Show 1 LEAP YEAR GIRL GIRLA GI RL 1 I 1 4 A Now New Rob Eden Story First i installment l Begin Reading Reading- l It Today I I CHAPTER ONE Youre not ill are you Judith Mrs Avery came cam to the bedroom door her mending in her hand steel rimmed glasses set rather far down on her nose She lo looked ked through them anxiously at No feNo mother Im I'm all all' allright right You didn't eat much for dinner and youre you're very pale paleA pale pale- A HA hard day I Mrs Avery had to be content with this She turned with witha a sigh closed the door quietly and resumed her seat in With the living room under the same light John Avery Aery was utilizing I in reading the evening paper As she threaded her needle another another an m. other sigh escaped her heavier than the last It startled her husband and I mildly interested he looked up from I his perusal of or an article on the Spanish Span ish republic But Mrs Avery had nothing to say Nothing definite that is She couldn't tell ell John she was wishing that her two wo girls had never nc grown up that they bey had stayed children forever tore When they were children she he always always al al- al ways knew what to do for them and how low to do it It was different now that hat they were older and earning their own way Here was Judith looking like a ghost host all aU week not eating enough to keep a bird alive and still sun maintaining maintain maintain- ing she was all right richt Mrs Aver Avery knew better She wasn't all aU right There I I something the matter Rita said i iwas it was Toby Locke and that Judith would get him out of or her system soon Rita was Mrs A veris veri's elder daughter daugh daugh- ter and mu much h wiser t t 27 than her mother would be be bent nt 90 Rita had hac laughed when she said it and had hac forbade worrying Even with Ritas Rita's advice Mrs Ae Avery Avory couldn't help worrying She had worried all week and she was still worrying Each night after dinner she had gone Jone into the room her two daughters daughters daugh daugh- shared and asked the same same question Judith invariably n answered answered an an- it the same way ay Apparently Apparently she wasn wasn't t going to give any confidences Mrs Avery ery didn't quite know what Continued en Qa Page Fate SU fLEA LEAP YEAR P P PL YEAR GIRL REA RE L A 4 1 New C IV Rob Ed Eden C ItS Story tor Continued From P ll Page Pace e One to make of ot the situation She had never had it to contend with in Rita so she didn't know how to combat itIn it itIn itIn In Judith For the difference in their ages was only the beginning of the dissimilarity of her two daughters In disposition they were CX exact lct opper sites aites Judith was always warmly impetuous imp Impatient Rita calculating determined cold in her likes and dislikes Of or the two of them Judith was her favorite although al nl though she loved Rita dearly Perhaps it was partly because Judith was the baby but certainly it was as much because until recent recent- recently I ly she had been able to partly understand un tin- her younger oun er child Judith was an enigma to her this last week just as Rita had always been WHERES ERES ERE'S JUDITH m Rita came in picked up part of or the evening paper and sat down Wheres Judith In the thc bedroom Mrs Avery Aven never failed to m marvel at Ritas Rita's ls l's ap ap- ap lP- lP She had come from the kitchen where she had washed th the dinner dishes and she looked as perfectly groomed as os when she set seti i out aut for her office each morning The smooth well spaced finger wave ave in her reddish brown hair not nota a natural shade her m mother knew but vastly becoming to Rita Her n nails lils deeply crimson shining each of ot them very long and very perfect her hands white as milk Her slim body slimmer than ever everIn everIn everIn In her fitted dull black crepe dress Mrs Avery knew what she had p paid lid for lor the dress and trembled every time she thought of the thc price Eighty rive dollars for a dress to work in To Too much mone money Just as she couldn't talk now t to Judith she had never been able to talk to Rita about clothes Rita simply wouldn't listen Shed She'd laugh and walk away in the tantalizing independent independent independent in in- dependent way she had RITA SAVES MONEY l Rita was peculiar peculia about clothes She loved them the best of them and md never had anything but the b best st since she had been working All her money except what she gave her mother for expenses toward toward to to- ward the upkeep of the house went for clothes And yet there were few of them in her her- hei closet The dresses Rita owned bore labels abels of good houses and had been C carefully carefully care care- full fully chosen She never bought anything anything any any- thin thing she didn't want and she couldn't pay for The fur CO coat lt now in storage for the summer was mink and Rita had saved three years to get it She was putting her money aside at present for a silver fox fur When that t had been been purchased she was vas planning to get herself a small clip of real diamonds She looked far head ahead into the future She never wore bec because luse she couldn't afford arford real pieces Costume jewelry didn't satisfy her At Christmas she made out a list of what she wanted each member of the family to give her They were sensible sensible sen sen- 4 sible pr practical lists She had done doneit donet it t for years Nothing expensive for forthe forthe the he Aver Averys S 'S couldn't afford to give c luxurious presents C list last had I 1 On Mrs Averys Avery's year been two items a mono hand-mono- 1 linen handkerchief and a pair jair of silk hose with the store in indicated indicated in- in j where they could be found and the departments That was Ritas Rita's wa way and nobody could change it For years Mrs C A Avery verj had obeyed the lists to the leter letter let let- I Iter ter er and Rita Rit l was content So different different dif- dif ferent from Judith who liked everything everything every every- thing hing who was satisfied with anything any any- thing she got Mrs Avery had once been in Ritas Rita's office and when she came carne away she could understand her daughter a little J 1 better The mother was awed by the I splendid anteroom which was R Ritas Rita's t ls l's sanctum as IS private secretary to the j president resident of the Rigg Oil company I She W was lS impressed by the dull walnut walnut wal vial C nut desk the heavy crimson velvet I drapes the soft monotone taupe rugs the hushed quiet of it all j WIDE FULL LIPS Mrs A Avery very was even permitted to peep into the quarters of Mr Rigg Riggin in n his hia absence If the thc anteroom was J luxurIous Mr Riggs Rigg's office was even more so It w wasn't like an office It I Iwas was vas like a great room in a private home lome with its Gothic fireplace and comfortable divans Rita said little about her work All Mrs Aver Avery knew about it before she she saw the office was that her elder d daughter received 50 dollars a week as IS Gavin Riggs Rigg's private secretary A munificent wage f fr r a girl she j thought hought John Avery who had been working for 35 years earned only j 60 dollars a I week j Go see what Judiths Judith's doing Mrs Irs j I Avery urged Rita yawned touched a glistening finger to her fathers father's spreading bald spot in the careless indolent wa way she had and sauntered to o the bedroom She paused as she closed the door after her and looked down at her sister who a light kimono thrown over her shoulders was running a acomb acomb acomb comb slowly through her hair which was not gold and yet et not brown bua but bu buta a soft honey color The eyes that were reflected In the triple mirror of or the little dressing table were like the hair yet different too darker tawnier Yellowish brown they were with flecks of ot green Inthe in inthe inthe the iris at times The lashes above them and the brows were almost almos black the lashes long and curling the brows delicate as 1 if a pencil had hac etched them with a fine tine curving line The nose was straight and well well- modeled but a lipped full mouth gave a hint of or sensuousness to the quiet quie face even when the lips Ups were droopIng droop droop- Ing lag at the corners of the mouth as they drooped now TORY Tony IS COl COMING NG The lips didn't belong to the gre great lt sober eyes to the still sweet face They weren't a part of it Their passionate passionate pas pas- pleading boldness jarred with the purity of Judiths Judith's otherwise otherwise other other- wise softer outlines Rita liked to look ook at her lips She knew what Judiths Judith's moods were by the droop of them just as she knew now that since the quiet dinner an m hour before her young sister sisters sister's sis- sis ter ter's ers S viewpoint had changed about something A set firmness to the lips told her that and nd she wondered what had happened in the hour in which Judith had been alone Toby coming corning over she ask d Obviously he must be ince SInce Judith was dressing Her sister nodded and the red lips Ups quivered Rita flung herself into a hair envying the youth the beauty that hat was Judiths Judith's as she always envied envied en en- vied vi d it with admiration For Judith was lovely there was 10 rio denying that and why Toby ocke had been running around with Donna onna Herriot lately was more than he hc could sec see That was the trouble f course That was why Judith was and worried miserable Rita had known it first but she hadn't said anything just waited A week ago Judith had discovered it t for herself Rita pitied her want- want d to comfort her but didn't dare The rhe lips Ups told her not to So she had jone one on like the other members of he the family as usual All of them were vere pretending that thc they saw nothing nothing noth- noth ing ng pretending that Toby Locke came carne cameo cameLo to Lo o the house as regularly as he had ome for the last three months FALSE FRIENDS Judith glanced at It the picture on he the dressing table A slim youth in white flannels smiling into her eyes rhe The on only picture in the room that belonged to her where she could see it t as she dressed when she opened her tier eyes in the morning The only picture too that she had of Toby 1 0 r WILL TOBY TORY ACCEPT Will Judith convince Toby Locke that he should marry I 1 her at once or will her fickle lover scorn her for proposing to him Continue this f fascinating fascinating fasci fasci- story on the womans woman's I page of The Telegram tomor tomor- row Learn how Judith succeeds suc sue in her plan to recapture I lost love 0 He had one of ot her which she had given him at the same time The photograph of Donna Herriot which had once been beside it she had lad taken away when she found out To think that Donna who was one of ot her best friends who worked beide beside beside be- be side ide her every da day at the thc bank where she he had met Toby should do such sucha a thing Still it couldn't mean any- any thing hing Toby must be only amused at Donna She was amusing All week since she had seen the two wo of them having luncheon together together to- to gether she had been saying that She kept telling herself that it couldn't mean anything And she was saying it yet jet and she would say it t from now on Working together so closely in the same ame office seeing Toby smile at atonna Donna onna had been hard Seeing Donna smile mile at Toby made her angry She pretended she didn't care when Donna Don Don- na changed her lunch hour suddenly Toby had never known Donna until unil un- un til il Judith had introduced them At first he hadn't liked her He had told old Judith so ITS IT'S ALL OVER Jealous that was all Plain jeal jeal- ous But Judith had never been jealous before so the sens sensation was new to her It was like a physical pain a horrible aching thing that never let you forget You went to sleep at night with itIn it itin In n your heart and you woke up in inthe inthe the he morning feel feeling ng like lead You dragged through the long long day daj and wondered how many other days would be like this one It was over now finished That Thatis is s it would be when Toby came do you no good moping like this Judith Rita said Im not moping Im I'm Im I'm thinking About Toby and Donna Judith turned around quickly Then she knew Everybody must know She bit her lip as she picked up the comb she had dropped Rita said Were not blind child kindly I UI saw saw them out together The tawny eyes were bitter and the flush lush died out of the soft checks cheeks leaving caving them paler than usual Im not going to let it go on Rita I decided that tonight she said cm- cm SHOULD JUDITH TELL Rita nodded So that was why the lips were set so firmly why that I helpless baffled look was gone from her face Youre going to tell him himo to o go on cn his way I suppose No No Judith fiddled with the comb spun it around in her fingers until it dropped again to the floor This time she let it lay and rising walked to the open window and looked out into the June night Give him his choice That's madness madness mad mad-I ness Judith Neither Her fingers strummed on the sill Well Vell Rita was curious There was something about this sister of hers that she didn't recognize It It was vas almost as if it a stranger were st standing there by the window Judith went on slowly Im quite sure ure Donna is only a passing fancy Rit Rita ta l. l Im I'm more than quite sure Im I'm positive Should she tell Rita what wha she he was going to do Should she tell tel her and be laughed at For she knew Rit Rita tita l would laugh and she couldn't couldn bear ear the thought of being laughed at now Myriads of stars in the sky The mottled veil of them that W was lS the milky way was spread above her head The cool soft wind was touchIng touching touch touch- ing ng her kimono rippling its silk over her bare arms brushing against her herh h lair hair lir Of YOURE YOU'RE TOO YOUNG When she had come home tonight from rom the bank she had been worried wor wor- ned ried sick at heart Now she was wa calmer since she knew wh what lt she was wa going to do She was almost 11 most herself Two months ago under those stars Toby had told her he loved her anc and she had told him she loved him Th The same stars that flooded her eyes a ashe as she buried her head in his coat Have you ou ever loved anyone a alot alot lot ot Rita A terrible lot I dont don't mean just half way a silly crush or anything like that It was strange she didn't know more about Rita when she had lived with will her all Ill th the twenty years of her life They had shared the same room from childhood It was strange too that tha she should be asking her such a ques- ques tion ion Youre too young to be talking of ot love like that Rita laughed shakily There was no use answering answering answer- answer ing ng that question That was forgot- forgot ten quite en quite her love And Judith had aad been so young when it came carne cameo cameto to o her that she didn't know and never would know about it Rita wasn wasn't given to confidences on sentiment even to her mother TOBY LOVES ME l Im not too young Judith ex ex- ex claimed Im not a I baby any more I even if you and Mother do treat me meas meas meas as one And I know Im I'm in love loveA love love- A girl birl knew when she was in love didn't she It couldn't be anything else when she thought of nothing but bui Toby all da day and all ni night ht When his lis face was before her all the time When she wanted him with her con- con That was love wasn't it And for tor three months shed she'd felt that way vay The last week had been aw- aw ul jul Rita had heard the passion in her voice She saw the fire in her eyes as she turned around Judith was vas right ight She was in love She tried to o change the subject but didn't succeed suc- suc ced eced in penetrating Judiths Judith's silent debate with herself No Judith went on more calmly as s 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