Evening Star Newspaper, November 26, 1930, Page 10

The Secret of MARGARET YORKE ' By' Kathleen Norris o 196 b Mo Ar s P A b THE STORY THUS FAR. ln’n[e( Yun.‘m attractive -mu T8 Catliormi, ines o,rs, Cutting's nep) Tl dactie T . attracted m"‘u:-‘.’i‘r“.‘.‘ oy | indifferent to him. | | INSTALLMENT 11 ! step behind Margaret on the | heavy carpet e her start; Mrs, Cutting had come in—an almost unprecedented event. “Oh, Yorke, you poor child you, it's 2 o'clock, and you ought r‘.he ‘e;nn( your sleep! But I am so “I'm so wrryl" Margaret sald and sat down herself, expectant and sym- pathetic, on the foot of her bed. “Mr. Wylle told me something to- night—oh, I shall be so distressed if it 18 true!” pursued Mrs. Cutting. “I don’t know what possesses fil’ll nowadays!” she lamented. “I t! Mrs., Ferguson is crazy to rent her house, anyway!” she burst out resent- fully. "And 'b)eng c:: earth do yau lup- ren e Bime i eia speaking e Stner da dly‘ of Mrs. Theobald?" | “I remember,” Margaret said faintly. Bhe had turned pale. | “Welll” sald Mrs Cutting mum-‘ tly. g t had risen; she was now at her dressing-table. “Not—not Mrs. Cuyler Theobald of | New York?” she asked, in a low voice. “Certainly, Mrs. Cuyler Theobald— my nephew’s wife! And she comes back here, right under our noses, to get her divorce from hhnl" sald Mrs. Cutting, in angry triumph. he—she is pmn‘ her divorce, you “Well, that's what old Wylie says—he | always gets everything so mixed up!” Mrs. Cutting sald vexedly. “But I can't believe that she'd do it!” she added, and was !flel’i‘lkfor tlu:ndn!ntflr‘l‘ltd be exactl; e what that ‘would b -4 t heard her say, half ‘was about 19, running around with the Baxter girls and Lily Priest, wouldn't say ‘boo’ to a goose, md ‘then what does lhe do but run off with Tom Duncan! ‘That was 10 years ago;-she was just 20. You knew that she was engaged Stan, lding .day set and every- added in a cau- ‘EQEWEEE‘ EpReofR éggi £ éigg-i You have only you tures, but really getting & di “But first she had run lwny wl'.h some other man?” Margaret asked. “With Tom Duncan, oh, yes! A man of 48, with three children,” the l!nflk droning voice continued. “Poor M Duncan, she had lots of spirit, and she {said that she didn’t know whether to | be most mad or most ashamed of him. Jim's shouts came from the garden. too— | which came the child’s volce, hearing Margaret laugh. in her relationship to the child. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, before she married Cuyler. l‘:'l Just agine,” Mrs. Cutting drearily over the whole situation, his grandfather, old Madison Richards, won't live forever, and then there'll be |the several million, I suppose. But I de- clare I do think h‘lld!&lfllfln‘ have her come back here, added, complainingly, "um ‘the way she treated Stan!" “Did you say they were engaged?” Margaret said, in the pause. “Engaged? Ha!” sald Mrs. Cutting, angrily triumpnant. “They were to be married in two weeks, bridesmaids and amie | engagement cups and everything. You never heard so much talki Stan wor- shiped the ground she walked on. Everything was settled. And then one Stanley went in the direction from She was always charming Yes, Shirley went off with him to New York. He died there a few months later. And then Shirley went abroad, | and we heard all sorts of things—of | course, the newspapers were making a lot of all this. You wouldn't think any one would want to marry a woman like that, would you? But men are so strange, If a girl is pretty, what do they care? It wasn't any time at all day Mr. Cutting came home with the whole story in the afternoon papers. Shirley Wilson had eloped with Thomas Duncan! Well, the excitement——! We got hold of Georze Priest and sent him to find Stan. My dear husband—you never knew him, but this was so like him"—interpolated Mrs. Cutting, with watering eyes—"“he sent both George and Stan up to one of his big lumber HER CROSS LITTLE BOY WOULDN'T “My little son had poor appetite, couldn’t sleep and was cross. I gave him Vinol and it ended these troubles like magic."—Mrs. L. DuCrest. Vinol supplies the body important mineral elements of iron, calcium with cod liver peptone. This is just what thin, nervous children or adults need, and the QUICK results are surprising. The very FIRST bottle n EAT OR SLEEP brings sound sleep and a BIG ap- petite. Vinol tastes delicious! 20c FREE 3 ol Take this to Peoples Drug Btores fo iscount on"your A T oF Vine 10 BROGOIBT: we give you FOR STRENGTH, APPETITE, SLEEP “Get out ihere’s no Place here for a COUGH SPREADER” r= camps in Canada. He said to George —I can see him, handsome man, if ever one lived!—Ride and tramp and fish,' he sald. ‘Shake it out of him, George!’ And George—homely boy, .but salt_of earth, said, ‘Leave it to me, Mr. Cutting!’ We didn't see Stan for five months, but he came home a man—all the boyishness gone, as my husband said! Poor Stan. I don't really know what he'll do if that—that woman dares to present herself, right here among us! But it would be like her! Bold. She's absolutely unscrupulousl" “Is she—is she so charming?” Mar- garet asked. “Yes,” Mrs. Cutting answered, decld- edly, after thought. “She is. Shirley Wilson was one of the most magnetic girls I ever knew. She charmed—yes, she did charm every one. It isn't alone beauty, although she has that, too.” She fell silent; suddenly began again with a tut-tutting sound. “Dear me, I wish this hadn't happened—just as the strawberry fete is coming on, and Cora Pond—that's her sister!—on the Pub-| licity Committee with me! I'm fond of Cora; she was only a child when Shirley ran away. But I certainly will not recognize Shirley! No, I won't do lhullt and I don't think most people “Strange thing, her coming right here,” Margaret mused. “Oh, my dear, she’ll carry it off— | you wait until you see her,” Mrs. Cut- | ting said bitterly, getting to her feet and | gathering her robe about her. “I| mustn’t keep you up. But now there’s | one thing you can do for me” she | added, resuming her mild, complaining | tone, at the door. “Will you do this for me, if this story of Shirley Theobald is true? Will you just mention it in my nephew’s hearing, and see if he has heard it? I can't—you can see ha“ awkward it would be. But you can, be- cause you aren't supposed to know | ln thing about it. Just mention it cas- ‘ ly, and then he’ll know, and the whole thing won't be rushed at him by some outsider at the club, or by his walking into Shirley somewhere. I wish the girl was in Jeéricho!” added Mrs. Cutting with feeling. She was gone, leaving Margaret wake- ful, chilly, nervous, in the big room. She had been up until 2 or 8 o'clock many times; had always slept soundly, but she was jumpy and ex- cited tonight. She made a pilgrimage to the nursery, before she got into bed, extinguished her light, and plunged her black head into the soft pillows. But dawn was creeping over the old garden, and over the dewy rosebushes and the brick steps where Stan had given Margaret his hard big hand be- fore she fell asleep at last. * K x Breakfast next morning was a strangely exciting meal for both Stan and Margaret. Jim's shouts came from the garden. Stanley went in the di- rection from which came the child's voice, hearing Margaret laugh. She looked up at him eagerly as he came across the dappled grgss. “There—do you hear that? That’s & lark. I didn't know what it was, but McWhirter says it's a true California meadow lark!” “I thought you would sleep late,” Stan sald. “This wicked boy comes in and wakes me!” she protested, tousling Jim and | catching his little face in her two hands to kiss it. Stan thought her human and accessible and nice in_this morning mood. She was always charming in her relationship to the child. “Come, Dimski,” she said. “Run up and have Nora do your hair for break- fas! “How do you feel after only four hours' sleep?” Stan asked, still with | that odd enchantment upon him, as | they sauntered up the steps. He won- dered if she remembered last night, and | his helping hand, and thought he would | was just a year old. | on. like again to touch those firm and nerv- ous fingers. NOVEMBER 26, 1930. She glanced at him as if prised at the little civility, aid he re- membered that it was only in his own thoughts that their rela o ship had altered since yln:trdl “I need very little, turned politely. But a sudden reeolkc- tion of Shirley Wilson, and the hi and humiliation he had unaured at t.hn hands of this unknown siren, made her soften, and she added: “Your aunt and I were talking until after 2.” “I call that imposing on you!” Stan sald. Margaret, who had now settled Jim in a high chair made no reply. “I'll be hanged if I see how you can stand it!” Stan added. almost sur- any fun—" “On the contrary,” Margaret said, quickly disclaiming hl.l sympathy. “Your aunt is a very unusual woman—unusu- ally kind. I—I am only too happy to be with_her!” “That's what keeps you here!” Stan said, indicating Jim, from whose thumb Margaret was now tenderly bit- ing an invisible berry thorn. A radiant expression that he had never seen there before brightened her face; she sat down with a significant smile for the child. “Jim and I understand each other!” she admitted simply. “I will never for- get my first evening here,” she sald, “when he had been sick, and Mrs. Cut- ting was so anxious about him, and he went to sleep quietly in my arms! He It seemed to me——" she stopped, and did not go But Stan knew that some personal heartache, some weariness after the buffeting and coldness of the world, had been cured by the weight of the little sleeping body. “Here—give Miss Yorke her coffee first, Sadie,” he said in sudden con- cern, to the surprised mald. e llwlys hnve tea,” Margaret sald, also surpris “You dn?" sunley found this inter- RADIATORS WILL FREEZE TONIGHT! “Shut up here with a | Again delicate woman and & kid, never Baving | suj tiny | paper with her good-bye. mmth-hu\unnnnnn of lilies moved. turedly, almost humorously. He could tell Ehll Sadie liked her. It amused him to study [argaret’s ith- ful suthority. e “They all like you,” he commen Margaret looked at him in mlm They!nlmtllnmolm. she suggested, indifferently. “Not!” Stan laughed. He could have circled about her, like Jim, teasing her into responsiveness, leading her on. But in a few minutes he decorously depart- ed; Margaret did not look up from r.ho of her went warmly with Stan, a lm-le recurrent thrill under the pleasant auvrle of the cloudless, balmy Summer ay. (Continued Tomorrow.) YOUTH SLAYS BANDIT Schoolboy, Seeing Hold-up, Strikes Man With Stone. SEATTLE, Wash,, November 26 (#). —A stone thrown by a school boy caused the death of Dan Bunker, one of two men who held up a small store | here. Irving Staab, 17, and twd other boys saw the hold-up. 'As the men left the store Bunker was hit in the head by & heavy stone thrown by Staab. B\mm died several hours later. The other man escaped. OFFERS 2-CENT MEALS Atlanta Community Kitchen Menu : ¥ Tnoludes Soup, Bread and Coffes. 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