New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 3, 1925, Page 4

1 A Wife's Confessional Adele Garrison's New Phase o REVELATIONS OF A WIFE Wow Fanny Powell Falls Tnio Katherine's Trap My throat muscles constricting vith rear, 1 gripped Katie's shoul- der tightly ‘What 18 it, Katie?"” I demanded eping my voice, however, to the whisper she had used. “What has ed? hung her h b and tried to ing her apron over her head. But nd angry comprehension her twisting hands. me at once W you are ing about,” 1 whispered sternly wd through tears like a spring . stammered out “Oh, my Meesls Graham, your fnor Katic feel so bad, shut oop in t room vile dot vomans down- rkings in my Kkeetchen. y r Katle eat her heart out Y.ou won't have to eat it out any mger,” 1 sald dryly. I was angry because of the fright s n me, to smack her sound- but, fortunately those salutary methods of discipline are no longer parmitted to chatelaines. 1 knew the swiftest method of restoring Katie to usefulness was to set her “to work. “Mrs, Ticer has gone ‘home,” T began, “and you— 1 never had a chance to finis h {he sentence, Katle wriggled out of my, hands and was half way down the stairs by the time I regained my hreath. “Tapk you, tank you' she was repeating. “Now I go down and serub my keetchen so I can get to work feexing dinner.’ “But Mrs. Ticer just scrubbed it," I sald, and immediately afterward ¢hided myself for the breath I had wasted Madge Awaits Developments “Ya-ah, her scrubbing!” Katie ejaculated, stressing the pronoun sontemptuously, She disappeared into the kitchen before I could re- prove her, even it I had thought it wigse to meddie further in a feud| .which, after all, did not concern .me. But I laughed to myself ‘with an imaginative vision of Mrs. Tieer's face should she return and find Katie scrubbing the floor over which she just had finished toiling. | Then, with a glance at my wrist| watch, I saw that the ten minutes which T had allotted myself befor rying the experiment with the key | to Lillan's room were almost up, and T hurried noiselessly to my | friend’s door. Going through with the pantomime 1 had outlined to Katherine, 1 opened the door cau-| . tiously, saw that Lillian was asleep, eached my hand, inside, took the key from the lock, closed the door sgain, locked it, and dropped the key into my pocket. Then I went Jirectly to the window seat which | Khtherine had pointed out, and urled myself upon it, making sure that the curiains completely con- aled me, while giving me a good | view of Lillilan's door. 1 was resigned to a probable half | hour's wait, for I knew that Kath-| erine would not lie down for her | telgned nap until the ten minutes upon which we had agreed had passed, There was also the possi- bility that my wait would be in vain, that the girl, Fanny Powell, was not shamming, after , But 1 let neither possibility detract from my watchfulness and kept my eyes fised upon Lillian's door until they began to ache with the strain. It was the faintest possible noise vhich suddenly brought me to more rigid attention, al Ithought of my discomfort forgotten Katherine had left slightly ajar the door of my room in which she was guarding Lier queer patient, and | though from my position 1 could not see the door moving, I was vet o that someone, something was pushing that door back and moving through it. My imagination visual- ized the waif standing behind it, peering up and down the corridor to see that the coast was clear, But her survey must have been a rapld one, for the next second she came lown the hall, a ghostly figure in her night attire, with bare feet pad- awa ling noiselessly along the runner. We must have misled her com- pletely, 1 thought jubilantly, for there was no hint of fear or hesi- fation in her inanner. Looking neither to the right nor left, she went swiftly to Lillian's door, put her hand upon the knob and turned When it did not open, she ex- erted more strength upon the knob, then, dropping it, turned and mads her way back along the corr tor, | still with her face turned steadfast- ly ahead “fsn’t Tt Time You StOpped?” Katherine had given me no in- structions for this contingency. but 1 reasoned that the little nurse might need me for the unmasking| of the girl, who had deceived us by her pretended amnesia. Slipping from behind the curtains, 1 followed her down the hall. A loose floor board, which somehow she had missed, creaked loudly beneath me, and T canght my breath, expecting her to whirl and confront me. But apparently unheeding, cha steadily on to the door of my o room, in which she had been shel- ant tered ever since her arrival at the farmhouse. Katherine was nowhere to be en, and fighting back my nervous fear of the girl, I followed her| across the threshold Just lhslde‘ the door stood Katherine, and, waiting only for me to get inside the room, she gripped the girl's shoulder tightly. “Don’t you think it's ftime you stopped this foolery?' she asked sternly, The Advie(\\’ruresj RaggedyAun ' ed 'n:}' ?gmy Gym“'cmy fi Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy looked out of the upstairs window and wondered how they could ever escape, “Mr. Grabby 15 guarding the front door, while Mr. Tinkle has run ome to get a ladder!” Raggedy Ann mused out loud. “Just as soon as Mr. Tinkie returns with the lad- er, Mr, G v will climb uwp here and capture us, then he will Mrs. Wungle Witch's magical getfulness powder upon us and we will "forget. that we are Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy:!" “He, ho! Indeed! ¥ou will!" Mr. Grabby said, for he had heard Rag gedy Ann, “And Mr. Tinkie and T will iust =it aronnd in e and smoke ofr pipes whilo the cooking and everything and Raggedy Andy chops the wood and makes the fires and cuts the s and runs errands and everything!" “Oh dear!” Raggedy Ann said, here comes Mr. Tinkie with his adder now ‘Aha! Aha!" Mr. Grabby crieq as Mr, Tinkie came up with the long adder. “Now we shall soon have the Raggedys and we will make Raggedy Ann cook us the higgest dinner you ever saw Yum! * Yum!” Mr. Tinkie sa We will have pies and cakes and everything nice all the time, Mr. Grabby! Won't it be fun not to do a lick of work?" “The lazy creature!” Raggedy Andy said “Tt will be very nice!" Mr. Grab- by answered Mr. Tinkie as he help- ed him' to rafse the ladder to the window. When the ladder was up fo fhe window, Mr. Grabby said to Mr. Tinkie, “Now then, Mr. Tinkie, you watch “the tront door so the Rag- gedys will not run out and 1 will | climb up and catch them and puft the magic powder on them, then we shall put them to work. Raggedy Andy can bulld a nice fire and Rag- gedy Ann can cook us the lovely linner!' So Mr, Grabby began climbing the ladder. When he hag climbed up three rungs, Raggedy Ann put her head out of the window and called to Mr. Tinkfe. “Oh, Mr. Tinkie,™ she sald, “don’t you think Mr. Grabby intends fooling you?” “Dear me suz, Raggedy Ann!" Mr. Grabby cried. “Don’t be silly!™ “But 1 am not siily!™ Raggedy Ann sald. “And if Mr. Tinkie is wise, maybe he will not trist you to elimb the ladder and capture ug tor fear Mr. Grabby Intends fool- ing Mr. Tinkiel” “How can Mr. Grabby fool me? Jubt teil me that Miss Raggedy Asn!” Mr, Tinkie asked. “Why! Very easily if he is a mind aggedy Ann replied. v might climb up here and puff the powder on us and have me cook a very fine dinner and never unlock ‘the door so you coild get in to have some!" “Mr. Grabby does look sus. picious!” Mr. 'Tinkie said az he caught hold of Mr, Grabby's foot. He a very red nose “And so have you, Mr. Tinkie!' Mr, Grabby said as he tried to get his foot away from Mr. Tinkie “There!” Raggedy Andy cried “Now T spect you can see for your- self Mr. Tinkie! And even if he did unlock the door, who is to say that Mr, Grabby would not puff the magic powder upon you as well as Raggedy Ann and me.” “That is quite true!" Mr. Tinkie said as he pulled upon Mr. Grabbhy foot. “Just you coms down Mr Grabby and let me climb up!” But the harder Mr, Tinkie pulled upon Mr. Grabby's foot, the harder Mr. Grabby held on to the ladder ntil the ladder wabbled so much vas an easy matter for Ragged Andy ake the broom and push the ladder away from the house. , as soon #s he did this, Mr by fell right upon Mr. Tink and thev were both humped so ard, they forgot all about captur- ing the Raggedys | FLAPPER FANNY says. @198 & WA sERvICE. G All the tight places aren't in | Scotland. " la tie Thig suit silken strand material Dry It is economical to buy soap in large quantities so that it may dry out and harden during storage. A Ne T To remove glue from fabrics, snak hot water and vinegar or in vine. Should vinegar affect the color, sponge with diluted ammonia, followed by chloroform. in gar alone, Avoid flickering or dazzling lights, as these produce eyestrain and head- The light should come from | above and over the shoulder. ache To purpose sassafras to eact Conking fruits and acid vegetables an aluminum pan will brighten it, | while alkali color it, 24, 40 4 42 @ “ 44 48 51 ‘ 80 a1 €3 67 [ narrow Gossip’s Corner FRINGED SKIRTS SMART The fringed skirt is extremely popular, the fringe varying from al to inch strips of the EVENING GOWN Silver fringe completely covers a graceful evening gown of white crepe. TO FLAVOR SOUPS Buy in Quantities To Set the Color little alum in the water In which you wash any cloth of bright colors will help set the color. A Chinese Touch with Chinese embroideries. To Thicken Gravy Will Remove Glue House Lighting Sassafras Oil jeodorize gasoline for cleaning a few drops of ofl of quart of gasoline, Will Brighten Pan fhort words, most of them, with | asional long word to vary the menotony, feature this puzzle. Few |10 etters are unkeyed, which makes s &0 much easier to solve HORIZONTAL To decay To enliven ange me nf the Greek peepla (pl) To o horses together Od-fashioned chin covering. i st of food. What ¥s wish to. become Warm Within ne prenoun ion of a lock gular safls or strike violently. ovster, The ocean Cleft Mentionsd Wind A handtul Pitcher. Flat canopy over a puipit (pl.) Drone bee, Second note in scale Wittieism Nevertheless, To exist To recolor Con 1on Metal Entrance SHff Head of Catholic church State of being a man Bragged Female sheep. Stops Before VERTICAL Keeps Meta n rock DAILY FARHION RERVICR STRIKES HAPPY MEDIUM | strikes the happy me- dlum between the severely tailored and the ornate and is a most con- venient outfit to have in the ward- It is of blue rep bound In @elf-colored silk and trimmed with | white collar, a blue silk and black bene buttons. celery fops in glass jars and ige them to flavor stews and soups. evening gowns of black satin are on simple lines completely cov- ered 0 leval tablespoontuls of flour will thicken a cup of lquid for gravy and sauces, B ————— Sandpaper Your Hat Spots of dirt and grime may be removed trom rubbing with the finest grado of Varnish on Walls | The walls of an ordinary kitchen | be made water-| Gloria gave a short, ugly laugh. | or bathroom “You can bhet your boots &he | proof by coating the ordinary wall | composition will dis- | paper with a thin coat of varnish. knew you were coming here, ! though!” she said. “T'll bet sha} even knows whera you go to get! shaved, and where you buy your collars . . . everything about you! CROSSWORD PUZZLE || mesitiae ot Thick shrub. Last word of praver THE /STORY 80 FAR: work or children! bile, Wi some, out, is going. house, but not as his wife. “What do I care vered brows. alr; that, too!"” you did!" go! I've had enough of this! | moving picture theaters, |around her | tunch, often. lips. ana ce. She smarted under it. | sriale She stood, quivering, for a long | | moment, Here waa a new problem! e women must have heard| the story of her love affair with {hese women | who had been her good friends. Oh, ghe couldn’t lose them! They were | the people with whom she would have to live her lifs, now that she, | 1 | h Stanley Wayburn . . . had come back to Dick! | must talk, why don't they get Gloria Gordon, beautiful flapper, marries Dick Gregory, a struggling young lawyer, Her idea of marriage is fun and fine clothes . . . but no 8he refuses to cook or keep house, And she swamps Dick with debts for her clothes and a new automo- to New York to go on the stage, 1| was through with her! . .. She had' Glorla becomes infatuated with Stanley Wayburn, ‘an actor. She and burn, with May Seymour, and Jim Carewe, make a jolly four- Wayburn is offered a job on the New York stage, Gloria lends him $200 of Dick's money to help him Dick almost dles with pneu- monia, When he recovers, Dr. Sey- mour, husband of the flighty May, sends him away for a rest. Gloria refuses to go with him, because Mother Gregory, whom she hates, As soon as Dick agd his mother leave on their trip Glorla sets out for New York. She goes straight to Wayburn, But he spurns Gloria, and tells her that he has just married his leading woman, a Russlan ac- tress, Then Gloria tries everywhere to land a job as a chorus-girl, but fails. At last she comes home 10 Dick. He takes her back into his NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY At that the smouldering anger in Dick burst out. He brought his fist down noiselessly on the thickly padded tablecloth in front of him. “You ought to be ashamed of talking about a decefit girl that way, Gloria/’ he sald. “And the way you treated her just now was abou the rottenest thing I ever saw. . . Glorla cried wildly, “Who's Susan Briggs that 1 £hould bow and scrape to her! She needn’t think she can go jazzing around with my husband, and have me treat her like a tin angel!" Dick looked at her from under his with Susan he aeked | shortly. | “Sure 1 do!" Gloria's tone was| “You know I'm not” Dick said quietly. “You know I'm not the felt hat by|kind of man who chases women. | | You knéw 1 run away from them.| 1¢ I'd known Susan Briggs was com- | ing here tonight to eat, T'd have | gone somewhere else. And you know Dick took its place. | of one of the open windows and|nherself into an elaborate black | looked up and down the street. But| dress, made in a style that had | |a sound in the house, itself! It came | apout, Glory that you'd ghow up if she just wait- ed Jong enough And sure enough, “1 hardly sver eat here Dick | answered. ~ “So she couldn’t :’n'":l‘(he room to the door that led into| it te the pollce, of course?” she| [|Bieaseq 111 was ccoming Mot {the hall. She put her car against|said. “Why, that silver has been in| |it and listened for a long time. But' the family for a hundred yea: | there was no further sound. you want to come back to the office | | month of Sundays, Come on, let's Suddenly she saw two faces that she knew in the moving hTONE | yagting for him. Oh, but wouldn't| Mother Gregory cchoed in a loud, FIrt Elght for Fxccllence in Spanish little blond Mrs ) ¢ ; | Wing and Gretchen Geist. The €0/ gugh) The very idea: Leaving het | carth was he at that time of night, Yalo seniors_are among the firat were chums, Gloria had plaved|gio0e g it she were Lola Hough|ipent" And now she smiled at them mlmr: 6 be badid s . | greeting, But the smile froze OR BT gy joave him first! That's what | she'd do. She had done it once, and | in the quiet room. For hoth women looked her full |Gy 4oyt again! . . . in the face for a mqment, Nelther | epoke. Then they looked sharply dows came the sound of a neigh-|said. “But I know that I found| smell of fresh-cut grass, As a drowning man clutches at a Glorla’s thoughts turned to | Mother Gregory. She would have to g0 to Dick’s mother and ask her tn s1and by her. As long as Dick's own mother was her friend, no one didn't stop to dust or make beds.|asleep, Dick hadn't come home!" But, leaving the house just as it LT was, Gloria closed the door of it{ « Mothéer Gregory all but fell into behind her, and started out, She|a ehair that stood opposite Gloria. was going to see Mother Gregory! | Her eyes were wide, and her mouth She'd let her know whose fault it |stood open with surprise. was that Dick's marriage was a!| “I can't bell it!" she cried at fzzle! . |1ast, “And how do you know when " " She was through talking to Dick the hurglar was in the house?" e g 1+ 1lraugh pleading with Bim to| “I heard hfm," Gloria answered. tn May's vu|;:e ‘She, Los,: Belidved treat her decently, Gloria told her-| “I thought I heard Dick come in Sha atory: 0'_6‘10”.' de;erllon of self, and I ran downstairs. Then 1 saw Diek But she knew she only try.|some one in the dining-room and I £ ing to bolstér up her vanity, Under | rushed back to my room and locked “Of course not! Don't be silly!”|all her bravado, she knew that the myselt up., ., 1 was gcared to Glorla’ said sharply. “I went down |fact of the matter was that Dick | death!" “You couldn't liave been so tere didn't even see Stan Wayburn! seen it in his eyes the night she had |ribly frightened,” - Mother -Gregory “That was a i she told her-|come home from New York. She mused, “or you wouldn't have selt bluntly, as she left the tele- | had heard it In the indifferent lona‘ldroppad quietly off to sleep at one phone, and began to undress, “but|he used when he talked to her, And | o'clock, as you eaid you did." it's my story and I'm going to stick | his indifference was maddening her, At that Gloria flared up. things straight?” to fti" 8he couldn't stang it! “Well, TNl tell you just how 8he would never let anyone know She had always had love and in-| frightened 1 was, If you want to that she had followed Wayburn to| dulgence from Dick. He had treat- | know, Madam Gregory!" she said, New York and that he had turned | ed her like a beautiful, spoiled lit.| furiously. “I was so frightened that her down! She could never raise|tle girl. And now he hardly looked | 1'll never stay alone In that house her head again and look peoplé in|at her. | again, after dark! . .. And if your the eye, If they found that out! Gloria’s heart was heavy as she | son wants to have a love affalr with Glorla tiploed out into the haill|rang the doorbell of the old Greg-| his office girl he'll have to work at and half way down the stairs, She|ory homestead, Maggie opened the it daytimes!” thought she heard the sound of | door for her. “Gilo-ree-a!” exclaimed Mother Dick closing the door, But no one| She found Mother Gregory eating | Gregory in the severe tones of the was in the lower hall. The clock [her substantial breakfast of ham|vice presjdont of the lome Wom- {here struck twelve slowly and|and eggs, rolls and coffec. Her face| en's club” “you're vulgar” boomingly. was flushed with too much food, | “Vulgar nothing! I'm just telling Where was Dick? Why didn't he| “Well, Gloria!” she cried in her|you the truth about your beautiful come? ... Surely he and Miss(rich, full voice. She got up from |son!" Gloria sneered. “When I mar- szu‘lmcouldn't be working until| th;h'nhl-.' . i Fo | ried him 1 thought he was a plaster midnight— e put her well-rounded arms, gaint, too! But I've found out all Suddenly as Gloria stood thers on | About Glorla ang gave her a peck about him. . . . Look at those b the stairs, she was afraid. on either cheek. | She pulled some of the “Roxle” The empty house seemed to be| ‘Come upstairs and talk to me and “Lucie'® love letters and plc- filled with strange sounds ang rust.| While T get dressed,” she ®ald,| tures from her handbag and threw lings. The pantry door creaked, . .| Steering Glorla out of the dining-!them into Mother Gregory's lap. And was something or somsbody | T°°M: | Dick’s mother laughed her com- moving in the dnrk‘dimng-'::som?y She nodded her head In the di-| forlable deep laugh, as she picked With her heart in her mouth, |Tection of Maggle, who waa listen- them up. Glorla dashed back upstairs to her|in8 With all her might, | “Roxie and Lucie Gilehrist!" she room. She slammed and bolted: the| “We'll talk up here where Mag- | safd. “They were both in love with door behind her, gle can't hear every word we sav." | Dick, First Roxie was — and’ then The lights in her room were blag- | $he told Glorla in a stage whisper | Lucie. Theg're both married now, ing! Without stopping to turn them | 88 they mounteq the wide stair-|{nough. And Lucie has a baby! . . . oft, she plunged irito bed and pulled | €a8¢. “What did vou come to seo) Dick had g lot of girls in his day, the covers up over her head like a | M about, Glorla®" | Gloria, But that doesn't prove that frightened child. | She knew That this was no {riend-| he fsn't what you call a ‘plaster She lay trembling for long min. |1y call the girl was making. Shegaint:' " utes, listening for the sound of|knew that Gloria didn't like her| Gloria's lip curled. Dick's key in the lock. . . . \vhm{m_v more than she, herself, liked | )| right,” she said, “But you in the world was he at this hour of | Gloria, ‘She was sure that Glorla| can't explain his ataying out most the night? Why didn’t he come|had-come on a special errand. | of last night with Susan Briggs!” home? He had no right to leave O (To Be Continued) his wife alone in the house half ths‘ The girl curled herself up in a b s night while he was out, doing . . .| little ball on the hard leather win-| what? That was the question! dow seat in Mother Gregory's room. Surely he and Miss Briggs| 1t was a room as plain as the wom- weren't still working in DIck's of-|an who -slept in it ... a woman fice! Where were they? Together,|who scorned silk underwear and somewhere? ... The questions|make-up as only Mother Gregory swarmed like bees in Gloria’s brain. lcould scorn them! There were no She forgot her fear. Anger toward | cushions in that room, no ruffled | | curtains, no dressing-table laden) She swung her feet over the side| with perfume and powder boxes. | of the bed and stepped out onto| Mother Gregory stood hefore the | the rug, Then she put her head out| wainut dresser and began to hook | Rubber Jewels it lay empty and still under the peen popular when Dick was a hushed calm of midnight, babyl As Gloria stood there, she heard | t\yhat did you cpme to see me | she asked again. | from downstairs ... the harsh| «we_1" Gloria began, ‘“last tinkle of metal against metal. Some- | njght we were rpbbed of every bit one was at the sllver In the side-| o¢ that lovely flat silver you gave | board drawers! Burglars us for a wedding present! Some one | Gloria pressed one hand tight 0| hroke into the house.” her breast, Shé felt as it her heart| Afother Gregory threw up her were jumping out of her body . . .| plump hands, it beat o fast! She tiptoed across| iy stars! Dick's reported | Slowly Glorla shook her pretty | Gloria. began to wonder it she head, ! | With me, or are you going home?” ! L.\ 'hoq heard a noise, downstalrs, “No, Dick hasn't reported it to| | " “I'm not going back to the of-| "no “perhaps her tired brain had the police. Dick doesn't kn . fice,” Gloria answered shortly. And | yoon playing her tricks. . . . thing about the burglary,” she said| Rubber “jewels” are the latest | teft him. Well, as soon as Dick came she ! calmly, heach novelty. Neeklaces, hrace- | “She didn't want to g0 home. .o uiq find out if anyone had been| Mother Gregory looked at her lets, earrings and other trinkets, all eltner. After Dick had left her she [y 4 o e “ghe wauldn't be| with her sharp black eye, bR ks walked slowly along West Mail | ,e0i to go donwstairs to the din-| wy, e | street, looking into the shop Win- | ing room then. But why didn't he|out fickering an eyelash, *it all 2 2 dows and the lighted lobbles of the | .o R nariea i Lhatinadaid of (helnight SENIORS WIN PRIZ are appearing at the ches. “You see,” Gloria went on with- Irench I S50 | when Dick wasn't at home.” ¥ = Gloria got back into bed, and 1ay| wwhen Dick wasn't at home:” Three in Yale Class Are Among the <he pan him when he did get home, | gurprised tone. “Well, where on New Haven, June 3 (AP)—Three eight in the award of prizes for ex- | cards with them dozens h“‘ 'e‘“’r‘f';';\nr any other faded, middle-aged That’s what 1 want to know,” ccllence in Spanish studies in a con- | They had been at her hous | wife test recently conducted under the s of La Prenza of New York and the American Association of teachers of Spanish. The competition which the Yale ol < e students entered was open to all With Busan Briggs!" Mother| oo N United States; the The next thing Gloria knew it Gregory repeateds “With Susan | e e i decision was based upon Glorla answered, “bpt 1 have every She'd let him know she wasn't) reason o think that he was Wwith iss Briggs.” The words exploded like a bomb | was morning, Her room was filled | Briggs! Oh, no, Gloria!” i cssays And the coldness in their | W18 TEREE 0" and sunshine of| Glori I e 1Y ere Iike a slap across Gloria’s | ™t} L | Gloria shrugged her shoud | written in Spanish, the subject being ‘Thomas Goddard Bergin of New Thinas Goddard Bergin, of New ! Haven won the second prize of $125; [ Edward H, F. West of New York lcity and Elmer T. Levine of New | Haven, each reccived prizes of 3 early June. Through the open win- “Have it your own wa hor's lawn-mower and the sweet them having dinner together on the quiet, last night. T left them at nine Gloria smiled and stretched her- | o'clock. They said they were going self like a tiger-kitten. Then he (o esie tarinlaniieT AL Ube attice. membered last night. She frowned.| And at one o'clock when I fell Softly she went out iuto the hall | ST T T and listened at Dick's door. No| sound within! She opened the dom‘l and peeked into the room. The bed had been elept in, Dick's pajamas lay on the rug beside it, where he had stepped out of them. Thera were ashes in the tray on the bedside table, He had been home part of the night at least. . . . And he had gonme that morning without even saying goodby! she had lsft Dick for Stanley Wa To go befare. | this town of ours who voted SHF LAl L TIDRIVIM] NAE GEEARFEE would dare to believe the story that “v'or!u lonked at the clock in a jewelry store, Half past nine. Too late to see Mother Gregory tonight. She wonld go to her first thing n the morning, though. In the meantime, she could tele- phone May+ Seymonr. May would | re to know whatever gossip| | was “out” about her. May was a be porn news pad seeie There were scores of . for a fact” that Gloria Gregory .had Jeft her husband, and had run away with a’Broadway actor named | §tanlsy Wayburn. No one knew where the nasty bit of gossip had started. But it flew all over town on the wings of the wind Gloria's card club heard it, and Jloria out of the club Lola Hough heard it and sald it wasn't true, She dgfended Gloria May Seymour heard it, and said <he didn't blame Glorid for going. May, herself, would have been glad to escape to New York for & few weeks, IFor the gossips were busy with her and Jim Carewe again. “Sure they've been triking about vou,” she tola Glorjs cheerfully that night on the telephone. “They say you ran away with Wayburn. and that Dick went down to New York and brought you home.” Gloria sighed dismally. “What a tale she satd. "It they| Glorla closed the door of his ronm “I'l be jiggered it 1 make his| bed or elean up the place!” she said to herself, “He can't treat me like a servant and expect I'll be one for him! Because I won't!" While she was waiting for her tub te fill, she went downstairs to the dining room. The drawers of the| sideboard were piled one on top of each other on the floar. They were empty. 8o there had been burglars in the house last night! And they had tak- en every picce of the flat silver that had been Mother Gregory's wedding present! Not o much as a &poon | | was left! Gloria_shiversd. Then it was the burglar she had heard taking 4he silver out of the sideboard drawers! And it must have been the burglar whom the hadl seen moving stealthily against the darkness of the dining-room. last night! He must have been in the house when ghe entered it alone! Why, she might have been shot, if she hadn’t run upstairs when she dja! Gloria burst into tears of panic at the terrible thought, . Well, she'd stand no more of Diék’s neglect. The very idéa of his sending her home alone at nine] o'clock at night to a dark house! And then ‘eaving her aloue in it until 'way past midnight! She bet| she'd never.let him do a stunt Iike | that again o her. . £he bathed and dressed. She Softly she went out into the hall