Here and Hereafter

with grim half-chaffing injunctions to young Lake to take care of himself. Lake, a little s

elyn, whom he did not

ing able to take care of herself. But she also carried the impression that this air was superficial, and underneath

t know me,

was charmed to have the privil

, and she's pretty 'cute. Don't smile too much. Offer me a cigarette or order some coffee for me, as if it were an ordinary thing th

at reason he said, as he lighted her cigarette, "It is so nice of you to do this-to take pity on my lonelines

bacco he gave you is ordinary tobacco. He wants to make you say afterwards that you got a lot of funny sensations out of it, an

me. Well, I have only to tell him that I got no sensat

n, "but you can get bac

ow

visions. Then when he's finished with his laugh, give him his t

tobacco was placed, put it in one of the hotel envelopes and se

you don't even know it, but I'm Irene Jocelyn. I've put confidence in you. See,

to save me from making myself ridiculous? It's very

lushed slightly. "F

at a pity I have wasted my time by not meet

f I don't go back to my Aunt Esmeralda right now, there's going

d-night," he said. "But I hop

hat when he's about

. Her bright smile came off very easil

unted him, and always as it had been when she did not know that he could see her-always with that tired and hunted look. What had been her story? What was inside her