Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1930, Page 28

THE EVENING STA WASH D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1930 ‘This Strange Adventure By Mary Rot Oopyright, 1929, by North American Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. Missie JDexter’s life has been one of tragedy and sorrow. Her father, Lambert Colfaz, was a member of an aristocratic Jamily, and married Stella, burlesque actress. When Missie was a little girl her father deserted her and her mother and Stella, after futile al- tempts at reconciliation, killed herself. Missie went to live with her grand- mother, old Mrs. Colfax, who adored her son, Lambert; tolerated her daugh ter, Adelaide, and had disinherited an- other daughter, Cecily. When Missie was 20, she was married off to Wesley Dexter. Sne did not love him, and his affection for her was short-lived. After several years she met Kirby Phelps. It was a case of love almost at first sight. But meantime Missie had had a son, ZEddie, and for his sake she determined 10 forget Phelps and make a success of her marriage. Dexter’s infidelities and brutality, however, finally drove her | Jrantic. She left him and sent for Phelps, intending to beg him to rescue her from an intolerable situation. But after only a few hours of separation Jrom her child she realizéd she must re- iurn to him, in_ spite of her attitude toward her husband or his attitude toward her, At first Dexter refused to allow her to return, but Tommy Wil- kins, the husband of Missie's step-sister, Eileen, and_one of Dexter’s business as- sociates, eflected a truce. Missie went Yack and tried to forget her unhappi- mess in caring for her child. Her grand- wmother and Cecily died, and her scape- grace father and Adelaide came to make their home with her. TWENTY-FIFTH INSTALLMENT. IME moving on now, relentlessly. Eddje going to dancing school. Tommy building automobiles in quantity, growing richer all- the time, carrying Kirby up with him, and Wesley. The leisurely days gone: talk now of drive, of efficiency, complaint of pressure. Wesley was a tired man, prematurely old. Sometimes Missie thought he felt this. He would make an effort to talk to the boy, but his attention would flag. Missie had accepted her life. At night sometimes she dreamed of Kirby Phelps: that curiously faithful heart of hers would not let go of him. But when she saw him, as now she occasionally did, there was no attempt on his part to remind her of that brief episode of theirs. Just how much she had built on Kirby she did not know until she lost him. Lost him, ironically enough, not by death or tragedy, but to another woman. One cold January day Missie took the carriage—Wesley still considered motors bourgeoise—and drove out to the coun- try club, and walked over the frozen links. When she went back to the club house, Kirby was there, sitting alone in | a big chair by the fire. “I was thinking of you, Missie.” He got up, drew a chair for her. But he did not sit down. “What were ‘you thinking?” “1 was wondering if you could see my feeling for you, what it is and al. ways will be. And yet try to under- stand something I want to say.” “T can understand anything from you, Kirby.” “Let me put my case, Missie,” he said. “I have loved you long and weil. ' I have —reverenced you. I loved you too well to try to keep you when you came to me. I knew you wanted your boy; you are that sort. No lover, no husband, could_compensate you if you lost him. And I have lived on the husks of love ever since. Don't misunderstand me, 1 am no plaster saint, but I have done my best.” He paused, but she had nothing to say. She was waiting with the terrible patience of women, for what was coming. “I have found a woman who cares for me” he said, almost abruptly. “And® I need a home, a home “and children. .1 am lonely Missie.” Once more she had the queer con- gtriction, the sickening breathlessness. She wanted to shriek aloud that she | berts Rinehart Newspaper Alllance and Metropolitan on her as she took it. It was an invita- tion to Kirby's wedding. She was glad that Kirby had sent the invitation; glad that he was so honest. In effect he had said to her: “See, now, I want you to have this. It is important to me that you have it. Between us there can be nothing underhanded.” ‘When Eddie was 13 he went away to school. The night before he left Missie sat preparing his outfit for him. She was through, now. She had done her part. Henceforward other people would guide Eddie. Yet how short a time she had had with him; it was only yesterday that she had shouted that the baby was in the satchel, and now here she was, alone again. One paid a price for security, and then there was no security. One loved, and as if that were a signal, the thing one loved was taken away. She had no confidence in life that night. She called the roll of the years, and saw one after another | the milestones which had marked it. Little joys, great griefs, that was life. When Eddie came in, however, he found her placid, her hands working busily. “Gee!” he said. “I feel rotten about leaving you.” “You’ll be home often, and I can go on. You'll write regularly, won't you?” He was very long as he knelt down by his bed to say his prayers that last night. He was not a litle boy any more. She knew, as she listened, that she was passing another milestone; that never uld he kneel there while she y: “God bless daddy and mother and Adelaide and grandfather. He alwsys put Wesley RArst. That was_her work, was what sfie had built. “Daddy and I have been ‘alking about Christmas. “Daddy has deen studying your school report, dear.” “Daddy thinks. you might like a party on your birthda; The rugs lifted, a plans and a violin, and an early supper of creamed chicken and ice cream. She would hover over the table, helping to pull the crackers, adjust the paper caps, distributing the ribbons of the Jack Horner pie. And when it was over she wouid hurry to get the house in order before Wesley came back. “What's all the mess about?” “I told you, Wes. Eddie's had a party. “Dirty little devils!” But when Eddie gravely thanked him for the party he ironically accepted the thanks. time, en?” “Had a_good “Fine, daddy.” Sometimes he would glance at Mis- sie. What was she getting at? Was she trying to win him back through the boy? ~The idea flattered him without touching him; unconsciously he would straighten his' tie. Late that last night she went into Eddie’s room. He was sleeping soundly, a handsome boy, with Wesley's head and Lambert’s long, sim body. She wondered what that queer mixed her- edity would do to him. What had she | given him to offset it, she with her own weaknesses, her lack of heroic_stature. | She had _tried; taken him to church with her, for she wanted him to have a God, not the a loving and understanding one. On Decoration days he always went with her to fix her graves. But here, too, she was careful. He was to have no horror of death. One day there, how- | ever, he frightened her. A “When I grow up,” he said, “I'm going to be a soldier.” “There are other kinds of courage than the courage to fight, Eddie. | “What?” he said. “Making money and sitting around clubs?” It was then that she had decided he must go away. He was growing up. It would be easier at a distance. Clare, | Eileen's girl, had already gone. She was a pretty child, spoiled and head- strong, and Eileen had shipped her off with relief. But Missie was different. She held off for & while. Then one day they took a drive into the country. Wesley had abandoned the carriage at last, and bought a limousine. They had a breakdown, and the chauffeur hailed a passing car. Not until it had slowed up did she see that Wesley was driving it, and that there was a woman beside him. He recognized the car at the same moment and, muttering something, drove on. But Eddie had seen him. “Why, it's dad! It's dad, and he didn’t know us!” “Never mind. There will be another car along soon.” “Who was with him, mother? Who was the lady?” “Perhaps it was Aunt Eileen.” “It wasn’t. I never saw her before.” She glanced at Adelaide, but Adelaide was looking straight ahead. Then at last she knew that he must go. She saw him off with a smile that next day. He was gone. He would come back, from school, from college, but he would never be entirely hers again. She went back to the house, to Adelaide and Wesley, to Eileen’s occasional visits, and to such dreams as_remained to her. ‘That Fall she had a talk with Wesley. It was not easy to talk to him. For years now their relationship had been limited to the surface affairs of their common life. But as Christmas vaca- tion approached she took her courage in her hands and went to him. “Eddie will be back on the twenty- first, Wes, and think we ought to have a talk firs! 'What about?’ “About you and me, and this house. He has been away to school. He will have learned—things. He'll only be here for 10 days, Wes, and I would like things to be happy for him.” “What do you want me to do? “Just to be careful. A boy needs to look up to his father. It isn't enough that you are successful; he needs more than that. He's not a baby any longer. And he’s fond of you, Wes. I've never interferred with that. You must give 162 CHICAGO Saturday, Janua- 18 Returning Sunday, January 19 SPECIAL TRAIN Lyv. Washington . Lv. Baltimore (Peni Returning, Sunday, leaves Chica; 6:45 P.M., Central Time. Coach Lunch Service by Pennsylvania Railroad Attendants ALL STEEL EQUIPMENT Pennsylvania Railroad N, 22, 7 2227 Jehovah of her grandmother, but | Gained 15 Ibs. “J want to tell ev- was lonely, too; to beat her hands on his chest and implore him not to desert her, not to take away her dream once more; to beg him to stand fast and save her from all the empty years to come. But her lips were stiff. She could not move them. “Does that shock you, Missle? Or hurt you?” She found her voice “No,” she said. “It is very matural T am glad you are being honest with me. _After all, I can give you nothing.” “You have given me & great deal, for a Jong time ™ “Is she—young?” In her twenties. you.” She flushed, but she was still out- wardly quiet. “I am not committed. I know, as a man does know those things, that she is willing to marry me. But I wanted to see you first. I wanted to know if there was any other hope, and I wanted to be honest with you.” “I never had any hold on you, Kirb; dear. You have always been free.” “I have never felt free, nor wanted to Then he made a last impulsive gesture to her, caught her hand and held it to his, cheek. “If I had only kept you, my darling, when you came to me!” Some inkling of her tragedy must She is rather like have come to him when he touched her | hand, icy cold as it was. But her eyes were steadfast, her face quiet “I want you to be happy.” she told him. “Ard I cannot be selfish. I have had you to myself for a long time.” She left him composedly enough, went | home to her house, to her life. She heard nothing from Kirby. The Winter dragged on, and Spring came. There had been no announcement, notking. Then one night in May she went into_Wesley's room to open the window. She stood there, breathing in the early Summer night. As her eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, she saw that a man was standing quietly across the street. 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