New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1925, Page 12

T T A S A B B o3 -~ A Wife's Confessional REVELATIONS OF A WIFE wus not too dim to show May the two lines that were beginning to mar the smooth, white beauty of her forehead and the shadows at the drooping corners of her mouth, Good heavens. was she gelling old? She leanod over and studied her faco with that cold and panicky terror that comes to the heart of jevery woman when she secs her first wrinkle, Then suddenly she remembered, .« Today was the nincteenth of her birthday! She was {twenty-elght years old! “And you can't expect a woman of twenty-eight to look Jike a flap. pe May told hersclf, teying to Vs cheerful and philosophical about it, But gloom settled down over her, in spite of her effort to keep the |stiftest sort of upper lip. At her age most women were com- fortably* murried and had homes of their own—a hushand to wait for at nightfall, a child or two to cuddle, Or else they had jobs, and were well on thelr way to success. “But 1 have nothing . . . nothing at all" May thought bitterly, Her past seemed to pass befors her eyes In the dim, silvery depths of the old mirror—her unhappy marriage ending in her husband's suicide, the scandal of it all, the lover who had deserted her, cheated ther— “I must be hoodoed!" May went pened to bump into your friend, Henry Harker, this afternoon,” he went on, “What'vé you been doing to poor old Henry?" g May gulped, 8he wondered what in the world® Henry Harker had told Dan about her, “Why = why, T've been selling real estate for him,” she answered | in a strained volee. “But 1 quit my job this afternoon,” “Yeah, so 1 heard,” Dan sald cheerfully, “I heard his wife caught you petting old Henry, and threw you out In the street!" He laughed drunkenly as if he had just heard the hest joke of the year, May's face went scarlet, then snow white, 8he put her hand out to the wine glass that stood beside her plate, She drained it. 8he forced herself to smile. “Who told youn a tale like that,| Danicl?" she asked with a pathetic attempt at lightness, Dan shrugged. “OI' Man Harker, | himself!" he replied joyfully, and! bent low over the table in a burst of foolish laughter, There was an answering ripple from Carlotia, May looked at her, and saw that she wag almost as drunk as Dan, himself, “How many highballs did they have before dinner?” May asked Gabriel, who sat, looking at her, with a queer smile on his dark, handsome face, AY SEYNOU TLOOSE BEATRICE BURION &, DRY SO FAR: Seymour, whose hushand Madge Goes to Ticer's with Mr. though cannot ticularly enjoy the | volver play." 1 looked at the government oper- | A hundred to ong we won't have ative, Eldri¥ge, with sudden quick-fany.” Mr FKidridge remarked ened Interest as he said he “might | soothingly, and as we dismounted as well step around and get Steve,” |and went up the steps of the Ticer There was such qulet grimness, | farmhouse, T mentally made the such calm courage in the matter of | sardonic comment that he safely fact statement, which evidently ex- | could have made the odds a hun- pressed only a detail of his day's | dred times greater, work, that I revised my first rather | unfavorable impression of the man, That the man he had been detailed to bring in waus In all probability a desperate and dangerous criminal, he knew as well we did, but there was no slightest sign of hesi- tation in him, “Have he asked way 1o the tive look at us. I cnce of his ton say that prospect 1 par-| of re- | | HE GENEE H-B sl P Eldridge | bedroom and seltled herself on the povrch, . With the sigh of a martyr, May got up and went to her. “I'm so| sorry, dear,” she said, sympathet- cally. 8he really was sorry for Car- lotta at that moment, standing | lushed and half-tearful beside the hot stove, ? affair with another man, returns to her-home town after a year's ab- sence. She sells her property, and with her whole tiny fortune in cash, sets out to find and marry a man with money, ¢ ’ | At Atlantie City she meets Mer-| Carlotta grinted. “Your being bert - Waterbury and Dan Sprague | sorry doesn't make me a new through a divorcee, Mrs. Carlotta | tureen of soup. Beautiful Doll!" she, I'rolking. Both men p: suit to | snapped, her cyes traveling up and | May, greatly (8 the distress of Car- | down May, with anger in their loftw, who has long heen in love | depths, “If. you'd been here to stir with Dan. She and May. hecome | it while I squeezed the oranges in-| at friends, however, and Carlotta | stead of dolling yourself up like a| sks May to winter with her in fer | manikin, it'd have been more to California bungalow. | the point:” May sets her cap for Waterbury, | With a swift movement of her who she | fag little arm she cmptied the con- | finally oposes” and May accepts | tents of the soup kettle down the, him, LateF she turns all her money | sink. “Doggone i(!" she cried wild- | Kittea himself because of her love Mes, Tieer Tells What She About the Suspect Mrs, Ticer swung wide her door and tried hard to conceal her sur- prise at the sight of the twp men who stood with me on her doorstep. I murmured hasty Introduction and hospitably placed chairs for but 1 shook my head at her “We can't stay,” 1 Knows as you ever 2 Liflian, door this man? pausing his to cast a specula- | noted defer as he addressed | scen | sho on beileves to be rich, He the sald, hu her and drew a eved breath. | One thing was certain, e not take the wagenient of things | into his own hands or embarrase us Ly any individual investigation of | s own when he should discover | “Ste flight, but would subject | his actions to Lillian's superior au- | thority. | “No," Lillian replied truthfully. | “But as have told you., Mrs. | Graham saw him down at Ti He turned to me with an ward diffidence curiously in con- trast to the quict nonchalunce with which he had started on his grim errand. “Could with he asked, “so as to point out the man to me without his heing any the wiger? Then T'll be sure to have the | right man. IU's rather important that 1 get the drop on him before | he has time to figure out that 1'm after him. T'll promise you there won't be any rough work while you're around.” “Does Mrs, Ticer Know? “I'm not afraid of that," 1 sal (nickly, carried uway by his man- ner into @ momentary belief thi the expedition would hold an ele ment of danger. Then as 1 realized what a farce the journey would he, there again swept over me the qbalm of disgust which every thought of the whole miscrable de- ceitful, business brought to me. | “You've no need to be” he re-| joined. patently no whit impressed by my involuntary heroies. Here, 1| «aw, was a one track mind, not to | be diverted from its single idea by anything either trivial or impor- | nt. Does this Mrs, Ticer of her lodger's real identity sked next, and at my prompt (tive he replied thoughtfully hat's all right, then. Let me see. Can't yon say to this Mrs. Tieer I'm looking for lodgings. also” | That will present an escuse for go- ng in"" “1 will say 1 said quictly, Lillian, deterence m we awk- | you come us?" Know ‘any- | thin v that wish.” turned to | the air of ! whatever and e adopting again 1o authority which he Lad dropped when talking to me “Have you any instructions tions " he as one.” Lilli she hesitated dangerous.” Operative grimly “I'm Not Prightened™ “1 can t of him.” he said quietly, tonching his pocket signifi- cantly. “And Bill. my driver, 15 pr husky if you're He vou or | sug Ediridge smiled a fitth Lasily iy ready turned to me I've cont.” | hail. 1 at Litlian, fecli Vs m my hat and toward 1 only to met turning woided contrition 1 paret this csting itself in a When | said caretully glunc tor wits g for my in hoay " nervou was finally sidu with desire to 1 in the e seated at Mr hadl ht whom he had named to n Not inddic home FLAPPER FANNY s ays IR e lenghy argument. minister alwags starte would | * | men | a | fended astonishment in her face. { had feting, struek into Iy “Mr, Eldridge acquaintances of Mrs. Under- and 1 was wondering if you could give them lodgings for a d or two." “Why!" she hesitated. “J could if 1 knew what Mr. Dackett was going to do. He hasn't said whether he's going to stay any longer than the week he spoke of or not. Mr. Dack- ctt is a gentleman lodging here temporarily companying with the ruling proverbs upon every oceasion “A bird in the hand is w y in the bush you know.” That's ve true,” Mr. Eldridge ented avely. “But can't you k him what he means to do? “Why! yes 1 could if he here, she said, “but he isn't.”” “Isn't 2 Mr, Eldridge quer- and Mr, wood me, and then, she adde 'th t were here? ied brusquely. “Where did he go?" Mrs. Ticer turned to me with of- X caught he nodded, “Better tell her, Mr. Eldridge’s eyes and " he said shortly. With my neighbor's widening eyes upon me, T explained, with much mental discomfort, the dis- covery T had made of the dropped card, and the proof we had obtain- od from it that her lodger was in all probability a criminal involved in @ mail robbery and murder. “Why! we might all have been murdered in our beds!” she ex- claimed, and her inflection held a Aistinet veproach for me. “Ol. 1 am sure you were in no danger, Mrs. 1 sald earnest- Iy and trut} “You sce, he evi- dently was down herc to hide and thercfore he was ry careful to ive quietly. I were not sure until this morning. Then a friend of Mrs. Underwood's in the vernment service, who had heen investigating the ¢ wired these gentlemen were coming. Yes, - as her eyes turned comprehen- ively upon the government opera- fives, “they do not wish lodgin they only wished me to say that in order to mislead Mr. Dackett.” “Then” Mrs, Ticer exclaimed ex “that day when he was act- 2 monkey gone crazy hunt- something all over {he It i lost and you ully w citediy ing like in was that card it all the time “Yos, but T didi't niticance then,” 1T Mrs. Underwood promisc Mr. Bldrid roon, he know said. had madc concerning it.” . who had been fidg- the ¢ me me secrecy ¢y aml saved further ex- fon, hrapt plan ladics,” that indicated “but 1've got Dackett, and Have any Te address- And when vy to interrupt voice dow regret up this man you suid 10 &l o round in a you Where Tic ne Mrs, r directly he g0 ro." — she an first " she “Over two hours & That. Chinlk question with the sedan for confirmation friend who sometimes come He and show- embroid- tri- n the looked me “yvou know of taundry nd trics to sell Chinese things. in that time some awful pretty 1 paid mental Chow's adroitness his errand at he amd Dack thir you t him here then 1 fwo man ahout awiff sing wnd eit got know 1 the rd ol nice me for edly chaufieur K and crypti- o Mr Perhups. returned ned my nei government Ny, Then crisply oper- laconica he hbor he now. you did he him before ay act his fzuring ction hetween 1 thanked 1's ignorance aa Ask our 1 jt's Better us its sig- | dos | Brown | she explained to the' sion for quoting, | the ! Here's a puzzle with an intricate design. Some of the words are in-| tricate, too. . To total, . To test chemically, Showed merey to. xpeets, ot many. 9. Tin soup container. 10, In the week. 111, Guided, 116, Incident, 19, Narrow street. Horizontal . Frenzy, ‘ree with fough Pertaining to a focus. Blackbird. lo arrange. Reverential fear. 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Child lahor clory home. with y long working hours, occupations of the type that cannot he interrupted Sunday ~ rest which tempt drive plece-work {0 excessive “speeding up.” all tend to resistance nnd predispose iilness including tuberculosis. Bad air or lack of proper ven- tilation may also act predis of this discasc. iir of poorly ventilated bad. Not only in factory workshop and in overheated,, ventilated places of amus ; but alo all too frequently in| the ordinary indi- s0d alr. When air is re-breathed it he- with poisonous ma- CUMMING United States Service Next ive or summer, whether in or excessive for ar or forts or weaken to as a ing cause o and poo men his is Iy own home nd laden vidual ' HERIES MISS MUFFET s Ll Ha you cver Little Miss Muffet lived a long time ago and about whom you have in the old here she is, co And if yonu fc an wardrobo met terials, Ventitation Is Very Important Anyone who Ifves long in vitiated | grows pale takes caslly and from t exertion we remember that many most children and practical- grown-ups are infected with S, bacilli and when we know offcets of close .~nnm\.r“~” i ';“" SN agt need for proper venila-|tUC" a8 iht apparent much the To renew should have an inlet | who nursery rhyme? to play with ow the Color Cut- you will have a pretty hats and Miss v cold loses appetite becomes tired you. Outs whole dresses for the li this weel W hab all the fatal Muffet out he paper a magazine, Her hair should be colored a lovely gold- rn brown and her Make her slip a very pale pink with shoes s to maich. Her panta- Iettes, which little girls of long ago used to wear, should be left white. Neat time, the story of Littie Miss Muffet will begin, and there a pretty dress and hat for the young ludy. You will like them r them tomorow (Copyright, 192 rele ste of heavy : cover o ment, th tion omes e Sl Air flows. in very same 2 and stockin room. air an outlet room 1 nd A flos be flushed sweep out pollution should he constant and summer. of electric fans in offices be as important in winter as summer. Do vt with ing 1 the in flow so wafch The may use Ass, Corner Editors, Inc.) in electric fan winer. | G ) needed n more workshop in keeping a steady stream of air flow- ing through it Ventilation & portant. §h entirely without found not your in stora Make put for ntilating use as an ve especially the with Chiffon coat for faille lined Lined | An au wear is wctive of white chiffon immer with im air is st fear ation, | yellow To Preserve Oilcloth The Mamnish Vogue n oileloth with a mix- 1t is rumored that coat {rocks of turs of one cupful of ekim milk to|mannish worsted willghs worn for one gallon of warm water. | general and sport w ash Yo otten | will be' over to him to invest for Her and he disappears! Penniless, May sells her furs and diamonds to buy a ticket to los Altos, California, where Carlotta has her home. On the way, she stops in her own town fo see her old frignds, the Dick Gregorys, and meets a wealthy widower, Ulysses organ. He falls in love with her and asks her to marry him, But she refuses him, telling him that she likes him too well to marry him without love, In California she tries to break {into the movies and fails. Then she gets a job in a real estate office, and leaves , hecause her married ployer, Henry Harker, makes to hery She decides then (o do noth- ing for a while but to throw her- self npon Carlotta’s hospitality. One afternoon she and Carlotta have a little tiff ever Gabriel Gug: liemo, & movie idol whom Dan has promised to bring for dinner. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY May fook a hot bath, powdered | {and perfumed her fresh skin, and began to dress with exquisite car I'rom her trunk she took a care- | fully wrapped pair of chiffon stock- em- N “Eatigg my food, sleeping a red cent,” she stormed. . ings, and a lace dress that had been | | one of her last extravagances. | There was a tiny brown stain on ! one of the frail flounces. 1 It * brought back to M vai memory of the first time she had | worn the dress a month ago| at Atlantic City. She had come in | cold and wet from a long walk, and | had sent down to the hotel kitchen pot-of hot coffee to drink| she dressed How cas) hadé been loy soft and comfortable! thing to be foot-| wd plenty of | be homeles: b les! desperate straits, a 1" May finished her “Rather- desperate| whi then! | A | 1c0s money with {in rather | matter ! thought straits!” . it wus onc vhen you but to cmpty pockets as took her top drawe counted (he ot hand her bag from the and 1t ire of bills in bigger than a cig- dollars all Three tea and a of roll much Thirty-tive there was In it five bih— Then she picked pp her only re- maining picee of Iry from her pincushion . . . a long bar set with tiamond chips. Tomorrow. unless Carlotta kept her as a guest under| the roof the bungalow, she would have to sell that pin; and she did not want to sell it . her {last treasure! “So 1 guess it behooves me to nice to Carlotta,” she decided. fastening the pin to the cobwebby bodice of the lace dress, “because, it we have a row, I'll have to get out ser, it. was a aret was doliar ewe of of be to But it was not casy to be “nlce” | to Carlotta that night. She was in a peevish #ood, and her peévish- ness took the form of “razzing” | May “Just look here, I've burned the soup!” .she called shrilly from the kitchen as May emergeg from her | love | 1y | May couldn’t help laughing [ANCHoR SIenai o shop onifnd (e ‘Il run down to the store for some canned peaches and cherrfes, and { we'll have fruit cocktall fo start oft with, instead of the soup.” Without a word she went into her | hedroom for her hand bag, and left |the house. Malf-way down the; Istreet o long, yellow car whizzed | | by her: She caught a glimpse of the | | two men in it Dan and Gab- | riel Gugliemo, no doubt! She quick- tened her step When she returned the house was brilliantly lighted, and thel sound of music came from the open front door. She stole around to the itchen and . noisclessly. deftly, Irinde the fruit cocktall. When she had piled it into frosted cups and| sot them on the dining-room table, (she drew back the portieres with a | flonrish. “Madame is served!” with ‘a bow to Carlotta, and dered at the sudden look of | eentrated hatred that the | woman flashed at her. she could moment said she, won- con- little scen he would have she If at have under my roof and not paying . known the source of that look. Her walk in the open air had refreshed | her, and she stood there, dewy- lipped and starry-cyed as a dryad, wrapped in her lacy gown. The eyes of Gabriel Gugliemo glowed like coals as they fell upon her the burning cyes of the Italian, who Is a born lover. “You are beautiful!” thev her, while his her name as *=:oduced them, and they followed her every move as she took the highball Dan profiered her, and drank it slowly. “Why have I never seen you fore? Gabriel asked, when they were at the table. “1 have been here for three solid years and . where have they been hiding you from me? 5 May laughed. “Where did you came to this countr ignoring his questions. Dan answered her. “Gabriel never | lived anywhere until three years| | ago," * he satd thickly. May saw then that he was very drunk. His { eyeballs were covered with little red veins, and his face war <arkly | fushed. His nands trembieu, s e { held his fork. “Gabriel came to life suddenly | one afternoon at five o'clock, in the High-art studios down in Holly- wood,” Dan went on, sober as & | judge. “He was wearing an English | walking suit, a gardenia in his but- | tonhole, and he held a Russlan cig- arct in one hand, and a flask of Scotch whiskey in the other! Mos' | mysterious!” | He gave a single shout of laugh~ ter, and then became sober, almost melancholy. again. No one knows aid to fed live before you 2" she asked, where he came from, or why!” he went on. “Cer- tainly we didn’t ~ need any more { the | too much! . | | me a chance to make on thinking bitterly. "I don't have any luck at all.” The ringing of the telephone on the wall startied her . . . brought her back to the hopeless present. Carlotta’s voice, still thick shaky, greeted her when she swered it “May darling,” it said so rapldly that all the words scemed to run together like ong long word, *“I'm s0 sorry about last night, 1 must have been awfully, awfully slanted to let you go out of this house in {he middle of the night, the way 1 did! Won't you forgive me and come back?" All the “About four, 1 should say," | aid quietly. He looked through ti curtains. into the living-room where 1 bottle of Scofeh stood upon the center table, “Good stiff ones, too!" May got to her feet, and cavricd the empty cocktall cups fnto the Kitchen. Somehow or other, she put the rest of the meal upon the table and served it Dan and“Carlotta ate nothing. Dan had brought the whisky bottle from the living-room and had made tresh highballs for everybody. “Don't want to t! Nobody wants fo cat!" he declared, child- ishly pushing his plate away from him., “Whp wants to kill a pojqy party with fooc Nobody!" answered “Nobody wants {0 vat. a cigaret, somebody!"” tugliemo solemnly lit onc for her, and passed it across the table, Then he picked up his fork, and began to cat. “The dinner was delicious,” he sald to May when he had finished. | “There is dessert,” May answered | vaguely, but he shook his head. “1 wouldn't insult such a meal | with a sweet,” he said, pushing back his chair. “Let us leave these two to their highballs, and go out-'g doors. Your California stars are too magnificent . ." He spoke as if the other two could not hear what he said. And indeed Carlotta and Dan seemed to he deaf as they sat there, both of them staring into space . . . staring beyond the candles that flickered in the middle of the table above a bowl of yellow roses, But as May and the ltalian left | dining-room Carlotta roused elf and called after them: | “Going to stage a llttle petting Malze? asked with plercing swectness, in her thick un- steady voice. May pretended not to hea opened the sereen door and out into the cool California ‘followed closely by Gugliemo. and an. time ing her could > answer she was d listening, 8 if she er. A with cold de~ "cision, witen Carlotta had finished, No, 1 can’t come back and cat your Iread and butter without paying for At And 1 haven't enough money to do that. No thanks, Carlotta, I ywon't be coming back. 4 But thanks for heing so nice {o me these ten or eleven duys. Goodby. Without. waitinz for Carlotta to answer her, she hung up the res Carlotta, Gimme s if the telephone call had filled he with sudden life and courage, cd quickly and went down- m checking out” she told the clerk in the lobby. “Will you please give me my bill, and send my trunk down fo the station? . . .And when is there a frain for Los Angeles?" On the afternoon before Thanks- giving Day, May Seymour sat alons in another hotel lobhy . . . the wide and ornate lobby of the Alexandri” liotel in Los Angeles. 2 May was always alone these days. Alone she breakfasted on crackers and ice water in her cheap little room up under the roof. There scemed to be no jobs. They were all filled, it semed, by the thousands of girls who had come to She |1.0s Angeles 1o go into the movies Bpped and had failed. night, | erywhere May looked, she saw heautiful girls . .. girls who had “The people in your country . . . {dreamed of being movie stars, and they drink too much,” the Talian liad taken jobs at soda fountains, in #aid, as they stood at the edge of real cstate offices, hehind - ribbon the porch and looked out at the COU ny place where they could purple, star-studded night. ““AAnd °1r a living. Any place where they when they drink 100 much fhey tell could earn enough money to buy a Is it true that the |railroad ticket back to the Jowa lady threw you out of her hus-|farms and the Obio villages where e e, Ve e they had come from! . Los Angeles “Of course not!” May answered |WAS filled with ambitious beauty . . indignantly. She heard a noise he-| The very chambermaid who daily hind her and aw Carlotta was tidied May's hedroom had come to standing in the shadow of the hail- |08 Angeles to “break into" the way, listening to them. Spying on |MoVies. A heautiful thing she was, WE {with red-gold hair and miety blus e «|eves that looked ready to cry at any oment. That morning May had given the lchambermaid the last quarter she {hed in the world for a fip. And so she was sitting now in the lobby of the Alexandria staring info ' her empty hand hag . ... wondering where her Thanksgiving dinner was coming from! And not only her Thanksgiving dinner, but her dinner tonight, and her br fast tomorrow morning! To say nothing of a roof over her a0 when the hotel people should discover that she hadn’t a cent in the world with which to pay her bill “Well, Tl my pin. That'll lielp some,” May detided, and with- out a second thought she walked straight down the street o a pawn- shop four blocks away. It was not hcr first visit to the nawnshop. She had heen there oncs hefore, and had walked out, highly inauited because the proprietor had |offered her only twenty dollars for & [pin that was worth at lcast a hun- |area. But she took the “Eisitg Y e {bill today, without a iving here in my house on my |\t uhd went out. bounty!” she stormed. “Eating my| pack in the rich food, slceping under my roof, and | yjavar o ghe aske not paying me a red cent! - {her bill. Small as it And then. when 1 ask you 1o §I\C|pared her. Iifty apmenilihe inriyNcant And all she had in me you vamp him away from me (g world was a single twenty dollar under my f§gery nose! . You're a i tine friend, you arc!” |* " well, vight liere May turned on her with Mazing lcome a deadbeat!” May decided eyes. “Who invited me herc!” she |gimiy, as she walked out of the asked furiously. “I didn’t ask my- lobhy, the bill clutched tightly in her self here, remember!” Hanal “Well, 'm asking you to g0."| A deadbeat! The ugly word Carlotta answered. “I'm asking ¥ou 'hrought a flush to her choeks as & to go, and never to darken my doors 'walked along toward the region again. Never!" And with the melo- |cheap * hoarding houses, whe+ dramatic dignity of the very drunk.|“Rooms for Rent” signs were tach» she walked clegantly into her oWn on every other building. room and locked the door behind| May chose ona of the most her. reputable looking of them. She May telephoned for a taxicab to [knew that only that kind would take her and her frunk down to the |take her in, coming as she did with little hotel near the station. Then no bagzage. she turned out the lights in fhe| And when she was alone in a dark dining-room, locked the kitihen [iittle room on the third floor ‘she door and sat down to wait. sat down to think . . . From Carlotta’s bedroom came| “I've got to get enough money te the sound of heavy snorlng. Pres-|go home!" she made up her mind. ently May heard another sound . . .|“And enough monev to pay the hotel the rattling of her taxi as it came |bill. and get my trunk!" up the street. Then a chilling thought struck “Footloose again!” she sighed to|her. In the bottom of that trunk horself as she climbed into it, and |was Ulysses Forgan's letter to her! was whirled away. Suppbse they should write to him “Well,* where do . ."these hotel ncople . . . and here?” . fell him that she had walked out of May asked the question of her own |the Alexandria without paylng her refiection in the mirror next morn- [bill! . . . What would he think of she back into the house,” |® she said to Gugiiemo. “It's cold out |™ here!™ | . 1 alone!” “I thought told vou to leave Gugiiemo Carlotta said to her the minute the door had closed behind the two men, some three hours later, She roeled and dropped heavily into a chair. Her cheeks were mot- fled and puffy. and there was a glaze over hor blue eyes. . not talk about it tonight, Carlotta,” May suggested in the soothing tone a nurse might have used to a half-insane patient.; “Won't tomorrow do?" Carlotta scowled, “No, tomorrow won't do because there fsn't going 1o be any tomorrow!” she an- swered. “You're going tonight! Now! . i “Very well,”” May raised her oy brows disdainfully, At that momen she was the very piature. of Lemuel Fishback's Spanish duchess. She got up and went into fer bedroom to pack her trunk, Car- lotta followed her. sell twenty dollar word of pro- lobby of the the cashier for was, it stag en dollars and is where T be. ie- we go from | sheiks either in the movies or out of ‘em!" He turned his blood-shot eyes to | May. “Speaking of sheiks, I hap- ing, standing before the oak dres- [her then, this man who loved her? ger in the shabby little hotel bed-| In an instant May's mind was room. . It was a dim old mirror. 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