Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1931, Page 23

JILTED I} Copyright 1931, by North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. By Margnret Widdemer INSTALLMENT XVL ORIS, waiting in the stiff parlor at Marietta’s gate house, was walking up and down rest- lessly. “I wish T was working for a living the way you are” she said as Helen entered. “With nobody to tell me what to do, sometimes I feel as if T'd go crazy, pushing myself down out of sight all the time and trying to turn | myself into something my people want me to be. And I'm not. I never can be.” felen looked at her, surprised. 'Doris, like many inarticulate people, once she had opened her heart to some one, went on recklessly. Her thin, pointed face was tense with the excitement of ac- tually talking things out. “I know I have pretty clothes and jewelry and expensive parties. But they're not my clothes or my jewelry or my parties. Everything is picked “out for me by Aunt Louisa. And if I ask father for a little freedom he just says, “You're too young to know what you want’ Oh, Helen, some day I think T'll go crazy or run away!” ~ “But why do you stand for it?” Helen asked curiously. Her own life had been so different. She would so have liked to have people care enough to dictate, even, she thought sometimes. Doris’ pallor changed to a hot, pain- ful flush. “I'm a coward. That's why. I've thought of going off and getting a_job & hundred times. But I'm just plain scared. You know, T don't have any al- lowance, only things bought for me. Aunt Lou has told me what to do since I Was a baby. And it's sort of like hav- ing grown up with handcuffs on. When alte says things, I just have to obey!” Helen looked at her pityingly. It must be dreadful to be chained like that. Doris' aunt, stiff, old-fashioned woman that she was, with her air of rigid certainty, ruled her brother, and through him, Doris. Doris’ mother’s elopement, of course. They kept the stable door locked on Doris. “But I haven't told you yet what I want,” Doris said, quieting down a little and standing still. a tremulous young figure, extinguished instead of enhanced by the heavily embroidered | “I came |often did at Helen's simplest phrases. white silk sport suit she wore. tq ask you if you'd come over tonight and help us cut and title the Gay | Young Oysterman.” \Helen stared at Doris in surprise for & moment. Didn't Doris have any sympathy for Helen, after pouring out her own troubles to Helen in a cer- tainty of sympathy? And then, see- idg the girl's childish, sad little face, she realized that Doris was not, as yet, ofd or wise enough in her feelings. whatever she might be by reason of age, to reach outside herself and be sqrty for other people. She felt older and wiser than Doris suddenly and very pitying. . Td love to come,” she said. ‘4Oh, thank you, Helen. Becky Pur- dbn said you wouldn't want to, but I told her 1 knew better. I told her you were just as gay and happy as efer, and delighted_you weren't going to have to marry Tommy!” S0 T am!” Helen said_truthfully. “Then you think youll write and tell Allen—-" “No, nor Bill!” said Helen teasingly. “You're so in love yourself, Dorrie, you can't imagine anybody being comforta- ble without wanting to get married and ‘e happily ever after.” “Then you're really over Tommy?” Doris persisted, wide-eyed, peering over her fur neckpiece. “Really—over—Tommy.” said Helen spacing the words emphatically . . . Ike a child's book she had read and 1qved long ago. Like @ game she had liked to plav when she Was a very little girl. Far ofi—dimmed—only & rfmembrance that Tommy had had charm. She laughed a little and put her afm around Doris as if she were her little sister in Baltimore. “Tommy could charm your eye- lashes off, but I'm over the hypnotism.” she said. “I'll love to see the old wd and I have some grand ideas sbout titling.” “A great happiness and relief swept over her. Relief and self-respect and mfiginess. Why, she didn't! She was g the truth! Tommy—wildly gay, horribly depressed Tommy—Tommy, th his quick unreasonableness and wild_words of worship—Tommy, and Tommy stood for, suddenly showed emselves for what they were. Won- derful. but dim, somehow. Far off. Spmething that didn't really matter, now. She took a long happy breath. e was free! All the values changed. e laughed a little, putting her arm nd Doris. “I don't a bit,” she re- ted. - “You always have wonderful ideas” thpeated adoring Doris. “I'm so glad Sou’re coming——" *“Where's she coming to?" demanded Eatricia, appearing _from nowhere, swift and assured in her brief straight smock and knickers, leaping at Helen and twining, not only her arms, but her brown legs around her +“Here, I'm not a tree,” said Helen, bending down to kiss the child as she tached her. “I'm going to Miss Mil- liken's house tonight to title a picture. And I'll tell you at length what titling & picture is, but not now."” “Do you love her more than you do me?” Patricia demanded. Helen laughed, answering the child, as she | grown up. | question. Not the kind people ever get answers to that are true, so there’s |no use asking them,” she assured Pa- | tricia, She said it absently. Her mind was twirling ‘with this_new discovery. | She was over Tommy. She didn't mind | about him. Over Tommy- She laughed aloud. Suddenly, stand- ing there in Marietta’s low-ceilinged old room with the late Fall sunshine about | her, she was alive and radiant. Doris and Patricia_looked at her in admira- tion, warmed by the sudden vibration of color and happiness she gave out, |golden and_rose and strongly alive. | Doris, weaker and more timid, looked at her almost with awe. Little Pa- tricia, herself a force, threw herself against Helen again, hugging her hard. “Oh, 1 love you, Helen! I do love | you! What makes people love you 502" She spoke with an odd, unchildlike, intensity. Helen was a liggle troubled. She answered her lightly. |~ “The reason the lamb loved Mary so, darling. Remember ‘Mary’s _Little Lamb, that funny old poem your cou- sin Ada was telling you the other after- noon?” | | ““It was sort of silly” nodded Pa- tricia, “but I remember.” “What makes the lamb love Mary so? "Cause Mary loved the lamb, you know. “Oh, that’s a very nice reason. G'by, Helen, I got to finish what I was do- . She was out, a graceful flash of yel- low and brown, before Doris could do | more than stare at her. | “She’s a_queer child” she s | people inevitably said about Patricia. | " “She's strange, but she's a wonder- | ful one.” Helen defended her. “She has |an amazing mind. She had an odd up- | bringing. I wonder if you'd do me a | favor, Doris—let me take her over to meet’ your little cousin Lucy tonight. She ought to have playmates, and she simply won’t. Lucy being a mer- | matd— Doris laughed tremulously, as she so “You do say the funniest things!" Helen smiled too and.went on. “What mean is, seeing Lucy have a part in he picture, she'll Tespect her. I love | Patricia, but she's a little pirate. She | has to be awed a little. And Lucy hav- ing to go home to bed early, of course, I can send Patricia, too.” “Do you really like it,” Doris asked doubtfully, “having a chiid to take care | of, instead of being a secretary?” | “I adore it,” Helen said honestly. “A |child is fun! And—don't think I'm isennmenml. Doris; but if I don’t have | people to love and make a fuss over, | honestly, I'm—well, I'm uncomfort- | able!” She laughed ‘as she finished her | confession. “And there's nothing in | the world as exciting as watching B4 tl fortifies the system keep the system in healthy condition. always did, as if she were | “That's a very embarrassing personal | P THE - EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1931. grow, even if they're children. seeds I used to plant in &flfi ”when I was little were nothing Doris looked at her with half-com- prehending, admiring eyes. “I guess I never had time enough from being unhappy about myself to things ‘The || want to watch things grow,” she said sadly. “I've had to put in all my time trying to evade Aunt Louisa.” She_looked so frail, so frightened, that Helen’s heart went out to her. “If there’s anything I can ever do for you, Doris,” she promised, “I will. You'll let me know, won't you?” It did not occur to either girl that according to the world’s standards | Doris had everything and Helen noth- | ing. Helen, in her strength and charm, !bent over Doris, frightensd and little and unhappy, and offered, and Doris | accepted gratefully. ing high. “And—it may be sooner than you think, Helen. And I'll love to ar- range to have Patricia play with little Lucy. Tl see you tonight.” ‘With the last words she froze into her shyness again, but Helen kissed her warmly, and the two girls parted, Helen to follow Patricia into the grounds, for those last words of the child’s still rang in her ears. Patricia and her necessity for digging a hole sounded as if she needed watching. The old story about “see what Johnny was doing and tell him to stop it" applied fatally 'to Patricia. (To be continued.) FALLAI;RVI;CTURES SKULL Edward G. Hoffman, Indiana Banker, Thrown From Horse. FORT WAYNE, Ind., February 9 (®). —Edward G. Hoffman, Fort Wayne bank official and former secretary of the Democratic National Committee, was injured perhaps fatally yestercay when he was thrown from his horse. His skull was fractured when his head struck the ground. Physicians at a local hospital held little hope for his re- | cover: Nervous ? 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