Evening Star Newspaper, December 30, 1929, Page 24

THE EVENING STAR,. WASHINGTON, D _C. This Strange now. Tommy's on the board of a new | country club; your set's mot the only Adventure By Mary Roberts Rinehart Copyrisht. 1929, by North American Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. | Lambert Colfar, a member of an aristocratic family, married Stella, a burlesque actress, and later deserted her and their child, Missie. After vain at- | tempts at reconciliation, ~Stella kills herself, and Missie’s grandmother takes the girl to her own home. Lije with ol Mrs. Colfar and Aunt Adelaide is un- speakably dull. Mrs. Colfax ignores Missie’s_stepsister Ellen and the girl is cut off from every one she has known | Harry Sloane, jor whom she has a se- cret aflection, never comes to see her. The austerity of the Colfax home frightens him. Missie knows little of | the family history, but she finally learns | that her father is old Mr. Colfax's Javorite, and that the mame of Cecily, | @ daughter who ran away, is mever | mentioned. After her ‘“coming out” | party Missie is_groomed for marriage. | Wesley Dexter is the suitor favored by her grandmother. FOURTEENTH INSTALLMENT. O LD Mrs. Colfax had been ill for, a few days and was keeping | to her room, Spring had come, but the windows of the big | house still remained closed e, coming in from a croquet | party, damp chill that made her shiver. mael had driven around to the stable, and the hall was empty. She heard voices, however, from the front parlor, and hesitated. There was & woman in there with Adelaide, and she was talking in low, on, and T won't, Ade- ; he can look out I me she's not ; I know she i And don't tell m> any more about this girl. I've got a girl, too. It isn't her fault that she got no father. Better the way things are than to have a father like Bert, anyhow! But how do you suppose I've felt all Winter? These parties, the money you're spending on her, and then to cut the little bit I've been getting! I tell you if there's & God, and He's to Judge between me and Bert—" Missle went straight in, her hands and feet cold, her face flaming. Ade- laide was crouched in one of the low brocaded chairs, her poor head jerking, her eyes red and suffused, and before her, pacing up and down like some caged animal, was a tall, still handsome woman; an equiline woman, with her grandmother’s arched nose and erect | bearin She stopped and stared at| | Miss] sorry. T heard what you said: | not all, but some of it. I suppose I| didn’t realize—' | “Missie!” Adelaide had found her voice. “Go right up to your room. This is not for you to hear. Cecily smiled bitterly. “Yes, it is not for you. You might learn something about life, if you stayed. And you will fil:ue tell your grandmother that I am re.” But Missie did not move. “I have a right to speak, too, Aunt Cecily. I don't want charity; I never did. I certainly don't want what be- longs to you.” | “Missie Adelaide cried. “What I really want to do is to| work,” sald Missie, stubbornly, “but | we don't do that, do we? So I daresay I can get married. We don't seem to | make much of & success of that, either, leaving a stunned silence behind her. She took off her things in her neat room and then sat down in her small rocking-chair. Suppose she marriea ‘Wesley Dexter, without love? She dia not dislike him; she simply did not Jove him. Suddenly she realized that she was rocking in her chair, like Stella. She had not seen Ellen in months, by that time, but the next day she took her courage.in her hands and went back. Luck favored her, for whatever Ellen’s private indignation might be, she had not failed to use the Colfax name as a stepping-stone to place, and Ellen was giving a lunch eon that day. | auntfe” | Ellen were in Ellen's | de | ant was engaged in laying out the| card tables when Missie rang the be Ellen, peering through the curtains, saw her and herself opened the door. Miss braced against coldness, found herseli kissed, being drawn into the parlor. introduced as “Myusister, Miss Colfax. to well dressed women still a trific too conscious of their good clothes, their diamond rings, their polishea finger nails. Ellen saying loudly, “Don’t tell me you walked, Missie! °Wheres the carriage?” Ellen’s chid being caught up and told to “kiss her nice and the child setting up a wail at Missie’s unfamiliar face. Then a rustling, a subsiding into the chairs around the card tables, and | Missie saying: “May I talk to you for a minute, Ellen?” And, Ellen, distinctl “You certainly may. I always say the hostess at a eucher party might as_well go upstairs and wash her | | hairt” Polite laughter. and then room, Ellen still amiable, gratified. “I'm glad you came just now. Those old cats Wil have something to talk about! When she told Ellen her problem, however, she perceptibly hardened. Don't be a fool, Missie. you; they owe you all the | you. bed years ag ; let her lie in it. e how, it won't be long. I hear Wes | to. The trouble is to marry him. “Work! What sort of worl “I could go to Carter’s, like mother.” | Ellen's face colored. “Never!” she| said, shrilly. “Do you think I've livea that down for nothing? What do you suppose I'm trying to do, working my | head off to feed and amuse that crowa | stairs? I'm going to be somebod some day —Ellen, I don't are the ~Continental of those another. ear's Di tine to be u: immediately. Celery Hearts Cel Tomato Boulllon Profiterole Cr Hubbard Squash ut Asparacus a la Creme January, 1930, N Baked < English Plum ing, di ot Mi After Dinner Compots Black Noon 1 OPPOSITE UNION she ana | with nervousnes: 'hey. fook | tator. ey ioen | emotion in her, for she knew now that AS o this Cecily, she's made her | emotion was a dangerous thing. RIGHT = WITH DINNER AT ONTINENTAL S NS ns. New al will be especially appetizing. MEN Balted Jordan Almonds Chol elebrated Fri Maryland Sweet Potato pebble on the beach, and theyll fina that out. And you're not going tv shame me, Missie Colfax; you're not going to pull me down again. You marry Wesley Dexter. What does 1 matter whether you're in love with him or not? Men are all alike, after you get used to them.” “But_suppose.” “suppose’ you care for somebody els 1 don't think that matters, “Has he ever asked you?"” “No.” Suddenly she felt the desire to speak Harry's name, to unload herself of that absurd hopeiess pain. “T'll tell jou, Ellen. It's Harry Sloane. I know foolish, but— Harry Sloane! Then she laughed Wesley said_Ellen queerly “Go ahead and . Missie. Harry’s to the girl in the blue dress | id nothing. She smiled and went out of the room, ; and that night she accepted Wesley Dexter. Lambert came on for the wedding in the early Fall. Save that he was slight- ly gray, he seemed unchanged. There was a pitiful bustle the day of his ar- : his old room had been carefully prepared for him, his favorite foods ordered, and when the carriage drew tremulous and feeble, My dear e he had an air of heavy All happy, eh? Got a kiss for her old father?” He almost forgot Adelaide, self-effac- ingly behind her mother, and ferking Missie, watching her, saw the dishlike In her eyes when she turned her cheek to him. “How are you, Adelaide? to cross a street Missie found herself a detached spec- She was glad that he roused no Still afraid Later on he had to view the trousseau and the gifts. He had eaten an excel- Dexter is paying you attention.” | lent dinner, produced an excellent cigar. think 1 can marry him, if T want | But over the extent of the trousseau he | nc | grew faintly cold. I would rather work.” l’u(l Missie saw it, the r women felt it. ing & good bit of money, ha X1 u “I sold the Pine street prope: Lambert. I hadn’t meant to tell you. “And spent it on thi “A good bit of it. ye His urbanity left him. Suddenly he in a white fury. Mis ie never for- T'm someboay ' got that scene. They were crazy, all of feast days. we are serving delightful s \¥hich hage become 30 popular with oni Z ay dinner a P! ‘may be made Otfice, Natlonal 1672 U Assorted Ollves ice of uit Ramekin eam of Vegetable Soup Marmite Turkey ed With Giblet Sauce Serv S les W and Apple Scaliop Idaho Potato Souffle Resolution Dressing Eromen Ege Nog Continental Made Pruit Ceke ui H Harg or Brandy Saucr e aisins, Pigs and Mints Coffee Diuner Served From Eight-Thirty Special Musical Program STATION PLAZA Remember—You'll Have No Parking Worries! The meal was over and & neat serv- Missle said, in a low | them. Had she—meaning Sarah—no sense of property? She had mishandled | the estate anyhow, she and old Mac- Donald between them. She ought to | a guardian. He would take the | | matter into court and have somebody | by his fury, making threatening ges- | tures. | Suddenly rage shook Missie, a com- mon, shrewish rage. Like = Stella | She ' advanced on him, her hands | clenched. | “Get out of this room,” she said, | and shut up! Stop this raving. No- body's afraid of you; certainly I'm not. | They've given you all they have. All this is_for you, mot for me. You've | lived off them all these years. If any one needs a guardian, it is you. And | now, this is my room. Get out of it | and’ don't come back!” He was shocked into speechlessness. “You are your mother’s own child!" | | he said at last. | | "Her hands were trembling, but her | voice was steady. | “And you are that mother's mur- | derer!” she said in a voice that cut. | “I forbid you to speak her name to | e’ e, And then Mrs. Colfax crumpled up in a dead faint on the floor. Only years aficrward was Missie to give Lambert | credit for that gentleness with which | | he picked her up and carried her to | her big walnut bed. | Some time in the night, as he sat by | her bed, he made his peace with his | mother.” Or possibly she bought it, at a price. And it was like old times to find him, at least on the surface, his | urbane self the next morning at break- fast. Missie had not forgiven him,and she knew Adelaide never would. | own attitude to Missie was one of gen- | erous magnanimity. Let bygones be by- | gones. Later in the day Mrs. Colfax rose. | It was she who showed him the gifts | after breakfast—onyx tables, heavy | cverornate cut glass, marble clocks, the | Dresden china lamps just come into fashion, the usual silver. Missie, pass- ing through the hall outside her grand- mother’s sitting room, where the gifts vere laid out, found Adelaide outside | | appointed. He raved on, carried away | did: His | e the closed door in an attitude of strained attention. “He's got something out of her,” she said helplessly. “I know him. Last night he wouldn't let me in the room. I{ only you hadn't sald what you If I'd had a hatchet in my hand I'd have killed him,” sald Missie dully. She was bewildered, terrified. What about men, anyhow? What were these strange, unfathomable creatures who ill-used and browbeat women one mo- ment and were gentle and kind the next? What certainty had any woman with them? They kissed you and forgot you. They could, if one cared enough, kill 'you by neglect. went on, the race went on. went on. She turned cold with fear. ‘The race (Continued in Tomorrow's Star.) —_ o Greatest Salvage Operation. Never having engaged in any salvag- ing, E. H. Cox did the greatest piece of work of this character which has ever been done. He raised the German fleet which was sunk at Scapa Flow. That is he raised all but one of the boats. 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