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SERIAL STORY-

SILKEN SPINDLES

by Luna Lou Brookman

1935.

CHAFTER XXXIII The amazing fact to Gale was that everything went oh next day, just as it had. The sun shone brightly. Birds were singing as she walked to

Her hands, moving up and down fashion magazine. work-sharp, shrill notes that were mechanically, became a gray blur mockery. Two girls, standing bealde again. Oh, but she must get hold of Gale in the cloak rooms, laughed and herself! Fisher, the foreman, would foked as they hung away their conts be around any moment. She had to und hair,

stop thinking about last night, had to keep her mind on her work!

jhumbled, kumiliated. And there was, put away Josle Gridley came. Jonic more to it than that. She had really brought the brown dreas Gale had. enred for Drinn Westmore-or for prosilæed to help make over, It wan the man she had thought Brian West-wrapped in a newspaper with a sirip more › be. She had dreamed- of plaid silk and a pleture from a

It was all just as it had been the day before.

And yet, how mild it be? How

Coming home that evening she could there be laughter and gaiety heard a call from across the street

"Look," Jonie wald, holding the

strip of plaid up to her face. "Don't you think it's kind of pretty?"

"Vory pretty," Gale nodded. Sho had forgotten that she had promised to help Josie. She said, looking at the fashion pleture, "Oh, yes this is the one we decided on, Isn't it?” She got out newspapers and cut a In the world? How could anything and halied as the smallest of the collar pattern, Atting it about Josie's be the same when for Gale there was O'Connors

pinned the paper only blankness and emptiness every. He wore a coat several

came flying toward her. shoulders. She

sizes too collar into place and Josle considered where? Standing before the pound large, its sleeves dangling almost to herself in the mirror and Beemed ing machines, starting at the blur of the ground. His knitted

Cap was pleased. moving hands and jerking bobbins, jammed over his forehead, but he She old, "Gee, Gate, it must be Gale saw Vicky Thatcher again, draw throw his head for back, staring up well to be able to new like you can. I tried to make a dress one and you ing her beautiful-fur coat around her. at her with blue, appraising eyes, She heard Vicky, saying in low-pitch-

The smallest O'Connor grasped at ed oven tones, "It's supponed to be a Gale's coat with bare, grimy hands

Brian and I are goingj to be married. In June sometime, and said impatiently, "Thay-willen takes practico," she said. "It isn't!

secret but

think June weddings are the nicest, don't you?"

A

|ith he comin' back?"

•

•

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should have acen it! Was I a sight? to keep the edges oven.

Gale was cutting the silk, careful "I Junt

hard after you've had a little prac- "When is who coming back?" Lice," "You know! The man who doelk Yes, it was true-not night-thwicks."

Maybe that was the way with other of imagination that could be brushed Gale's heart again. It was a momont telling yourself often enough that you "Oh!". The chilly hand clutched things, she thought. Maybe after aside and forgotten, Vicky had a before she found her volce. Then didn't care about a person, that you in the Hendersons shabby #ving she said. "I don't know, Tommy.despised them, it would really be room and said those words. She and I don't know

coming true. She hoped it was like that, Brian were going to be married.

Something tight clutched about! Gale's heart, making her cold all over.

mare, not a hideous, funtastic creation

She thought, "It's going to be like this from now on. It will always be like this"

Once during that terrible, endless night Gale had pressed her hända together and burled her face in the pillow, sobbing in a muffled, amother-

back."

when he's

"But I want to thee him! Lookhoped it with all her heart!

She drow her needle in and out of he thaid it wath like thith The grimy, Rogers dug into a half-stitches. She had the binding on one

the milk. taking minute. Invisible i torn pocket, producing a cork from half of the eoliar when Josie cut in a bottle.

"He thaid The youngster began "Gale, look--you've got it on the attempting to demonstrate the puzzle.wrong side!" but Gale put a hand on his shoulder,

sharply:

"Oh, I have, haven't I? I'RVO

"I'm sorry, honey," he said, "but to rip il"

Jonte eyed the other girl shrewdly.

ed voice, "I can't go on I can'i?". I've got to go in the house now. I've

But she knew that she could got to get supper. Some other time She thought for an instant that there People did, somehow. People all over you can show he how the the world who were suffering and goes."

trick were lears in Galo's eyes, but that broken-hearted, for whom brief But the youngster was adamant of a collar on the wrong way couldn't was ridiculous. Putting the biniting vintons of happiness had suddenly "No." he said, "It'th that man I want make anyone cry. shattered, managed to piece together to thee. You tell him to come back, their broken lives once more.

An hour later, Josie rose to leave, here. I twled over and over and the finished dream can't get it wight. You tell him" She said, "Gee, Gale, you were swell over her arm. Gale sought escape. "Maybe Phil to do this for me. It's like a new knows how to do it," she said. "He dress" be coming any minute now."

Gale thought, "It's better to know it now. I ought to be glad it hap- pened this way."

The child shook his head. "It'th that man I want to thee," he re pented,

"I'm glad I could do it," Gale told her. She really nieant it. for Josie had filled the evening. Sho Sewing said, "Good night, Josie. See you to norrow!

She should have beek, and yet, the thought failed to comfort her.

She had rehearsed the same argu- ments the night before. Lying, wide-Į eyed, in the darkness, she had ple- From the rear of the O'Connora' tured again the scene with Vicky, house a shrill volce called, "Tom And thus the day ended. To- She had gone over all that Brian had mee! Oh, Tom-mec}" sald Sunday-fragmentary sentences "That's your Mother," Cale said. undressed and got into her plain little morrow, Gale told herself on she that had seemed so precious then. "You mustn't keep her waiting." white gown, would be easier. Grad- Why had he said them? Why had he

uully the days would grow easier and said, "I love you. Gale. I think I've The shrill cry was repeated. Tom-aho would learn to forgot that she loved you since the first time I saw my looked up at Gale sorrowfully, had been a silly, ridiculous tile fool. you,"

"All wight," he said. "I'll go, but She would even, some day, ho able to Why? Because Steve had been I'm comin' back! I want to thee think of Brian Westmore without that right about Brian, and she had been that man."

sharp stabbing pain. Maybe she wrong. Because she was a mill girl Gale hurried up the walk and intu would be able to take the hieldent os ard Brian found it amusing to pre-the house.

lightly as he had tend he cared for her. Silly of her) It was Brian whom Tommy wanted] But she couldn't do that now. She to suppose it had been more than that to see-Brian with his tricks to found out the following evening, com- for one moment.

amuse youngsters; his gay, flattering ing home from the mill, just how far Brian hadn't said, "I love you, speeches that were tricks, too.

she was from thinking rationally, Gale, and want to marry you." She opened the door and called a dispassionately Not to her. He'd said that to Vicky greeting to her father, then went into affair. She had left Joste

about the whole Thatcher who belonged to his own the kitchen and methodically began behind. Turning

block world, whom everyone expected him preparing the evening meal,

Д corner.

Galo's heart suddenly ceased beating. There, to marry.

After they had finished eating, ahead of her, was Brian, Well, she had learned. She felt after the dishes had been washed and

¡To Be Continued),

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