Show m f I Telegram Fiction I r LOVE HONOR By VIDA AND AND HURST NEGLECT I BEGIN HERE TODAY Frances Sherman Of df a I wealthy Kansas City banker Is 5 happily happily hap hap- married to Bill Bond until his mother comes to live with them Mrs Bond has never approved of Bills Bill's marriage to this daughter of luxury and tactlessly takes over the cooking and housekeeping in the small ap apartment Bill working hard hardat at the office for a promotion is too weary to be sympathetic when Frances complains Frances goes back to the Junior League clinic to work three afternoons afternoons afternoons after after- a week because she feels els she must do something t to keep sane Her pl pleasure aure over over the gift of ot a a. dog from her father rapidly departs when Bills Bill's mother objects to playing nursemaid to the pet and Bill suggests suggests sug sug- that she had better give it away She gives the dog to Belinda Boots Booty who has just re returned returned re- re turned from Hollywood NOW GO GOON ON WITH THE STORY J CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE TWENTY When the two girls had left apartment Belinda dear d hato hato ha hato My dont don't nt tell me you to live with her she commiserated Frances attempted to smile but the sight of ot Mr Wu's eager face pressed against the window of Booty Booty's car was too much for herShe herShe her She doesn't like me ahe she admitted admitted ad ad- and she hates Wu That's why I had to give him to you the crossest looking person I r ever saw Belinda said frankly I was I was struck dumb I mean really Fran I cant can't imagine your having havinga a a. mother-in-law mother like that Your own mother is such a darling She has had hada a very very different life from my mother Frances ex ex- Since her husband died I she has concentrated all her affection affection tion on Bill She would do anything for him except leave him alone It Isn't very nice of me to say so but everything was lovely until she he he I came to live with us I Booty was not exactly the person L she would have chosen as WI a con confidante confidante con I but the moment had come when she Bhe had to talk to some one i iThe The fact fact that her mother was wa-s already al al' ready prejudiced against Bill BUl and I that her father had refused to bo be drawn into her domestic difficulties prevented her from going to them Pride forbade her telling Paul Har Har- rison Confides In Booty Why do you let her stay then Booty asked widening her blue eyes I mean if I didn't want her Id I'd simply tell her she had to go not as easy as 83 it sounds After all aU she 1 is Bills Bill's mother and I cant can't be rude to to- her Since she's she paying her share of ot the expenses ii it doesn't enter her head that she's not nol wanted Ask your husband to tell her suggested Belinda Bill resents it if I even mention 1 such a thing Hes He's not himself at at atall I all ll lately Her friend who had just returned returnee I from Hollywood sighed Hes He probably interested in somebody somebody some some- somebody body else Men Jen are all alike Fran It simply isn't in them to be faithful faithful faithful faith faith- ful to one woman Oh Ob Bills Bill's faithful enough How do you know he is Just L because youre you're married to him is n no sign I mean they never admit I it I to their own wives If It you could see Bee i what Ive I've seen this winter You dont don't understand Frances said aid s wearily Bills BUla not the type t to o play around all that type if it someone makes over them therm enough Unwillingly Frances Frances' recalled the way Bill had bad looked when Estelle f flattered him Perhaps Booty knew m more re than she was given credit for Even if he isn't actually stepping o out ut he might have her on his mind i s she he tho thought I Hes probably just tired she said weakly He has to work two or throe three t nights a week France Frnces Phones Booty flashed a a. significant glance f from rom bright blue eyes And I suppose y you u bell believe eve that hat But how do you know what hes he's doing Have you ever called up to I find out out I Frances answered rather sharply t that hat it wasn't necessary If It Bill said he was working that settled it so sor sor sor r as she was concerned But the ed of doubt had fallen on fertile That night when Bill did didt t come home for dinner she de- de to telephone Not because she didn't believe belleve him as as' as much as to prove her point to Booty She told herself It made no difference what whal Belinda Boot thought though but it would give her a great deal of satisfaction to b be able to t tell ll her that she was wrong Under the eagle eyes of ot her mother-in-law mother she picked up the telephone and called Bills Bill's office did not reply Ho Wa was not there Even then she did not really doubt him There might be a perfectly logical reason for lor his absence His plans might have changed He might be on his way home It was not until ha halt half an hour later when Mrs Bond put in one of her frequent calls to Estelle that suspicion sus ens- lifted its ugly head Estelle was not at home either Her mother said she h was having dinner down town a coincidence which grew like a giant bean stalk to mammoth mammoth mammoth mam mam- moth proportions in Frances' Frances mind Were Bill and Estelle together She couldn't believe he be would really lie to her He h had d intended to work but if Estelle dropped into the of oi office office of- of fice just at dinner time with some excuse for talking to him he would naturally suggest that they go ou out for tor dinner What more natural in is I that c case e than that they should go gc some pla place e where they could dance I Frances remembered only too toe clearly the way Estelle had gazed I into his eyes that night at Pusa Pusa- tens teris She told herself If It it were anyone in Kansas Kansa City she wouldn wouldn't have cared so much but she simply P couldn't bear for lor that girl to make a fool out of ot her husband Her face fact was so drained of color that Mrs Bond it IL Suspicions the matter she asked Nothing Frances France replied I 1 suppose youre you're blaming me be because because be- be cause you had to give up your dog her het he mother-in-law mother began but Frances Frances Fran Fran- Frances ces cried I dont don't want to talk about t tIL it IL Hes He's gone Just as you like the older woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man shrugged So far as I am air concerned it doesn't matter but 1 ii it Isn't very pleasant for Bill when z youre you're acting like this Bill BUl is the only jonly one who seems to matter Frances said Any Anyone one would think I haven't any rights You certainly do as 83 you please I G Gadding adding around all day long with a airl girl g irl who dO doesn't look any better t than han she might be Th This 5 reference to Booty's sophistication c cation amused Frances as much ast as ast i it t annoyed her until she Bhe remembered that hat Booty had been een right Bill h hadn't been at the office Belinda Boot comes from one of t the he finest families in Kansas City s she he stated rather snobbishly Her mother-in-law mother sniffed Which still doesn't raise her any in my estimation She's not the kind of ot a girl a respectable man n wants his wife to be out with There had been a time when Frances would have rushed to the bedroom and burst into tears but that time was past She faced the mother of ot her husband with defiant eyes speaking in a low furious I voice You have no right to say such a s L thing about someone you you dont don't know Booty is my trie friend d. d Speaks Up Id be ashamed Shamed to admit it Mrs itra Bond retorted I heard her boast bout ing lug about the movie actor who made love to her If It you knew her as aswell ae well as I do you'd know it pr probably bably didn't hap hap- pen flIt It It didn't it wasn't her fault Mrs Bond snapped To Frances Frances' surprise she actually seemed to enjoy the altercation When two hours houri later Bill came home she detained him In the living room while she recounted her ances Frances could imagine what she was saying She wondered what Bill would think when he heard she had been gone from 10 o'clock in the morning until 6 at night Booty had dropped her at the clinic and Paul had brought her home Frances had not yet told Bill that she was spending three afternoons a week at attha tho Settlement House She he had never never forgotten what he had said before they were married when she had told him th that t the clinic was sponsor sponsored d by the Junior League x I 1 might have known it he had said Bill BUI was prejudiced bOd body agaInst anybody any- any who had money she decided But if Bills BUls mother tried hom to tell h her whom she could or could not see she would discover that the daugh daugh- ter-in-law ter who had seemed so meek had a mind of ot her own Her Hex friendship with Belinda which ha had I II never been particularly important to her now took on all the glamour ot of the forbidden I life Ute Booty than probably the knew more about other girls girl thought She Im had P proved ved it by insisting that Bill would not be at his office i it Frances frans telephoned Frances told I I herself she he had n no Intention of ot asking ask ask- ing him where he had been She would not tempt him to lie to her b by y r inventing an excuse Intuition convinced her that Esteile Estelle Es- Es telle and he had been Heen together but she w would W never be able to prove it It would be w wiser not to mention the fact that she had checked on him She v would P pretend tend to be asleep so that he ho would not know how terribly hurt she ahe was Continued Tuesday Copyright 1936 The Salt Lake Telegram I Athletic stadia are to be erected I by the by-the the government in many provInces provinces inces of ot Chile |