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THE HUSBAND HUNTER
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| RUTH DEWEY GROVES
CHAPTER XLIV,
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Natalie go up early one bright and shining morning and stood meditating her win- dow. Across the street a woman was cleaning the white steps. She cleaned them every morning excepting Sunday. Natalie won dered if it made her unhappy to let them go uncleaned for a single day.
The hold of habit and custom! Steps--or husbands. Was there No much difference in the weight of responsibility they placed upon the one supposed to them?
сате for
Didn't her steps worry this woman as much as her neglect af Alan worried Natalie? Natalie. wondered about it, and wondered too if she were losing her sense of values.
"Maybe you're, right," Aunt Emma said, with a relaxing sigh, And then: "Dear me, I hope it all turns out all right."
"It will," Natalie assured her brightly, She had found, it a great encouragement to
havo made up her mind. "But if Alan should be .stubborn," she added gravely, "I'll do what I can for the little boy just the same."
Her aunt came and kissed her tenderly. "You're a good woman, Nattic." she said softly. "You ought to have children
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That afternoon, Natalie arrived in New York, and sent word to Alan from a hotel that she wish- ed urgently to see him.
She hadn't been able. since
He was inclined to refuse, but reading of Bernadine's Lamont's
drew death, to shake off a feeling that the hour she had set she ought to do as her Aunlar, he found himself going to her. And this being somewhat against his will, he justified him- self by a decision to be unbend- ing with her.
Emma advised, and go to Alan. Blessed Aunt Em! She at least wasn't all cluttered up with human equations. When asked to weigh this or that problem.
likely as not she would answer: "I'm not a fish, I ain't carrying Beales around with me." Then, probably, she'd laugh and add:; "I got to go look at my biscuits."
Had Alar been merely fascinat ed with Bernadine, or had he really loved her? This was the question Natalie weighed almost every moment of her waking bours.
Aunt Emma said seriously one day: "You know, honey, I sus peet a man.ean love any number of times, but I'll bet my biscuit recipe against Dora Lane's that he loves one woman best of the
It was a quiet place Natalie had chosen, and they easily found a deserted reception room where they could talk undisturbed.
A great deal of Natalie's high courage fled with the first sight
of Alan's forbidding countenance. And he immediately made it plain that he had no disposition to talk to her.
She found herself rather halt- ingly telling-him what she had come to say. And how different it sounded from the way she had meant to put it. He would be lieve she was admitting guilt if she continued in this way, * cooler portion of her brain warned her. Still she kept
lot just the same, whether he and the quieter Alan sat, the more penetratingly he looked at
loves her first, or last."
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She had said no more; Natalieher, the more she floundered. had understood. And she asked herself this too RS she stood watching the scrubbing going on across the street: "What woman had Alan loved most?"
And there question.
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What a sorry mess she WAS making of it. She could have cried
with humiliation. For Alan's mouth was beginning to twist into a snoer.
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dead Someone must have come to woman'a child. She ought to visit at the house across the know better, for she was too street. A chubby little baby face elever to try denying what she
windows did and renewing her ridiculous she'd been. Oh yes, he was going was to be seen at the accasionally. Natalie grew to charge against Bernadine. She
WOS to do it--but he knew watch for it and to wait for the knew he wouldn't stand for that. going to be cheated out march down the immaculate steps She ought to know that he
anticipated gratification. for the morning and afternoon would see through this tricky beauty would do that to him. His
little gesture, walks. The sight of the round figure holding to the hand He glanced at her hands. What eyes were feasting on it. He knew of the pretty young woman be- the devil were they reaching for? it. "But it isn't love," he denied side it the mother, Natalie was He sat up stiffly. He knew she certain had first brought this hadn't moved them---they question to Natalie's mind, and tightly clasped in her lap, but the lusion that they were lifted in had a appeal to him was disturbingly become real.
Natalie stumbled to silence. She knew she had appealed in vain.
there it remained.
Bernadine Lamont had little son. What would of him?
She seemed to remember that Alan had said Bernadine bad, no relatives. Would Alun himself take the boy?
She came to believe that he would.
And then she told her aunt that she was going back to Alan. "I want him," she said simply. "on any terms. If he thinks me a vile thing, well, I am to blame. He was patient with my silly jealousy for a long time, Aunt Em."
The older woman looked search- ingly into her hope-filled eyes. "Umph," she said, “and how do you expect to convince him that you had nothing to do with that letter? Can you let that drop, my dear, and be happy?"
"I'll have to.". Natalie answer-
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"I shouldn't have come," Alan said, with a touch of pity. "We might have spared ourselves this,
"I'm going to adopt him," he explained in answer to their question.
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Cement spite of her, "whatever you may old character, owns the show Montgomery Ward that." Natalie said rushingly,
on financial Nevada Consolidated Copper "but can you bring him up, Alan, think of me, that I would make and when it goes
an intelligent mother."
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The undiminishing harshness lowed the nod. "Yes, I know role of the colonel and the love Her aunt nodded. "I see you've of his expression made her cringe that," he said witheringly. "But interest centres about Marjorie made up your mind," she said un-in dread of his words. She ex-you should have had children of White and Richard Keene. Ben- derstandingly. "Well, I wouldn't pected a tirade of reproaches, but your own. For you cannot have jamin Stoloff was director-in-how a child would behave than he undertake to advise you anyway, Alan was not thinking wholly of Bobby Lamont. I am going to chief of this amazing and, lavish
to be sure. when the past. He was more occupied adopt him, and when you but you want
Those two in our are spectacle. The credit for its gives them.
picture are you with the present. This was
unusual children. you tackle a new job, that
an granted your divorce decree, I'll staging goes to Walter Catlatt, They have talent and they are know the size of it, Natalie, dear." hour he had dreamed of in his marry the girl who is to be his Broadway's droll jester.
"I've thought of it night and bitterest moods.
amazingly Natalie at his
bright They are natural actors. day," Natalie told her. "If Alan feet!
Those qualities won't believe me-he won't, but Her beseeching gaze, her pain-
are much more useful in obtaining The venture of entrusting to a life-like performance than any he might forgive me if he thought parted lips, the air of suppliance
14-year-old children two of the stage experience or dramatic a way to atone for the crime were as he had imagined them. small garden adjoining a large and feature picture has been, worked
The appearance of a snake in a most important roles in a big school training." didn't commit. I'm going to tell Only himself was there something
John Meehan, author of the him that I want to bring up amiss. He was not enjoying her busy public garage in High-strect, out to the satisfaction of the Bernadine Lamont's son.
Hampstead, N.W., caused consider-director and the author, at least. play, who directed the dialogue, as my contrition.
was equally enthusiastic about the And he had expected it to give and tried to kill the reptile. It rear-Deering are the children and the like talking to Walter Huston," Tom Brown and Patricia children: "Talking to Tom is just him a fierce satisfaction. For ited its head and hissed threaten- production in which their talent Mechan sald. had angered him that she had
I deserved it, and I've thought of that vibrated about her-all these
own."
Aunt Emma was perturbed.
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"But, my dear.. just to make
mother."
(To Be Continued).
able alarm. Two man seized sticka
"The Lady Lies."
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"He is an actor:
gone to the end in arrogance-ingly and then glided swiftly into is displayed is "The Lady Lies" you can tell him what you want up a quarrel
"I want to do it!" Natalie ex- her letter, it had infuriated him. corner of the garden. The men with Walter Huston and Claudette and get it. And Patricia is just claimed. "I may be blaming my- She had seemed to have not a
followed it and killed It.
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Colbert in the principal roles. ns responsive in her own way." was at first thought to be an adder "The Lady Lies" which is self for too much wrong, but I've touch of meekness, not a tinge of the only venomous snake found in Paramount
Child actors are more desirable a feeling that if I hadn't been so regret for what she had done. Britain. A closer inspection re-will be shown at the Central in several respects than adults,
all-talking plcture, unreasonably jealous of Alan, all Haughty, disdainful. He had vealed two" whitish marks behind Theatre to-day.
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They have greater natural adap- "Perhaps not all of it," Aunt he could bumble her.
teriatic dark zig-zag band and Hobart Henley, their director, tability and power of minilery ornaments on the back of the adder, said this of them when production than the average grown person, And now it was here. And he The reptile was a grass or ringed was nearly completed at the They approach a part with more was going to humble her. He snake, the bite of which is harm- Paramount Long Island studio: enthusiasm, and they always come was going to show her what a less. It measured. 31in. How it "A director in handling intelli-to the performance with their miserable mistake she'd made reached the middle of Hampstead gent child actors will find that lines memorized, showing a fer- about Bernading. What a fool is a mystery,
they give him (more ideas about vent desire to do their best. •
Emma agreed, "but you couldn't
have stopped the boy's mother from dying, you know?” (
"No, but it wouldn't have left Alan responsible for him. And Fm sure he feels that he is.”
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