New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1929, Page 10

THIS HAS NAPPENED Ashtoreth Ashe, honeymooning i Paris, meets an . old sweetheart, Monty English. Monty is young and Bandsome, but Ashtoreth turned him down because he was only a radio | wmlesman, and poor as poverty. She marrled, instead, a million- sire named Hollis Hart, who show- | crs her with gifts and loves her with all his heart. Ashtoreth loves him. too—or she thinks she does. Anyway. | Hollis is fabulously good to her. They live at the Ritz, and she has a| lady’s maid, and a Hispano-8uiza, | with & chauffeur named Felix, who | wears a bottle-green uniform. And she wears the most beautiful clothes | of any American girl in Parls (which is saying a great deal). . Now she i sitting with Monty at 2 | fittle sidewalk cafe near the Flower Market, watching the Eyench sweet- hearts make love to each other. Monty tells Ashtoreth how he has come to Paris, to sell radios. S8udden- ly he leans to her across the table. | “Tell me, Ash,” he asks, “are you happy, dear?” (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) | CHAPTER XLIII Ashtoreth toyed with a strawberry tart. “Happy?" she repeated. “Why, Monty darling, of course I'm hap- py." ! But her voice was a little, scared | whisper, that any man could guess was lying. They sat in silence, like lovers who | had quarreled. Near them, a student | from the Latin quarter drank choto- late with his sweetheart. They lean- ed across the table, and exchanged Kisses. Down the street came a man and girl, with their arms about each other. She said something that made him laugh, and he stooped to brush her lips with his. A bus stopped on the corner, and the first man to de- scend held his arms up to a girl in | a red tam. She flung herself into his arms, and he Kissed her as he| set her on her feet. Ashtoreth and | Monty looked at each other and smiled. “Don’t you adore the French lov- ers!” she exclaimed. “At home now, | there are policewomen on the Com- mon, to arrest boys and girls for kissing. And over here they don't think anything of it at all. There are three couples we've seen Kissing within three minutes.” Monty bent to his pastry. “It's all in the national viewpoint, T suppose. Being human, like the | rest of those birds, I'd like a Kiss| myselt. But, being American, T eat| a foollsh cake instead.” “Why, the idea, Monty! You mustn’t forget that I'm & married woman."” “I'm not liable to,” he told her. “That's the devil of it.” PR She leaned toward him, and the fragrance of her violets was a - | fl: breath of springtime. She put her | finzers on.his, gently. “I'd have made a rotten wife for you, Monty.” “I know that.” “Then what makes you feel so badly 2" “Love's an unreasonable thing.” | he told her, and dug in his pocket | for change. “Come on, let's get moving, Ash.” “How do you mean—unreason- able, Monty?" “Oh, it makes savages stick rings through their noses, and smiled at her indulgently. “And it makes saps out of wise guys. And little girls ask questions. It's 8 snare and a delusion. that's what it is." They strolled down the street, chatting like strangers. “Where are you living?” she ask- | “Pension,” he told her. “Over on | the Left Bank. You're at the Rits.| 1 saw it in the papera.” “Yes” she said. “We've a suite | that's bigger than the flat. And I've 2 maid of my own.” “Holy cow!"” he whistled softly. “And you like it, Ash?” “I told you,” she reminded him, “hat T am very happy.” “Your husband,” he remarked, when they had walked in silence to the Quai, “seemed like a regular chap, Ash. T suppose he told you all the details about the smash, and the paper T had in my pocket. That was | how we knew each other. Lord, what a coincidence!” “Yes, wasn't 1t?" “T didn't tell him I was going to ask you to marry me..I didn't want | him to be magnanimous and all that sort of rot.” “What did you tell him, Monty?” l “Well, you saw the story, didn't, you? T told him you were a friend | of mine, and naturally a thing like | that made me hot. He knew I was on my way to see you. He was very decent about it, too. Asked me to drive up with him. There wasn't any point to that, though. Your mind was made up then. He sald you were | going to be married in the morning. | Well, that settled things for me. T wasn't going butting in. “First. when he was telephoning | ‘o you, 1 though T'd like to talk | i3 you. But, when he handed me the | 1 10ne, and 1 heard your voice on the | other end s i “I kno interrupted Ashtoreth. | “You asked for mother.” | “And T couldm't even talk to her.” | ve admitted. “Just a reguiar darn | 1, that's all.” | . . She slipped her hand confidingly | in his. i “How are things going, Monty? | Do vou like it over here?" “Oh, sure. It's all right. Lots of | fun, where I'm living. All French | people, you know. Gives you a| chanee to pick up the language.” | “It's very nice at the Ritz" she | boasted. “All right, if you like it he agreed. “I should think you'd smother in all that grandeur. Me for the little old Left Bank.” “We've a car she told him grandly. “A Hispano-Suiza.” “You eun't make me sore,” he bhoasted. “I've a Citroen—one of those French flivvers—myself. And 1 know my way around, too.” _ She thought of thelr chautfeur. | Feiix. Grand in bottle green livery. | and his finger nalls were beautitully manicured. There was something about him that made Ashtoreth feel like a little country girl. 8he didn't know what it was. But Felix and Mabel Mogg—they both made her feel that way. “I bet,” Monty was telling her im- pudently, “that you'd get a lot of kick out of tearing round with me." Well, maybe she would, Hollis wasn't what anybody'd call a tear- ing model. 8till, she certainly wasn't going to sound disloyal. “I'm having a perfectly wonder- ful time," she declared, and pursed her red lips primly. “Is money all it's cracked up to | be?” he asked. “You remember, Ash, 1 always said you'd marry for love or money.” “Well, I did, didnt 17" manded. “Which 2" “Love, idtof 1y. she de- » inquired insolently. " she told him sharp- Hollis had reached the hotel be- fore she returned, and called to her trom his room, as she opened the door. “Oh, Orchid—is that you? Hello, darling. Did you have & good time?"” She tossed her coat across a Louis XIV chalr, teetering on its skinny gold legs. “Fine. I'll be right in, dear.” She wanted to see herselt as Monty had seen her. Before she powdered her nose, or poked her short ends up. To look upon herself through his eyes, and guess what he had thought. She crossed the room, to the long mirror on the further wall, and in- spected herself critically . Monty wouldn't’ think changed for the worse, that was sure. Hollis was wearing a brocaded dressing gown with silk frogs all over the front of it. They were al- | ways catching in Ashtoreth’s hair, when he held her against him. She Kissed him lightly, avolding his arms. “Miss me, Holly? You'd never guess who I bumped into, dear.” “Anybody I know?" “Well, sort of. Guess.” He laughed. “Sadie Morton, with & sugar dadd, “No. Oh, you'd mever know . . . | Monty English, dear!” Ashtoreth, forgetting the frogs for the moment, wound her arms about her husband’s neck . . . “And I was thinking, dear—wouldn't it be nice to ask him to have dinner with us some night?” Hollis agreed good naturedly. “Why, fine. Anything you'd lke Orchid. Why didn't you bring him back with you?" “Oh, he had an appointment to- night. He's selling radlos, Holly. And, you'd never belleve it, but he says busineas is just wonderful. He says American salesmen are the only ones that have any punch. Imagine coming all the way from Boston to sell radios to Frenchmen!” “Where did you see him, Orchid “Oh, it was just the funniest thing. You know you've never taken me to Saint Chapelle, and I've been just dying to see it . . ." . on Hollls suppressed a small smile . . . “But you sald you hated going to churches, dear.” “Oh, T know, But you might have known that T'd love to have gone with you, if you'd ever once asked me. Anyhow, I thought I'd go this afternoon, all by myself. So—I was walking through the flower market —when, all of a sudden—oh, no. T wasn't,—I went to that cafe on the corner. And T'd just barely sat down, when who should come along but Monty! My goodness, thought 1 was seeing things! “Tt yeems he doesn’t know a soul, and he's terribly lonely. He's liv- ing over on the eft Bank, and no- body speaks any English, and Monty doesn’t know much French yet. And I could just tell he was so desolate. 8o I thought it would be awfully nice, dear, if you didn't mind, to have him up for dinner some time."” Hollis patted her small dark head. “Any time you say, Orchid.” She let him hold her then. And. when her hair caught in the frogs on his dressing gown, she laughed. And put her head back, for him to kiss her lips. 7 she whispered. he cried. chid . . . Orchid!” And later, when he had carried her to the little brocaded love seat, all fat and puffy, and covered with pink roses, he held her in his arms, and asked her softly. “Tell me, Orchid—truly, dear,— are you happy?” She burled her head against his | shoulder. “Why, Holly, what a question!" PR But her voice was so muffled, he could not hear. And he lifted her chin with his finger tips. “Are you as happy, Sweetheart, as you dreamed of being? You're not disappointed? Everything's beau- tiful?” “Reautiful!” she whispered. “And this Monty-boy didn't make. you sorry about anything?” “Why, Holly, how could he. dear?” She snuggled chest. “I bought some linens for mother today. Those colored damasks. She'll be so pleased.” ‘Always thinking closer against his of someone | else!” he murmured tenderly. her neck. curled in like the He kissed the back of where her straight hair surprising little - twists, tendrils on sweet peas. “Oh, my goodness. Holly! Now I'm all caught on those old frogs again.” “I'm sorry, dear.” He separated frogs and hair gent- ly. The passed. “Let's have a cocktail!” Ashtoreth shook out her skirts. “Tell them good strong ones, Holly.” Ashtoreth had learned to drink cocktails in Parie. Somehow they helped her to forget all abow. Hol- lis' two front teeth on their little well, | she had | Holly, 1| “oh, Or- enchanted moment had voHo had & little waxed moustache, |swivels. . ., She didn't even mind :whell he kept saying “Orchid . ., . 1Orchid .. ."asif it was his pray- er. And telling her, over and over again how wonderful she was. Oh, it was very nice, of course, to have a man so absolutely insane about you. But . . . well, a few -c_ock(allu did help. There was no get- i ting around that. Because, naturally, |a girl had to be pretty sweet to a | man who was always ey giving her There were times when she had ! a ghastly feeling of paying for X‘f‘-’"lfl and amethysts with her kisses and her arms. There were, in !fact, times when she thought of that letter her father had written her. She wondered if Hollis ever thought ‘o( it himself. . . That part about girls who trusted exclusively to | their youthful charn®s being no bet- {ter than courtesans. . .Only wiser |and less honest. | (To Be Continued) | .« s Ashthoreth sees and again. ter. |Road Conditions in State of Connecticut Road conditions and detours in the state of Connecticut made neces- sary by highway construction and repairs announced by the State Highway Department, as of Jan. 22rd are as follows: Monty again— Details in the next chap- \ Danbury-Newtown road, bridge and construction work on new loca- tion, Rowte No. ¢ Salisbury-Great Barrington road work suspended for the winter. % Route No. ¢ Brooklyn-Danielson road in the towns of Killingly and Brooklyn is under construction. Route No. 10 Bloomfield-Granby road is under constrection, but open to traffic. Road under construction from Higganum to Haddam Hall. Open to traffic. Route No. 1Y West Hartford-Avon, Albany Ave. is under construction, but open to traffic. Route No. 100 Manstield-Phoenixville road is un- der construction. This road is im- passable to traffic. Route No. 181 Salisbury, Canaan<§alisbury road work is suspended ofr the winter. Route No. 138 Cornwall Hollow' road, resurfac- ing complete with exeception of shoulders and guard rall, - Route No. 133 Hartland-Hollow bridge is under construction. Short detour around bridge. Route No. 136 New Fairfield-8herman road, ma- cadam completed for four miles. Use old road or new location one HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, Canterbury-Newent foad ~under construction for two miles, south of Canterbury. Grede rough, travel difficult. Granby-fialmon Brook street is under construction. Ogen to traffic. ‘Weston-Lyons Plains road, steam | shovel grading. No detours neces- -ary. Windsor Locks-Suffield, East street ‘s under comstruction. Traf- fic may take good road through Suffield Center. ‘Weston-Newtown = road, steam shovel grading. No detours eces- sary. 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