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Once outside, they stood in a store opposite and watched. In a little while Marian and Dick came out and walked slowly down the street together. It had been but a chance meeting, and he had to leave her at the corner. Marian went on her way alone, and this is exactly what Mrs. Hepburn had wished. Throughout the rest of the afternoon, Marian Linton had a shadow that followed her. ♦ ' * Hi “It is most awfully good of you, Mrs. Wolfe. I can not tell you how grateful the committee will be for your splendid help.” Mrs. Winfield Willoughby Hepburn, standing in the reception room of the Wolfe home, folded the generous check and tucked it into her bag. “When the Golden Rule Foundation asked me to serve on.their committee, I was so glad when they put on my list the name of Mrs. Henry Warner Wolfe. Every one told me I would find you most generous and sympathetic. It has been a real pleasure to meet you, and I hope we shall meet again soon. It seems strange for me to come away over here to Farside Heights instead of collecting right there in Glenwold. Some of the Farside Heights ladies are serving in Glenwold, you know. Makes it more interest ing, don’t you think so ?” There was a burst of child laughter, and around the corner of the house, running as though pursued by some one and thinking it great fun, came little Henry Junior. “What a perfectly adorable child!” gushed the visitor, who had stepped out on the porch. “Is he yours, Mrs. Wolfe?” t h e I d e a l CHRISTMAS GIFT THE KING'S BUSINESS AT HALF PRICE FOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR $3.00 SAVE MONEY
Hepburn. Of course she knew the girl would not make a scene in a public place, but would not the knowledge of her presence spoil the happy hour that she and Dick might have? She resolved to keep Dick from seeing Dorothy if she could. The alcove where Dot sat was directly behind Dick. And then another thought occurred to Marian. Dot herself was with an escort. She tried to look at him, but could only discover that he was a rather sporty looking man of fine appearance. When Dorothy Hepburn had discovered Marian Lin ton sitting near her, her only thought was to coldly stare the girl out of countenance. She had no possible interest in her. But becoming curious to see what sort of man she was with, she looked again just as Dick turned his head, and with a start, she recognized that it was Dick Burling. She was furious! How dared he bring another girl to the place where they themselves had so often come? Be sides, hadn’t he told her that he would be busy on an er rand for his father, and it was on that account she felt perfectly safe in accepting for the afternoon the attentions of a man whom she knew both Dick and his father thor oughly despised. He had lied to her. She would never forget it. And where did he get the girl anyhow? She re called that Dick had gone to one of the little “At Home’s” at the Torrington’s a few weeks before. She had declined the invitation; such affairs bored her almost to extinction! She had no sympathy whatever with Mrs. Torrington’s queer ideas and her peculiar ways of trying to entertain. She longed to face Dick and to charge him with his perfidy, but she did not know how she could quite manage it on account of her escort. In fact, she was more anxious that Dick should not know of her presence there with this man, than was Marian that Dick should not know of Dot’s being there. She set her cool wits to work to plan how she might get away, and feigning a headache, she persuaded her escort to take her home. To Marian’s intense relief, she saw the couple leave in a little while. It was only a few days later, when Miss Hepbtfrn and her mother were sitting in an ice cream parlor, that they saw Dick Burling and Marian Linton come in and seat themselves in the rear of the room. “There goes Dick with that horrid Marian Linton. That’s the girl, Mother, who fairly flung herself at Dick at the Torrington’s last fall.” The mother raised her lorgnette and stared hard. All her mother instincts were roused to fight for her child. “And where does this young woman live?” she asked sharply. ■ “I am sure I don’t know,” Dot answered, with a shrug. “It is your place to find out. If she is trying to snare poor Dick, we must do something to set him right. I heard some one, I think, who was at the Torrington’s say there was something mysterious about the girl.” “Yes, they did say that she acted queer. She was taken with some kind of a fit—maybe it was an epileptic fit, I don’t know. But it was some sudden illness, and they took her home in a hurry.” “That is strange, very strange. There certainly is something wrong with the girl, and we have got to find it out. If you knew he was with her before, why didn’t you watch them and see where she went ?” “A pretty picture I ’d make, chasing Dick and a girl around town!” “Then you have seen him with her since then ?” “Yes,” rather vaguely. “I have a plan. Finish your cream and let us get out as soon as we can.”
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