Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1932, Page 33

THE EVERING STAR, WASHINGTON, 21, 1932, Cc-3 TANGLED LIVES By ANN FORESTER ~rrrrrrrnmrnnoe Author of “Spite Wife." CHAPTER VIIL JOYCE TAKES THE LEAP. AT your dinner, Joyce.” “I don't want any. estly, Aunt Clara.” Ezra Slade lifted his head and scowled. When women didn’t eat they got sick. And sickness meant doctor bilis. “Do as your aunt says!” Joyce looked at the pot roast and carrots congealing on the plate before her. She lifted tragic eyes. Eyes that leaded with the watchful faces across table. ‘I—I just can't, Uncle Ezra. I don't feel well tonight.” “You'll feel worse if you don't use some sense and eat!” Ezra’s straggly mustache quivered with suppressed and futile rage. Drat the girl, she was too big to be spanked! Five years ago he could have coped with this situation as befitted the head of the house. For some reason Joyce's mind clicked shut on the picture before her as the | lens of a camera clicks on the scene it | views “he Slades were eating their evening meal off the kitchen table. Hastily— that they might turn to and wait on “the trade” when the cannery whistle blew. Crowded table and littered sink. | Faded linoleum with the worn spots be- | fcre the stove and sink. The windows were wide to the languid air where the | golden tinge of the sun still lingered. | Long afterward Joyce could recall the smell of dust and dried grass which stole in. She could even remember a moth fluttering in the open space. Across the table Aunt Clara’s heavy, dull face. Ezra Slade’s sharp, gray cne. ‘Meil's primly downcast eyes and crooked little finger as she cut the meat. Maddy's glance, stealthily com- | miserating. | And suddenly, without quite knowing | how she reached that cunc‘iusk{n. Joyce | knew that she was eating her last meal . | | As she walked swiftly down the street i the Comnerol P | she found that she was shaking. By 10 o'clock the Commercial |eaves. Maddy had departed for Briar- House was shut up for the nigh.. Aunt |ville via the bed room window. Clara had wheezed her way upstairs,| And up in her room Joyce quietly carrylng her shoes. 'Meil vas asleep [wrapped her packed suitcase. & her small dungeon beneath the' While she waited for Ezra Slade to [ Hon- LOUISVILLE Here's news—important news— for travelers to Cincinnati, Lexington, Louis- ville, Indianapolis, Chicago and St. Louis and the West, from Washington, Balti- more, Philadelphia, New York, Rich- mond and Norfolk and the East. Forget about the weather, hot or cold. For The George Washington, starting service Sunday, April 24, assures ideal tempera- tures the year "round. No Dust « No Dirt . No Cinders Every car on this train is air-cooled and air-conditioned. Its sleeping cars are the first in the world to offer this feature. Winter or summer, day or night, you can ride and sleep in perfect comfort. No open windows. No dust and dirt. In- stead, clean, cool, refreshing air—always exactly right for health and comfort. Every Car Air-Conditioned Air-conditioned throughout, The George Washington is furnished with taste, Faster, More Convenient Schedul come upstairs and leave the path clear. | Joyce changrd her clothes, pulling off | her gingham house dress, putting on the white crepe de chine she had made | with such high hopes for Norman's | visit. | From the depths of the spotted glass | her own image looked back—a slim | ghost with smoldering eyes. Fright- ened, but cold determination in her | heart. She was going to take old Roger Cameron’s advice. She was going to break out of the web. Ezra came upstairs. tently, Joyce could hear the two dull thun'ps which told of the removal of ' his shoes. She waited long minutes after the house grew still, sitting tense on the edge of the lumpy bed, hands pressed tightly together. Eleven o'clock. The big wall clock in the dining room seemed to tick in Joud astonishment 8s 8 girl's slender figure tiptoed around the bend in the stairs. | With breathless pauses to listen, | Joyce put down the suitcase and made | her way to the cash register. Teeth digging into her lip, she counted out some paper money. Not quite $50 As she jammed it into her shabby handbag she hotly apostrophized the absent Ezra “It’s your fault I have to take this! You owe me this a hundred times in salary! If you'd ever paid me—if you'd ever been kind to me—I wouldn't have to do this!"” Joyce's heart leaped and a sick weak- ness went over her at a sharp creak in the stairs. But it was merely the warp- | ing of woodwork as the old house re- laxed after the hot day. Down past the rows of small tables, their oflcloth tops gleaming in the re- flected arc light through the windows. Then Joyce was undoing the front door and letting herself out on the porch. As she walked swiftly down the street she found that she was shaking. Her Listening in- | | fingers were cold despite the warmth of the night. Just before she turned the corner she looked back. Softened by the shadows of the maples, the Commercial House souatted, watching her go. Tomorrow it would hum with the news of her leaving. Ezra would storm. Aunt Clara weuld sigh tearfully. Maddy would gossip importantly about it as she weited on the tables, delighted at the refiected importance. Even up on the Crest it would be a tidbit of gossip. Natalie and Norman— talking it over together. . .. Pain and | shame in her heart at that. None of them would understand how she had been hurt. 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Agent Telephone—~National 0748 CHESAPEAKE «n« QHIO | thought little |and her heart leaped as she realized | by. | swiftness along Railroad avenue, where need to be some one, to rise above the shabby environment of the Commercial. No one—except, perhaps, old Roger f . She found herself remem- ge‘;&?&e crabbed old man with faint gratitude. He would understand. ugh, of all Riverton he fiifi"&%fliufi&“ “You're set in the life of the town.” he'd said. Yes, Roger Cameron would understand, Joyce felt— and secretly he would approve. All of this was drifting through her mind as she “alkegd%?wn tcwa}l;d lge‘ station y enough, she Thonone 1t of the future. She would get to the city and get work of some Kind—that was enough for the pres- ent. i éhe avoided the brightly lighted rail- way station, lingering down in the gloom of the freight. sheds until the train roared in Like a dream—when she climbed into a car. Paying the conductor . . . fol- lowing the porter down the narrow | aisle of green curtains to the berth which was assigned to her. She was too restless to go to bed, Joyce decided. She left her suitcase in her berth and walked down the train to the observation car. The train jolted beneath her feet that she was actually leaving Riverton Only one party was left in the ob- | servation car at this hour, two men and a woman sitting chatting at the further end. This much Joyce noticed as she | entered. They were quickly forgotten | as she slipped into a chair and looked | out the window | The cross streets of Riverton rattling “Cheap Jack’s” Restaurant, where | the railroad men ate; Haslet’s Candy | Box; an Army and Navy store, where | a man slouched in the 1ll lighted door- | way \ The train was rolling with increasing | small wooden houses squatted in weedy gardens. Now they were rumbling across the river trestle—where she and Meddy had walked Sunday afternoons e she met Norman, hrough cornfields, past white coun- tles. It whistled for the liftle cross- roads town of Briarville, but did not | stop. Then they were off, roaring through stranger country, flat and black and a little frightening. A strange sinking in Joyce's heart. Never had she | felt so totally alone. Her hands were hot and tightly interlaced. She stared rigidly into the night and her eyes stung with tears. So intent was she on her own bitter feelings that Joyce missed the little by- | play of those three others at the end of the car. From the moment she had appeared | Colo- one of the men had been staring at her. A heavy, dark man in early mid- dle age. -His heavy lower lip was pursed thoughtfully while he regarded the girl. He bent over, spoke to his two com- p‘lxrlnons, who turned and stared at the girl. made her hesitating away up the aisle. 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