Evening Star Newspaper, July 8, 1931, Page 24

14 bk INSTALLMENT XXX. = T Muller's she looked at the in- ? credibly smart ensemble: the tan silk blouse, the tobacco-brown coat with a great fur collar. “The tag seems to be gone, Mr. ver. Not that I think it's—just my | it is thirty dollars,” said old Muller dfastly. The saleswoman almost d out. zed bewildered. ‘Thirty dollars!” “Thirty.” Che trled it on that night for the ¢ nily, pulled down the rich little to- -~co-brown hat over her eyes. You're stunning!” said Lily and s ol “Gee, you're cute!” Sam and « il said. Dick said nothing. The days were full of delights: in | 1> long evenings she and Dick sat by s~ fire and planned. ‘What keeps us in New York for 10 «-ys, Dick?” ‘Oh, T have to see Mr. Leavitt, and v have to get you a Winter coat—or -aybe we could get that in Lon- Lzl Dick, I assure you in all seriousness t I can’t belleve my ears!” It's going”she said slowly with a 1ich content in his voice—"to be fun!” Do you know whom I'm going to riss like everything, Lil?” Gail asked. “shey were busy wiping the dishes. “Phil?" suggested Phil's wife. “phil, too, and, of course, the baby. Sut I mean Danny,” sald Gail. “He ond I understand each other. I never reamed tnat I could love a little boy ®s much as that.” “He'll miss you, too,” Lily said, tears 1 her bright sharp ey “But won't we " she added, simply. t was only Ariel, of them all, of all lippersville, who could not share the itement and pleasure of Gall Law- >nce’s marriage. Ariel had somehow st her birthright of little sistership. There had been no happy flurry of tlowers, gifts, wedding frocks and wed- <ing plans for her, and she looked on ¢t Gail's excitement and emotion with cdisillusioned, hard, young eyes and & 1aint curl of her lip. Sometimes Gail dragged herself from her own roseats absorption to try, as all rer world had always tried, to cheer Ardel. : “Do you know anything about Man- chester?” “Manchester?” “The New Jersey town where Van is, where you'll live?” “Not much.” utterly dreary country club."” “That might be fun.” “I don't imagine anything in New Jersey is fun. It sounds to me like a horribly jay place.” Words were no use. Beautiful, mar- ried to the man she had chosen, yet the secret of content was denied Ariel, and she could only look forward with appre- hension and backward with regret. Ariel tried to feel contempt for Gail, 50 innocent, so awed, so trembling with love and faith. Ariel was but 21, but life had hardened her. She had aged 10 years in the last three. Nothing thrilled Ariel now. No promises rang true in, her ears, no prospect allured her. And Gall at 26; Gail, who wrote Ariel's tone would be “Van says there’s a Even unsophisticated Gail | i 11y B s o A s leaves were drifting and Dick showed her his initials cut clumsily into the great bole of a gepper tree. The girl stooped and touched her lips to them. “Do you know what that is, Dick?” she asked, straightening up, with eyes full of love and laughter. “TLat’s love dear. The love of a womau for a glowing face. On the way home they stopped at the graveyard and Gail knelt, dry-eyed and thoughtful, at Edith's litt.c stone and touched its carved inscription her fingertips. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God,” she read. And all that evening, the last of her girlhsod, she thought of Edith. “My darling, it you could share this! You'd love it so! Packing the trunk— you'd have so many little tricks, out of the backs of magazines! You'd come out to visit us maybe in London, and we'd prowl together—in the Strand and {in Charing Cross Road.” ‘The evening was one long dream—a dream that blended into the drcams of the short night, when she slept lightly but sweetly, mingling wakirg thoughts with happy confused journeys into the unreal. She thought of the old house, the stately old ugly rooms, the books and books and books. She thought of her poetic mother dying, with innocent lit- | tle Ariel on her arm, and of motherless childh>od days when she 2nd Edith had whispered of school affairs, going off to sleep. Then papa off to the war, and then the strange sense of sud- denly growin; up, of responsibility that had come with the news of papa's death and her first job. Poverty, hard work, disccuragement, | ignorance—how these shadows had | darkened about the Lawrence children! She and Edith had philosophized, had read books and taken walks, had refused the spurious coin when the genuine had failed them. But Ariel had flut- tered straight toward the flame, desper- ately determined to force from the world what the world would not give. Edith, always steadfast, faithful, com- g to the library to help stack books, | planning supper in the side garden, | with raspberries and iced tea. But Ariel |in open rebellion and Gail not much | better. She remembered the day when Van | Murchison came suddenly back into her |lifo and when fun, excitement, visits and frocks had seemed within reach Unsatisfactory, flippant, giddy as he | had been, she had accepted him. She [had determined, indeed, to marry him | should the chance be offered her— | marry him to escape. Gall, dreaming of all this on her wed- | ding eve, trembled with a sudden chill |in the darkness and solitude of her own | big chamber. She would have taken Van to escape—what? Well, this. This that she had tonight. Her friends, her background, her family, Phil and Lily and the children, all the beauty and dignity of home. To escape from her work, her green fountain pen. To escape from Dick and London and all the glowing future! Then it was morning and there was |no more time for dreams. The house | was astir in the foggy dawn; Lily, with he miracle,” he sald, kissing her | stories and handed unmanageable little | her hair in curlers, running frantically boys and novel-loving old ladies so ex- |about the kitchen; little boys stumbling pertly; Gail was only a child, going in | to and fro. Sam grinning over his early utter unknowingness to her bridal night. | To Gail men could still be fine, good, | worthy of trust and love; to Gail mar- | riage and motherhood would be the very | crown of life. i But, after all, it was hard to despise | beauty and strength' and hcpe; it was | hard to despise the prospect that em- | braced travel and new cities and the | crossing of the.great ocean. Above all, | it was hard to despise love—and how these two loved each other! Gail’'s new cards came—Mrs. Richard | Alden Stebbins: Gail's new trunk came, with a plain little “A. L. S.” lettered on | the blue stripe that encircled it. | On the afternoon before the day it- | self they were walking about the old | place that was presently to be Sam's home. Sam not only had theories about | farming, but he had an eye on pretty Beth Tait, who taught the kindergarten grades. He, Gall and Dick wandered through the deserted farmhouse that cup of coffee, Phil rushing off to work | sorts of commissions and | with all threats sounding in his ears. APPLY ZEMO ONCE STOP ITCHING SKIN When itching, burning skin is un- bearable apply soothing, antiseptic ZEMO. Thousands find ZEMO brings swift relief from itching; draws the heat and sting out of the skin. For twenty years ZEMO has given relief and has héen clearing away Ringworm, Fczema, Rashe Pimples and other skin and scalp ir ritations. All Druggists, 35c, 60c, $1.00. Extra Strength 7 10 ‘espe- adapted for obstinate cases.— THE EVENING Gail appeared in ths kitchen just be- fore Phil went, “You'll be back early, Phil?"” “I'll be here by 10.” G“l”l'he boy for the trunks is here, all.” “There’s some one we forgot, after all!” This was Phil departing “Oh, good heavens, Phil who? May- be I could telephone. “The Formaldehyde: Phil called | over his shoulder. “Gail—look at the roses—" “Listen, all the food goes here—see?— in this closet. Just stack it there, and | while we're at church Mrs. Wiggin and Betsey are going to sort everything | ou g “H-re are the cakes from Lou. Will | you look at the ten-layer cake!” | “Give me the baby,”” Ariel said. S8he ?M holding the soft little drowsy arm- ul. “You look real cute with a baby) Mis' Murchison! said Lily's mother. | “Mama, will you lay off?” Lily de- | | manded ' patiently. But Ariel = only | laughed. ~She was her sweetest, her gentlest self, on this busy morning. She seemed to keep rather near Gail, and when the clock had raced as far as| 11 o'clock and Gail, outwardly calm, inwardly madly. agitated, went upstairs for the actual donning of the wedding dress Aricl went too, till carrying the sleeping baby. The big bed room was a scene of mad confusion; Mary Keats was on her kmoes finishing the packing and hold- {ing everything up for Geil's approval | |before she laid it away. | | ““Gail, got_stockings’ out for your | | traveling suit?” | "“Two pairs, darling! I can wear a | different color on each leg!” | | “The white gown slipped over her | head; she was all "in white. It was | simple white, with a small pull-down | {hat instead of a veil, end practical | | shoes. Yet they who loved her thought | | they had never scen Gail look so lovely | | as she did now. She looked at herself in | ths old dim mirror that had reflected all the moods of her girlhood and |laughed contentedly. | “Somehow I can't feel that I'm get- ting married!” The others straggled away, Lily tak- | ing her baby. Ariel was alonc with her | sister; suddenly she came close and with ‘her slender arms encircled ths swe~tness and whiteness and glory that | was Gail. | "“Just one thing, Gail. I'm going on {to Chicago tomorrow to mest Van, and |I'm going—I'm going to be different | Gail. I'm going to—to make a go of it, do you understand? Il be the nicest | Apartment Hotel ONE FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK At Washington Sq., New York's most delightful residential dis- trict. Convenient to financial, theatre and shopping centers. 27 stories of unobstructed sunlight with 1, 2 and 3 room suites fur- nished or unfurnished. Maid serv- ice to all guests. A restaurant with the finest appointments and an unexcelled cuisine. Write for reservations. 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Lyddy White at the crgan was so excited that she forgot to begin the wedding march until the bride was halfway up the aisle; then it did begin, convulsively and rapidly, and there was nhbm‘l:h of laughter through the packed church. ‘They were all there, old friends, old neighbors, library acquaintances, Edith’s assoclates from Muller’s, the butcher and his wife, the Foster girl from the post office—everyone. She felt their love about her like a protecting great wall as she went slowly up the alsle and saw Dick waiting. Ard at the sight of him Galil forgot everything else except that after tnis packed and flurried and extraordinarily emotional morning she was really get- ting married. Wolfe and Miles and Danny had been shepherded into & pew, and Lily, flushed and weary, was sit- ting there with little Gail restless and hot in her arms; Sam looked oddly grown up, in his new suit, standing be- | side Dick. 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