Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1932, Page 36

Spite Wife .. 7.um CHAPTER LXIL quiet bed room—Judy's trailing me! You won't see Stan alone! Nick | | | —1 insist! Let me handle this my own | asked, quietly. He had taken her two HEY were a strange tableau, there | - —pl ! Please!” I in the mellow lamplight of that | ..mfl‘-fik e mabier Judy?” Nick | velvet figure held hard against Stan's naked chest in ironic em- brace. Stan's black eyes—mocking. Hating. Stan’s curled lips and white teeth. $Stan—whose embrace could once send a tingle of sweet fire to her very finger- tips. Stan—whom she had thought she Joved so fervently, so desperately. And whom Judy now knew she hated quite as fervently Stan’s lips—crushing her own. Held in helpless fury in his arms. A sudden lithe twist and she was free, panting behind the chair which she held as a bulwark between them. “Don't you ever dare do that again! Don't you care!” Stan’s low, mirthless laugh. “That would make good listening for a judge! I tell you this, Judy, and I mean it. If you try to get a divorce, I'll name Nick Carter as the man who alienated your affections, and I'll drag him through all hell before I get through. I have witnesses in this house who beor him no love, and you know it!"” Judy did know it. Amy would make the most out of her testimony. And relish it into the bargain. Judy checked the hot retort rising to her lips. Stared back at him for a moment in helpless Suddenly turned and left the Back in her own bed room she walked over to the mirror, not knowing what she was doing, and stared at the reflec- tion which looked back at her. A white-faced girl, with stunned eyes. Judy had never looked like that before. Judy had never before faced such & situation. God—oh, God! Memory beating upon her. Stan’s voice—"I'l name Nick Carter—I'll drag him tbrough all hell!” It wasn't true. He couldn't prove any- thing. People had to prove things in court. But Stan would lie—flatly. Even if he was disproved, the daxrage would be ¢one. The world would believe the worst, of course. It always did. Nick— straight, honorable Nick, blackened like that. A man—it wouldn't matter. Oh, but it would! Under that easy, matter- of-fact manner, Nick was sensitive. | Nick's fair name was dear to him, as it was to any right-thinking man, The mirrored eyes were tortured—ac- cusing—looking ‘back into her own. Judy turned, distracted. Snapped off the light. Fell into the low slipper chair before the window. Buried her cold face in her colder hands. A deadlock. She and Stan—slinging mud—and the world watching with ill- natured glee. Stan would stop at noth- ing. Brother against brother. There was no hate like this. She was the fig- urehead of Stan’s hate-for Nick. He would make of her a cudgel to strike at Nick. All his jealousy of his brother— his lifelong resentment and smoldering hatred had brcken out now that he knew Nick loved her. Before this he had never been able to reach Nick. The older man had brushed bis petty dis- like aside as a man absently waves away an frritating gnat. But this was different. Here was a way to hurt. Sitting there, unmoving in the dark, face buried in her hands, Judy was a stricken thing. Back and forth her tortured thoughts darted, trying to find an opening—finding every escape blocked. Stan held the whiphand. She was stunned. She had never | g doubted that Stan would agree to sepa- rate. His marriage had been a gesture of hate. Freedom would be welcome to Stan, who wanted no restraint. He was not bound to her by any bonds of love now. No, not love—but hate! She ‘was bound to him by hate—his hatred of Nick. Back and forth—her brain beating, like a wild animal trapped in an ever- narrowing space. It amounted to just this: Open defiance, which would mean mud-slinging. And even then—victory by no means assured. Stan would block her efforts for a divorce. And what could she prove? Knowing & thing and proving it in a court of law were two very different things. Even if she were ruthless and dragged Eunice into the matter, as Stan would crag Nick, it might still remain a deadlock. “Divorce refused”—— She jumped as though the words which echoed in her mind had | been spoken aloud in the dark room. And under all this frantic thinking & cold fear was growing. Fear of the deacly hatred growing between Stan and Nick. When he was aroused like this nothing could check Stan's violent anger. In one of those dreadful black moods of his he might harm Nick. This fear was with Judy constantly in the next few days. But she carefully hid it when she spoke to Nick on his return to Lockwood, lest she make the feeling between the two men any worse. “He made a—a little fuss. You know how Stan is, Nick. Spoiled. As soon as he thinks some one wants something he has. It may not have any value in his eves until then, but he becomes af- fronted. His sense of possession is stirred——" “Stan knows—we love each other. Ttat I want to marry you?” Nick asked. . guessed it right away,” Judy ad- mitted, miserably. “Nick, I never dreamed—I never dreamed he would There hasn't been—love, real etween us for so long. I thought uld be glad. It's been such a “I thought you were a little overcon- fident,” Nick said quietly. His jawbone showed white under the brown skin. Nick's teeth clenched hard together. He guessed more than Judy admitted. This conversation took place in the field bevond the live oaks where they had met before. The country already showed the approach of the mild Cali- fornia Winter. Days were getting shorter. The afternoon shadows lay long across the field. The gold of the sunlight was thinning and a smoky light hovered under the oaks and be- neath the clumps of toyan trees whose berries were turning red. There was little of the sophisticated lady about Judy today. A belted tan polo coat, buttoned to her throat; a tan beret of knitted wool, pulled down over the golden-brown waves of her hair, made her seem a tall schoolgirl. Her eves were wide and anxious as they searched Nick’s face. “T'll talk to Stan.” Nick frowned and bit his lip. “Maybe if we get to- " Alarm leaping into Judy’s eyes. ‘Nick—please! Nick, proi A DASH #N&t il make your Car i Leeok Like NEW o FREE! Auato Greasing and Lubrication T REPAINTED or more col- (i a striping), * wheels, fenders, top and taterior of ear. | wrists in his hands, and he looked | down earnestly into her face. “What are you afraid of?” l | “Afraid! Why—why, I'm not afraid. | Only—you know how Stan is. Those | black moods of his. Let him get used | | to this. Used to the idea. He'll come | around. Nick. Honest! Only you'll| make it worse for me.” Judy was too | frantic and she knew it. But her fear | | was an active and alive thing now, | twisting in her heart | “I don’t want you to face it all, Judv." Nick's volce was worried. “No cne else can face it for me, Nick. | I got into it. I Lave to get out. Oh, Nick, darling, if I could only go to you —ifree. Without scheming—or fight- ing.” | | His forehead wrinkled. “I knnw,! darling. But we've got to drive through. | Civilization's complicated. And we want | to b2 civilized about this, Judy. Not— | ruthless.” | | “I know.” Her voice was muffled, for | | the was clinging to him, face crushed | against his breast. “But I could tear up everything—roots and all—to be with | yo | be you don't think I think that, | Nick's arms, tight around her. | u've come to be the center of every- | ‘lhmg for me. 1 used to think a lot | | about my work. Now I find myself | | thinking of you. The mountains get the same smoky blue as your eyes, Judy | And the sea—way out.” I find myself inventing excuses for flying down this way. I shouldn't be here today. But I can't help it. I have to see you. And 1 don’t know how I'll stand it when 'm | | way!” It was his tone more than his words which startled her. | _“I bave to go. They're sending me— | that's what I came down to tell you to- y—one of the things, anyway. | “Where?” | “Hongkong. They're opening a pas- ! senger flying line—my company is. It's | a big thing for me. I'll be in charge of | operations.” “When?" “Pretty quick. Quick as I can get| | over. We have to beat another com- pany to it. It's been pending a long | time. Sounds sudden, I suppose, to you; | but I've known of it for a long time, but, of course, things weren’t all fixed | up.” They want me to go on the steamer | next month.” Judy's heart seemed to have stopped, | shocked to silence. Nick—away. Far |away. Alone, she would be alone. An ocean between them. Nick in China— far away. ‘Tomorrow—Desperation. ARMY ORDERS Col. Theodore Schultz, General Staft Corps, Omaha, Nebr., before Retiring Board. Maj. William H. Jones, jr., in- fantry, from Tank School, Fort George G. Meade, Md., to 16th Infantry, Fort | Jay, N. Y. Maj. Arnett P, Matthews, Dental Corps, from Fort Sam Houston, Tex., July 10, to Letterman General Hospital, San Prancisco. Maj. Frank V. Schneider, infantry, from 325th Infan- try, Albany, Ga. to Fort Benning, Ga. . Edward J. Strickler, Medical Corps, Fort Riley, Kans., April 1, to Beaumont Hospital, El Paso, Tex. Maj. William F. Rice, Medical Corps, from Beaumont Hospital, EI Paso, to Letterman Hos- | | pital, San Prancisco. Col. Frederick W. | | Coleman, Finance Department, from | Fort Sam Houston, Tex., to office of | chief of finance, Washington. Capt. | | John O. Roady, infantry, from Infantry School, Fort Benning, to Philadelphia, Quartermaster Depot. Lieut. Col. Nelson | E. Margetts, Field Artillery, relieved as | military attache to China and Siam and from station at Peiping, China, to Let- terman Hospital, San Francisco, for general treatment. Col. Timothy M. 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