Show S Serial ria I Continued from Preceding Page Kerry Blues She brushed their soft coats and was pleased by the adoration in their soft brown browneyes browneyes browneyes eyes as they looked up at her She picked up Streaks Streak's puppies limp with sleep and cooed over them Roger watched pleased Streaks honoring you he said She wouldn't let many people people people peo peo- pick up one of h her r babies She's a very careful m mother ther It was later that night the cards Lovely Lovly had sent her friends announcing the date of her homecoming bore fruit The Cosgrave mansion was wrapped in the shadows of night and the silence of sleep as a car turned uncertainly in the drive This the place a voice asked out of the darkness Yeah Look at them gates I Lovely sure got herself a sweet set setup up Te ah Ye ah h boy When Lovely sees us Roar in Drive Hilariously The car picked up speed A second one turned into the drive and then a third They began begen a great honking a sort of rhythmic salute Voices in hilarious song broke sharply into the soft stillness stillness stillness still still- ness of early autumn night And the singing gathered in volume until it rose raucously under the windows of the Cosgrave man man- sion In the house Lovely stirred in her sleep Her dream of the old days dars in the city had been so vivid that she had actu actually heard the voices She listened She wasn't dreaming It dawned on her slowly Those were real voices she he heard She slipped out of bed and went to the window Leaning out she called brightly yah Hi Hl- Hl yah Hi-yah ah gang She turned back to Roger then He was hitting up in bed his 1 night light on He had intended intend d saying hed he'd go down and ask them to come back some other time for their party but the frank delight on Lovelys Lovely's face stayed the words Lovely was pulling on a soft velvet robe fastening a large 4 buckle at her lim slim waist when Marcias Marcia's voice spoke at et their door Roger what Is it she asked Some friends of Lovelys Lovely's Roger said quietly I The kids Lovelys Lovely's voice rippled with happiness Im going going going go go- ing down to let them in Hurry darling Hurry Hurry Roger was getting up slowly I suppose I must he sald grinning ruefully at his mother But you go back to bed dear Ill do nothing of the kind Roger Marcia said brightly She was smiling at her son Im going going going go go- ing down and meet them and rustle up something for them to eat They're Lovelys Lovely's friends If they've come from the city they have hod a long ride and they will be hungry To be continued |