Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1932, Page 49

‘SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALLMENTS When Alacia Sayer's father died 10 year .previously her “mother continued his ench automobile manufactory so success- lly_that me Europs was now knnvn A ld’s fine r car and M: ,000.000. _ She ha stern schooling nua ‘Bois de Bou- 5 uuw:m fat, lit- U the Mid- | ) ied because of Alfredo Sant Sleek "ari - unpleagantly bandsome civoio, ¥ho wa: in constant attendance cn her ning “the Gran: a X at 3 Rising one morning before her mother had returned from a round of Paris night life with the Smedleys. friends just over from or a_trial spin America. Alacia took out f an exact model of l):e Monte Carlo_racer. e e | gu difficulties seemed enormous for car. "It was love ai - g e did notlearn_ until_later rince Armand ~ de Pas, P @Orsant, pretender o the French throne. INSTALLMENT 1IV. OOK here, mother!” é« acia. thing you about. night's party.” and looked annoyed. “Must you?” she said plaintively. “Alfredo was just teaching me a new | feeling that this man Santini had step!” “It's Buminess,” said her dnughur’exlsted between m firmly. “Via'ly important business. “I don't like the way he acts with you, and I don't think you ought to #. He's using you, and I don’t think you ought to allow it.” And it's a private matter,” she added, looking hard in Santini’t direction. “Then I suppose it must be done!” “said the older woman reluctantly. “Am I in the way?” Santini asked “Or am ;I family enough to “You are in the way!” replied Alacia quickly before her mother could re- spond. “Would you mind? There are cigarettes in the library.” The boy got to his feet. Unquestionably he was an attractive figure in his too-well-cut gray lounge ®tit, and Alacia made a mental note of the watch on his wrist. It had not been there yesterday. On the table lay an empty jeweler’s box, and the sight did not add to the sweet- ness of Alacia's mood. As soon as the door had shut behind the languid fig- ur:, she turned abruptly to her par- ent. “Look here, mother!” she said sharp- . “Why did you engage Santini to drive the Europa for us in the big race?” “Why are you always so mean to him?” countered her mother. “I'm sure he’s as nice as can be, and yet you talk to him as if he was a servant —no, worse than that! Hasn't he always acted a perfect gentleman to you?” “Never mind his social qualifications just now, mother,” said Alacia. “Why did you ask him to drive? ou have the racing car turned over him?” “Because he’s a well-known driver and a particular friend of ours!” her mother retorted. doing 1t?” “I—well nothing, really,” Alacia ad- mitted, “except that the Grand Prix is too important to take any chances about. It’s the only big European race we have never won, and I am deter- mined to have that cup in our collec- tion. “Isn't it far better then, to have some one who's not only a good driver | but & friend?” :ndignmtly “It’s curous I never heard until to- day that Santini is a pro.” said her | daughter slowly. “And somehow I don't | like that fact.” “Nonsense!” snapped Mrs. Sayers, lighting a cigarette with nervous fln- ers. “You are prejudiced against h for other reasons.” “All right then, I am!” Alacia grant- the point. “I'don’t like him, moth- I think he puts you in an undignified position. He's a_nobody, he's 20 years younger, and he's a pro- fessional dancer—between races, any- how! I don't like the way he acts with i;m and I don’t think you ought to al- w it. And now you give him this Job, which will plant you both right in the limelight. Don't you realize that he’ll play #t up to the limit? He's using you. I hate to say it if you are —well, fond of him, but it's true and o ought to realize that before it’s too e~ Mrs. Sayers demanded | “Too late ™ cried Mrs. Sayers. “What do you mean by too late? Betore it's too late for me to get a little happiness ‘Gut of life, I Buphosc, atier all the years T've worked like a dog! And now that T've learned how to live, how to dress, how to act, and got a beau, you start talking about too late! Let me tell you, Alacia Sayers, Alfredo is crazy about me and I enjoy it. I don't intend hav- 1ng it interferred with.” “Mother! Please!” said Alacia dis- tressed. “Please don’t think I don't want you to be happy! If you fell in love with some one decent and straight and your own kind, I'd be the last one in the world to object, even if he didn't have a cent to his name. Why, even dear old Dad wouldn't grudge you hap- iness if he could know. But this boy! ther if you weren't absolutely blind you could see what he's doing!” Ahfl& be juiet!” Mrs. Say el'l stormed, “San is not like um, know him better than any one. Unless you have some definite charge to make against him, you will please say noth- ing more. Now, have mm' “Nn said Alacia bly, “but I've like him, I just know, mu': lll! I think it’s a disgrace to have him officially representing us in & big racing you'd cal Telations, weu T've warned you. I can't do men 1 only hope you don't con- m:" h‘m l‘ I t,” as far as I've got.” -u her mother in s low tone. “Run- ' aing around & Il&fl. ‘with & boy is one Say- | haven't ted in win~ | her capable, clear-eyed ymmmu'hur said Al- “Those Smedleys will be landing on us in a few, minutes and I have some- important to talk to I want to get it in before you start the post-mortem on last Mrs. Sayers yawned Why did | “Why shouldn't he | drive? What have you got against his| evzm, and I wish to Heaven | off. As to your personal thing. Marrying him, well, that's an- s | other.” =| .Has he asked you?” s, “Not yet” sald her mother. “I let him. But., however that be, the Monte Carlo thing is de- I can’t and I won't cancel his intment.” re was a little silence. Alacia looked ai her mother with troubled eyes, & great wave of pity sweeping ! | her. Mrs. Sayers, for all her starcling clothes, her lifted face and her gigolo, ‘was less genuinely worldly wise may cided. because of the sentimental vmomn era in which she had had F Alacia’s rather sweet- Iy rldlculous mpulse was to shelter and ard her own mother. But how? The moment, but must somehow be faced. Impulsively she crossed the room and | put her arms around the stocky nme pajama-clad figure by the fireplace. was almost on the tip of Ahuu tongue to tell about Armand and the morning's adventure, but something held her back. Instead, she contented herself with a plea for peace. “Don't let's quarrel dear!” begged softly. “After all'you and I must not make each other wretched. Perhaps I'm wrong. Santini can drive if you really wish lt so we'll make the best of that” But Mrs. Sayers would not reply. She sniffed into a scrap of | chiffon handkerchief, and turned away |and somehow Alacia could not help elrly | usurped_the intimacy which had once o&er and daughter. Curlous that a complete stranger, a rank outsider, a man who scarcely‘ even spoke their language could do Lhis to them! “I think,” said Mrs. Sayers in a mul- | fled voice, “that I hear the smedleyl arriving. Please act human | L if you don't lke their kind ol ant” It was an hour or more later that | Santini, crossing the floor of the now crowded room, approached Alacia with a small envelope in his hand. As usual several stragglers from the American colony had dropped in for free cock- tails and the room was blue with smoke, resonant with laughter and the eternal grinding of the gramophone. Santini, moving with easy grace, seemed wholly unaware of the stosm which had so recently passed over his head, and he gave rer the envelope with a [riendlv enough smile. It was addressed 'n an unfamiliar handwrit- ing, but Alacia tore it open with a! quick intuition as to from wkence it came. “If you are not sorry, and I did nct | dream what happered this .mcruing, | will you come to the corncr uf your| street at 6 o'clock?” he had written. | “If you regret, and wish it undone. | you have only to ignore this, and I will | | | not trouble you. But you will trouble | me always, because I love you. | “ARMAND.” Alacia crushed the note into the palm of her hand and glanced at the clock in agony. It was a quarter psst 7! “When did this come?” she demand- Santin! ed. “About 3:: 30 I !” he said. “The servant gave it to me when I went in to see your mother. I put it in my pocket and we dance, and I forget un- til_just now.” It seemed almost intolerable that it should have been Santini who had kept the message from her! He stood there | grinning like a cat, she thought, ut- terly unaware that his assumption of | responsibility had deepened her dislike of him to actual hatred. And then to | make matters worse he curved his arm bout her. “Will you dance a little?” he asked. | A]uh threw his arm away violently. she cried. “No! Let me go ;Dlesse' And she turned on her heel, leaving him standing there affronted, his dark eyes gazing after her alight | with malice. The outer hall was empty and so there was no one to remark that she 1éft the house without either hat or coat, the letter still fluttering from her hand. It was a hundred yards to the corner of the Avenue du Bols, and along the dark, deserted tunnel form- ed by the overhanging trees, Alacia ran like a child, arriving breathless at the appointed place. If by some mira- cle he had waited! If only he had realized that his message might mis- carry or be delayed! Anxiously she peered up and down the dark street with its gleaming traffic, but there was no funny, rusty little car parked re- assuringly. As far as the eye could see in elther direction, there were no pe- destrians except a slow-pacing gen- darme in a big blue cape, and athin little girl, tottering -along on badly worn high heels, a big hat Box on elther Aner a few minutes the wind pierced her intolerably, and Alacia turned away slowly and headed back to what ;:i!knownwbethzglyathouum (To Be Continued.) —_— Tiny Archduke “Flying Baby.” Eleven-week-old Archduke Stephen, who spent a month with his grand- mother, Queen Marie of Rumania, has been nicknamed “The Flying Baby.” He flew with his parents, Archduke Anton and Princess Ileana. from Bal- cic to Bucharest in their airplane, and enjoyed the fiight. the perfect PIE CRUST since 1920 No Sifting, No Measuring, No Bother THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, Added Special Freshly Pasteurized Creamery BUTTER Cut fresh trom { SUNNYFIELD the tub PRINT 2u.53c{2w.57¢ From the Nation’s finest dairylands. 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