Evening Star Newspaper, March 5, 1932, Page 19

REAL ESTATE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. ALA RYPLY RCH 5, 1932. REAL ESTATE. * B—S§ | lyou. 1 ‘hh ‘words. i CHAPTER LXIX. HBRISTMAS had come to Lock- wood again. A rainy Christ- mas this year. Rain, lashing the toyon trees and the live H oaks on the hills, turning the | !fields to sodden bogs. Dashing against (the windows of the Carter house as ‘though they pelted the glass in fury. | Dripping off the long leaves of the eucalyptus through the nights. Christmas. It lived up to its old tra- dition in the Lockerbee house, where Mary'’s two husky boys roused the household with delighted shouts before the sun was up. An evergreen tree, !shimmering in tinsel and strings of lights, with mysterious bulky packages ‘sheltered by its lower branches. A roar- ng open fireplace—the smell of roast- ng turkey and mince pie—warmth and 'laughter and the inner glow which only contented love can bring. This was Christmas at Mary's. The Wilson house sported holly wreaths in all its plate glass windo | A long line of cars waited in the grav- teled driveway, driven in response to !Eunice’s careless invitation to “come jand have Christmas eggnog With us.” The eggnog more often than not turned out to be cocktails or champagne. The great white drawing room. the black and silver bridge room filled with a hilarious crowd, some of whom had imbibed not wisely but too well. Christ- mas at Eunice Wilson’s was only an excuse for another party. Christmas at the Palm Court Bunga- Jows. A pale little boy played with a new mechanical train in the stuffy 1 ing room, listening listlessly to s .mother’s rapid, fretful voice. Georgia De Haas’ sole guest for the day was an | angular female of only too certain age. | |A second cousin—a poor relation—de- | ispised in the days when Georgia was ion the fringe of Lockwood society, a | comfortable confidant when these lean | days descended. Georgia was holding | forth on her grievance against Eunice and Amy. The subject had become an obsession with her. Her thin frame shook now with inner passion, her words were hurled like missles. “Now that she landed Billy Sumner and his money, Amy Carter has no more —use for me. And Eunice Wilson, too —treating me like dirt under her feet. +Used me and threw me aside like an| 'old shoe. You'd think they'd have bet- | ter judgment—all I know! I tell you,| Hortense, I'm holding it all back—long | as I can, but something ought to be | .done to teach them a lesson! Some of these days I'll make them sorry they treated me like this.” Christmas, a| dark and hateful affair at Georgia’'s. ; Christmas in the Carter house. A/ irainy twilight outside and shadows | tgathering in the large, lonely rooms. }In an upstairs bed room a small fire | ‘kindled in the grate and a lonely girl | isat_writing a letter. + The Christmas dinner had been eaten | :at noontime. It was too soon after |Madam Carter’s death for any large tcelebration. The meal had been a tire- some affair—a matter of empty form and heavy courses which no one really | :wanted. Stan had not appeared. Judy | i suspected he was at the Wilson's eggnog iparty. She didn't care, the girl told ) herself wearily. Better to have Stan +there than to have him present and to | .feel this deadly antagonism between i them i After the meal Judy escaped to the !only part of the great house where she «felt at ease—her own second-floor bed room. She drew a table before the fire and !started to write to Nick. Nick—her | thoughts went far away from this silent :room where the fire crackled and the Tain laced the window pane. Far out L across the ocean to the other side of Ithe world. Nick on the other side of {the worli—an ocean rolling between +them. How long would it roll? How | +long would this deadlock continue? | Wind and rain and the crackle of the | +fire. The feel of a great, empty, lonely | {house, pressing in here on her little +lighted island of a bed room. Dreary Christmas. Mary had wanted her to come to her house. Dear Mary she understood without words. “But somehow I couldn't, Nick,” Judy | iwrote. “It's probably a selfish way to | ook at it. but I haven't the spirit to !sit through the happiness of others | right now. I feel so—alone. With you raway and things as they are between | iStan and myself. And your grand- mother—I never realized what she meant to me—it is almost unbelievable, for she seemed to be much by hersel ‘up there in her own quarters, but now {that she has gone something firm— +something that held the household to- | | gether—is gone.” The pen poised over the paper, the i+ fire swam for a moment through Judy’s | sudden tears. So lonely this big house was. No one here save herself. Directly after the midday dinner the Chinese cook and : Pon had departed for the Celestial d lights of San Francisco’s Chinato: 5461 Nevada Ave. N.W. Eight rooms, 2 baths, natural wood finish, breakfast room, large pantry, open screened porch, large ‘attic. Lot 40x140. Open and lighted evenings All day Sunday EATON & CO. NAt. 2920 5510 4th Street N.W. A New Value Near 14th St. Cars Extended Spacious Dinette—Tiled Lavatory—Model Kitchen Detached Garage coppe Open Daily and Sunday L. T. GRAVATTE Realtor 729 15th St VALUE and BEAUTY! In THIS DETACHED BRICK ENGLISH TYPE HOME 9 7 rooms. 2 complete baths, real open fireplace, artistic club room in cellar, tiled and Sanitas walls in kitchen and baths. Bright breakfast alcove with built-in furniture. Electric refrigeration. Very large lot attractively land- scaped. 2-car garage. Built by Eig Const. Co. 6814 9th ST. N.W. Open to 9 P.M. Daily WAPLE & JAMES, Inc. Realtors 1226 14th St. N.W. NO. 0962 | Keegan had driven Mrs. Carter and Vera to Amy's house. Judy herself had dismissed the upstairs girl. It seemed a shame to keep her here from her fam- ily on Christmas day “The wind lashed the eucalyptus trees against the window. The fire leaped as :hough in sudden terror. Sense of deepening dusk outside and vague, empty rooms within. Shadowy halls— cavelike spaces “When I think of last Christmas, Nick—-" wrote Judy. “Down at the coastside house with Madame. The blue ocean and the sunshine like diamonds and you dropping in out of the sKy. You brought me_Side-slip—do you re- member? He's here now, sleeping in front of the fire. I brought him up here for company. Remember how we walked up to the old railroad tunnel and you told me about the discarded road that had eaten up so much of the family money?. Just thinking of it, T can remember how chill and damp it was in the mouth of the tunnel—how far away the sunny outside world looked. And how tall and dependable you seemed. I was so glad you were there beside me in that spooky place. I think I began to love you then, Nick. without really knowing it. You say that's when you first knew vou loved me. Last Christmas. And now this gray loneliness. I wonder what next year will bring.” . Judy’s pen poised again and her head lifted sharply. The sound of the front door closing with a bang which threat- ened to dislodge the leaded glass. Foot- steps coming up the stairs. For some unknown reason the girl’s heart began to pound and she tbrust the half-writ- ten sheet under the blotter of the writ- ing table. She had risen in an attitude of alarm when the door opened to frame the figure of Stan. Stan’s handsome dark face and mock- ing white smile. He was in tuxedo, slim and neat. his thick, black hair brushed smoothly back, but Judy knew that he had been drinking heav “Well, my wife.” His voice, the voice which could once send the hot blood leaping along Judy's veins like spark- ling wine and which now filled her with a strange, unnamed dread. “A pathetic picture—all slone here on Christmas The girl continued to stand silently before him, eyes wide and watchful. Side-slip had roused and lay, head erect, ears alert, watching the intruder. “I'm the model husband, Judith, my ——" Stan’s mocking voice con- T came back to lead you to the festivities. Get into your war paint, my love. The others await us.” “Where?” Judy's voice was expres- sioniess. “At Eunice's. The old man has loos- J. LEO KOLB Announces the Removal of His Downtown Office to 804 17th On Monday, March 7th, 1932 Phone District 5027 Associates Edward D. Coleman A Corner Home of Unusual Charm ALL-BRICK CONSTRUCTION | Jcreven] DivING Note th ROOM Plans, fireplace. ] D r Three LIVING ROOM ‘ Bedrooms Floor, Master room across front of house wii lavatory; ber and size of clos- ets. Very Low Price 1348 Shepherd St. Charles M. Builder 1010 Vermont Ave. N.W. Massachusetts Ave. park rurry $21 3013 Cathedral Ave. N.W ARELY are we able to offer rarely at such a price. A t 3 fine baths, 2-car built-in garage; Located on good 1ot facing the estate of the Secretary of State; near Entire property thoroughly modern. and redecorated like new. Come out Sunday and make a personal in- all conveniences. spection. 1418 Eye St. You will agree that it is Facing New Holy Name Iy Spacious Center trance Hall feature, with Living Room across entire front of house and genuine H.G.Smithy t ened up to the tune of several hundred | dollars of real champagne. I dropped | in there from Amy's and I came to get | Judy’s alert mind filled in the gap in Stan wanted her for con- | Probably Eunice had} | vention's sake. i in | sent him here for his wife—this order to blind Wilson's jealous ey | head went proudly up. Her jaw in a way which Nick would have recog- nized. | “I'm sorry. I'm not going, Stan.” | . Stan’s eves narrowed to black slits. | “May I ask why?” his voice ominously | | calm. | "What's the use of camoufiage? You know I detest Eunice Wilson and she | | heartily dislikes me. And things are| | —are—beastly between you and me. ‘!tf a lie. And I won't act a lie.” My virtuous wife!” A silken menace in Stan’s voice. “Rather stay home alone and write to your lover, wouldn't | you? Oh, yes—I can see the letter | under the blotter—you didn't cover it all up, my dear! Well, suppose 1 got weary of this dissension. Suppose decided to make wife act—as a real | wife to me.” So quickly she had no remembrance of him crossing the room she found herself in Stan's arms. Found herself held hard against his breast, his mouth hard on her own. Stan, speaking —his breath hot against her face. “No court will blame | me for taking what is rightly my own | —did you know that? Did you know | that, my wife?" | A sudden wrench and Judy was away across the room, warding him off with outstretched arms. “Get away—get out of here—" Her voice was a lash. “I hate you! Dou you hear that? I hate you!" It was like a nightmare, | Stan—there | across the room, his handsome. hating | face, his pride stung to the quick. Her- | self pressed against the opposite wall, | white-faced and tense. And between | them, bristling, fangs bared—sSide-slip, | roused to a sudden sense that his be- | loved mistress had need of him It was Stan who recovered first, his smile a white sneer. Nick trained the dog well, I see!| te an idea—gives you a hound to keep your husband away. And that will make nice telling to a judge, too, 1723 Taylor St. N.W., Brick. 8 rooms, 2 baths, garage to match. Lot 150 feet to paved alley. Flowers and shrubs in profusion. Price and terms given at time of inspec- tion. SRR YRR AR | Open Sunday FLOYD E. DAVIS CO. 733 lz:: ::‘.SN.W. St. N.W. William J. Burrows Two-Car Garage College e Unusual- Floor En- Full on Second Bed- Size th private the num- N.E. Wallingsford & Owner Nat’l 2990 .500 pETACHED a fine home in this section—more ruly beautiful home. Large rooms, substantial _construction. Now vacant a real value, NAtional o 5904 | Chancellor J. O. Wolcott yesterday per- | mitted David A. Belden of St. Louis to my wife! T tell it and see the effect if you ever try to get a divorce from me.” A moment later the door slammed shut. Judy locked it. She was packing un- til a late hour that night. Tomorrow—The City. e = RECEIVER QUITS POST Court Permits Former Utility Offi- TREASURY-POST OFFICE BILL AGAIN STUDIED House Defeats Effort to Increase Fund for Domestic Airmail Service by $1,000,000. By the Associated Press. The House today resumed considera- tion of the Treasury-Post Office bill by defeating an effort to increase the al- lowance for domestic airmail service from $19,000,000 to $20,000,000. Representative Lankford, Republican, was cer to Resume Old Duties. WILMINGTON, Del, March 5 (#).— BUNGALOWS bungalow posibilities individuals ton and convenience, built esign as one of the receivers for the American Community Power Co. Belden was appointed two months ago with J. K. Garrigues of Wilmington and Herbert W. Nichols of Chicago. His petition said he and the others had decided it would be greatly to the advantage of the corporation if he| continued in his former capacity as an officer rather than a receiver for the company. 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Representative Arnold, Democrat, of sufficient for the Post Office Depart- ment to “carry on.” —_ Wage earners, employers and govern- ment employes are assessed one per cent of their income to raise a fund for the unemployed, according to a new decree in Latvia. sh by EARL CARROLL DELAYS ¢ | Bids Members of Theater Revue | Illinois said the $19,000,000 would be| Farewell on Way to Europe, but {and The producer delayed th. Ile de France’s departure five minutes. A process server who boarded the ship in time to hand Carroll a subpoena in & $60.000 rental action involving his new theater was not kissed. Carroll_said he would spend four weeks in Europe gathering new material for a production, SHIP TO KISS 25 GIRLS | Doesn't Kiss Process Server. = ated Press. 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