Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1930, Page 26

The Secret of i MARGARET YORKE By Kathleen Norris o 81 o A Moo A INSTALLMENT XV. HIRLEY went at about 5 o'clock; and Stanley went softly into the sick room, to find Margaret and one of the nurses watching. Mrs. Cutting was restlessly dozing. Margaret smiled at him, and followed him into the hall, again beckoning him room. into her g “I think either you or I had better be there always, Stan. Of course, the nurses know more than we do; but still—there’s a feeling about having one of her own there,” she said. “What do you think?"” he asked. “Oh, I think she will get well!” she #aid, quickly. “I don’t dare think any- thing else,” she added, slowly. “I dont dare think what it would mean to me to have your aunt die!” “Is there any reason why you shouldn't stay on here and run ths house and Jim?"” he asked. in a whisper. “Yes—every reason,” she answered “I couldn’t—go on. My all my plans, would be wrecked. But I'm not going to think of that! She’s going to well!” “Are you so fond of her, Margaret?” Btanley asked, surprised. = “Yes, I am. But it's not that, honestly. “I—I he asked. “She “I wish that you were free,” Stanley #ald suddenly and irrationally. “You . wouldn't she reminded with her rare smile. “Yes, but I would take you away— thousands of miles, to the mountains back of Rio—or to the Canadian ‘woods—you're so good to us all, you're 80 tired!” Stanley said, laughing nerv- ously, hardly knowing what he said or did, his arm suddenly tight about her im shoulders, her dusky head resting him. His volce was strained; himself tremble. I wish you might, I wish you Stan!” Margaret answered, and quietly. And, turning in embrace, she raised her face to his, look of childish wonderment ‘wistfulness in her dark eyes. Stan- bent his mouse-colored head—she not a very tall woman, after all— 'y kissed each other. was a kiss two children might exchanged; it was as if her utter liness and tiredness clung to his , as his own desperate need to tness. For a minute they were silent, their locked. O m sorry!” Margaret whispered then, her wide-open n"re like a child’s, , blank, e: int. “";:I, stmlemed, slowlty and ’}m- emotionally. “I'm sorry, too. low ‘what?” he asked her, blankly. “Now nothing,” she answered, with & little laugh. * She freed herself from his arms and walked across the room. Stan followed her slowly to the window. Margaret turned and looked at him over her shoulder, a serious, deliberating look. It was as if the two saw each other for first time, or as if together they had c upon some terrible and significant \rparet, you would be wondsrful loved,” Stan said with in a low tone. <2 men!” she answered d teach you—better!” xxm:n odd voice. another glimpse of You mean go back?” hadn’t been!” he elucidated. ] turned toward him in quick ' mt Ise can we do?” she asked. dont know, Stanley admitted Margaret's gaze was at once quizzical, amused, maternal. b no possible combination of tances, you know,” she reminded “under which we could mean any- thing to each oth lfl‘:flmm touched his pride, and e mean Mrs. Theobald’s plans and ret said, smiling, be- | that you are extremely. generous more!” .An instant later lllsclvl‘l free, pr.:,; standing eet away | .fir breast rising and falling | stormily, her two thin, exquisite, brown Tocked on her chest. Stanley was | laughing and half furious, his hand to his stinging cheek. “I hate this high school stuff!” Mar- said. 'm sorry—1 beg your pardon! was a long silence. Then he terrified to see Margaret put her hands over her face and drop her in them shamedly, like a crying | S Special Train Service ARMY-NAV 1:00 P.M., YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK Saturday, December I3 $]12.00 from SPECIAL TRAIN—PARLOR, Leave WASHINGTON Leave BALTIMORE - Arrive NEW YORK (Penna. Station) 11:32 AM. Conventent service to Yankee Stadium by Special Busses, 7th #nd Lexington Ave. Subway, 6th Tickets sold at this special rate will also be good leaving Wash- ington on the 11:00 AM. train, Priday, December 12, and all other trains up to and including the 7:25 A.M. train, December 13. extra fare charged on The Senator Returning from New York, tickets will be good up to and includ- ing 1:40 AM. train, Monday, Dece Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia City Ticket Office, 613 14th Street Alan B. Smith, General Passenge; PENNSYLVANNIA RAILROAD Only Through Line Direct t BEWARE THE COLDS THAT HANG ON - | | , please forgive me.” ‘1 3 | Nothing else seeming possible under the circumstances, he went to her tim- idly and once again put his arm about her shoulders. But there was only apol- ogy and gentleness in his voice as he Tm sorry, Margaret. It wes my fault! It won't happen again, I prom- ise you. I promise you!" “No, it was mine,” she said quietly, looking up. “I—good heavens! I'm ashamed of myself,” she said. “You see——" he was beginning eagerly, when sa® interrupted him. “Let’s not talk about it, Stanley. Bet- ter forgotten! I must go back to your aunt. That sort of thing isn't for me, my dear, and you're going to be mar- ried, one of these days. I'll not go to bed, tonight, I think,” added Margaret composedly returning to a sense of duty. “Somebedy should be with her. Could you get some sleep, do you think and then get up in two or thres hours?” And serenely, and obviously absorbed fn her responsibility, she left the room. Stanley, declining the suggestion of rest, followed her to his aunt's bedside. ‘They sat in chairs on either side of the big bed; the invalid sleeping heavily between them. The nurses came and went; one doctor was always there. Harriet Cutting moaned sometimes, and was still; the fight between life and death went on. Sometimes she wakéned and knew them; she would ask an anxious ques- tion, or smile in the dreamy peace that "":k heavy anesthetics brought in their wake. “Stan, dearest—I don't like guns He was a little boy again, pleading for & “twenty-two.” He would reassure her, and she would suddenly be cool and sane, in the midst of his explanation, and ask him what he was talking about. “You will be gocd to my d little Jim?” she asked him, more than once. “Trowbridge has all the papers, Stan. I've left his money all in trust, and you his guardian. We'll take him to Canada this year, Margaret—where 1t's s0 deliciously cool. I'd like to plunge into one of thcse lakes—desp down into the water. I'm so hot! “I'm sorry it's Shirley, dear,” she said once, in the dawn, with a sort of apolo- tic straightforwardness. “It's a queer amily, Stan, and she didn't treat Cuyler fairly—Trowbridge said so. She pretty, and she about all. Don't let her be unkind to Jimmie—" ““You must get well, dearest, and take care of us all side her, both her hands in his big brown ones. Tears were in his eyes. Margaret, freshly bathed, in white, com. ing to relieve him, took his place, on her knees, beside the quiet form. “I think you had better not talk, Mrs. Cutting,” the nurss on duty said ui easily. “We want you to get all the Test you can, dear.” 1; Mrs. Cutting died at midnight on the ]| following night, and in the orderly sequence of events that followed Mar- garet played only a subordinate part. 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But it was Shirley who sat beside Stan on the fourth day after the funeral, when the will was read. and Shirley’ who had_sweetly and quickly. decided, only a few hours after Mrs. Cutting’s death, that Nora and Jim should go down to the farm for an in- dennneL “lyh e “That's where the little cl real belongs, Stan,” she lrtuecLh‘gAndn} think he is almost big enough for real lessons now. Nora babies him terribly!” Margaret, watching, suffering, wait- Ing, packed the little boy's clothes, went about her duties, looked to Stan for some break—some break—some the strongest net in the world, tha & tenacious, ambitious woman, P (Continued in Tomorro DUNANT BUST IS GIFT FOR U. S. RED CROSS A bust of Henri Dunant, foun ot the International Red Cross, '(}fir ge presented to the museum of the Ameri- can Red Cross here by Americans of Swiss origin Wednesday morning at ccremonies to be presided over by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the United States Supreme Court. The presentation will be made by Marc Peter, Swiss Minister to the United Stat Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, will deliver the speech of acceptance. The presentation will take place in the assembly hall of th> National Red Cross headquarters immediately follow- ing the annual meeting of the Board of Incorporators of the Soclety. The gift was made possible mainly through the efforts of Albert Bartholdi of Passaic, N. who is scheduled to speak at the ceremonies, Star.) ~ -7 |CONFERENCE ON WAR AND ITS CURE CALLED | hint of change. But Stan was held in | Tl Four-Day Session to Be Held Here in January, Mrs. Catt Announces. ‘The seventh annual conference of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, comprising 11 _women's organizations, will be held in Washing- ton for four days, January 19 to 22, in- clusive, it was announced today. “Demobilizing the War Machine” will be the principal topic, with emphasis laid on the developments of the Lon- don Naval Conference as seen by the committee’s special observers. In a call for the conference Mrs. Car- _Chapman Catt, committee chair- man, urged afliated organizations to attend to “learn of the complex causes that have created and sustained the war machine of the past and are even now keeping those machines up to war strength.” The conference program calls for ad- dresses by “qualified spokesmen” about the relations of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and their respective dependencies. ‘The 11 participating organizations are the American Association of Uni- versity Women, the Council of Women for Home Mission: Federation of Repair Parts For Furnaces and Hot Water Boilers Fries, Beall & Sharp 734 10th St. N.W. NA. 1964 ‘Women’s Boards of W Missions of | Priday, North America, General indation of Women's Clubs, National Board of oung Women's Christian Association, National Council of Jewish Women, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, National League of Women Voters, National Women'’s Christian Temperance Union, Nl&lflfid Wom!%s ‘Trade Union League an ational Women's Conference of American Ethical Union. S WILL SHOW FILMS Motion pictures and colored stereopti- con slides will be presented by Randall L. Jones of Cedar City, Utah, to illus- trate an address on the Southern Utah parks tomorrow evening ‘at Gordon Junior High School before the Burleith Citizens’ Association. The meeting will start at 8 o'clock. 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