“Snow!” exclaimed Gail in delight, turning up her face to the delicate flakes1. “And the sun shining. That means snow to-morrow!”
Allison helped her into his big, piratical looking runabout, and tucked her in as if she were some fragile hot-house plant which might freeze with the first cool draught2. He looked, with keen appreciation3, at her fresh cheeks and sparkling eyes and softly waving hair. He had never given himself much time for women, but this girl was a distinct individual. It was not her undeniable beauty which he found so attractive. He had met many beautiful women. Nor was it charm of manner, nor the thing called personal magnetism4, nor the intelligence which gleamed from her eyes. It was something intangible and baffling which had chained his interest from the moment she had appeared in the vestry doorway5, and since he was a man who had never admitted the existence of mysteries, his own perplexity puzzled him.
“The pretty white snow is no friend of mine,” he assured her, as he took the wheel and headed towards the Avenue. He looked calculatingly into the sky. “This particular downfall is likely to cost the Municipal Transportation Company several thousand dollars.”
“I’m curious to know the commercial value of a sunset 10in New York,” Gail smiled up at him. Her eyes closed for a swift instant, her long, brown lashes6 curving down on her cheeks, but beneath them was an infinitesimal gleam; and Allison had the impression that under the cover of her exquisitely7 veined lids she was looking at him corner-wise, and having a great deal of fun all by herself.
“We haven’t capitalised sunsets yet, but we have hopes,” he laughed.
“Then there’s still a commercial opportunity,” she lightly returned. “I feel quite friendly to money, but it’s so intimate here. I’ve heard nothing else since I came, on Monday.”
“Even in church,” he chuckled9. “You delivered a reckless shock to the Reverend Smith Boyd’s vestry.”
“Well?” she demanded. “Didn’t he ask my opinion?”
“I don’t think he’ll make the mistake again,” and Allison took the corner into the Avenue at a speed which made Gail, unused to bare inches of leeway, class Allison as a demon10 driver. The tall traffic policeman around whose upraised arm they had circled smiled a frank tribute to her beauty, and she felt relieved. She had cherished some feeling that they should be arrested.
“However, even a church must discuss money,” went on Allison, as if he had just decided11 a problem to which he had given weighty thought.
“Fifty millions isn’t mere12 money,” retorted Gail; “it’s criminal wealth. If no man can make a million dollars honestly, how can a church?”
Allison swerved13 out into the centre of the Avenue and passed a red limousine14 before he answered. He had noticed that everybody in the street stared into his car, 11and it flattered him immensely to have so pretty a girl with him.
“The wealth of Market Square Church is natural and normal,” he explained. “It arises partly from the increase in value of property which was donated when practically worthless. Judicious15 investment is responsible for the balance.”
“Oh, bother!” and Gail glanced at him impatiently. “Your natural impulse is to defend wealth because it is wealth; but you know that Market Square Church never should have had a surplus to invest. The money should have been spent in charity. Why are they saving it?”
Allison began to feel the same respect for Gail’s mental processes which he would for a man’s, though, when he looked at her with this thought in mind, she was so thoroughly16 feminine that she puzzled him more than ever.
“Market Square Church has an ambition worthy17 of its vestry,” he informed her, bringing his runabout to rest, with a swift glide18, just an accurate three inches behind the taxi in front of them. “When it has fifty million dollars, it proposes to start building the most magnificent cathedral on American soil.”
Gail watched the up-town traffic piling around them, wedging them in, packing them tightly on all sides, and felt that they must be hours in extricating19 themselves from this tangle20 of shining-bodied vehicles. The skies had turned grey by now, and the snow was thicker in the air. The flakes drove, with a cool, refreshing21 snap, into her face.
“Why?” she pondered. “Will a fifty million dollar cathedral save souls in proportion to the amount of money invested?”
“You must ask the Reverend Smith Boyd,” he chuckled. “You talk like a heathen!”
“I am,” she calmly avowed23. “I’ve been a heathen ever since a certain respectable old religious body dropped the theory of infant damnation from its creed24. Its body of elders decided to save the souls of unbaptised babies from everlasting25 hell-fire; and the anti-damnation wing won by three grey-whiskered votes.”
Proper ladies in the nearby cars stared with haughty26 disapproval27 at Allison, whose degree of appreciation necessitated28 a howl. Gail, however, did not join in the mirth. That telltale red spot had appeared in the delicate pink of her checks. She was still angry with the man-made creed which had taught a belief so horrible. The traffic blockade was lifted, and Allison’s clutch slammed. The whole mass of vehicles moved forwards, and in two blocks up the Avenue they had scattered29 like chaff30. Allison darted31 into an opening between two cars, his runabout skidded32, and missed a little electric by a hair’s breadth. He had no personal interest in religion, but he had in Gail.
“So you turned infidel.”
“Oh no,” returned Gail gravely, and with a new tone. “I pray every morning and every night, and God hears me.” The note of reverence33 in her voice was a thing to which Allison gave instant respect. “I have no quarrel with religion, only with theology. I attend church because its spiritual influence has survived in spite of outgrown34 rites35. I take part in the services, though I will not repeat the creed. Why, Mr. Allison, I love the church, and the most notable man in the future history of the world will be the man who saves it from dead dogma.” Her eyes were glowing, the same 13eyes which had closed in satirical mischief36. Now they were rapt. “What a stunning37 collie!” she suddenly exclaimed.
Allison, who had followed her with admiring attention, his mind accompanying hers in eager leaps, laughed in relief. After all, she was a girl—and what a girl! The exhilaration of the drive, and of the snow beating in her face, and of the animated38 conversation, had set the clear skin of her face aglow39 with colour. Her deep red lips, exquisitely curved and half parted, displayed a row of dazzling white teeth, and the elbow which touched his was magnetic. Allison refused to believe that he was forty-five!
“You’re fond of collies,” he guessed, surprised to find himself with an eager interest in the likes and dislikes of a young girl. It was a new experience.
“I adore them!” she enthusiastically declared. “Back home, I have one of every marking but a pure white.”
There was something tender and wistful in the tone of that “back home.” No doubt she had hosts of friends and admirers there, possibly a favoured suitor. It was quite likely. A girl such as Gail Sargent could hardly escape it. If there was a favoured suitor Allison rather pitied him, for Gail was in the city of strong men. Busy with an entirely40 new and strange group of thoughts, Allison turned into the Park, and Gail uttered an exclamation41 of delight as the fresh, keen air whipped in her face. The snow was like a filmy white veil against the bare trees, and enough of it had clung, by now, to outline, with silver pointing, the lacework of branches. On the turf, still green from the open winter, it lay in thin white patches, and squirrels, clad in their sleek42 winter garments, were already scampering43 14to their beds, crossing the busy drive with the adroitness44 of accomplished45 metropolitan46 pedestrians47, their bushy tails hopping48 behind them in ungainly loops.
The pair in the runabout were silent, for the east drive at this hour was thronged49 with outward bound machines, and the roadway was slippery with the new-fallen snow. Steady of nerve, keen of eye, firm of hand! Gail watched the alert figure of Allison, tensely and yet easily motionless, in the seat beside her. The terrific swiftness of everything impressed her. Every car was going at top speed, and it seemed that she was in a constant maze50 of hair-breadth escapes. By and by, however, she found another and a greater marvel51; that in all this breathless driving, there was no recklessness. Capability52, that was the word for which she had been groping. No man could survive here, and rest his feet upon the under layer, unless he possessed53 superior ability, superior will, superior strength. She arrived at exactly the same phrase Allison had entertained five minutes before; “the city of strong men!” Again she turned to the man at her side for a critical inspection54, in this new light. His frame was powerful, and the square, high forehead, with the bulges55 of concentration above the brows, showed his mental equipment to be equally as rugged56. His profile was a crisply cut silhouette57 against the wintry grey; straight nose, full, firm lips, pointed58 chin, square jaw59. He was a fair example of all this force.
Perhaps feeling the steady gaze, Allison turned to her suddenly, and for a moment the grey eyes and the brown ones looked questioningly into each other, then there leaped from the man to the woman a something which held her gaze a full second longer than she would have wished.
15“Air’s great,” he said with a smile.
“Glorious!” she agreed. “I don’t want to go in.”
“That’s a simple enough solution,” and her laugh, in the snow-laden air, reminded him, in one of those queer flashes of memory, of a little string of sleighbells he had owned as a youngster. “However, I promised Cousin Lucile.”
“We’ll stop at the house long enough to tell her you’re busy,” suggested Allison, as eager as a boy. He had been on his way home to dress for a business banquet, but such affairs came often, and impulsive61 adventures like this could be about once in a lifetime with him. He had played the grubbing game so assiduously that, while he had advanced, as one of his lieutenants62 said, from a street car strap63 to his present mastership of traction64 facilities, he had missed a lot of things on the way. He was energetic to make up for the loss, however. He felt quite ready to pour a few gallons of gasolene into his runabout and go straight on to Boston, or any other place Gail might suggest; and there was an exhilaration in his voice which was contagious65.
“Let’s!” cried Gail, and, with a laugh which he had discarded with his first business promotion66, Allison threw out another notch67 of speed, and whirled from the Seventy-second Street entrance up the Avenue to the proper turning, and halfway68 down the block, where he made a swift but smooth stop, bringing the step with marvellous accuracy to within an inch of the curb69.
“Won’t you come in?” invited Gail.
“We’d stay too long,” grinned Allison, entering into the conspiracy70 with great fervour.
She flashed at him a smile and ran up the steps. She 16turned to him again as she waited for the bell to be answered, and nodded to him with frank comradery.
“Time me,” she called, and he jerked out his watch as she slipped in at the door.
Two vivacious71 looking young women, one tall and black-haired and the other petite and blonde, and both fashionably slender and both pretty, rushed out into the hall and surrounded her.
“We thought you’d never come,” rattled73 Lucile Teasdale, who was the petite blonde, and the daughter of the sister of the wife of Gail’s Uncle Jim.
“Who’s the man?” demanded Mrs. “Arly” Fosland, with breathless interest.
“Where’s my tea?” answered Gail.
“We saw you dash up,” supplemented Lucile. “We thought it was a fire.”
“Why doesn’t he come in?” this from Arly, in whom two years of polite married life had not destroyed an innocently eager curiosity to inspect eligibles74 at close range, for her friends.
“Who is he?” insisted Lucile, peeping out of the hall window.
“Edward E. Allison,” primly75 announced Gail, suppressing a giggle76. “I got him at Uncle Jim’s vestry meeting. He’s waiting to take me riding in the Park. Where’s my tea?”
“Edward E. Allison!” gasped77 “Arly” Fosland. “Why, he’s the richest bachelor in New York, even if he isn’t a social butterfly,” and she contemplated78 Gail in sisterly wonder and admiration79. “Good gracious, child, run!”
“Come for the tea to-morrow!” urged Lucile.
They were all three laughing, and the two young married women were pushing Gail forward. At the 17door Lucile and Arly separated from her, to peer out of the two side windows.
“He doesn’t look so old,” speculated Arly; and Lucile opened the door.
“Good-bye, dearie,” and Lucile kissed her cousin in plain sight of the curb, upon which there was nothing for that young lady to do but go.
For an instant, Edward E. Allison had a glimpse of her, in her garnet and turquoise80, flanked by a sprightly81 vision in blue and another sprightly vision in pink, and he thought he heard the suppressed sounds of tittering; then the door closed, and the lace curtains of the hall windows bulged82 outward, and Gail came tripping down the steps.
“Two minutes and forty-eight seconds,” called Allison, putting away his stop watch with one hand and helping83 her with the other. He tucked her in more quickly than at the church, but with equal care, then he jumped in beside her, and never had he cut so swift and sure a circle with his sixty horse-power runabout.
They raced up and into the Park, and around the winding84 driveways with the light-hearted exhilaration of children, and if there was in them at that moment any trace of mature thought, they were neither one aware of it. They were glad that they were just living, and moving swiftly in the open air, glad that it was snowing, glad that the light was beginning to fade, that there were other vehicles in the Park, that the world was such a bright and happy place; and they were quite pleased, too, to be together.
It was still light, though the electric lamps were beginning to flare85 up through the thin snow veil, when they rounded a rocky drive, and came in view of a little lookout86 house perched on a hill.
18“Oh!” called Gail, involuntarily putting her hand on his arm. “I want to go up there!”
The work of Edward E. Allison was well nigh perfection. He stopped the runabout exactly at the centre of the pathway, and was out and on Gail’s side of the car with the agility87 of a youngster after a robin’s egg. He helped her to alight, and would have helped her up the hill with great pleasure, but she was too nimble and too eager for that, and was in the lookout house several steps ahead of him.
“It’s glorious,” she said, and her low, melodious88 voice thrilled him again with that strange quality he had noticed when she had first spoken at the vestry meeting.
Below them lay a grey mist, dotted here and there with haloed lights, which receded89 in the distance into tiny yellow blurs90, while the nearer lamps were swathed in swirling91 snowflakes. Nearby were ghosts of trees projecting their tops from the misty92 lake, and out of what seemed a vast eerie93 depth came the clang of street cars, and the rumble94 of the distant elevated, and the honks95 of auto96 horns, and all the rattle72 and roar of the great city, muffled97 and subdued98.
“It’s like being out of the world.” He was astonished to find in himself the sudden growth of a poetic99 spirit, and his voice had in it the modulation100 which went with the sentiment.
“This was created,” mused101 Gail, as if answering an inner question. “Why should the clumsy minds of men destroy the simplicity102 of anything so vast, and good, and beautiful, as our instinctive103 belief in the Creator?”
Finding no answer in his experience to this unfathomable mystery, Edward E. Allison very wisely kept still and admired the scenery, which consisted of one girl framed tastefully in a miscellaneous assortment104 of snowflakes. 19When he tried to unravel105 the girl, he found her a still more fathomless106 mystery, and gave up the task in a hurry. After all, she was right there, and that was enough.
When she was quite finished with the view, she turned and went down the hill, and Edward Allison nearly sprained107 his spinal108 column in getting just ahead of her on the steepened narrow path. It was treacherous109 walking just there, with the freshly fallen snow on the shale110 stones. He was heartily111 glad that he had taken this precaution, for, near the bottom of the hill, one of her tiny French heels slid, and she might have fallen had it not been for the iron-like arm which he threw back to support her. For just an instant she was thrown fairly in his embrace, with his arm about her waist, and her weight upon his breast; and, in that instant, the fire which had been smouldering in him all afternoon burst into flame. With a mighty112 repression113 he resisted the impulse to crush her to him, and handed her to the equilibrium114 which she instinctively115 sought, though the arm trembled which had been pressed about her. His heart sang, as he helped her into the machine, and sprang in beside her. He felt a savage116 joy in his strength as he started the car and felt the wheel under his hard grip. He was young, younger than he had ever been in his boyhood; strong, stronger than he had ever been in his youth. What worlds he might conquer now with this new blood racing117 through his veins118. It was as if he had been suddenly thrust into the fires of eternal life, and endowed with all the vast, irresistible119 force of creation!
Gail, too, was disturbed. While she had laughed to cover the embarrassment120 of her mishap121, she had been quite collected enough to thank Allison for his ready 20aid; but she had felt the thrill of that tensed arm, and it had awakened122 in her mind an entirely new vein8 of puzzled conjecture123. They were both silent, and busy with that new world which opens up when any two congenial personalities124 meet, as they raced out of the Park, and over One Hundred and Tenth Street, and up Riverside Drive, and out Old Broadway. Occasionally they exchanged bits of spineless repartee125, and laughed at it, but this was only perfunctory, for they had left the boy and girl back yonder in the park.
Gravity with a man invariably leads him back to the consideration of his leading joy in life, business; and the first thing Allison knew he was indulging in quite a unique weakness, for him; he was bragging126! Not exactly flat-footed; but, with tolerably strong insinuation, he gave her to understand that the consolidation127 of the immense traction interests of New York was about as tremendous an undertaking128 as she could comprehend, and that, having attained129 so dizzy a summit, he felt entitled to turn himself to lighter130 things, to enjoy life and gaiety and frivolity131, to rest, as it were, upon his laurels132.
Gail was amused, as she always was when men of strong achievement dropped into this weakness to interest girls. She did appreciate and admire his no doubt tremendous accomplishment133; it was only his naïvete which amused her, and to save her she could not resist the wicked little impulse to nettle134 him. To his suggestion that he could now lead a merry life because he was entitled to rest upon his laurels, she had merely answered “Why?”
He dropped into a silence so dense135 that the thump136 was almost audible, and she was contrite137. She had pricked138 him deeper than she knew, however. She had 21not understood how gigantic the man’s ambitions had been, nor how vain he was of his really marvellous progress. After all, why should he pause, when he had such power in him? She did well to speak slightingly of any achievement made by a man of such proved ability. New ambitions sprang up in him. The next time he talked of business with her he would have something startling under way; something to compel her respect. The muscles of his jaws139 knotted. It was like being dared to climb higher in a swaying tree.
“That’s so,” regretfully agreed Allison, who, having no Aunties of his own, was prone141 to forget them. “We’ll stop up at this roadhouse, and you can telephone her,” and he turned in at the drive where rose petalled142 lights gleamed out from the latticed windows of a low-eaved building. Dozens of autos, parked amid the snow-sheeted shrubbery, glared at them with big yellow eyes, and, through the windows, were white cloths and sparkling glassware, and laughing groups about the tables, and hurrying waiters. There was music, too, slow, languorous143 music!
“Doesn’t it look inviting144!” exclaimed Allison, becoming instantly aware of the pangs145 of hunger.
“It’s an enchanting146 place!” agreed Gail enthusiastically.
Allison hesitated a moment.
“Tell your aunt we’re dining here,” he suggested.
She laughed aloud.
“Wouldn’t it be fun,” she speculated, and Allison led her in to the phone. She turned to him with a snap in her eyes at the door of the booth. “It depends on who answers.”
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