Mad Marriage.
By LAURA LOU BROOKMAN.
19-year-old New York Lygial, marties Jim Wallace the day after she
Jilted
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There was sentimental interest tipy Mehride,
nitached to the Ledges too. There was a flat rock high on the one hill- Theets him at the base of her wealthy crum a.
side which roxe taller than the Anna Trowbridge. Gyver has been by Alats
just returned from a year others and overlooked an abrunt: Tea in Paris studying art, ince's dancee kad broken their, enikkementdrop. You could faintly see the white tower of Forest City's highest building from this height. could be traced On this rock numorous initinfa curved in pairs
were sur Sometimes the letters rounded by the rule outline of a there beside auch
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by marry a wralthelr man.
Jim and Cyper go to Forest City where Jim has thriving law pr sives, particularis Aunt. Allen, who hire est house he hotlie to Gypsy. They nate her. Aunt Vilen mave in a cutiege of ker wwn. Marcia Læring, it's Former Banere, marries Brock Pollips, mlüfonaire's
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ing. Tell me,her voice was a WHAT IS EDUCATION? whisper-"If it weren't for hurting hor-would you care the same way? Would you, Jim?"
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Jim snuffed out his cigaretis. Ic was not looking at the gh. "TH always be fond of you." he told her,
the Mr. A. E. Evans, of the Batter- * haven't the right to be anything!
Ben Polychnic, in opening a disprogramme chosen by the Young cussion of the question, "What is Women's Christian Association in never forget that," she told Education?" at a conference of the their concert given at the Theatre HEAD OFFICE, LONDON, [m lemnly. "It's going to help n
tot. "Suddenly she buried her head National Unton of Women Teachers, Royal yesterday evening, in aid of Pad-Do Capital against his shoulder, her arma said that in the past we had been fund to build a permanent sum-Reserve Fund.... change to him. "Oh, Jim," the girl afraid of education becoming mer camp for Hongkong girls anders Liability of Proprietors...
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His arms were around her. Her warm nearness was a challenge. He held her closely. Then Marcia lifted her head and Jim's lips crashed hers in a long kiss.
Month pan and news comes that Broek Iheart. Here and ally and Bob"jand they started back toward the
killed in a fall from i have been horne, Marcia returns to Farrel City. S consulte im about her financial affaira nel
ister tells him her marriage to Philles him. Jim tries to remain loyal in ipar
• mistake, he declares she cares unily for
bo Marcia frequently, Clypay 5 Aware of the situation and worries, the trice talk in lim but cannot. One attainen Marcia telephones Jim and asks him to meet her at a ira room. He comes and they aries amway in hla romdater.
CHAPTER XXXVII
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or Esther and John" there would be the day of the month and year. Neatly carved and framed in a square at the north-east corner of the rock were the lettera "M. L." and "J, W" which Jim had cut there on a high school pienic before. ever he had fast the courage to ask Marcia for a "date."
A private road ted from the main
The girl's shoulder touched Jim's, highway across a field, the nearest She was sitting low in the road-prosch to the Ledges. fim swung ater, leaning back, chin raised to the car into this lane, driving care the wind. The faint ardour of per- fully. The road ended 50 yards fume reached his nostells, He stole from the hillside. a glance at the pale, clear-cut pre- file. Marcia's pa were like a gash of crimson. He euld see the Koll of her hair beeeats. The bat brim.
"Want to get, out ?" he askeri. Marcin nodded. They walked over
of the bluff and sur-¦ the edgin veyed he distance.
"Engineering, applied chemistry, bullding, and commerce all have as The stage was effectively de- great a humanitarian value, if jcorated and formed a pleasing taught in the right way, na any of background for the many musical those subjects which are the dar-itoms, which ranged from Chinese Hings of the pedants. There are songs to Hawaiian melodies. Mies some people who seems to make up O'Keefo's pupils provided many their minds
to decry technical numbers all of which were de education,
sorvedly applauded.
"Beauty and utility, are not op- One of the most enjoyablo items. posed as so many people would sup- on the programme was a Scottish In a beautifully constructed Sword Dance presented by three posc. retrol engine any less beautiful little girls whê called themselves Memorial at Kowloon Dock Daneers. To the than the R.A. War Hyde Park Corner merely because Itunes of the bagpipe played, by It has been designed to draw a Pipe-Major Mackle, these girls treated the audience to some ex- cellent Highland dancing.
They looked at each other, then Jim's face was drained of colour. "We'd better go bn he said.
He helped the rl to her feet |
roadster. Several times Marcia glanced at him, puzzled. She could not read the expression on his face. When they were settled in the car she asked him cautiously. "im
are you sorry?" "I'm a fool!" he told her harshly. It was the only answer
she re-lorry? veived,
All the way to the city he drove recklessly, It was fortunate there was little traffic. The sun, bidder all day, suddenly emerged from the clouds and shone is in the west. It was nearly six when he let Mar rin out at the cottage.
"Good night," she said, smiling nad extending her hand.
that
It did not beeur to Jim Jackson Crook at the base of the though it has been a farewell drive Where are we going Mio ein Bill was narrow, wavering stream, not once had the words "goudby
Beyond the countryside was abeen wald.
werp of greens shading from dark That evening he seemed to make
be considerate to light. Occasionally the bright an
asked without inclou p
"Nowhere, Marcin, we can't go on like this. You shouldn't have telephoned me. this afternoon and ought not to have left the nice Don't you see it's dangerou
Maria "Dangerous? Perhaps Phillips was plegsed with the word, She did not speak for several mo ments. Then she said, "All right, You'd better turn around and take me back."
effort to
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red or yellow of a bien or farm Gypsy. He praised the dinner and house stood out against this back-Inter suggested a trip down town ground. The neat fenced fields, of¦¦n see the new Fairbanks picture, corn seemed to make a pattern of Gypsy was grateful. It had bremza a stay in which things had gone great squares.
Marcia sunk to the rock. "it wrong. down, dim," she said.
She was in the kitchen next morning when the telephone rang, Matilda was mixing petry dont
"I'll go." Gypsy said and hurried
and into the hall. It was Jim.
He dropped beside her, took out This vigareilę case and affered it to Hm drove as though he had not the girl. She declined. Jim Look a heurd, "It isn't just today Pra talk.lighter from his pocket, applied the ing about," he said. "We've beenie to his own cigarette seeing too much of each other, Mar-leaned back, smoking intently. cia. You know Forest (ly as well as 1 do. Someone will say somes thing one of these days and then For an the whole town will start. You young man know what they'll say. I'd be an she said. drawing nearer: one to let you in for a lot of ma-old times, isn't it? Hielous gossip"
"That you. Gypsy?" he asked. Say how would it be if 1 sked The situation was hardly romate. Harrison
10- to crime in dinner Instant Marcia "eyed the morrow evening? I've just found disapprovingly, then out he's leaving town next week for "Like quite a long stay. We've never had Do you remem-jhim out, you know. Do you sùje ber the last time we were here?" pose you could manage it?"
Jim nodded. "Haven't been here “Why, of course. I'd love to have
him come." You since."
"You liked me then. You didn't want to send me away,"
"Are you thinking of me, Jim?" "I'm think of all of us. und Gypsy." The name slipped. from him unconsciously and he locked slightly embarrassed, "Oh, you know yourself It's the right thing!" be wound up weakly.
"It's mostly because of-her, isn't it?" Marcia asked slowly. “Do you think she suspects anything?"
"That's not the point. Marcia. It's the wrong look of the thing where we're drifting!"
"But if she doesn't know he can't be hurt, can she? Marcia per-
"All right. I'll fix it up for to morrow evening then, it's the only chance because he has a lot of engagements. What time shall I any? Six-thirty?"
"I don't want to send you away w. Stay here! There's no rea-other son for you to leave. If anyone has
She told him 6:30 would be right. to go I can be the one to do it"
Marcin's fingers stole over his. Swinging around and setting down | "Please don't be cross, Jim." she the telephone, Gypsy began to plan oaked, "when I'm only trying to a campaign of activity. She was dinner for Mr. do what you want me to.Pve tried anxious that the so hard, dear! I knew it was wrong Harrison should be just right. to telephone this afternoon but Gypsy had the greatest admiration hadn't seen you for a whole week and respect for the aged lawyer. and the house was full of those She had seen bim urcasionally since women talking and sewing and the first day she had gone to Him's making so much noise. I had to office and each time her original
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the specini Accompanista for needed a shampoo. She went to dances were Mrs. J. B. Suiter and the telejthane and arranged for an Miss Bella Pestonji. appointment at Louke's,
"Pil bave a shampoo," Gypsy told
The attendance was quite antis- herself, "an a finger wave and factory, and the takings should be and large countions in the importent gome manicure. Pil wear the printed up to expectations. chiffon to-morrors and I want to A slightly varied concert will look my best." She hurried through be given to-night, and those who the rest of her list of tasks to be did not see the performances you- on time for the appointment at the terday evening are assured of an- beauty parlour.
other splendid show.
Gypsy arrived promptly. There was a wait of several minutes and then a fall girl with a muss of jet black hair led her to a curtained booth. Louise's shop was the most Forest City. The expensive in
| walls and curtains were green and the furnishings green and ivory. Forest City's society always had itu hair done at Louise's.
The tall girl worked dextrously with soap and water and insing uprasu. She rubbed Gypay's head with pungent. lotions. Then she pressed the wet hair Into waves, and pinned them in pince. Finally the bound the girl's head with a thin cap.
"Now come this way." She di- rected Gypsy to a vacant booth and adjusted the hair dryer. For half an hour the girl sut before the deorching electric heat before the operator reappeared and snapped
sisted.
"No one must be hurt!" he said firmly. "Why, this sort of thing can lead-nywhere. "I see if in get away from it. And I didn't impression had been strengthened. off the current. court every day. Tragedies. Misun- think there'd be any harm in see. She had, furtheemure, a reeling The droning buzz of the hair We can't do i/****** with fire, Ling you for just a few minutes-that Harrison was her friend
derstandings. It's
But it's just as I've told you."
dryer died. From beyond the cur The whole house must be spot-tained wall of the next bouth a wa
The girl's face was averted. They Jim repented. "We mustn't go in less. There was the mean to plan. | man's voice rose. had turned from the broad, state with this sort of thing! No matter Gypsy decided to have the dinner "But have, you heard about Jim
an unpaved cross-how harmless it seems it's wrong." served on the porch if the day was Wallace?" the voice highway into
Marcia was quiet. Prently she warm. road. On either side strotehed farmi
She telephoned to fork and | "He's going to leave his wife!" lund with here and there a weather. raised eyes that were wist:rl, ador-arranged to have tl: weekly plean-
benten house. The dwellers in those homes were not prosperous. Fences sagged drunkenly and chickens flod with shrill squawks at the approach of the roadster.
Marciu looked at the surround- ings with obvious distaste. "I sup-; pose you're right," she said after a pause. "I'll have to go away.
"But I don't want you to do that. There's no need for it!"
The girl turned then and looked at him. She smiled but there was infinite pathos behind that smile. "Oh, my dear!" she said. "It's the only way. I'll go away and you can
That will be best." forget me.
"I'll never
forget you, Marcia, You know that."
They rode in silence for several minutes. The Crown remained between Jim Wallace's eyes. Pre- sently the girl said, "Well, it's act- 'tled. I'm going. I don't know where but I'm going away. Do just this one thing for me, Jim! Let's drive to the Ledges. We're nearly half way there, anyhow, I want this Inet afternoon together to he some- thing to remember."
Wallace glanced at the sky. The sun had been hidden from view, all afternoon. In the west the clouds were darkening,
"Guess we can make it," he said. "I don't like the look of those clouds though.
The Lodges was the name given to an ancient laudmark, five miles west of Forest City, Jackson Creek, winding its circuitous pathway, struggled through a region of roll- ing hillsides where Inyers of sand- stone projected, occasionally in great slabs. The sandstone had never been used commercially. In autumn the brownish stone surface blended with the riotous scarlet and gold of sumach and oak leaves and underbrush of a dozen varia- ties. In spring the Ledges were visited overy Sunday by scores of "hikers,” family plenic parties and young men and women carrying cameras, and forever taking snap-
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