Show S 3 S S 'S 5 d 4 3 w 5 r A S 5 S 5 I VS V'S A S S 'S 7 5 i 5 t 5 5 tz S 'S 5 5 S S 'S S 5 5 S 5 5 4 55 5 S 5 5 S 5 S i j 4 k I 45 4 p 5 E 5 5 55 4 5 y S 4 5 1 7 4 5 4 4 k I t S f 5 5 5 4 4 5 S 'S c 5 S Adelaide Moffett loffett left and Gwendolyn Gwynne 5 GIVEN IN MARRIAGE GE Madge Puzzled by V er s I Resolve to Foster Romance I What did Phillip Philip Ver mean by this apparent sudden resolution to rouse the interest of Avis Miens Mien's mother in Hugh Grantland with a aview aview aview view to a possible matrimonial matrimonial all alii ance between the daughter of his dead friend and business busIne partner and the wealthy and distinguished army officer S This was the question which caromed caromed car car- omed around In my brain even as asI asI asI I fought with rasped nerves to restrain restrain re ro strain my anger against the great grea theatrical producer which his lassly last las sly sally had aroused Praise UPraise from Sir Hubert he had said when I had been goaded by Mrs Arlen's slurs into defending and praising Hugh Grantland And in his tone even more than his words I had read the intention that I was speaking from a knowledge of Hughs Hugh's ways wider than that possessed by anyone else A New Plot As always with me when a problem problem lem is presented to my brain emotions emotions emo emo- flee until I have solved it if possible or given it up for the time timea a as I no longer was thinking of the gibe he had directed at at me I Instead tead m my t thoughts w were re scurrying hither and thither trying to determine the reasons for the astounding and rather crass advice he had given to Fanny Arlen It had not b been n so very long ago that he had been trying to contrive an alliance Avis and his own ownS S son He had professed disgust with the girl upon the occasion of my dinner and apparently had given up his scheme and become reconciled to Noels Noel's betrothal to Mary But later on on after his scheme to send Mary to Paris had been thwarted by my claiming his promise to let the young lovers be married I had wondered if traces of his fine line Italian hand could not be seen in the determined attempts of Avis first to see Noel arid and get him away vay from Mary and failing that to interfere with the harmony of the wedding plans as much as she possibly could Thanks' Thanks to my own vigilance and that of every other person in the farm house family she had failed in both projects and I had bad felt a certain tain thin stirring of pity for her as she watched the wedding ceremony which took Noel completely out of her world wend 1 l lIt It had been patent or so I had d d that she cared caned for Philip son as much as ac it was in her shallow shallo I nature to care for anyone I That pity had vanished when sh she had asked Hugh Grantland to take tak her to the ocean but not because Hugh has been her objective I was honest in my belief that my compassion compassion com com- passion would have fled had she used the same tactics with any man o oboy or boy of our farm house family Pa Patently Pat Pat- with Avis it was a case of an any man from eight to eighty Noels Noel Noels Noel's image I was sure had completely complete vanished from her mind as she S sa saby sat by Hugh Grantland's side and re reeled reveled revS rev triumphantly in the thought that that that- U My ly Baby Is Safe Safe I brought myself up with a ro round nd turn I was sure that the girl ha had asked Hugh to take her with th the malicious hope that I would not like lik like either her Invitation or his is acceptance accept ance But I must not think of ot that tha side of this problem again It ce thinly was not worth a sc seconds second's ond's consideration con con- the the probable m motives o oa of ofa a sly and revengeful girl But the thought had brought another another an other even more disturbing in i itS train Suddenly I knew wh why Philip Phil D was stirring Fanny Fanny- Arlen's Arlen maternal ambition and my face fac flamed named with the knowledge Oh Fanny Arlen said theatrically cally clasping her hands there theres Grantland's car now My bab babis baby is safely back again Thank God Godl I I Continued t tomorrow morr w II I Copyright 1933 K F. F S. S Inc II |