Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1930, Page 48

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'MARGARET YORKE § ' . By Kathleen Norris ’ was very different. fi"v?v{l:.\lp.lk tull‘or{ interest in rything, be was pleasant. ";low he wag excited, vocifeyous, anx- fous to prove that he was having a won- time, anxious not to waste ammln: ute, but n'o',—no, not pleasant. R had been able to talk to him sim| ‘ly and freely, a few weeks ago. Now lh!gnd to think before she spoke, select her subject, make sure that it would not offend. 1If it could possibly be con- strued into a reflection upon Shirley, n he was furious. > mfi‘lol:\e women are rich!” he sald ‘one day, in bitter sarcasm, to Margaret. “Al- ways wishing that you had a chance to do some good in the world, and then when a poor girl that's down and out comes your way, you can't be civil to “I'm extremely sorry if I have been uncivil,” l\‘;lrnr:t had said, in any- thing but penitence, with an angry gleam in her eyes. “That's the way women always act to women,” Stan had generalized largely. “If it was a_man, now, he could be & murcerer! But it's a woman, and & pretty woman, and that’s enough! All u can do is get together and knock er!" “Men adore platitudes like that,” Mar- r}e‘t had observed, mildly generalizing er turn. s girl is up against it,” Stanley had ressoned, with a resentful glint in his own gray eyes. I offer her—an—we) an asylum, for a few weeks. You ai Aunt Hat sre always blatting about bow you'd like to have my friends here, but the minute I take you at your “I certainly don't blat,” Margaret had begun, childishly. “And I don't think your sunt—-" . “Oh, Lord, that was just a word!" Stanley had interrupted, furiously. “You | heart know what I mean. But by George, I'm done kicking about it,” n: had finished . And immediately he had gone off upon the theme again. to conégmn, reason, aoliloquize only about irley, in these days. Margaret, listening in a sort of patience, would think of Shirley, sma soft, silk-and-lace clad, dealing with the great of life as a child might deal with sticks of te. ent, position as the 19-year-old mistress of a man of 50, ostracism, marriage, divorce, still ‘found Shirley soft, cuddly, wanting to be loved and petted, want- ing to cn“i‘lte by a fire, or under rose her. She never had a child, Margaret would think con- tempwl:}v., the babyish, innocent, el iture had been quite =l avoiding that complication. But re had been frightful quarreis, ‘When Tom Duncan or Cuyler Theobald had not been the only ones rendered idiotic by es over bills, jealousies and an- gers; there had been tears and uunfl: flaky crusted pie e makes any meal a . feast. Make your crust in four minutes with FLAKO, put in a filling and thare's your pie insured for such perfection that it will be eaten to: the last flake. Add Water to Flako— Your Pie Crust Is Made Order FLAKO PIE CRUST from your grocer. You will be delighted with the easy way you can make delicious pies this modern way. FLAKO PRODUCTS CORP. New Brunswick, N. J. Endorsed by Godd Housekeeping FLUFFED Check them this quick way Two Grove’s Laxative — BROMO QUININE ;& © Tablets every two or h__- 4y three hours will soon c make your cold disap- pear. Onlyin these tablets do you get the original correct combi- mation of quinine and a Insist on this box— 30¢ at all drug stores Grove’s Laxative QUININE i Tablets __ | just » little He wanted | he ever was!” “Oh, neither do I1” Margaret echoed | her | getting into “You don' a bit what you think—undernea girl!” was his argument to his aunt might -!M: m-m . -wo'::hn house 3 went away; the Cannons, m&-h"rnl. Shirley and Stan. Young Mrs, Rivers mother had a beautiful bungalow at Pebble Beach near Mon- terey, l.l'llld it hldd hen’ ?:“.tdh :xhen 'Mnn would all spend & few days g and the other men going into the city on the train any day, if it were necessary, and returning to the beach at night A dreadful silence, a silence seemed to Margaret like ihat of death, Uplands when the two '&m. o both Margaret rs. Cutting believable that Shirley’s visit had been of less than a week: and that this whole complication had l:ruen and dehvoeel:p%d' with such’ rapldity, '‘The ec! Shirley’s high voice seemed still to be ringing upon the porch and lawn. Less than a week, Margaret felt that she would have given years of life to go back to the unconscious confidence of & week ago, For both she and Mrs. Cut- ng felt that the cause was lost. Stan's aunt had softened greatly to- ward her young compsnion. in this time. Margaret saw the old snobbish- ness now, and now and then t al name was altered to “Margaret, A parently almost without the speaker's O hats talling in lo “That’s ve, older sald, with Stan! If it ¢ a womans—" Tel . “Ivs e reslly, she couldn't make him seem s0 and so nervous. .% lhfl-l, marry him!” his aunt with ancther aeep sigh. “You dom't think so?” Margaret's beat ved her, it conceded. T 't 3"-.'5" more in love with her now than fervently. “But men don't marry wumen because ' said Harriet itest that one thing world 't the faini it It's just What Shirley said she did not hear; first | ghirley finttered to hbe knees eside Mrs, had departed, with Stan, lands, Mrs. Cutting announced that were to return to the Burlingame Stanley was still at Pebble Beach, and Margaret tried not to think about him. But she was teashd with premonitions, uneasy, apprehensive. He couldn't really be falling in love with Shirley Theobald —that Q{Idlcullm premise was based immie, returning from a party at the Lakes' on Tues- afternoon, ssed the Ferguson , | house, and heard ,s'hmny trilling at_the 0. Margaret felt an instant relief; thal ghmey and Stan were not together at this particular unreasonable hea; But this emotion was destined to be short-lived. It was only an hour later, at about half-past 6 o'clock, that she came downstairs to the terrace to look for Jim's tiniest bear, a 2-inch treasure that was daily lost and daily recovered. Mrs. Cutting was on the terrace, and as Margaret approached, Staniey and Shir- ley came up from the lower garden—up those same brick steps upon which Ma garet had once groped for Stanley's hand in Spring ‘kness. The instant saw them the girl knew the truth, anothsr three instants in which to ra: ‘The mellow afterncon air turned sickly, brassy, in her mouth, as she stood still; she felt her spine.chill, and water sorang to the pa of her hands. But there was nolning for it now but cour- oAR BmaTiot KO, | fi’: 8. 'im 1 to” Prance. Dr. L % 4 Nll'!l'u them. One drep A chim Bt ot 1o} cold et In. . K 1""{rluflk¢ by for 40 years because It acts quicker. ussists. Get this master blend of the world’s best coffees Everia and these whitest, fluffiest of soap petals to do the two most important things in laundering them of 99 tingly ¢ S 4% N8 oo for party days and nights . . Aunt Hat!” | with & ms:.m. anyway, said her | g d she had perhaps | what she could of pride and dignlty.1 chair, and Stan bent SIS - . SShe thinks shes up her Margaret heatd him say, sort of superiority. she'll like boy ™ poor ML " poor Shirley was immedia she was bflmmmuf wil T . argare! er afterward, and Hmm A a st torgh tor “My dear, you mu: ve me running away with him, but the truth is—I've made & discovery!—he's just the sweetest and dearest fellow in the nd long before I knew it myself, 1 just herd over heels! Wi cermly piggy, cown there at the ranc! I didn’t mcan to be. But I'm make it up to you all—you See dincing a3 she lon’t.’ She was promising favors already: she was estimating the possibilities of the old house with the frank delight of & child in a toy-shop. Her manner to the servants was gracious, coneiliatory; this was her domain now, to be con- quered and claimed. ‘They could not stay to dinner; nobofls was to know, course, but they ha told Elsie. and they were going the s & Elsie was to give Shirley the jade and ce—the famous neck- then ‘They might to the elu h’t'e“r; t.hun‘ was t::%.‘:l'é' wnflt:‘ n.n% while of course P! this until Shirldy was at least free, it was 1o be great fun just to mys- :gro- People and to tel! just one or Margaret saw Stan help his promised wife into her loose silk coat; her brown eyes were raised to his, as s o Fimen um| could not banish trm: her thoughts for She had to talk to Sta: ’s aunt; she had to manage dinner somehow. 8 o'clock Mrs. Cutting, although ~ ing herself as utterly heartbroken and Ry suxds, en Margaref [ (Continued in Homorrow's Star.) 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