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matked allantion. BILL O'DARE is engaged ANGIE GILLEN whoes divorce i titi pending. MRS. O'DARE a much distressed because of this aliuntion,
MABEL MCELLION
it my way," Hor defences down, Kay rushed upstairs to change ex-her dress. She was invited to Dr. MONNIE O'DAIP is decreily engaged to sha plunged forward, voluble, DAN CARDGAN, heir to local fortars, cited. Bil and she could get a Waterman's house for tea. There She could would be older people there, Kay engagement because they oppose the origo little flat in the city. Alonnie and Dan plan to slope in January get another job-she always did thought, but that wouldn't really when he will come into some money of hand there were so many big garages matter. They were going to talk amatour. plans for some Dan le Jealous of CHARLES EUSTACE there. Bill would be sure to find over handsome newcomer, who shows Hennie work. She forgot to be careful of theatricala to be put on before Christmas. Kay was terribly ex- har grammar.
"She does love him," the, mother cited. Tho Waterman's house was thought. "She's really a good one of the finest in town. The little thing. If only Even in doctor was Charles uncle. Not CHAPTER XXI
her own mind she couldn't finish Geraldine Cardigan had ever been Sandra was Angle stammered, "Pleased the sentence. If only Angle were even invited thore. to" and then, thinking better ofn't so palpably the product of the naked occasionally when Lansing, it, went on hurriedly, "Bill's told wrong sort of training, or rather the young son of the house, was me a lot about you.!!
the lack of training, her rebellious home from colloge. Mrs. O'Dare said, "I'm glad he heart cried out! Well, it couldn't brought you. We've been wanting to helped. You didn't chose your to meet you." Sho smiled to show son's wife. In Mrs. O'Dare's she meant it and, in spite of the simple code, you inads, the best of sinking of her heart, was glad to it.
Kay smiled at herself. In the mirror, remembering how stunned Riasy had been when she had told her about the invitation to Sun- day night supper, of all things. Sunday night suppor mannt you he longed to the inner circle in Belve dere society.
discover that Bill's girl was, as Bill came back in, awkwardly Kay had described her, "not a bad balancing a tray. He glanced an sort." If her bright sweater fitted xiously from Angle to his mother,
"But they'll all be as old as the curves of her rounded figure a relieved at what he saw. trifle too candidly, still the big eyes "I'll have to be taking Angle Methuselah," Rissy had said, pre- framed in mascaraed lashes had a back now, mether," he said after tending she thought it was a lor- likable honesty about them. All an interval, glancing at his watch. rifle boro. Rissy had made her Belvedere-that is all that part of "I promised Harnett Td be back at voice very disdainful. "Better call It which knew the O'Dares well 6. He's got to drive his wife tothem up and say you can't come. Johnny Link's coming over in his enough to observe their comings the Springs."
Chevvy and ho'll get a boy, for you. and goings-would gossip that He was relieved, she could "ace, Come along." Risay coaxed, night about Angie's call on Bill's that everything had passed off vo
Kay had shrugged her shoulders, mother. "What's the world com smoothly. Poor boy, he had prquito in the grand manner.
old ladies would ask.bably dreaded the ordeal! She licking through the country lanes with upraised hands. "Time was kissed him, smoothing his rough- with a raw youth's arms around her when that sort of woman wassened fair hair. Poor Bill, toil shown the door.""
ing to?".
Rol-
hardened at 22, anxious, in- love seemed positively revolting. No, the trouble was, Mrs. O'Dare with the wrong girl! Well, it "No, thanks," she had said dis- reflected, that Angle wasn't what couldn't be helped. She sighed, tinctly. Rissy had tussed her head the old ladies meant when they said watching the flashof Angle's and turned away, "that sort of woman."
Angle was swenter through the greenery. Kay dressed with care, making fundamentally good. She had bean She would do the best she could. her hair a demure frame for her
(Continued on Pago 13.) trapped by nature into an unwise She simply would not think what marringe. Now, at 21, she was the loss of Bill's earnings would struggling to get out of that trap. mean to the little family. Kay was It was injudicious-surely nothing beginning to help now. That more of her and Bill to have got meant a lot. And poor Monnioi engaged," as they naively put it, Well, there was no use looking before Angie's divorce was final. ahead, borrowing trouble.. You But then people did that kind of had to live each day as it came thing nowadays,
It was the only way.
•
The conversationlanguished. Angie admired the ferns in the
She went about, straightening hanging pots, admired the burst of phlox under the windows. Un-cushions, picking up glasses. Kay easily, under her chatter, she was came in, hair dripping wet from a observing Bill's mother, wondering swim. She had gone with Rissy
down to the river. what was behind all this apparent simplicity and friendliness. Poor! "Well?" Key challenged her.
"They've junt gone." Mrs. Angie, she wasn't much used to
"She's kindness! She was D bit sus O'Dare sat down, sighing.
really a good little thing, Kay. picious of it.
"I made some Iced tea, Bill. Only so-so she hesitated, for You bring it in-and the cookles a word. from the pantry," his mother com- "Ordinary." Kay finished tha manded, conscious of her son's sentence for her.
"Yes." Bill's mother shrugged fidgeting attention.
AJ.
The quiet of Denny, street on her shoulders. "It shouldn't mat- Sunday afternoon brooded over ter, I suppose, what she does with everything and when the two wo- the language, but somehow it does." men were alone together silence fell "Of course it does, Silly to like a blanket on both.
pretend it doesn't," said practical
Mrs. O'Dare broke it, "Bill tells Kay. "We're all a little snobbish, me you plan to be married as soon really. What I can't understand is us-the divorce goes through." why she doesn't bore Bill to tears. Angle stared at her, with just a He's smart, really. Likes to read hint of truculence. "Yes, that's and he's always been so ambitious." what we wore thinking."
"I know. That's the sad part. "When when will that be?" In two years or less perhaps Mrs. O'Dare could not quite keep I'm afraid Bill will be wondering a tremer of anxiety, out of her what he ever saw in Angie. You can't make him understand now, No use trying."..
tone.
Angie stared at the curtains, fluttering in the breeze.
"Not a bit in the world.". Kay glanced at herself in the mirror.
"We don't exactly know," sho Her voice sounded grown up, said, almost sullenly.. "Stan is Mrs. O'Dare reflected. Something seeing to things. He's got a law- had happened to Kay this summer. yer in the city. Ho'll let ruo know." She refused to go back to high "I see." Mrs. O'Dare considered school, since Charles Eustace had this. "I think somehow I have managed to get this post at the the feeling you'd be better off library for her. Kay was old for starting in some new place," she her age. She would have been in said bravely. "This is such a her final year at school but she small place. You know how people proposed instead to go to night sessions and study when she could Angie winked suddenly. She in the daytime. hadn't expected this reception. "I'm old enough to start help-| Unconsciously she had braced her- ing," she had said practically. self for tears, reproaches, pleas. Last year at this time Kay would She had expected to be looked over have raged and stormed at Bill for coldly, snubbed, dismissed. This having dared to shrink his re- quiet little woman with the graying sponsibility.
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