Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1933, Page 21

GHTLUBDA BY Katharine SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALLMENTS. In the foyer of the Golden Horn, & night elub, Michael Wister sees a little girl, thin, with delicate features and golden hair, Who reminds him of somebody he had known Il but can't recall. Michael, 28, single disturbed when 'he sees the orbed in “a cheap illusirated . s night club flls up, Jersey O'Grady, pro letor and hostess, greets him as _Mike in er _boisterous. sianey manner. ~Then he knows very well of whom the child reminds him. When he and Malcolm Wetherall were Broadway musical show. spite. advice, Malcolm married” her, but left her | three months later, and when a child was rn he refused to acknowledge paternity. is child is Carroll, the little girl he has just seen in the fover. ~About midnight Carroll comes to Mike's table. ~He takes n his lap and she falls asleep. The ehild should be taken out of such surround- ings, he decides. The next day he gains Jersey's consent to sending her to & school of his selegtion, and he takes up a sort of self-appointed guardianship. ~Michael can- ot bhdersiand why Marcla Terrill. his flancee, avoids an answer when he sSuggests bringing Carroll to see her. He tells Marcia what a fine child she is. Marcia knows that the Wetheralls will have nothing to do with Jersey or her little daughter. INSTALLMENT IX. HE year that made Carroll 20 found Michael single, and a great many scheming mammas’ | plans had been frustrated by his | modest density. His general tolerance and good nature had made it easy to lead lambs to the slaughter, but the leading was all that happened, more than Michael's saying that people gen- erally were so very Kind about u%dng you to dine and all that, and keeping on asking you even when you had to refuse. He never confused his happy finan-| cial solvency with people’s being kind, | and that makes a better chart of his manner of growth than words cx)ulcl‘I Miki make. | ‘The rumor of his having been deeply in love with Marcia Terrill had grown, mnaturally, as it made a convenient, one- life-one-love hook on which those who failed could hang failure. ‘When hushed version of this saga reached Michael, as it sometimes did, he always smiled. He knew entirely well, had never loved any one “t and thinking this; he invariabiy brooded upon the fact that he had not seen Carroll for three of those years that are long, when saplings twist to take something of final shape. And why his musings about a “that way” loveless life and not having seen Car- roll, grown, were connected, Michael did not know or question. He gave mental energy instead to conjectures about the changes that might be in her. He had seen her, at 6 months past | 17, make start for the French school; and now, at 2 months past 20, she was coming back. He presumed, often, that she would be quite a young lady and he wondered, with concern, whether her golden hair had darkened. Some- times yellow hair was subdued by years; Michael hoped Carroll’'s was not. The fact that Carroll would return quite & young lady made him seek out Jersey, with whom he had communi- cated ‘only by letter and when neces- sary for some time. In the world of Jersey O'Grady and | Big Bill Killroy, their names had been closely linked for some time. This was, in Michael's eyes, Jersey's matter, and he felt that she had excuse; her world had been a harsh world and she had seen things of which happier women never dream, and she had been cruelly lonely. But Michael wanted Jersey to keep her affairs from reaching Carroll and, with some trepidation and many plans about what he would say—none of which worked out—he made way to | Jersey's apartment, which was still cradled in the Lansingham Arms. ‘Theresa admitted him and her wel- come charted the duration of his ab- | sence. “Well” she sung out, “if it ain't Mr. Wister! Well, come in and Tk yourself. Say, this is grand! And, onest, I ain't lyin’, jus’ this mornin’, Jersey, she says to me, ‘I bet old Mike'll be around to cackle over the kid, pretty soon,’ she says. Honest, Mr. Wister, she’s missed yuh and I dunno why you didn’t come ‘round. Why didn't yuh come anyways?” Michael said he had been frightfully busy, which has been said before, and as he spoke he laid a new hat and new gloves on an old resting place and he parked the same cane in the same cor- ner. And this done, he settled to take a cigarette from a case and light it. He was a little nervous. “Tll call Jersey: she's layin® down, said Theresa. “The place didn't close | till 5 las’ night and she was wore out.” “Perhaps I shouldn’t let you disturb her,” said Michael, with that tender thought. of others which comes with a heartfelt wish to locate an exit and put it to its use. o “Say, Mr. Wister, don't get funny,”| said Theresa, warml, “Why, Jersey'd set up in her coffin with the chanct to chew the ole rag with you. She's al- ways sayin’ to me like that. ‘Mike’s a gent and he’s good to my kid,’ and she knows some of the boys ain’t always so good to kids like Carroll.” Then T'l;reu disappeared and Mi- iehael waited. i Phere had been little of ghange in Wersey’s salon. ‘True, there was now a odern chair that looked as if cut to g a robot, and the trend of literature had changed. “Ex-Wife,” “Bad Girl” and volumes dealing with Broadway's Jure were supported by chaste book- ends on which utterly guileless dryads held garlands of Spring flowers, but in other detail time’s fingers had not meddled gently. The cope was a little dustier, the artificial flowers had turned | gray; there were on the tabletop more white discs made by passing glasses, and there were more stains upon the Chinese rug. An increase of shabbiness, which is most brutally apparent when connected with the tawdry, told Mi- chael that he had not availed himself of Jersey’s warm hospitality for quite two years. ‘Theresa returned. 1 “She’s gettin’ into her close,” she announced, “an’ she's tickled sick. “Its frightfully kind of her, really, to | Teceive me,” said Michael. “Aw, lay off the molasses,” Theresa advised, which comment left Mlchacll somewhat at a loss. She settled then | on the edge of the modern chair. “We was real sorry,” she said, “to hear of your sister’s divorce; we read all about it in the papers.” Michael winced. “Her husband _certainly done her dirty,” Theresa admitted. “You kinda expect a man to have his secretary settin’ around on his lap in his place of business, but you don’t expect none of that kind of dirt to creep into the home. The pictures of your sister was Teal purty.” . “It was, alwgete};er, very unfortunate, Michael murmured. “You said it,” Theresa granted, and Jersey appeared. Time had dealt with Jersey exactly @s it had dealt with the room: the whole looked untouched, but the stains ‘were more obvious. “Mike!” said Jersey in a trifle thickly Doctors Give Creosote for Dangerous Coughs| For many vears our best doctors have prescribed creosote in some | form for coughs. colds and bron- | chitis, knowing how dangerous it *|lis to let them hang on. Creomulsion with creosote and six other highly important medicinal| elements, quickly and effectively | stops all coughs and colds that otherwise might lead to serious | trouble. | Creomulsion is powerful in the | treatment of all colds and coughs | no matter how long standing, vet it| | is absolutely harmless and is pleas- |ant and easy to take. Your own druggist guarantees | Creomulsion by refunding your | money if you are not relieved after taking Creomulsion as directed, Be- ware the cough or cold that hangs on. Always keep Creomulsi on band for instant use.—Advertise- ept, Haviland-Ta as he rose, and she held out Woth short, broad hands. He took them. “G'wan,” said Jersey, which was her manner of saying, “That will be all.” Theresa went. Jersey set- tled. “Well, Mike!” she said. He said, re- suming his chair, “Well, Jersey.” Jerry moistened her lips. “Mike,” she said, “I been thinkin’ a lot about yuh. Say, do you remember back when the kid was 14 and you tole me to keep Big Bill Killroy outa her life?” “Yes, I remember,” Michael conceded. ‘Well, you know that time I was so damned mad I coulda spit in your face, but then—you asked me to Send her to the school in France—remember?” “Yes, I remember,” Michael said again. “Well, T was expectin’ you to threaten me, through Killroy, see? And to get. the kid away that way, but yuh never mentioned it.” “I'm not in the blackmailing busi- ness,” sald Michael. “Well, if you'da threatened me I'da fought to keep her, but you only says, ‘IIl be best for her, Jersey,’ and that done it. I dunno what's bringin’ this all back. Maybe because she's comin’ back and—I bet she’ll be mighty fine and mebbe she'll be ashamed of me.” “No, Jersey,” he stated, “that is quite wrong; you see, she will not be ashamed of you because she is mighty fine.” “Well, there may be sumpin in that,” 'she conceded. She reached toward a humidor, opened it, took a cigarette from it and Michael rose to offer his lighter. For a moment Jersey inhaled smoke deeply, exhaled it; her eyes were narrowed by a form of thought that was unusually concen- trated for her. At length she spoke. “Mike,” she said, “I want you to know it's just as it always was. I won't let Killroy, nor nothing like that, get into her life “Thank you, Jersey; that's what I came about, really.” “Well, 1 knew that,” she answered listlessly, “and I knew why you didn't come to see me and, Mike, I haven't a thing to say about it, except that— honest, no man has ever loved me but Big Bill.. Yuh see, it's kinda hard to explain, but alla time at the place I have to act high and like ¥ was havin’ the time of my life, laughin’ and lettin’ on life’s one big joke, and sometimes down at the place, when I'd get up and bawl out, ‘Hey, hey, boys and girls, let's Woopwarp & LoTHROP 0™ U™ F anp G STreTTS THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO the sky tonight!’ I'd think—back of that, yuh know, and when I was sayin’ it—'Some high-toned dame is learnin’ my kid to be a lady,’ and I'd feel awful cold and alone.” ippose 80, dear,” sald Michael gently. il “Yeh. And I never hadda pretend with Big Bill. Insteada raisin’ wgmpee. I could say, ‘Whatta say, Bill, ain’t life one mess?” An’ he'd say, ‘You spit out & wisdom tooth tHat time, ole kid, and I dunno, it was jus’ as real all through. He's my pal and I been lonely, Mike.” She paused to wipe her eyes. (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) - Reports from India tell of an Indian illusionist who can make entire audi- ences disappear. 3 I-ISTERINE SAVES class. Spend that saving ' (] A Beautiful Floor Covering—at Much Less Than You Would Regularly Have to Pay for Such Fine Broadloom Carpeting $7) 95 square yard SEMI-ANNUAL SELLING PRICED Deep pile, high-grade carpeting that will give years of service. In the rich, plain colors that are the choice of leading interior decorators— apple green, blue-green, taupe, and rust. 9 and 12 feet widths, making fewer seams -necessary. 21-inch Broadicom Carpeting—special Semi-Annual Selling, nnn:h. yard. h:b $|.95 CarPETS, Frrrn FLOOR. 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