| Show Telegram Fiction Lovely Goes Goes to Wedding ALONG CAME GAME CINDERELLA Against Rogers Rogers' Will By VIVIEN GREY CHAPTER 25 Katie wrote Its to be a quiet wedding Just the families families- mine mine that is because Bill hasn't any But your family Lovely I wont won't feel married if you and Roger arent aren't with us us Oh Roger we must do something something something some some- thing grand for them Lovely looked up to say We surely will Anything you want darling Ill go down and shop today and well we'll take it along with us Roger l looked at her doubtful doubtful- ly You can give Katie anything anything anything any any- thing you want dear but I dont don't see how we can go Weve We've already accepted Aunt Amalia's invitation But she's only family Cant Can't you tell her what this is Im afraid that wouldn't do Roger smiled whimsically He had a vision of proper little Aunt Amalia trying to understand such lack of social responsibility Lovely stared at him But Roger its it's a wedding the thing you do only once in a life time And Katie is my best friend has been for years Yes darling but Aunt Amalia is our aunt and elderly and she's honored us with an invitation to toan toan toan an important important dinner All of her dinners are important you know She never never does does things by halves And weve we've accepted and she's go gO e on with her plans And th se plans are chiefly for and because of our little daughter Oh Roger Y youre you're lure being stuffy I dont don't mean to be h honey ney but I dont don't see how we can let Aunt Amalia Amalia- down We We can write Katie and send her the loveliest gift you can find Impetuously Calls CallsHim Him Hini But Roger I want to bethere be bethere bethere there Impetuously I wish we could but I dont don't see how we can There you go again sounding soundIng sounding sound- sound Ing exactly like a a pretzel being bent Roger laughed gently Im I'm sorry darling Roger weve we've got to be there Look Katie could make her weddIng wedding wedding wed wed- ding a little later I know she would Aunt Amalia's Amala's dinner is at two Katie could have her wedding at five instead of four And we could leave Aunt Amelie's at about three thirty and be there in time But that Isn't the way Aunt Amalia gives dinners Lovely You cant can't offend people who go goto goto goto to a great deal of trouble rouble for you rou by returning scant atten atten- tion Oh Roger youre you're stuffy After all your aunts aunt's old Who has any fun there Fun Roger paused on the word Lovely is that all you ou live for Yes And I dont don't care who knows it You and your family You and your you silly toned high-toned ideas I don dont don't t care what you do Im I'm Im I'm going to Katies Katie's wedding You can do as you please Im I'm going Lovely Rogers Roger's voice was stern He caught her as she brushed past him held her so soshe soshe soshe she faced him for an instant and then slapped her face smartly Lovely drew back in amazement amaze amaze- ment Youl be sorry for for that she exclaimed angrily But she had hadnot hadnot hadnot not screamed as Roger had expected ex ex- her to Sorry for it Never Not until until un un- un- un til youre you're something more than a bad child chUd who must be treated that way His voice still stern And when Thanksgiving day came bright and crisp and sunny with frost painting the landscape like something magic Lovely took her car and thrashed out of the drive and turned toward New York City And Roger went to Amalia's dinner Well Amalia said as he stood for a moment with her before the others arrived your wife And Roger was re reminded reminded re- re minded of the time she had said You cant can't make a silk purse out of a sows sow's ear Getta Takes To Emily Roger had Getta with him When Emily arrived with his mother and father she took charge of the little girl Getta took to Emily just as all of the rest of the had And Emily adored the child chUd She should be yours Emily Aunt Amalia said t tartly pausing beside them for a moment That she isn't is one of the saddest ironies life could offer Im sure Roger is happy Aunt Amalia happier than I could ever have made made him Emily said quietly but she she she-didn't didn't look up at atthe atthe atthe the older woman and Amalia Amalla knew why Dinner was pleasant it seemed to Roger his family had never been so much a unit since his wedding And Emily rode home with him holding the sleeping Getta in her arms They went to the nursery together and put the child to bed Ill take you to the station now Roger said to Emily Emily- He looked at her with peculiar in- in It didn't seem right that gentle fragile Emily should be starting back to New York at such an hour Her back was to the nursery door She turned sharply and then looked back at him smiling Better let me call a taxi she said Why Roger asked Lovely might come and find you were not here It would be too bad if my love for my wife could make a S weakling of me me Lovely was not in the house when Roger and Emily arrived but when he went to their room a moment before starting with Emily she was sitting there a book in her hand Surprised to See Her There Roger paused Lovely I didn't know you were here A glad note was in his voice a sudden warmth in his heart You and Emily were busy with Getta I didn't want to disturb disturb dis dis- disturb dis- dis you Im taking Emily to t the h e etrain train Roger said rather awk awk- It was a difficult situation situation situation situa situa- tion somehow though nothing had been said that might indicate indicate indicate indi indi- cate It Was Lovely home Emily asked as they rode down the hill through the deep tranquility of the night Yes but why did you ask How did you know I felt felt OJ Emily started to sayI sayI say I I thought once while we were in Gettas Getta's room I felt her looking at us When I turned there was no one But I just had the feeling feeling feeling feel feel- ing- ing ing She did not finish and they rode the rest of the way in silence But Roger thought Lovely was like that You could feel her There vv was a s something electric about her Roger remembered It the first time he had ever looked at her It had reached out to him then You came right back Lovely said when he reentered their room Yes he said quietly He was thinking You would From Emily What do you mean Turning to her quickly his tie In m his hand all right Yes that's just the trouble She's too much all right Emily's perfect that's what she is is isI I 1 dont don't understand Too Square to Understand Well Lovely spoke thought thought- f fully filly lIy unfair competition I mean she's so good and so square you cant can't do anything about her Now if it had been me tonight and I got that kind of a chance at you loving you the way she does you'd never have gotten back from froni me so quickly quickly-if quickly if ever at all Then I could fight with you about her when you did come See what I mean Perhaps I do Roger was sitting sitting sit sit- ting tang down quietly taking off his shoes He thought he did understand understand understand under under- stand what Lovely was trying to get at And as it is theres there's just nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing I can do She's so fair and so right all the time I cant can't even hate her and call her names for being the other woman In your life And Roger she paused and looked at him long I I am horribly horribly hor hor- jealous of her Horribly Her voice was low low and tender You Lovely Jealous of Emily Emily Emily Em Em- ily As if he was startled that such an idea could ever have to her Oh Roger She was up swiftly and across the room on her knees in front of him in his arms held close against his heart Lovely Lovely His cheek against her bright hair his voice weighted with emotion I 1 was miserable today without you Miserable And I darling She clung to him with something like madness madness mad mad- ness in her arms and lips I should have known Katie and Bill had each other There wasn't a reason in the world for my being there r should I have gone with you A woman always be belongs belongs belongs be- be longs with her man Oh Roger I love you Love you Love you He realized only then how lonely he had been all afternoon and evening Winter was throwing its chill dull gray mantle over the hills of Westchester Vest chester The Hudson was Continued on Following Page Serial Continued from Preceding Page cold and dark between its it banks and planes were silhouetted against t and above it And Roger always interested In flying turned to it seriously But Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day remained a day of reunion for the Cosgrave family And on this afternoon Win Ramsey was In the kennels working working working work work- ing with the dogs he hoped would star at the big February show in Madison Square Garden Lovely was there with him When she came back to the house at dusk Roger Roer smelled liquor on her breath as she bent brnt over Getta in the room Marcia had fitted as asa asa asa a nursery Well what's wrong wron with that she asked You were Inhere Inhere in inhere here with Emily I was out there with Win So what darlIng darling dar dar- ling Emily Isn't in this Lovely Roger said quietly Oh she isn't with irony Emily isn't In It There was a faint gasp a sound as of surprise and then for the first time Lovely was aware of a third up grown-up in the room Emily got up quietly and faced Lovely Im sorry Emily said Im sorry I haven't thought thought- To be continued |
