Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1931, Page 21

JILTED By Margaret Widdemer Copyright 1931, by North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. INSTALLMENT XL NE day, as she was sitting try- ing to take dictation from Mr. Delamater, everything went blank in her mind. She sat staring at_him blindly. “Why, my dear child,” she heard him say with concern, “what is the matter?” And she answered, staring at hi pallid and frightened. “I don't know. The words—I can’t make them mean anything.” “Here, drink this,” he was saying, making her take some water with spir- its of ammonia in it, which surprising- 1y he kept in his desk. She sat back and tried to smile at him, “Im terribly sorry,” she said. “I think I can go on now. I didn't mean—-—"" “You've had a good deal of gtrain. Now, I want you to do me a favor. Let me give you a little trip somewhere—a vacation—just as if you were my daugh- d you would be. You are not at all well.” “T couldn’t, Mr. Delamater. T do ap- preciate more than you can know the ndid way you've seen me through this. I didn't know anybody could d and kind. But I couldn’t father's money.” realize that she had been ill she saw him wince, A t tell you how much it please me 1f you "could feel like *said Mr. Delamater, almost v ‘Will you let me think about it?” her old desire to make to the front lly intend to, in y in need of rest and ater said home after that. e couldn’t be | That was all there . shivering all over. And she wisk -oh, how she she wa ing home to bed room at Nina's, with ual orders to-the maids for fort, and the maids’ affection- ning hither and yon t) see that Miss Helen, they adored, was comfortable properly and had a prett; h the right food on it, and a spray of flowers, and . . Helen pulled herself up. There was the little ugly room with its golden oak dresse vhite painted iron cot, and a good nourishing y supper, and ere was no use thinking about what in't have. She came home, and picked up her mail mechanically from the oval- ored walnut hatrack as she passed through. It was only a letter from Tacy, and a couple of circulars. She ed at them idly—one was an isement of furniture. She drop- to the waste basket as if it had pricked her fingars. The next she dropped wearily into the red-flowered pasteboard thing without even looking ap it. Then she opened the letter from Tacy. It was kin it was worried. But Tacy was saying something—what was this, about it being on her conscience to tell Helen the truth? “You ought to know that that old cat Delamater is telling it all t you hounded Tommy into engaged to you, and he had to 0 the West to break it. 1 should u when I saw you, but I heart . 8o that was why poor old Mr. Dela- mater, enly honorable member of a dis- family, had felt so guilty to- he had wanted her to | , Just at en was too nearly ill to ore. ¢ from Jessica, too— my and a little an- noyance at all men. Lester was so cross because she'd bought such a beautiful layette, as if you could do too much for Suddenly the room became unbear- able to Helen, and she rose desperately to go out. With the instinct which makes proud mother snatch every $3.50 Philade!phia $3.25 Chester $3.00 Wilmington SUNDAY, FEB. 8 Lv. Washington 7:40 AM. Returning Same Day Lv. Pt Lv. Chester 7:50 P.M. £ok 8:10 P.M. sions Peb, 12 and 22 Ask Ticket Agent About Special Sight-seeing Tours Baltimore & Ohio ; | HEAD COLDS lead to trouble! Nip yours® with oM NOSTRO Grippe. Flu and other iils berin with neglected Head Colds. Nip yours with NOS- TRO. 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Price, $1.—Adver- | tisement. weapon to hide her trouble, she took her best coat, the long, smart, furred red coat, and put it on, adiysting it carefully over her red georgette, she pulled a close red felt hat down over her curls, and bending toward the little wavering mirror in its golden oak sup- port, above the bureau, she put on rouge enough to hide the whiteness of. her cheeks; she pulled out the little glittering curls around her cheeks . . The red coat. If it hadn't been for the red coat . . . But she pulled the high collar up and walked faster. She found herself, without knowing how she had come there, passing through a palr of wrought-iron gates, and found that she was in the Kingsway estate. It so happened that Helen had never seen the grounds by daylight. She had gone to dinner there with Nina once the Winter before, but the orbit of her set and that of the set in the thirties had rarely crossed. She followed the wind- ing bath'down, found herself betwes 6-foot, hedges that were a maze. wind- ing, crossing, with now and again a strange figure cut of the yvew in a crossroads. Why, this could be & show- place. And nobody ever seemed to come here. Like Ethan Kingsway! ‘Well, | he would have to let Nga use it as a social asset when they were married . . Thank heaven, it was a safe hiding place now. And witly Ethan in France, unless she met a gardener Helen could be blessedly alone, blessedly unseen and unpitied. She was a forlorn lost prin- cess whose sorrow had dignity. She was following a clue to her lost happiness in | an enchanted garden. If she wandered | long enough she would be ‘ed home . . | The walls of the maze were too high to | see over. The path she had been fol- |iowing ended in a windbreak, a semi- circle of high box cut into an S-shaped wall. In one of its curves was a seat, and she sank into it thankfully. She lay back against the high seat. her hands in her lap, and she must have fallen asleep—she had not slept very well the night before—because she was awakened by footsteps—a man’s andl a child’s. She leaned a little forward to see. 'They did not see her. But she could see them. It was Ethan Kings- way, whom she had thought somewhere in "Europe enjoying himself with Nina in the intervals of arranging for con- tracts; Ethan Kingsway, his tanned thin, distinguished face bent a little | toward the little girl by him, an upright. blonde thing in a blue sweater and | | face. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. knickers, with a beautiful, impish little The child was speaking in & high, clear, sweet voice with a slight foreign accent. “Cousin Ethan, what makes the little town be called Kingsway, and this es- tate, and you, too?” Helen saw them move out of her range of vision, and remembered that there must be another geat in the other curve of the S. She heard the child scramble up by Ethan Kingsway and settle her- self, rustling the box boughs behind her. heard Ethan strike a match and light something. The scent of his cigarette came to her faintly. They two, the young man and the child, were having a good time, “To begin with, my dear, a long time ago, 1 had an ancestor who lived in England. His King was in a good deal of trouble. But my ancestor said that whatever happened he couldn't be dis- loyal. He was going the King's way And hs King won. So he made thi ancestor of ours a very rich and pow- erful man, and he was always called ‘of the King's way, and his children ‘after him.” “What happenéd to all the money and power? Has somebody belonging to you got it now, in England?” “No, because, you see, a long time afterward there was another King King Charles the First—he's in your history books. And the Kingsway alive then—hjs name was John same thing, ‘T go the King's way. “And did he?” “Yes, of course. So they killed him and took his money and estates, and his son had to come to America.” “It's on the ring,” Helen heard the child’s voice saying. “What queer spell- ing. ‘I goe the King's wale. Cousin Ethan, how can you go the King's way in America, where there isn’t any king?” “My father always told me there was a way,” the man's voice answered, very quietly. “You'll learn, when you get older, little Patricia. It doesn’t mean just following a man who happens to be king. It means always being loyal and fair and steadfast, no matter how much easier the other thing would be.” “Father never told me stories like that,” the child said wonderingly. “He said, ‘You'll be a charmer when you grow up, petite. You'll break men's hearts’ So I intend to be,” “That's what most of your sex think,” said Ethan lightly. “And they are prob- ably right.” Why she did it, Helen never knew Perhaps it was that, unconsciously. Ethan Kingsway's creed had comforted her, who had been so near to believing that men were what he said women were, and that his sudden hardness of voice made her feel 2s if she had sud- denly had a friend snatched from her. fore the quiet man and surprised child, crying out: “It isn't true! We aren't like that. ‘There are women who are loyal and decent. It's men who aren’t. You don't know. You haven't any right to i L e He rose quickly, concern in his eyes and in his outstretched hand, while the child watched wide-eyed. But Helen was at the end of all self-control— frightened. She backed away from him and tripped. “Look out—you'll hit the tree!” Pa- tricla_cried, too late. She had gone straight against a tree behind her; she felt the violent impact at the back of her head and that was the last she knew. (To be continued.) CHARGES GAS COMPANY REPUDIATED CONTRACT Wallace Dann Files $3,300 Suit, Claiming Fee in Natural Gas Plant Negotiations. Declaring_that the Washington Gas Light Co. had repudiated a contract under which he was to secure for the company the plant of the Charles Town Heat & Light Co. at Charles Town, W. Va., Wallace Dann, 2402 Thirty-seventh street, has filed suit against the company, Frank A. Woodhead, vice president, and Welter M. Russell, chief engineer, to recover $3,300. Through Attorney Joseph D. Sullivan, the plaintiff says, he was employed to negotiate the purchase of the plant in furtherance of the company's plan to bring natural gas to Washington. He was advised that the local utility would pay as much as $32,500 for the property and arranged to pay $25,700 for all the outstanding stock. When the deal was ready to be closed, he declares, the company_repudiated his employment. He says he was to get a fee of $3,000 to which he adds $300 for his expenses, |GRAPE JUICE FOR WINE MAKES DEBUT IN D. C. Fruit Industries, Ltd., to Sell Un-| fermented Product Here From New Offices. 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