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BEACH CLUB GIRL

CHAPTER XXVI

By MABEL McELLIOTT

This tea was no ordeal to be feared

She deflberately shook off the mood,

apathy, rousing themselves only to and the deep chairs in the Van ask if Russ had left any insurance. Selvers studio living room. about

· Houls Inced Denis Fenway across He ludn't. Denis had paid the bills which he had alrendy told her, waited the expanse of a white cloth. There and Kung rested in a little Florida to receive her, were drooping pink roses in a silver churchyard. Some day, Boots promised vase but Denis had set this vaso naida herself, she would go to his gravo. So that he could see her better. He She could not bear to think of Russ. was smiling. What a nice smile be so full of life, being stilled forever. had, she thought idly! And yet she hadn't in the least liked him when she had first met him. He had seem ed souperior..."snooty," she had called him to herself.

you're going back to work

She was breakfasting this part rather a pleasant interval to look eutar December Sunday with Denis at forward to on a long Sunday. But the Lafayette, French waiters moved would Denis be the same when sur deftly to and fro, abstrbed in the rounded by a dozen other, people, all intricacies of their service. Denis strangers to her? Wouldn't she be had ordered for them both: eggs shy and gauche and awkward among Benedict, mushrooms, criap triangles all those elever people? "I want I'm terribly anxious to of buttered tonet in a twisted napkin, pay you back," she said, her voice pots of steaming coffee, thickening treacherously. She wink- ed buck the tears-it seemed to her that she was such a fool intely, always weeping about nothing at all. But Denis seemed not to notice, she was glad to observe. He was snubbing a cigarette out in the heavy hobnail nah

troy.

Boots was thinner, was definitely more mature. Her pate hair made a fluid halo underneath her old blue bat, The collar of her blue coat framed her face.

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She hadn't heard from her mother and father nor from Ixabel, although there had been a brief notice of Russ's death in the New York papers. May. be they hadn't seen it or inaybe they were waiting for her to make the she wouldn't do Brat

move. Well, the that. Weak as she was, she had her pride. She would stand on her own feet.

Sho climbed the stairs wearily to her own

Denis had already established a more comfortable chair there. It was one he had had in storage, he anid. She would be doing him a service to give it house space. She didn't entirely believe this. She LIVERPOOL SERVICE thought he had gone into a shop and

ATREUS bought it for her, after Investigating the sagging springs of Mr. Mooney's furniture.

wish you wouldn't worry so much about that." His matter-of-factness was heartening. He never askesi questions; that was one of the nice

Denis had moved into the apart things about him. Other people did ment. Boots had not seen it yel. the mare, even the doctor, Mrs. She was to see it this afternoon when, Mooney and the girls at the store. Denis Kald Inzily, lighting his Everyone was so curious about her cigarette, "some people" were coming affairs. Not Denis. He accepted to ten. things as they were. He knew that "Why not come right niong with she had married Russ, bad breken me now?" Denis was arguing light with her family. Lois hadn't toldly. Why not come back to the him. He hadn't seen Lois. He had apartment and help me to choose told her that Lois and Dr. Hart were arme flowers on the way and see that having a year in Germany. So he the cushions are plumped up properly, hadn't knowa thing about-alwut and tell Hong how hot the water must her marringe,

he before the tea, made?"

room.

The affair of the $10 bill at Lacy's had been cleared up. Sho

wasn't sure whether it had been found or not but she learned that Denis hnd seen young bir. Bliss. They had been clasaniates at college together. Bliss "But you saw me that night, com-

had been evasive when she had asked ing nut

of the Willown.ere." Boots persisted. "You--I know you weren't

But Boots was adamant. No, she him about the money but had implied thinking pleasant things about ma protested, she must get back to her the affair was settled once and for

room. She had a thousand things to all ale before to-morrow; Things to

that night."

"Yes, I saw you." He looked away and his air of cold aloofness hurt her.

Well, her fe stretched before her The yell that sometimes came over

now, lonely and uncomplicated. She Denis dark eyes shut down at that press

Now she was a moment. She was sorry she had said. So Denis put her into a taxi and, had been a wife. the words. She had feeling she having paid the driver, stood on the widow, Russ had died before they had hurt perhaps offended him.

eurne sunshine, as

rehended in the brillant had really known much about

she drove ther. Bravely she faced the fact that their marriage would not have Their aims and There was always something puz

puzzling

...oh, I don't know nice," en a success, ever.

ambitions were too far apart. She about Denis, When you warmed to Bonts murmured, incioquently, had not been married a week before him, in simple friendliness, he was ing back at him through the squnte

rear of the ent.she had resilzed that, very likely to freeze toward you in of glass in the

She was sad: a dark wood settled her. The lights had changed ten parties and smiling faces and the

for crosstown traffic

light laughter of gay people on a

this fashion. You didn't know what otter she thought. Denis had for upon her. What bad she to do with i you had said or done that was wrong red 10 elegantly Sunday afternoon? She was a stray

"It was the next day we we were married," she said faintly. "Ituss got me a roam there. He was staying with his people in Astoria."

•

kind to. She mustn't impose upon him further.

Yet she persisted,, determined to from turn the knife in the wound, deter- and his tall, lean, mined

his reaction figure lost itself in the drift cat that Denis had picked up and been to know what

pedestrians passing by. Ah, but why were

shouldn't he forget her the instant the passed

from

his sight, ske

Oh, she would telephone Denis am thought, with a new and searing humility. She was just a stray kitten tell him she couldn't come after all. he'd been kind to, had picked up and She couldn't face all those people. am smile while His warm smile flashed over her saved from destruction. Yes, Denis widen her eyes sain It was as if the sun had with his good doctor and alert nurse, this canker ate at the very care of

something his expensive medleines, had saved almost apologette in his manner now. her life; there was little doubt of that, "As if you needed to explain that." She mustn't expect any more of hint he raid. But she was glad, just the after that.

it then that certain same, that had explained.

the foot of a strong and all ".* was a warm, friendly note in his deep when she left the tax)

Dear, kind Denist She mustn't voice again.

Mrs. Mooney's brownstone steps?

He was her only friend. Gloria and Lou had accepted the She had a pleasant afternoon ahead of lose him.

(To Be Continued.). facts of Russ's death with their usual her instead of loneliness. Denis' Are |

prome

out. There WOS

her soul

Mrs. Mooney tapped. "Mister Fenway just telephoned and he says the car'll be waiting down- staire for yon at five. He thought

veil fed from Denis'sinined the dreariness descended upon her partyan oughtn't to walk, with thought

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