Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1928, Page 34

bttt bbbt bbb b bbb bbb bbb bbb bbb bi ONE MAN IFE (Copyright, 1928, B L R e R L e e SRR R Rt (Continued from Yesterday's Star.) Richard_Ross’ has just told his wife Yvonre that he intends to be away for three months. She is a peasant irl whom he has married 1o Normandy alter running away from modern American women. Whom he dislikes. He had been particulasly dis- aprointed in Anne Lovelace, of whom Yvonne_is now jeslous. Yvonne has dis- obeyed Richard's orders and hes learned to read and speak English and to dance. For this last_she has a talent amounting to genius. She has just refused an offer to appear on Broadway and has decided to de- vote herself (o her husband. when he an- nounces his proposed journey. INSTALLMENT XIL ICHARD had been turning over the possibility of a trip for rest TMHE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, P C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1928." BY ARBARA WEBB ’S by Public Ledger.) eyes very wide, Indeed. “What is there to fear?” | “Oh, a lot of women are afraid, ' nervous about being alone. I'm glad you don’t mind. I was going to sug- | gest you get a maid to come in to do | the work and sleep here nights while | I'm away.” “What would she do?” Yvonne | asked. “There will be nothing while I am here alone. I will take care of my house, practice on my piano and write to you when there is news.” There was something pathetic about her quiet acceptance of her lonely lot. Richard was moved to compassion. “Look here, Yvonne,” he said, “I feel like a brute leaving you like this. Do you want to go back to France and nd pleasure for some time. Fach time he decided definitely to make it, the thought of Yvonne drew him up short. He could | not take her about the country in her peasant costume, and he was too stub- y with your grandparents while I'm away?” ‘Yvonne shook her head. will stay here” she_ said. already decided that Richard's absence “No, 1 She had sald, slowing down as they approached a town. “We’ll stop somewhere along the road for our dinner. You'll have to eat all your own cooking all the time I'm gone away.” Yvonne's eyes sparkled. Then the gleam died. She had begun to be very sensitive to the stares of people when she appeared in public in her peasant diess. Toward dusk they stopped at a roadside hotel. There were few people in the dining room. Richard appeared not to notice their glances in Yvonne's direction and their whispered comments. She might have been comforted had she known what they were saying. “Must be a movie star out for dinner without changing her costume. “Stun- ning girl, isn’t she? Don’t recall aver seeing her in anything, though.” On the menu was a note to the effect that fine cocker spaniels might be bought from ken: owned by the hotel management. Richard read the note, and after ordering, leaned toward Yvonne and asked: “See here, Yvonne, how'd you like to have a dog? They've got cocker spaniels for sale here. Let's go look at them after dinner. If you see one you like I'll get it for you. Keep you from being lonely after I'm gone.” Yvonne assented eagerly. Richard had never given her a present before. Their dinner over, they went to see the dogs. There were some 3-month- old puppies beautifally marked. Yvonne cuddled one against her soft cheek and looked into its melting brown eyes. “I love this one,” she said, stroking its silky hair. hen that shall is the one you born now to dress her as other women | was her penance for having disobeyed | have,” Richard declared. were dressed. Permitting her to change | from her peasant clothing might be but | the beginning of other changes far from desirable. | While he was thinking matters over | he received an invitation to address a | meeting of engineers in Denver, and to becore a member of a party that would | later spend several months touring and | inspecting mines and construction work | in various places in the West. Some | of the men would bring their wives, but, | of course, he would not take Yvonne. She would be utterly out of her cle- ment in such a gathering as that. ‘He had almost decided to refuse the invi- tation when a series of severe head- aches drove him to consult his doctor. | “What you need, Ross the doctor told him, “is s good long rest. Get away from your work and travel around & bit. Nothing the matter with you but nerves. Change will do the trick. Now | Bo_home and pack your bag.” The doctor’s advice fitted in so thor- im. She would suffer her punishment silently and do nothing to make it| lighter. | Richard was touched at her willing- | ness while he was with her. Away | from her he rarely thought of it, and | finally decided that it really mattered very little to her whether he was there or not. The last day before he left he wand-red around the house. His packing was finished. There was noth- ing more to do until train time late in the evening. “Come on, Yvonne,” he said, early in the afternoon, “let’s go for a drive. I don't believe I've driven that car of ours more than twice since we had it.” Yvonne flushed with pleasure and went to dress. She was praying for strength to restrain her tears until after Richard's departure. She did not wish to annoy him' with her weeping. ‘They drove through the slushy roads, slowly until they reached more open country. Then Richard went faster, and Yvonne loved the feeling that she s shocked when the owner asked $150 for the puppy, and Richard paid for it before she could protest. Back in the machine she held the little beast close while they sped- homeward. 1t would be company this soft clinging little creature. And Richard had given it to her. So she wouldn't be lonely. When they reached home Richard asked: “What are you going to call him, Yvonne?” She loked at him shyly, “I should like to call him Dicky,” she said. Richard threw back his head and laughed. “Oh, what a compliment! Dicky. Well, you won't forget my name anyhow, will you, little lady?” He kissed her warmly when the time came to leave. “Keep the home fires burning and don't forget to feed the pup.” he said. Yvonne promised, through her tears. Then as he was leaving she clasped her hands behind his neck and drew his face to hers. She kissed him_ passion- of her very little in the months that followed, and he wrote infrequently. Left to herself, Yvonne attacked the house as’ though it had never been cleaned. All day tlong she scrubbed and scoured until at the end of a week the place loked like new. She found Dicky great company and talked endlessly to him. He followed her all over the house, watched her every movement, bark whenever there was a noise he did not understand, and at night curled on the foot of her bed to sleep. All_told, Yvonne wWas not unhappy that first week of Richard’s absence. On Friday, she decided to clean Richard’s laboratory. True, he had at various times in the past asked her not to go into the workroom. But surely now that he was away he would be glad if it were thoroughly cleaned. - ‘She unlocked the door and went in shortly after breakfast. Everything was orderly, for Richard abhorred untidi- ness. But there was much dust, and in one corner a pile of trash that needed removing, Yvonne threw open the win- | dows and began her campaign. When she came to Richard’s desi she hesi- tated. Richard might not like her to disturb that. But there was a thick layer of dust over it and it would be wise, too, to put fresh paper linings in the drawer. She worked happily at it, humming under her breath. Then she found the picture. It was tucked away in the second drawer with @ mass of papers. Richard had thrust it there when he had found it, while unpacking some of his old effects. Yvonne could not know this. She looked at it. A young and budding Anne Lovelace smilled at her, The picture had been made shortly before Richard sailed for his South American trip. Across the bottom was written in_a schoolgirl hand, “To Richard, with my love, Anne Yvonne wanted to tear the picture across, to throw it on the floor and stamp on it fully back, closed the desk, called Dicky to her and went downstairs. So Richard had kept Anne’s picture all these years. He had never asked Yvonne for a picture. Perhaps Anne was with him now. Her mind drew all sorts of torturing scenes. She finally found relief in tears. Then, her fit of sobbing over, she sat straight, wonder- ing what she could do. There were still two months and three weeks before Richard’s return. She had promised she would remain at the house. She would stay. But never, never again, would she go into his room. She closed and locked his bedroom door. She went up to the third floor again to make sure that door was fast locked. Then she sat down at her piano and tried to soothe herself. Soon she was calmer. She went out for a walk, Dicky romping at her heels, During the walk she told herself this was all part-of her punishment for disobedience. She would bear it bravely. The house seemed nubearably lonely that day and all of the next Early in the afternoon she went to the little den, put on_a record and began to dance. Dicky barked at her and seemed to think this was some new frolic. Then the doorbell rang. Yvonne threw a cape over her disordered dress and went to the door. Mrs. Ogden, M. 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