Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1932, Page 42

O are you, since you know me?” asked Santa. “Does that matter?” ‘“‘Not particularly. ‘What's Mr. Dak doing?” “Busy.” “Call _him.” ‘The fluting refinement of the voice @t the other end faded. “Dearie. you're no longer his wife. You know How irritable it makes him to be disturbed.” “You bet!” Santa slipped into the vernacular. “Tell him to ring me, He my number.” She fussed about the apartment, not daring to go out or to make any en- gagement. She was strung to concert pitch—feverish to get the scene over. As she was sitting down to lunch, the telephone tinkled. She snatched the receiver only to hear Clive inguiring about her headache. At 2 it rang again. “Yes, I phoned’ you.” was_evident. “See you presently. “But when? I've wasted my morn- € Her anger He had broken the connection. ‘There was nothing gained by having & witness to this crowning folly. Going to the kitchen, she dismissed the maid for the afternoon and retired to pre- PARADISE “Oh, yes?” | “Before we part, I owe it to myself | to put you right on some of the mud you flung at me last night. Perhaps I wasn't a good wife to you, but I am to Clive. Not as good as he deserves; 50 I 'intend to be better.” “You were a good wife to me, Santa.” | _Shesglanced sharply across her shoul der; then went back to her brushing. | In the mirror she stared into his re- | flected eyes. For the moment at least he had ceased to be trivial. “If you can own that now, why did you lie %o gee last night?” “Seeing you happy without me.” “Made you long to make me un- hapoy—is ‘that it? You succeeded. But why did you first pretend to be gen- erous? To have come to Clive's res- cue, had that really been your motive, would have been magnificent. I see now that it's not in your nature to be mag- | nificent.” “You don't give me credit for much— | you never did, Santa. I tried to help Clive that I might square sccounts with you. You divorced me without claiming alimony.” She caught her breath in a nervous laugh. “A fat lot of good it would have done to claim alimony. The chief reason for our divorce was that you'd been con- tent to live on me.” “Not content,” he corrected. “I hated living on you. I expected to be rich when my father died. It didn’t seem THE EVENING canoe—— But why go into that? You pushed me too hard. Brought out all my worst qualities. “You jacked me & few weeks 00 500n. for your own profit—and, I may add,’ for my own. self-respect. I'm wealthy now. I'd like to feel that I'd been assessed for the damage I've done you. It's impossible to approach you with an offer of a cash settlement. Because of that, when I learned that Clive was in low water—" She swung around. “You saw your chance to compro- mise me. To lead Clive to suspect—" “I saw my chance, mistakenly as events have turned out, to prove to you that I could be decent.” “Dicky.” VP “Some of the things you said last night were true; that was why they hurt. You accused me of being most selfish when I fool myself that I'm un. STAR, WASHINGTON, selfish. If I'm as directionless as that, I'm a ship without a rudder. You've made me feel insecure.” He nodded. “That’s what divorce 'does to you. I have no confidence left in my judgment. 1 went wrong in the greatest decision.” “Me, too,” she tapped her breast. “To have been divorced is to have suf- fered an amputation. The shock stays. If you were to marry again, Dicky, would having been married to me| make a difference? What I mean is could you force yourself to act as though it were the first time?” He smiled. “Your question tells a lot. No, T couldn’t. T'd be continually confusing the second woman with you. I'd start to refer to doings in the past and then remember that it was with you I'd done them.” She seated herself at last, drawing her chair cloge to his. D. (., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, “That's what I've feared might hap- between myself and Clive.” “Has hlppenidd?':’ he suggested. sym| “Yo're the only person in the world to whom I would own it—I his sympathy. “You're the only person who would understand me. suddenly into my mind by day, no reason Whatsoever; vivid that sometimes you usurp the “Has happen his pathy. place of Clive. about you at night; that I'm still mar- ried to you.” ame with me, Santa.” But, isn't it queer.” she appealed to| him, “after the cat-and-dog life we| I was always prodding you to set you in motion. was checking you. ness knows where we'd have landed— 1 oughtn’t to have said led? I'm sorry. lhlut » Aully. She responded to dived forward. You come for to_be forgiven.” you become 50 e Her eyes filled. ‘Worse still, I dream I'm.so afraid after a liceman. When I wasn't I If I hadn't, good- | blow. “Poor darlin; rows are the results of Except when I hold him in my arms, I'm nervous.” “Then stop acting policeman. I wish | there was something I could do.” She stroked his sleeve to soften the “You’re sweet—but having ing about makes matters difficult.” | 1932. *“Apologies aren't necessary. But why feed the same medicine to a steady, earnest fellow. like Clive?” With a stifled cry of gratitude she “You do approve of him.” “He's the salt of the earth, Santa. If you mess him up you don’t deserve “Then I don't deserve to be forgiven. juarrel. All my acting you hang- have been talking for hours. “‘What time does Clive return?” “He's due any minute.” he haited. clasped his hand. Five minutes later Clive ®ntered. “Headache better?” “It’s eased up a trifle” our po- to_carry you.” her she asked a naive question: you?” - out_laughing “"ohly & passage, warned them they seemed to Dicky rose, casting a furtive glance round the bed room. At the front door “I made a bad husband: I could be & good friend if you would allow me.” “Already you've done me good.” She “Well, you're going to bed, if I have ‘When he had helped her to undress and had placed hot-water bottles round | “Do you ever fancy that I decelve “That proves you're sick,” he burst luxuriously, apartment—always things my own way. It isn't loyal” “Simple Simon!” He stooped lips to her bare shoulder. ! Santa and Clive are tomor- @anger | Tow, but they are skating on very thin ice, “because—— Well, this wanting to do Colds That \Colds That Hang On Don't Jet them get a strangle hold. ' | Fight germs quickly. Creomulsion combines the 7 best helps known to modern science. Powerful but harm- less. Pleasant to take. No narcotics, Your druggist will refund your | money if any cough or cold ne mat- n‘nt relieved pare for the ordeal. She was in the midst of dressing when the doorbell summoned her. Draping herself in a negligee, she an- swered. 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