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Margaret Weymouth
Jackson
Copyright by Bobbs-Merrill Co.
WNU Service
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CHAPTER XII—Continued
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The desire to wound him filled her
with a burning fever, At least then he
would not be able to go for weeks
without remembering her. He would
think of her. His attention, his desire
would be hers. For an intolerable
moment she yielded to the pain of this
then rose, wrapped her faded
cotton kimono over her bathing suit
and turned to face Loring. For a mo-
ment was struck with a bright
memory. His composure, his self-as-
surance were broken by the upthrust
of some powerful emotion, She was a
girl again, at her mother’s house, run-
ning up the front steps, “he stood at
the top In her way, looking at her
eagerly, his face so—alive, disturbing.
They stared at each other, remem-
bering, caught and held together. But
Ernestine thrust this clamoring thought
away from her. This man was Lil-
tian's husband. This was Jonathan
Hamilton's son, her father’s son-in-law
and adviser. He was one of her own
people.
“You haven't been kind to Will,
you,” she stammered, trying
the talk back to commonplace,
“He hasn't accepted our kindness,’
f.oring answered slowly.
“It isn't only that he's proud,” said
Ernestine. “He's vain as well. He's
Jifferent. He's entitled to his vanity.”
“At any 7 asked Loring in a
tow voice, *I are men
desire,
she
any
of to
bring
cost
think there
who would consider pride too dear—
for your happiness.”
ine's thoughts were In con-
Loring’s words came back to
but poverty and child-
bearing and distress. Oh, she had had
more than that from Will. She had
had life! But was there to be for her
no permanent peace and security with
Will? She doubted it. And this doubt
brought another: Has my whole In.
stinct concerning been false? Is
fan correct
Ernest
fusion,
her,
nothing
the
and
him trivial,
ure—_O God in Heaven, hel
turned away Lofing
took the path up through the
toward the lawn about the
stumbled along as th
from the weakness
€ul doubts that
A motor had been
the lake road
my
erra unsteads
from and
shrubs
She
house, She
ough to get away
, the tears, the fear-
iled her.
hum long
advanced from
the water's e« and now abruptly
tha car had entered the inlet road
and swung about before the house, At
th™ instant when she became con.
scious of it and its arrival, the alr was
still filled with the grinding of brakes,
while the doors of the car spilled open
and it disgorged three four met
who were carrying others. One of he
two men lifted from the car was either
dead or dying, for a thin bright strear
ran from him as they laid him on the
Erass,
Bright red dripped from the running
board. The other man was being car-
ried indoors, while two tied their coats
together to make a stretcher for the
first man lifted out. A shout brought
Madame Pastano from the house. The
gardener, the houseman appeared on
the run.
The whole household was Instantly
concentrated with skilled, practiced
efficiency, so quiet, quick that
Ernestine was still gaping while It
was all accomplished. The hose was
cunning furiously across the lawn.
‘he rug was brought from the floor
of the car, and thrown into the lake,
with rocks on top of it. The gardener
put the hose inside the car and washed
the floor and the running board. An-
other came from the garage with a
different car rug, with a different
license plate which he changed In a
moment, and the driver of the car
moved it up a little, so that the gravel
could be picked up in a shovel, and
carried and thrown into the lake, the
fresh spot raked together.
Now old Grandmother Pastano, an
ancient dame who spoke not a word
of English, came from the porch, her
head wrapped In a shawl, and got into
the car and sat by the window, her
thick jeweled hand resting on the edge
the ginss, The car turned about
and, with a different driver, moved
sedately back along the lake road,
whence it had come—as Innocent ap-
pearing a vehicle as ever rode the
highway,
No one had noticed her, there at the
end of the lake walk, among the care
fully cut shrubs. Ernestine moved
back and came to the little summer
fiouse and sat down In it, for her
limbs would carry her no farther.
The dreadful efficiencies of the Pas.
tanos had all this time Increased her
wrath with Will. She could not bear
it for him to be In a daze, to go about
with the air which had exasperated
Lillian the night Elaine was born--
helpless, hopeless and confused. She
couldn't stand the thought that he
was a fallure while these foreigners
were thick with success.
Ruby Pastano had power.
assn
ming
as she
too
int,
of
80
of
He loved
money. He had it. He was dramatic
and generous with it. He wanted it
to show, He loved to empty his
pockets—knowing well where he might
refill them. And all summer she had
compared this man's magic with Will's
fumbling, Deliberately she had shut
her ears against stories of political
corruption, against tales of graft and
bribery, of Ruby Pastano who was
generous with policemen. Growing
strong and well again, with the chil-
dren blooming under the benevolence
of this man whose kindness had been
more acceptable to her than the kind.
ness of her own people, because he
was Will's friend and they were not,
she had nevertheless been influenced
to vexation beyond measure that Pas-
tano should be so capable and Will
so futile,
Now her tears fell from her eyes In
great scalding drops.
What was she, Ernestine Briceland,
doing in this band of cutthroats and
thieves? All of Ruby Pastano's ef-
ficlency was to her nothing now but
filthy rags. All her relationship with
him and his family, from the begin-
ning, had been built on misundertand-
ing. They were too far apart. Not
even affection and liking, not even re-
spect could bridge the gap, the dif-
ference in ideals, in standards, in pur
Abruptly the Car Had Entered tho
inlet Road.
lous
This
man, bringing
generous, unscrupt
the victims
into the
i
i's friend
poses,
of rapine
heart of his
~niot hers,
in common with these
would
the
so unfalteringly
own home was W
She had n
and she
ot hing |
people, never
And
heart a
ause
door
bec
opened
choked
was
patriotism.
kind!
cessful,
COonscions
Her
strong,
clean, F
der and plotting.
them all
did not und
cleanness,
She
fat geese to be
the
sirengt
looked upon ns
plucked
courage,
of kind
and stand
le
the the
hated them with ga
furious hatred. The compulsion to io
rid of them—of all of them, and W
as well—came upon her,
Ness,
She was crying terribly. She ran
back down the beach path and came
to Loring playing In the water with
Elaine and Peter,
“Get the boat,” she sald sobbi
with you."
ngly,
will go
. » . » * * .
to rel
security of
It was wonderful ax In the
comfort and home again.
The children went oft happily with old
Annie, had cared for Lillian and
Ernestine when they were small, and
who had always stayed with mamma,
a privileged member of the household.
Lillian scarcely left Ernestine’s side a
moment,
Papa planned softly about going into
Chicago in the morning, to set through
to a finish the details of the trust
funds for his two girls. Loring kept
his distance, reading and smoking by
the table at the far end of the long
porch.
Ernestine was almost asleep, relaxed
and comfortable In her body for the
first time In many weeks, and she was
almost inattentive to papa’s voice go.
ng gently on with plans.
“IT will deed the Sheridan road
house over to yeu, darling. Mamma
and I will be in New York most of
the time, but when we are in Chicago
we will stay there with you. Loring
who
told us “that you would come back
sooner If I withheld your settlement.”
Something clicked in Ernestine’s
mind-—a small sound, as though a lock
had been unbolted. But she went on
to sleep calmly enough, carrying down
with her Into unconsciousness her
trouble and her pain. Loring sald she
would come back-—papa had been 80
willing to obey her wish about not
having her money, because Loring said
she would come back the sooner.
She slept deeply, all through
long evening, all through the night.
under
had thrown
she awoke, sat up
cover that mamma
when
light
over her there on the
looked out across the
She awoke with a
could not do this,
leave Will. It was
water,
conviction,
She could
fmpossible, By
clusion she could not have told.
in her sleep her true nature had as-
gerted Itself and her mind was fixed.
She had done what she had resolved
never to do,
ringe,
“Oh, not I—not my true
my heart!” she whispered. “I never
did deny Will nor my love, I'tl go
back today—to be his wife for ever—
no matter what comes.”
She felt calm and strong now
look with impersonal hor
upon her defection. In the clear light
as she was with the
gel f-—not
and
could ror
of morning, filled
conviction that
choose Will against
ther understanding came to her.
All these months that she had been
hating Will and loving him and re
viling him and saying such cruel
things, it had been a deep unknown
desire for her mother's home which
her, It iad been rebellion
the humiliation of
and disappol nt that thelr
matured this
ever
fur
she must for
all the world,
goaded
against
poverty
and plans had not
continued
hopes
time into success,
All her mental
loosened, open. Now from some cf
Processes
instinct she was presented with a new
enlightenment. fhe was—she had
worse than the
ad for months under
inatic a bitter of his
She had been wounded becan
heen “gimme” women
She | the
been
don m of Jealousy
work.
his ad
had loathed
lowed
was secret from her.
the m that
own « So,
tivity
istress
wanti
his nreer,
him to succeed and to earn money, she
had
the
She had
wanted him possessed witk
preoccupation of uch proc
not
PESOS
seen in his gaze that nw
hich is more obn i
i's greedy
can
pride than
lure ever
was doing.
his own mind,
wn mind
id humility bo
Will, In intention,
d reach
rm
if not
t. she coul
her
ashe were
] Ia
COncerneg
“What have I to do with his work
answer to this question In
f overa
was the groun
its feet, the sky
but not the ret
soul
love's head, Bo
habitations of
uld not bear a
oncelived IL. Ar
f brit
2h Lk even !
comlie strip for the dally
silent a process
was
child for her
though his love © id was
not the business « ging fort
something new and brig f it
were but a
as secret and
she
paps TS,
that now again
as
she was to
in
save by the
tic kindness
Processes
as love
engaged? w
bear another ut no one
truded
most discreet and apol
And might not the
of artistry as secret,
upon
ogy
creative
be lan.
X
tary?
She had been resentful as petty men
{ a
an's preoccupation and distress in ma-
ternity., Will had been natural with
bet, and ind she conid
the same courtesy, She
ws afresh, but not the
tears of the day
unselfish thanking tears
heart
were sometimes regent ful {
casual kind,
ccord him
dreadful
scalding before
These were
distilled from a
and good again,
grown calm
God. Help me to understand him, to
grow and change when life demands
it of me. Help me to be a good wife’
She went to the desk in the corner
and wrote a telegram:
“1 have left Pastano’s, and am at
mamma's cottage with the child
tine”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
CANNER ses
Night has great terrors for the In-
habitants of the island of Bali, in the
Duteh East Indies, because of the
great number of demons (butas) prowl
ing about in the dark. To appease
these evil spirits, the mother of each
home places on the doorstep, or
shrine, a plaited tray filled with fruit
and rice, often with a small lamp to
show the wey, When the demons find
what they want they are supposed not
to molest the people of the home, If
a man has to go about by night he
always carries a lighted torch and
sings to keep the spirits away, as they
do not like either light or music.
In the daylight, however, the natives
can make fun of these spirits without
coming to harm. On feast days they
dress up und imitate the demons,
mocking them. But as soon as the
shadows lengthen, the clothes are re
turned to the temple and those who
have worn them pray a little longer
than usual and offer a little more food
than regularly to the spirits who may
come to their doorsteps. —New York
Magazine,
Alumni Associations
The organization of those who have
been students 1s characteristic of
American schools, The first alumni as
goclation was established at Williams
college in 1821, For many years alumni
organizations were chiefly social, af
fording opportunity for the reunion of
friends, As these associations devel
oped, however, they proved to be use
ful not only In welding former stu
dents together In friendship, but in
maintaining Interest In and, In some
cases, supplying funds for the various
schools and colleges,
Fur Coat May Be
Pelts of Many Varicties Are
Used; Scarf and Muff to
Be in Style.
The
Is an
renalssance of fur accessories
interesting note in the new
styles offered by the designers of
Paris, observes a fashion correspond.
ent In the New York Herald Tribune
A scarf and matching muff may be
chosen to provide an interesting con-
trast to the tallored sult or the fur:
less coat, Black ermine, black as
trakhan, or black caracul may be worn
with coats In the new deep red
shades or in the green tones which are
coming into prominence. A muff and
gearf of brown caracul I8 very smart
to wear with the deep brown sults and
coats which are going to be very ilm-
portant this coming winter,
The fur scarf of 1030 is of the flat
stole type and the muff which is ear
ried with It is small and may be of a
variety of shapes, the pillow type, a
tiny square affair or the little round
ones slightly elongated at the ends
like a football,
If you not like then
mny collar of your coat
carrying a handbag of ms
wearing a beret, which is
either partly or wholly of the
pelt, In either case here Is a
fashion which is not prohibitive
cost and which touches the very
spots of fashion Interest,
This year's fur coat may be of al
most any length which can im-
agine, Last year saw the return of
do these yon
by
fur,
made
match the
itching
or
game
fur
in
high
one
Ed
Fur Jackette in Tan Shade; Trimming
of Red Suede Is Used.
the
the
fur jacket for daytime wear, It is
ment of the longer
are an established fact
nay wear a8 fur coat
length Is most
and most effe
for which It Is
there
te or bl
natural comple
skirts which
This year
of whatever
to the figure
the costa
For evening
rite of whi
one
hecoming
ctive with
intended.
Ist-length
. three
me
ATe wa
nck err
wraps, and
nats or capes completely covering the
gown under them,
tly in
line,
For daytime there are short
f hip or fingertip length,
three-quarters and seven-eighths, and
the type which is the
long
quarterlength very
Some of these dip
siigh the back, others have an
sven
jackets
fiveeighths,
of course,
length as the dress worn under IL
For coats the very flat moire cara
which appear almost like fabric
are very smart, [Persian lamb, broad
tail, Ala sealskin, nutria, beaver
and Japenese mink are other favorite
For trimmings place emphasis
astrakhan, martin, fitch and
&ame
‘nis
skn
pelle
wm fox,
anhle
One-Piece Bathing Suit
Allows Greater Freedom
The smartly dressed swimming girl
st 1930 will stick to her simple one
piece suit and eschew frills, flaring
skirts and bizarre color designs, if she
| values the acmonitions of Baron de
| Meyer, widely known Paris fashion
arbiter,
On the smartest beaches, European
| and American, the feminine swimmer
| f good taste Is wearing a suit that
| zives freedom and utility first of all,
{ says the fashion authority in Harper's
| Bazaar,
in designs for bathing suits at-
| tempts at art, as well as all lnagina-
| tive designing, should be avoided
| Swimming Is a sport and was never
meant ag an opportunity for sartorial
fisplay. There should be hardly any
I fference between a man's and a
woman's bathing suit.
Ribbon Trim Popular
for Milady’s Apparel
Whether you are “frilly” feminine
or prefer the classic simplicity of tai
fored things, you cannot overlook the
increasing importance of ribbons. Rib.
hon trims hats, frocks, lingerie with
squal effectiveness. A ribbon bow
and ribbon streamers frequently trim
the new bonnet, A ribbon sash or rib.
bon bow adds an Ingenious touch to
the demure frock. Ribbons In broad
pows or forming tralling draperies
adorn some of the lovellest new neg:
| ooo,
It seems that nothing helps the child
80 much to clear thinking as discus
sion. If he is apt to be superficial In
his thinking, some one will be sure tc
find it out and show him up speedily
A child who is accustomed to having
his remarks lald open for discussion
learns to be careful of his facts, And
the children ean be taught to conduct
thelr debates In the home with some.
thing of the decorum, the unfailing
courtesy and sportsmanship of the
publie contestants. When some one
is unfair or If some one gets angry let
him understand that the debate Is
closed and the fun Is over. A lively,
good-natured dehate is interesting and
exhilerating and makes for good fam
lly feeling. Most of ndults would
be happier If we had been trained In
early life to he less to the
opinion of others with which we could
not
us
sensitive
ugree,
Many boys of twelve to ff
voracious readers. They are not qui
as addicted to the confession type
magazine ns the they dote
upon stories and read
of Wild West Much of
perfectly legitin interest |
could be fostered by giving
tective, mystery and
great
fleen are
ta
girls but
detective tons
novels,
inte
authors,
Pleasing
by using a
your regular camera lens.
traits are made out of
sun is shining brightly,
ject In the shade ! wilding
large tree, but with clear
structed sky overhead—then
on some solid
be oht
attachment
When
doors, if
ained
over
por.
the
sub-
close-ups can
portrait
inve the
or a
and unob-
camera
small
glof
stop
ghort ti
this
me
food for
from
nde
Ice cream excel
the child
ent
day, If made
‘ :
wholesome ngredients, fome-n
g
i
it sherbets are es
"rozen foods, warn
New
the
ver-h
times his arrive
be remembered the
on sit
all good camps, and should
turbed by outsiders. Meal hours, like
wise, should be sacred to the ca
family assembly me
The dally
‘ it off
the
the «
m of
» presence of non-pa
an Intrusion
3
fore Chinneing
Thou
dee that
for
i
your visit,
w knowle
not
should re;
i nctuall
not ton-lo
TUesIN,
Do Nee
fashic
much
make the old
Drip coffee has so
you still
med
more fi
ding to
wav?
ivor that housewives are
and the
crockery tricolators like those seen in
provi French kitchens, A truly
modern invention which is built on the
drip system is electric and the
touches no metal
of glass,
CO use, more more,
ncial
coflf ve
as the containers are
for the Fall Wardrobe
A tailored one-piece frock is an im.
portant item in any fall wardrobe and
especially for those of you who are
going to school. Made in blue, brown,
green, red or blue tweed, charmingly
flecked in white and with white pique
collar, this frock would be very youth.
ful and practical—~Woman's Home
Companion,
(@, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.»
The wise, extending their Inquiries
wide,
how both states
nection ty'd,
view but part
whole survey,
Bo crowd exi
Beo are by con-
Fools and not the
into a day.
J ONY OR,
stence all
SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS
there Is something
prepared for the
winter fruit closet,
The strawberries
have been put
away in as many
delicious ways 2s
time
of berries
warrant,
Every day now
good that may be
and the price
woul
rhubarb, preserved
canned for serving
in neat rows und
fill
fruits to finish
salt water over
{ ing plunge into
| #tand until firm.
{ Ing water and cook ur
i der. Prepare a sweet
five pounds of brown sug:
vinegar
of whole
tied in a mu
1 v ret
tablespoon
and stick innam
Let this 3
glices
and two
Chartreuse. — Doll
nf
pfu
Peach
of sugar with
| fifteen
two cu
Add
Watermelon Served Pie Fashion
The beautiful MOE © a ipe melon
1 ) . eon
rve,
CPR 1 BOTVe
the m
3 P|
elon ©ol
Banana Pancakes —)\
—
bres. Fong . a Ts }
three-four f a cupful
{Of RIO
as i
SAUCES FOR ICE CREAMS
would think of ice in
wholesome, toothsome
satisfying, plain as
but the addition
which is
prepared at }
One
| itself as
cream
being
of
a zi
easily
makes the
added way of expressing
the irit of hos
Ppy sauce
serving
1 =
reat sp
$
pitality, wh
wishes
en one
to offer
! some-
| thing more than re.
| freshment.
A few
| plain vani
with a spoonfu
a maraschino
gatisfying su
commonplace
nuts spr over
ice cream and topped
1 of whipped cream and
cherry makes a most
ndae,
chopped inkled
The careless preparation of a sauce
to serve with any
ways a convincing proof of the
| fere paid to good cooking.
make a good sauce requires
taste, patience and judgment,
good it must fit the dish
served-—that Is,
smooth, artfully
right consistency,
The opportunity to add one's indi-
viduality to a dish Is well expressed
in sauces served.
Maple Pecan Sauce.~Melt two
tablespoonfuls of butter, add three
fourths of a cupful of sugar and one-
fourth of a cupful of water, three
tablespoonfuls of corn sirup and cook
to a stage before the soft ball when
tested in water. Remove from the fire,
add one-fourth of a cupful of cream,
three-fourths of a teaspoonful of
mapleine, one-half cupful of pecans
chopped. This makes six servings, one
cupful of sauce,
Chocolate Sauce, ~— Melt three
squares of chocolate over hot water,
add one-fourth cupful of water and
stir until smooth; now add one cup-
ful of sugar, one-half cupful of corn
sirup and boil to the very soft ball
stage, or 234 degrees. Remove from
the fire, add one cupful of cream and
one teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat until
smooth, This makes two and one.
half cupfuls of sauce. Cut eight
marshmallows into small pleces. Ball
one cupful of sugar and one-half cup-
ful of water to a heavy sirup. Whip
two egg whites, add the marshmal.
lows and beat well, Flavor with any
desired flavoring,
al-
indif-
To
good
To be
where it is
be appropriate to it,
flavored and of the
on or dish is
nee