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MY SON, MY SON!

Continuing Howard Spring's Best Selling Novel

WAH

What ironical purpose there may be behind these things, or what harsh, mean- Fate ingless caprices of E more stupid than cunning. 1 do not know; but it while returning from her de votions at Chapel one evening that winter that Nellie was struck by an automobile, The injury was serious; by the time reached her bodsire she was dead.

With an unreusoning feeling of guilt that no amount of radiostiolis. ing could altogether down I wore inburning for her for nearly 19 year, not only on my coatsleeve but in the brooding, melancholy thoughts that duggest me

seemed to

But when, at the Pract of the year, we all moved to Landon, my THAT Jife will Nelle recede almost abruptly heested! Dermol's unant plea to vinnufer this new move an advance into a new life, a freal page of my exda- lence; and to Sheila's hoperious, symbolic gesture of snipping the mourning bands from the sleeves of all my couts

I began to take a renewed in- terest in my

work Many years

ago Dermot's daughter Mueve, then Dery little girl nore devoted

to play-acting than to mastering

her ABC's, hød teased me to write

1

play for her to perform when

she grew up.

Now Maeve was

a lovely young woman of eighteen, with a pale.

elfin face and eyes a kindle with

she had inherited

The inner fre

from her parents

She had spent the previous SUN- mer touring the provinces in n stock company, getting experiente in the fundamentals of acting. Now she renewed her demands a 1 write her a play.

Eager for something to work on and spurred by the child's en- thusiasm, I sat down and dran atised my novel, "Every Street.

For sometime the Londen pro- ducer, Werthelm, had been beg- ging me to du just this; when I finally turned the play script over extructed his to him

proinise that Maqve should play the lead, provided only that she showed her- self capable.

The opening of "Every Street", was one of the bril liant affairs of the London season.

Not least among its joys for me was the fact that Oliver had been gradunted trom Batllo and had at last come home to live with ine. Still his Jounty, charming, undis- ciplined self, he had gone through the University mainly on his nerve and on his uncanny ability to blufi himself out of scrapes, backed by Rory O'Riordan's help in patching up the broken pieces of many situation after him.

Now Oliver was home, to my intense delight, and offably, casual- ly accepted all the luxuries, the expensively furnished rooms, the clothes, the lavish pocket money I was ready to provide him with.

While we finished dressing for the opening of my play, Öllver rhapsodised to ne over the charms of the young woman who was to accompany him. He had met her, It seemed, at the home of Pogson, his classmate whose father owned the coal mine. · Hår name Livia Vayno),

was

Ah, short for Olivia, I suppose," I smiled. "Oliver-Ollvin. Quite harmonious. What's she, like?"

“Wall till you see her!”

"Hm. Pretty hard hit, Oliver?"

"Rather!

The play was a manifest hit, the audience more enthusias tic even than most first night audiences. Maeve's perform

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"You didn't forgel," she wins- pered, her eyes shlbing.

"Forget! Do the stars forget lo

Du shine"

the flowers forget to if bloom?

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up

I've done pursuing helpless females dark streets, peerma under umbrellas — and Raying. Pardon me, Madam-I thought you were but you see, I don't even know your name! For all these mouths I've only been able to think of you

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"Livia." "Livia." The dreadful realisation began to overcome me. "Livial"

Before she hnd chance to speak Oliver barged over to us, with a "There you are durling" My sickening fear was confirmed. With a great air of proprietorship and of cusy intimacy, he told her they must leave at once for a late supper at the Pogsons',

be-

Livin hesitated, trembling, wish- ing to say something, perhaps not knowing quite what, I stood miser- ably, ill with shock, cut to the marrow by Oliver's jeering tone. Then Dermot found us, and fore I could speak, dragged me indoors to acknowledge a toast.

"A toast, Judies and gentlemen, to the happiest man in London!”

All raised their glasses and echoed him.

To the happiest man in Lon- doal"

The guests had long since gone, but I knew the futility of going to bed, of trying to sleep. Alternately staring in- to fire and pacing the threely heard the knock on the living room. door.

Again the knock, louder. I wont to the door. There she was, look- ing pale and tense. I looked at her allently.

"Aren't you going to ask mo in" she demanded at last.

"Yes. Yes, of course."

*You're not very hospitable," she exclaimed, going to the fire.

"You shouldn't have come,“

3 had to Because I koow what you're thinking about Oliver and Oliver mesand you're so wrong! lina absolutely nu claim DI ING After all, every wonuan meets men who are attracted to her who call 119 'durling'"*

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"Don't dramalise Bud!" abe aukl rugrily "True. Oliver liked to take ine alaart, flirt a litle But f teves encouraged him. I even told mixut you that I'd met JA Tunt I could nevet forgel And to-night I told him that you were that man"

She loukent 11 12 hopefully, with stinky little simile For Jong true 1 sad nothing Then, despairingly

Why cin't you go? Why can't vont leave me in pence?"

Would you be in peace if left

I acknowledged bitterly. “But even if Oliver means nothing

mean something to les you, you

I'm not Kuing to luke you away from him."

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Take me away?" she erted an artly

"What am I chute, a table, a desk? Why, you've spænt your whole life giving things to

But I won't be given!"' She urged me to go to Oliver

loved to tell him that she and which list He was only a boy -

SUR 1 refused, he would forget stall asked her to go away. "I go away," said Livi

life. if you'll do guit of your

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just one Wang.

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and suy these simple words "Liviu Just say Vaynol, I don't love you'

that onve, and I'll go."

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stood quite close to me forced myself to look into her eyes "Livia Vaynol, 1 --- 1 -- don't .........”** As once before, she was sudden- ly in my arms, and I war wild- ly kissing her "I love you I shall love

you forever and ever

Oliver

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took the news of my engagement to Livia in such apparent good part that I felt an overwhelming sense of relief.

He professed to be philosophical about it: the best man had won, that was alt. Now truly Dermol's toast seemed to have come true, for felt that I was indeed the hup- plest man in Lon

London,

We did not at once set the date for our marriage, but I intended that our engagement should be a short one. Its the meantime my beloved Livia came to spend the lovely weeks of that early sum-

ther of 1014 with us in the big rambling house ht lleronwater, Idling on the beach and painting scaschpes from the nearby cove,

Toward the close of one of those long, uzy June afternoons Livia returned from a day of painting evidently 1 at case and disturbed, She had accomplished almost no- thing all day; and when I tensed her about it she amazed me by bursting into tears.

During dinner her distraught mood seemed to continue. But Oliver, who had been out sailing during the afternoon, was in rare spirits. He proposed an ironical

to his

stepmamma": and on learning that Livis had wept on returning from the

cove, pressed her mercilessly to tell why. I listened, perplexed, and when dinnor was over I asked to spenk to Oliver alone. He led me to bin

room

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"You don't have to sneak in dear

you to-night!"

I went too far to-night, I'm terribly sorry. You do believe me, don't you father?**

1 did believe him, and said so. Soon I found myself apologizing to Oliver for having mentioned the tuckdent. He forgave me magnani- mously, and we shook hands 11 I settled back in my chair with a vast feeling of relief, and asked him for vigarette.

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Oliver reached Into his sweater --the one he had worn during the afternoon-for a package of ciga- rettes. Oa one sleeve

the of wweater i saw a smear of blue point - plainly the same paint Livia hack been

that day. using seized the sweater from his hands and numbly looked at the paint. "Oliver." I burst out at last. "You're a far and a cheat! You there with Livia! That's how her canvas got smeared! That's why the came home unhappy and tor-

ali mented! That's what gibes meant at dinner!"

Caught hands down, he at Arst tried to shrug it oft, while my an- ger and my sense of miserable dis- illusionment heightened,

me

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"When I was a boy," I told him, "I was poor and cold and hungry. a dream that kept But I had

One day I I would have a son and my son would have everything! I'd give him ali the things I'd missed everything he dreamed of. And that's what I did for you-may God forgive

me!"

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Oliver packed up and left the house, refusing to come back or to see me in his lodg- ings.

My abject misery increased; for though I had become fully aware of the boy's true character, the hold he had on my deepest bee- tions remained. As the summer passed and the autumn wore on. I ceased working; I saw Livia less and less frequently; I tried in o thousand ways to see Oliver or at least to get some word to him, but in vain.

The events of that fateful sum- mer made their impact felt upon us all. When war was declared and Kitchener issued his first call for volunteers, Dermot's son Rory came home from a protracted vialt in Ireland and promptly joined

I asked Oliver to explain his conduct toward Elvia during din-up- ner."You weren't with her this afternoon, were you, Oliver?”

why,

I was out sailing."," "You didn't come ashore, by any chance, and join her?"

"Of course not, father. If Livia's upset about anything, I had nothing to do with it. I've tried to make this rela tionship between the three of us as congenial as I could. "

And I thought my conduct to-- ward Livia had been Irreproach-

Oliver foined with him in the same regiment. Maeve threw her- self with all het vast energy into a rigorous round of entertainments for soldiers on leave; and I heard vaguely that she was seeing a good deal of Oliver in London.

It was from Annie, Maeve's old servant, that I learned of the girl's plight.

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poor once la Bсe Mueve. With calm courage, al- most matter-of-factly, she admit- led to me what had happened.

"You mustn't blame Oliver, dar- ling. I began all this."

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never even liked him!

hind all this. Maeve?"

"You see, when Oliver left you, I thought ought to keep an eye he didn't lose If on him. That touch with all of us he might come to his senres and make it up with you.

So I saw him-often. And, naturally enough I suppose, come to think I'd been leading him on. Perhaps I had. At tiny rate"

he

The solution, the only one pos- She to me, sible, seemed clear had done what she had dune for Oliver's Bake--and mine. Oliver, she insisted, knew nothing of her present situation; but I did, and 1 was there to make the only pos sible form of

amends. told

Maeve,

"But what about Livia?"

I could not answer; but my in my have shown agany must face. Maeve burst into tears and threw her arms around my neck. "You love her like that-and yet you'd marry mel

Oh, man, you make me proud!"

(To be continued)

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