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"Everybody thinks I've forgotten Ĝibbs," Zoo said, "but I can't—I just can't. Kay, I've got to sed him?"

"But I lo-ove him," Zoe protested, DEGIN HERE TO-DAY

day when he had so rudely seized her serist and spoken a sharply, when blue eyes swimming, red lips pout KATHARINE STRYKUUNST, beautiful, 20.

beraus her they were taking shelter from the ing. You just won't understand. is daruntented and rentlema

The You're so-so hard about it, Kay. wealthy father, VICTOR STRYKHURST, and storm in that wayside cabin.

know int to think of Just wait till you fall her artisterntle stepmother, BERTINE, refuse searcely telat Katharine undertake any wist of work. Milchnet. le

hird apologized, wit riden ily

MICHAEL BEATHOS Found water ner, who rutin muttered something incoherent; but Hiding Phil She axauren herself she is at they had both ern self-conscious, interested in Michael but freisa pang of riding home later, Katharine assured atory whan SALLY MOON. head coquette, herself that if things were going on urulla al the chab for kuns.

from Europe where she has been taken to

forget a love affair with GIS LARKIN of whom her parents disagrate, Zoe neuses Katharine of being in love with Michael.

this

had

"It's nothing to do with

me,"

thrine said. "Why drag me in?"

"You'll know some day," cried Zve with

mopping Iter spirit,

eyes.

ZOE PARKER, Katherine's friend, returns why she would have to give up Then you'll be surry you were 50 morning rides. bruch as she adored

Katharine melted. "I didn't mean them. But this morning the tall unkind." westerner had been casual and unself- conscious, as usual. it was going to to be honestly. Whant can I do to ht help be all right, Katharine had thought with satisfaction. They could just b

shid that comrades.

Their conferences usually ended that was between an and merely

an and girl this way, Katharine was the stronger of the two, yet the soft, yielding Zov crazy

could usually bend her to her way of thinking.

CHAPTER 11

decided to shat have out of her life

as much as was humanly possible.

Long age Katharine Strykiturtlespace and whe

Weron piloted the little car silfully Her mother had died when she was

"I thought we might get our paz- nine, Bouple say, "Children don't up the hilly road windbug westward understand." But some children deia zig-zag pattern away from Inui-

she began. Katharine still remembered that day fuck. From the rise you could look to let us take a trip together," back and see the village, lying sleepy

"But you've only just got back," with a shudder-mures hurrying, to

Katharine Haid. blue beyond that marked Long Island

we could say we and fro in the all stone house; her in the morning haze, and a lhe of

wanted to do New England-the Cather's racked sobs, she had under-1 Sound. Church bells rang in one of know, but stond only too well. The lovely, fair the steeples three miles beneath them antique shops and so on haired, gracious mother had

had gone.

and somewhere a.cow mooed, long und place

satisfyingly.

Zov ran the ear into the shadow of

a pin-sak and shut off the engine.

"Nice up here!"

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

Z

nodded. Katharine frowned, "It's much

arine had drled her tears and had Jay uld be taken over by a subur-Bertine would think that she would!

There was din one in her Katharine was by nature a lonely child. A sucression of governesses nly intensified this uellness. Many only

wet with chil $118 nights her pillow

"I love it," Katharine agreed, to transparent. Bertine would be dish tears. Later her father had There were faries on either side of sure to see through it. She's much hrought her a pel; a little Cairn ter- the River Road; unpainted barns and quicker than your mother about

things like that. rier she dearly loved. When he was rail fences hemming in fields of clover

never suspect you," said Zoc run over by a tradesman's car Kath rows of sprouting corn. Bonu

deceit." in the not far distant future, all

Katharine flushed. It was true. said angrily and stoleally to herself:

All right. I won't love anybody or ban development company. There anything again."

would be Moorish villas and golf tees look after Zou properly. Well, and

she would, too! where all was rustic simplicity now. "No, I can't possibly do it!" She had tried to keep that promise.

"Oh, Kay, darling, think about it, The entrance of her stepmother into

Katharine dreaded these inevitable won't you? Zoo looked as if she her life, when Katharine was 13, had not really meant much. Katharine improvements." But meantime she

"I don't really like Gibbs," Kath- had been polite to the well-dressed, could enjoy the peace of the amouched might burst into tears again. pleasant-faced Bertine, Sho

had countryside. Below she could see the

affair? I

and

serer entred her mother. The stubies 1 foster this-herberylly, thirty should

Strykhurst,

A good The thought of him, movia

be the worst thing you could do, to Mrs.

place. figure and a sitise of humour, hadn't ing quietly in that tried to win Katharine over" by fair brought a little glow of contentment arry him.

foul. Now, after more to her heart. He wad nice; she did than seven years, they were friends, like him. But it would spoil every- if not completely allies,

thing if Zoe-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.

INCRAS or

the man she loved, accused Katharine "It's about Gibbs," Zoe was say of being a victim of the grande pasing, a small voice, breaking into sion,

is smail wonder that the tall, her reverie. fair girl in giding clothes turned on her compansion almost angrily, aleny-į ̧ ing it.

"I never heard anything so ridic- ulous." Katharine said.

"All right, all right," Zoe soothed her, smiling. " only thought you looked at him so

Katturine had lived through half

Katharine dushed to the roots of round blue eyes and

love

"Oh, marry!" Zoe opened her eyes. Well, ini't that what you're after?

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

"I've simply got to get back," Katharine sald suddenly. Of course she loved Zoo as a sister, but this murning there was something peculiar irritating in Zoe's assumption that she could bend a full-grown man to a dozen more or less intense

marry her and maybe he didn't. affairs, vicariously, with Zoe. She her will. Maybe Gibbs wanted to was only six months older than the Katharine didn't know, But Zoe was

with the little creature beside hering white her chilly heights of superiority to sure of her powers. Katharine, from teeth, but Katharine told herself she feminine wiles, felt annoyed. She her hair, in which gold shimmered felt old enough to be Zoe's grand was and deep waves were burnished. Back at the entrance to the stables other, at the very least.

"I-I haven't forgotten him," Zoc Michael was deep in a conference procveded. Mother-and Bands with one of the men; something about everybody thinks I have. But I can't, that limp of the dapple gray's.

Kay 1

just cault" "You can't see a moti

She went on, pleating the folds of together, Katharine began hotly her handkerchief. "I can't "without imagining ....

about anything else." She looked "Well, honestly, Kay," cried Zoe, suddenly very solemn, her little, girl nettled in her turu, "anybody'd think face taking on lines of intensity. falling

In love was a disgrace." "Well, leave me out of it, won't

with said you?" Katharine dignity.

a Wontan

cool

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

"Kay, I've got to see him."

remembering with lightning clearners, the way Michael had stared at her the other day: so angrily, almost as though he had, for an instant, hated her! Zoe would have known what to do in such a situn-

tion. think

"He he's away." Katharine mur- mured, inadequntuly.

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

you to him."

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The little car whirled about, began the down grade. At the inne lead- ing into the riding club Zoe obediently 13 stopped.

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

Katharine nodded. Then her heart plunged Bickeningly. Something

do that," Katharine strange happened to her pulse; it was

peat of laughter. All at once both Poor Mr. Parker had confided to selous of a swift surge of rage.

Terting Strykhurat only the day be Kiding together, heedless of others girls were restored to good humour: fore that Zoe had had a whirl on the along the path, came a man and a Michael, hearing the sound of laugh-boat, and in Paris, too, and that the girl. ter, glanced up and miles. Some- thing caught at Katharine's heart. affair with Gibbs Larkin was definitely There was something so-so darned. Parents! thought attractive about that tall, rangy, lean suddenly and angrily! Whatever did attract westerner when he smiled. they know about when very sily."

what went on? Those little laugh wrinkles about his she said rather coldly.

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There, that's better?" cried Zoc.

Katharine,1

Zoe began to cry. She cried pret- "Now, can you ride over to the Ridgely; she didn't twist or screw her. and back? It'll only take 15 minutes. features up as so many women do.

I want to talk to.

+

You

"All right," Katharino

arhamed of her earlier flare of tem-

Sho just sat quietly and let the agreed, or them every now and then crystal drops gather and fall, per. There was just no use flashing with the folds of the now delicately out at Zoe. She was the most amlable pleated handkerchief. person in the world. if A

trifle Katharine felt a surge of impa- Billy...

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

know wall enough 'he's had heaps of Would Bichael think she was mak-affairs-with married women, too, ing excuses to see him? Men were No wonder your mother is against| Factorribly conceited. After the other him! She has a perfect right to be." -|

Michael-and Sally Moon!

(To Be Continued)

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