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The Adopted Wife| By Amelie Rives (Princess Troubetzkoy] SYNOPSIS, Celia Gibhe. whose mother died when sha | was an infani s left an orphan at 18 by the death of her father.’ Gibhe wax an artist. but he was known iore for bis #rcen iricities than for. his paintings, He was of 2 cold brutal diswostion and treated his only child cruelly Hilary Fraser 3 dilettante hachelor of 38, 1a “one of Gibbe few friende After the artist's death he is astonished to le Gibbe has heou n that 3 aura responsihility of places her z aghter in a convent in assum educatia with her own harits | . Patent Offica. “Good morning,” he said politely, was that ha anything for who it “Can 1 do on seeing entered. you?" He had countless her hut that never question in just asked times, | that tone. Celia couldn’t quite make, She was annoyed to feel that She wi affect her for a was heating fast. id that it would that she didn't answer “1 HAVE MADE MY DECISION,” SHE SAID. When the girls finish school Laura takes Celia intn her house fn live. Lauras dauchter marries An Englishman and zose ward Laua d n tha France Zossiy and for the - father ha e i< 1ivin niv distu she erows reatiess. [ Hilary = ‘ (Continued from Yesterday's Star) | INSTALLMENT L. | Celia Announces Her Decision. ONOVAN was wor and in consequence looked grimmer than she stood watching Celia put _her check hook and her little gold fountain pen into the suede hag. This trinket, in its rose-leather case, she had zht for herself. She him, which she had placed the night hefore. In the parcel was her wedding ring, the key of her empty | jewel case and her copy of the com. | bination to the safe set in her bed. | room wall She was going to post this parcel and the letter she intended writing | him on her way to the station. Bhe snapped the lock of the bag and_looked up, saying: ! “Do you know whether Mr. is in the library?” Donovan, who had walked off and | wag now coming toward her with a chinchilla jacket in her hande, re- plied ‘He was there when [ came up. He says he'll finish his hook today.” | Celia was looking with disapproval at the jacket. The lovely fur had been a gift from Hilary. He RAave | her fars on all oceagions. “You were made for them and they for vou, Ice Maiden.” he had told her once. “I shan’t need that.” she said de cidedly, “I'll be in a closed car, you | know.™ “There’s always turned Donovan Mr wigh vou should w look awful bare in no fur.” Fraser draughte” re Fraser would Resides you gown with cloth “I'll wear sald Celia. “I'm relining of it.” “Then my blue one.” “It's tore. Don’t you remember?” “Oh, well!” said ( submitting | to be helped on with her jack She couldn’t afford the time for fur nd. after all, she in the car on the | too m settling felt that my green cape.” ground that it As Donovan pull and stroke <he would like to kiss the flat cheek | nearest her. It might he that would never again see her ol cranky hut secretly devoted nur: Such an nnheard-of caress was not to be thought of. however. Danovan | would immediately conjecture the | most frightful things. She had to | content hersell with a squeeze of | the knobby hand th now hold- ing out the suede nd a mur mured ‘“Thank alwavs &0 o ‘Well, vou need some one to he thoughtful for you, goodness knows," replied Donovan in a reserved voic She wasn't going to be enticed intc more tender scenes, with ‘“dear nurse.” « and then | have the ' turned | upon her without warning. Celia gave a little laugh, mixed equally of the Indicrous and the for- lern. She laughed, in fact, to. keep from betraving to Donovan how sad she felt. “Well, nurse dear. You're and thoughtful of vou good I'm sure glad to hear you can giggle, mise,” ohserved that per sonage. ‘“when vou've looked all morning like vou'd lost every friend vou ever had.” “Perhaps I may lose them cighed Celin, off her guard, Donovan retorted briskly: “Not If you keep f with 'em. The hest one it you'll excuse me, miss. stairs In the library right now.” She paused and Celia hurried to leave the room. calling hack: “He likes vou ever so much, He told me so. Good-hy, “Now, why did she me?” reflected Donovan, looking thoughtful after Celia. od-by* ain't a usual word with 1 wonder what she’s up to? <h to my Maker 1 knew. Some foolis ness, T'll wager. She felt uneasy and strengely anxious, and this feeling grew on her throughout the day instead of abaing. “I do hope,” she told herself, “I ain’'t got one of them presentments you read about.” Celia: stood outside the library for full two minutes, trying to think what she should say when she had entered. But her thoughts wouldn't arrange themselves in any order, so | finally she knocked at the door—the | first time she had ever knocked at any door in that house. | Hilary's voice said, “Come in." She went in to find him standing by his writing table, filling a pipe. A plle of manuseript and page proofs, neatly squared as if ready to be wrapped up for posting, lay en the table. Fare and m fooling you've got, ix down oo, n few seconds. Then she said quietly *“No, thanks, I came to tell you tha T've some shopping to do, and shall lunch out, so please don't wait for | me.” “Very well,” said Hilary, and said nothing more. - He was now lighting his pipe. His indignation of the night hefore had by no means subsided. e had even used the word | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, just then, and his “Can I'do any- thing for you?" had been more for- mality and the result of habit. He saw very soon that she had no intention of “saying that she was sorry. How very hard she looked, | and how plain it made her!- A flash | of anger 1x sometimes becoming, but | r dinner, ‘too,"” She had not meant to say this, but ymehow she found it difficult to go | at once, and the silence between them : Vi t uncomfortable. I said il dining out, I Celia again replied thanks,” and sl stood Her feet xeemed to have grown to the floor, he felt paralyzed. Hilary's dark, steady, vel indiiferent gaze affected her ax A serpent’s gaze is sald to affect a bird that wants to fly, vet ! tut even she did not think | s eves at all like a snake’s. She searched desperately for some subject of remark, and again the pile | of manuseript caught her attention. | You've finished your hook?" she t. won't you?" “Yes, | shall rather.” Suddenly a jet of W her. He was heing wouldn't- give her an opening. He meant to be hatetul. iie decesied her, and was showing it. He had never | really liked her | I have made 1 rath shot up in | D my decision,” she | said. “1 hope it is for your good,” said Hilary. “I shall marry Padraic O'Shea.” “Then I hope it will be for hoth your good. (Copyright, 1926, by Amelie Rives.) (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star,) $3.50 Philadelphia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington AND RETURN SUNDAYS April 11, 25 ; S?ecill T‘ljlin on 10:05 am.. Chester “ungrateful” to | himself, in describing her words and | with seorn “unjust’ ter on ad rejecting it though, and substituting and “unreasonable,” and ding “unmann If she had come tq was sorry, she must so without help from him. 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