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The Melody

Girl.

By RUTH DEWEY GROVĖS.

Author of "The Innocent Cheat," etc.

CHAPTER XXXV

in

Tommy light a cigarette and pick up Anong the carda Beryl held a newspaper. Then she put the her me with Teammy there was palm of her hand down hard on the button that sounded the horn of obe are. It was a black ace and she hoped it would trump anything her car and sent forth a raucous that Tommy could

produce. It call. She repeated it in rapid sue

cession several times, making ir shonll, whe thought, as she drove slowly toward the Larkin house. too peremptory for anyone to g It had cost her enough to impressore-least of all Tommy who anyone with the slightest sense of might reasonably expect that it was honor. And she could

hind become

that Tommy's character not believe one of the crowd calling kini.

Beryl held her breath as be canse completely undermined.

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 di near the Larkin place at night) was not reengnize it until he was within marked. She had not seen Tommy speaking distance. Then he swore for three weeks. The Avalanche under his breath and prepared to she feared had descended upon her retreat, but Beryl was mat of the only the day before and she was car in a flash and clinging to his certain Tommy hnd not heard about 11.

The night was chilly. It was early fall. Hory! had not brought wrap and the sweater she was wearing was scarcely warm enough. She shivered slightly, "I'm al- |ways either too hot or too cold," she

thought impatiently.

Bat impatience was such a slight burden compared with the black despair she had known. She hoped never again to fvel as she had when Dr. Auguston fold her, "Your voice is gone, Miss Dorden."

They had left her alone, She had To. And what she had thought and what the hind suffered had

out her youth left bar je vonatJE.

I

arm.

"Don't be a coward!“ she chal- tenged. Resides there's no ono home, is there?"

"Why can't you mind your own businesa?" Tommy retorted.

"That's just what I am doing." ftory) said. "Please come with m Tonimy somewhere where we can talk. I want to tell you something about myself. I'm in trouble too now."

Tommy drew back and tried to beer at her in the semi-darkness, People rarely thought of giving Beryl sympathy. She never seemed to need it. Beryl continued urging white he hesitated. Her voice was fraught with despair and

it was genuine. She clutched at Tommy, suddenly afraid with a blind - reasoning fear, that he would not listen to her.

She was a woman tonight as she went t Bind Tammy. She felt -haritable toward him, She might have lost her voice nnyway without tramping in the dew anul being out when she thould have been in bed. Timmy hadn't asked her to do that. She could't blame lizza Besides Tommy turned hock toward, the Fonny had helped her. His nerd var "Get in." he sudd xtrally, was the price of her misfortune, don't Her future should not be sacrificed drive,"

"Please, Tomay You've always helped when I needed you. | Don't you seemed you now?

There's no on ise I can talk to."

WILD!

yon hanging around Pol won't stand for it." for nothing.

Beryl said, and Ever since The thought had come Fadipped into the sat at the right. to her that maw she would make an | 7he was troubling so she could not

listen have be append which Tommy mat

the wheel steadily,

to Bergh had been designed to the Tongres became uware De Jer in- hopedesisesess nd her situation, Sheeping ngilation

even found it a relief not to have! "What's Bio matter with you?“

Go worry about the indequacy of be naked bluntly.

iver sweater. # wouldn't matter! Words to answer him were JUNI-

She did mul

flow.could she

if she caught cold. Her votre bled in Beryl's mind. HOW

Something in her throat; know which to un was gone. had kurdened. The voice wasn't tell him? roming back..

Suddenly she put her face down Her face was a little while but in her hands and Tonny was as- | TL her

yes there

was a vision of tonished to hear the subs that were Tommy

tall and slim and brown torn, from her lips. He drove the and peny Tommy as he had been,ene to the side of the rond and not the unkempi loafer he had be-stopped, come. How she hated thor blood- Beryl, crying. · was a complete shot streaks in his eyeR.

stranger to him. "Gee," he said awkwardly like a little boy, "gee, Beryl, don't cry."

He had even talked roughly to her when she had dogged him until

he was exasperated.

Beryl lifted her bend. "I know,"

It had happened the night Put she said, "It's a nice way to act

t

had got into trouble. Pot had get 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.

at her eyes.

"I've had a tough Beryl had parked fur car in break.

I've got to tell you front of Pal's house when he and tommy. It's tough for you; Tommy cane

out to tet into a truth. My voice is gone, I may truck which stood in the driveway, I never sing again and Beryl went over to them and in-they say it wouldn't have happened sisted would follow the track it if I'd obeyed the doctor.” Tommy went with Pol.

She

“Why didn't you?” Tommy asked Pol looked at Tonimy "All logically enough. right." he said sharply, "we'll! "Hecause I couldn't," Beryl told

te this later, Tom."

thim. "It was you, Tommy. You

settle

"I guess you know what that needed a friend. And you can't 23399. Tommy

exclaimed to Beryl deny that there were times when DA Fol drove uway. "I'm in bad. you'd have got in a lot deeper with Pol's had about enough of you!" Pol if

Then quit him," Beryl returned trail you hadn't had me on your

coolly

"and save yourself from be ing kicked out of his gang.

Tommy had sworn angrily and walked away.

"Yes," Tommy admítled, “I guess that's so.

Do you mean that " He paused and Beryl finished for him.

Pol was arrested that night. "I should have been in bed when didn't come to anything but he 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 a 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 Indn't written and Beryl had no make it count for something. excuse to tempt Tommy Into a talk.) you do I won't care. I'll even be After to-night she would have no glad." lifeults in

or seeing him she Tommy stirred restlessly. "What would 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 isn't worth it." she told herself, quit the Larkin

gang

You know She wouldn't have planned a test

for him but this one that had been "Tom" They know how to tru

If

you can't stick with them forever, I'll bet you're sick of it thrust upon her would measure Tommy's character for all time for care of themselven better than you Bery

ever will, but they'll allp some day. To put a noul upon the disecting You're not a fool, Tommy. You table

is not an agreeable thing. know that. Come on back with me Beryl, in her night of struggling now-come to our house, We owe with her new misfortune, had you a lot-our family--but you owe grown more tolerant, yet she knew me inore. And I'm licked, if I've that if Tommy failed her now she got to admit that all I had to hold could never believe in him again. to on this old earth has gone down might have been for believing in klink of it, Tommy," she hur She was not frightened as she before the viciousness of Pol Lar- might Tommy was all that was left to her, The

thread of doubt that ranried on, "my whole futuro avery- through her hope was a thin one thing that has given me a chance to but sufficient to make she lost, working in a grocery store.

realize lift myself out of the routine of I'll what she was doing. If her life would be barren indced.

back to that now, and have to go After arriving at the Larkin I loved singing. I love the luxurica house she sat awhile in her de- I never had before. It's horrible to crepit old car and weighed the po-think that I lost all that just be tentialities of her venture. Sho cause certain men are crooks! But I could And nothing to induce her to won't mind if it proves you're what turn back.

I think you ATO. You've never

a welcher or a double-crosser, And no matter what she thought boon there was Tommy. She saw him as Tommy. You've always been reg he stood in the middle of the Larular. And now It's up to you to kins' living room to turn on a light make good. I've bought your ro The shades worn up and the glaring lease from the Lorking with ofery- light flooded the shabby room with thing I had. Will you talo, it, or a hard white brillianco, turning it wil you let me down ?? into a stage for Beryl. She saw

(To be Continued).

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