| Show Is- Is 1 I iv 11 i 1 aa W a tv l ANNE GAC Nt W d f Y vi WHAT T lIAS HAS GONE GONE BEFORE BEFORE K Nan Hardy brilliant young oung newspaper news news- r marries Jocko Jacko Weltman Welt Welt- Weltman r paper woman i man In the midst of ot an unhappy love lov w 4 affair with another man man After th the marriage she finds that she loves Ii her husband and tl they ey are e very ha happy happy hap hap- py until trouble begins to develop because be- be be because rt cause she makes more money than sI lie and he is sensitive At last Na Nan i gives up her job to ta aU allow ow Jocko Jacko hJ his chance and throws herself hersel with zest Into being a perfect housewife Bushe But Bu she he finds that sh Is growing dull The other women in the apartment her Intimates now bore her She Sh feels that Jocko Is losing interest in her and rind be begins ins to ro be s suspicious o oIva of ot his secretary Iva I Clarkson 1 CHAPTER PTER 30 Jealousy Reigns Once Once Nans Nan's mind had seized upon r the idea that there might be something something something some some- thing between Jocko Jacko and Iva It could not let go It was more a creation o oNan's oNans of Nans Nan's nerves than of her conscious i I volition Volition tier her nerves which hAd be- be ed her before f C r 1 N Nan was too proud t to spy or tolay to lay traps But those nerves of ot hers stretched out delicate tentacles groping about In the air like the tentacles tentacles ten ten- of a Jellyfish and dra drawing things In Looks gestures mostly for the conversa con con- versa between Jocko Jacko and Iva u was vas as all business But last evening when f Iva dropped In for a n. minute hadn't 6 that been an extraordinary look of Joy that had flashed across Jocko's Jacko's face lace r- r While White they were talking his eyes t had been fixed upon Ivas Iva's plain face faceIn In a a. sort rort of dream Come to ta think of ot It was Iva quite quit to to plain as Nan had thou thought ht Hadn't she been taking more pains with her clothes lately That was a really reany t atti attractive active Uve suit stilt she had had on last night and the hat was the first Nan had seen on her that v. v was s becoming Her dark face did have a certain animation when she was interested In fn something Her e eyes es were lovely ct nt times Nan examining her all aU allover allover over critically in the light ht of her new Suspicions felt she had definitely underrated underrated underrated un un- un- un her charm ABSTRACTION I And when Jocko took Iva t to the thebus theniS bus niS he had been gone an m unexplainably unc ably long time He had attempted to toe e explain plain It by saying that he had gone In search of his favorite pipe tobacco and found It at the third store he tried Nan had asked no questions She had been deeply absorbed In a book when Then he came back and had not so much as glanced at the clock His evident feeling that an explanation was needed was definitely damning Things like this little things were happening all the time Jocko did nothing now about which Nans Nan's nerves did not build a little episode with Iva Jocko began to have a sense of guilt without knowing why Nan wasso was wasso wasso so Infernally p polite she refrained so sa pointedly from questioning him about anything that he felt Impelled to be always explaining It was queer Jocko was abstracted anyway and often dull In his work and worry over overS S the magazine The first number was out and had won won encomiums from critics cri t s and public Now the real struggle was on to build up the ad- ad The editorial end must maintain the standard Jocko Jacko had set In the first Issue and at the same sam time he was called on for frequent consultations with the advertising manager and with Blair Conway I It tool took just about everything he had and left him pretty prett m much ch of a dry husk what little time he was a at home Nan knew all aU U tills this s In a way quite realizing It Even en granting al aU his burdens wasn't she entitled to something Before when he had loved her she her she said this aloud with morbid relish relish relish-he he had never been too busy for her Now she might slip sUp ou out of his life and never be missed HARRY COMES IES BACK But Iva Clarkson would be missed He said many times that he be couldn't couldn get along without Iva He hadn't hadn mentioned for a 0 long time that he couldn't get along without Nan Then one night the telephone rang and ind Nan answered it her voice at first lifeless then incredulous then joyous loyous jo ous Why Harry when did you get back Yesterday How did you ever find us Ah always the good newspaper newspaperman man Cant Can't you come out Jocko and I are here all aU alone praying for something nice to happen She turned excitedly to Jocko Harry Gordon Hes He's back in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York to stay for a while Jocko Jacko had a swift foreboding of disaster Was he to lose all aU the happiness happIness happiness hap hap- that he had been so long In winning Nan cleared the table quickly stacking tacking the dishes neatly in the kitchen making everything tidy Then she ran to accomplish a hurried t toilet There were so 50 many things she he should do manicure do-manicure manicure her nails bathe athe spend a l long ng time on her hair and nd makeup Instead there was time only to d dash h water over her face slip sUp into nto a dress change her stockings and shoes hoes dab at her cheeks and hair hah As she surveyed herself far from satisfied with the effect she suddenly realized how much she had changed Now fow her first instinct was to ta make her er house tidy A year pear six months ago go she wouldn't have thought of the house but would have concentrated on n her own appearance Little Harry Gordon would care she reflected d ruefully rue- rue fully ully whether the kitchen was clean cleanor or r not But he would most certainly take ake in every detail of Nan from her head ead t to her feet ADDED PLUMPNESS Still the face that looked out at ater ather ather her er from the mirror was lovelier than ever ver before The added plumpness was was ras becoming becoming and and any more would detract she determined and determined and there thereas was as another quality born of her love for or Jocko which ga gave ve a softness her herace face ace had lacked before She wondered wondered won- won dered whether Harry would think she he had improved or retrograded I When Harry arrived it was to ta a I meeting of old friends Nan had forgotten forgotten for- for gotten otten in her happiness with Jocko the le heartaches Harry had caused her Jocko ocko greeted him heartily Nan studied the two men with interest Harry had changed little mUe except for or lines of strain about his eyes ejes and mouth His manner might have been beena a little more suave and polished but these hese were qualities he had never lacked There was perhaps more of an n air of distinction about him It was Jocko who had changed gained in poise and assurance Nan even ven thought he looked bigger when he and Harry shook hands In some Indefinable way he overshadowed Harry TilE THE HE TWO MEN In that moment Nan was very proud roud of her husband One was conscious conscious con- con clous of his strength no now One didn't notice that his hair was rumpled rumpled rum- rum pled led that his clothes would have been better etter for tor a pressing pressing pressing- For Far a while Nan fan had made many improvements in n Jocko's sartorial effects he had hada hadway a a. way of taking the creases out of his clothes in one wearing Harry of course had much to tell teU He le had been all aU over oyer Europe and had hadad had ad exciting assignments in Russia and nd the Balkans Most of his talk was of international politics polIties a sub sub- In which Nan had never take talc any ny interest and Harry gradual directed most of his remarks t ocko Jocko who displayed a fund und of ot Information about bout wor happenings Harry had seen Jocko's Jacko's magazin and nd had many compliments for i iThe it 11 I The two men Indeed found man points joints of or contact and seemed to enjoy enoy en joy oy each other immensely Nan seeing see sec ing ng this didn't mind being Ignored a little ittle She was genuinely glad that her husband and the man whom she se had once thought she loved were going to like each other C Continued d. d I I WI Will Harrys Harry's return emphasize or or heal the rift bet between Jocko Jacko and Nan |
