Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1931, Page 10

--- JILTED --- By Margaret Widdemer Copyright 1981, by North American Newspaper Alllance, Inc. THE EVENING gaged. Just about the time I was dis- covering that for all his adoration Ethan was as immovable as the marble gate- posts up at his house, dear old Horace Higginson became an eligible widower. Why be one more Kingsway wife when you could be petted to death by a nice ||old gentleman with heaps more money? It was a little ticklish to get Horace committed before I broke with Ethan, || but I did. And then I told Ethan the || honest, sensible truth, that I couldn’t ever be the wife he wanted without pre- tending till I was bored to death. I think I was fairer to him than if I'd married him.” “Nina—" SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALLMENT. Helen Heather was young and attrac- tive—and in love. As she came down the steps of the bank in the little Penn- sylvania town of Kingsway, all the world was rosy in her eyes. Helen was not oniy & typist In the bank. but was social secretary to her cousin, Nina Higginson. She lived with the oldest, finest houses Nina herself was young, with plenty of means left her by her aged and doting husband, now defunct. Half the eligible young men in Kings- way wanted to marry Helen, but her choice was Tommy Delamater, for whose ook dictation in’ the bank. somewhat of & spoilt child, but Helen found it thrilling to bring him out of his petulant fits. Tommy's latest enthusiasm, besides aman he e town. Helen waited for him but instead of Tommsy, Et appeared—one of the Ki D the handsome, cavalier-like Ethan. Tommy' appears as Kingsway leaves #na frankly says he hates Ethan. Does Tommy sense & possible rival in the de- scendant of the cavaliers? INSTALLMENT IL LD Horace Higginson had made a great deal of money. He had married—or been captured by—penniless, cool-headed 20- year-old Nina Heather 10 years | before. ©Old Horace, whose first wife had been %0 bad tempered that Nina's even, ami- able selfishness seemed to him all a | man could ask of the perfect wife, had | been dead three years now. There was a stepson, Ronny, but Nina kept him in camps and prep schools and latterly in college, because boys bothered her. Once in a while he came home, lanky and bewildered and silent, but not often. Nina annoyed him as much as he did her. Helen, who was sorry for him, tried to mother him. Helen crossed the wide hall, with its beautiful winding broad balustrade, to the room on the right—the drawing room. Nina was there sure enough. A taut little figure, wirily alive. She Wwas just throwing her smartly plain bag on one chair and her smartly se- vere hat on another, Nina would have casually cluttered up a pyramid if she had happened to live in one. She 1 “He couldn’t have done anything more disconcerting —I'd planned to really settle down!” Helen looked across at her, curious. “Nina, you don't mean you really al- ways—always——" Nina cried out with laughter. “Have always loved him, hiding s breaking heart under the visiting cards of Mrs, Horace Higginson? No, you goose! People aren’t like that. But Ethan has never looked seriously at any girl since I broke off with him {0 marry Horace, and it seems the most sensible | thing to marry him.” “Oh, Ninal” Helen knew nothing of the circum- stances of her cousin’s engagement to Ethan Kingsway. And she had never liked to ask. Nina had come to the town to teach school, pretty and with an eye to the main chance which her evenness of manner concealed. She had become engaged to Ethan Kingsway and | then broken it off and married Horace Higginson. She hadn't been approved of, but she had won her way to popu- larity coolly and steadily. She told Helen more now than she ever had. | “There'’s no more to it than this.| Ethan’s mother began to be subject to attacks of inflammatory rheumatism He had her on his hands, and that big ancestral estate of his that he could' have cut up into building lots and been | a millionaire, and he wouldn't. I was | getting deadly tired about then, anyw: ‘ of having to pretend to admire ancestral | ideals and = civic responsibility and knightly devotion.” “Nina, sometimes I think you are a perfect brute,” said Helen, laughing against her will. “But, Nina, it wasn't a bit funny for him.” “It mayn't have been actually humor- ous,” said Nina calmly, “but think of | his having a knightly broken heart and ! turning into & village legend! And | anyway, in my day, around ten or twelve years ago, if you didn't break off two or | three engagements before you really | married you got no pleasure at all out of life, because it was the only way for | & really nice girl to get petted.” Helen did not answer, but her sensi- tive face flushed and Nina laughed again. | “You know you're a little on the fi tatious side yourself, angel. _Well, ther no more to it than this, Ethan looked wonderful to me when we first got en- | | “Ask on, my dear.” “Weren't you ever sorry rled & man you didn't love? “Never to the day he died. darling to me. He gave me everything I wanted. Sometimes, of course, Ronny was a little of a bother, but after all, between boys' camps and school, there hasn't been much to that. A stepson is you'd mar- He was a | much less of a problem than & step- daughter.” “What do you hear from Ronny?” Nina frowned. “Nothing very satis- factory. Writing poetry, cutting his Summer school classes—I do hate im- practical people. I told him that if I heard any more bad reports from him I'd cut off his allowance.” Ronny was something of an enigma to most people; mostly silent, bursting into_occasional flares of passionate talk LOTHES LEANERS SINCE O0CTOR YERS 1905 DRESSES OR COATS SUITS OR OVERCOATS Cleaned and Pressed 75¢ Five Convenient Stores 651 Penna. Ave. S.E. 1845 Col. Road N.W. 1755 Penna. Ave. N.W. 513 11th St. NW. Main Office and Plant 3108 M St. N.¥". STAR, WASHINGTON, about abstract rights and wrongs; a tragic Shelleyan young face, and a ca- pacity for being shut up inside himself which worried frank, talkative Helen. “But,” id Nina, with her calm frankness, “I've been thinking, consid- ering all things, that it would be a good thing for me to marry Ethan. I'm older now, I could handle him. Fur- thermore,"—she laughed a little at| Helen's surprise—"to complete the pic- ture of a perfectly mercenary wretch, | Ethan can give his wife a social posi- tion which I have always wanted, and has a lot more money than he had. And"—her voice softened—"“I'm wor- ried about Ronny. He was mixed up in some wild business at college last year, and I do hate scandals so! They're so much trouble. Ethan has a firm hand, and boys adore him. Even Ronny, who never shows any feelings, He could handle Ronny. And to think Ethan had to be dragged off to Eu- rope!” Helen spoke with distress in voice. “Nina, T wish you wouldn’t.” “Darling,” said Nina with unruffied pleasantness, “we can't all be mantic as you are. In your present Tommyesque state I suppose I sound like something awful. How is it he isn't infesting the premises?” “He's about to infest,” Helen said. “We're going over to Doris Milliken's her as ro- | D. -C., MONDAY, JA house, to run over the last reels of ‘The Gay Young Oysterman.’” She had scarcely finished before ‘Tommy’'s horn blew outside. With the ready wave of color flooding her face she excused herself, caught up her coat, and was with him again. It was daylight still as they drove recklessly through the pleasant streets of the old town. It was a very old town, with broad, leisurely feeling streets, shaded by old, old elm trees, planted hundreds of years ago. Tommy's runabout slid down the main street like a frightened cat. It stopped, with an effect of being pulled back on its haunches, at Tommy’s house, instead of the Milli- ken one. “Got to get something I forgot,” said Tommy. “Big surprise for ‘the gang. ‘What do you think of Klieg lights?" “I think they're a dreadful extrava- gance,” said Helen promptly. Tommy, leaving the car running as usual, bolted up the walk, and was seen entering via a front window on the porch. Helen relaxed, turned the motor off, am"lt leaned against the back of the seat. She was still dreaming when Tommy bounded out with the long sticks of the lighting apparatus so_encumbering him that only rangy Tommy could have bounded. NUARY 26, 1931. “Good Lord, Helen, what did you turn off the car for? I've been 20 min- utes in there, and we're late!” Helen giggled. Tommy's calm as- sumption that other people were always to blame had not to amuse her. “Darling, it will only take a half hour to turn it on. Get right at it and we may be there for the benediction.” He laughed unwillingly, and got in beside her. “You're a peach, Helen." He squeezed her hand forgivingly, and they were off again. (To be continued.) 'ALLEGED CONVENTION Belief “Reign of Terror” Planned to End Price Cuts. By the Assoclated Press. DENVER, January 26.—A police blotter yesterday registered a visit of detectives and patrolmen to what A. T. Clark, chief of detectives, described as s bootleggers’ held at a road house. Behind the arrest yesterday of 29 men convention, OF BOOTLEGGERS RAIDED | Arrest of 20 Men Reveals Police | alleged by the police to be members of an organized rum combine, was a s related by Clark of plans for a “reign of terror” to eliminate price slashing in Denver liquor circles. Liquor dealers from Pueblo, Trinidad and Aguilar, Colo., were alleged to have attended the meeting. Most of those under arrest denied they were participating in anything but a banquet. No liquor was seized. The rald was staged by 30 officers armed with machins guns. Glasses Fitted Eyes Examined DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone National 409-410 McLachlen 10th and G Sts. Graduste McCormick Medical College 2001 16th Street Three Rooms, Kitchen .- and Bath Electrical Refrigeration Reasonable Rentals DEPEND ON ZEMO TO STOP ITCHING Use soothing, healing, invisible Zeme for the torture of Itching Skin. This clean, reliable family bring relief in th stops ltching and dr: sting out of the skin. used for twenty years with remarkable success for all forms of annoying, iteh- ing skin irritations. “Rellef with first application,” thousands say. 35c, 6%¢ and $1.00. Al dealers. FOR SKIN IRRITA9N3 Let’s All Do Our Share This Year! Give MCRE—The NEED IS GREATER (7;')]0”0[0 The 33 Busy dropped the flowered chiffon jacket as Helen entered, throwing up her bare arms with a sigh of relief. *“Gracious, it was hot! And that crazy idiot of a Grace Mannering had us play on the veranda, instead of in the cool house. Sort of miscalculation | she would make.” You couldn't help liking Nina. Once you faced the fact that she would never die for your sake or anybody else’s, she was a delightful person, with | the evenest temper in the world. And | she was as fond of Helen as it was pos- | sible for her to be of any one. | *Darling, ring for Mattie and some iced ginger ale, won't you? What's new?” | “Tommy cut the bank today. Mr. | Delamater was simply boiling. He told me"—Helen flushed a little—“to give | him what he called a ‘wigging’ How | does one wig, Nina?” Nina Jaughed. | *“Aha, we are already in the family | eouncils.” | Helen blushed and changed the sub- | Ject hurriedly, offering her other news. “Ethan Kingsway called to see you | and left a message. He has to go to | Europe, and can't come to dinner next | “How annoying! ‘That dinner was| built ‘round Ethan Kingsway, and he | walks off to France.” A COLD needn't spoil your good times But you can play with zest— work without feeling miserable —if only you use a drop of Vapex on your handkerchief. With a few deep breaths of this delightful in- halant the distress of a cold vane ishes. For Vapex clears the head, stops sniffling, and refreshes you. It relieves a cold at the start. And Vapex helps you sleep at night. The vapor fights your cold while you rest. Vapex is the inhalant approved by Good Housckeeping. Millions Nina's social campaign would be de- of bottles are sold yearly. It is in- i‘:::'"’ USRS S % Basope, Helen | expensive to use. A single appli- “He's wrn'inz you,” Helen offered, to | cation of Vapex costs only 2c. For "f.';lg,:'h,;n';":' Bowalag toidtays™ | the $1 bottle contains fifty appli- cations. Ask your druggist for “He said some months. And some- thing sbout a small but troublesome | V-A-P-E-X—the original inhalant discovered during the war. responsibility.” E. Foucera & Co., Inc., Dis Nina’s bright red-brown eyes focused | far off, and she lifted one expensively | tributors of Medicinal Products Since 1849. Will Operate at a LOSS... but for a mighty worthy Cause OWO of their | - entire sales| for TOMORROW Tuesday, January 27 Will Be Donated to The Community Chest WithVapex you are protected against sniffles lpd discomfort Normmve dulls the edge of fun so quickly as a clogged-up head, a watery nose, and the distress of a cold. — arched eyebrow. It was the expression | she always wore when she was being Napoleonic. | Nobody said anything more for the | moment, because Mattie entered to an- nounce dinner, and the two women fol- Jowed her into the cool, dusky, spacious dining room. Nina spoke petulantly between courses. | Buy All the Well Known | GERMAN | Specialties at the German-American Specialty Store 809 Sth Street N.W. 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