Show COPYRIGHT TER BEGIN HERE From the first moment Margie Carver Carver Car Car- ver met Dennis Killian she loved him In spite of the fact that at the time I Dennis was engaged to Zinna Keating Keat Keat-I Keat ing a arid and d Margie had several other proposals proposals pro pro- she could not forget him Zinna Zin Zin- na eloped with D Dick ck Crawford and went to New York to live Two weeks later Margie and Dennis are arc married Margie feels sure that no one could possibly be as happy as she is She is looking lokin at the world through rose colored glasses Dring the ceremony Dennis looked miserable but Margie attributed it to nervousness and self self- consciousness They go straight to housekeeping in a lovely apartment I Margie f furnished Then Dennis deals the final blow He tells Margie l they cant can't go on with it that he never should have married her as he is still in love with Zinna Zinnia Margie is stunned crushed her pride shattered Unable to make any decision that night she goes to her room and hears Dennis go out and take the elevator In the morning he comes back for his bogs bags and agrees to lo do anything she might suggest He has told her that he loves her but his love for her is different from his love for Zinna He needs her companionship and her love So Margie Margie Margie Mar Mar- gie decides to go o on with it She Is sure she can never love anyone else The girl Dennis loved is married She tells him that she would free him if he could have Zinna and that if he ever finds someone he loves better who is free Cree to marry him she will leave him Under the circumstances Margie Margic makes up her mind to go back to work at the Colton Construction company I I CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER THREE Although Maurice Stone had expressed expressed ex ex- ex pressed the hope that l Margie ie might see Sec fit tit to return to her position as decorator decorator dec dee orator with the Colton Construction company he certainly had not expected expect ed her to lo appear the thc morning after her wedding His surprise may be imagined when his secretary announced that Miss Garver Carver Mrs Killian I mean would like to speak with him Margie 1 he ho cried as she closed the door behind her My dear is anything wrong Not a thin thing she assured him determined de de- de- de in her resolution never to repeat to anyone the bitter truth Dennis Dennis Dennis Den Den- nis had confessed on their wedding I night The apartment is so brand new there simply isn't a thing thine to be done in it ft You were tight Maury when you said Id I'd charre charie my mind Im I'm too much of at a business woman to stay at home and I r came back this morning because I was afraid you'd oud be looking for someone to lo take lake my place WORK AGAIN Her brightly cheerful voice stopped under Maury's 1 contemplative gaze great he be said quite as impersonally im Ira- I personally as she had hoped he would She could count on Maury always always- You did exactly right We need someone rI right ht away as of course you realize Business will viiI be picking up next month and we must be ready for it it I He had given her time to regain her composure He added There arc are a couple of assignments which should be taken care of right away One Is the redecorating of the old Grandfield home in Grosse Pointe The other Is the Tau Kappa Pi house at Ann Arbor The fraternity house is a rush contract and should have been started sooner except that the building wasn't finished Weve We've promIsed promised promised prom prom- to have it ready rendy by the time school begins however I should like to have you OU do the fraternity house Margie You seem to have special ability in m satisfying the tastes of or men But I dont don't like to ask you to leave Detroit just at this time all aU right Margie said grasping at nt the chance It will only be for a few days I can go down m this afternoon and look things over Maury looked distressed Perhaps Dennis can go down with you ou he lie suggested Since today is Saturday ESCAPE Poor Maury For the first time Margie was refusing to confide in him Since her fathers father's death he had been both counsellor and friend But Margie Garver was now Mrs Dennis Killian As a wife Margie felt fell she should make her own decisions When Then she consented to take the thc assignment as assignment as- as of the Tau Tan Ka Kappa pa Pi house she knew she was doing the best thing possible for tor both Dennis and herself herselL The situation between them was so strained only a separation could bring relief She did not telephone him but when she returned to the apartment for her suitcase she wrote a rote pote which she tried to make casual Dennie I am going to Ann Arbor to look over the new Tau Kappa Pi house which has just been finished My car Is In the shop so I will take a bus May be gone several days Bye Bc Margie Margic She placed the note on the desk deskin in the living room right under the telephone so that Dennis would be sure to see sec it il Would he hope it was wasa a note saying she had changed her mind and departed for good Margie didn't think so After all Dennis had admitted he needed her companionship and the comfort of ot other her affection Perhaps when the first shock hock was over she would be beable beable beable I able to give them to him Now however however however how how- ever she wished only to escape to hide her suffering from his eyes THINGS GS CHANGE She looked about the apartment with a very different feeling from that she had had the da day before belore They were living in it She had slept In the poster four bed and Dennis had unpacked some of his things But no meal had been served in the green and yellow ellow breakfast room Dennis had insisted he didn't didn t care for tor any breakfast and Margie had stopped on her way down town for a acup acup acup cup of coffee cotee The ga gayly ly flowered dishes were still unused The painted cans of coffee corfee and sugar had not been opened The loaf of bread in inthe inthe inthe the yellow bread box bo had not been touched Everything E was ready as asit asIt asit it had been the day before but Mar Mar- gie gic gazed upon It with eyes She smiled Hadn't Vera Vcra warned her that marriage marriage marriage mar mar- was never the beatific relationship relationship relationship relation relation- ship it seemed to those outside Margies Margie's eyes had been opened a little sooner than the average brides bride's perhaps But sooner or later they all aU had it to face Then Margie remembered her brother Wallace and Daphne had apparently suffered no disillusionment disillusion disillusion- ment After Attel five years her dainty haired auburn-haired sister-in-law sister seemed as blissfully in love as ever Perhaps it was unusual But they were certainly certainly certainly ideally mated I never knew what happiness was until I married that sweet kid Waly Wally Wally Wal- Wal ly had said T THE E EVIL SPELL They not only had each other but the haired curly-haired little Daphne as well While Margie who had asked only to be married to the man she loved had achieved her wish and gained I nothing How gratified ed Zinna would be bc if she knew But she wouldn't know No one will ever know repeated Margie through set teeth He married married mar mar- ried ned me mc of or his own ow-n free will and were we're going gains on with it it il Tears she had not shed for herself herself herself her her- self came to her eyes when she re remembered remembered re- re how miserably contrite Dennis had been He had hated hImself himself himself him hIm- self for hurting her Had been panic- panic stricken at the realization of what he had done He had snatched her away from two other men who eagerly desired to marry her She had chosen cho cho- sen sea Dennis because she loved him In spite of his confession she loved him still Ill alwa always s 's love him i she whis whis- I cant can't help it Sometime he will get over his infatuation f fr r Zinna and love nobody but me Despite this brave prophesy she felt unutterably depressed as she packed the suitcase she had unpacked only the night before As she went out she wondered if the apartment she had furnished so eagerly would ever really become her home Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps Zinna inna ha had cast he her evil spell j upon it as she had upon Dennis Dermis ADI ADMIRATION TION All the way to Ann Arbor Margie sat wrapped in her own unhappy thoughts Once there she took a room a tUne hotel left leU her bag and I sought the Tau Kappa Pi house Here for the first time since her marriage she found relief The two students who were in charge showed her through it with I Ian an enthusiasm Margie found conta conta- well- well They were ere charming mannered boys and their admiration was divided between Margies Margie's ideas I and the girl herself You dont don't look old enough to be working at anything Bill Mumford said much less a job like Uke decorating and furnishing hotels apartment houses and such Ive done a 3 good many of them Margie boasted Ive been working for or almost three years Some of or us are re putting on a dance tonight the other boy confided Just Justan an Informal affair at the home of one of the fellows Most everyone Is gone this summer but If you'll come well we'll do our best to show you n a good time HEARTBROKEN Margie refused but with a warm little rush of gratitude that they found her attractive enough to ask What would they have thought if they suspected suspected suspected sus sus- that she had been married only the night before If It the they had known that less than 24 hours earlier she had been wearing a wedding veil repeating her vows for better or for worse It had been for worse apparently but she would never call quits just for tor that Not for tor nothing had Margie Garvers Garver's ancestors fought for their life Ufe liberty and pursuit of ot happiness She would fight too Fight to keep the husband she loved more than she shedid shedid shedid did her pride Nevertheless the second night after I her wedding found her alone in a I strange hotel When the telephone rang a little after 9 o'clock her bravado bravado bravado bra bra- vado had deserted her She was just justa a weeping heartbroken girl irl To Be e Continued |