New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1922, Page 5

[inda fee §/ LOUIS JOSEPH VAN ©1077 by Loyla Joseph Vance. BEGIN HERE TODAY Beauty, youth, wealth, soclal posi- tlon—these had failed to bring hap- piness to | LUCINDA+*DRUCE, New York soclety matron, in the fifth year of her mar- ried life. She and her husbiand BELLAMY, continued to drift apart and more openly he indulged his appetite for promiscuous flirtation and heavy drinking. Then, RICHARD DAUBENEY, Luecinda's old aweatheart, returned just as Bellamy was plunging into his latest affair, this time with MRS. AMELIE S8EVERN, An open break between Lucinda and Bel- lamy had been averted by the ap- parent sincerity of his penitence, In his heart he felt shame and self-re- proach. GO ON WITH THE STORY Why must he be such a fool as ever to let himself be flattered into forgetting sheer perfection was to be found nowhere if not within the walls of his own home? Bending to kiss his wife, he put that thought behind him. He couldn't af- ford to dwell upon it. Already he was too far committed in this new affair to withdraw without losing face. But he would find some way to make an end of it (thank God! they all had an end sometime) and this would be the last—*'and after this, never again!" He really meant it this time, he vowed he did * * * ‘“Rest well, dear? Don't need to ask that, though, only have to look at you. Never looked sweeter - in you life than last night, Linda. I was ‘quite jealous of old Daubeney, monopolizing you * * *" | “You needn't have been, Bel, and I don't think you were in a good condition to judge.” Bel winced, be- cause, he had laid himself open to this, afld it could be taken two ways, neither comforting. It was actually a relief to hear Lucinda add: “You seemed to be fairly preoccupied your- #elf, at the table.” “Oh, bored to tears, assure you. Amelie’s a pretty little thing, ami- able fenough, but nobody to talk to— no conversation whatever.” Lucinda limited comment wildly quizzical look. “Doing anything special today?" Lucinda shook her head slowly, watching him with a half smile lam- bent with lazy intelligence. He felt vaguely uneasy, as who should of a sudden find himself hard by the brink of some abysmal indiscretion. “Thought we might meet some- where for luncheon, if you're lunching out.” . “I'd love to.” Lucinda put out an arm deliciously rounded beneath skin of-a texture fairer and fined than any other Bellamy had ever seen, and took a morocco-bound engagement book from her escritoire. ‘“Let me see * * *” She riffled the leaves, “Oh yes: I'm having Fanny Lontaine to lunch at the Ritz, with Nelly Guest and Jeah Sedley. What a pity. Though nothing can prevent your coming, too, i you like.” A dark suspicion knitted Bellamy's eyebrows. ‘“‘Some actres#? Sounds like it “Fanny Lontaine”? Lucinda laugh- ed. “Nothing of the sort. Fanny wa at school with me—Frances Worth—"" “0Old man Worth?"” Bellamy put in with symptoms of aproval. . ‘“Terror of the Wheat Pit,” they called him— died not long ago In the odor of in- iquity, leaving eighty millions or so. Your little schoolmate ought to be fairly well-fixed.” “I don't know, I'm sure. I believe it's something to do with the will that brought them over. Fanny's father dis- liked Harry Lontaine, so Fanny had to run away to marry him and was duly excommunicated by the family. She's lived in England ever since; her hus- band's an Englishman. Come to my luncheon and see her for yourself. Not that I think you'd care for Fanny, though she is pretty to death.” “Why not, if you like her much?" “She's not at all the type you seem to find most attractive. Why is it, I've often wondered, the women you lose your head about are almost al- ways a bit—well—!" Bellamy flushed sullenly. It was one of his crosses that he seemed| never to have the right answer ready! for Lucinda when she took that line. After all, there is only one salvation| for a man married to a woman clever- | er than himself; to do no wrong. “On, if you're going to rake up an- clent history—!" But Lucinda pursued pensively, as if she hadn’'t heard: “I presume you've got to run after that sort,| Bel, because they don't know you as| well as I do—can't.” Even a slow man may have wit| emough not to try to answer the un-| answerable. Bellamy got stifly to As feet. “I'll drop in at the Ritz if 1 can make it.” “Do, dear * * * And Bel!” Lucinda rose impulsively and ran to him.| “I'm sorry, Bel, I was so catty just| mow. Only, you know, there are some things one can't help feeling keenly. Dear! Bhe clung to him, lifting to hisi Wps a face tempting beyond all tell-| ing. Insensibly his temper yielded | and catching her to him, he kissed her with a warmth that had long been missing in his caresses. “Linda: you're a witch!"” “I wish I were * * enough of a witch, at least, to make you realize nobody cares for vou as 1 do, ever will. Bel: don't go yet. There's something I want to ask you * * *" “Yes?" He held her close, smiling down magnanimously. ‘As long as she loved him so, conldn’t do without him, all was well, he could do pretty much as he liked—within reasonable to a so | Let's Go “SMILIN’ THRU” Ina NEY SHOE limits, of course. “What's on the busy mind?" “I've been wondering if we couldn't Bgo away together somewhere this win- ter?" Lucindd divined hostility in the tensing of the arm around her waist, “We're not really happy here, dear- est—"" “But you were in KEurope all sum- mer." “Not with you, except for a few weeks. And while you were with me, what was different from”our life here? Meeting the same people, doing the same things, llving in the selfsame groove abrond as at home— that eort of thing's ng gouod for us, Del.” “What's wrong lve?" “Its desperate samencss wears on us till we turn for distraction to foolish things, things we wouldn't dream of {dolng if we. weren't hored. , Yeu're driven to look for something diiferent, some excitement to lift you out of the deadly rut. As for me * * ¢ Would you like it if I took a low: simply becguse 1 was bored silly, too?" “Linda!" . ‘“But don’t you see that's what we're coming to, that is how it's bound to end with us if we go on this way, all the time drifting a little farther apart? I feel as if I'd lost you already—" “What nonsense!" “O perhaps not altogether yet. But slowly and surely I am losing you. Bel: I want my husband—and he needs me. Give me a chance to find with the way we “NOTHING OF THE SORT. NNY WAS AT SCHOOL WITH oo him again and prove to him I'm some- thing better than—than a boutonniere to a man of fashion.” “Boutonniere 2’ “A neglected wife, touch." Bellamy laughed outright, and Lu- cinda’s earnestness melted into an an- swering smile. “What a notion! How did you get it, Linda?" “Thought it up all out of my own head, strange as it may appear. You see—this is the danger of it all—you make me think, dear. And if you Kkeep that up, first thing you know I'll be all mental—and that would be too awfull” Bel laughed again, more briefly, and slackened his embrace; and she understood from this that, if she had not actually lost, she had gained nothing. “Perhaps you're right. At all events, it's worth thinking about.” “You will think it over, promise 2", “Word of honor. But now an appointment—must run."” Against the better counsel of her instinct, Lucinda put all she had left unsaid into her parting kiss—and felt that his response was forced. In chagrin she wandered to a win- dow and stood gazing blankly out till recalled by the voiee of her secretary. “I was to remind you to telephone Mrs. Rossiter Wade." “Oh, yes.” Lucinda took up the telephone but only to find the wire already in use; that is to say, somebody in another part of the house was talking with- out having thought to disconnect the boudoir extension. Recognizing Bel's voice she would have hung up at once had she not overheard a name. “Lucky to cat you in Amelie Bellamy wa aying in the blandish- ing accents she knew too well. “About our luncheon, you know-——" “See here, Bel: you're not going to pdt me off at the last minute!” “Rather not! But fof reasons which T confidently leave to your imagina- tion, it might be better to make it any place but the Ritz. What do you say to the Clique? Tt's at least discreet—"" “But Bel!” the mocking voice of Amelie Severn put in—“we settled on the Clique instead of the Ritz last night, just before you went P the finishing Bel late for NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1022. DOES NOTHAVETO TAKE PHYSIC “Fruit-a-tives” Brought Complete Rellef Asnrorp, New York, T tried several kinds of physie for over threb years and, of course, while 1 took it every night my bowels would move; but as soon as I stopped taking physie, I would be Constipa- ted and would have Piles terribly. 1 bought one box of ““Fruit-a-tives’ and took them, Now I am not troubled any more with Constipation or Piles. ‘Fruit-a-tives” or “Fruit Laxo Tablets” left no after-effects and now I do not have to use physie”, Mrs, JOHIN CAPOZZI 50c a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25¢, At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES Limited, OGDENSBURG, N.Y, home. memory Bellamy was still stammering sheepishly when Lucinda cut off. 'PROFESSORS ARE OUSTED Four at University of Stamboul Leave What's happened to the old Next Issue) When Students Protest They Are “Strangers” To Principles. Constantinople, May 9.—Four pro- fessors have resigned from the Uni- versity of Stamboul at the demand of the students on the ground that they were ‘'strangers to the sentiments of fndependence, nationality and sacred rights."” Riza Tewfik Bey, professor of philosophy, who was one of the sign- ers of the peace treaty of Sevres, also was requested to resign but did not do so. The peace treaty of Sevres aroused the opposition of Turkish National- ists on the ground that it took away Turkish territory and resulted in placing the sultan under the domina- tion of the Allies. It was recently revised at a conference in Paris but the revision has not been accepted or put into effect. T | In the Ancient Roman baths of Caracalla 2,300 persons could bathe at once. Making Good BUNDLE PARTY Court Columba, C, D, of A, to Send Package (o Nun, Former Local Girl, in Southern Mission Fields, There will be a meeting of Court Columba, Catholic Danghters America, this evening. The members will hold @ bundle party to make up u package to send to a former mem ber of the court who is now a nun engaged in missionary work among the negroes in the South, The plans of the bundle party are for every member to bring some item of clothing to be packed into one bundle and this will be shipped to the headquarters of the mission to he uged in the district in which the Jocal nun is working. The needs of the ne- groes and the difficultics which the missionaries have experienced in the regions populated by the negroes, have been recounted many times by representatives of the various bodies which have been working in the flelds in the Sduth, APPOINTHENTS HELD UP Board of Charities Will Name Super- intendent, Investizator and Clerk, June ¢, Appointment of a superintendent, {nvestigator, city physician and clerk of the charity department was de ferred until June 6, by ihe charity board at its first meeting last night Judge W. F. Mangan was named chailrman. The board went on record as in favor of purchasing supplies in this city whenever it is possible to do o without a loss of money. Members of the commission will visit the town home Friday afternoon Yor an {nspec- tlon, Supt. Willlam Cowlishaw reported 51 inmates at the town home. EXEMPLIFY DEGRLLS, Daly Council, No. 12, K. of C., to In- jtiate Candidates Tonight. Daly Council, No. 12, K. of C., will exemplify the first and second de- grees at a meeting in the K. of C. meeting hall on Main street this evening. All candidates for the third degree are requested to be present in the hall at 7:30 o'clock. The third degree will be exemplified next Sunday in Turner hall. A class of about 76 candidates will be initiat- ed. A number of candidatss from the surrounding towns will be present to take the degrees with the candidates from this city. The work will start at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. on Promises Impossibilities should not be promised, but a promise once made should be lived up to. A meter is set and other work completed according to a regular schedule, but conditions on the consumers’ premises must be learned before we can tell exactly how long a time it will take. If we fail to give you a definite promise, it is not because we do not want to please you. 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