1930-09-02 — Page 9

DANCING

CORALIE STANTOM.

JUDITH

and

HEATH HOSKEN.

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CHAPTER XLII.

"1. simply cannot stand it any longer," said Judy, "I shall have to go to the police!"

¡tween them, and that he could not

bear her pain.

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much

The next day Judy was She sat in the Cafe Ture, with a better. There was a nip in the air, dozen or so of her men friends and it whipped up the boundless She about her. "It was a little less than energy in her little frame.

on her two sticks.

a week after Bruce Gideon's visit.went for a walk in the morning. Every day she was growing. She could get along quite well now stronger, though she put on no flesh and still had to use two sticks.

She looked around the table, took up her coffee spoon, and beat it on her saucer. Dan, the Italian waiter, came running up, as he did to her lightest word.

Her urging heart took her to the street whore Chummy and Bastien had both lived. There, on the side- walk, beating out a doormat.

was

the housekeeper, of Chummy's dark- building vacant-faced, woman, thin as a rake with very few teeth.

"Miss Morley's back," she said.. smiling casually.

"No, Dan," she said, "I don't want anything. The. coffee's lovely, but I can't drink any more.. or I shan't sleep. I was talking about Miss Morley and Mr.and bee!" !, Dumont." She looked around the

"What?" gasped Judy. "Yes--and such news! Go up

Judy padded up the stairs breath. table again. "Is it possible that lessly, both feet on each stair at nobody has heard from Bastion?" the same time. Chummy's

door

"Not a line-not a word-not awas open. Inside there was a cloud breath!" came in a chorus from of dust, and the furniture was all the assembled artists.

"I hear that both of their places are locked up!" cried Judy. "I'm

frightened. There has been such a lot of queer stories lately in the

papers."

"Do you mean to any Steyne hasn't heard from Chummy?" Michael Stone asked.

"No--not a word,'

Judy just said that, and

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over the place.

"Chummy!" called Judy faintly. Out came Chummy, with very brown cheeks, and took Judy in her arms.

"Judy! Little, little Judy! How did you know I was back?"

"I just came by," said Judy, when her friend had done hugging her. "And have you been mad?"

"Perhaps, a little," said Chummy.

more. Her mouth. closed like aand she laughed. "You're going little trap. Steyne had not been to scold. Judy, but you mustn't. seen at the Cafe Ture for some time.

"It must be just a coincidence," volunteered some one. "They must have each gone away for some personal reason."

L

I'll explain."

"Explain! I should like to know how you can explain, Mise Morley! And I must have

a chair to sit down on."

Chummy took her into the studio

"But not to send a word to any-and turned a chuir right side up... body!"

"But you can walk, Jady! How

"They couldn't have been kid-marvelous, marvelous!" napped!"

"And what about you?" For once "I believe they have been," Judy Judy's voice was really cold with said forcefully. To-morrow morning I'm going to the police!" anger. "Do you know that you've She did not do so, because she frightened me terribly that you've had a violent headache the next nearly killed me?"

"Judy, little Judy!" said Chum. day. It was one of the results of the physica! suffering and mental mythe new. bronzed Chummy, with the gay voice and the look of strain she had been through.

The doctor came to see her, and bouncing health. "I do so abjectly she had a long talk with him. He apologize! I've been abominably was not the great surgeon who had selfish, but perhaps you'll forgive treated her feet, but the practi-me, because well, somehow, we tioner who was looking after her felt silly and didn't like to tell." general health. He was quite a young man and fully alive to alli that she meant, not only to men as Individuals, but to the world of

men.

*

"You've come to a standstill," he told her. "I'm not satisfied with you. You must go away. You must get into the sun."

"Didn't like to tell what?" "That we got married and went off on our honeymoon."

"Who got married?”*· Judy.

"Bastien and I."

gasped

It took more than Chummy's wedding ring to convince Judy that her friend was not mad. It took quite a lot of explanation and repe "All right-I'll go," she said a tition and assurance that Mrs. Du- little ungraciously. "I'll go hemont knew what she was talking fore the end of this month."

"The sooner the better." he re- plied with decision.

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Her head was very bad. When the landlady's daughter came to ask if she would see Mr. Steyne for a few minutes, she could not resist.

"Forgive me for coming." Alan said: "but I thought perhaps you had heard from Clarissa."

"Not a word," abe answered. "I'm worried fli,"

about:

"You and Bastien!" Judy' kept in A bewildered voice. saying "Bastien and you!”

"We knew you'd all wonder lot." Chummy said. "We felt silly -especially 1, Judy, having been engaged to Alan, and finding out that it was a mistake."

"Was that why you didn't write?" "Of course it was-and why we stayed away so long. We deter-

Steyne came and stood near her.mined not to come back until we'd "Your head aches, Judy?"

quite got used to it ourselves. You

His voice said that he wished sec, it did seem rather an idiotic his head could ache for her. Judy thing to do."

had heard that

note in many

"But Chummy," said Judy sud-

it?"

a

the

voices; but only in his did it rouse denly, "did you really want to do an answering thrill.

Her eyes were fixed on her "It's nothing." she said. She looked up at him and smiled. As friend. They were filled with on the first night when she had great, eager question, while seen him, she was struck by his rest of her face looked almost va- physical fitness, by the look which cant. It was as if everything had said that he got what he wanted. come to an end, as if the main- "The doctor says I must go away," spring of her life had suddenly run down. It was the reversal of all she went on.

"Judy, you are going away?" that she had believed to be unalter-

You "He says I must.

knowable truth. Chummy had married there is just a chance that some Bastien Dumont!

day I may dance" again. F must Chuminy, gave a ringing laugh. get well."

"Of course, you must get well." "It won't do me any good to go now, because I'm so worried about Chummy."

"Yes, I know."

"But, of course, I wanted to do it, little Judy!" she cried. "What on earth would. I have done it for, otherwise?"

The question was unanswerable. Why should she have done it? It "Alan!" Her voice was sharp convinced Judy. She believed with the exasperation of continu-blindly in her friend's truth. She ed anxiety. "Why hasn't she looked into Clarissa's eyes, and written to you?"

was convinced that she had married

"I don't know. I can't think."Bastien Dumont because she want- "It'll drive me crazy!"

Her mouth puckered. She looked

ed him for her husband, and want- ed, no one else.

for a moment like a child about to "What a good thing you found it.

cry.

out in lime, Chummy" she "Judy!" Steyne said quickly.claimed. "Don't! Don't!”

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She opened her arms, and the They lunched at Ginori's, and I don't know what I'm saying or She could see he was aching to two clung together. take her in his arms,

Judy spent the day with Chum-afterward went to the Cafe Turc, doing. Judy, I'm free!" "You mustn't mind anything my. In the afternoon Bastien came and there was much toasting and She nodded. say to-day, Alan," she said wist-in, also very bronzed, and as pic good will and laughter. Steyne fully. I have a terrible head-turesque and lively as ever. They was not there. ache."

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"Judy, say you love me," pleaded.

But she was still in the grip of what now appeared to have been a great illusion..

He was like a young whirlwind

"I've been with them all day,

"I'm so muddled, Alan-I can't Alan. It doesn't seem like a real think straight. It seems as if it their honeymoon. He had found In the late afternoon Judy went world at all.”

couldn't be true!" "Nor can I. You mustn't say an ideal. studio, with rooms where back to her rooms. She was tired.

"I've seen them just now, Judy, anything to me. It wouldn't they could live, but they wouldn't It had been a tiring day; but the and they're as brown as berries to tell me that you love me, and "But it is: and now you're going be vacant until March; so they had Dumonts were going to take her and jolly as sandboys!"

that you'll marry me ever so soon decided to rub along as they were out to dinner. until then.

"I know. They're very happy."just as soon as it can be done," Judy sat between them, brim- About seven o'clock Steyne

"Judy, you can't say no any more He was on his knees by her chair. ming with gladness.

burst into Judy's sitting room. now! You can't send me away any "And I'm going to take you out to

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She put her little hands on his helpless shoulders. It was as if her happl. ness were too much, as if she must struggle against it:

"No, no-it isn't fair! I can't" --she managed to laugh evër 80 Jerkily I can't fight to-day."

Then she closed her eyes, and an

"Oh, you're a perfect couple!" attack of pain sent her head help she cried, "I declare, you're made lessly back against the cushions of for each other, and why did we her chair. Steyne left her, realiz never think of it? You seem-you Ing that words were useless be seem such tremendous friends!"

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"I suppose not.”

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