Show Married Women Have Thrills A HA married woman alwa always s 's has nore thrilling experiences than I 0 a a. single girl does docs Vera Vcra told Margie and so persuaded Margie to I wear her wedding ring when Margie took her vacation in California o S I 0 And when a strange man grabbed her and kissed her pre pvc o I tending she was his bride Margie began to believe Veras Vera's state state- 0 I 0 ment meat I II I Where WAS VAS his bride and why did he apologize so coldly of- of I ferin fering no explanation Questions crowded Margies Margie's mind mind but but underlying un un- denying all aU she knew that she had liked being kissed and amI that tha o I even though he belonged to another she had found her one 4 man I CHAPTER ONE Wheres the bride You wouldn't fool us would you Those Detroit girls must be fast workers Yeah He was a a. bachelor in Chicago for three years ears and after three months in Detroit he comes through a bridegroom I IThe The lady is shy I Margie Garver heard only part of the chorus of remarks which pr prefaced faced he her accidental al appearance on the rear platform of the fastest train irom to San Fran Fran- cosco Ah here she is Kiss the bride old fella A shower of rice and confetti struck Margie as she stepped out beside the confused young man who had been the lone object of all the cheering Before she could grasp the significance significance significance cance of the celebration the girl felt herself swept into strong arms crushed relentlessly in the embrace of ot a man she had never seen before while determined lips pressed a fiercely savage kiss upon the dered mouth that was was- about to cry out in protest Another burst of cheers and a shower of ot rice Ga Gay calls A CHILDISH TANTRUM Stop in Chicago on your wa way back to Detroit Dennis Let the gang at the Chicago office describe your our hectic past past to to the the bride Happy days The mysterious bridegroom had no time to lo reply to the thc mob of or well vell wishers whose last remarks were j. j I hoarse calls after the swiftly moving limited train As Margie drew back in confused astonishment her indignant gaze met eyes as stormily blue as her own She saw winning Irish features which should have been twinkling with mirth like a threatening threaten threaten- ing volcano Her own wrath was nothing but a childish tantrum compared compared com corn pared to his I owe you an arm apology and more I i ithan than that a vote of thanks he said stiffly His voice was as perfunctory ns as though it had been she who had conferred the kiss on an ing stranger UNEXPLAINED His eyes clouded as if it from Intense intense intense in in- tense nervous strain took in the lovely cors corsage ge pinned upon Margies Margie's smartly tailored costume the diamond diamond dia din mond encrusted wedding ring on her un gloved hand It was thoughtful of you OU to be bc all decked out for an appearance nt at that particular moment he added But I am extremely sorry to have been Continued on PUt Pate Six i T 1 A Continued rom Prom Pate Pace One forced to such desperate measures And with that the amazing bride greem turned upon his heal and wen went through the screen door toward one of the de compartments at the front of or the observation carWell carWell carWell car Well of all things gasped Maric Mar Mar- gie ic to the swiftly retreating Chicago landscape The insolence of ot the man The sheer amazing effrontery To kiss a girl he had never seen before anc and then offer an apology apolos which was In Inno Inno inno no way an explanation ALL QUESTIONS Where was his bride anyway Why hadn't he had her out there on the rear platform to show off to his friends when they went through Chicago Chi CM cago Why hadn't he introduced his bride to all aU that mob while white their lu lug luggage gage was was' being transferred from one train to another at Chicago She might have bee bec ill of course But Butin Butin Butin in that case couldn't he have explained explained ex to his friends Why force lorce her into the role of his bride How would he be explain when his Chicago friends saw raw his real bride With a surreptitious glance back at the few lew people who had filtered into the observation car Margie cau can touched her lips with a hand hand- kerchief There had been no warmth in that kiss Nothing but a sort of passionate determination which left lefther lefther lefther her weak and submissive A NICE N NAME A IE She should have felt insulted humiliated humiliated humiliated hu hu- hu- hu furious Instead after the first shock she found herself herscU not so angry as she he was consumed with curiosity This bride whom she resented unreasonably unreasonably un un- reasonably was also a Detroit girl Those remarks of the hurrah boys had told her that Suppose it was someone she knew Someone who vho had married in haste and was now so tearfully regretful that her husband husband husband hus hus- band couldn't show her reddened eyes to the friends friend he had wired ahead to greet them when the they changed trains in Chicago But who could regret marrying Dennis That was what those men had called him him him- Dennis a a nice name Margie de de- de- de LURE LUKE OF THE RING Really a much nicer name than Vie Vic certainly Vie Vic although was sweet Thoughtful of him to wire the flowers to her train at Chicago so they would be a fresh reminder of or him all during what should have been a monotonous day on the thu train But was it going to be a bore She had thought to while away a half hat hour on the observation seeing what Chicago looked like as the limited pulled out And she had wandered out upon a mysterious less bride bridegroom and been pressed into service as a 3 bride Vies Vie's corsage and Veras Vera's wedding ring had been re re- Certainly Veras Vera's Idea of lending her the wedding ring as a lure to adventure had succeeded beyond beyond be be- yond jond their wildest fancies Vera Blakely who shared an apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment with Margie and another girl was the disillusioned divorced wife of a philandering husband She had offered Margie her wedding ring br the two weeks weeks' vacation trip with words of ot hardly won wisdom JUST POSING G So many more things happen to a married marrie woman Vera had insisted Men arent aren't so afraid to be attentive to a girl who actually belongs to another another an an- other man Honestly Margie I never had a 3 really thrilling adventure until I married Rich Blakely Margie had bad accepted both ring and advice with reservations She would try posing as a married woman for a aday aday aday day or so and see ee what happened It couldn't be much more thrilling than life me had always been for Margie Even without a wedding ring that cute little Garver Carver girl had not lacked masculine attention Margie is going to be a mans man's girl h her r pretty young stepmother had admitted admitted ad ad- to Margies Margie's father Well never have to worry about her PAST HISTORY As a matter of ot fact they had never worried about either of or the children After Roger Garvers Garver's marriage to the thc wealthy Ponte Pointe widow his two children had been left leet largely to the care caro of teachers and servants Margie who was fifteen at the time had resented the marriage with adolescent ado ado- fervor Her eighteen year car old brother Wallace had been more philosophical But afterward they discovered it had given them their freedom Roger Garver had been a conscientious lious widower for two years Upon remarrying he became as completely absorbed in his beautiful wife wilc as he had previously been in his children lIe He seemed almost overwhelmed by her friends and her possessions LOST ONE LOST ONE FAT FATHER Em When he went to live in the large old Grosse Pointe mansion built by Edith's first husband his children lost him Although kind and affectionate when he saw them he completely forgot them for months at a time They were sent to boarding schools and camps which Edith selected returning returning returning re re- re- re turning at holiday seasons feeling as asIf asif asif if they belonged nowhere They called their step-mother step Edith She spoke of them lightly as Rogers children and treated them amiably so lon long as they did not interfere with her in any way INDEPENDENCE Back in her own section Margie l applied fresh rouge to the lips that had been so unexpectedly kissed and wondered what brother Wallace would have said about Margies Margie's wearing wearing wear wear- ing a wedding v.-edding ring to find excitement vacation on her two weeks weeks' But she was independent of Vallace's Wallaces Wallace's Wallaces Wal V laces lace's advice now as they had both grown of their fathers father's lon long before he ie had died and left them just slightly slight slight- ly more orphaned than they had been after his marriage Margie insisted upon entering business business busi busi- ness as soon as she finished school and had chosen interior decorating as asher her profession She wa was supporting herself fairly well at furnishing hotels ho- ho and apartment houses for the Colton Construction company compan when her father lather died two years cars ago leaving leav- leav Ing ng his modest estate to his children Surely his wife had no need for it Margie had wisely left the money in trust permitting herself only two luxuries a brand new sports model car and a trip to California A REAL HONEY ONEY Her vacation was for only two weeks but she intended to cram it full of excitement Certainly Certain thought Margie delightedly the journey was having laving an auspicious start The corsage corsage cor cor- sage of ol orchids and lilies of or the valley valley valley val val- ley delivered at the train in Cl Chicago Chi cago was from Vic Vie Wilson the most devoted of her Detroit admirers The five pound box of candy on the seat b beside side her was from Maurice Stone local ocal manager of the Colton company for or which Margie worked Maur Maury had lad been a friend of her father Had lad indeed obtained the position for herBut her But Margie had held it for herself with a dogged persistence which did not match her otherwise frivolous personality Men were always surprised when they the business ability back of her gay femininity They were apt to think lik like the eager eyed chap across the aisle just a aloney honey loney THRILLING SMILES Margie looked up to meet that admiring admiring ad ad- miring glance and smiled herself unconsciously She often smiled at people without realizing it It was a smile composed largely of delight ina in ina a world which Margie found thrilling and fascinating but her fellow traveler traveler trav tray eler naturally appropriated it unto himself He did not know that Margie Mar Mar- gie had smiled in the same dazzling fashion at the colored porter and dainty Chinese maid maidS She was too absorbed in her own thoughts to notice his repeated attempts at at- tempts to gain her attention She was thinking how wise she had been to take this extra fare train Jean Carpenter who shared the apartment with Margie and Vera had left leU for California a couple of weeks earlier But Jean was with a 3 tourist party going through the Canadian Jean would laugh at discomforts Margie loathed Her artistic soul revelled in the luxurious appointments ts o of this this f famous ous tr train n. n She gazed from the window upon tao me grain laden fields and pastoral scenes of or Illinois and was glad she had chosen chosen cho cho- sen to travel do de If she hadn't she would have missed the adventure on the observation platform LOST STRANGER I Where had he gone This stran- stran stranger stranger ger who had been EO ro indifferent with his lis apology She decided to return to the he observation car and see if she could see him Margie powdered the tip Up of a straight line nose tucked her smart blue pocketbook under her arm mn and tripped past the man across the aisle without so much as a glance But she was not surprised to find that he had followed her and was chivalrously chivalrous chIvalrous- I ly opening the heavy doors She was on a still hunt for the brute who had kissed her for dark purposes of his own which he had not bothered to explain but she smiled sweetly on this other chap too and when he seated himself beside her in inthe inthe inthe the observation it would have seemed rude to ignore his attempt at comer conver sa tion Arc Are you going far lar So San Francisco admitted Margie looking about but seeing no glimpse of the mysterious bridegroom bridegroom bridegroom bride bride- groom who had recently entered her life e. e Explanations The eager cager eyes of ot her companion tell fell admiringly upon Veras Vera's diamond encrusted ring Married I see sec he commented with a smile Margie found round rather en en- After all she was out for tor ture lure On a long trip like this people are accustomed to converse with fellow Id- Id low lov travelers Her neighbor was well veIl groomed and good looking but older than herself about thirty Margie decided to give him the story she and Vera had gleefully concocted as an explanation of ot the wedding ring Ive only been married three months she confided My husband husband hus hus- band bana is w waiting for men in San Fran Francisco Francisco cisco I see ee Just a bride then Yes she dimpled just Ujust a bride My husband is an aviator and was called to the west vest coast roast very sudden sudden- I l ly I wasn't ready to leave so I am following on the train My name is Dyer Bob Dyer the theother theother theother other confided Im on In my way to Cheyenne Business trip Im I'm with the Bushnell Tire company compan Margie had never heard of ot it but she smiled kindly The conversation conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion had however progressed far enough She selected a magazine and began to read Bein Being Ignored Some time later on her way to the diner a stateroom door opened in front of ot her and the mysterious bridegroom bridegroom bridegroom bride bride- groom appeared Although he was forced to stand aside in the narrow corridor so that she might pass he ignored her as completely as if it he he had never seen her before The callous indifference annoyed Margie She went on her way seething seething seeth seeth- ing trig with resentment and a which was going to have to be satis satis- fled fied What he atone alone l If so why Ina in ina a room dc do suite And where WAS the bride If H he had been kidding his friends why was he so haughtily aloof As if it she had been the one oneto oneto oneto to offer ofer that kiss in the Chicago sta sta- tion Completely Baffled Margie was baffled At luncheon she was seated at a table with two other women Mrs Peyton and her year old ld daughter were the most unusual pair Margie had ever seen Mary Peyton addressed her mother as Mama dear dearin in the accents of sixteen It was plain to see that Mama dear would be dictating to Mary Peyton until death itself itsel stopped her tongue Shall we have oxtail soup or consomme consomme consomme con con- somme Mrs Peyton demanded glaring at the menu Just as you like Mama Mania dear Mary quavered nervously Oxtail soup then ihen commanded the regal looking mother glancing sternly across at Margie who was sure Mary detested oxtail soup and would have preferred consomme Nevertheless Mary ordered two luncheons which were precisely alike This done she folded her plump hands In her lap and waited eyeing Margie wistful wistfully Envying Eming me thought Margie because 1 I can travel alone and cat what I please Any Diversion She was amused when with no preliminary conversation Mrs Peyton Peyton Peyton Pey Pey- ton demanded Do you play pla- bridge Auction yes admitted Margie No one on this train seems to play contract complained the older wo wo- man Well see sec if it we cant can't get up a game after ater luncheon Margie rose Have you rou found a fourth No one else seems to want to pla |