Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 7, 1925 — page 62: what you’re looking at

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© Nell, dear!” » Josephine put i in, eae ig- = noring Samuel? s existence. ae Your imporane friend out there with . the whiskers and the thick eyeglasses says he promised. Professor Landburg that you'd. give him a ten-minute interview this morn- ing: before: he sailed. for ‘Europe—and_ time is moving on.” — “All right: J 1 be there immediately. : You tell. them, dear,” Mrs. Harkton dim- pled. “ So, Sam, Til try to get home to- night, but 1 can’t promise a thing—really._ lf I don’t. turn up, don’t worry. I'll phone- if I have a chance, but I may not have a. chance, and—goodby! 2 ‘She turned. But that Samuel gripped : her, she would have sped away. “Well, wait! ” he choked. —who’s your important. friend and—? “Qh, why, Dr. Stemweld, of course— = ves, the. Dr, Stemweld, Sam. He insisted ~- Ss 0 driving over this way and stopping for — aS me this- morning; that’s why. I didn’t go | down on the train, you know. SO Professor Landbura before he sails, and —oh, Sam, I wish you wouldn’t muss me _ like that, and d wish a wouldn't A me.’ for the door. Samuel gulped down an astonishing as- sortment of emotions. “ Well—hey! ~~ home?” he shouted. “ve just told you, 1 don’t eee and —oh, what does it matter now?” Dr. Hark- ton cried: impatiently = gayly , almost, as she opened the door. _ And with these brutal svotds the heart- Jess woman rushed. from her home; and, SA LS Ge On SrA A ore i SG ea Ss ae AL outside there was the chugging of a motor z and the faint rasping of gears. Samuel tot- : tered. after her, and somehow finally. came to the steps. Just curving out of the drive, turning now into the street and speeding : away, Was a fine, big closed car. ~He mumbled savagely in the general di- rection of its receding rear. He gazed quite | stupidly after it—and presently he gazed at that dusty empty spot, fara away, where it had- turned another corner. = = Faintly, weakly, he ‘groaned. In more © Who's this ‘She ee herself Fe a ard. : When are you coming _ARGOSY “ALLSTORY w EEKLY. senses than one, she who had so recently: | been the wife of his bosom was sumply, gone! _ CHAPTER VIL. DR, HARKTON’S HUSBAND, Without due cause or proper advance | Jovi took singing lessons. notification, she had a maddening way of bursting into scales. They were not par-— ticularly good scales, and if one happened- to be nervous their. effect was much like that of sandpaper on a fresh burn. Just now, being glad of heart over the matter of her sister, Josephine began with her highest C and trilled more or less glorious- 3 sly downward—and the queer thing is that, ___as he stared at her blackly, = Harkton did not even. hear. =< —— Joseph une, noting ¢ this blackriess, cenak gazed inquiry, and then smiled “beamingly ‘upon her brother-in-law. “We're to — “Well, this is a heluva note, isn’t it?” Samuel demanded, _ Josephine shrank. “Oh, you're. coarse!” she said. eke ' Coarse be—hanged!” Mr. responded hotly. “ Who wouldn’t be coarse, with a wife gone crazy like this and aban- doning her—” “You, of all people, ought to be sim- ply bursting ‘with. pride. -over Nell! You ought to get. down on your knees and thank your lucky stars for having married the most wonderful woman of the whole age,” said Josephine, and turned disgustedly “And instead of that, ee you Te—You re toward the stairs. yowre in a temper! ridiculous! ” ESS: “T am, eh? Well, Sac is . that makes me -S0- ‘adiculous ail of a sudden?” Samuel demanded more hotly as he shuffled after her. “Is a man ridiculous: because he does” not throw up his hat about his wife’s leaving -her home and her children? I wasn’t ridiculous yesterday or last week 6 «Well, you : are soni ” his sister-in-law advised him as she ascended.. ‘Then, just as she -reached ‘the top of the. ae just as Samuel was on the very Harkton:: (E(0) m icbooks.cor