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Pfc Six

The Real Adventure

NOVEL

Henry Kitcbell Webster

CHAPTER XIV—Continued. —10— “Ton wno't fvm Rive ni«* the poor ■attrfartloQ of kaomnf *hat you're dolus " he Mid. “I'd lore to.” she Mid. “to be »ble to •rite to you. he«r from you erery day. But I don't beliere you want to knoir. I think It would be too hard for you. Because you'd hare to promise not to try to set me bark—not to come and rescue me if I s<'t Into trouble and thins* went badly and I didn't know where to tum. Could you promise that, Roddy r He fare a sroan and burled his face in his hands. Them: “Bo." he said furiously. “Of course I Qi-uldn'L See you sufferlns and stand by with my hands in my pockets end watchHe spranc up and srlrod her by the arms In a crip that actually left bruises, end fairly shook her in the epony of his entreaty. 'Tell me It s a nightmare. Rose." he said. “Tell me it isn't true. Wake me up out of it.” But under the Indomitable resolution Of her blue eyes he turned away. This was the last appeal of that sort that he made. “Til promise.” she said presently, "to be sensible—not to take any risks I don't have to take. I'll regard my life, and my health and all. as something I'm keeping In trust fo- you. Ill take plenty of warm, sensible clothes when I go; lots of shoes and stockings— things like that; and. if you'll let we— HI borrow a hundred dollars to start myself off with. It isn't a tragedy. Roddy—not that part of it You wouldn't be afraid for anyone else a* big and strong and healthy as 1." Gradually, out of a welter of scenes 'ike that, the thing got Itself nc-og-nlled as something that warn to hapj>eti. Hfft the parting came at last In a little different way from any they had foreseen. Rodney came home from his office early one nitornoou, with a telegram that Mituaioncd him to New York to a conference of counsel In a big publlcatility case he bad t>een working on for months. He must leave. If be were gi-lng at all. at fit • o’clock. He ransacked the h»u«p. vainly at first, for Rose, and found her at last In the trunk room—dusty, disheveled, sobbing quietly over something she hugged la tier arms. But she dried her eyes and enme over to him and naked him what it wet that had brought him borne so wriy. He showed her the telegram. *T11 have to leave In an hour.” tie said, 'if I in (0 go." She paled at that, and- sat down rather giddily on the trunk. “You mu»t go." she said, “of course. And - Roddy. I guess thatil be the cash-*' way. I'U get my telegram tonight— 1 tretmd to get it—from Portia. And you •an give me the hundred dollars, and then. »hen you come lack. I'll be gone." The thing she had been holding In her hand* slipped to the floor. He atoo|«ed and picked it up—stared at it with a sort of half-wakened recvgnl"I f found it." she explained, “among some old thing* Portia sent over wb- a she moved. l»e .ou know what It I»1 It » on.- of th. notebook* that got wet — that first night When w-e were put off the Street car. And—Roddy, look :” SUe opened it to an almost blank page, and with a weak little laugh pointed to the tiling that was written ■here: "March 11. 1P12 f “Tour birthday, you see and the day me met each other." And then, down below, the only n.-te she tied made during the whole of that lecture, be read : "Never marry a man with a imsston tor princijilev" “That's the trouble with us, you see." she said. “If you were Just an ordinary man without any big passions or • nyiV— : R wouldn't matter much l! y-ur hie got spoiled. But with u«. you see were got to fry for the l«ig*est Unag there la Oh. Roddy. Roddy darling tight fol Ju>t a ^inute. and then l".'. come aud help vou ' ~

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ROSE ALDRICH LEAVES HER HUSBAND AND THE TWINS AND GOES FORTH INTO THE UNKNOWN WORLD TO MAKE A LIVING AND LEARN LIFTS VALUES

SYNOPSIS.—Bow Stanton, a young woman living In modest circumstances. marries wealthy Rodney Aldrich and for more than a year live* In luxury and Isxlneas. This life disgusts her. She plan* to do something useful, but feels that the profession of motherhood I* big enough for any woman, and looks forward eagerly to the birth of her baity. She has twin*, however, and their care Is taken entirely o0 t of her hands by a profession;d nurse. Intense dissatisfaction with the useless life of luxury return* to Rose. She determines to go out and earn her living; to tnn*e g.—l on her own book. She and her doting husband have *-tme bitter •oene* over the wife * “whim." What she goes and doe* is described In this installment.

this was her room, a room where anyone lacking her specific Invitation to enter would be an Intruder—a «v«odlUou which bad not obtained elilier in her mother's house or In Rodney's She smiled widely over the absurdity of Indulging In n pleasurable feeling of I>os*ession la a squalid little cubbyhole like thi*. Th. » .-til paper wo* stained and faded; there was on ln*n bed—the mattress on the bed was lumpy. There was n dingy-looking oak bureau with a small mirror; a marble-topped black walnut wnshstand and a pitcher standing in a bowl on top of it. As for the hurrying life she looked out upon from her (rimy window, the difference between It and that which she had been wont to contemplate through Florence McCrea'a esquisitely leaded casement* waa simply planet-

ary.

And y.-C queerly enough In terms of iitmil lineal measurement the distance between the window* themselves wu* less than a thousand yards. And. such Is the enormous soda! and splr Itual distance betwe.o North Clark street and The Drive, she was as safely hidden lo re, as . ; ■ c j out of the ort.lt of any of her friends, or even of her friends' servants, a* she could have been In New York or Son Francisco. of course, wherever she went, whatever she did. there'd alw -ys be the risk that someone who could carry bark news to Rodney's friend* would recognize her. It wwa a flak that had to !«• taken. At the same time she'd protect the secret as well as she could. There were two people, though. It couldn't be kept from—Portia and her mother. The story given out to Rodney'* friend* bring that Rose was In California with her mother and 1'orUa. left the chance alway* tipen for some contretemps which would lead to her mother's discovering the truth in a surprising and shocking way . Rut the truth Itself, confidently stated. not as a tragic ending, but s* 'he splendid, hopeful t>eglbnlng of a life of j truer happiness for Rose and her husband. needn't l*e a shock. Fo th'.* was | what Rose had *-me down u|*in her , la her letter to I’urtla. ' . . I have found th* Kg thing couldn't to l ad without a flgti." *:.« wrots "You | slisuidn'l to surprised, because you're pTvlof.y found oul for yc-raslt th*t n th-;t-C w orth ha'teg vutass wry saalb But y-a'rs sot to worry about me. nor hs afraid for me. breauas I'm roirg to win i Tin making tbs fight, somehow:, for you a* will aa for myself. 1 want you to , know that. 1 think that realizing 1 was living your hfs as w.-i; aa mine, is what , ha* glwn ms the courage to atart . . . 'Tv# got sums plans, tut 1 to tell you wm ” to you every w

thi.: Hodncy tan't to Came f-r what's t.i(pe..ed tt'e Invent quarreled, and l l-edeve were farther In love With each other than we'v# ever teen befor-.. 1 know 1 an. with tum .... Brvas this thing to m. tber as geefiy as you like, but led her c> cry thing Udorw you si-. This letter written and dispatched, 1 she had w»>rked out the dentils of her : doi-urture w:;h a g'*>d deal of cure. | In her owu bouse, U-iore the sen nnta, -'.e hud tried to act Just as she would have Uono bud her pretended telegram really iv.de from IVrUa. Her bug was lei. kid. her trunk uu* gone, her motor waiting at the door to luke her to the station, when the inuid Dons brought the twins h'-iue from their alnns. This wasn't chanw but ptvammgcmt-ot. "Give them to mv." Rose said, “and then you may go up and tell Mrs. ltu»toa she may have them in a few

For the first time since they were born, she was thinking of their nee-, of her rather than of her need of them snd with that thought came, for Unfirst time, the surge of pmudonate tan ternal love that she hnd waited for so long lu vain. There was. suddenly, an Intolerable ache In her breast that could only have been satisfied by crush Ing them up against her breast; kissing their hands—their feet. Rose stood there quivering, giddy with the force of It. “Oh. you dar Hug*!" she said. "But trslt—wait unU1 I deserve it I" And. without touch ing them at all. she went to the door and opened It. Mr*. Ituston and Doris were both waiting In the halt “I must go now." she said. "Good-by. Keep them carefully for me." Her voice was steady, and. though her eyes were bright, there wa* no trace of tear* upon her cheeks. But tber* w*s a kind of glory shining in her face that was too much for Doris, who turned away and sobbed loudly. Even Mr*. Huston's eyes were wet. “Good-by." said Rose again, and went down comiKwedly enough to her

car.

She rode down to the station, shook hands with Otto, the chauffeur, allowed a porter to carry her bag into the waiting room. Tber* she Upped the porter, picked up the bag herself, and walked out the other door; crossed over to Clark street and took a street car. At Chicago avenue the got off. and walked north, keeping her eyes open for placards advertising rooms to >et. It was at the end of about half a mile that she found the hatchetfared landlady, paid her three dollars, and locked her door, as a symbol, perloips. of the bigger, heavier door that she had locked upon her past life. Strongest among all the wi'ter of emotions boiling up within her. was a jwrfectly enormous relief. The thing which, when she had first faced It as t lie only thoroughfare to the real life she »o passionately wanted, had M-etned such a veritable nightmare, was ao accomplli-hed fact. The week • •f acute agouy she had lived through while she was forcing her sudden resolution upon Rodney had lieen all hut

was spoken of as one of the regular Globe production*, ao it was probable Jimmy Wallace's experience with the production of an earlier numl-er In the M-rle* would at least give her something to go by. Granted that she was going to lie a chorus girl for a while, abe could hardly find a better plmc* than one of the Globe prodoctiona to be a chorus girl in. According to Mmuy. it was a do cent enough IttUe place, and yet it possessed the advanur- f being, spiritually, aa well as actually. we*t of Clark street. Rodney's friends were !e*s likely to go there, and so *:«ve a chance of recognlfing her. than to any other theater in the city. The news Item in the paper t ild her that the production was in rehearsal, and It mentioned the nam< ; the director. John Galbraith, referring to him us one of the three most prominent . musical-enmedy director* in the coun-1

try.

When she asktd at the box office at the Globe theater where they were rc h<ar*lng “The Girl Up-Stairs" today, me nicely manicured young man Inside answered automatically. “North End hall.” “I'm afraid." said Rose, smiling a little. "Ill have to ask where North End ball la." "Not at all." nald the young man idiotically, and he told her the address—only a block or two from Rose's room. CHAPTER XVI. Th* First Day. With her umbrella over her shoulj dor. Bose set sail northward again through the rain, absurdly cheered. The entrance to the North End hall was a pair of white {minted doors opening from the atreet level upon the foot of a broudish stair which took you up rather suddenly. At the head of the stairway, tilted back In a kitchen chair beneath a vugle gn* Jet whose light he was trying to make suffice for the perusal of a green newspaper, sat a man. under orders, no doubt, to keep Intruders :iway. The thing to do was to gn by ns If. for such ss she. wstebnirn didn't exist. The rhythmic pounding of feet and the frayed chords from a worn-out piano, convinced her she was tn the right place. Her stratagem succeeded. The man glanced np and. though she felt be didn't return to his paper again, he made no attempt to stop her. She I « ulked steadily ahead to another ojw-n

CHAPTER XY-

Th* World Alone "Here's the first Week's rent 1 Ud Row handing the landlady ollarv "and 1 think you'd bettri

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They hud thriven finely—Justified, so far as that went. Harriet's division in favor of botlle feeding. Had she died back there In that 1**1 of pain, never c-me out of the ether at all, they'd atill be Just like this—plump, pii i id. methodical. Rose h.vd thought of that a hundred times, but it wasn't what she was thinking of now. The thing that caught her as she was looking down ou them, was a , wave of sudden p.ty. She saw them , sudealy as person* with the long road ’ £ll abend of them, as a boy and a girl. | g yAn'h and a maid, a man and a

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i She'd never thoOga.' them Uk# tho: Iwfore. The baby she find looked h-rwaiJ to—th* baby she hadd’! had— had never been thought of Unit Way. r It was to be acoiethlng to provide her. Rose, with an occupation . to

unendurable with the enforced eontcsuplaUun of the moment of |>arting : w hich they brought so relso'irwsly nearer. There had been a terror, too. ( lent when the moment actually Came, i she couldn’t do iu Well, and now it | had c-mie and gone 1 Th* surgery of

j the thing was over.

lt >** dusted the mirror with n towel j —■ reckless act. ns she saw for herj self, when She discovered abe was goj Ing to tav* to use that towel for a week—and took au appraising look at herself. Then 4ie nodded confidently— there was nothing the matter with her looks—and resumed her ulster, her

: >r all thr»e. Then, glowingly coo- - u-us that she was saving a nickel by so doing, she set off downtown afoot to get a J-vb. She meant to get It that very afternoon. And. partly beeauw she meant t > so very definitely . > "i the last Sunday before Rose w ent away she bad studied the dramatic MVtitt of the morning paper with

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ibiae paused for a steadying breath tiefore rhe went through that farther door, her eyes starry with resolution, her cheeks. Just for the moment, a little pale. n«* room was hot and not well lighted. In the farther wail of it wn» a proscenium arch and a raised stage. On the stage, right and left, were two irregular groups of girts, with a few men. awkwardly. Rose thought, disposed among th<-m. All were swaying a Utt'e to mark the rhythm of the music Indastriously puundid out by a sweaty young man at the piano—a swarthy, thick young man in his un(lenblrt. There were a few more p*0|vle sprawled la differed parts of the hall. It was all a little vague to her at first, because her attention was focu*> d upon a stogie figure—a compact, rather alendi-r. figure, and tall. Uvww thought—<if a man in a blue serge suit, who stood at the exact center of the stage and the extreme edge of the footlights. He was count lug aloud the bars of the music—Dot beatilig time at ail. bor yielding to the ihythm in any w ay : standing, on the contrary, rather tensely still. Thai Was the quality atmut him. Indeed, that riveted !!«• • attem'm and held hi r. as still -.s ue was. lu the doorway—an exj hilaratlng sort of intensity that had I communb-sied Itself to the swaying j groups ou the singe. Yoq C,'Uld tell from the way hd counted that aainewln/ was gathering I Itself up. getting ready to ha|ipeu. ' "Three . . . Four . . . Five . . . Fix . . . Seven—Nowl' he ahou'.ed on the eighth bar. and with the word one of the group* transformed itself. One of the men bowed to one of the girls and begun waltzing with her; another couple formed, then another. Ruse watched breathlessly, hoping the maneuver wouldn't go wrong—for toy reason in the World hut that the man there at the footlights was ao U-utly determined that K shouldn't. Determination triumphed. The number was concluded to John Galbraith's evident satisfaction. “Very good.” hr •aid. ”1' you'll all do exactly what you did that time from now on. ril not complain.” Without pause he went on: “Everybody ou the stage—big girt*—all the big girts!” \nd to the young man at the piano. "Well do 'At trmoon Tv*.'" There was a momentary pauw then, filled With aubduod (halter, while th. girls and men realigned themselves for the tn w number. Rose looked them over. The girl* weren't, on an average, eztravngantly ; bcsutitul. though, with the added cbsrtn of make u ( allowed for. there w*ro. no doubt, many the audience* would consider s-i. Thi y Were drvo»i-d In pretty much anything

for**, v&emiw*. overall*—all equally taken for granted. Galbraith "truck his hand* together for silence, and scrutinized the now motionless group on the stage. "We're one shy.” be Mid. "Who'S mlwdnrT' And then answered his own question: “Grant!” He wheeled | around and hi* eye* searched the ball. | Rose D-csme aware, for the first time, that a matter of coarerMtlon had been going on Incessantly since she had come In. In one of the recessed window sect* behind her. Now when Galbraith's gaze plunged In that direction. she turned and looked too. A big Monde chorns girt wa* In there with a man. a girl who. with twenty pounds traln.-d off her. and that sulky look out of her face, would have been a beauty. She hnd roused herself with a sort of defiant dellbermtioo at th* sound of the director's voice, but abe still had her hack to him and went os talking to the man. “Grant!" Mid John Galbraith again and this time hit voice had a cuttla| edge. "Will you take your place Ob the stage, or shall I suspend rehearsal until you're ready?" For answer she turned and begun walking slowly across the room. Sha started walking slowly, but under Galbraith's eye she quickened her pace, involuntarily, it seemed, until 1! wa* a ludicrous sort of run. Presently aha emerged upon the stage, looking rather artificially unconcerned, and the rehearxal went on again. But Just liefore he gave the signal j to the pianlrt to go ahead. Galbraith I with a nod summoned a young man from the wings and Mid something to him. whereu|ion. clearly carrying out his order*, he vaulted down from the stage and came walking toward th* doorway where Rose was still stand-

ing.

Rut be didn't come straight to her: he brought up before a woman sitting In a folding chair a ll'tle farther along the wait, who drew herself defensively erect when she saw him turn toward her. assumed a look of calculated disdain, tapped a foot—gave, ou the whole, cn Imitation of a ducheae being kept waiting. But the limp young man didn't seem disconcerted, and Inquired tn so many words what her business was. The duchess Mid In a harsh, high voice that she wanted to see the director; a very jiartlrular friend of his had begged her to do ao. "You'll have to wait till he's through rehearsing." said the young man. and then he came over to Rose. The vestige* of the smile the duchess had provoked were still vlsiMe about her mouth when be came up. “May 1 wait and see Mr. Galbraith after the rehearsal?" she saked. 'If I won't he In the way?" "Sun-." said the young man. "He won't lie long now. He's bei-n rehearsing since two." Then, rather explosively. "Have a choir." He struck Rose as being a little flustered and uncertain aomehow. It was a long hour that Rose sat there Id a little folding chair—an hour that, in spite of all her ulU could do, took some of the crisiim -s out of her When at last, a little after aix o’clock. Garorallb said: “Quarter to eight, everybody." and dismissed them with a nod for a scurry to what were ivideuily dressing room* at the other side of the hall, the ohlp of Rose's hop** had utterly gone to pieces, bhe had a plank to keep herself afloat on. It was the deteru:.nation to stay there until he should tell lu - in so mauy words that be hadn't nny u*e for her. The deprecatory young man was talking to him now . auotu her and the duchess evidently, for he peered out Into the hall, then vaulted down from the stage end came toward them. The duchess got up. and. with a good deal of manner, went over to meet him. Bose didn't hear what the duebcaa Mid. Rut when John Galbraith answered her. his voice easily I filled the rwfirt "You tell Mr, Pike. if that's ids bam?. L- Haven't any vpcanclc* In the chorus at present. If we find we need you. we can let you know." He said It not unkindly, but he exercised some |iower of making It evl- ' dent that a* he finished speaking, the duchess, for him. simply con*. J to exist. Then, with dlsrouii-rtlng muddeonesa, he looked straight at Bose I and said: “What do you want?” She'd thought him tall, but b« wasn't. He was looking on a perfect level into her eyes. “I want • Job in the chorus," said Rose. “You heard what I Mid to that other woman. 1 suppose?" “Yes." Mid Rose, “but . . “ 'Rut you thought you'd let me say it to you again." "Yea.” site said. And. quverly enough, she felt her courage cm.ag hack.

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