Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1930, Page 40

The Secret of MARGARET YORKE By Kathleen Norris Coerih 932 by N Amarcan Nevrsnom Al b INSTALLMENT XXV, TANLEY came into the big hotel 3 room with a glorious rush of spirits, 5 He kissed Margaret quite sim- - ply when he came in, and they stood holding hands at arm’s length ~and smiling at each other. 5 arling, do you realize what this " he asked, exultantly. “I'm free “But I'm not!” she reminded him, ruefully smiling. Immediately, how- ever, her April smile broke out, and she said: “Stan, I am glad! It does seem to bring everything nearer, and it makes one feel that almost any change might come! Show me the telegram.” He took the crumpled yellow paper from his pocket, and Margaret read: “Cuyler much better. We were re- married this morning. Know you will| forgive me. I am the happiest girl in | the world. Much love.” It was signed “Shirley.” Margaret| and Stanley read it more than once, | marveling at it and trying to read be- | tween the lines. “She got there Monday,” Stan calcu- Jated. “She must have seen Theobald right away. She said that she knew she could do anything with him, if she ofice saw him, but by George!” he added, thoughtfully, “she didn’t lose much time!” - “They sat down on the big davenport where Margaret had been lying and Jocked hands. “And now I think you must really tell me, my darling, where your hus- band is, and what he is, and how we “ean tackle him.” “He is alive,” she answered simply, %“gnd that is the whole story. But I _have courage now,” she added, “and I have hope! I can’t tell you why I feel ‘0, Stan, but I believe that by this time next year—I can't say that, either,” Margaret interrupted herself, ~ flushing nervously, “but I do believe that you and I are going to be happy one of these days!” she finished. “Can you imagine the scene?” Stan- Sey said, luxurianting in the details-that -had secured him his m lous free- dom. “Poor old Theobald harried to death with doctors and nurses. Shirley -floats in, all tact and tenderness, know- ing his tastes, knowing all about him, having taken him through one of these bouts before! I can see her putting the | “idea of remarriage into his head and| en being immensely surprised when took hold of it——" “I can't believe it yet!” And Mar-| - garet’s face expressed utter disbelief. | “And now, this will alter your plans, - dear!” “I don't see why,” she said, a little startled. “But doesn’t it mean that you and the kid can come back to the farm?” “I wish it did” saild Margaret thoughtfully. “But—there’s you,” she _reminded him wistfully. “It’s going to be hard for us both, waiting.” “Not if we’re engaged!” Stanley sug- gested buoyantly. “Yes, but we can’t be engaged, Stan. | Not openly, at least. And even if we| were, people would think it was ex- traordinary, my living under your roo And more than that, it isn't right,” Margaret said. “Could we get somebody to say there with you?” . “Well, we could. But that's a big es- tablishment, Stan. Hang and Chung, and Nora and Jim and me, and then 8 companion besides.” “My dear girl,” said Stanley, “if you knew how rich I feel, how free I feel “Happiness has just done wonders for him,” Shirley explained to any one who was interested. “He will never be well, poor fellow, and the doctors tell me frankly that another stroke would mean——" and Shirley always sighed deeply, paused and shook her head over the words—*the end.” She had come out to see Cuyler's San Francisco agent, she said, for the bulk of the immense estates he had inherited were in California. One glowing April afterncon she drove down to the farm. She had now and then caught glismpses of Stan, and she keenly enjoyed the dramatic pos- sibilities of each meeting. Her upward glances were more eloquent than ever, and more than once she had hinted to Efl: that she was anxlous for a long “Because when you know exactly what_happened, you're going to forgive me, Stan,” she had told him, at their | first meeting, when he came, tall and | lean and _grinning good-naturedly, | across the floor of the country club, to greet her. “My dear girl!” he said, deprecatingly. “Not cross?” Shirley had murmured, with a flash of penitent brown eyes. “Not_the least in the world!” “Shall I come down to the ranch some day, and perhaps we can talk?” “P1] telephone“you—you're with Elise? Tl arrange it,” he had said, pleas- antly. She had not wanted the move to be left to him, but there was no help for it, at the moment. Shirley had opened the subject again a few days later. This time she had been having tea with some women at a hotel, and Mar- garet and Stanley had come in. Shir- ley's eyes had widenea a little when | she had seen his companion, and almost THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1930. immediately she had gone smilingly over to join them. “May I break in on this party just ; & little minute?” “We haven't ordered!” Margaret had said politely. Shirley had protested eagerly—no, indeed, nothing for her, she was with the Ponds. Reassured, Margaret had sat back somewhat silently and had left the con- versation to the others, as Shirley had noted with a certain discomfort and re- sentment. “I was wondering if I was ever going to see you, Stan,” Shirley had said. “This is the sixteenth, you know, and I must be back about the first! “I went down to the oil-flelds,” Shirley, now oc- cupying a chair, had told them amused- ly. “It was great fun, and dear me, how they do coin the money, Stan! It almost scared me, little me, to be Mrs. Cuyler Theobald, and taken about from one head of a department to another, and introduced, and having cars put at my disposal, towing!” “You go back about the first,” Stanley had repeated. “Well, T can't leave my dear old boy forever!” Shirley had reminded them, dutifully. “Stan, if you won't ask me to the farm, I shall just have to come, anyway! When shall I come?” The bronzed, pleasantly lean face had turned to Margaret. “Could we have a party for Shirley, do you think?” Shirley had flushed furiously. “Oh, I beg your pardon!” sald; abruptly. “I had no ide! Miss Yorke was still at the farm. I thought—just before I went away— snd every one kow- that Subscribe Today It costs only about 11, cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you' regularly ‘every evening and Sunday morn- ng. Telephone National 5000 and the delivery will start immedi- ately The Route Agent will col- lect at the end of each month. _ A WELCOME GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS! IVE A MAN a Gillette New De Luxe Razor for Christmas, and you give him shaving that she was going somewhere else. But, they told me that you had become & fect hermit, Stan, and hardly eVer leave the place, and now I begin to un- derstand it!” Shirley had rushed ,on, with a nervous laugh. “If you have comphny there. it isn’t so bad,” she add- ed, “but I supposed that Miss Yorke and little—what's his name?—Jimmie, had away. I tried to get some news of young man,” Shirley had said, mmlngnmwnrd Margaret, and for the first time making an effort to include her in the conversation, “but nobody knows anything about him and Elise de Vilbiss said that she thought you and the little boy had gone up to the place, and they play bridge, so we all get along finely!” “I see you do,” Shirley had said dryly, with a shrewd look from one to the other. “Well, I'm coming down any= way,” she had apnounced, with a sort of discontented daring. “Would I be horribly in the way—let me see—a week from today?” she asked. Margaret had glanced interrogatively at Stanley, Stanley at Ma: t. “Not at all” Mnmmlrfi ‘assured Comfortable Shirley, then, smiling. And Shirley, angry and suspicious, goné back to hflwn table deciding that she would not to to Uplands at all. (Continued in Tomorrow’s Star.) 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