1928-12-05 — Page 9

A FIRST NOVEL!

WHIRLWIND

CHAPTER XXVII

Sybil laughed shortly. "Not a chance," she opined. "Valerie wasn't born yesterday,"

Mrs. Thorne blushed painfully. "You shouldn't say things like that," she reproved her daughter mildly.

"Who started it?" demanded Tad, and catching her to him, klased her roughly and laughed at her discomfort. "I Mother's got her heart set on a grandchild. I guess you'll have to get married, Sib."

Across his mother's head he winked broadly. "A girl ought to bo willing to do that much for her poor old mother."

:

Mra. Thorne pushed him gently

from her.

"Freakie!" she murmured in the fashion of her girlhood and slapped him with a pink rosu.

It was lonely for Sylt when she and her

were there mother Alone, since Craig had more or less effaced himself, and Sybil was rather avoiding her old crowd,"

Craig had declared himself quite definitely.

"I don't like being a footstool," he told her. "And I'm all through bothering you, Syld. I guess maybe you've found my protesta- tions annoying. You know I love you. I'd do anything for you. But I don't seem to know how to make So I'm going to you care for me. drop wat of the pleture fir a while." "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," she parried lightly, half kind of the relief of promiset soli- tude.

"So I've noticed," he retorted, "fonder of the other man.”

She wondered if there was any significance in the remark

"If there's ever anything I can do for you," he offered.

"Oh, Craig!" she protected, "don't be silly!"

to

"Well, I just wanted you know." he insisted awkwardly. Any time you want me, let me know."

After that she saw him infre- quently, and missed him more than she had thought possible. casionally he sent dowers and a box

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By Eleanor Early.

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|∙Do your theorizing with some other guy, because it doesn't get any where with me, Sib."

"Shall we dance?" she asked him stify.

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"RAMONA?”,

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Dolores del Rio, the beautiful star of "What Price Glory," "Loves of Carmen" and "Resurrection" will be seen in a role entirely sult- ed to her, as a vivacious, fiery- tempered Indian maiden in her latest picture "Ramona" which is being screened at the Queen's He held her closely and looked Theatre from to-day to Saturday, grimly down on the little mauve This great love story by Helen hat that nestled on his shoulder. Hunt Jackson has been master- Her eyes, beneath its brim, were fully directed by Edwin Carowe. wet with tears. But of course he The noted director has caught the could not know that, nor Висая when a big salty drop splashed on romantic spirit of early Calfornia her violeta.

And that was in the colourful days of the Spanish the end, for a while, of their repona, and he has faithfully brought to life on the screen the beloved characters of the book. Dolores del Rio is cast as "Ramona." Warner Baxter plays the part of Alessandro, the Indian. Roland Drew appeurs au. a young Spanish, nobleman and gives å splendid per- formance in his difficult inle. Vera Lewis, is the sinister menace of the story. Others in the cost T. Jack was home again and Mabel include Carlos Amor, John'

Price and Mathilde Comont. A had her ring now. Not the con-

race between two turtles with jab-i ventional engagement ring at bering parrots on their backe and

but a delicate platinum circlel, et with supphires. With she would wear her wedding ring, like guard. And later Jack would give her if twin band, set with purde. Sapphires-diamonda - pearls-it was the very Intest iden. They were to be married in the Spring...

Autumn followed on the heels of Indian Summer; and November 'was cold and drear and grey. Dead leaves whirled in dusty spirals and a penetrating dampness ninde one Sybil shiver, as she set out afternoon to call on Mabel at Wester House.

Sybil was currying a white fisue nekage, tied with satin ribbons. A nightgown of knife-pleated chiffon in palest fhh, with pink satin roses peeping through the sheerness of it. Her engagement gift to Mabel. And, primarily, her a busy excuse for intruding on Wednesday afternoon.

The telephone operator directed Bur to the third floor. Mabel was

clinic director of a place called the G. Y. N. Sybil did not know what that meant, but apparently it was a

clinic for women-the most de- pressing, distressful women.

Thes sat about on benches, their damp clothes adorous in the un- plenennt warmth of the places It was raining out, and shishy, and wime of them had left rubbers on the register.

J

Now the rubbers smelled, and their cheap furs recked with the

of candied fruits to Mrs, Thorne, lothsome smell of wet dyes. Chil- who was pleased that he remem-dren played about their knees, bered her preference. Munching a clinging to augured pineapple ur succulent pear she would contemplate Sybil gloomily over her sweet and re- mark, is usual, that she could go further and fare worse,

Once after that Craig took Sybil to a rond house. It was the first time she had done anything gay for weeks. She wore i dress of Illae chiffon and pinned a great bunch of silk violets on her shoul- der. She wore a top coat of soft mauve and a little felt hat that matched.

their skirts. They were unhappy, frightened looking children with running ugly, misfit clothing.

noses and

Mabel looked up from the desk where she sat before a great card index. A woman who had been crying softly turned away, and Ma- be wrote on a little card and in- serted it in the Index.

"Next Thursday then, Mrs. Bren- tan," she said. "And you mustn't be frightened."

Then she saw Sybil standing Almost all men, she reflected, uncertainly in the doorway, her lied orchid and purple and all the eyes shifting from one frowsy. royat shades between. Craig had wretched creature to another. In uften told her violet was his second Mabel had crossed the favourite colour. She slipped, room, her white clinic apron blow- long string of amethysts about bering out behind her like a starched neck and fastened leaning quartz, sail. She threw her arms around fashioned like grapes, in her cars, Sybil and kissed her on the mouth.

Across the candie-lit table Craig

"Sybil Thorne! 1 haven't seen. bent toward her desirously. It was you for ages. Only this morning nies and cosy, sitting teross from was saying to Aunt Emily, 1 each other like that; Impulsively simply must phone Sib-I don't she reached for his habit, and know what she'll think of me.” brushed it lightly acres her lips. My dear, I'm glad to sex you. He smiled quietly and pitched her What an adorable jacquette. Sit cheek; then gravely lighting a cig- | down, honey. Tye 40 people wall- arette, sindied her rymolely throughing to see me--but let 'em wait. clouds of smuke.

What's the news, Sib?"

"Rather nice, isn't it?" he re- marked idly.

"Nice? Oh, Craig, A's wonder ful-being together, I mean," she 'assured him. "I haven't enjoyed anything so for agcs."

Through dinner he remained dia tantly affable and all the blessed lille Intimacies of long ago were like painful memories.

Sybil poured his coffee and when ho had taken it from her her fin- gers closed softly about his wrist. Then, swiftly, he sought her eyes, and held them until she bent, con fused, to finger her beada.

"Craig." She whispered softly. "Do you still want to marry me, Craig ?"

He took her hands then, and held them with both of his.

"You know I do, dior," he said. She was tempted then to tell him everything.

"Would you marry me," she asked, "if you knew I'd been a very bad girl?

He smiled and inclined his head gravely as one humouring a child. Yes'm," he told her seriously, "If you knew I'd been-oh, some. thing dreadful-murried, perhaps?" Then he laughed, and crumpling his napkin mightily, threw it in n great heap of the centre of the table.

"Come on," he invited beartily, "let's dancal And loy off this mur- rluge stuff, will you, Sybil Pounding away on a sore spot's no good, you know."

"But I meant it!" she cried. "Yes, you did!" he muttered. "You've got about as much inten- tion of marrying me as nothing at all. So let's stop talking about it.

Sybil proffered her package. "I've been intending to get down with thin for ages."

"Oh, my dear, it's lovely-per- feetly exquisite!

Mabet handled it rupturously. "I never saw anything so beauti- fal."

Well, that's not all that brought me down," admitted Sybil, and glanced apprehensively, toward the X-ray room. "Can anyone hear us, fab7"

"Not a soul, dear. What's on your mind."

"I'm going to have a baby." The night gown slipped from Mabel's Angers, and all the joy in her good, pinin, face turned to misery.

"Are you unre???

"I went to the doctor's yester day. Next May, he says."

Sybil turned, suddenly faint, to. ward the window, and, when Ma- bel had opened ft, she leaned on the sill. Spasmodic dry chokings and horrible sounds came from Ber throat. She threw her arms over her face, to site the roise. whe made.

"It wouldn't be so bad-if-if—” She could, not say it.

There were tears in Mabel's eyes, bat Sybil's were hard and dry.

"Don't, dear," she cried. "I wil be all right."

Sybil shook her head.

"It' it's awful!" she gasped, "I hate him, Mabel-I hate him! Ilis. baby..

She stood with her back to the window, and her head against the glass,, moving it restlessly. Her eyes were wild and hunted.

(To Be Continued.)

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