Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1932, Page 22

ife CHAPTER LXV. ME. CARTER had accom- m:ed the impossible, She succeed in eluding the watchful Martha when she followed Judy up to the city. The old lady’s firece family pride— her vigilant love for Niek, would not admit even Martha, the faithful, into this dark secret. Pon was different. The Oriental was outside of the Car- ter world. Moreover, on Pon pivoted the whole discovery and there was no help for it. Alone, the old lady had left the house. Keegan, the chauffeur, was out driv ing Mrs, Carter, but the old autocrat ‘was not defeated. Through the chill- ing fog. her 84-year-old legs had car- ried her down to the end of the bus line. No ope knew—no one was ever to’ know, the terror and tremendous effort of that walk. Not in years had Madame been out alone like this, lashed on by the terrible need of haste—her frail body the one thread which could hold the fabric of fate together. No one knew how terrifically her heart pounded—a driven engine shak- ing its old casing to pieces. No one knew, because that proud old head would not lower, because the flame of the pioneer spirit still burned high in Madame's breast. And later—after the wrench of see- her beloved Nick sailing out of her life forever—Madame still sat stanch- 1y upright in the bus, bobbing her way | back to Lockwood and the rigid mold of life she had left behind her. 1 She could even pat Judy's hand with her own shrivelled one. She could even [l to comfort the girl—she, who had just watched what was dearer than life fade away, knowing she would neyer see it return. ‘But it was the last flare up of the flame. The guttering of the candle. Back home, Madame silenced Martha's reproaches with one imperious look, announced that she had insisted on Judy taking her to the city to sec Nick leave, and—knowing she had carefully cleaned up behind her—got into bed and proceeded to fade out of life. Bitterly self-reproachful, Judy way- Jaid the doctor as he came down the stairs several mornings later after being called for Madame. The physician looked indulgently at this pretty girl so genuinely grieving for his old friend and client. “Nothihg I—nor any one else. can do, Mrs. Carter. Madame has already passed the allotted threescore and ten grant- ed us poor mortals, you know. Vitality getting low. The engine is simply worn out that's all. Pity . . . Mar- velous woman . Known her all my life . . . Too bad . . .” “Her grandson—Nick——"' Judy’s voice choked on the words, “is on his way to China. Shouldn't he be told . . . Re- called . . .” ‘The doctor and spread his 4 It may go on like this for months . . . possibly a year ~—Jonger. It may be tomorrow—today. . ., . Remarkable stamina . . . mar- velous woman . . .” He went away shaking his head in helpless admira- tion. It added to the dreariness of Judy's Mfe. Added to the ache in her heart for Nick. Judy remembered this period in her life as the gloomy Winter. Nick seem- ed to have carriedl the glory of Autumn away with him into the Orient. It was an unusually wet Winter, and perhaps she was more sensitive to this because of the dreariness in her own gray ‘heart. days of tramping in the hills 'i&agfde ip, not caring whether in her face and soaked her coat or not. Gray afternoons, read- ing to Mme. Carter in the third floor kingdom, while rain drummed on the roof and the little yellow shrivelled face against the pillow seemed more like a bit of carved ivory than ever. Madame seldom left Her bed now, and imnumerable hot-water bottles were re- quired to keep heat in the frail body. Judy had urged her to go to the ‘warmer _climate of Santa Barbara— Barbara where Madame had her honeymoon more than half . But the old lady was as t:vugh she feared Judy lay awake rain drop in dreary P! off the long-point~d leaves eucalyptus trees outside her A Letters came from Nick. He had arrived . . . he was busy in the new organization . . . he spoke of t quaint streets—the color of the city the gorgeousness of the shops. Th lavish color of the Orient crowded back the grayness of life when his letters arrived. Nick—as always—bringing a sense of freedom and far places. He spoke little of what lay nearest his heart. It was not like Nick to put his | secret thoughts on paper. But Judy read between the lines. Read constancy into his: “Always your——" Read heart- hunger for her in his simple: “I miss you so. A dreary time . . . it seemed to the 1 that she had found that dreadful larden of Proserpine of which Swin- burne wrote. Here come the loves that wither— ‘The old loves, with wearier wings, And all dead dreams come hither And all disastrous things . . . Dead dreams and disaster, they seem- - ed to be making her life she thought bitterly. But Judy alone, in the hig Cart house, seemed to be finding the W gray. 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The wedding med for a couple of n quential reasons—Judy suspected that the visit of Amy's old flame, Richard Curtis, had to do with one of them. It wes definitely decided upon for the. fici first of December. ingly dropped her. marrie Queens had d with less exeitement. Stan was to be the best man. had chosen Eunice for her matron of Not only was this a charming honor. gesture of their long friendship, but it | occupied by Eunice playing | revenge—schemes which came to noth- | pleased Amy to have To this end|ing, falling back from the impervious second she had carefully selected her bri maids’ fiddle for once. frocks and, since Eunice been Amy des- did THE EVENING not look well in lavender, Amy hed chosen that color. e, who had been warned many times by Patty Warren that lavender made her eyes appear faded and brought out unbecoming gray tones in her skin, was quite aware of this strategy—aware and furious, but help- Jess. The effect was all that could wish, Patty Warren, Marcla Newland, wedding | had Dee Marion Taber, Tony Wentworth, formed inconse- | her other attendants. Georgia De Haas was definitely out of the picture by now. The coolness between Amy and herself had never been patched up and Patty and Eunice had as unflinch- Georgia was sunk in her own narrow existence, consum- ing herself with futile rage like some |savage caged animal. ~Her Torizon bounded by the barren court of the Bungalow Court Apartments, her mind venomous schemes for | Amy and Eunice like so many blunted | BITOWS. Amy | STAR, } The ceremony took place- in the most fashionable church of Lockwood. | Outside, @ thin driszling rain turned the streets to wet black satin; pedes- trians went warily under bobbing um- brellas and machines turned cautious | corners with queer sucking noises of tires on the asphalt. But the church | boiled was a bower of soft color, the altar a | mass of white and gold erysanthemums | and gleaming candles, l | seated in the pew beside Vera and | Mrs. Carter, who appeared to think it | her motherly duty to sob gently the| whole time and dab delicately at her eyes with her real lace handkerchief, | Judy looked out over the crowded | church. A wedding . . . a flash and | mockery . . . She thought of her own wedding, A girl standing beneath a | light-struck paper bell; dreams in heri eyes and love in her heart . . . And| that had been a flash and mockery, too. She and Stan . held together | through hate . . . She looked up at the | altar where Stan walted the oom and her heart went faint within | the Sumner fortune into Amy's tencer | I care. The opening gun of the social| er. WASHINGTON, Billy’s sun] seemed at least honest and wholesome. dha huxl:h smother h?x’n flowers and cant t, they made appear par- . Stan seemed not so much the attendant of an e bridegroom as the keeper of a frightened and mildly de:ented inmate. ko ow was coming up the aisle to the :lfilng strains of the wedding march, leaning on the arm of an ante- diluvian cousin of Mrs. Carter's, who, being the only available male, had been imported for the occasion. Amy pum- melled, mi d and marceiled by Hilda's capable hands into a sleek flaw- less image of gold and white, as shin- ing, as empty as glass. Quivering hush of the organ . murmured words . rustle as Amy's satins kneeled to re- ceive the clergyman’s blessing. It was over, The ceremony which conceded i;TATTERYF(DR ' THE FACE Or Hat brims turn u on your facel pward — the sun shines How important to use Coty Face Powder—it really matches individual complexions! Twelve skin-true tones for perfect choice. —at good drug One dollar and department stores. 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