Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1931, Page 24

By KATHLEI EN NORRIS e 51 M A Mo Afn . = INSTALLMENT XXI. } DITH and Gail had the Wilcox 4 cottage at Carmel for | dreamy August wecks, reveling | in the atmosphere of pines, sea air, golden duncs and charm- | ing, Triendly, informal neighbors. They | did their fiarketing in the rambling | Tittle main street every morning, laugh- ing and gossiping as they wandered to and fro along the plank sidewalks. Afterward they finished the play- housckeeping that was all the Wilcox cabin demanded and took a picnic | lunch and the inevitable books down | to the shore. | There on the sun-warmed rocks €hey idled for hours, dreaming. rfl\d-‘ ing, talking, dozing. The sea crept in | to their feet and fretted itself into lace | over the sharo stones; its deep, surg-| tng rush and boom was the undertone to =21l the other noises of the world— gulls' shrill pip! their own voices. And often at night there was some- thing to do in the community theater, se of some girls like them- ith. moonlight and good talk to follow. Young terrhers, girl doctors, gcientists, all the world of young, eager working womanhood went to Carmel for vacation days These were peaceful days, definitely Bappy davs “T feel as if T had got my soul back egain.” Gail said. It has done every oucht to do!” Edith agreed contentedly. “And_somehow now We can go on, Ede.” the older sister added soberly. | “I know. Evervthing last year was— | oh. horrid!” Edith mused alou ‘I never saw myself, at 25 to be a Clippersville old m said, as if half to herself, as if think- ing aloud Edith was silent & minute. “You don't have to be a Clippersville old meid, Gail." she said then lightly, but th'a tonch of pain in her v fary Rumiold told me you we most gopular girl in town. Gail °T phecume in a perfectly respectable way I am,” she admit'ed without en- thusiasm. = “After the jazz age, the nicer type of man seems to look about for my sort of girl. ‘I've had my fun with the petters,’ he says, ‘now Il find some girl about whom there’s | never been a whisper.' " “Ah, don't he bitter, dearest!” Edith eald distressedly in the silence. | “I don't think I'm bitter, Ede. But gomehow—well, at 20 it would have driven me out of my senses with joy 5 have two or three of Clippersville's | me. But | that's all ing a vacation a@mng young citizens want pow it just—doesn't click, I'm vaccinated.” “Was it Van, Gail?" They had been to the edges of this ground before, many, many times. But in the more than two vears since the | fatal Christmas night that had ended | one phase of the Lawrences' life for- | | more, “But then—do you suppose she loves him now?” Edith demanded after an- other silence. 3 “Oh yes—when you're marri person——" Her own Wwords Gall over that wearisome road her thought had beaten flat in the last 30 months and she could not go on. Jeal- ousy and prin mingled together lik suffocating fumes in her heart. Ar Dick's wife. Ariel for more than wonderful years Dick's wif2, s his breakfasts and meeting him at the door at night. It wasn't falr—it wasn't fair. These agonies were routine now. But they were rarer than they had been. |She could bear them better than she | |once had borne them. only because she | knew that they would not endure. The pain would ease; the other interests of her life flow in to fill the gaping river bed that love for Dick had once brim- | med so richly. From Dick there had come tu' o3 brief letter, received on the New Year day just one week after he and Aviel had ‘gone awav. Ariel was well, the letter had said. and_there were to be married tomorrow. There had been de- lays because of residence, but they would write full particulars in a day or 0. Meanwhile, the family was pleased not to say anything about it. And he was, as ever, theirs, affection- ately, Dick. After that the long months had spun themselves to & year, to two years, to and there had come no other word. Clippersville was perfectly sat- isfied to hear that Ariel Lawrence was staying with an aunt down Pasadena way and working hard to get into the movies, and only occasionally remem- ber that Dick Stebbins had been of- fered & much better position some- where and was making good. San Pedro, was it? So Clippersville dismissed Ariel and Dick as separately solved problems: Edith and Phil philosophized about having the difficult youngest member of the family scttled. and it was only For the 7|sf Time THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1931. !in Gail's heart that the pain and the |sense of loss lived on. | When Phil, cnly a few weeks before these happy holidays at Carmel, had | told his sisters that sometime’ this | ! Summer he was to be married to Lily | Cass, widowed now, it was the usually ! quiet Edith who broke into tears, pro- test and plending, and the usually m- ipetuous and proud Gail who said gently: “If you love her, Phil. . . . Ede and I wouldn't want any one who— who loved ar.j one. really truly loved | her, to be unhappy.” | “Gall, you're so sweet!” Phil, taken unewares amd completely disarmed, had said gratefully. “No: it's just that—just that T think | any of us that can, ought to be happ: | Gail had faltered with filling eyes. “So that's the next thing we have to face!” Edith had sald when the sis- !ters were alone. “I suppose 50.” ! “I'd like to know how he thinks we're going to manage, financially!” “Oh—perhaps the gas station people.” “Which we'll never do!” Edith had |sald hotly. She had hesitated, sur- | priced at the expression on Gall’s face, and had added aquickly, “You wouldn't, would you, Gafl?” | “Well, we're getting more_and more into the downtown streets, Ede. With the new post office building right across the street and the Christian Science Church up on the old Mockbee lot, | we're going to be forced ouy some day. And a hundred & month is big money for that empty corner.” “It would ruin everything!” “If Phil marries Lily,” Gail had said {after'a thoughtful interval, “I'm going [to act as if she weren't Lily Wibser | |of Thomas street hill, but Phil's wife— |not the one we would have -chosen, | may all, | had said " passionately as she paused. |“I think you're the most wondefful woman aliv | " They came home wearied, sunburned |and content from their vacation at Carmel on a’ hot Saturday afternoon. | | They took a taxi, an unwonted extrav- | agance, and carried their big baas\ | through the dry, silent Summer garden and into the side door. The house was unlocked, silent, empty. Outside its | shaded opened windows tree branches ed in the early afternoon wind, good to get home!" Gail said ut I could live at Carmel forever!” | Edith_said. | _And then suddenly there was Phil fiying upstairs and the thunderbolt of | played in the Lawrences’ side yard un- ' |together, there rose a strange wall of renting the corner to | |lows, with Celtic blue“eyes and dark STOP ITCHING TORTURE| ZEMO| news. Phil married! He and Lily mar- ried this morning, partly because Lily’s house had burned down yesterday aft- ernoon with all fer clothes and all the children's clothes. And Phil only wait- ing his sisters’ return to invite his wife and the three tiny stepsons into the Lawrence house, for the time being, anyway, “untl’ we can find some place—-" Lily helped Gail get supper that eve- ning. Wolfe, Miles and Daniel Cass der the willow. Lily was nearly 30; she knew little of books, art, culture, soclal fineness. But,about other things, men, life, wifehood, motherhood, of cow.se, Lily knew a great deal. Be- tween her and Gall, as they worked silence. ‘Their conversation became monosyllabic, careful, considerate. “I wouldn'ta hounced in on you this way for the world. But Phillp says you_have plegtv of room.” “Oh, we have rooms we never use. After supper we'll air some blankets wn_here.” Lily looked so familiar in Ariel's old epron that Gail kept thinking it was Arfel back again. Gail was very gen- tle; she was conscious of an inner trembling. There .was a jar, a shock in Phil's marriage, but it 'was a fact accomplished now and Phil must never know how his sisters felt. She and Edith must just make the best of it. Lily and the children would not be under the same roof for long, anyway. Lily casually buttered some bread and spread 1t with jam. She filled three saucerless cups with gave the children their meal on the side porch. They seized the food with dirty Mlttle eager hands, panted like puppies as they ate, ‘They were round. shaggy little fel- Clean, soothing, invisible rings prompt relief to itching skin. zema, Pimples, Ringworm, Rashes, ndrutf and similar annoying, itch-! ing skin or scalp irritations are re- liecved and usually ‘healed by this antiseptic, soothing lotion. Druggists, o0, §$1.00. Strength for obstinate cases Zemo FOR SKIN (RRITATION' milk and | !hatr. Dan, the 3-year-old, still retained a certain babyish uncertainty of out- line; his wet little mouth hung open; his face, hair, hands were caked with dirt. His blue eyes were affectionate, hopeful. As he ate his supper he leaned comfortably against “Gail's khec. Gail, peeling apples, found the feeling of the Foft, warm, boneless little body rather disarming. (To Be Continued.) DECORATE MEMORIALS U. 8. Boys and Girls in Britain See London Landmarks. LONDON, June 29 (4).—The party of boys and girls visiting England under auspices of the United States Flag As- | sociation visited the cenotaph in White- (hall today and the Washington Me- morial in Trafaigar Square. Wreaths were lald by Ruth Eldridge of Texas jand Ward Stone of Oregon. Polish Beauty Is Suicide. WARSAW, June 29 (#)—Dr. Eugenle Levicka, gymnas!. instructor and known as one of the most beautiful women in Poland, died today of self-administered poison. Qids The Home of Roa, CRACK-SHOT i+ S 3 5 N P ROACH DEATH MAJ. GEN. GIBBS RETIRES Chief Signal Officer to Enter Tele- phone Service. Maj. Gen. George S. Gibbs, chief signal officer- of the Army, Will be placed on the rctired list of the Army.! tomorrow, at his own request, and will | g0 to New York City to assume his new dutles as vice president of the Inter- national Telegraph & Telephone Cor- Amber-Colored Liquid Ends HEADACHES —Quickly! safe remedy, licves the pain of a m headache in a few minutes. 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