The Love Legend (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... from Lakeshore swarmed in and took possession. Ward and Sari had only a moment for talk. "Darling, you must come and see me in a couple of days. I've got the sweetest place And loads to tell you." "I'm crazy to. Sari, when can I come?" "Don't bring mother, and you must promise not to give me away unless I let you, if I show you, but I am simply crazy to have a good long talk with you." "I'll come any time, Sari, I can hardly wait." "I'll call you up." VII Ward and her mother went sadly back to Lakeshore. All the way on the train Mrs. Harris talked of how strange the house would seem without so many girls. And over and over in Ward's thoughts ran the hopeful wish that she would find a message from Rod at home, a letter, a telegram, a telephone call. But there was none. She walked through the empty rooms from which youth seemed to have fled. She was not going back to college that fall. She would sit at home waiting, waiting, while her mother in a hundred little ways would remind her of the love legend, unconscious that the hero of it had already come and gone. SARI CHAPTER I I The quarters in which Sari had elected to set up her establishment consisted of the only "room with a bath" in a small rooming house. A muddy mustard colored building, hung on the outlying fringe of the business district which surrounded the loop, and particularly dingy in appearance, even for Clark street, it was necessarily called the Grand Central Hotel. In order to penetrate to her apartment, Sari ascended three steps directly from the sidewalk, unlocked a door that stood at the right of the entrance to the office, went up a flight of stairs and turned to the right, where she could discover the knob of her door by feeling around in a very dark hallway. Here, green and gold heavily bomba...