New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1922, Page 5

©10M by Louls Joserh Vance. BEGIN HERE TODAY Youth, beauty, soclal position, and sincere love—these were not suffi- clent to hold the affection of BELLAMY DRUCE, cursed with an appetite for cheap flirtations and expensive liquor. The decision to leave him came when his wife, LUCINDA DRUCE, having tolerated a beries of escapades and recelved his promise of reform, discovered him intoxicated and dancing with a woman of ill-repute nn a Broad- way cabaret. On the eve of her departure, Lu- cinda renews an old-acquaintance with FANNY LONTAINE, and learns that her husband is thinking of form- ing a motipn picture company in California. With them, she visits the New York studio of Alma Daley and takes a great interest in the screen life. Then comes her break with Bellamy and a sudden de- parture to Chicago where she |is visited by her lawyer, HARFORD WILLIS. Lucinda refuses to return to her husband. GO ON WITH THE STORY “I see you are beginning to formu- late a philosophy of life, You will need {t, my dear, if you mean to fight this out alone. Philosophy is good medicine only for lonely hearts. The others it merely hardens.” Lucinda eyed Willis sharply. has been to see you.” “He looked me up,” Willis admitted in mild surprise, “two days after your disappearance, thinking you might have communicated with me. Of course, I could tell him nothing. But how did you know—?" “That suggestion, the underlying thought that I might not be intending to fight out my fight alone—that originated with Bel, didn't it?" “Well!” Willis stammered, trying to smile disarmingly—*"I confess—"" “It wasn't enough of course, that I should have found Bel out for the dozenth time, there had to be a lover in my background to account for my leaving him! Did he mention any name? Willis made a negative sign. “Bel- lamy didn't imply—he merely said he was afraid—'"" y “It doesn't matter. he have to say?" ‘“He seemed most remorseful—'" “I know how remorseful Bell can seem.’” ‘“He spoke of employing detectives to trace you.” “It wouldn't do Bel any good to see me; it would only irritate him to find I could hold out against a plea he made in person.” Willis sighed, and renounced—*if you must, you must, I presume; and I will do my best to serve your wishes, my dear. Only tell me how .. o ‘“‘Bel What else did - “Why, naturally, I want to get the divorce over with as quickly and quietly as possible, with the minimum amount of public scandal.” ' “The are most liberal. But it necessary for you to establish a_legal residence by living there six months."” “I suppose that's unavoidable.” “I will look up the most reputable’ firm of lawyers there, and recom- mend you to them. If you are in need of other advice, you need only write or telegraph, and if the emergency requires it, I will come out to con- fer with you.” “I hope I won't have to impose on your kindness to that extent.” Willls blinked, removed the gold- rimmed pince-nez of his fading day, and polished the lenses with a silk handkerchief. 5 “And now,” he pursued—"if you don’t mind satisfying an inquisitive old man—I would very much like to know what you propose to do with Yyour freedom, when you get it.” Lucinda jumped up and turned away with a quaver of desolation. “Ah, I wish you hadn't asked me! That's what I'm trying all the time to forget—" “I thought so.” ““The emptiness to come! ‘What can a woman do to round out her life when she's lost her husband and is fit for nothing but to be a wife?" L laws of the State of Nevada | would be, | flutter. “She can find Many do.” “Marry again!” A violent move- ment of Lucinda's hands abolished the thought. “Never that! I'm through with love for good and all.” “No doubt,” agreed the student of law and life. “But are you sure that love is through with you?" XI1I1 Willls left for New York on a late afternoon train; and when Lucinda had said goodby to him at the station, she felt s if she had parted with her one real friend in all the world. She applied for transportation and drawing-room through to Reno learned that the winter stam- another husband, a but LUCINDA BROKE OUT OF HANDS AND STEPPED BACK. L HIS pede of California tourists was in full westward swing. The best the agent could do was to book Lucinda through to San Francisco with a section to herself on the California Limited leaving the next night, ar- ranging for her return from San Francisco to Reno, a trip of some eleven hours. Returning to the hotel about five, she was approaching the elevators when, midway in the foyer, she stopped stock still, transfixed by the sight of Bellamy standing "at the registry desk, in earnest consulta- tion with one of the clerks. Apparently Bellamy had just learned what he wanted to know; Lucinda recognized the backward jerk of the head that was an unfail- ing sign of gratification in him, and saw him turn away from the desk. Galvanized, she hurled herself to- ward one of the elevator shafts, the gate to which was even then being closal. When she entered her room the telephone was calling. She locked the door; and for as long as it continued to ring, which it did for upwards of five minutes. At length she gave it up as a, bad job, and she sank limply into a chair near the door, till a knock brought her to her feet in a “Your bill, ma'm.” When she forced herself to turn key and knob, she more than half expected to see her husband. But the bellboy was alone, Lucinda took the bill and counted out the money. “Take those bags, please,’” she said, indicating the new dressing- case and the bag which she had brought from New York, ‘“put them in a taxi at the door ,and hold it till I come down.” Running out into the hall, she found the stairs and pelted up two flights. One of the elevators was rising. It stopped two floors below, then came up in response to her ring. “Did you let somebody out at my floor? “Yes, ma'm, a gempma “Take me down, please, stopping.” The car dropped rapidity, and she stepped out into the, foyer in consternation when Bel placed himself before her, Yocking her way to the street. Her heart checked and raced, she was oddly at once aghast and elated. Subconsciously she had wanted to see Bel, face to face, to see how he without « with sickening PALACE—Starting Next Monday Smflin"’cfiuough R /' It does no harm to try a Herald Plassified Ad. 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But she noticed that a young man standing nearby was ob- serving them with keen interest, a rather brilllantly good-looking young man, brilliantly well dressed. As Lu- cinda’s glance rested transiently on him, his face brightened with a tentative smile, and she thought he started as if he were impulsively moved to approach. If so, he recon- sldered instantly. looked back to Bel, He made ™ gesture of entreaty. “You can't put me off like this, Linda, when I've come so far, gone through so much—"" “I can because I must, Bel—I will." “No, by God! you can't and shan't!"” He caught her arm lightly as she tried to pass. She stopped, her face hardening. ‘“Are you going to make another scene, publicly disgrace me again even when sober?" His hand dropped to his side. Lu- cinda began to walk rapidly toward the street entrance, but had taken few steps when Bellamy ranged alongside. “Linda: you've got to listen to me! There's some thing I've got to tell you—"" “I mean to go to Reno as soon as you let me pass.” Bellamy's eyes narrowed as if in physical pain. He threw out a hand of inarticulate protest, and let it fall in despair. Subduing a strong de- sire to bolt for it, Lucinda began to descend at a pace not inconsistent with dignity. At the same time sensitiveness to the situation, the feeling that they had been playlng = scene of intimate domestic drama for the edification of an entire hotel, made her aware that the young man whose interest had first manifested near the elevators had followed across the foyer and was now stand- ing at the head of the steps, over across from Bellamy. Pushing through the door, she breathed thankfully the stinging win- ter air. The canopy lamps made the sidewalk bright, and she discovered her bellboy shivering by the open door of a taxicab. Abandoning all pretence, Lucinda ran. The bellboy caught her arm to help her into the cab and chattered: “W-where t-t-to, m'm?"” She was prevented from answering by Bel, who elbowed the boy aside and caught her by the shoulders. “No!" he cried violently. “No, you shan't—d’you hear?—you shan't go without listening to me!” By some means, she did not know quite how, Lucinda broke out of his hands and stepped bacik. “Let me alone!” she insisted. “Let me—"" how her flight had affected an (Continued in Our Next Issue) Best coffee 3 lbs. $1. 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