Children of the Whirlwind

upon Barney and Old Jimmie, Larry stood

had thought of her only casually, as merely a young girl; he was not now consciously in love with her-her young woman-hood had burst upon him too suddenly for such a consciousness-but a warm tingling went thr

your looks from your father. You m

ever saw her," sh

what to say. For a long time she had dreamed of this man as her hero; she had dreamed

d to anoth

o string along with yo

hav

ou do it

ou preac

r business for a woman who can do something else-and you can do something else. I've known a lot of women in the crooked

n her ex-hero. In her tremendous pride and confidence of ei

fakes; they're playing a different kind of a smooth game, that's all. Everybody is out to get his, and

t seemed puzzlingly strange just now to hear s

not have used better methods, or got better results, if he had set out consciously to make you a crook." Then a sud

oes that make?" sh

child," Larry returned. "But whether Jimmie i

elt that she hated him; she quivered with a desire to hurt him: he had so ut

flamed at him. "A lot of men say they're going str

hink I

to do any regular work. And, besides

n his two great problems, and Larry knew

m going to make g

, you'r

l eyes; and perhaps by the changed feeling toward this creature whom he had left a half-grown girl and

ke a success of it! You'll see!" And then he added dominan

m going to be just what I said, and I'm going to make a success of it. Just wait-I'll prove to you

stood so. Then something-a mixture of his desire to dominate this defiant young thing and of that growi

ld for a moment. She went pale, and quivering all through she looked up at him in startled, wide

free from his relaxing arm

that for?" she

he stairway. Three steps up she turned again and gazed down upon

lung at him. "I'm going to succeed-you'r

ss, a drab figure merged into a drab background, had regarded them fixedly during all this scene. And Larr

floor, his mind and will now more in control. Yes, he was going to go straight; he was going to make good, and make good in a big way! And he was going to make Maggie g

her consciousness was wondering about that kiss, and part kept fier

re both very certain of themselves and