Show r- r o O LcY t 2 J F l- l I 0 By 1 T Vida l 1 a Hurst I Copyright Register Syndicate s Trib Syndicate J BEGIN HERE Margie Garver Carver and Dennis Killian have had many of the usual quarrels of the newly married but no real trouble rouble until Zinna Keating comes back jack to Detroit to live Jive Dennis had hadeen been een engaged to Zinna but married Margie when Zinna eloped to New York When Dennis takes Zinna into to his office Margie immediately grows suspicious Though Dennis swears that hat he is only sorry for Zinna many little ittle things he does docs and says S make Margie believe he is still sUIl in love with her Margie Marsie goes to her boss Maury Stone and asks him to help her obtain ob ob- ob tam tain a position in San Francisco Maury tries to persuade her to give Dennis a chance to square himself but Margie assures him that Dennis doesn't want one When she returns to Lake Angelus where she has been staying with her stepmother Edith Dennis telephones from Detroit He tells tens her he is coming coming coming com com- ing out that week-end week to tr try to clear up their tangles Margie is over over- joyed When he has not come b by 7 Margie grows suspicious She packs a bag and starts for Detroit at once Just as she turns onto the thc main hiShway highway highS high way she sees an old man dart uncertainly uncertainly un un- un certainly about in the traffic He is sideswiped by a speeding car and knocked to the thc pavement When the thc car car passes Margie she recognizes Zinna's Zinna's Zin Zin- nas na's green grcen coupe with Zinna at the wheel and beside her her Dennis CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT TWENTY Would Dennis Killian let Zinna do doa a thing lhing like that Knock down a poor old man and rush on without even stopping to see if H he were hurt Jealous and furious as she was Margie l slowed up beside the prostrate prostrate prostrate pros pros- figure where the excited little group of motorists had already col col- col He was coming to his senses Looking Looking Looking Look Look- ing about him as i if dazed he managed managed man man- aged to stagger to his feet Margie was put out of oC her car On the pavement beside him Art you ou hurt she inquired They went right on someone inthe inthe in inthe the crowd explained We dido didn t teven teven even cven have a u chance to get their num num- ber I aint hurt the old man quavered quay quay- ered but I was scared fi fiLet Let me help you into my car Margie said gently Ill take you home I live in kind of you lady Detroit the old man quavered MARGIE GOES ON Sympathetic hands assisted him into the blue roadster and Margie took look her place pace beside him Her foot was w-as on the starter when she heard Dennis shouting Wait n a minute They had returned to the scene of the accident evidently at Dennis' Dennis in insistence in in- Z Zinna nna had remained in the thc green coupe aloof aloo and disdainful but Dennis was running toward his wife Is he hurt Dennis asked breath breathlessly lessly I dont don't think so Just dazed from the shock He wants to go into Dc De troit Im terribly sorry Dennis said as if i it had been his fault Dont you ou think wed we'd better take him to a hospital or to see sec a doctor The Thc frightened old man shook his head I dont don't want to see no doctor 1 want to go home Ill take you soothed Margie REMORSELESS RE Dennis put his card eard into one of the trembling gnarled hands Come to my office Monday he said but he lie was looking at Margie Where are you going Detroit she answered brie briefly ly Were holding up traffic Dennis his But why he insisted keeping foot upon the running boardWell boardWell board Well go into that later Goodby Dennis Dennis' The farewell caught in her throat but hut the car moved mo forward under her remorseless hands until Dennis was wm compelled to fall fan back Its Irs the last time Ill I'll ever see him she thought hopelessly The Thc image of his dark restless puzzled puzzled puzzled face as it looked at that moment was stamped indelibly on her mind But the silent menace of Zinna was behind him Zinna sitting remote and unaffected in m her car Zinna whose mysterious fascination was strong enough to make him neglect the he girl he had married and forget the he vows he had made not only publicly pub pub- icly but that dearer secret vow he had lad taken on Thanksgiving HOME SAFELY Ive Iv never loved Io any girl so much before Dennis had cried No one can ever come between us again Margie had almost forgotten the pitiful figure by her side The poor old fellow was so frightened that his faded eyes were almost popping out of his head Art you OU sure youre you're all right she asked again Im scared out of oC m my wits he re re- re- re I always knew one of them cars would get me Well it did I Iw w want nt to get home and stay there She tried to comfort him but he wanted nothing but the blessed reassuring reassuring reas- reas suring sight of the shabby cottage where he lived Jived As she drove up to it the thc tears began to stream down his sunken cheeks checks A large bosomed comfortable looking woman with a face as placid as a pan of milk was sitting on the front porch When she saw that he hesitated about climbing from the thc car she hurried hurried hur hur- ried ned toward them Dear dear popsy what's the matter He fell into her arms like a child The They run over me mc I was they would Perhaps you'd oud better belter call a doctor doctor doc doe tor Margie suggested No Im I'm all right now popsy assured as her from the thc security of his own front yard Thank ye kindly miss for bringing me home ALWAYS DENNIS She left them with a lump in her throat Everything had been all allright allright right as soon as his wife's arms were about him They had probably lived together for more years ears than Margie had seen Bound together by memories memories memo memo- ries tragedies joys such as Dennis and Margie would never know Marriage Mai was different in the thc old days Margie wished fiercely that she might have been married then Then n a wife wasn't supposed to give up her husband no matter what he did And only the most dissolute philanderer philanderer phi phi- landerer would have been seen publicly publicly pub pub- with another woman as her husband husband husband hus hus- band had been seen tonight on the highway How it had hurt to see him sitting beside Zinna Znna To know that as soon as Margie had driven on with the victim of Zinna's carelessness he would return to her Even if it was partly popsy's fault admitted Margie who knew she would never think of the poor old ch chap r by any other name it wouldn't have happened if Zinna had been more careful She wondered if Dennis had made I her come back If they had What Dennis had said Al Al- I AI-I I wa ways s 's Dennis Dennis Dennis Every thought she had led back to him PACKING I How long how many years would it take to pluck the consciousness of ol him out of the innermost depths of her heart I Margie drove to the apartment but she had no intention of staying Instead Instead Instead In In- stead she sent a frantic summons to the thc janitor I Bring my trunk from the store storeroom storeroom room please Right awn away Feverishly she snatched the thc lovely love lovely love love-I ly fragrant dresses from the wooden hangers and transferred the contents of dresser drawers Into those of her trunk The sight of Dennis Dennis' clothes left behind tore at her heart There hung flannel coat and striped trousers he had worn for his golf gol game the day before the dead ead black evening clothes in which he had been married How well she remembered his face as it had looked that night It had been self-conscious self miserable He had tried to go against his own heart He had married Margie Margic because because because be be- cause he admired and liked her when he was hopel hopelessly sly in love with another another another an an- other girl She had thought she could save him That her love so ardent and deep and unselfish would be strong enough to make him forget But Dennis couldn't forget orgel He couldn't keep from loving Zinna any more than Margie could keep from loving him MARGIE l DECIDES Then she saw the brocaded dressing dressing dress ing gown with the shabby bedroom slippers beneath it and buried he her face in it weeping inconsolably He had loved her for a al while just at first Oh he hod had Everything would have been all right if Zinna Zinn had stayed in New York But there was no use crying about abou it now no The Thc thing to do was to ge get out of here as quickly quick as possible She telephoned the station for reservations res res- I er There was a train tram to Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago about midnight and she would woul take the limited from there Th The same train on which she had me met Dennis And again she would take tak it alone But Dennis would not b be bethere bethere there to make this trip pleasant She telephoned Maury Im leaving tonight for San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco she said But Margie I haven't heard from the office yet el I haven't had time You can wire me roe after I 1 ar ar- ar- ar rive nyc See Sec here he reminded her you yo ou promised not to leave without giving givin Dennis a chance to clear things thing up He lIe didn't want ant it she replied Can you cash a check for Cor me Maury Ill I'll have to h have ve some som mone money UTTERLY USELESS He lIe prom promised ed to meet her at th the station with money enough for he her journey but Margie knew he hoped hope even e at that late moment to persuade her not to go It would be useless She was more mor determined lcd more than she had ever eve been about anything in her life Sh She would not give Den Dennis DemUs Ls another chance chanc to play upon her emotions by a useless useless use use- less les attempt to clear things up All the thc surrendering had been on her side All the adjusting and generosity generosity generosity gener gener- and giving up She had made madea a gallant attempt to stay with it their marriage and win his love But hadn't he given her something in return What about his gentle tender acceptance of her love his at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to conceal his own self sell interest and md longing for Zinna And later after alter her brothers brother's death his unremitting unremitting unremitting unselfish sympathy No she couldn't say Dennis hadn't tried ried Even now he would have re remained re- re her husband until the end In n the thc e eyes es of the world she could have lave been Mrs Dennis Killian always always al- al ways but it wasn't worth it Not at the price of or her own self sel respect Not with the bitter c canker canker- US Us knowledge e eating at her heart I hat Dennis loved lo another girl To Be Continued American tourists tourists are are estimated to I have spent O in jn Spain In 1931 Government expenditures in British Brit Brit l I ish Iala Malaya a are arc 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