Chapter 24
REVEREND NICODEMUS RANKIN FORGETS AND REMEMBERS By appointment Kirby met Rose at Graham & Osborne's for luncheon. She was waiting in the tower room for him. "Where's Esther?" he asked. Rose mustered a faint smile. "She's eating lunch with a handsomer man." "You can't throw a stone up Sixteenth Street without hittin' one," he answered gayly. They followed the head waitress to a small table for two by a window. Rose walked with the buoyant rhythm of perfect health. Her friend noticed, as he had often done before, that she had the grace of movement which is a corollary to muscles under perfect response. Seated across the table from her, he marveled once more at the miracle of her soft skin and the peach bloom of her complexion. Many times she had known the sting of sleet and the splash o
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