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SERIAL STORY.

SILKEN SPINDLES

by Laura Lou Brookman

CHAPTER XXXIIT

humbled, humiliated. And there was, put away Joste Gridley came. Josie more to it than that. She had really brought the brown dress Gale had The amazing fact to Galo was that cared for Brian Westmare or for promised to help make over. It was overything went on next day, just as the man she had thought Brian West wrapped in a newspaper with a strip it had. The sun shone brightly more to be. She had dreamed of plaid silk and a pleture from a Birds were singing as she walked to Her hands, moving up and down fashion magazine. work-sharp, abrill notes that were mechanically, became a gray blur "Look," Josie said, holding the mockery. Two girls, standing beside again. Oh, but she must get hold of strip of plaid up to her face. "Don't Gale in the cloak room, laughed and herself! Fisher, the foreman, would you think it's kind of preity" Joked as they hung away their coats be around any moment. She had to "Very pretty," Gala nodded. She and hats.

stop thinking about last night, had had forgotten that she had promised It was all just as it had been the to keep her mind on her work! to help Josie. She said, looking at the fashion picture, "Oh, yes this day before.

And yet, how endd it be? How

Coming home that crouing she is the one we decided on, lan't it?" She got out newspapera and cut a could there be laughter and galoty heard a call from across the streat in the world? How could anything and halted as the smallest of the collar pattern, fitting it about. Josio's bo the same when for Gale there was O'Connors came flying toward her, shoulders, She pinned the only blankness and emptiness every. He wore a coat overal sizen Loo collar inte place and Josie considered where? Standing before the pound large, ita alceves dangling almost to herself in the mirror and

pleased, ing machines, starting at the blur of the ground. His knitted cap WAB Sho sold, "Gee, Gale, I must be moving hands and Jerking bobbins, jammed over his forchent, but he swell to be able to new like you can. Gale saw Vicky Thatcher again, draw throw his head far back taylor

starleg "I tried to make a dress once and you

.

poper

seemed

should have seen ft1 'Was 1 à sight?”

She heard Vicky, saying in low-pitch-j The smallest O'Connor grasped at 'Galo was cutting the silk, careful ed even tones, "it's supposed to be a Gale's cont, with bare, gelmy hands to keep the edges evon. It funt secret but Brian and I are going and said impatiently, "Thay when takes practice," he said. "It isn't to be married. In June sometime. 1th ho comin' back?"

hard after you've had a little prac. think June weddings oro the nicest,

tice." don't you?"

Th

Yes, It was true-not night- mare, not n hideous, fantastis erention

"When is who coming back?" "You know! The man who doeth thwicks."

.

Maybe that was the way with other things," she thought. Maybe after telling yourself often enough that you didn't care about a person, that you

true. She hoped it was like that, hoped it with all her heart!

"ON" The chilly hand clutched of imagination that could be brushed Galo's heart again. It was a moment aside and forgotten. Vicky had a before she found her voice. Then in the Henderson shabby living she said, "I don't know, Tommy despised them, i would really bo room and said those words. She and I don't Imow when ho'n coming Brian were going to be married.

back." Something tight clutched about "But I want to thee him! Look

She drew her needle in and out of Gale's heart, making her cold all over. —ho thuld it wath like thith

the silk, taking minute, invisible She thought, "It's going to be like The grimy fingers dug into a half-stitches. She had the binding on one this from now on. It will always be torn pocket, producing a cork from half of the collar when Josie cut in like this

a bottle.

sharply:

"Gale, look-you've got it on the wrong shie?"

Once during that terrible, endless "He (hnld-" The youngster began night Gale had pressed her hands attempting to demonstrate the puzzle, together and buried, her face in the but Gale put a hand on his shoulder.

"Ob, I have, haven't 17 1'll have pillow, sobbing in a muffled, smother- "I'm sorry, honey," she said, "but to rip it..." ed voice, "I can't go out I can't!” I've got to go in the house now. I've Josie eyed the other girl shrewdly, But she know 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 me how the trick were tears in Gale's eyes, but that i the world who were suffering and goes."

was ridiculous. Putting the binding broken-hearted, for whom brief But the youngster was adamant.of a collar on the wrong way couldn't visions 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 An hour later, Josie roso to leave, their broken lives once more.

here. I twied over and over and the Anished dress over her arm. Gale thought, "It's better to know can't get it wight. You tell him" She said, "Gee, Gale, you were swell it now. I ought to be glad it hap Gale sought escape. "Maybe Phil to do this forme. It's like a new pened this way."

knows how to do it," who said. "Ho'll dress=" be coming any minute now."

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

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

"I'm glad I could du it," Galó told her. She really meant it. Sewing for Jusio had led the evening. She saldi, "Good night, Josie. See you to morrow!"

And thus the day ended. To morrow, Gale told herself as nhe undressed and got into her plain little white gown, would be easler. Grad- ually the days would grow easier and she would learn to forget that sho had been a silly, ridiculous tile fool. She would even, some day, be nula to think of Brian Westmore without that sharp, stabbing pain. Maybe sho would be able to take the incident as lightly as he had

She had rehearsed the same argu- ments the night before. Lying, wide-peated. eyed, in the darkness, aho had pic From the rear of the O'Connors' ture again the acene with Vicky: house a shrill voice called, "Tom- She had gone over all that Brian had mee! Oh, Tom-nied]" Rajd Sunday fragmentary sentences "That's your Mother," Galo sald. that had seemed so precious then. "You mustn't keep her waiting." Why had he said them? Why had he káld, “I love you, Gale. I think I've

The shrili cry was repeated. Tom loved you since the first time I saw my looked up at Gale sorrowfully, You"

"All" wight," he said. "I'll go, but Why? Because Steve had been I'm comin' back! I wont to the right about Brian, and she had been that man-" wrong. Because she wan a mill girl Gale hurried up the walk and into and Brian found it amusing to pre-the house. Lend he cared for her. Silly of her It was Brian whom Tommy wanted to suppose it had been mero than that to seo-Brian with his tricks to for one moment.

amuse youngsters; his gay, Hattoring Brian hadn't said, "I love you, speeches that were tricks, too. you." Gale, and want to marry

She opened the door and called a Not to her. He'd said that to Vicky greeting to her father, then went into, affair, Sho had left Janie a block Thatcher who belonged to his own the kitchen, and methodically began behind. Turning ■ corner, Gale's world, whom everyone expected him preparing the evening meal.

heart suddenly ceased beating. There, to marry.

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

But she couldn't do that now. Shu found out the following evening, com ing home from the mill, just how far she was from thinking rationally, diapassionately about the whole

To Be Continued).

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