ROMANCE AND INTRIGUE
HIS WIFE.”
By Mrs. VICTOR RICKARD,
Author'ej" The Light above the Crossroads"; "The House of Courage," "Reckless Puritan," etc.
SYNOPSIS,
WALTER PRIESTLY, an engineer, returned from England to settle down with "
MRS. PRIESTLY, his mother, and ADA, his sister, mite In London
when he land
ORANGE LAVINGE, who appears to be in great trouble. She will not disclose the trouble, but suddenly asks him to marry her. He consents. Hrs. Priestly la home shocked when he comes with a wife, but decides to make the best of it. Orange later con- fcases she married Walter be cause she had bees jilted by an other man,
CHAPTER VI.
It wasn't what she had wanted to say and It sounded forced and rather ridiculous, but her eyes were full of angry tears and, in spite of herself, her voice shook,
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Clari Bow (Kitty Flanders) and which afflict so many. Pinketten mixed en anglication. Esther Ralston (Jean Waddington) are a speedy and efficient, yet are the heroines, the opposite gentle corrective. A little dose. Que's Bond Centra roles being taken by Gary Cooper tonight; you will feal 100% better, (Ted Larrabee) and Norman Tre-brighter and more efficient to- vor (Duku de Gandrevillo),,
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closed "Certainly not." Orange the door behind her mother-in-law with a bang and turned the key in the lock; and then, going to her bod, she flung herself upon it and gave way to her tears.
Walter, his mother, and 'Ada dined rather silently together. The hired butler had comic and was busy with preparations for the reception later on in the evening, for Mrs. Priestly had added to the original number of her guests,
Beyand informing her son that his wife had a reed to come down sinire and be introduced, she suld nothing of the interview. Waller, though much relieved in mind to know this, was far from casy as to the means his mother had used to Induce Orange to capitulate.
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A convent for "children of where soll Pinkettes, divorce makes the starting point! for the ploture, and it Is there that the two girls and Ted Larra- bee make each other's acquain- tance, when Ted and Jean enter |into a childish pact to marry each But though you persunded him, it is useless for you to attempt to
other when they grow up. After persuade me," Mrs. Priestly spoke
becoming adults they find they still slowly. "I shall not listen to
love each other while similar feel- you, Orange. You wrote that letter
Ings are manifested between Kitty Bardelys the Magnificent,"long in a silly girlish mood of im-
and the Duke. Both the Paltor which comes to the World Theatre Kobe patience with life. There may be,
are poor, however, while the for know you very little, Bome
former are rich, and Kitty, who from to-day to Saturday is a spec- small vanity concerned in your ad- |
desires wealth, eventually marrios tacular production adapted to the mission.
perhaps There was
"She is a mass of nerves," Mrs. Ted after a trunken party when screen from the famous novel by another TTL 11 who wanted, at least for 1 time, to Priestly had wald. "Very much he does not realise what is hap
Rafael Sabatini John Gilbert the But time works won- | pening. marry you, but the affair came over-strung.
The resulting misery to all con- star of "The Big Parade" Flesh to nothing. We all like to feel that ders.", we have been appreciated. No Ada, suspicious and watchful, corned is skilfully treated. Finn and the Deyil” and many other doubt, as you are a pretty creature, said nothing. She was delighted ly Kitty, realising her selfishness, men have made themselves polite, with her new dress, in which she takes poison to enable Tot and noteworthy productions, is the but that does not invariably mean really looked well, and full of Jenn to find their true happiness that they want a wife. I under-curiosity to see what sort of im- aland your disappointment, and we pression Orange would make when need not go into that, for it hard-she appeared. ly matters. Walter, naturally, bo- lieves that all men envy hlm. It is normal for bridegrooms to cherish these ideas."
When dinner had. dragged through, Mrs. Priestly went into the partly dismantled drawing- room and sat down in a chair of on a jet-
A strong sense of outrage rose in the mind of Orange and she sat stilistate. She had put
and made no attempt to reply.
ly suggested..
embroidered dress, and a fresh crisp cap sat on the top of her head,
"Sip a little water," Mrs, Priest-Walter, who had been left with "You look pale. permission to smoke one cigarette Theral That is better. Naturally, in the dining room, had 'remained Waltor feels that he is in a hopeless behind, pacing about anxiously, and as you intenda Ada,alood on the fender-stone to 1 did what see as much as she could of herself
case,
just
he should.
lay in" my pow to. reas in the glass.
sure him, and instead of letting him
"Blue is my colour," she said,
go off to his club he agreed to await"and I call that touch of scarlet the result of my interview with you."
very French."
"And not in the best taste," Mrs. Priestly shook her head. "My dear Ada, the best dressed woman in the room is the woman whom no one notices. That touch of scarlet is too loud."
Orange sprang to her feet and walked restlessly to the window. | "I told him the truth," she said stubbornly. "I do not love him, and though I think it inexcusable | of you to have forced him to betray
"All the same-" Ada began my confidence to you, Mrs. Priestly, haitingly, and before she could say I have no intention whatever of anything further, Dorne, the butler, going back on what I said. How announced "The Rev. Canon can I see these friends of yours Haverleigh and Mrs. Haverleigh" and protend to bewhat I am not?" in a loud, splendid voice.
The placid expression of Mrs. Close upon the Vicar and his Priestly's face did not change. She wife, Dr. and Mrs. Hopkins arrived, smoothed out a üle crease in her the three Miss Grants, the Pember skirt and sighed gently. "I am no sons, with Colonel. Pemberson, a great believer in heroica," she re-tall, sun-baked man, with eyes like marked, judicially, "Walter has little pebbles. Gradually the room
a coniklerable dose of filled up. given me heroles already, 'and 'I wad Mrs. Priestly received the guests fully prepared to hear you do with cordiality, and to each one she the same. He feds that he must explained the motive of the party. al force your inclinations, and will "Surprise parties are fashionable,' nol ask you to do anything what she said, and she Introduced- over. In fact, Orange, the storm Waller, who appeared dutifully in is at its height." the drawing-room. In the lea-cup She got up majestically. "My friends will, no doubt, be disap pointed not to meet you, but there may be reasons why it is no well that they should not."
Orange turned swiftly and stared at her. "What reasona?" she ask-
cd.
"Walter, my dear, where is that pretty wife of yours?" she asked, again and again.
"But how very sudden it all is," Miss Alice Grant remarked, with an oblique glance at her hostess. "How unconventional. A year used to be considered a short en-
"It is not always necessary to give, one's reason," Mrs. Priestly |gagement in my time," Bald calmly. "Pailbly they might
"We live in an unconventional not accord very well with your own views of, shall I say, yourself? You age, doar Alice," Mrs. Priestly said, were Walter's choice, my dear, not suavely. mino."
"And
you 'like your new
daughter"
There was a short silence between them, and Orange camo slowly for- ward into the centre of the room. "Walter likes her," Mrs. Priestly She knew that herlands were trem-laughed archly, “and I have not yet bling and she could not be alto- had very much time to fall in love," gether sure of her voice. Never in
punctual,"
all hor life had the felt so angry. "She does not appear to be very er so small. Through her horrible power, Mrs. Prieally had reduced her and cheapened her in her own eyed.
Mr. Haverleigh said, primly. She was seated on a sofa aide Colonel Pemberaon, who had began to talk of weddings he had at- tended in India.
When Walter's mother had come into the room she had prepared bor- "At Lallipore one of our fellows self to be pleaded with, or possibly arrived with a wife,” he said in his threatened, but Mrs. Priestly's met- thin, dry voice, "and we had to puti hod was entirely now to her. She up a subscription for the furniture had waved her adde as though she of their bungalow. It was only. did not count, and, far from taking afterwards that he discovered she the story of Btaveling and her love had been married already before for him as an attrage to her son, she sailed."
she pushed it away on a vain, boast- "Really?" Mrs. Haverleigh rafseð ful statement, made by a conceited girl who was out for a scene. HowThat was awkward."
her faintly marked eyebrows." could she countersuch an attack?.
She saw Mrs. Priestly move in "And do you know Mrs. Walter her slow, steady way towards the Priestly's family?" Mrs. Kent, the door, quite unrullad, quiis unmoved, wife of a prosperous stockbroker, As she was laving the room, asked genially. "I always say that Orango apoke quickly:
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"I will come down and meet your half the battle." guests," she said, breathlessly. won't be treated like a silly child. WII you tell Waller that I shall do this? But tell him, too," she went that if in future he wants mo on, to do anything, I should prefer his asking me himself."
Mrs. Priestly turned to the door where Orango stood for a second on the threshold.
(To Be Continued.)
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