| Show COPYRIGHT REGISTER G mJ CHAPTER ONE Margie Carver opened radiant radian dream filled dream eyes to see sec her pajama pajama- clad roommates dancing about he her bed thy th wedding or mor they chanted hilariously Margie sat up Joy rippled like a alash lash flash of ot sunshine across her happy face aceSo ace So it is she yawned As if she had forgotten n it one moment moment moment mo mo- ment of the time sleeping or waking since her engagement to Dennis Killan Hi Killian Kil- Kil Han llan two weeks before Excitement tingled like an electric curren current through every vein at the imaginary image of her lovers lover's face So darkly restless so eager eagerly alive so fascinating No one not even Dennis Dennis Den Den- nis himself kV k V how Margie largie adored him He was the one man she had wanted The only one she had ever loved The knowledge that in less Jess than 24 hours she would become his wife made her tremble with conflicting ng emotions Delight ecstasy gratitude and a girls girl's shy fear that she might not be everything Dennis expected HAPPINESS Lice Life seemed almost too wonderful During the brief period of or their engagement en often told herself hersel herself her her- Margie targie had self sel it was too good to be true She had loved Dennis so hopelessly with no Idea of at winning him The sudden sudden sud sud- den revelation that he returned her devotion had been like a lightning flash from tram Heaven blinding her to everything else Soon oh so vcr very soon now she would belong belon to him His alone to have and to hold forever and ever Until Death do us part part thought Margie solemnly Even the ga gay badinage of her companions could not penetrate the hushed reverence of her innermost heart as Margie pictured herself a bride When the telephone rang she leaped from bed crying Ill answer It will be for me me Her iter voice was l lilting JUng with happiness happy happi ness and she had been right It was Dennis asking Are Arc you awake dear Of course Ive been up for hours he admitted admitted admitted ad ad- ever since five Margie dimpled mischievously mischievous the thc matter with you sleep he confessed Probably your guilty conscience she accused severely Dennis laughed MARGIES MARGIE'S DAY How about yours ours Weren't you ou b bothered by any of the sins of your past I 1 haven't any Arent you lucky No uNo just good Margie retorted Mr Killian I understand this isto is isto isto to be bc your wedding day Supposed to be if the lady doesn't change her mind With pain snatching like a sudden relentless hand at her heart Margie remembered another wedding day had dawned for Dennis when the lad lady DID change her mind She hastened to shut out the unwelcome skeleton This day was hers Promise not to take any chances darling begged Margie Marsie Dont run in front of any trucks or ride in any taxicabs Why not you silly child Because if iC anything should happen happen hap hap- pen to you ou I positively couldn't stand it the bride to declared passion passion- I 1 shall endeavor to see that your future husband arrives safely he assured her MOODS Margie was smiling as she replaced the receiver on the hook He had hac sounded rather unnatural As if he were terribly nervous Poor lamb So far as that was concerned she was nervous herself herscH She would never feel really sure of him until the ceremony had been performed He was so impulsive So quick to veer from mood to mood She had seen him swing from the heights of gayety garet to depths of gloom even cven her tier ardent sympathy could not reach Vera Vcra and Jean departed for work leaving caving Margie to pack her suitcase for or the twentieth time They were not going away Business Business Busi Busl ness conditions were precarious and both had already taken their vacations vacations vaca- vaca ions for the year Margie suspected suspect suspect- ed that Dennis would not care to tolan plan lan a second honeymoon when the first had been such a failure He Hc had taken it alone without the bride rid riding ins in a room de suite all the he wa way to San Francisco ALL LL READY That was the only place Margie wanted to go and he had promised to o take her as soon as possible Next year ear perhaps But for the present both oth agreed it would be better for them hem to go directly to housekeeping housekeep housekeep- ing ng Margies Margie's trunks were packed An AnId Anold Anold old Id one which belonged to her father father fa- fa ther and the new one stamped MG MG M 1 G. G K Magic initials She blushed very every time she looked at them It would be such fun to go to the new apartment as 35 Dennis Killians Killian's wife Such fun to serve meals in the darling arling breakfast room with the pale green reen walls The Thc apartment was all ready to tobe tobe toc be c occupied Even the groceries had been seen ordered and carefully stacked away way on the yellow painted shelves Margie largie decided to drive out to Six SixMile stile Mile Road and give ghe it a final tion ion She would have plenty of time as s the ceremony was not until eight o'clock clock that night ROSE COLORED GLASSES Everything about her that day seemed painted in more marc vivid colors Everything seemed diffused with the therose rose colored rose colored radiance of her own good fortune Everyone in Detroit seemed to o know it was Margie Garvers Garver's wedding wedding weding wed- wed ding ding ing day The elevator boy smiled as he greeted greet greet- ed id her The girl at the desk handed her er a letter saying I wish you all allic the ic happiness in the world Miss Garver Carver Margie thanked her smiling sun sun- nil nily ily She noticed the letter was from Jack Carrol in New York But she had no time to read it She put it itin itin itin in her pocketbook jumped into her own blue roadster and hurried toward the apartment which tonight would become her home She hoped Dennis might have had hada a similar urge but there was no sil sign of his cream colored Pierce Margie Marie took the elevator to the sixth floor loor let herself in with a latch latchkey latchkey latchkey key and gazed about her ecstatically DE DENNIS NIS Dennis had rented it for Zinna Keating but it was Margies Margie's now Her own her very own Some tiny bit of her in every curtain every colorful colorful col col- cushion every smallest detaiL She walked about it with tears of delight in her eyes ees Little had she she- dreamed that bitter day when Zinna asked her to decorate i it it that she would be coming carnine to live in it herself hersel with Dennis Darling darling Dennis She would try so hard to erase the last lurking shadow of Zinna Zinn l from irom his dark unhappy face I Kneeling by the bed in the room which had been furnished for lor both bothof of ot them Margie prayed like a little gIrl Oh God please help me to make makelim him lim happy That she would be happy herself she never doubted Before she had risen from her knees nees the trunks had arrived Mari Mar Margie Marigie gie unpacked her clothes hung the closet full of ot her lovel lovely fragrant dresses arranged her shoes on painted paint paint- ed shoetrees on the rack and piled her hats stuffed with tissue paper on the shelf Then she had the janior janitor jani jani- tor or move the empty trunks to the basement store room PRAYERS If If anything happens now it will willbe willbe willbe be just too bad chuckled Margie But nothing happened At seven seven- thirty hirty she was standing before the mirror awed by her own reflection Although neither she nor Dennis wanted an elaborate wedding Margie Margic Margie Mar Mar- gie gic had insisted on being married in church hurch Her stepmother had urged her to wear a veil You can only wear it once Edith insisted So Margie had consented to orange blossoms and real lace which concealed con con- concealed her trembling white white- white gloved gloved loed hands lands and billowed behind her above a long lined chiffon train Her blue blueeyes blueeyes blueeyes eyes were as misty as stars Her mouth was a prayer I Edith Youre a perfect bride said aid approvingly I wish your faher father fa fa- ther her could see sec you ou Wallace who had come from his new home in Chicago for the wedding wed ding whispered Gee Sis youre you're almost al al- most too beautiful to be real DOWN TIlE THE AISLE Vera Vcra wept because once she too had lad worn a veil like that Jean pretended pretended pre- pre tended to be bc hard boiled but secretly squeezing Veras Vera's hand railed at her Margie understood the thc emotions of both oth but felt completely outside her her- self As if she were somebody else she aw saw her veil-swathed veil satin-clad satin figure fig fig- ire ure hurrying through the lobb lobby of the he hotel taking her place in Edith's car and being beins driven through streets which seemed strangely unfamiliar I I must be dreaming Margie thought Every Everything thin Is Js so o quiet Asif As Asif Asif if all the world were holding its breath Then they had reached the church The organ was throbbing tremulously tremulous tremulous- ly but steadily like her own racing pulse She heard Wally's whispered instructions Put your our hand on my arm ann dear and they were marching down an aisle which was long and cold and dark until she saw Dennis Killians Killian's face His dark comeliness caught at her heart as it had the first day she had seen him He was her lover her husband husband hus hus- band her child I love you I love you Oh Dennis Den nis darling I love you so much Her shy rapturous eyes were lifted lift lilt lifted lilted ed to his but Dennis stared at her heras as if it he were looking at a ghost White haggard and wretchedly self self- I conscious COLD AS ICE Forgetful of everything else Margic Margie Margie Mar Mar- gie gic smiled to reassure him She had always understood men hated their own weddings but she had neverseen never neverseen neverseen seen a bridegroom look so entirely miserable His charming mouth was WB grim his blue eyes were clouded with nervous tension Scarcely listening to the ceremony ceremony cere cere- man mony Margie was conscious only ofa o of at a 3 mad desire to comfort him If l she he might put her arms about him whisper Darling it will soon be beThen over Then I will be with you al al- ways Never never to be sepa sepa- rated But the hand which slipped the ring on Margies Margie's fin finger er was cold as ice When he kissed her she felt i iwas it was a stranger whose determined lips were pressed against hers At last it was over They were proceeding up the aisle Reentering Edith's car Edith's chau chauffeur was as to drive them to the new apartment There was to be no reception after after- ward Edith had o offered to open the Grosse Pointe house which had hac been closed Io for the summer but Margie Margie Margie Mar Mar- gie gie had refused I I dont don't want m my wedding to be asocial a n asocial social event she objected She had her way and she knew it was Dennis Dennis' way also It would have been embarrassing for him tobe tobe to tobe be forced to accept congratulations from many of or the same guests who had been invited to his wedding to Zinna MARRIED They drove out Woodward silent silently I Intensely conscious of each other anc and I Ithe the chauffeur who seemed to have havea a grin from car to ear car But now the streets which had been darkly unfamiliar unfamiliar un familiar seemed touched with unearthly unearthly un un- un earthly beauty It was a momen moment Margie knew she would never for forget fornet net get That short drive from irom th the I church to their new home home- Home Yes a real home was to tobe tobe I be created within the walls of that roomed four apartment A home which should be their refuge To which they would turn eagerly from lifes life's trials and disappointments Margie Garver had never known what a real home was but they would make one here together sharing sharing sharing shar shar- ing each others other's troubles fortifying each other loving What a beautiful mysterious bond marriage was She reached out to pat his hand and he hc smiled at her but nervously still looking lookin utterly unlike himself Then they were at the door of the thc apartment house taking the elevator Dennis was fumbling for the ke key SOMETHING SO WRONG The lights flashed on like jewels bringing out all the soft warm colors of ot the room it lovely Dennis Its beautiful he agreed The door was closed She faced him expectantly Everything would be bc all right again as soon as he took her in his arms The kiss in the church hadn't seemed real but if he would kiss her now Instead he said Sit down doom for a afew afew few lew moments Margie l Theres There's something something something some some- thing I have to say to you I To Be lie e Continued I |
