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REAL ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D, Q.5 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1931. JILTED I} Copyrisht 1931, b7 North Ameriean News By Maranet Widdemer per Alliance, Ine. INSTALLMENT XXVIIL ' ELEN was singing to herself as| she hurried upstairs to her own room. She was scarcely inside before she heard Mrs.| Birch's shrill call “Mr. Kingsway's downstairs in the parlor,” Mrs. Birch said. Helen ran_downstairs and into the 1ittle green plush parlor, a smile on her | face and a gay greeting on her lips. Ethan rose to meet her, but his look made her draw back, sobered, at once. | “Why, Ethan dear, what's the mat- ter? How did you get back so soon?” “I was only in Baltimore. My busi- ness only took a few hours. I drove back through Wayne,” he said. That and his look told her what had hap- H ned. “Well?” she said defiantly, Then she softened. After all, she had broken her word. But she'd tried to get him—she'd tried to explain—“I'm sorry, Ethan| she said. “I know I told you'I wouldn't see Ronny again. But this was a ne-| cessity. And I left you a note to ex- plain “I asked if you had left a note. You hadn't” he accused her, his imperious | jealousy getting the better of him. He | towered angrily over her. “There's no| explanation for a broken promise. I suppose I should have been prepared for I could pass that what else? What more “Tom Delamater's return.” " she stood, as startled as an- gry. for the moment. Then she laughed scornfully. “I remember Nina did tell me he was back, just as I left for Jes- sica’s. I'd forgotten it. I didn't know it interested you. It doesn't me." “You—— he turned aside for a mo- ment, as if facing her was something he couldn't stand. “You're a good ac- tress. But then I suppose most women are." She found nothing to say to this. Suddenly he caught her in his arms. | “I don't care about any of it.” he said furiously, kissing her. “I love you, | Whether you lie to me or not.” | The fcy anger deepened. And he | felt. it. too, for his arms slowly slack- | ened their hold about her. | “That's all.” she sald. “If you don’t believe in me your love is the sort of thing T don't want.” She slipped off the slender platinum circlet with its | single emerald, and held it out to him. “Love means trust,” she said. “I'd trust you, no matter what I saw you | doing. And I thought for a year you loved Nina. T've never thought of it | since, though she's evidently been put- | g away, . He held out his hands to her. shook her head He pleaded with her for an hour longer. there in the little garish parlor. | But he could not say he believed her | blindly. And she could not have any- | thing less. | “Good-by,” she said finally. “I can't | oome back to Patricia, you know « . . I—T'm sorry. Finally he went away. She picked up the ring. He had refused to take it. | She could not leave it lying about for | Mrs. Birch to see. . She must | mail it back. | There was a knock at the door. | “Here's a letter from your sister,” #aid Mrs. Birch's voice. “I guess you didn't see it, goin’ through the hall” She handed her two letters. Jessica's weekly letter, lying waiting for her in the hall, was a faint comfort. “Dear Helen,” Jessica wrote. “The worst thing has happened that pos- sibly could. My life is ruined. And I can’t see at all how it was my fault— | Lester has gone off and left me.” Helen sat back. She even laughed a | lttle, a cynical, small laugh. All the Heather girls seemed to be having men g0 off and leave them. | “ ... It was just because I'd spent a little bit of money on some- thing T have to have, the most won- derful value . . . and I bought him a lovely neckiie, too, for a sur- prise. All really nice bables have them. and the rent could have waited or he could have got a little salar: advanced him if he was so fussy about Font! .. .” Helen read on, realizing that it was really & crisis in Jessica’s life. Helen | must come down immediately and look after her, or she would be in the poor | house. It was an hysterical cry of She in her time well since I went {H anger and terror and pleading, and Helen sat up, furious at Lester. Then she looked at the other letter, the one Mrs. Birch had handed her with Jessica’s, Lester’s hand. Lester's letter was typed, as always, in spite of his tragic abandonment of his wife. Jessica, in the name of the twins, had felt that money was less of an object than ever. Nothing he sald had done any good—finally he | had warned Jessica that if she didn't stop he would take A position in another town, leave her where she was | with an allowance and forbid the tradesmen to run up bills. Jessica | had, of course, paid no attention to what he said; she had only laughed and kissed him and gone on spending, secure in his adoration. And the worm had_turned. She would go next day . . . No . .. Not till the day after. When | Mrs. Kingsway paid her. There was | a certain amount of comfort in going | from Kingsway. away from Ethan. and his love that she couldn’t accept with- | out humiliation. She packed furiously. There was a train from Philadelphia | that she could get at 11 next day. She and Jessica would settle down together and live for the twins and never think about men any more. | She had not thought she would fall | asleep that night, but she did. She said | a little prayer to have some help and | comfort, and presently it seemed to come. . . . Enough to sleep, at least. She supposed she ought to go to Kingsway, after all, next morning to settle her departure. | She did not have to decide about it, for it was scarcely 9 o'clock when Mrs. | Kingsway's own closed sedan came to | the_ door | Helen ran down and was inside the | car in a moment. her arms around Ada, nearer crying than she liked “T wanted to straighten things out.” Mrs. Kingsway said. going to the point without preface. “What is all this be- tween you two children?” Helen told her. “The worst of it is,” sald Ada Kings- way, “that Patricla swears you never | gave her any note for Ethan, and up | to now the child’s been a monument of | truth. I could shake Ethan. But it/ goes with Kingsway temperament, that | dreadful jealousy. I did hope vour sunniness and gayety would straightened out that kink in But Nina was such a cat Nina told him_ that Tommy and disengaged and, she supposed, tended to marry you, and that she told you so and you said you knew it.” “Oh, never! I was preoccupied about getting off, so I don't know what I did say! But never that. Honestly, dear I had forgotten all about Tommy's return. As for the rest— well, I've given my word not to tell why T had to go to see Ronny. but it really was serious and it wasn't for my- self.. .. You believe me, don't you?” | “Of course, I believe you, child! . . . If you weren't so young you'd know that you can't pay much attention to | what men say. They're just little boys and you have to deal with them as if | they hadn't any sense,” said Mrs. Kings- way briskly. | Mrs. Kingsway kissed her and drove | off_smiling. | Helen shivered. She felt at a loose end.Why hadn't she thought of ask- SECOND TRUST NOTES We will buy Monthly Payment Deferred Purchase Money 2nd Trust Notes, secured on owner-occupied D. C. rty. UNION FINANCE CO. 916 Woodward Blds. Kingsway Corner, All Brick—Center Hall Plan 5033 7th St. N.W, (SE. CORNER 7th & GALLATIN) $9,950 Reception hall. six large cheerful including a BUILT nd a large covered Recently renovated_through- gond Open’ Sunday and Monday DOUGLASS CO 5 | bright-eyed, excited, happy, and flung Colonial type dwelling at 6306 Hillcrest place, Beechwood section of Chevy N. Y rooms, from the builders, G. cross-question, with _that uncanny | shrewdness of hers, and it would be un- | bearable . which wouldn't mat- | ter, because everything else was unbear- | able, too. . . . She got through the day somehow, | going doggedly through one duty after another. There would be something to do with the evening. at least. The monthly meeting of the motion picture group was to be that night in Doris’ | father’s ball room. Helen dressed herself wearily, brushed out her dark, gold curls, pulled her hat down on them without looking and went there. There was no sensation to it. There didn’t seem to be anything Not even when Doris ran up to_her, | her arms around her and whispered to her about Ronny. [ “Oh, he's been such a darling! We're | going to take a little room over in Wayne beginning next Monday." she | imparted in a_joyous, hurrying whisper, “as soon as Ronny's week's up and he has his wages. Don't tell yet! Oh. it's going to be wonderful to get away from | Aunt Louisa!" H “Don’t tell!” Helen echoed indig- nantly. Her whole Jife's happiness had been sacrificed to Doris’ senseless se- | crecy . .. And then she checked her- self. What happened now made no dif- ference, not even when Eihan learned that he had been in the wrong. She had been so deep in thought, sit- ting in a corner of the room staring before her, that she was spoken to twice before she looked up. “Helen, Tommy Delamater wants to speak to you—wake up” Tommy! Tommy, as self-consciously debonair as ever; Tommy, pleasantly aware of all the watohing eyes, making a flourish out of his greeting. “You're looking fine, Helen. You're 2029 3rd St. N. (Open for Inspection) In the restricted all-white Eckington section, mear the new Tech High School, just off Rhode Island Ave. Very accessible to cars and bus. Six spacious rooms, til bath, garage. Beautifully ished with hardwood floors and trim, and artistic fixtures. Lot 125 feet deep—a nice, long back yard. Street and alley paved. R. E. Kline, Jr.; Owner Union Trust Bldg. Dist. 5246 Or Any Broker Moppdhine Another beautiful section of Chevy Chase, Maryland 15 East Woodbine Street A lovely center-hall Colonial of stone, brick and clapboard construc- tion. and the many unusual and artistic features incor- porated into the building of this home make it most appealing. ———————Special Features Are 6 rooms, 2 baths 2-car built-in garage Tiled walls Copper spouts and gutters Out Conn. in kitchen Large floored Ave. Woodbine St. to (just south "15.950 Electric refrigeration Bronze screens attic 60-ft. frontage with trees the of Columbia Country Club); wurn vight, third house from corner Open All Day Sunday EdW H Jones f‘i CO.. Inc. 5520 Conn. Ave. Exclusive Agents Clev. 2300 | Chase, Md., which has been purchased by Robert H. Adams, jr., formerly of Rye. s F. Mikkelson & Son. two baths and has a large recreation room in the basement. This house contains seven | | ing to see Patricia? But the child would | thinner, but T think I like it. I'd for- gotten what a beauty you were, dar- ling."” He threw himself down by her just as of old, sprawling on his spine, long- legged, in the armchair. Had he always had that too-shiny hair, that too- fluent, too-loud voic-? She listened, hearing it all dimly He hadn't made so awfully good, thank heaven, at that fool Wisconsin bank. His laugh somehow wasn't as infec- tlous as it had been “How is Kay?” she asked him did not seem at all disturbed. laughed again as he answered. “Oh, that busted itself by mutua consent hundreds of years ago. Kay was_® nice little kid, but she was He H> Three Rooms, Kitchen and Bath Electrical Refrigeration THE ARGONNE 16th and Columbia Road Reasonable Rentals N value. spoiled to death—thought she owned the world.” “I thought she was the most won- derful sport you'd ever met,” Helen couldn't help saying. “That's a big order,” said Tommy, grinning. “Say, Helen, what about an old-fashioned picnic tomorrow? The weather's milding_up, and my car'’s closed. We can find a rock to put a rug on. Got a lot to tell you, Helen.” His voice had slipped to the old, coax- ing small-boy note. She stared at him, amazed. and a little shocked . . . Suddenly she remembered that she did not belong to Ethan any more . . . There was no reason in the world why she shouldn't g0 picnicking with Tommy. It would put a neat, ironic knot in the threads of happening . . . “All"right.”" she sald, hoping it | sounded casual. And hoping more than anything else in the world that Ethan would know about it But he would only think it was what he had | expected There was pain any | way you turned B “You'll have to get the lunch.” she | told him,” at a delicatessen; I'm board- | e “You are high-hat, dear love,” h" sald plaintively. “All right, a thousand cans shall be yours. Ill be there at 10 o'clock.” | (To be continued.) i | California_has more daily newspapers than any other State in the Union. 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