| Show T Telegram Fiction ALONG eL CAME CINDERELLA By VIVIEN GREY CHAPTER 26 Roger and Emily stood transfixed transfixed transfixed trans trans- fixed as Lovely ran from the ther r roomI room roomI omI om I nev never r thought this could happen Emily was the first to speak I shouldn't have kept coming here I I-I I I had no idea idea idea- Dont Emily It isn't your fault Perhaps its Lovelys Probably Probably Probably ably its mine But certainly it isn't yours I but I I but it It seems I I- I once more she didn't finish but stood helplessly looking king down at beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- Getta so like her mother Emily seemed more frail than ever then with a certain puzzling puzzling puzzling incompleteness about her exactly like h her r little broken phrases and unfinished sentences Impelled by something he be did not understand or pause to think about Roger moved toward her gathered her in his arms and kissed her And Emily was saying softly against his shoulder Dont mind Roger Dont Don't mind There always have to be sacrifices I suppose Lovely went home She didn't stay for the pleasant Sunday night supper that was a feature of life life- life life-at at the big Cosgrave house There were always guests interesting inter inter- esting conversation and com com- Emily was taking a nine twentysix twentysix twentysix ty-six ty train from Harmon back to New York Ill run you down Roger of of- But do you think you should Emily objected in her lovely soft voice After this afternoon afternoon- Of course I should be back Roger Marcia Marcia Marcia Mar- Mar cia asked as she turned from kissing Emily goodbye Proud of Her Granddaughter No dear dearr I 1 think Ill I'll push Pugh right on home He smiled into his mothers mother's anxious eyes and then turned to Getta She was too small to the car beside him after Emily got out at the station Leave Leav Getta here Roger his mother seemed to read his thoughts and to be eager at the same time She Se loved and was proud of her beautiful grand grand- daughter Roger went home to a dark house He let himself in and knew Instinctively Lovely was in bed There was a subtle scent of her about the house like a flower flow flow- er garden slightly muted He didn't turn on the light in th the bedroom but undressed in the bathroom with the door closed so Lovely wouldn't be wakened The shades had not been drawn in the bedroom or the windows opened That was like Lovely Roger reflected He paused for a moment to stare at the moon etching the almost bare tre trees s against the night in exquisite beauty He tried to close his mind to his quarrel with Lovely There had been something especially unpleasant about it There had been a time when their quarrels like lovers' lovers quarrels had drawn them more closely together than ever ver But this had been different dIfferent different differ dIffer- ent ugly a family quarrel and had brought with it the peculiarly peculiar peculiar- ly cruel clear judgment of family family family fam fam- ily disagree disagreement ent He didn't avant to see where Lovely had been wrong But he was forced to Wheres Getta was the first question Lovely asked when they met at breakfast She found it hard to keep the smile from her eyes as sh she looked at him Lovely Lovely Lovely Love Love- ly never h held ld to her quarrels Many Things to toBe toBe toBe Be Done At mothers You left her you know Roger was grinning faint faint- ly He knew she had had her punishment You should have brought h her r. r Roger There ar are a great many things that should be done One is to tomake tomake tomake make some sort of apology to Emily She's suffered enough through us and I know she will not want to come back if something something some some- something thing isn't done to right what happened yesterday We should not be the means of robbing her of a friendly week-end week haven Who is That's your mothers mother's house I dont don't live there anymore any anymore anymore more No but Emily knows shell she'll meet us there Well so what That isn't any answer Love Love- ly If It you'd only get over this cheap gutter talk Lovely Gutter talk Well that's what I am Gutter stuff And if you dont don't like it you should have thought of that before You cannot cannot cannot can can- not not change me Im I'm what I a am amand amand m mand and Ill I'll stay that way I dont don't want to be any other way I wouldn't be like your washy Emily for anything in the world No get my manfrom man manfrom manfrom from me The softie Lovely Emily cant can't help be beIng being be- be beIng ing as she is and she's not my Emily Stop talking like that And I dont don't want you to be like her Lucky you you rou dont don't And you couldn't be You never could be A sudden note of bitterness in his voice I suppose youre you're trying to tell me Im I'm not a lady I dont don't have to tell you what you ou are You make it obvious I hate you I wish Id I'd never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen you I wish Id I'd never seen any of ot your family or of ot your kind Prigs Snobs And most of all I hate your goody-goody goody I Continued on Following Following- Page Along Came Cinderella Continued from Preceding Page Emily She's so good she makes me ache to the spine with bore bore- dom Holds Bitter Words In It was Roger then who got up and left the table Quick angry words came to his lips but he he stayed them He didn't want the memory of cheap bitter quarrels with Lovely After all he loved her He still loved her devotedly And she was the the- mother of his beautiful little daughter He drove down the hill to his fathers father's place They were readyIng readying readying ready- ready Ing the green houses for winter and Roger was overseeing the work But first he went to the house and to his mothers mother's sitting room She was playing with Get- Get ta The young father stood held to the spot by the sheer charm of the scene before him Roger was wa working that afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon with the extra men when Lovelys Lovely's car swooped into the drive and stopped near the green green- house Lovely dressed for a party walked toward him her face lighted with the smile he knew so well He felt his heart lift and warm as it always did when she came to him in a happy mood He remembered Mari Marl was wa giving a cocktail tea for one of the girls who was getting mar mar- ried Forgive me darling Lovely asked penitently I didn't mean to fly off the handle this morn morn- ing I was all wrong again Youre forgiven before you ask it Lovely Roger said soft soft- ly y Youre very gorgeous this afternoon Thanks iambic lambie pie Then her eyes shadowing swiftly Oh Roger Im I'm always so ashamed of my outbursts and so sorry afterwards afterwards afterwards aft aft- But sometimes I just cant can't help being jealous of Emily Emily Emily Em Em- ily Why darling Emily hasn't anything to be jealous of She's been robbed of everything but the little friendship we can give her Maybe that's it Everything's been taken from her and yet she goes on still Emily Just a as sweet and lovely as she ever wa was Nothing Nothing none none of the bad things seem to really touch her at all aH She's got something like an armor Maybe its it's her back back- ground She's Lovely paused thoughtfully w while h 11 e R Roger 0 g e r watched the men working Italians Italians Italians Ital Ital- ians most of them who seemed to know what to do with wood and earth and flowers Getta Is An Aristocrat And Gettas Getta's taken to her so And your mother But I 1 dont don't mind your mother so much Gettas Getta's Gettas Gettas Getta's Get Get- tas ta's she forced a little ripple of laughter to her lips an aristocrat aristocrat aristocrat aristo aristo- crat like you Like all o of you She's one of you I never real re really TI will be Youre talking foolishness now now sweet Suddenly the air of that clear fall day was rent with screams of pain Lovely was off like a streak On a rise of ground a full grown white while bull terrier was fighting a ahall half hall grown Kerry puppy The bull had distinctly the advantage in size and weight but the little Kerry was fighting valiantly Heedless of Rogers Roger's warning call a as he raced after her Lovely plunged into the melee beating at the bull with her purse With his heart pounding with fear for her Roger saw her stoop and scoop the Kerry puppy up in her arms when the bull let go of it itin itin itin in surprise at the fierceness of her attack Roger had picked up a stick He came up just as the bull had gripped the sable on Lovelys Lovely's jacket and was wa dangling there ripping t the h e garment viciously Roger struck at the animal Shrieking with fear before it was hurt the bull let go of the fabric and ran tail between its legs Lovely are you hurt Roger asked breathlessly No but Ive I've got to get Win to fix Midnight Heedless of the blood that was spotting her suit she turned toward the kennels Phone him Roger while I take care of Midnight An Anyone ne who lets a dog of that type run loose ha has the makings of a criminal Roger said bitterly bitterly bitterly bit bit- terly as he returned from the telephone and examined Mid Mid- night A A dog like that should be protected from its instincts what I mean Lovely said thoughtfully about people like you and Emily Youre You're thoughtful considerate about other people You think before anything dreadful happens hap hap- pens The rest of us people who just dust grow In the weed patches never think until after the damage damage damage dam dam- age is done You mustn't class clas yourself with such people Lovely You arent aren't that kind I dont don't know know- she was still subdued Perhaps youre you're right Perhaps youre you're wrong Of Of course Im I'm right He slipped his arm about her as they started upstairs And forget forget forget for for- get Emily She's nothing Lovely looked up at him him- him and and smiled Perhaps youre you're right she repeated Per Perhaps aps youre you're wrong To be continued |
