wise ones never marry them."

" "Now, Molly," he reproved, "you're simply being adolescent I'm quite serious."

He looked at her sternly, "Don't cheapen yourself, Molly. Love's nothing to play witha""

"Well, I'm not," she bantered. "Reside, it's time your young daughter was in bed."

"I'm a dood dirl," announced Bits solemnly.

"You're an angel-girl," corrected Molly. "But it's time to go to bed, just the same."

arms.

she declared, setting her cup down "Oh, I didn't mean exactly that,"

derful, Red. I wouldn't have you nervously, "I, I think you're won change for anything. I like you there's your mother, Red. You just the way you are. Besides, know you have to think about her."

He laughed shortly.

love.'

"I wasn't talking about mar- She swept the child into her riage, Molly. I was talking about " tell you about the gingham dog and the calico cat," she prom- ised, and the hushaby Indy from lullaby street."

"Oh," she said. And then, after a moment, "I don't think you're the marrying kind anyhow."

"No," he agreed. "I don't know

Rita sighed contentedly. "All wight," she said. "Dood as I am" night, daddy."

He came and stood in front of her, and taking her hands, drew her She climbed into his lap, and to her feet. Then, for a moment, kissed him dutifully.. Molly had he put his arms about her.

And then, abruptly, he released her.

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and in April-Reuter. †

Hurriedly she packed her bag. She wouldn't let him know she was coming. It would be better to surprise him.

She telephoned the South Sta- clon, and reserved & drawing wom on the midnight. She would be in New York before he was awake in the morning." She would telephone him, and ask him to take her to breakfast.

Then she would ask him right straight out,

"Jack, will you marry me?" Just like that. And she would be ex- plicit about it, too.

noticed that the warmth of little Rita's kisses, was reserved 2x- clusively for her. She hoped that Red went away early that eve- Bob would not notice. It would probably hurt his feelings.

"You don't mind if I wait?" he asked, as she carried the baby away. "No, I don't mind." she told him: "Red's coming for dinner. Would you like to stay too?"

"Now, I mean. Not next year, nor next month. But now. To-

ning And after he had gone, Mollyday, if we can get a license," sat for a long while, on the cubist sofa, deliberating.

lot of

It was time, she told herself grimly, to call a halt. Two men in a single evening. And both of them making love to her. She had even rather encouraged Red.. Poor Red! He couldn't marry her, if he want- ed to. Why make Red miserable? And Rob! He probably had feel- ings too. Most likely she'd been com-leading him on. Not really mean-

ing to, of course.

"You're seeing an awful Flynn, aren't you?"

"Oh, yes!" she exclaimed. "He's such good company. I love having him around."

And you think I'm rotten puby, don't you, Molly?"

"You're no little ray of sun- shina," she countered.

Molly, like most attractive women, played a game that is moro or less unconscious. Some women: cannot help baiting men. They are not purposely ruthless, "nor inten tionally unscrupulous.

"Well, I'd hate to spoil your bright evening. What does Red do to amuse you? Turn bandsprings and spring wisecracks? I suppose he has a lot of cute parlor tricks." They have Inherited an art which "Now you know better than Eve had direct from the serpent. that!" she exclaimed. "If there's was a talent which Molly em- anything I hate it's one of those ployed unconsciously. It is, more- bright young men, who's the life of over, the way of women, when they the party. Red isn't a bit like that, keep men dangling, And Molly, to and you know it.”

all fatents, was dangling. Red and "No? Maybe he's the great lover Bob. Not because she wanted to. then?" Bob smiled hatefully. "Of But because she couldn't help it, course he doesn't look it. But there It wasn't, she felt quite honourable. must be some explanation for the "Now if I were only married," way he fascinates you. Some hid-she thought, "everything would be den charm. Tell me, Molly, does different. Bob wouldn't try to he make love to you?"

make love to me. And Red wouldn't get all bothered.

Molly turned furiously.

"But Jack won't mary me!" she moaned, and put her head in the pillows. And shed an angry tear or two.

"

"I shan't quarrel with you, Bob," she told him coldly. "I've too much respect for your daughter'a sensi bilities. But, under the circum-

Suddenly she up straight, and stances, I doubt if you would par- ticularly enjoy having dinner with flung her feet determinedly to the

floor, us tonight."

"No." he agreed." "I don't be- lieve I would.'

"I'll ask him!" she cried. "I'

He would be astonished, of course. Perhaps he wouldn't be love she meant it. Then she would tell him how she had always loved him. She would say he must not. he stubborn any longer. Love was all that counted. Money did not make any difference. Nor success ....Oh, money was nice, of course. She had plenty now. But success was hateful. She'd as soon be a nonenity for the rest of her life.

They'd have to live in New York. of course, because Jack's business Interests were there. She would sub-let the apartment, and find one in New York. Then she could in- stall the nurse and housekeeper, with little Rita. And she and Jack would have a perfectly wonderful honeymoon.

They'd go to Italy! To Naples,

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ka Red was smiling raleed the little cup to his lips. "You've certainly done wonders to a police court reporter." he re- marked. "What's that they any about making a silk purae out of a sow's ear? What's a sow Molly?" "An adult female swine," she told him promptly. All little girls from Snodgrass know that one.. You're not a sow's ear, Red. You're the cat's meow. Speaking of swine Bob Newton left shortly before

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