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MY DAUGHTER'S WHOLE HAPPINESS pos UPON THE GOOD IMPRESSION OUR FAMILY. MAKES ON HER FIANCE'S MOTHER, LADY BASHMOUTH WE'VE DONE OUR BEST TO CONCEAL OUR RELATIONSHIP TO THAT UNWASHED OLD, PIRATE -~

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Serial Story—

Kings Row

By Henry Bellaman

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN PARRIS slipped quietly into the work of the hospital. The place seemed at once familiar and a refuge. him at first. Through the years of his absence he had remembered it with a sort of filial affection. It

had been a shock, a most unsettling | - shock to come without any: prepa-|

ration whatever upon the actual truth. He felt that his most treasured memories had betrayed him.

this feeling left him. This was known territory. He was rather astonished at first to see how superior all American equipment was. The scrupulous hygiene, the smooth efficiency in all mechanical and ma-« terial phases of administration, were a professional delight after the poverty and sometimes almost impossible working conditions of comparable institutions he had seen abroad. . Dr. Nolan had welcomed him so warmly that he had almost a sense of homecoming. Dr. Nolan, he found, was intelligent and progressive. The general staff was not well enough trained. Parris saw at once the evil hand of politics. But he thought little of this at the time. He found himself happier than he could have believed possible. Outside the "asylim,” as Kings Row continued to call the State hospital, he was less happy. He had no points of contect with old acquaintances. Drake had been his real concern. Parris saw him three or four times a!week. Without Drake suspecting it in the least, he had begun the application of all that he knew to a restoration of personality. So far everything went well. Drake was at times almost like the impudent, half-jeering lad who had said goodby to him at the station more than five years before. Drake was now definitely started in business. Randy’s own project for the reclaiming of the old neglected’ creek bottoms had been put into effect. Randy was to do the actual outside work. Drake was made to feel that the entire ad-

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warm, steady lamplight and the flicker of firelight, too, through the stiff lace curtains, He rang, and Herr Berdoff himself answered. “Ach, I am glad to see you today. What are you doing out in such weather?” “Funeral.” “Ach, yes, Dr. Gordon. Let me hang your coat here. Come into my study now and have a cup of hot coffee. I always read how people die catching cold at other people’s funerals.” . “You're a cheerful prophet, Professor. But I'd love the coffee.” Paris sank gratefully into the, deep chair before the open fire. It was peaceful, and quiet, and comfortable here—oddly withdrawn and Old World here in this little town) far from all of the traditions and ideas which made the life of’ this scholarly, obscure German preacher. |

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had fears of her career, always.” “Why?” “I do not know.”

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the best concert ranks.” “It is interesting. I must go by the jewelry shop to see her father. He has maybe late news.” Somehow the harshness of mood that had possessed Parris for weeks melted and fell away. He relaxed and rested his head on his hand. The Professor played for him several little tunes, with such simplicity and such artlessness that Parris had to make some effort to keep back tears. Drake and Randy prospered during the next year. Parris watched over Drake with an anxiety -that was not apparent to anyone except Randy. One thing she noticed particularly: Parris always led Drake

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his own. / Snow was flying over the hardfrozen earth before Parris began to feel that he was really settling into his own place. Yet with most of

“ away from reminiscence by appearTen me, you like this asylum! ing uninterested. si mich” One evening as he was leaving : he door and looked “You do not regret the music?” he stopped. at the

izzically at Randy. “lI practiced all the time I was hv id "wu could give

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the townsfolk he felt uneasy. They were impressed with his charming ‘manners as they had always been; newly impressed with his deep seriousness; a little bewildered by his foreign ways. They did not know that he was shy, in Kings Row, as he had never been before! In Herr Berdorff, his old music teacher ‘and pastor at the little German parsonage, he found a friend. But visits there, evenings with Drake and Randy, and selflosing work at the hospital and with Dr. Nolan, were not enough to dispel the uneasiness he felt— the fear of returning to old haunts. Too sharp were his remembrances of his old home; of Renee and the ‘secret lake”; of Dr. Tower; of Cassie and that evening before her death. = ns o

* THAT winter Dr. Henry Gordon . died, and Parris was surprised to find himself one of the honorary pallbearers. ® It was the largest funeral Kings Row had ever seen, with the Presbyterian church crowded to the last seat of the high gallery. Parris endured the penance, for his belligerence, of hearing the Reverend Cole preach a lengthy service on “a great physician who was. also a humble - man of God.” Ry Parris, certain that most of it was directed at his own héad, let his attention. wander. He noticed that Louise was not present. Perhaps she was ill. He remembered that she had never forgiven him for sep ‘her from Drake. Still,

to compensate for the aksence. After the funeral Parris left the cemetery on foot. It was. a stony cold : » and ty

in Vienna.” Fl. a cup of coffee? It's pretty cold.”

Herr Berdorff sat up. His eyes were shining, “You don’t say sg? You did not tell me this. You practice now, too?” . “I bought a Bechstein in Germany.” ““ Ach, s0?” “I'll be "coming around for you to hear me, and help me again.” “Maybe you do not need me now.” “Just as always.” Prof. Berdorff was immensely pleased. “I miss you, you and the little Lichinsky.” . “You know I saw Vera several times.” “You wrote me in your letters. And her concerts were good?” “Very well. well known everywhere now, but—” “Yes? What?” “A rather peculiar thing happened shortly before I left.” “To. Vera? I have heard nothing” “Well, she was slated for an appearance at the Mannheim festival during the summer. She came to see me and seemed to be very much upset about something. She eanceled her date there, and one or two others. I thought she was on the very edge of a breakdown— she'd been playing a lot—and I sent her to a doctor. She looked 8 little wild-eyed, and talked about not “And you have not heard more?” BGS. Bom “lI WENT to see her father, He said she was having a rest.” “It is too bad. She has really no

the little Lichinsky”

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In the kitchen Parris laid his hand on her arm. “Don’t bother to make it. I just wanted to talk to you for a minute, anyhow.” Her eyes darkened -a little. “What's the matter, Parris? Is Drake—" “He's all right. I just wanted to say that I think we've won in a I didn’t know

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have.” : “Bring him back? I don’t understand, quite, Parris. Was he—?” “Drake was more shattered in— not in his mind exactly—I guess I have to say in his soul than he was

in body. Our job has been to bring him back to himself. You've done the biggest share of it yourself.” | “I did just what you told me—as nearly as I could.” “You've been pretty wonderful, Randy. He’s all right. He's just| Drake, dow. As normal ds anybody can be expected to be. We can go on from here now treating him pretty much like anyone.” Randy began to cry, softly. “Parris, you—" i “Drake was and is my best friend, Randy. Drake was just as necessary. to me when I came back as, maybe, I have been to him.” “You—I can’t tell you—I can’t say it!” ; “"{To Be Continued)

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