Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1932, Page 35

Spite Wife Ann Forester ‘ CHAPTER LXXIV. ONY SCATINA, on his way up to the city from the coastside with a truck load of artichokes, jammed on his brakes and stared in astonishment. ¢ A lady stood beside the road, hail- him. The late afternoon sunlight owed dried mud on her clothes, mud on her shoes. She looked very white | mnd tired and even Tony's unobservant ‘eves could see the trace of recent tears | on_her face. But Tony was not curious by nature. It was sufficient for him to learn that the lady had missed the bus up to the | city and wanted to ride in on his truck. Tony was embarrassed but willing. A strange ride, sitting perched up here beside this Italian truck farmer, chugging along through the late sun- | light. At peace with this fearful day— the black nightmare of that dangerous trip through the tunnel—the strange dream of the empty house filled with dead sunlight and the hollow roar of | the sea. Judy had lost track of time, when she fay there on the bed in the upper bed room. It might have been minutes, it | might have been hours. From the looks of the sun when she finally roused her- self, she judged it had been well over an hour. An hour—and no one had come. ‘Wilson had not come and he was not coming. Georgia had been mi or lying. Perhaps it was Georgia’s spiteful attempt to get Eunice and Stan in trouble with her. Yes, that must have been it, Judy thought—it was Georgia's way of starting a scandal Stan and Eunice. Sitting there sunk fn her own bitter reflections as the | truck joggled over the road, Judy felt & cold contempt rising in her heart to- ward the two of them. Stan and| Eunice and their tawdry love affair. Jealousy was dead within her. She could only whip up disdain. Stan and Eunice—here was her | weapon if she cared to use it. Here was the way to whip Stan in line. A divorce—and Nick. She could be free and go to Nick. But even that failed to stir the old warm longing in her heart. Tired— Ehe was so tired. Tired, body and soul. Everything in life—even love—even hope—was dust an¢d ashes. Nothing mattered. Life wes a matter of sitting mched up here moving nowhere in dying sunlight. High up on the ridge road, the truck ‘was moving now. Down there was the ocean and the white line of foam along | the shore. Down there—hidden by a | curve of the hills was a tall house standing deserted by the water. She pever wanted to see it again. She thought of the first time ate had come over this road. The dizzy height ~—and the way Nick had—unseen—held her hand to steady ‘her. How little | she had thought then, of this day of | terror! She could see the old railway right of way—a cut in the hills which dis- appeared under the rocky spur. That was the tunnel through which she had crawled—was it only a couple of hours 8go? The truck was lumbering over the summit now, its long pale shadow mov- ing silently along with it in the slant- ing sunshine. Rocky folds of hills, covered with & sparse growth of sage and mesquite, which gave it, at a dis- tance, the gray and wrinkled appear- ance of an elephant’s hide. The road was tortuous—twisting around gullies and shooting, with breathtaking suddeness, out upon the lips of cliffs which plunged down hun- dreds of feet to narrow canyons below. Had she been less tired Judy would have been terror stricken with the height and nharrow road. Instead she clutched the back of the seat. to keep from being jolted by the slow moving truck. Her eyes were closed, she slumped wearily in the corner of the seat. Only when she heard the driver put- fi!{n{‘ on the brakes did she rouse her- el They had rounded a sharp curve— & man was flagging them to stop. The marrow road was blocked by a tow car. g ~_ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932. | road on a week day, you know. And 1l suppose they were swinging around curves regardless. And Wilson—com- ing like a fiend from the other direc- tion. Eunice didn't even know it was Wilson's car. It came so quickly— | just a car suddenly flashing out from | behind a curve and then a crash. She says all she remembers is & shout from | Stan, then a flash of blinding light and ¢ blackness. She was flung free from thls grade day after day, an'byou'd | the car as it fell over the edge. Thrown " Tony na Was | into & clump of mesquite. A vertebra cllmb\ng "down s he gav o this | is fractured—that and a broken arm righteous indignation y come | will keep her fiat for a few months. around those curves like nobody's busi- | Poor devil—I have no use for her, but 1nsssv1\e seen ’em miss crashing by |[I wouldn't wish that on my worst inches. enemy—" He walked down to the little group | Mary paused and took a vigorous of men around the tow car. pul‘l1 on he; chm}r]em» Her eyes wav- { tions—the creaking | €red away from the haunting dark gaze strs»x}i]:ug;dmag:fif-r) and cables tauted ‘ of the girl on the bed. Her voice was | =8 car with battered radiator— | VErY gentle when she finally went on. crumpled fender, battered top. heaved | “Stan and Wilson never had a ‘sloul) up over the lip of the road.|chance of course. The driver seldom ‘ An expensive roadster, tan and brown zmsTpmned in by the wheel. In- 2 ‘Special paint job. A car which |Santaneous—at least that's a mercy. looked appallingly familiar. Stan’s Wilson was unconscious when they | 1nrke;i l‘lilmbm) ‘b\ln he died on the str terror and | Wy to the hospital. Ironic—isn't it— lw{?firlf‘o(lm? :;:”“‘;? too much. | that it should be Wilson's car. And When Tony returned to the truck. he | DO one will cven know if he recog- |gave a shout of amazement. “Hey— “I“filmflg‘;\ége ;sdftflfis c‘ards 'Kl‘he rgfl: Ve Y ¥ B y's aint- | O Ting slow, bul P ehsictb e The lady's fain L i [ | | T""‘“"‘O“"—Plfklnx Up the Pleces. Judy learned the detalls of it later. ) {230k oen aa fet littl tment Her own y uiet little apartm n' e . “Sha i aa “beak. v- | BICENTENNIAL PROGRAM ing under the yellow silk quilt. her — i white as the pillow she lay | I. C. S. Students in Washington p ey, Lockerbee, sitting beside_the Arrange Exercises. d. Dependable who had come | Rving up o the city to Judy as soon | A Bicentennial program will be given as the shocking news had been brought | tomorrow night by Washington students home to Lockwood of the International Correspondence listened nghM to Judy's | School at the Thomson School, Twelfth or ia’s visit—of that terrifv- | and L streets, it was announced today. ing mp down the coast arn Stan. | Speakers will include John W. Gibbs ary offered the m parts of | of the National Bicentennial Commis- t sion. Dr. Lewis H. Craskin and Rev. By B, oy 1 “Eu talked, after she recovered seph D. Amon of St. Patrick’s Church, consciousness in the hospital. They | Music will be furnished by Kangas were driving back to the city along | Brothers’ Orchestra and Mr. and Mrs. the grade—you know how Stan drives, | Floyd Williams of New York, radio Judy! 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