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By Mabel McElliott

"Everybody thinks I've forgotten Gibbs," Zoe said, "but I can't—i just can't.” Kay, I've got to sen him!"

DEGIN HERE TO-DAS

discontented

her beenuse wealthy father, VICTOR STRYKHURST, #ol her artisteralle stepmother, BERTINE, retum

to let Katharine underther any sort of

Katharine tiles ally with MICHAEL HEATRERCE, KOTA vemietner when

"But I love him," Zoe protested, day when he hand so rudely seized her KATHARINE STRYKHURST, they were taking shelter from the ing. You

wrist and spoken so slurply, when blue eyes swimming, red lips pout-

just won't understand,, cabin. storm in that wayside

she You're so-so hard about it, "Kay. hnt to think of Just wait till you fall.. rearvely know Michael. He had apologized. had

Jo "It's nothing to with me," Buitered something incoherent; but riding club. She ranures herself she is not they had both en self-conscious, Katharine said, "Why drag me in!" intercntent in Michael in free riding home later, Kuthurine nasured Jean when SALLY MION, local coheral that if

"You'll know some day," cried Zoe things were going on

with enralte, at the club for manus,

spirit, mopping this way she world have to give up ZOV JALKER, Katherine's friend, returns her morning rides, truch as she adored "Then you'll be sorry you were so trom Europe where she like buen inken withem. But this morning the tall unkind."

Katharine melted. "I didn't mean at i bom her patente denpasove. Zie neeties westerner had been casual and unself. to be, honestly. What can I do to conscious, as usual. It was going to

forget a love affair with RDS LARKIN Katharine ad being in line with Michinel.

CHAPTER JU

Long ago Katharine Strykhurst hal|

THE

Iter

Cycn.

be all right, Katharine had thought help?" with satisfaction. They could just be comrades.

Bes, People who said that Their conferences usually ended this way. Katharine was the stronger inan and girl of the two, yet the soft, rielding Zoc

decided to shut love out of her life and merely

as mnek as was humanly possible,

between 1 crazy.

That

wer piloted the little car skilfully could usually bend her to her way!

บ

Zoe

of thinking

"f thought we might get our par-

nts to let us take a trip together,"

she began. Katharine suid.

"But you've only just got back."

Her mother had died when she was

the hilly road winding westward nine. People say. "Children don't

zig-zag pattern away from Inni- understand." But some children rock. From the rise you could look Katharine still remembered that day back and see the village, lying sleepy with a shudder-nurses hurry, to in the morning haze, and a line of and fro in the old stone house; her blue beyond that marked Long Island father's racked sobs. She had under Sound, Church bells rang in one of stood only tog well. The lovely, fair- haired, gracious mother had gone, the steeples three miles beneath thein, antique shops and so on..

in no one

and somewhere a cow mooed, long and satisfyingly,

Zoe ran the car into the shadow of a pin-oak and shut off the engine.

Nice up here!"

"I know, but we could Bay We wanted to do New England-the

"And slip up to Maine and see Gibbs? Is that it?"

Zoe nodded. Katharine

much

mother about

place. her Katharine was by nature Inacly child. A succession of guvernesses

frowned. "I' paly intermified this kneliness, only

Many

too transparent. Bertine would be Aights her pillow was wet with chil

"I love it." Katharine agreed. tears. Later her father had brought her a pet; a little Cairn ten There were farms on either side of sure to see through it. She's much

the River Rond; unpainted barns and quicker than

things like that."

Your rier she dearly lovel. When he was rail fences hemming in Belds of clover

"She'd never suspect you,” said Zoe run over by a tradesman's cur Kath and rows of sprouting cora. Some

lyly, "af-deceit."--" uil arint bad dried her tears and hid day, in the not far distant future, said angrily and stoiently to herself: this would be taken over by a subur Bertine would think that she would Kathurine tushed. It was true, "All right, I won't love anybody or ban development company. There anything again."

would be Moorish villas and golf tess look after Zoe properly. Well, and

She had tried to keep that promise, The entrance of her stepmother into her life, when Katharine was 13, bad not really meant much. Katharine had been polite to the well-dressed, pleasant-faced Bertine She

And

where all was rustic simplicity now.

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貔

jahe would, too!

No, I can't possibly do it!" "Oh, Kay, darling, think about it, won't you?" Zoe looked as if she

Katharine dreaded these inevitable "improvements." But meantime she might burst Inta tenes again. could enjoy the peace of the untouched "I don't really like Gibbs," Kath; eountryside. Below she could see the farine began, doubtfully. "Why should never called her mother. The second bleached roof of Michael's stalde, I foster this affair? I think it would airs. Strykhurst, who had good The thought of him, moving and worki figure and a sense of humour, hadn't ing quietly in that peaceful place, marry hint

lace, but the worst thing you could do, to tried to win

Katharine over by fair brought a little glow of contentment "Oh, marry!" Zoe opened her eyen, means or foul. Now, after mure to her heart. lie was nice; she did;

"Well, isn't that what you're after?"

than seven

if not completely allies were friends, like him. But it would spoil every thing if and the rest of the So, this fine summer morning, when world-would think she'd fallen in Zoe Parker, wrapped in thoughts of love with him.

the

Man

་

she loved, accused Kathurine "It's about Gibbs," Zoe was say. of being a victim of the grande passing, in a small voice, breaking into| sion, it is small wonder that the tall, her reverie. fair girl in riding cinthes turned on her compansion almost angrily, deng- ing it.

"I never heard anything so ridic-

Katharine said.

ulons

"Ail

her.

right, all right," Zo soothed smiling "I only thought

✓

"He hasn't asked me, but he will," said the younger girl with, a note of soft triumph.

"I've ainiply ut to get back," Katharine said suddenly. Of course she loved Zoe as a sister, but this Borning there was something peculiar-

superiority feminine wiles, felt

Katharine had lived through hair 1y irritating in Zoe's assumption that a dozen more or less intense love she could bend a full-grown man to affairs, vicariously, with Zoe. Sheher will. Maybe Gibbs wanted to marry her and maybe he didn't. was only six months older than the Katharine didn't know. But Zoe was little creature beside her, with the: you looked at him 39 4421

her chilly heights of Katharine flushed to the roots of round blue eyes and flashing white fur of her powers. Katharing, from _to teeth, but Katharine told herself sheer her hair, in which gold shimmered felt old enough to be Zoe's grands

annoyed. She ATI deep waves

remembering, with lightning burnished. were

ՇՈՒ at the very least. Back at the entrance to the table, mother "haven't forgotten him, Boolelearness, the way Michael had stored

Cher

the other day: Bo angrily. Michael

was deep in conference proceeded. "Mother-and Daddy--l

almost as though he had, for an with one of the man; something about

everybody thinks

But I can't, instant, hated her! Zoe would have that limp of the dapple gray's.

Kay. I I just can't You Can't see a man and a woman

She went on, pleating the folds of known what to do in such a situ together,' Kathurine began hotly, her handkerchief. "I can't think

tion,

The little car whirled about, began} without imagining

about anything vise." She looked nettled in her turn, "anybody think face taking on lines of intensity.

"Well, honestly, Kay" ricin sudenly very solemn, her little giri the down grade. At the lane lead- ing into the riding club Zoe obediently stopped. falling in love was a disgrace."

"Look, I'll call you up later," she began importantly?

Katharine nodded. Then her heart plunged Bickeningly, Something

"Well, leave me out of it. won't Katharine said with cool

you?"

dignity.

*

"I can't. You're one of the bloom-

I have,

I've got to see him." he's away." Katharine' mur-{ mured, inadequately.

"I know it. He's got to come back or else I'm going

to him"

you can't do that," Katharine strange happened to her pulse; it was

ing" a protestad

affair with Gibbs Larkin was definitely! Katharine,

poat of laughter. All st. Oney both Poor Mrs. Parker had confided to scious of a swift surge of rare. girls were restored to good humour, Bertino Strykhurst only the day be-Riding together, heedless of others Kichael, hearing the sound of laughfare that Zoe had had a whirl on the along the path, canie, a man ani a ter, glanced up and smiled. Some-boat, and in Paris, too, and that the girl. thing caught at Katharine's heart. ff. Parents! thought

Michael and Sally Moon!

(To Be Continued) There was something so-so darned attractive about that tall, rangy. lean younk westerner when he smiled. Those little laugh wrinkles about hi eyes

There, that's better!" cried Zoe. Now, can you ride over to the Ridge and back? It'll enly take 15 minutes.

I want to talk to you.”

they know about what went on? suddenly and angrily! Whatever did

"I think you're being very silly," she said rather coldly.

Zoe began to cry. She cried pret- tily; she didn't twist or scrow her She just sat quietly and let the features up as so many women do. "All right

Katharine agreed, large, crystal drops gather and fall, ashamed of her earlier flare of tem touching them every now and then per. There was just no use flashing with the folds of the now delicately out at Zoe. She was the most amiable pleated handkerchief. person in the world,

Katharine folt a surge of impa-i silly

tience, "Oh, do stop that!" she said But my car's here," she protested, crossly. "Gibbs is almost 40 and ho'l after deliberation, i'll have to stop be fat in no time at all. And you br.again and pick it up. "

know well enough he's had heaps of Would Michnol think she was mak-affairs with married women, too. ing excuses to sea, him? Men were No wonder your mother, is against se terribly conceitedAfter the other him! She has a perfect right to be."

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