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which he had thrown himma the work of rounding up tory had delighted Alger It was very unfortunate that Algeria did understand Gilda's + feelings a the priest. Had she so, she would never have ¢ the mistake of inviting the esteotts over to dinner the very Saturday night on which the ‘Clarion broke its story on the

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gould not make out. Her engage‘ment to Murray Clifton was only twenty-four hours old, and they

| - would announce it. After the excellent dinner they % ‘went into the living room. It was then that they heard distant voices, shouting-—-a steady, throaty outery, pitched at a certain key, saying over and over unintelligible words. “What's ako. extra?” asked ' Westcott, turning to Algeria, “More than an extra,” she sald,

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His voice ceased. Silently, in a “Ibody, the Press slipped out of the ruined building. As silently they drove back to the Clarion office. That Sunday morning Gilda rose very early and dressed quietly. 8he slipped out of the house, | backed the car from the garage, and drove down the hill, The church, what was left of it, could be seen from afar, because the intervening structures all had been leveled. It seemed solitary and alone in the waste, but When Gilda reached it a small, loose crowd was standing before it, staring at it silently. Several copies of the Clarion were in evidence, with the black head: lines, and the columns of type devoted to the mountain of disgracé that had been heaped on the priest. As she had expected, the church was empty, but candles were

arthed what she had known! that Jimmy i

“Something | 108 in the dimness, her bow:

/ lighted on the altar, That von con-

{Carlisle would conduct the service «gompletely alone if need be. She {hoped ‘that the presence of even

without Fr, Carlisle. Mean- lone worshiper might lift part of esteott find: that they were the sorrow he must be feeling.

At the end she heard the Bene-|

{diction, -and knelt as he sliently|

had beer employed additions] details about what even Mrs. agréed. with Pawnes Mawson was

the Clarion, the tornado story was going stale and

quenched the candles. For a ‘time she remained kneel-/

ed. Then she was conscious) [that he stood beside her. | “Gilda,” he sald, “I could never thank you ‘sufficiently in my entire life for what you have done this morning.” After a moment he said: “You

deserve very much from me. Yourlymy reactions were quick, found |

belief has ‘restored my courage and taken awhy what might have

been . . . bitterness.” - . J f THERE were chairs, two or)

three, in the sacristy. She took) one, and sat looking up at him, {her hands in her lap. } “You must understand,” he be-

gan, “that in my youth I lived a

life that left much to be desired. 1 was headstrong, hot-tempered,| and full of conceit and jeilousy. My father was a bookish man but no success in a business way. He! studied all philosophies and all creeds; and died at the Ju be-} lleving nothing. “I think it was the porror of |

my father's death scene that led| Regardless of who was want to pay, the size of the home three years my senior, on the pure you want, the location you prefer path to God. He never wavered ~-you'll find it in the classified in his deside to lead the good iife,| Real Estate ads in the big NEW or in his concern and kindness to| Real Estate Section of The Sun-

my brother Gregory,

Mother.

Head|py jealousy that I mortally hated|

saw only the blank, open window. But I heard the thin, receding: [|

some, high-minded, and liked BY {pens Grogan, -&" matchmaker, everyone, 1 was none of these. one of the worst, as hard as a I know now that our mother sidewalk and with no conscience loved me as greatly as she did| lof any kind, offered to put me In him, and that she prayed for me| la preliminary. ‘I'll give you a mare than for him as her con- [good send-off, kid,’ he told me. cern over me.grew. But then 11 was flattered.” felt only envy of my brother, and| A spasm contorted his face, | hatred for him, as we grew up. and it was a spasm of self-loath-Yes, actually, I was so blinded|ing.

pi to his death , His was the face of A dammed, | the forevér tormented. f “That night I spent in jail. Gro-| gan came to me, and others. They urged on me that the fall which killed my brother was accidental. | Many would swear to thé circum-| stances, for the fight gang want-| ed me for future use in the ring. But I refused to listen. A sense] of enormity overwhelmed me, like & | impenétrable night, Mother came to my cell, could nottomfort her. My guilt was the greater because’ I now realized that my - brother whom I hated felt nothing but! love for me. In those days grief and remorse half crazed me.| 1 would not plead a any ny extenuat-

“Gregory, who had been out {my brother, and because of that of the city the night I fought, |1 hated all he stood for, |Feturned next day. I'd quarreled | “He trended toward the good with “Mother, "and left her weepso 1 trended toward the bad. I/ing. A party was being held at a {hung ~ about the gymnasiums, cheap hotel. She didn’t want me Eventually .I_put on the gloves to go, but I went. You see, I was with some of them, and, because the guest of honor, “It was quite a party. Grogan I could hold my own, Next, I dis- took over the whole fourth floor ‘covered in myself a dangerous of the hotel. The sports writers lability. If I hit a man on the were there, drinking themselves lehin with my full poweF, I could glassy-eyed, and thé place was knock him out. I had &n odd filled with hangers-on—gambiers, | style, a. way of twisting my arm trainers, handlers, "and - pugs. {as I threw my blow, which was And into the midst of all that | idifficult to guard against, They walked Gregory. called it my ‘corkscrew punch.’ I| “I don't remember clearly. A grew very proud of this thing which I could do. ~ a » “NOW I must tell you of the

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