Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 41, Number 85, 25 February 1916 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, FEB. 25, 1916.

THE STORY' OF "ZOE"

'He demands $15,000 for the picture."

"Yes, yes, Noel!" she panted. "I am Roing to be sensible! Of course I am!" She mado a valiant little effort to appear calm and to behave conventionally. Her breath came quickly, her eyes shone with that dangerous light of suppressed hysteria; her cheeks were pallid and flushed by quick turns. Her mood alarmed the man. In the presence of strangers she was braced to great endeavor, she was wonderful: but alone with him the necessity of playing a part removed, she became a creature of inconsequent emotion, dani gcrous In the extreme. I "Oh, yes, I am going to be brave! I

promised, didn't I? And oh, Noel, I have kept my promise so far; you must admit that. He does not know, he doesn't guess!" "And he never must! You understand?" "Yes, yes, I understand. I have promised. But, oh, don't speak so cruelly to me, Noel! I 1 can't bear it I can't! I am doing my,' best!" She gulped down a great sob and brushed her gloved hand across her glistening eves. "Good heavens," she moaned, "if I wero only dead!" "Zoe!" The man's masterful tones, stern and compelling, made her start. "Call me that again," she faltered. "Say 'Zoe again Noel. 1 am Zoe. I am nothing else. Zoe always Zoe to you." The mournful and pathetic cadence of her lovely voice strangely affected the man. It was just like a chidden

child, a wounded dog. She turned to him trustingly, appealingly. He would have been a worse brute than he was had he not granted her some crumbs of response. "I can't tell you how sorry I am!" he muttered huskily. "If I were to spend every hour of my life from this moment endeavoring to right1 the wrong I have done, every Lour of a dozen lives, I could never succeed. Hut we must not talk like this. There are serious things at stake. Do you

know that "Circe" is being exhibited at the Leveridge Gallery?" She nodded. She did not speak. She

was trying hard to keep back the tears I

"And do you know what thai

! means?"

Again she nodded dumbly; then sudjdenly looked up into his stern, set face

and burst out passionately: "Don't you know that I do? Won't you give me any credit? Have you forgotten what I have done this afternoon? If it hadn't been for me he

would have gone there; and then"

"So it is all right then?" She feigned the delight and relief which she judged to be what he expected of her. "All right?" He laughed. "I only wish it were. He asks fifteen thousand and won't take a penny less." "Fifteen thousand!" she gasped incredulously. "But he only gave you :i thousand!" How to Raise the Exhorbitant Sum. "That's his price. And what is more" he added grimly, "It's got to.be paid!

How?-the Lord knows! 1 don't. Fii-

"Yes, I know; but the danger still j teen thousand! You know my finances,

remains. Do you know what 1 have or oueht to. You know I live as a rule

plies grimly. "Ye gods! To think that a picture of mine should be worth fifteen thousand!" " "But it 'isn't,"-she answered scornfully, ."and you know it! That wretched Leveridge man has evidently- set

himself on making, a monstrous bargain.. He must have seen by your manner that it was a matter of importance"- ':' : . ; ' " "A matter of life and death," he interrupted solemnly. "I wish, I could sufficiently impress upon you, , Zoe, what this thing means to me. Brooke your husband Is my oldest and

dearest . friend.' I regard him as one of the best men God has ever put the breath of life into. To him I owe more than the ordinary allegiance'of man to man and friend to friend. "To him in. a. very large '.measure

and probably in a larger measure than any one knows, I owe my present position. He is a big man, a wealthy man.

and a very powerful man. He has for

some years past never ceased to use

his Influence in my behalf. It-is no exaggeration on my part to say that if

it were not for dear old Godfrey Brooke I should, in all human probability, be pigging it in Paris, or teaching impossible amateurs to paint sand and surf at Pen&ance."As it is well, 1 am what I am. And you know, for you have shared much of ray life of late. I am not content. 1 have ideals and ambitions. .You have in a great measure helped forward the realization of my ideals and ambitions and"- - ' - "Oh; spare . ; me, ' Noel ! I " know I know. You - have often talked in just the same way. I quite understand; I completely appreciate all that you say. There is no doubt about it that you

are a very great man, and I am willing ;

to accept your explanation of the cause though, personally, ! choose to believe that you are one of those men who require no adventitious aids to recognition. : "You magnify in your gratitude the part Godfrey had in making your career. Let me assure you, Noel, Godfrey never yet made a- worthless -- man. Worthless men may have used Godfrey as a means to an end,' but you have never used Godfrey. Isn't that true?" " A Keen Observer ..- of Human Nature. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Brooke's statement was absolutely true. She was, besides many other things, a very keen observer of human life and motive; beside which, apart from Noel Crawley, she was something of a philosopher. "I can't help thinking," she went on, and Crawley was intensely .relieved

to see that she was shaking off that dangerous phase of hysteria "that you are making far too much fuss over Godfrey. Suppose only suppose, for the sake of argument that he knew everything?" "I dare not suppose anything so awful!" said the man in a hoarse voice. ' " "But why not? He could not blame you. You could not have been supposed to know who I was. . All the blame would be mine, and I assure you, Noel, I am . not. only willing, but anxious to take the blame. I tell you whatever you say to the contrary, I cannot go on like this. I cannot live with him. i do not love him. Somehow oh, I don't know what has come over me but 1

seem ' to hate him ! It's because he

seems to have come between you and

me. "No no; that's not true!" protest ed Crawley. - "Then whatever, is . true or false

she continued in that very quiet and

intensely solemn voice of hers. "I cannot go on letting a man believe that I love hlra when I do not. Oh. Noel, think of me as you will, but I am not a bad woman! I am a very, very unhappy woman! I cannot help it. I am I. I did not make, myself. "I cannot help it that I have ceased

ro iove my nusDand, or perhaps it would be truer to say that I never did loye him. Neither is it my fault to say that while I was his wife I learned to know what love Is. I met you and you taught me you, Noel. Oh. Heaven, I love you! You are mine mine! And I am yours, body and soul and all!" The cab drew up outside 40a Grosvenor road. Crawley sprang out on to the pavement devoutly glad of any opportuinty of closing the conversation, which was verging on such a dan-: gerous phase. i

The woman stifled a sob that rose in her throat and. choked . her, and brushed her hand across her glistening eyes; then took his proffered hand and stepped out of the cab on the pavement. "Pull yourself together!" whispered Crawley in her ear. "Cant you see that, if you behave like this you will make everyone wonder?'.' She did not ansWer. She could not. She turned and walked slowly up tho 6teps, leaving Crawley to settle witn the chauffeur. He followed her a few moments afterward and they went up in the lift together. He opened the door of his flat. "Go into the studio," he said. "I will join you in a few moments. 1 want to

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speak -to Hutton." He glanced at his watch. "It's just, half-past four! What time are you meeting Godfrey?" "I don't . know," she answered weai-

ily. "Six fifty, I think yes. six fifty at Waterloo. The train starts then." , To Be Continued. ; i

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done.

She shook her head wearily. "After I left this morning," he said, "I went back to the studio and made a holocaust of every sketch, study or picture of you." "Noel!" "Yes. At the present moment there is nothing but the thing you have which I hope you have burnt and Leveiidge's 'Circle.' " "And what are you going to do about that?" "I saw Leveridge just before I met you." "And what have you arranged?" "I offered him two thousand lor the picture."

a little above, rather than below, my income, and a man has to be a very safe customer indeed to get credit for that. It's a monstrous sum! 'Pon ray soul. I don't see how it's to be done. ' The woman shook her head. "It is preposterous," he said. "Nevertheless, it must be paid." "When?", "By nine tomorrow. He ha s consented to shut up the gallery till then on my guaranteeing to indemnify him against his loss." "Oh, but Noel fifteen thousand pounds! You must be mad to think of it! HOw can ycu get the money? Why, it is a fortune!" "A fortune to me at any rate," he're-

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