| Show TELEGRAM I t By BJ Katharine I L FICTION S O Q p pIe 1 t L t e 11 M a U. J JL r JT r rIa 1 i U. U g e Taylor Haviland-Taylor I I Synopsis Marsha Moore marries mar mar- ries rica Bob Powers only because she believes Geoffrey Tarleton has married another girl But after the first week of her honeymoon at at Easthampton on Long Island d Marsha finds she is perfectly willing to spend the rest of her life Ufe making Bob happy What had seemed in prospect dreadfully dreary proves an idyl of love CHAPTER 17 I. I The third week of the honeymoon was vas changed in pattern by a necessary trip rip to town Bob had run run in before to o see his mother but his visits had been short and he had broken all speed peed laws Jaws in n transit In fri order to get there and here and back Now Bob had to sec ee one of the heads leads of oC his company about another brIdge his mothers mother's birthday must be e celebrated by them together and Marsha wanted to go to talk to Dr James James James-a a want she did not confide to Bob Hang it he said on the night before be be- fore ore their early morning start I 1 hate leaving caving here Its It's been so perfect I Ilave have lave an odd idea that it wont won't be here lere when we get back I w wouldn't be surprised to come back and find where this house stood an empty space pace and you a dream But I couldn't survive it Couldn't And my dear please s remember that thaU I She glanced around the room where she who had not thought herself to tobe tobe tobe be domestic had begun her housekeeping housekeeping housekeeping house house- keeping to find she lo loved ed it jt planning meals arranging flowers ordering ordering or or- dering things At the start she had said and timidly timidly tim time idly I think that little table would be prettier by the window and Bob answered with an going easy casual And why not non And they had changed it H. It was strange how it had made her feel she had suddenly known it was washer washer washer her house too and that Bob saw it so wanted It so She had said I never could change anything at Aunt Gertrudes Gertrude's Gertrudes Gertrudes Gertrude's Ger Ger- trude's and of course I had no right to but this is interesting I do like it the the realization that I can move a chair chairl Unused to Happiness Well tear down the place if 11 you youl want to he promised It made him fighting mad to think of Miss Gertrudes Gerrude's Ger Ger- trude's rudes sitting on any little thing Marsha wanted to do do who was still so 50 wholly the child when enthusiastic enthusiastic en en- and charmingly appealingly appealingly appeal appeal- so I. I She had not understood his rise of tenderness that tha had seemed to grow from their moving the little table She had only begun to know that happiness happiness hap hap- hurts those unused to it She did not sleep easily nor long ong at any one time that night before their start for the two days' days visit in town Bobs Bob's pretended fear about the house and its fading and her slippIng slipping slip slip- ping away had troubled her Something Some thing could happen any time she reasoned rea rca zoned to so change the house for them that the ground might as well be barren Sh She would tell teU Dr James all about it of how she had cometo to marry Bob Powers and of or what had happened hap to her married to him And of oC how ineptly and weakly dissolute she had been before Bob And she would ask Dr James whether she could make up for tor cheating Bob by bythe bythe bythe the utmost of linc sincerity rity She nothing but that now she could give him nothing less A strip of cold winter moonlight lay Jay across cross a br braided rug sitting up she up-she she was so restless she restless she saw it and in that gray light half that Bob slept she thouGht soundly An impulse that had never before swept her made her slip from the bed and to her knees and here head burled buried in her arms she asked of a something or someone whom circumstances cir dr had made rem remote te for her the hc boon of or being always with Bob When she he lifted her head she saw Bob raised by an elbow I hope you dont don't mind dearest he whispered No No she murmured He took her hands in his to lo kiss them lingeringly Ive always believed in trying anything anything any any- thing once she explained She somehow had to get back bak to a sort of f c case ense but it U wa d difficult to do doso doso doso so with wit Bob Bob more serious than Dr James m in his chancel and equally seemingly even more hushed and de de- vout f Some day he said will you tell me what you asked I hope I shall be k able to some da day duay J he s answered She shivered then lIe He laid a n hand on her bare shoulder to find It chill but it was not the winter nights night's c cold ld that h had d made her tremble but the realization tion that she he might not ever have havea a chance to tell teU him that th she had asked to wIth him always He was scolding her a little in his dur dear gentle but rather amusingly firm way a about running risks He left bed to get et a water bottle I Ifor for her a very hot one with a shaggy i wrapped around it She lay laughing at him but tears were on oni ont I her lashes I There he said triumphantly aishe as' as ashe ashe he tucked it against her And sitting sitting sit sit- ting up he smoked the that now he always sought with waking Did I crash In horribly by waking waking wak ing he be asked abruptly No she answered One of my best waking nightmares is made by thinking of doing something something something some some- thing you wont won't like he confided I can have that sort of ot day dream or nightmare myself sh she answered him You I He laughed after the you youl 1 Dont you think I could do anything anything any any- thing you disliked she questioned If It he would say yes and Ill I'll fo forgive give you youl I love you enough to forgive any anything thin But he did not he said sOlid and land slowly Possibly and the world could end too too I suppose and it would for tor me dearest one nc if u things weren't right between us And then he had to kiss her hands Marsha saw her aunt the next day in town Miss G Gertrude was even more acid than usual She had not expected Marsha to make this sort of ot marriage Her friends all said How delighted delight delight- ed you must be Some of ot the themore more astute of them sometimes looked a trifle doubtingly and probingly at ather her as if she had manufactured the thc I tales about Marsha And she had done everything everything everything she shel could to bring the child to a realization tion of her depravity j i You say you ar are enjoying Easthampton Easthampton East East- hampton boomed out Miss Gertrude Ger Get trude It is I have heard many folk say apropos your your soJourn sojourn an odd place for a a-a- a a Honeymoon Marsha supplied boldly We like it she went on and in her new gentle way and Its It's near mother I dont don't want to shorten her time with Bob Were We're coming in to lo stay with h her r soon You see sec I dont don't want her cheated The new role is very verr pleasing Marsha said Miss Gertrude I can only say that I trust it may endure endure en en- dure Marsha departed a 3 little brus bruised d dand dand and a little downcast but faintly amused Her aunt so consistently expected ex cx the worst anything less than the worst actually disappointed her Perhaps Marsha decided she had not noth h had d quite a fair chance Marsha larsha Tells Story Stor- Yes the ma maid d answered as sh stepped into the hall ball of oC Saint Timothy's Timothy's Tim Tim- othy's rectory Dr James was in anc am ant expecting Mrs Powers And he that Mrs Powers come up to h hi study the door to It U was the one i athe af a the head of the stair The TIle maid sought rectory rear quarters quarters haunted b by Mrs Powers a beautiful beau beautiful young oun lady who looked that frightened and whose lips Ups trembled but wh who did not not forget forget to lo smile anto anC an anC to thank one who served even though humbly Dr James rose as Marsha tapp on his door Come in he boomed He marked his mystery story with e c purple Lenten book marker that had b been n made for him by one of the infant in fant school Before you begin on it he su suggested sug- sug with a pat of oC her hands suppose sup suppose pose you smoke a They soothe She laughed He waved her to r chair She settled and he tried a 9 lighter that thai would not ugh and ond then m muttering ing n a little he lie held helda a iJ flaring flarin ma match ch lo to the which trembled in her hand Not so 50 bad as that child he hel said When you oU get to lo m my age you 1 0 realize that nothing is is' isso so sa b bad d ai az you thought hought a d that everything is bettel better beter bet bet- tel ter er than you ever dreamed young it t could be I am not I hope of the Pollyana school but 1 if ones one's digestion diges diges- tion lon Is good life does grow row easier and easier and more more alluring Now what's the matter mailer dear child He settled on the edge of a It deep chair that thaL faced hers Every Everything thin 1 she ahe answered She I told old her story Copyright 1934 by K Haviland Haviland- Taylor To Be Co Continued |
