Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1935, Page 46

DAILY SHORT STORY THE MIRROR By John THE cool quiet of !" the porch was like a gentle hand stroking her brow, after the heat and noise of the party inside.Marcia Byrre leaned her arms on the rail at a home in Alex- andria and stared into the blackness of the garden. Parties were a trial, she reflected. Even at that, this party might not have been so bad if it weren't for Drake Carter. A shudder ran through her at the thought of his smirking good looks. Was it something in her appearance that attracted men like Drake, she wondered. If it was, she| sincerely wished to be rid of it. Perhaps, she reflected then, it was the knowledge that she had been mar- ried once that gave these men the idea that she was to be played with. A frown knitted her brows at thei thought. It had been cruel enough that she should have been married to Gene Byrne once upon a time, with- out being pursued now by men who were following Gene's footsteps. Through -her memories came & vague wondering then, the desire to know which of the women inside this Virginia house was Drake's wife. It didn't matter, though, she told her- self, since her relations with Drake were going to be broken off so ab- ruptly here and now. SOk T WAS odd, she reflected, that she could so coolly marshal her thoughts at a time like this. She should, properly, be terribly angry. | No! Not angry. She hadn't been angry when Gene had told her, three years before in Baltimore, that he was sick of hiding his affairs and wanted a divorce. She had been—hurt. That was it—hurt. If it had happened 30 | years ago instead of three, she would | have said “heart-broken.” And what emotion had she felt when that call had come from the airport? | She thought again of Drake Car- ter's wife. It was, she decided suddenly, the shy girl in the blue dress. Such a combination of pale beauty and win- some manner could not have failed to attract Drake. Yes, it was the girl in blue, with her great black eyes, the one she had heard called Laura. dRiEEE FOOTSTEP sounded on the stone. Marcia started and half turned. He was “Am I intruding?” a tiny voice asked. | The girl was silhouetted against the light that managed to escape through the ivy-clad windows that looked out from the ball room, and Marcia could see only that she wis as tiny as her | voice. “Not at all!” she told the girl then, and was surprised at the sound 6f her voice. Compared to this girl, with a voice that held the faintest suggestion of a childlike tremor, Marcia herself ‘was old. “I thought it would be nicer out here,” the other explained. Marcia smiled. “You're Mrs. Drake Carter, aren’t you?” she asked suddenly, then was shocked at her own temerity. The other was surprised. “How did you know?” held a childlike appeal. “I just guessed,” Marcia explained, Her voice | mistreated. | thing could be done to show the little Mullen. “Oh!” Marcia could feel, rather than see, two large ! black eves looking | at her very ear- nestly. “Drake-- that is, my hus- band—knew your— knew Gene Byrne! It was terrible about the crash! I was very sorry!” “Were you real- ly?” Marcia felt a glow of warm feel- ing toward this girl who cou'd feel so deeply about the air tragedy that had snuffed out a worthless life. But then, she re- flected, Laura could not know that Gene had been unworthy of sympathy, could not know that the crash had come at the very moment when Gene was pre- paring to leave the wife he had so | drunk. “It was terrible!” she agreed simply. Laura patted her arm maternally. The | gesture sat strangely on such a little | girl, Marcia thought. Yet this little girl was Mrs. Drake Carter, the wife of a man like Gene!, If only some- tike what a beast the man was! If| only one could prove that he was what | he was, a petty philanderer. TR "I MUST go in!” she said suddenly. The other nodded in thute sym- pathy. Marcia walked swiftly through the door, thought and feeling contend- ing for possession of her being. she\ ran into Drake as she was entering | the lounge. . | “Hello, sweetheart!” He was drunk | and very sure of himself. Marcia was moved with disgust as | she thought of that lonely figure on the porch, staring into the dark, wish- ing she were out of it all and ot | knowing how to get out. She had | been like that once. Marcia Byrne | had been like that. Looking at young Mrs. Carter was like looking into mirror which magically reflected her. self as she once had been. She re- | | membered a night when she had seen | | Gene drunk, remembered all the agony | | of doubt that had been hers, wondering | | if what she suspected was true. | | She smiled sweetly, provocatively, at | | the man before her. | “You shouldn’t say that here!" she chided him gently, while her heart | turned over and her mouth went| dry. | “Where can I say it?” He seemed | to know her answer beforehand | | “Shall we go outside?” Marcia asked, and smiled again, a smile that invited while it denied, a smile that | came from three solid years of regret. | He took her arm and they walked in silence out of the lounge, his eyes de- vouring her. * ok % SHE led the way through the library | and out the French windows to | the garden; hoping that her dizziness | would not overcome her, hoping that a lonely figure was still leaning on the railing above. There! Just around that corner, a few feet above their heads, a girl was crying softly, just as Marcia had cried, sorrowing just as Marcia had sorrowed. With the faint sobbing beating against her mind like a drum, Marcia turned and held out her arms. “Drake!” she said aloud. darling! Drake! Darling!” “Drake, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935, W.P.A.WORKERS FACE YULE CHECK LOSS Further Conference to Effect Set- tlement in Walkout in Michigan Fails. By the Associated Preis. ESCANABA, Mich., November 29.— Delta County’s 1400 W. P, A. workers, idle as the result’ of a walkout in protest of monthly hours, may be without Christmas holiday pay checks, | officials said today, unless an agree- ment is reached immediately. * The strike, called Tuesday by the “United Workers,” a local organiza- tion, stopped all W. P. A. projects in the county. Officials said they feared to offer protection to those who desired to work because of pos- sible violence. A. T. Sweet, district administrator, met with county officials and rep- resentatives of the local union last | night in an effort to effect a settle- ment, but revoked a previous order | to reopen all projects tomorrow to| those who desired to work after he said the union officials reaffirmed Money You Sav (Copyright. 1935.) CHAMPION COON HUNTER MURRAY, Ky., November 29 (#).— ‘With six animals as evidence, J. N. Ryan, 30, declares himself “champion coon hunter of Kentucky.” But he gave Old Hunter, his 5- year-old black-and-tan coon dog, the credit. Pop-eyed Murray residents turned eut in droves to witness the spec- tacle—six coons strung on a rope, which Ryan and his partner, Jess Key, proudly carried along the street to a8 drug store, where they were photo- graphed. 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