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Small Town Girl

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THE STORY THUS FAR After leaving Wellesley, Kay Brannan becomes Chick Ran tour's advertising assistant, then enters into a mad round of gaiety, confiding to her toon- mate, Genevieve, that she will never return to the uneventful town of Carvel. She sees a great deal of Dano Ripley, although ha fo not "the marrying kind." Gene-: viene lectures Kay about her drinking and partying and Kay is penitent. But when Chick taxes her with neglecting her job she quite in a fury and goes on a yachting party with Dane. Once there, he attempts to make violent love to her. She escapes fa a passing rowboat manned by reck- icas Bob Dakin, & medical doctor, engaged to Priscilla Hyde, Motor ing her back to Bostan, Bob drunkenly insists that they get married. Kay weakly protests, but he carries her out of the car.

CHAPTER XIV

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I was hidden by the tree trunk and by "Lot me Buro I've got thin intervening underbrush from cars straight," he said, almost pleadingly. passing along the road,

"As I remember it, we woke up this But there were not many passing, old man

(it was still so early In the morning that and ho-married us. Is}

The sun had not yet, climbed high She could not answer in words; enough to touch the car nosed down but when he looked at her, she nodded into the stream Below her here. blowly.

She leaned forward, her head be He continued to watch her, con- tween her knees, her neck muscles sidering each feature of her coun

amint last, relaxed, and kneaded the back of her tenance appraisingly; nock with her anger tips, trying to with a sudden energy, he exclaimed: "Look here, Miss Brannan, you rellove the congestion there. By and

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by the sun touched the bright work seem like a pretty nice sort of a on the hood of the roadster; it cropt girl. Genevieve says you're a great nearer and nearer Bob; it gleamed on kid!" Kay shook her head, help- the rear-view mirror, reflecting lessly; and he rubbed his eyes with Pres. Coolidge brightly on his counterance. Kuy his hands, sat up straight. "Why Pros. Lincoln rose and descended the bank again, did you let me do it?" he asked, Pros, Hoover and stood on the running board, not accusingly, but with a straight. Pres. Cleveland

"1 know was curiosity. reaching in to adjust this mirror forward that the sun might not strike Bob's drunk. He grinned ruefully. "Cocked face; but her weight on the car tilted as a mink!. But--were you drunk It a little, and Bob stirred, awakening,

1007" She stood still, and he groaned and "I know what we were doing," she muttered and immacked his lips, and confessed, honestly. "I wasn't too made a wry face and changed his drunk for that."

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to her dulled emotions. She was sunk in a great indifference; but he drove more slowly thereafter.

Не

And when she did not speak, he

ber, please.".

here tel of standing there. Get in

faco this eit down. We've got to He looked up at her for a long together. I'll have to know all about time. His eyes left her pale coun- By and by dawn began to grow tenance to survey the car, to glance it. Tell me as much as you remem- bright all about them. The road was right and left and behind. He con-

She obeyed him; that is to say, #mooth and beckoning. Below them, aldered this situation in which ho

she got in the car and sat beside to one side, there was a little stream; found himself with a deep attention, ini, looking straight ahead. "I don't

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can inake you see," she сиррове tween.

rattler cotled on wakes to and a chest and fears any motion will make Try," he urged. He said grimly; the reptile strike. Finally he looked at "I've done a lot of rotten things, but Kay again, and she tried to smile in this

tops them all, If you were reassuring way, and he sat up, singer- Clasic Means, I wouldn't be so sure it ly, groaning at his own aches

and

was my fault. She'd grab any man. pains,

if she got a chance. But you're not Well, I'll hite. When do I laugh?"

that kind he asked.

Kay shook her hend, finding nothing to any,

I& narrow strip of meadow Innd bentill without moving, like a man confezed.

At a curve, the car drove straight ahead. It lurched down the meadow nt diminishing speed; it bounded and slid and toppled over a steep bank, stayed miraculously right side up. It plunged through hiders till the front | wheels stopped hul-deep in the border of the stream. Water rose splashing lazily around them, fell and was still. The allers closed behind them.

Kay shivered. Be looked around and grinned. His head nodded.

"And so to bed!" he muttered drowaily; and almost Instantly he was

elsep.

Kay euried shivering berlile, him, to tired to move

"I expect it's pretty funny to seme people, but it's all a mystery to me, he told her. Kay nodded, helpfully; and he looked at her with narrowed

eyes.

Maybe you can give me a rough idea"

" he suggested. "Where are we? What happened? What's the shooting for?"

Kaysaid uncertainly: "We went off the road."

"I'm as bad as she," Kay told hint, sick with self-reprogel.

shook his head insistently, "No. if you were, it would show on you, as it does on Cisste. No, you're not that kind. But what happened, sliss Brannan? Try and tell me.

She said, half to herself: "I think was crazy." Faced him again, re solutely honest. "But I'l de it again, right now," she admitted,

"Marry me?" be echoed in a stark amazement.

"Yes."

HIA eyek widened, something

"But why?" he insisted: "I'm not before. working in them. "No" he protested.so much. I never met you "Isn't this a road I see before nie?!

You don't know me. Certainly you're not in love with me. And you know this sort of thing isn't good stuff.

Kay shook her heat. Suddenly she stepped down from the running board,

movement surprisingly quick, yet gentle too, he reached out and caught her arm.

I know it," she agreed. ife touched her aran. "Tell me," he urged, "What's the answer?"

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Kay wore a thin evening gown, and she has no wrap; but the night hnd been warm enough. "Now, however, there was a

damp dawn chill in the nir, and a small winil blew. She huddled down in the car to be the better shielded from -this wind, and tried to think what sho should do; and presently she slept. By and by the sun rose, somewhere behind them. an though to departs but with It's so hard to live down They were under the brow of a steep bank beside the stream, and so in shadow; but the direct sunlight de-

"Hold it, sister," he urged. "Hold

She tried, honestly, to explain, "l scended the opposite slope till renched the further bank, where two everything. Don't go away. You're don't suppose any man in under- edwa came down to drink, and saw the my, only link with the world, right stand," he said gropingly. "But- car and stared in a long attention till now. Don't abandon me before, you it starts with my sister Emilly. She they decided at last to be alarmed. set me right. What happened?" came to Wellesley, and she's won- "Don't you remember?" she asked, terful, and I thought she'd do wonder. They turned then at a lurching run She was trembling, her teeth chat ful things, marry a fins man, and 70 and stumbled away up the slope.

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"Now go on from there," he urged. on the seat beside him, the palm up, the fingers curled in a fashion Sho made no further move to leave. curiously suggestive of the hand of him, and he opened the door of the a sleeping child. Kay, careful not car. Sit down and tell me the latest to touch him, watched him for a long from the front," he suggested. "TH time. The sunlight crept toward have to get homeano to pull us out them till it touched the water; it be of here by and by, but I'd like to get gan to approach, across the surface my bearings first. of the stream.

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Kay, still standing by the car, ask. ed desperately: "Don't you remember anything?"

Kay got out of the car.. She moved very carefully, loosening the door

He stared at her, frowning hard. luich without a sound, slipping out "Vait

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minute,” he whispered. smong thought she took off her shoes and "Wait a minuto." The colour drained her stockings, standing on one foot out of his cheek. "You're Jeft!" he after the other, precariously bal-aid accusingly.

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"You called me that, last night" anced. She laid shoes and stockings sho ndmitted.

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His eyes dilated curiously, "Gene- through the alders for a few yards. viove calls you that," he said. "Sha' Then phe tucked up her skirts and Mutt and you're Jeff. Am--you secured them with a twist and a knot were in the boat last night. You and about her thighs and waded into the Cisiol stream. Its bed was, rocky, and hurt "Give me a lead." he urged, "Give

"Yes," She watched him fixedly. her feet; and the rocks were slippery: a man a break, won't you?" but she was able by leaning down

"I naked you to take me ashore se very carefully to wash her hands and I could get a train for Boston," she her face without wetting her skirts. reminded himı. "You insisted on The cold water won grateful on her driving me to Boston." And she said. brow. It seemed clean and clear, so we got lost!"

she drank a little of it. Then her His eyes widened, then sot hard fest began to ache with cold, and sho and cold; and she saw sudden, recol. came ashore again and rubbed hor

faco and arms dry with her hands, lection in them.

"You remember now, don't you?” chafing them hard till she was warm she begged appealingly

·When` sho' returned to the car;

Bob

He said throuch nur lips: "I re- had not moved. Holding to a fender member now! Unless I'm still drunk. for balance, she dipped one foot in Minton

Bob is beginning to realize what has happened. W ko blame Kay for everything? How are they to ringe! Don't fail to read to-morrow's exciting instalment.

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