The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 9

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Rach: ry land Mer Jove affair with spend a win nded when he died, In | | | » Whose first wife had died, She married him, aud attempted to mather, bis ted little © the years of luxury tn Amerion, with the gradual realization that Breckenridge was devoted to js daughter and drink, but not to his second wife. Rachael's contemplation of the past was suddenie ended with the arrival of Dr, Warren Gregory, the busy and highly efficient bache! yaician and friend of the Breckenridges, Me tells Racha he is @ make the professional call, but that ber } ad's {linens does not need @ physician. Dr, War r YY and Rachael are old, true friends, She unbdurdens her heart to him-—tells of her unhappiness, and declares | t * Warten Gregory ts # & desire to have thie wonderful woman for himeclt, Be| Mer A how his mother, with whom he lived, had always held | the loved the wite of Clar Breckenridge, "The next morning tea by Gr sum of money awalt the return of Dr, Gregory and they arrange to be married the she is a divorced woman who whe terme such a statement (Continued From Saturday) Rachael, on her side, contemplated the Valentines with deep interest. She found them a rather puzzling study, unlike any married couple that she had ever chanced to know. Alice was one of those good, homely, un- fashionable women who seem utterly devoid of the Instinct for dressing properly. Lier masses of dull brown hair she wore strained from her high forehead and wound round her head in a fashion hopelessly obsolete, Her evening gown, of handsome gray ailk, was ruined by those little fussy [touches of lace and ruMing that | brand a garment instantly as “home- | made.” George was one of the plainest of |men, shy, awkward, Insignificant | face, and red hair, Warren had told | his wife at various times that George was “a prince,” and physically, at | least, Rachael found him disappoint- | ing, especially beside her own hand |some husband. She knew he was j clever, with a large practice besides | bis work as head surgeon at one of [the big hospitals, but Warren had added to this the information that George was a poor business man, an | U1 qualified to protect his own inter | esta. Yet, in his own home—a handsome and yet shabby brownstone house in the West Fifuies—he appeared to bet ter advantage. There was a bright ness in his plain face when he looked }at his wite, and an adoring response tinually on his lips; what Alice said }and thought and did was evidently | perfection. Before the Gregorys had | been 19 minutes in the house on | their first visit he had gone down twice, and fondly car | looking, with a long featured, pleasant | her home conditions happy, finally goes to her husband and tells him that she intends to get a divorce. She leaves him and goes to the seashore, who has gone to Burope. has remarried at times as foollah. Upon her daughter-tn-law, who has taken up residence tn « luxurious drawn from their seclusion into the social whirl | and get her husband interested takes up rent On his return, Dr. Rachael finds herself su ema coarse to her Gregory's mother has never apartment owing day However, ren Gregory exchanged admiring glances as the beautiful Mra. Greg ory took the child delightedly in her arms, contrasting her own dark and glowing loveliness with the tiny Katharine id and roses. It was & quiet evening, but Ra- chael liked it. She liked their sim ple, affectionate talk, their rem! niscences, the werenity of the large, plainly furnished rooms, the glowing of coal fires in the old-fashioned steel-barred grates. She liked Allon Valentine's placidity, the sureness of| herself that marked (his woman as more highly civilized than so many of the other women Rachael knew. There was none of Judy's and Ger- trude’s and Vera's excitability an Festiesaness here. Alice wan con corned neither with her own appear-| ance nor her own wants; she was free to comment with amusement or wonder or admiration upon larger af. faire, Rachael wondered, as beaut ful women have wondered aince tim began, what held this man #o tightly to this mild, plain woman, and by What special gift of the gods Alice Valentine might know herself secure beyond all question in a world of beauty and charm and youth. “Well, what d'you think of her, Alice? Dr. Gregory had anked proudly when his wife was on his arm and leave taking was in order. “Think you're lucky, Greg,” Mrs. ‘You've got a dear, wife “And you are going to let me come and make friends with the boy and the girls some afternoon?” Rachael aaked good, lovely “If you will! their mother said, and she and Rachael kissed each other. Gregory chuckied, tn high feather, all the way home. “You're a wonder, Ladybird! 1 and set a stopped clock, anawered/have never seen you sweeter nor prettier than you were tonight! Rachael Iqaned back in the car with a long, contented sigh "One can see that was all ready to hate me, Greg; 4 woman who -had been married, and who snapped up her favorite bachelor—" He laughed triumphantly. “She and his wife and War-! doesn’t hate you now" BREAK~UP~A~COLD TABLETS Help You to Increase Your Cold-Resistance Cold and our system. them germs are always present in Et dnateral reelstence eocmenntty off and maintains good health. When this resistance is weakened cold or gnppe aholdon you. The sensible way to prevent is to increase your cold-resistance. ‘Weeks’ Break-Up-A-Cold Tablets stimulate the freeing and these sooner the better. -fighting activities of the body b nae Re the overload of areata ion. At the first sneeze begin taking jirections on the box tell you how to aid their work. of people depend on Weeks’ Break- Up-A-Cold Tablets to knock out colds. You can get rid of yours the same way. *t waste time and money fooling with colds oy five of when twenty these compe “just-as-goods "insist on cents will buy a box ent cold-fighters. eeks’ and get the best. D. WEEKS & CO. Inc. Des Moines, lowa Don’t take ag reKory finds her there uurpriese her, mely happy—altho the realiaation that) nd she frankly declares so to her husband, | alontine answered, earneetly.| dive be besides rink Tachael | and gives her a email of plain folk, to in & emall never called Gregory are approved the affair, and Gradually Dr. and Mra. “No, and I'll age to it that she never does. She's my sort of weman, and the children are abnolute loves! like that sort of old-fashioned pr | udice—honestly I do—that honor-thy- fatherand-thymothera nak ee p-holy-| the aabbath day sort of person. Don't you, Greg?" “Well, I don't lke narrowness, sweet.” | “No.” Rachael pondered in the dark. “Yet If you're not narrow you neem to be—reaily the only word for it ie she submitted. “Bome- how, lately, a great many person— the girls I know-do seem to be a tue bit that way.” “You don’t find them judging you!” |her husband said. Rachael answered only by a rather fnint negative; sho loose would not elucidate further. This |was one of the thingw she could) [never tell Warren—a thing indeed that she would hardly admit to her| own soul But she said to herself that she knew now the worst evil of divorce. |She knew that {t coarsened whom ever it touched, that it irresistibly | degraded, that it lowered all the hu |man standard of goodness and en-| durance, and self-sacrifice. However Justified, it was an evil; however properly consummated, {t solled the Uttle group it affected. The dintn elination ef a good woman like Alice Valentine to enter into a clone | friendship with a younger and richer | jand more beautiful woman whose history was the history of Rachael | | Gregory was no mere prejudice. It | was the feeling of a restrained and disciplined nature for an unchecked and {t-reguiated one; tt was the feal ing of a woman who, at any cost, |had kept her solemn marridye vow | toward a woman whe had broken her word Rachael was beginning to find it! more comprehensible, even more ac |ceptable, than the attitude of her |own olf world. Fresh from the Eden that was her life with Warren, she had turned back to the friends whose viewpoint had been hers a few | She had been a cold queen among them once, flattered by their praine| and laughter, reckless in speech, and almost as reckless in action, But now her only kingdom was in War- ren Gregory's heart. She had no largesse for these outsiders; she could not answer them with her old quick | wit now; indeed, she hardly heard | them. And on their side, where/ ones there had been that certain| deference due to the woman who, however wretched and neglected, was | still Clarence Breckenridge’s wife, | now she noticed, with quick shame, a familiarity, a carelessness, that .| trip to the Bermudas in April, and |This year her brave and dignified | satiable and yet satiafied love, months ago. shoes, and satin ribbon tying his om | white wig. Rachael, separately tnt ave” cna oo decided tempted by the thought of Dutch doned both because it was not pos coatume with the one upon which determined enque of Indian maidens, silk stockings disappearing into moc- casins, exquisite beadwork upon her fringed and slashed skirt, in her loc matchless tiger skin, strapped close- ly across her back, to of distinction to the costume e PEKING, Dec. 29. — They're building up the little ones for the winter. And after the bundles have been tied and fastened there n't much headway old Jack Frost can make on the little ones, acl hailed it as the end of the sea son, They were to make a flying after that Rachael happily planned & month or two in the almost de- serted city before Warren would be free to got away to the mountains or the boat. It was with a delight ful sense of freedom that ghe real ized that her first winter in her new role was nearly over, Next winter her divorce and remarriage would be an old story, there would be other goesip more fascinating and more new, she would be taken quite for! granted. Again, she might more easily evade the social demand next winter without exposing herself to/ the charge of being fickle or changed facing of the world had been a part of the price she paid for her new happiness, Now it was paid And for another reason, halfde-| fined, Rachael was glad to see the) months go by. She had been War ren Gregory's wife for nearty six) months now, and the rapture of be-| ing together was still as great for them both as it had been in the first | radiant days of their marriage. For) herself, indeed, she knew that the joy was constantly deepening, and) even the wild hunger and paasion of | her beart could find no flaw in his) devotion. Her surrender to him was with a glorious and unashamed com pletencan, the tones of her extraordi nary votoe deepened when she spoke to him, and in her eyes all who looked might read the story of in- Plans for the big dance presently bogan to move britkly, and there was much talk of the affair. As hostess, Rachael would not mask, nor would Warren, but they were already amusing themselves with the details of elaborate costumes, Warren's rather stern and classic beauty was to be enhanced by the blue and buff of an officer of the Revolution, fine ruffles falling at wrist apd throat, wide silver buckles on square-toed wooden shoes and of the always de lightful hoop ekirts, eventually aban. sible historically to connect either Warren had decided. She eventually to be the most pictur with brown feathers woned hair, and a smali but i a touch On the Monday evening before the fetted. was better now [indicated plainly exactly claim to delicacy that she had for Her position tn every way had been then. But tn some subtle personal sense she had lont caste, than it the fine| A story | dance she tried on her regalia and appeared before her husband and three or four waiting dinner guests #0 exquisite a virion of glowing and | radiant beauty that their admiration was almost a little awed. Her cheeks were crimson between her loosened was ventured when she chanced to be alone with Frank Whittaker and George Pomeroy that her presence would have forbidden in the old | days, and Allen Parmalee gave her a |sensation of absolute sickriess by | merrily introducing her to his sister from Kentucky with the wor “Don't stare at her so hard, Boss! Of course you remember her; she | was Mrs. Breckenridge last year, but |now she’s making a much better| record as Mra, Gregory!’ ‘The women were even more frank; | Clarence’s name was often mentioned in her presence; she was quite simply congratulated and envied. “My dear,” eaid Mrs. Cowles, at a women's luncheon, “you were ¢x traordinarily clever, of course, but don't forget that you were extremely lucky, Clarence making no fuss, taking all the trouble to pro- vide the evidence, and Greg being only too anxious to step into his} shoes, made it eaxy for you!" too. “I'm no prude,” Rachael smiled, over a raging heart. “But I couldn't see this coming, nobody did. All I| |could do was to break free before) m: self-respect was absolutely | gor | “Go tell that to the White Wings, | dariing,” laughed Mrs, Villalonga, | lazily blowing smoke into rings and Irals ‘Seriously, Vera, I mean it!" Seriously, ¥ hael, do you mean to tell me that you hadn't the might | est idea Mrs. Villalonga rou: herself, to amilingly study the ot woman's face as she asked the ques tion, “Not a word—not a hint?” | r have put her} able to say ned cheerfully | faming She would hand in the fire tab “No,” The others Jobody misunderstand you, | dear; you were in a rotten fix and| you got out of it nicely,” said fat} Mry. Moran, and Mrs. Villalonga added consolingly: “Why, my heav-| ens, Rachael, 1d leave Booth tomor- | row for anyone half ns handsome as | Warren ¢ yy" | P dies acy hia iid att eee In March the Gregorys sent out cards for their first really large en tertainment, «a Mardi-Gras ball and Warren spent many y hours planning it; the studio to be eared, two other big was rooms turned into one for the sup-| | per, music for dancing, musical num: | | bers for the entertainment; it would | be perfect in every detall, one of the notable affairs of the winter, Bach. ] wild jangle of sound from tho curb, ” “YP bin, whey rich braids of “hair; her eyes shone tume, leather and richly colored wampum, whole aspect. ments, course arm. An amused indulgence to her caprice, outfit | ran “Ah, well——" Rachael's face was | o blue, with deeply and the fantastic cos. its fluttering strips of ve an extraordinary quality of| uth and almost of frailty to her “The woman just sent this home. I couldn't resist showing you!” said Rachael, in a shower of compli “Ian't my tiger a darling? Warren went six hundred and sev enty-two places to catch him. Of there never was a atripey tiger like this in North America, but what care 1? I'm only a poor little redskin, a trifling inconsistency like that doesn’t worry me!’ “Me taky you my wikiup—huh!" said Frank Whittaker invitingly. “You my squaw?" “Come here, Hattle Fishboy,” said her husband, catching her by the His face showed no more than but Rachael knew he was pleased. “Well, whon you first planned this I thought it was going to be an awful mess,” said he, turning her slowly about. ‘But it isn't so bad!” “Isn't so bad!” Mra, Bowditch said scornfully; “it's the loveliest thing I r saw. I'll tell you what, Rach el, if you come down to Easthamp. ton this summer we'll have a play, and you can be an Indian. “ra it,” Rachael said, and making a deep bow before her hus band she added; “I'll be Squaw Afraid-of-Her-Man'* She heard them upstairs to change nventional dress. “Hitta,” said she, Indian costume to too happy to live!” Etta, one of those homely. scientious women who extra some mysterious way an pride and pleasure from the beauty of the women whom they serve, smiled faintly and dully. “Tho weather's getting real nice now,” she submitted, as one who will not discourage a worthy emotion Rachael laughed out joyously, The next instant she’Hafl flung up a win- dow and leaned out in the spring darkness. ‘Trees on the drive were rustling over pools of light, a lighted steamboat went slowly up the rive the brilliant eyes of motor cars curved swiftly through the blacknoss. A hurdy-gurdy, guarded by two shadowy forms, was pouring out a love laughing as she to a more the “rm consigning her maid, fwh silks, felts, velours, $3.95, Children’s Hats, SUITS DRESSES At Clearance Prices $35.00, $45.00, $55.00, $65.00 $75.00, $85.00, $95.00 Marked economies in apparel are presented in this clearance, All our Suits, Coats, Dresses—all Fall and Winter models, have been marked at sharp reductions Dresses and Suits for street and afternoon wear, Evening Dresses, as well as Day and Evening Wraps, are gncluded at the prices noted above. Hats at Clearance Prices Reduced from higher prices, all the season’s models—velvets, at the following prices: Banded Hats are grouped and reduced to $3.95 and $6.95. All Fur Trimmed Hats also greatly reduced. to $2.95 and $5.00. COATS for imrhediate clearance. MacDeugall-Seuthwick, Second Bloor. duvetyns—all trimmed hats are now grouped $7.50, $12.50, $18.50 tailored and trimmed models are all reduced MacDeugall-Seuthwich, Second Fiver, When the window was shut, a mo- ment later, the old Italian man and woman who owned the musical in strument decided that they must mark this apartment house for many | a future visit, and, chattering hope fully, went upon their way. The belladonna in the spangled gown, | who had looked down upon them for a brief interval, meanwhile ran down to her guests. She was in wild spirits, inspired with her most enchanting mood; for an hour or two there was no resist ing her. Mrs, Whittaker and Mrs. Bowditch fell as certainly under her spell as did the three men. “She really has changed since she married | Greg,” said Louise Bowditch to Mrs. | Whittaker; “but it’s all nonsense— this talk about her being no more fun! She's more fun than ever!” “She's prettier than ever,” Ger trude Whittaker said with a sigh. aay a ae Oe el The next afternoon, a dreary, wet afternoon, at about 4 o'clock, Warren Gregory stepped out of the elevator, and quietly admitted himself to his own hallway with a latchkey, It an unusual hour for the doctor | t® come home, and in the butler'’s/ carefully commonplace tone as he answered a few questions Warren knew that he knew. The awning had been stretched across the sidewalk, caterers’ men were in possession, the lovely spa cious rooms were full of flowers; the big studio had been emptied of fur- niture,, there were great palms massed in the musicians’ corner; maids were quietly busy everywhere; no eye met the glance of the man of the house as he went upstai He found Mrs. Gregory alone in her own luxurious room. No one who had seen her in tbe excited beauty of the night before would havo been likely to recognize her now, She was pale, tense, and vis- ibly nervous, wrapped in & great woolly robe, as if she were cold, and with her hair bound carelessly and tightly back as a woman binds it for bathing. You've seen it?” she said instant- her husband came in. jeorge called my attention to it; I came straight home. I knew—" hé was kneeling beside her, one arm about her, all his tenderness and de- votion jn his face-- “I knew you'd need me.” She laid am arm about his neck, sighed deeply, but continued to stare distractedly befond him “Warren, what shall we do?" she said with Am certain vagueness a brokenness in her’ manner that he found very juleting. “Do, sweetheart?” ho echoed at a lor With “all those people coming to- night,” she added, mildly impatient. “Why, what can we do, dear?’ CHARLES SCHWARTZ |) Prices Rearonable. “You don’t mean,” Rachael said in- credulonsly, “that we shall have t6 go on with it?” “Think a minute, shouldn't we?" “But"—her color, ®etter since his| entrance, was waning again—‘“with Clarence Breckenridge dying while | we dance!” she shuddersd. “Could anything be more prepos- terous than your letting anything | that concerns Clarence Breckenridge | affect what you do now?" he asked with kindly patience. “No, it's not that!” she answered feverishly. “But—but for any old friend one would—would make a difference, and surely—surely he was more than that!" “He was more than that, of course, but he has been less than nothing to you for a Jong time!” “Yes, legally —technically, of course,” Rachael agreed nervously. She sat silent for a moment, frown- ing over some sombre thought. “But, Warren, they'll all know of it, they'll all be thinking of it,” she said presently, “I—really I don't think T can go through it!” (Continued Tomorrow) Let's go eat at Boldt's—uptown, 1414 34 Ave.; downtown, 918 2d Ave. Be Young In Body, Mind Looks Despite Your Y How often you have h. wished that you could wy dearest. Why cannot longer use. We turm less things into Gold. Try the Red . Cross Room for Lunch. We Buy 4 serve wholesome food, prepared. Encourage the who are giving their serve you. ‘We have more than 56 hospitals, and hundreds ready to make nursing visits is having splendid success, WE CALL Salvage Phone Elliote 4518 ¥ indulge in the-strenu- ous exercise of out door sports withathe vigor and enthusiasm, of,youth! 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