Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1930, Page 36

= The Secr't of MA_RGARET By Kathleen Norris Coprrhs . e i emper A e 7 o i INSTALLMENT XVI. o da; after Mrs. Cutting’s r dn'.h.,!)n!nret came down- stairs to find Stanley in the library, an hour before dinner. ind Joe Cannon were to call for him at 7 to take him off for & quiet meal and a game of a Joe's house. He was already dressed and been going over some papers that had arrived only that day from the old family lawyer in New York. “Stan,” the girl said, without pre- amble, coming up to him, an odd, creamy :lvr on her dark face, one hand laid pulsively upon his coat lapel, “some- thing has happened. I have to tell you ‘something—I thought I need never tell any one. But it’s no use now, you've got %o help me! You'll have to believe me. You won't at first—I can hardly believe it myself, someti But—God hel] us alll—it's all true. Stanley Crittenden looked up from his papers with an expression of relief. As a matter of fachy this was almost his and Margaiet's first opportunity of being alone tog-ther since the funeral. “Yes, I want to talk to you, too,” he said, as she sat down opposite him. “*“You know, of course, that it was my aunt’s plan to have you stay on, as a gare! , evidently diverted from ‘Wwhat she had come to say. ' “Well, she had spoken of it to Nora——" Stanley began. But Mar- garet interrupted him quickly. “Ah, you mustn't go by Nora, dear old woman! She’s loyal, she’s utterly biases you know: It isn’t only Nora," Stanley answered. | . “But on that la t night my aunt : poke to me of you, said that you und od the little boy and that sh~ hoped you ,would stay with us—with him. I told rgaret looked thoughtful, “That's what I came to taik to_you THE EVENING “We—oughta't to act y. “I don't know!” Stanley said, with a little laugh. “You don't love me and I don't love you,” Margaret said. 5 “No, I suppose we don't,” he con- ceded. “So please——" she warned him, in a voice of fear—‘“please—I ask you not to—do this sort of thing.” & “No,” Stan said after thought. “I won't.” After a pause Margaret got to her feet, and coming close to him she said: “I'll go down to the farm 0TTOW. I don't think we ought to rpeet until we can act with—with some- she broke cX, | what' YORKE only my own happiness—but it con- cerns somebody else—so I thought if we could settle t) question now—" “There is nothing to settle, if you will stay,” Stan said. 5 Theobald suggested that Nora spolls Jim, and she asked me yester- da * “Margaret was beginnine. un- convinced, when Stan, again to his own urprise, interrupted. “You don’t like her, do you? Tell me why you don't like he “She doesn't like me,” Margaret presently offered, in true feminine fashion. “And, as she is to be your vife and you are my employer,””she added, logically, “I natural “Oh, where do you get all this em- , from the doorway. ployer rot—why can't you be friendly?” | Margaret and Stan started apart, Stanley interrupted again, impatiently. | the man’s face instantly brick-red over “I need some one to run Jim and |jts smooth tan, the girl's heart ham- | Nora and all the rest of the crew, and | mering with terror. For & second all ou want & job—I take it—that keeps | three were motionless; then Shirley, ou out of the public eye. You could | who locked her prettiest, came forward, €0 a thousend other piaces and ling indulgent | couldn’t pos ibly get any one to fill r place, fo if you want t> make dif- | ficuities, by all me: i | | ing to make dif- |and Joe's outside simy | fi * she protested, sudden- | mouth. . . . Come, Stan! My dear,’ |ly penitent and simple sgain. “It's | Margaret heard her add comfortably, as only—that I want so much_to stay.|they went away. that I'm anxlous. Of course I want to| Margaret stood still, as they had left take Jim and Nora and go down to| her, alone in the quiet library, her Uplands. We could the log cabin | cheeks flaming. there, if you liked, and not be in your| “Horrible woman—she saw that!” way if you wanted to bring friends!” ret said, half aloud. Oh, for heaven's sake, stop this meek | I thinking of—to act this way! 1 Stan sputtered. ' “You want w|he's engaged—I must be crazy! She stay, and I tell you I need you—that's | saw that—she’ll think we have been |enough. What Sh'rley says doesn't|flirting—perhaps we have! Il have to count, do you see? She's excitable,” he|Stop this, right here and now. She apologized, “and naturally all this up- might bree| engagement! I wonder g of our plans has- sort of—up-et t it wWouldn’t make the °. as far as'1 am con- 1 be down at the farm in a few Stan promised her, in a busi- nesslike tone, with a brief glance. But immediately he caught up her hand and touched it to his lips. Margaret stood immovable, thought and reason d; the world standing still. said Shirley's voice; light and in a few weeks now, joned. ge?” But,_if “What will 4 e asked sharply. “I don'l kno answered unencouragingly. And Stanley | izcq” “Jo: waiting in ' | motor outside, and os_Shirley swept seemed to him unfair that she should ask him this so casually, as if it were nothing to her that he was to marry Shirley! “And now, what did you come to tell me?” he asked. “To answer that were to confess to about,” she said. “Does Mrs. Theobald know that you plan to leave Jim in my care?” “Shirley?” he sald, surprisedly. “What's “the difference whether she does or not?” “Well, let us suppose that presently she makes some objection?” Margaret rsisted. %1into it she turned to look at Stan, over her shoulder, and sald with supreme good humor: “/Oh, you naughty, naughty boy! And the demure Miss Yorke, tool And 7 Iltupld me, never to have seen & thing!" Stanley, getting in after her, and naturally 'prevented from speaking by STAR, WASHINGTON, to see about refreshments, anny dear, I'm not going to say anything about what I saw tonight—other men have kissed me, and she's pretty, and she was very close to your aunt, and all that. But don't you think, since we are to be married so soon—that perhaps it would be as well to give Miss Yorke a hint that she might be making her plans? There's no earthly reason why she should stay in the house while Jim is Y e . Miss Yorke will probably go down to the farm,” Stanley could say. “She needs a rest.” “Stan, a rest from what?” Shirley asked sharply. Stanley did not answer. He saw the color creep into Shirley’s face and that | her eyes narrowed dangerously, But | nothing more was said between them |until he had taken her to her own house. Then she walked into the draw- ing room, saying to him, over her shoulder: y “Soulrl he come in and talk to Shir- ey?” Stanley, extremely uncomfortable in the sudden need to summon all his forces, followed her in. It must be now or never—it must be now or never—" “You don't think I mind your kiss- ing that pretty girl, Stan?” Shirley sk f he has kissed her, he won't nd if that per- she thought, Colds Don’t let them keep you Indoors Get rid of your sold at once 80 you can get out ind enjoy 0 Qf Tablets have pro- vided the quick, pleasant way {o cor- rectly end colds. reputation acquired through 41 years of in- ternational sale Dii 0. formance this evening was the worst, he'll say so.” Stanley said nothing, and she drew her own conclusions. “My dear, do you suppose I haven't seen that you ilke her?” she asked good-naturedly. She had carried away his hat and coat, and now came to the big chair where he was seated, and established herself upon the arm of it, almost in his arms, “Dear me,” Shirley mused. “How well I know her type! She’s really a trouble maker, you know,” she told him, amusedly, “the ‘sort of woman who is just too good. and too unfortu- nate, and wionged generally, to be wholesome! “She doesn’t seem to me that sort,” nley said, nettled. o, dear,” Shirley conceded him, always with the air of enlightening a very small boy. “Because she's pretty, and she flirts with you! And she lets you kiss her, does she?” she asked, dreamily. “For heaven's sake, Shirley!” Stan- ley said, getting somewhat roughly out of his chair and going to stand at the hearth. Shirley, quite unruffled, slid into the seat without removing her {ling, TUESDAY, DEC | interrupted hotly. MBER 9, 1930. quizsical look from his face. “Glve me your solemn word of honor that you never her,” she sald superbly tolerant. And as Stanley, mis- | erably confused, scowled without re- plying, she laughed. ‘“Exactly!” she sald. “She is the soul of honor, of course, and I'm not to criticize her, but a few weeks after your aunt’s d and just before your own marriage, is letting you kiss her! My dear do you think I'm angry? I don't care that about Miss Yorke!” and Shirley snapped her fingers contemptuously, “but doesn't it show you the kind of woman she 182" she finished shrewdly. “My dear girl, what you think of Miss Yorke is nothing to me!” Stanley “And what we both think of her is nothing to her. But I| assyre you that you're absolutely | wrong! She—- | “Yes, she’s wonderful, and she's Beautiful. and she's everything!” Shir- ley ‘tonceded, interrupt him. “But you let her alone, dear, I'm mnot cross, and I'm not jealous, but it's for your own . Why, as far as I'm con- ce! you can do what you like with this woman or any other,” Shirley as- sured him generously. “But it's be- neath your own dignity, Stan. 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