Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1932, Page 34

THE EVENING S FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1932. ASHINGTON, D. ( AR, W them on the turbfilent sea of emotion. o on e et s ot oton | YOUNG ORATORS TALK | e b | AT KIWANIS SESSION It must have been, for now she was | married. How very, very strange. She Three Finalistse in Contest Give Addresses at Special Pro- had been married before . , . that had been strange, t0o . perhaps all marriages were strange. | Marcia was frightened. She saw the | bewildered, dazed look on Jean's !uc.‘ and hoped she wasn't going to faint. | The Runaway Wife By VERNIE CONNELLY gram of Club. INSTALLMENT XXXIIL EXT week end Jean went back to town with Marcia and the doctor. She had acquiesced in her own mind to this marriage that was being urged upon her. Christmas was a nightmare and Dr. Junet and Marcia were both deeply worried. Then suddenly, one day, Jean told Dr. Junet that she would marry him, and he was content. He and Marcia agreed that she mustn't be al- Jowed time to think. Would she be his wife the end of the month? Jean agreed —the socner the better, she thought. But there hung over her a terrific pall of depression that lifted ever so little when she began buying her trousseau Her wedding day came. as if in ® dream. Marcia had given her a sedative to make her sleep. and when she came into the living room at 9 o'clock, she looked rested. “Hello, darling. You look Now voul do the dress justice.” “I'm glad.” Jean said. She was wear- ng a suit of new lounging pajamas— Ide. shot with gold. “In your honor, old dear—our last breakfast together.” Magnificent, and I've got a grand breakfast for you. too. young Y, though I suppose. after bride fashion, you wor ate enough to eat.” H ‘m_really hungry. o lifted the lid of shirred She moved sweet. Tose: esthetic table effects and delicious ink now is the time for me to :ke a speech of gratitude,” Jean said Marcia had poured a cup of fra- grant coffee and served her. “You've been so darned sweet and gorgeous to e T know a sister couldn't have been as nice . 1 can never thank you, never make up to you for a millionth ath . e p'an never mind that. young lady. If it weren't for you, I'd be a dried-up old maid—you kept me young with your turbulent love affairs. Now that vou are dashing out and leaving me with bachelor apartments, I'll have to dig up a lover for myself.” ? Oh, dear, I wish you would. Marcia, don't you try and make Warren m love with you? He's so good anc kind . . " “T've thought of that. myself. kidlet Rut 1 don't seem to have the knack All vou do is look at them with those big. luminous eves and give them a sweet smile a ey are sunk." 1 don't do an 1¢ but just be kind 1 con't ever argue or Quar- Tve noticed that Maybe if you pendent.” a doctor has to be in- why 1a but don't vou suppose you ) medium?” a. The next time he does. Il try d as it were darling. do 2f bottle poor little War- ren has to have his spirits . . 1 laughed ‘T don't think he'd d-ink if he was happy.” well, I don't exactlv hanker to re- » man. Id bundle him off to a and tell him to fight it out—if Ie got to he a man to come back T'd look him over. More coffee?” | bet. I've heard French coffee il areia looked at her watch. “Better it snappy your trunks have 1 Marcia. just think. nks—not a trunk.” my dear. with the ov Come on . . . remains if you h more in that last urst. I'll wager.” I dcn't have to get er I'm sorry ace me." real wed- s friends will I let vou and V. But dear. it i dir and all there—you can't blame him for 0 make an affair out cf it tely proud of you. which e, is as it should be . . .° Well he's getting a_pretty bad break. I'll say. and I only hope he Gorsn't find it out when it is too late.” There's the pnone—do you want to > It is probably the doctor vou do—I have nothing to say 1 the morning.” ia came back. “It is Warren ists on talking with you.” Tl go. arren,” she said. morning. Jean. 1 just want u happiness. I really do—and ou that if the Frenchman fails 1 might try an Irishman we are ven if you don't think so.” laughed. “That's awfully $ 86 MAKESYOU " THE OWNER OF THIS $9 KODAK A BRAND new, modern camera—the No. 1 Pocket Kodak Jr. Except for factory clearance it would still be selling for $9. Takes pictures 2% x 34 inches and is equipped with dependable lens and shutter, You'll like the splendid snap- shots it makes. Uses the new 8.exposure film and comes in the popular colors. Carrying case to match at only slight additional cost. Don’t miss this opportunity. On all Eastman cameras, Eastman pays the tax Eastman Kodak Stores (Incorporated) @ 607 I4th St. N.W. A 1 | | | | | | | of you, Warren. I may take you up on that. And say, will ycu do me a favor while I'm gone>” “Anything you ask.” Come out and see Marcia sometimes, especially at first, and keep her from being lonel “Certainly. I won't answer for the _ consequences these yed- heads get my goat-—male or female.” ““Jean, dear,” Marcia called. It is time you started to dress . . will take you an hour at least, you've only just time.” Jean realized while she was in her bath, lying there in the w fra rance. thinking over the v were gone, that probably che only thing that matter with her this morning was homesickness at leaving Marcia dear old Marci: S how much she owed to her she would send her something lovely from Paris. “Come. Jean! You can't stay in the tub all day.” Marcia wouldn't leave her alone this morning “A little more rouge, dear,” com- mented Marcia. watching her at the table. “You are too pale ‘The sea voyage will do you good. I'll bet you'll have roses in vour cheeks when you land.” “What's the difference when they are as cheap as this—see, I Jook the picture of health i “You're a picture, darling now for the cress I rushed with my own in orde: to help you “You look cweat i that shade dress for o many yards of sat The exquisite Jean's sleek head. out and she now but a and did it take?” creation went over Her bob had grown had a knot in the nape of her neck, according to the modern young girl mode. But try as she would, she could not subdue the little curls that broke out about her face and clustered in wispy ringlets. “You are the most beautiful bride that ever got married,” Marcia declared “Darling, I didn’t know you could look like that—and please smile for the photographers, will you?” Jean was staring at herself in the long mirror. She was lovely, Martin would think so dear, dear Martin % ‘Dr. Junet wants to seak with you Jean . . . Jean went to the phone. “Good morning, dear,” he said, “how are you? I tried to call you before, but the line was busy, and then some of the hoys dropped in to drink my health Speak to me, Jean let me hear your voice this morning 3} Marcia says you look magnificent . . . Jean said. “IUs just the same voice Victor. I've been up hours I'm dressed wait Marcia says it is time to start.” “That's what they are telling me, too good-by Good-by." Now . . now . the beginning of the end? All the way up the aisle of the church every slow-measured step she took she thought not of the man she was going 1o Mmarry, but of Martin her love Martin who had cast her off who perhaps this very moment being wed to Lillian Walker. the G wWith the cold. haughty face, and sneer- ing voice. He would not be happy with her neither of them would be happy—none of the four involved . she suddenly knew that A Now, she was at the altar . . . Could she bury her 2 in these lovely flowers she held in her hands weep into their sweet fragrance? The words the beautiful solemn words that came her strangely from afar off Vic- tor by her side, holding her hand in his . she feit his reassuring pressure he was so kind 4 and after all. wasn't kindness the greatest thing in the world? Yes. kind- ness love . use kincness r I a love tears vour heart into .ittie pieces and cast sweetheart.” w0 (To Be Continued). BOY SUES FOR $25,000 Charges Leg Was Crushed When Hit by Coal Truck. Eugene Talbert, 10, through his father, Charles W. Talbert, 411 Twelfth street northeast, has filed suit to reco er $25,000 damages from Mason E. Taylor, G11 B street, coal dealer. The court is told that a the defendant 3 in an alley be- Twelfth and Thirteenth, C and ts northeast and crushed his left Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer ap- pears for the plaintiff Three addresses on the Constitution by finalists in the recent National Ora- torical Contest featured the special | Constitution day program of the Wash- ington Kiwanis Club luncheon held yes- terday at the Raleigh Hotel | William Powell of the Y. M. C. A took for his subject “Abraham Lincoln and the Constitution”; Albert Abram- son, Central High School, “Our Foreign Policy Under the Constitution,” and George Bon Durant. 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