New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1928, Page 18

By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928 Author of “My Son’s Sweethearts,” “Confessions of a Wife,” Ete. Copyright. 1928, by Central Press Association, Inc. READ THIS FIRST: Lynda Fenton, a singularly inno- cent girl, is private secretary to Ralph Armitage, who has an insan wife. Her father, a drunkard, te her that her mother deserted th and that all women have th Ly from David tells she d in love with any away on a trip. Ly s father deserts her, Claire hope comes fo live with her. Claire has h an nt love affair with Fred Blague, a married man. June Challer, who has annexed money. invites Lynda and Claire and Emily 10 a b1 Da man. David and innoc home for the affair, so tha may be made to f saying "It your girl.” David wri admonishing her to beware Ralph Armitage. Tt stirs her and turns her thoughts to Ralph Ralph meets with an Lynda goes to his home, where he 1s enthralled by her kindly inno cence, and next day he tells her he loves her, and that he'll 1 the party if he must go in an @ bulance. Claire Stanhope annou aceident., | she's to marry Fred Blaque when a | divorce has been secured NOW GO ON WITH CHAPTER XXXIX Twisted Lives After Emily left the house, Clae and Lynda sat up for a little while longer, talking about their twisted lives. “I wender why it is."" said Claire, “that destiny, if it really has in- tended two people to marry and settle down to happiness and con- tent, should allow thém to go blun- dering around, making all kinds of mistakes before they come together at last>” “Lynda,” she spoke her name in a kind of hushed voice, “do you suppose that there was a time when Fred loved Bertha as he thinks he S loves me now Will the time come, in the future, when we, too, will have forgotten? Will he sometimes say of me, as he now says of her, ‘There was a time when I thought 1 loved her.' He said tonight: ‘1 was quite crazy about Bertha until we married, and then I found that the woman 1 had martied and the vo- | man I had really made my were strangers to each other. “'Almost from the first 1 found 1 had made a mistake,’ he cnded, wife, with & sigh, almost whispering the | afterthought: ‘I presume she was quite as much disappointed in me as I was with her.’ art grew cold, Lynda. 1 am | s I am cowardly afraid to tace it. “Why does the silly little old god recover his sight as soon as a man and & girl get married? Sometimes I think perhaps these people have the right idea when they adwcate this companionate marriage which s0 many people are talking about.” “What e companionate mar- riage?” asked Lynda, curionsly | “I don’t just know,” answercd | Claire, “but as nearly as I can find | out, it's a kind of an affair carried | on under the sancifon of the e, and under the eyes of the clur€, from which you can withdraw, with | honor, it you find you have made | a mistake.” | With this she got up slowly and | went off to bed. Lynda was never wider awake in | her life. She felt so very lonely. | Although Davie had never said as | sweet things to her as Ralph, when she was alone, Davie s always with her in her She stepped out on the porch and dropped down into the shabby old hammock | The moon, a thin, pale-silver cres- | cent—had drawn away from the church steeple. It scemed to be bid- ding her farewell Ever since they were small chil- dren, Davie and she had watched that moon—their moon—make appearance heh They used to s moon” as it peepes belfry. Other moons this one theirs a having watched it so fate Lynda never had see pale. It scemed to loneliness to Davic vet | the other people —hut was e, Never at night n it so thin and 114 another down her che at onea grew b fortable. Decidedly iluc and went into the h door, and seeing no from under Claire’s door. she toed to her room The old ch three o'clock the marning,” tip- bell A chimed out For Rent With Us land shiny lrffla' E STORY | It took but a minu open window and saw the pale face, with its curling black lashes softly caressing its cheek. The sensitive mouth, which was now guiltless of i hower a little drooping at s. It seemed 1o hide some et behinds its cupid's vhich the sleeping girl lize herself Vaguely as something dis- turbing her. Her ey [ her ears caught the cchoing sound. She called to Claire, but she did not |answer. It was later than she thought. She sprang out of hed and dash- led into her bath, which, although she had drawn it the night before, | was still cold enough to malke her | body tingle.s Not giving herself time fo decide whether these little shudders were { of pleasure or pain, she vigorously | splashed the w over her white om, and then stepping out, she e herself a v ‘ous rub with the bath towel. | She now was thoroughly awake, |and for a moment hesitated for fear [that she did not have time to spray | hérself with the toilet water that | Claire had given her. It was only for a moment, how- {ever, and then there was a squishy | sound as she compressed the rubber | bulby attached to the ornate *hottle and felt the her body. T {a teddy, dre stockings, pus | black pumps. Then came the little navy hiue, one-piece dress, which dropped over her head, Tt took long nnde ed her feet into her only a minute her straight heb into its ony “Claire!" 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