| Show A v vC ET C t. t r ai- ai rz i I k W f 6 4 3 t 0 S' S s' s Ij I I a J 0 J t I r 4 L L LFrances Frances Purton Dorothy Robinson Judy Lund Margaret Margarct Sherrod Bearnson Lois Loh Virginia Virgina Smith Retailing Business Literary critic State Art Director Drector Short Story Writ Writer Honor Winner 1935 I B Bread Bd and Butter utter t- t tt C. C Girl 1 1 By Fiction rea an u er Ir in Rob Eden I CHAPTER TWO TWENTY The Trevor town house was like Jilee a stockade but none of the would admit it They hey pretended t that at everything was as usual They talked trivialities at meals in front of the servants with one thought foremost the foremost the thought of Jerr Jerry All of them J. J B. B himself Mrs Trevor Gwen and Paula For Paula was a member of the household now Her rooms rooms' were the guest suite next to bedroom bedroom bedroom bed bed- room not Jerrys Jerry's quarters also on the seco second d floor Her trunk and bags had been moved there and on her finger over her wedding ring was the square cut diamond engagement engagement en en- ring Jerry had given her The other jewels from him were in inthe inthe the tho dressing table In her bedroom Gwen had redeemed them for her through h the agency of oC Botts Bolts The including Paula rose at the usual Trevor time breakfasted breakfasted breakfasted break break- fasted in their respective rooms and appeared after breakfast J. J B. B in the library to putter with his stamps although this was WS his evenin evening eve eve- nin fling ning relaxation not his morning pastime His mornings and early afternoons afternoons afternoons after after- had always been spent at his office Mrs Trevor in her sitting room dictated to her secretary as usual about her charities her clubs her personal correspondence Her personal correspondence these days however was very light al almost almost almost al- al most nothing Gwen who was not used to staying staying stay stay- ing in the house moved restlessly from room to room sometimes looking at h her r f father ther with his stamps tamps sometimes looking over her mothers mother's shoulder and watching the tapestry work which seemed to rest Mrs Trevor's mind sometimes goIng going going go- go Ing into the kitchen and watching the meals being prepared Restlessness Normally she would have been out Immediately after breakfast for lor fora lora a golf game in the afternoon for a tennis match ratch or a jaunt to the stables stables stables sta sta- sta- sta bles at Keystone She couldn't sit for long any place and she couldn't stand for forlong long any place The moment the phone rang she was wap in the library or at one of th the other phones listening in to the conversation Manners who answered an an- all calls caUs was having learning learning learn learn- ing ng who w was s calling saying noth noth- ing mg The ringing of the phone bell beU seemed to give her relief and re recharge recharge recharge re- re charge her energy For the were not an an- the telephone to anyone except Nesbit When he called either Gwen or her father talked to him When Gwen had given orders that no no noone one was to be admitted admitted admitted ad ad- to the house but Nesbit and that no one in the house was to converse with anyone but Nesbit Nesbit Nesbit Nes Nes- bit she had meant her orders were obeyed Her father was pleased with her efficiency In this I emergency which was nothing more than a state of ot siege for the A state of ot siege It was Outside were newspaper reporters photographers photographers photographers raphers camped outside the gates on tho the very doorsteps Manners and Botts and the other men servants servants servants ants in the household didn't know how to get them awa away They did everything they knew of but hut without without without with with- out success The reporters and photographers sta stayed d They photographed the house the garden even Paula when she inadvertently looked out of the drawing room window one after after- noon They had cameras trained on every window on every door They ph photographed Nesbit when he came and begged him to let them take taie a picture of Paula and get an interview with her but he refused The wouldn't stand for tor it he said as kindly as ashe ashe ashe he could Blinds Pulled Twice in that week Paula had to go down to the office of the district attorney and Gwen Gen accompanied accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied her but the they went secretly at night getting into the car ear quickly under the porte at the library entrance and getting getting getting get get- ting out at the courthouse in the alley All the blinds were pu pulled led down downin in the house night and day and the lamps going even in the full ful sunlight for the house was dark with the curtains drawn Newspapers came to the house and were read in the privacy of the bedrooms of ot members of the family They were burned immediately imme imme- diatel in the fireplaces after they were read The servants' servants papers paper came as usual but these were read when the family was not around Not a paper was in sight when Gwen came into tile the pantries or orthe orthe orthe the kitchen or into the servants servants' sitting room off the kitchen Paula was restless too She couldn't see Jerr Jerry Gwen and Nesbit Nesbit Nesbit Nes Nes- bit thought it best for her not nol notto notto to see him and run the risk of further publicity by her visit to the county jail So she wandered around the house too much like iJ e Gwen It seemed a different house from the one to which she had come with Jerry before their marriage Sometimes she had to shake her her- self to realize it was the same The hall hail so drear dreary the drawing room so f formal the dining room so cold cold cold- she dreaded the meals there with the Discussion of ot the weather Mr Trevor's views on the the Ethiopian situation Mrs Trevor's Trevor remarks about doing over the tho suite of rooms at Keystone which was to belong to Jerry and Paula Luncheons all aU of them present Trevor at the head of his long formal formal for for- mal table Mrs Trevor at the foot Gwen at the right of her father and Paula next to Gwen and Mrs rs Trevor The other side ide of the table bare for bare for that had been Jerrys Jerry's place Paula Is J Lonesome omo When her mind was so full of oC him when she wanted to talk about him ask asic Gwen innumerable ques ques- She She sensed the first da day that the subject of ot Jerr Jerry was taboo that tho the might talk about him when they were to together together together to- to gether but that she she- although she she had been accepted in tho the household as one of oC them was one of them and yet not one of them So the questions questions questions ques ques- remained in her eyes Gwen saw them quivering on her lips in her eyes hovering around her and walked awa away Mrs Trevor did the same thing Paula could talk to Anna about Jerry Jerry but but Anna was the only one In the house she could talk to M Manners Man Manners n ners none of oC the other servants would talk to her about Jerry Botts of course she didn't see ee al alone ne Anna was the maid Gwen had hired for her on the first day of her arrival at the house a plain girl with a wide mouth and kindly gray eyes Paula said she didn't need a maid but Gwen insisted she have one and after a da day or two Paula vas was glad she had Anna for forthe forthe or orthe the girl was a good companion con and she needed a confidante and a companion companion com corn panion in the house It was good to have someone to talk alk to someone to tell ten about the great love she had for tor Jerry anc and the great wrong she had done him Anna listened faithfully for she Paula Paula felt somehow cleaner and fresher after she had hac unburdened herself to Anna Not No everything of course she told her Nothing about the alibi she he was giving Jerr Jerry That was between her and Gwen and Jerry but Jerry but other things The things she and Jerry were were going to do when Jerry was wa free the travels they were going I to make the kind of wife she was wa going fo Co be Sometimes they went together into Jerrys Jerry's bedroom to look at it and found snapshots of him when he was young and Gwen was young At the town house at Keystone a athe at atthe atthe the big ranch Mr Trevor had in Arizona In Paris where here Gwen had been to school and in London where Jerry had been to school as a boy for a year ear Ian 1 Many Promises Promise Paula loved to look at the pictures pic plc- tures lures and Anna although sh she wasn't terribly interested in them pretended interest Youre going to be so happy when hes he's free she would say Paula lov loved d to hear her say it and anda a great feeling of ot love for lor Jerry Jerri for the whole world for or the Tre Tre- vors came caine up in her heart when I Anna said that The fhe were good to herbut her but still she didn't understand them their silences their ir irrelevant irrelevant ir- ir relevant rele conversations tho the wall wal they had built around themselves Anything she Wanted they would give her she knew She had only to ask This is your home now nou I Paula Gwen had said th that t first firs day And Keystone is your our home too as much as ours Youre You're on one of us Jerrys Jerry's wife wite Gwen talked about the car that tha would be hers soon the mink coa coat cont which was to be her present from Mrs Trevor the pearls Mrs rs Trevor Trevor Tre- Tre vor had been saving for Jerrys Jerry's wife wiCe Yet when Gwen put her arms arm around Paulas Paula's shoulders the girl girl felt they were strange arms Arms Arm that didn't want to enfold her but bu which shieh were enfolding her anyway Her tastes were deterred deferred to on menus on everything Mrs Trevor Trevo even asked her what colors she preferred preferred pre pre- in the suite at Ke Keystone stone and if she would want her bedroom in inthe inthe inthe the town house done over Jerrys Jerry's annulment proceedIngs ot of course cours had been canceled that fir fira Ir day P Paula tila came to the house The were were never spoken of after aCter Gw had told her what Nesbit was doi i Cant the tho grand jur jury hur hun thin things s Paula asked Gwen on onda on da day daj- f Nesbit says not not but but the hearin will be soon now now any any day day day- 4 Continued Friday t Copyright 1936 for tor 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