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She can go on the stage." "Good Lord! What makes you think she can act?" "Do you remember that Miss Donald who stopped at Myrtle Lodge last summer? She's an actress." "No!" Mr. Knight was amazed. "She told me a good deal about the show business. She said Lorelei wouldn't have the least bit of trouble getting a position. She gave me a note to a manager, too, and I sent him Lorelei's photograph.
Thompson-Bellaire was equally observant and at length made her disapproval patent by a remark that set the table laughing and drove the blood from Lorelei's face. As if further to vent her resentment at Bob, the widow turned spitefully upon his wife. Seeing Lorelei wince, Hayman murmured consolingly: "Oh! Don't mind the old heifer. She's jealous of any man Alice speaks to." But Mrs.
Melcher was as good as his word, and there shortly appeared in The Despatch an unpleasant rehash of the former story. It was published in connection with the Hammon divorce proceedings, news of which was exciting comment, and it further smirched Lorelei's reputation. Wharton ignored it utterly, but Merkle was prompt in his indignation and sympathy.
"But I am not the one to give it at least not the kind of help you need." "I'll need help more than ever after to-night." "Yes? Why?" "Because I'm going to leave home." Lorelei's head was up, and she spoke with a note of defiance. "Then perhaps I CAN do something." He seated himself again. "You will need money." "Oh no. I have my salary and the other revenues you know about.
If our friend Miss Lynn had set out to ruin Jarvis socially and perhaps financially she couldn't have played her cards better." "Is that what you came to tell me?" Merkle hesitated. "No," he admitted, "it isn't; but I'm a bit embarrassed now that I'm here. I suppose your mother told about seeing me?" "My mother?" Lorelei's amazement was convincing, and his keen eyes softened.
These topics were treated frankly, moreover, and with a wise cynicism which, in Lorelei's case, had proven protective. Gratuitous advice, however, was seldom welcomed, and a policy of "Hands off" prevailed. Miss Lynn's visitor was a well-tailored man who gave a first impression of extreme physical neatness.
Sometimes it seems to me that I can soar heavenward on the wings of of melody and get close enough to make myself heard. In my own way I was sort of praying for those two children. Foolish, isn't it? I'm sorry I told you. It sounds nutty to me when I stop to consider it." Pope stirred uneasily under Adoree's gravely speculative eyes. "Lorelei's all right?" Adoree nodded. "It's a boy."
"Bob needn't know anything about it; I'm sure that will be pleasanter all around. I'll go alone." Lorelei's forced smile bared her even, white teeth. "Of course, if it's too much trouble I can walk " "No trouble at all." Mrs. Fennell showed some relief. "I think you're acting very rudely but I dare say it WOULD save a lot of unpleasantness; Bertie's furious he and Bob might fight.
Lorelei's smile was bitter. "Jim was never sorry for anybody except himself. My family hate you just as your family hate me, and they'd like to separate us." "Say, that's pretty rotten!" Bob exclaimed. "If he weren't your brother I'd " Lorelei laughed mirthlessly. "Go ahead! I wish you would. It might clear the atmosphere." "Then I will."
A half-hour passed, then another; at last she sent a maid in quest of him, but the report she received was not reassuring; Bob was scarcely in a condition to come to his room. Lorelei's lips were white as she dismissed the servant. By and by the music ceased. She heard people passing in the hall, and distinguished Betty Fennell's voice bidding good night to some one. Still she waited.
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