silence. Neither reproach nor envy was o> 9 < nf sN~velization eloped by BEATRICE FABER .. from the Mea Goldwyn Mayet neruss RN SYNOPSIS Linda and Van Sanford have had three years of extraordinary ‘happy marriage based on their passionate love and mutual trust. Van is secretly making plans for the merger of his magazines with National Weekly, owned by J. D. Underwood. Van's secretary, “Whitey” Wilson, who is wholly absorbed in her employer's interests, is telephoned by him one evening just as she is leaving for the theatre with Dave Evans, her fiance. She goes to Van’s home to check the National's cir- culation reports with him. Later, Linda asks her to remain for the party she is giving. But when all the guests, including Whitey, have left, Linda becomes thoughtful and apprehensive over Van's close as- sociation with his beautiful secretary. 3 KISS AND MAKE UP Chapter Two The bedroom door swung open and Van walked in. He caught Linda in| a tight embrace. “Gwendolyn,” he said solemnly, “if it weren't for the wife 2» whom I love . . . She smiled up at him. “I'm the best, aren’t I, Van?” she asked wistfully. “The only best . . . always?” His voice was soft. “Some day they're going to put us in the same wheel chair . . . and whenever my lumbago isn’t bothering me . . . say! . .. you look out.” 3 Whitey sat beside Finney in the Sanford car, for Linda had graciously insisted that the chauffeur drive her home. The car came to a stop and she climbed out. She was about to mount the steps of her house when she noticed Dave's roadster at the curb. He was curled up on the front seat, fast asleep. Opening the car door, she stepped in and gently awakened him. He drew her hand into his and relaxed languid- ly against the back of the seat. Then, as Whitey apologized for:not meeting him and breathlessly described Linda’s party, he listened to her in attentive in his‘ face . . . only the honest love he had for Whitey shone in his eyes. Suddenly she noticed the small en- velope he was fingering. “That” he grinned, “was the sur- prise.” There had been no time to tell her when she had hurried off to the Sanfords. Her mouth rounded into a.pink oval. “Seventy-five dollars a week! A twen- ty-dollar raise! Oh Dave, how won- derful!” : * “Honey,” he said, in weighed tones, “tomorrow you better hand 1m your two week’s notice.” ! She swallowed hard! “We could have a servant, Dave. I wouldn't have to give up my job.” His face clouded. “We've gone over that.” There was an uncomfortable pause. “It’s not like being married. It's ” Boe oo > ‘Whitey clasped his hand with des- perate sympathy. “Darling, we'll work it out.” Then she offered her lips to him and their kiss- was long and fer- vent . . « The next afternoon Van's car was gliding smoothly through the gateway of the Underwood estate and into the beautifully landscaped grounds. ‘Whitey snapped down the cover of her dictation notebook and as Van hopped out of the car she held up two fingers, crossed for luck. “Wiatch him in the clinches.” He returned the gesture grimly. “Anything goes.” Underwood, a large vital man of seventy, boomed a hearty greeting to Van and clapped him on the shoulder. Then he said, with unexpected di- rectness, “Van, no beating about the bush. What are you trying to put over on me?” Guilelessly, Van explained that he was thinking of reducing “Mayfair” to fifteen cents. Underwood was silent, then expostulatory. Advertisers could never reach both classes with a fif- teen cent magazine. And, to Van's de- lighted amazement, Underwood im- mediately launched into a proposal . . . the very proposal that Van had been First National Bank PUBLIC SQUARE WILKES-BARRE, PA. $ 2,250,000 $12,412,000 United States Depository Capital—Surplus Resources OFFICERS: Wm. H. Conyngham ..... President Francis Douglas .... Ex. Vice-Pres. Chas. F. Huber ..... 1st Vice-Pres. M. G. Shennan Vice-Pres. & Cashier DIRECTORS: Chas. N. Loveland Fred O. Smith William 8. McLean, Jr. Wm, H. Conyngham Richard Sharpe C. F. Huber Francis Dougias T. R. Hillard Bdward Griffity Win. W. Inglis 23% Per Cent Interest On Safe Deposit Boxes For Remi about to proffer, J. D. now informed Van that he would sell him National Weekly and Van could thereby merge the cheaper publication with his own: magazine, selling advertising ° under one enticing contract. i As Van stepped back into his wait- ing car, he burst into uncontrollable laughter. “He tried to talk me into it,” he gasped to Whitey. “Believes it’s his idea now. He fell like a ton of bricks.” 3 ‘When he had reached the door of his house, he directed. Finney, his chauffeur, to drive Whitey home. “And Whitey . . .” he leaned into the ton- neau of the car “. .. if even the faint- est rumor of this gets out . . . I can’t even tell Linda . . .” She nodded vehemently. “You can trust mel.” The car moved off. THE DALLAS for the evening, were seated on the the arm of Linda’s chair. Before dinner act of being hoisted. 3 Tak Exclaiming over Linda's delicious liver-paste crackers, Anne greedily [looked around for more. Van sprang up and went for the tray at the far end of the room. : “You know,” Ted said earnestly to ‘Linda, “Van looks a little fagged out. Now I've found out that to keep in trim you have to spend some time at it. I was at the club swimming in the pool all afternoon and I tell you I feel like a new man, You ought to get Van to do that. T haven't seen him at the club in months.” Linda heard the short pause scream- ing at her. — Van now moved into earshot with the platter. Linda rose. “I'll get Molly N Linda was waiting for Van at the ‘Her spine rigid, she walked toward the head of the stairs. “I called you at the | [the cook, office,” she said with pretended stern- ness, “and left a message to be called | back, and why didn’t you ” “Didn’t go back to the office,” he ex- plained glibly. “I was at. the Club all afternoon in the swimming pool. What did you want?” Linda, pouted provocatively. “Noth- ing. Too late. The mood’s gone.” Masterfully, Van grasped her shoul- der. “It’s gone, eh?’ He eyed her as if she were some rare tidbit. “It is, eh?” It is?” Then, swooping down on her, he found her lips and pressed them into flame. Ted and Anne Barker, Linda's guests kitchen. “Molly,” she said calmly to “would you fill a little jar with chicken liver for Mrs. Barker. And also write down the recipe?” Her head ached wretchedly. Molly was flattered, but alas, she had no little jar. Linda summoned Finney, “I'd like you to run a little errand. You've had dinner, haven't you?” “No, ma'am. I took Miss Wilson home after I brought Mr. Sanford.” “I See.” Woodenly, Linda explained ithe errand, then returned to the liv- ing room, her heart shattered to bits, but her face masked in the smile of the perfect hostess . . . POST, DALLAS, PA., i “I’m the best, aren’t I, Van?” the arm of Linda’s chair. efore dinner [ {cocktails were inthe to make you up a jar of liver, Anne.” | Na 7 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1936. The Sanford Publication Welfare Club was holding its annual -skating ball at the Manhattan Ice Palace. En- veloped in a huge fur coat, Linda sat at the edge of the rink. Van was ad- justing his skates. : . “You shouldn’t be here with your cold, Linda,” he said solicitously. “I'm all bundled up.” her voice Ww edged with irritation. i Surprised, Van, looked at her close- ly, then good-humoredly attributed it to the discomforts of her cold. Whitey crashed into the railing in front of them. “May I borrow your husband, Mrs. Sanford, if you're not skating?” y Linda. smiled evenly. “You're quite welcome.” : Two pairs of eyes, Dave's and Lin- da’s, fixed themselves grimly on the ltallyho as it sped down the rink, the spotlight revealing the close familiar- ity of Van and Whitey, with the for- mer’'s arm clasped around the girl's lithe body. Linda turned as a girl plopped down beside her. “You're lucky to get out of skating. Been with Sanford long?” Involuntarily, Linda smiled. “Oh . «+. Three years.” Really Say! there’s Sanford now. The good looking one. And see that girl with him?” Linda stiffened. “Yes?” The girls smirked. “That's his . secretary if you know what I mean.” ‘She fell back suddenly at the strange blaze in Linda’s eyes. Backing away hurriedly, she skated off. The skating ball was beginning to break up. ‘We ought to come here more often,” Whitey said to Dave, her cheeks aglow. “Next year I'd like to surprise them and do figure skating.” She tugged at her glove absently. “Your’e ring’s in the way.” Dave directed a deadly cold stare at her. “I guess it is.” Her face drained itself of color. It was stark and white. “I guess you're right,” she said tonelessly. Dropping the ring into his palm, ' she spun around and left . , . “Sorry I kept you waiting, Darling,” Van said as he entered the car where Linda was already waiting. She murmured something and ‘was silent. Then to his perturbed amaze- ment she began to talk to him in a low monotone. Why not let Whitey go . not fire her, of course, but find another position for her in his com- pany . . . At his mute question, she proceeded to tell him of the young woman who had sat next to her at the rink. ; Angrily, Van turned to her. “Linda, I certainly won't let Whitey go be- cause someone thinks something smutty of our association. Any one would think you were jealous . . .” The car drew up before the house. Stepping out, Linda disdained Van's proffered hand and swept past him, her face hard and set. Stunned, he looked after her. Then * (figures to Van, PAGE SEVEN he glared. “Take me to ‘the club,” he rasped to Finney and re-entered the car. He was morosely sitting in on a poker game when Linda’s telephone call came. ye . “Van,” she sobbed, “Come home.” | “D-darling,” he blubbered, “I'll be [right there.” & | And with Linda once again in his arms, everything seemed to right it- ; self. Whitey was remote and forgot- ten as their lips met in a kiss of love and forgiveness. Two weeks later Whitey brought her complete report on National Weekly's “Do you think the directors will let you buy it?” Whitey asked. “Oh, sure, Underwood's the catch. How much will he: want?” The telephone rang. Harrington, Van's representative at the Publisher's Convention in Havana, was ill. Van came to a rapid decision. He would represent his firm at the convention, himself, especially as Underwood was there. Y | His plane was well on its way to Havana \when Whitey made her un- pleasant discovery. Interviewing a Mr. Jenkins for a job as bookkeeper she was informed that he had been work- ing for Hanson House, a rival publish. ing firm, on a report of American Weekly. Then they, too, must be planning to buy, she told herself ap- prehensively. . Not until evening was she able to reach Van on the telephone in Havana. Swiftly, she reported Jenkin’'s disclo- sures. 3 A “Wrhitey,” Van’s voice had set pur- pose in it, “you don’t mind flying, do you?” QA The telephone almost fell from her hand. “Oh-h no,” she quavered. Then listen. Get all those papers out of the safe and take the first plane down here. Underwoodis here, not in New York. Hurry it up, toots’* Linda and Van have managed to patch up their quarrel. But now this new complication arises. Does Van intend to confine himself strictly to business on Whitey’s arrival? Be sure to read next week’s concluding, thrilling in- stallment. hs 3 , EG Tha These firms are vitally interested in the welfare of Dallas and A A vicinity. We recommend them in the hope that your patronage and HANDY their services will result in greater growth of this thriving com- QUICK GUIDE munity. HELP READY BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF FIRMS WHO ARE ANXIOUS TO HAVE YOUR BUSINESS — AND WHO DESERVE IT. 4 | the change. ] ditions and TINTS. 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