Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1926, Page 18

The Adopted Wife By Amelie Rives [Princess Troubetskoy] SYNOPSIS. ‘l plac ll'll' o ‘when el o fi" Hilary is 8l AL el o fo Rers but AR 1 Hethetat Bropriety: Nt she i her M e AR ponniiea: 3 dreides 16 o o Abe Sin Wia agTven 1o g s She Ha vefore. Hitary A S toue i of arrse, Hokilons W HiTars s Y. Padraie 1 to her. i love with aivorte © Celia ahs Ko about ihocked o learn o Giehonor hiwm: The Beauly of ¥ OOR Dor wasn't in the les i ke Juliet's nurse « A Hinton. A staid, prudish er with an in- born dislike for men and un- elean anccdot Reg. US, Patent Offica. her eyes and throat. Since he had said it, he must have meant it. He never said things he didn't mean. He - | must have some affection for her after all, and sha felt ashamed of dwelling only on his misunderstanding of her, tnstead of on his invarlable kindne “I must have affection for him, too, she reflected, “because If I hadn't he couldn’t have hurt me so.” The stabbing in her eyes grew less and less. “If he could only have been my real father,” was her gorrowful thought. “Then I shouldn't have heen as I am g | now. It's as if my soul were !orm too, and that other one She Rhudflered afresh at the lhnulzhl of him. “As if he had mauled and maimed it." Her softer mood was swallowed ¥p in detestation. She stared out with clenched eye- brows at the soft, blurred night and the serried "xhlq of the Plaza rising tier on tler st it. “I hope you are suffering somewhere somehow very, very mu he said again, this time as if addressing some one who conld hear her The following evening she had to go to a concert bearing Hilar, excuses, As she passed down the hall on the way to her car she saw a footman ng a tray of food to the library. +|tike it,” THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! 'Hu ordered Scotch and soda, mad- Thpn that will do,” said Celia. “You can make me some orangeade.” Padraic O'Shea was one of the con- cert party, and hs he lived near them she offered him a lift In her car on the way back, When it drew near she said: “Would vou like to come in and have something to eat? My husband Is arriving about midnight, and there's a cold supper in the library. I'm go- ing to wait up for him." “1 don't care for anything to eat, thanks,” replied Padraic, “but 1'd love to come in for a bit, if you don't mind.’ Celin hesitate), but not enough for him to notice. }He had struck her the whole evening as being rather strange, she had even wondered it he hadn't taken just a drop too much at dinner, and she had only asked him if he would like to come In and have something to eat because two minutes before he had declared that he felt vavenously hungry. Now he had evi- dently forgotten all about it. But his ves were 5o bright and clear and his words so distinctly clipped in their rapidity that she decided his sup- posed excitement came from the in- toxication of the music and not from wine. He had told her earller in the evening that he had been composing a_rhapsody on “Melusine” all that afternoon and could only tear himself away from it because he was to meet Melusine herself. “Of course I don’t mind. I should she said, smiling at him, This smile came because of the eager way in which he was looking at fier for an answer, exactly as if it were / e a matter of life or death whether she allowed him to come In with her or not. She was used by this time to his exaggeration of what appeared to her trifies into momentous events, but this tralt seemed now more marked than usual. “Thank you,” he exclaimed in the same ardent, suppressed way, as though shé had invited him to share some occult privilege which involved his whole future. She could not divine that that is ex- actly what Padraic consldered that she had done. The shining moment was at hand. Its glow pierced his heart and nerves, and he found it hard to hold himselt from trembling. She wore as a wrap th@t evening an immense crimson cloak, the an- tique velvet of which it was made falling about her in folds soft as silk. As the weather had been at one of its vivid American antics while they were in the theater and dropped some 15 degrees, she kept her cloak on until the fire should have blazed up. ‘' ‘Men scarcely know how beautiful fire is,’ ” quoted Padralc, gazing down at it and then lifting his eyes to her as the servant left them together, “or how beautiful a woman can be till fir light shines on her.” “Even you have never called me ‘beautiful’ before,” said Celia, laugh- NEW HOME W.R.SPEARE Ca UNDERTAKERS Founded 1878 1623 Conn. Ave. D. C. MONDAY, ing a little, “and you've made me nlwu pretty speeches than any one else.r 'Oh, for God's sake, don't call them ‘pretty speeches!” " exclaimed the young man_frrita lhl} Then begged humbly for Padriac! “Do forgive me; I'm all on edge tonight.” Cella. became serious at once. “I thought you didn't seem quite yourself. You aren't ill, are you?” “No; just jumpy.” said Padrafc. He was an artist in emotion as well as In musie, and the shining moment, though very near, had not quite come. He waited for the touch of inspiration that it would bring with it. The words, the gesture, the moment must be as perfectly one as words, voice and mu- sic in a perfect song. “May I put out a few of the can- dlfifl that donkey lighted?” he asked. “My eyes ache from the glare of the footlights into the box And the fire- light is Bo delicious." “Yes, do,” said Celia. MARCH 22, 1926. She adored the uncertain beauty of firelight as much as he did. He went rapldly about, setting the old iron extinguishers on candle after candle until only four great tapers were left burning. They gleamed in blurry aurioles against the dark oak of the walls, dimmed now by the bril- llant leaping of the fire. (Copyright. 1026, by Amelle Rives.) (Continued tomorrow.) b i Lambskins from Spain are being aulnl as !lll‘ I’apenn:-—l’nmhng—Awnmn There is no Job you want dobs too small for us to handle. 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