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It had, been, three days since Lin
da ran away from Vienna. For two
days she remained a prisoner in hei’
room. iShe did not have the courage
•to go out and buy clothes, She sat by
the window and watched the lazy
traffic in the street below her win
dow. In those long, hours alone
Linda did a lot of thinking. Every
morning there were wires from her
mother. And then this morning hex*
mother had telephoned her. It had
been a Ibitter conversation. Mrs.
Laird had been merciless in her con*
demnation.
“Are you getting a divorce, or
aren’t you?” Mrs. Laird had de
manded. “Keith came to see me
last night.”
•‘I am!” Linda retorted. She had
forgotten about Bertagnon and the
divorce. Hen voice was bitter.
“Well I hope Keith, lets you get
it! After this I don’t know what
he’ll do!” Mrs. Laird was crying.
“Linda, I can’t think what has hap
pened to you. You never caused me
any worry before. It is just ter
rible!”
Linda wanted to say. a lot of things
Instead she told her mother not to
worry and said good-bye.
Then she began her restless pac
ing up and down her small room. On
the third day Wolfe telephoned that
Odette had come.
“I’m going to- check her in at the
Hotel George V for a little while.
,She will bring a suitcase of your
clothes oven to you. I think you
had better keep a room there for
her for a little while,” Wolfe advis
ed. ‘There is a gang in the office
here from the news services, Ibut we
insist you have gone to London.”
Linda felt like a criminal. Worst
of all, she knew Miklos would come
eventually. That he woud find her.
Odette Arrives
It was late that night when Odette
came. Linda was so glad to see her
that she cried, and so did Odette.
“Oh, Mrs. Winthrop, it was ter
rible! I was terrified!” the igarl
gasped out as the porter brought up
one of Linda’s 'bags.
“That morning when. Prin'ce Mik
los got back to the castle I thought
he was going to beat me. He kept
insisting I knew you were going to
run away. But the police were there
and finally he let me leave. If they
•hadn’t been there—”
Odette shrugged. Odette had
brought Linda a tweed suit and top
coat.
“What did the Prince say—about
me?”
“He said he was coming here and
take you back.”
“Never!”
“But he will make you go,” Odette
protested, “Please sail, Miss Linda.”
“No, I can.’t now. But Odette,
everything is changed; I’ll never go
back to him.”
Odette shuddered. “Every time 1
think of those awful people, those
gambling rooms, that awful kitchen
I am scared to death! From what
Maria said I think they were all
leaving right away.”
“Prolbialbly! But that is all ancient
history now!” And Linda believed
what she said.
Later that night, Linda went out
for a walk alone. In her simple
tweeds, in the misty fall night, she
looked like other Parisian girls of
the Left Bank o-ut for a stroll and
the air and exercise made a new per
son of her.
Next morning Linda went apart
ment hunting. She went over in the
district where Karl had taken her
and finally found suitable rooms.
Odette had gone home for the night.
But the next morning Odette and
Linda moved into the new quarters.
Little by little Odette brought Lin
da’s clothes to the apartment on the
Rue des Ecoles.
Facing the Future
Then Linda's courage failed her.
She wandered about aimlessly for
days. She could not seem to settle
herself to any course. Through those
hours Linda knew that sooner or
later there was one thing she must
do. iShe must go to the apartment
on- the Rue Valette. She must see
M'. Roget. It was her salvation.
Odette, watching her, tried to help.
But this was Linda’s fight.
“Have I the courage to go thro’
with it?” She walked blisters on her
heels, holes in her fine silk hose.
She Visits Roget Again
Then one wet, co'ld November
night, Linda went to see Roget. The
old man was sitting by the fire, just
as he had been that night Karl went
with her to see him When Linda
was ushered1 into the big Studio, he
did not rise from his chair. He
looked up at her, a faint smile on •
his lips.
“iSo?"
“I haVe come back’” Linda’s voice
tremibled.
“I seb!”
Roget motioned her to a chair,
“And now, what this time?”
“I Want to study With you!”
“Yo>u> said that before.”
Linda’s hand- clenched on her
was fraptie when you left. Ever
since you ran away I’ve hunted for
you. I had the police, Bertagnon,
everybody searching. How could you
do that to me?”
Tells Miklos She’s Through
Linda gat bolt upright, lien hands
clasped in front of her. She hardly
heard what Miklos said. But at last
she gathered up her courage.
“Miklos, this is what I want to
tell you, I don’t want the kind of
life you lead. I want my kind of
life, It’s all over, Miklos. There is
ro use to try and persuade me!"
“You’re cruel!” Miklos was plead
ing again. “How can you drop me
as though I never meant anything
to you?”
“You1 never did, Miklos, really! I
was just foolish. I’m sorry’ Jf I
could wipe out the last months of
my life I’d be a lot happier. I want
to forget they ever existed. I’m not
a play-girl, Miklos.’
He tried raging. He tried tears.
Linda gat unmoved, although hen
lips were white and her hands,
clenched before her, showed white
streaks where her fingers bit into
her knuckles.
Miklos’ rage frightened her, but
Linda did not move. He was so
furious his face was a gray-white.
Once he leaped -up as though he
would strike her.
“You can kill me, Miklos, but I’ll
never come back to you!” Her eyes
did not waver when they met his.
‘You’re just like all American
women—spoiled fools! You want
only your own wishes!” Miklos
backed away from her, controlling
himself with an effort.. For he was
desperate.
Odette came into the room once
when Miklos shrieked in rage.
Linda motioned her to go and leave
them.
But in the end Miklos was de
feated. At least, for the time being.
Even then he could not believe she
meant what she said, He was sure
he co-u’d win her ‘ba'ck. He’d be
devotion itself. He’d send her
knees. She shivered in the cold of
the room. “You’ve gat to help me!’
Roget shrugged his shoulders. ‘In
this world, one must help one’s gelt.
I cannot help you. Nobody can help
you!”
“Nobody pan help me!” Linda
echoed the words. Her blonde hair
was in curly wisps about her damp
cheeks. Drops of rain shone in the
firelight on her topcoat, Roget not
ed the new lines in her face, the
shadow in her eyes.
“You see, I am a serious worker,’
Roget began after a while.
“I’ll work! This time I’ll show
you! Let me try!”
Roget was silent for a time. Then
Linda began to tell him something
of all that had passed since she had
spent that one momentous evening
with him. “I’ve been through a
lot. I’ve grown up. Before that 1
was just a fool!” Linda stopped be
cause her voice failed her. “I’m bo
unhappy! ”
“Everybody in the world is un
happy!” Roget’s voice held scorn.
“Why should you have what the
rest of the world has not?"
“We all want it—” Linda was
pleading with him now. If he felt
sorry for the girl, he gave no sign.
“The trouble with you is you
know nothing of life!”
“I have learned, M. Roget, Be
lieve me! This last year I have lost
everything in the world I care about
—everything!”
“The young man, too?”
“He is .gone!”
“He’ll come back and you’ll run
off again. No, no, I can’t bother.
What was yioui’ name? Laird? No, 1
can’t. I don’t like to teach. I teach
only those who give their lives for
their music.”
“That is what I am offering!”
They talked for a long time. Then
Roget said suddenly: Play for me.”
Linda shook her head. “I haven’t
touched a piano, in weeks.”
“Get some of that music on the
piano. Take it with you. Come
back in a week. Then I will give
my answer. A ,week, mind you!”
News of Karl
Then Roget seemed to. relent a
little, ordered some sherry for, Lin
da and it brought the color back
into her cheeks. Later the old man
spoke of Karl.
“He is in Italy. He is coming
ba'ck shortly.”
“I am so glad!”
Roget shook his head. “I don’t
know, I think he should stay away.”
“Why?” Linda’s eyes opened in
surprise. But Roget did not ans
wer.
“You have asked nothing about
how much I charge.”
“It does not matter. I shall get
the money!”
Linda’s cheeks flushed. Then Ro
get did not know who she was. He
was taking her for the talent he be
lieved to .be in her slim, strong fin
gers. Joy leaped in Linda’s heart.
She lifted her head suddenly. She
felt she could conquer the world. “1
thank you,” she whispered, “from
the bottom of my heart!”
Then she ran out of the studio so
he could not see she was crying.
From that day forth Linda’s life
suddenly seemed to take on mean
ing, and Odette smiled happily now.
Every morning Linda was up at 7
and at the piano she had ordered
into, her apartment. She worked two
hours before breakfast. And Odette,
making the morning chocolate in
the kitchen., liked to listen.
After a week she went again to
see Roget. When the hour was
over, she played on for him, neither
of them noting the time. To them
time meant nothing.
And for the first time in her life,
Linda found contentment, the satis
faction hhrd work brings.
CHAPTER XXIX
The second week, when Linda,
came ba'ck from, her lesson at M.
Roget’s, Odette met her at the door.
There was alarm in her eyes. Be
fore Odette could speak, Linda
heard Miklos’ voice.
“Well, little runaway.”
In the apartment Miklos stood, his
arms out. He came forward and
tried to take Linda into them. Never
had he looked so handsome. He
grabbed her hands, kissed them im
pulsively, each fingertip, although
Linda tried to. draw away from him.
“Please, Miklos!”
“Darling, I’ve come for you. I
saw Bertagnon today. The divorce
will be over by the first of the year,
We can be married imiriedlately.”
Evidently he had decided the pro*
per tactics were t0' sweep her off her
feet. In the hour he had waited
for her, over Odette’s protests, he
had taken in the Simple apartment
the piles of music. He felt he knew
which way the wind blew. This sud
den passioii for miisl'c was all a
whim!
Finally, Linda broke away from
him. “Sit down over there, Miklos,
I want to talk to you.”
“How can I sit over here? I’ve
been so hungry for you, my darling! ,
Miklos* voice (broke effectively. “I
flowers every day. Haunt her!
She’d give in at last. Finally he
arose, with a gesture of despair.
“I'll kill myself.”
Mike’s Plan Fails
Linda’s wide brown eyes met his
squarely. The scorn in them should
have told him the truth, but he
was too sure of himself.
When he left he bowed over her
hand, held it and kissed it.
“This is not good-by, Linda, i’ll
win you back!” Then he made a
dramatic exit.
Alone- at last, Linda half hys
terical, wept and then went into
wild laughter, until Odette was
frantic.
“No, No! I’ll be all right, Odette
But it was so awful! What can
he do! He can't have me. kid
napped! iSurely there is nothing he
can do!”
“Oh, no, madame!’" But there
was fear in Odette’s voice.
And Mik'Jos began his campaign
to win Linda back. Every after
noon when she was ready to giO' out
for a walk and get away from her
piano for a little while, Miklos was
waiting for her. Every morning
there were flowers with her break
fast tray when Odette brought it.
That first afternoon when Miklos
was waiting, Linda tried being
pleasant Ibut firm. -She was des
perately tired. The concerto on
whi'ch she was working had gone
badly, for she had not slept the
night after Miklos? visit. She
wanted to. .rush into the misty rain
and walk) and walk until she was
physically so tired her brain would
not keep on whirling about like a
dervish.
But Miklos stepped out of his car
as she came down the steps.
“Drive with me, Linda. I beg of
you! ”
“'Sorry, Miklos, but I’m walking.”
The big car took up fu-lly half of
the narrow street Linda looked
nervously about. The children
across the way were staring. Miklos
begged. But with Linda it was a
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