Show M or or L B E y QUARE balth co LIDA LJ A LARRIMORE 21 1 jlyo V AV JJ WOT SYNOPSIS to the th household of doctor ballard in mulberry square youthful dr hugh kennedy comes as an assistant janis is I 1 the nineteen year cearold old daughter of D doctor tor ballard tier her older ulster sister celia ft petted beauty to 1 away fram efm home hugh regards janle janie as is a small chum but she hasa has a tar far deeper feeling for or him cella celia returning home accepts accept hughs open admiration as her duo due just juat ono one more in her train of 0 admirers tom mcallister Is another and carter shelby salby Is a third following a visit by shelby cella celia it in visibly depressed hurh hugh and cella celia unexpectedly announce their engagement janle janie heartbroken returns to college she to is summoned home when her father Is in seriously hurt in an sill auto to accident hugh blames himself feeling sible ible tor for allowing the elderly physician to drive at night his eyesight not fitting him for the task kennedy had boon been at P theater with cella celia she insisting on his going doctor ballards spine Is injured so BO that he may never be able to walk again there to Is hope in an operation for which he roust must bo be taken to now new york cella celia meets meet carter shelby again the doctor to Is taken to new york mrs birs ballard going with him the operation Is unsuccessful and hugh announces his determination to stay as long as the physician needs him even though that means the th postponement of his wedding with cella celia she resents this and out of patience at what she considers siders hughs and confident she has only to appeal to carter shelby to find a warm welcome goes foes to washington to see him there she learns from him that he Is enraged to celias wealthy cousin muriel CHAPTER V continued 11 cella celia lay in ID Nur fels bed and gave herself over to tears it was a beautiful bed and a beautiful room she saw herself reflected in a paneled mirror a lovely languishing celia drooping like a broken RIX against the sheer lacy pillows she wished that carter shelby might see her maggie came into the room preceded by a decorous knock maggie once had bad been muriels nurse and was now aunt lucys bucys housekeeper she brought a sliver silver pot on a tray a cup as fragile us as a painted egg shell a plate of sweetened ened crackers So methin hot will make you sleep MISS cella celia I 1 had hobson wire miss hiss janie she poured thick creamy chocolate into tue the fragile cup ashes probably been worried Ma haggles Mag gies ggles expression pres slon was not unmoved with disapproval she had bad known cella since she ehe was a baby she considered her for all that she looked like ao an angel a selfish designing minx been so unhappy celia lifted misty eyes ive been simply wretched eda she sipped the chocolate as though it were a beaker of hemlock will you let me stay for a few days maggie I 1 just want to lie he here and rest 1 I dont know as be very comfortable for table maggie haggle answered guardedly miss lucy Is havin the whole house done over for the 11 the wedding cella celia considered she must pretend that she know the wedding she asked with a pretty start of surprise 11 1 I guess theres no harm in my tellin you now maggie f folded tier her hands bands against her starched white apron miss muriel Is coln to marry that young shelby really keally cella set the cup in the saucer she was afraid that she might spill a telltale tell tale drop on the soft satin quilt mister frank too well pleased at first maggle maggie discussed family freedom treo doin permissible in an old and valued servant but this oils shelby has a way with him for all hes as poor as jobs turkey poor this time cellas celias start of surprise was not affected 1 I thought the she faltered aunt rose itose said that his family was prominent in charleston society blebby so maggie admitted as poor as church mice just the same miss muriel visited them a few weeks ago she told me about the grand old house simply fallin it to pieces ills his mother lives there and two aunts and an old uncle miss muriel says starve before sell an inch of the ground or one of 0 the silver spoons false pride I 1 call W it As poor as church micel mice falling to pieces starve before the phrases were jumbling together in cellas celias mind this was a picture of carter which she had never seen before cella celia thought over what maggie had told her long after maggie was gone carter was as poor as jobs turkey it was uncle franks money the money that muriel would have cellas confidence returned her belief in the power of her own beauty slie she saw carter now as a noble young man who had bad loved her too ouch much to ask her to share his poverty poor carter terl 1 poor muriel I 1 she must never let muriel martel know that her own lovely image was forever enshrined in carters heart she felt that after all perhaps everything had bad happened for the best no one must know that sue she had teen carter tonight she bear it it anyone should know she thought of hugh perhaps they had bad better be married at once before muriels wedding which would certainly put to shame anything that could be managed to in mulberry square hugh insist on living in the old brick house ile he would build her a home at the far end of manor street she saw it in fancy a small perfect house set like a jewel in graded lawns hugh tf if he persisted in being stubborn could help father just as well she would give small perfect dinners in her small perfect house hugh was as a dear gentle reliable nice looking tie he adored her she worked up a feeling of tenderness for augh lying there in Murl muriels els tied bed with the scented spring air blow ing in through the open windows site she was glad that she left a mes sage she pictured him frantic at her sudden departure pacing the floor with that anxious expression in ills his eyes she thought sae would call him on the phone acting at once on this im pulse she pulled the lamp cord and reached for the enameled telephone by the bed it was mrs quillen who answered the call no mistaking that hearty blutt bluff voice cella was it they had received a telegram no doctor kennedy there nor janie either gone out together just after office hours to nister mister charlie ballards shed sent johnny there with the telegram but she had opened it first they had gone to uncle charlie celia clicked the re celer into its book they distracted about her they were probably playing cards with w till that dreadful old man and drinking ginger beer and having a very nice time janle janie liked such peculiar people so indeed did hugh cella celia pulled the lamp cord and lay in the dark thinking of many things janle janie and hught I 1 did hugh like janie in other than just a teasing brotherly way the thought was absurd janie was a child she did tag around after hugh it was really noticeable it ti ceable ceabie the way the child waited tor for him and ran when he whistled shed done that with father though it was just janies way cella dismissed the thought from her mind before she went eat to sleep how ever she reached a certain decision she would not stay here tor for a few days however pleasant it might be to be lazy and luxurious lut urious she have left janle janie alone tomorrow on an early train she would return to mulberry square CHAPTER VI great uncle charlie sat in what in the days of great aunt rose bad been the drawing room of the corner house in the square surrounded by the souvenirs of 0 a gay and jovial life great aunt rose after the death of her husband had for a time shared the house with him when the shadows of the mill stacks had fallen across the square she had tied fled to a suite in the old dauphin hotel where she it over bereft ladles of aristocratic ancestry who lived in single rooms great uncle charlie had bad borne her deflection with admirable courage on the evening after the last of her band boxes her sacred jim cracks and victorian Vict orlan relies relics had been transferred to the hotel lie he had opened a bottle propped his feet on a love seat upholstered in old rose damask and indulged himself in the singing of various forbidden ditties highly spiced and extremely gratifying there BBS as little of the genteel atmosphere mo sphere which great aunt rose itose had maintained left in the long narrow room with its marble grate its mirrors wreathed in cupids cupida its floor length windows shuttered with venetian blinds curios of a frivolous nature from eiery part of the world crowded each other tor for space there were photographs of ladles ladies to in bustles bustled and an ladles ladies in tights and ladles in feat feather her plu plumed aliel hats mementos of the alie days dava when great uncle charlie dapper and gallant had bad flitted flirted from hower flower to loner old jell jeff himself was a souvenir of a month of revelry in havana when great uncle charlie was twenty two tivo and slim as a rapier blade jeff had been won on the turn of a card from a dashing young spanish grandee great uncle charlie had been in his time a gentlemen of parts As he sat conf tonight ht in an essy easy chair beneath a sputtering gas lamp great uncle charlie was not thinking of youthful revels or of the lovely ladles he once had known though the un easy magic of spring came in with the fragrance of lilacs through the windows which jelt jeff had opened ills plump old hands held a letter which be had received a week ago and had reread many times it was a letter from his nephew john and contained important news rock hall flail sanitarium april 27 dear uncle charlie in a week or so there la Is to be another operation Ue uller the german surgeon Is coming to visit the chief surgeon here they were classmates in berlin and I 1 am to reap the benefit of their friendship mueller knows more about paralysis caused by spine disorders than any man alive we have some little confidence that tho operation will be successful the girls are not cot to know it might only raise false hopes I 1 dont ant them to be disappointed again we shall say nothing of the matter to rhoda or lucy or aunt rose hose I 1 knew you would be interested and which Is more important that you wont talk about it helen sends her love great uncle charlie smiled at that ue he thought it extremely unlikely that helen had sent her love ile he passed on to a consideration of what would happen it if the operation should be a success uncle charlie had kept closely in touch with the progress of events event 3 in the old brick house ile he knew very well that tits his pretty grandniece grand niece did not look forward with nith pleasure to the prospect of living in mulberry square nc ile liked hugh though he thought the boy was taking the matter too seriously uncle charlie had never heard beard all the story but he suspected that celia had somehow been to blame ile he knew too that janle janie loved hugh kith all the intensity of her honest little heart lie ile was the only member ot of the family apparently who realized that some time during this past year janie had grown up but then with the exception of her father no one ever thought very much about janle janie celia was the important one it had bad been that way ever since they were children great creat uncle charlie was fond of janie ile he had never believed in the celia myths lie he had through ahe the bears I 1 ears watched cella celia take things front from janle janie in her own sweet fashion lie ile was ot of the opinion that celia had taken enough if celia thought there was a chance of her father recovering entirely she would hold on to hugh it if she thought that there she might try to get out of it somehow and in the trying she might go a step too far the boy was in love bilth her but lie he a tool fool so reasoned uncle charlie doctor ballard need not have stressed the matter of secrecy uncle charlie would not have given celia that information for anything in the world ue he chuckled softly folded the letter slipped it into a wallet which held 01 I 1 great uncle charlie smiled at that very little of anything elbe ehe ills face when jelt jeff entered the room a few ew moments later w u as wreathed in a waggish smile jelt jeff he be asked do I 1 look like mister dan cupid to you your jeffs monkey face expressed corn cona bewilderment lak Ill stall dan who ho sun suh 5 he asked neer keier mind neer mind the old man laughed all over 1 I dont sup pose aou ajoue ne ever met film used to be a friend of mine ills blue eyes twinkled at the ladles ladies in bustles bustled and the ladles ladies in tights and the ladles ladies in feather plumed hats there are friends you lose as your chins increase old dan Is that sort of a chap all ah well a dayl day I 1 lie ile drew a lugubrious sigh get out the cards and the table well do our best to forget that means of forgetting was for the moment denied them the front door suddenly opened and janie projected herself into the alie room with the speed of a whizzing rocket hugh followed close at her heels uncle charlie I 1 janie cried cella celan come homel home celia ehr ehl the old man pricked up his ears she said she was wag going in town but I 1 think she would stay this long she come on the because stoney went to the station I 1 dont know what to do janie talked in breathless gasps hugh said nothing at all lie he stood in the open doorway a question in hla his eyes 1 I cant imagine happened jante janie continued nave have you seen cella celia at all today greit uncle charlie considered yes he be said slowly 1 I saw her at the station I 1 was talking to ben winters did she tell you where she wn was going janies fingers were twisting together she bought a ticket into town great uncle charlie said hugh said nothing at all might she have gone somewhere from therel there janies chin quivered celia Is so pretty somebody might have she could not finish the sentence uncle charlie reached for her hand drew her to the arm 0 of his chair there was an address lie ile paused fumbled through his pockets drew out a torn oft off envelope flap janle janie gave a cry and then was very still uncle charlie read the initials ile he read the washington address who Is it he asked janie did not answer she looked at hugh uncle charlie looked at them both and drew his own conclusions A mischievous ch levous sparkle danced in sits bright blue eyes ills voice however was almost judicially grave who is it janle he asked again it its carter shelby I 1 think imam I 1 see great uncle charlie saw a great deal shelby eh the chap celia cclia met at the shore well well well each well was an accusation janie felt that and so she thought did hugh put but cella celia she faltered celia slie she knew in her heart that cella celia would she know knew that celia would do anything to escape from the square she wanted to say it she somehow hugh standing there in the doorway was looking at her so strangely an uncomfortable silence filled the room presently it was broken by the apologetic jingle of the old fashioned front door bell jeff went to investigate ate lie ile returned with a telegram fo miss janle janie be announced alz 1 quillen done open it already johnny say hits turn furn miss cella janies fingers trembled as she drew out the yellow sheet she read the message and an expression of relief flashed into her eyes celia Is at aunt lucys bucys she said maggie sent this queer she added as though she were thinking aloud queer great uncle charlie asked its queer that celia would go to washington just to see maggle maggie she must have known that aunt lucy and muriel were in ashville muriel sent me 2 she paused abruptly A pink flush stained her cheeks she look up at hugh ilu h she watched her fingers pl eating the sheet of 0 yellow paper ashes safe enough anyway uncle charlie said comfortably and now that youre here we might 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