Show Telegram Fiction Along Came Cinderella By VIVIEN GREY CHAPTER 30 Lovely got a room in a quiet hotel in the East Fifties and grew to wonder at how small a place New York was for every now and then on the street or shopping or orin in a restaurant she met someone she had known during her days with Roger One day it was Mari Marl and Lo Lovely ely tried to pass pass- swiftly without speaking Mari Marl caught her arm armand armand armand and held on Ive moved to town for the winter whiter and Im I'm giving a party to to- to night Mari Marl said House warm warm- ing Better come Ive I've asked Roger Lovely was about to refuse when Marls Marl's laugh challenged her Why try to hide You cant can't you know The world isn't large enough Sn Snatch a little sophistication sophistication sophistication cation for yourself and face Roger Look at Joe and me I Iwas Iwas Iwas was mad about that big man he-man once once Now I can look at him without batting an eyelash But Lovely J knew new she could never feel that w way y about Roger because shed she'd been playing for keeps with him She said You were only fooling Joe all along You nearly made a bum of him Who are you to talk demanded demanded demanded de de- de- de Mari Marl Look what you did You made a bum out of Emily And goodness only knows ho how hoT many more you'll ruin before before before be be- fore y youre you're ure through Youve You've made a good start Foolish to Defend Self But I didn't didn't- Lovely started quickly to defend herself and then realized it was foolish Mari Marl didn't matter anyhow Come to my ray party anyhow Mari Man was saying gaily I like girls who can make the men sit up and take notice All right Lovely said Ill be there Thanks Mari Marl She would need a new dress Maris Mari's religion was dress Be Be- sides this was to be a special occasion She must look particularly particularly particularly par par- nice be someone someone to be proud of She hesitated about her charge accounts Roger might have closed them Yet that wasn't like him She really wasn't pleased with the idea of charging something to him But there was no other way The Themore Themore Themore more she thought about the thing the lighter and happier grew her heart She was glad she had seen Mari Marl and that Mari Marl had forced the issue Maris Mari's apartment was silver and cerise and white horsehair The dress that she greeted her guests in was silver and cerise She looked with her apartment like a page out of a courtesans courtesan's fashion book Lovely in turquoise turquoise tur tur- with a wide jeweled girdie girdle girdle gir gir- gir- gir dle die moved about the smart rooms with calm assurance never getting too far from the door But the thing she watched for didn't happen As the evening wore on her smile became set She felt that it was a fine crystal mask in danger of cracking any moment Hugh Chase was there and managed always to be flatteringly flatteringly flatteringly flat flat- near her And Hugh used words as any other man would use flowers Attention Soothes Hurt Vanity Lovely slipped away before the party had even threatened to slow up but she left with Hugh Hugha a promise that he might take her herout herout herout out for cocktails next afternoon His marked attention had been soothing to her hurt vanity Besides Besides Besides Be Be- sides it was a gesture of defiance at Roger but one that hurt more than it helped She was glad n next day when Hugh called He arrived laden with orchids that were as near the golden tone of her hair as he could manage How sweet of you Lovely said Hugh was tall tall as Roger She had to look up to meet the eyes that gazed down at her intimately Dont look up at me like that h he said You sabotage resolution Why be resolute v 1 Lovely asked with a gay did not ring quite true Hugh looked at her too earn earn- estly Mean that he asked seri seri- Im afraid youre you're just saying that with your lips Hugh went on You might as aswell aswell aswell well just wear a pane of glass glassover glassover glassover over your heart lady I can read everything In it through your eyes and its it's all Roger Cos- Cos grave bad isn't it 1 Lovely tried to speak lightly That depends upon what youre you're going to do about it Lovely didn't answer Immedi Immedi- When she sie did finally it was to say in a strangled voice Theres nothing I can do Hugh Its It's gone beyond that It isn't my move any more Id I'd go back backon on my knees but how can you go where youre you're not wanted Especially Especially Especially Espe Espe- when youre you're in love Finds Way to Pay Back Hugh said nothing more about it He made a mental note of the fact that there was something something something some some- thing he could do He owed Roger and Lovely something Finally he had a chance to pay that debt he had made by going up to Lovely at Granny Hales Hale's cottage that dawn with Emily's cousin Look he said I 1 have to stay in town over tomorrow night Ill I'll be at a loose end in the eve eve- ning fling Hows How's about going to the Diamond Horseshoe Why not Id I'd have to have a better reason than I know for not going The tension had snapped but her voice was still too brittle Over their cocktails at Leon Leonand Leonand Leonand and Eddies Eddie's where a throaty throaty- aty- aty voiced girl was talking a song Hugh left Lovely a few moments Telephone call that I must make he said And up in Westchester Aunt Amalia and Roger were alone in inthe inthe inthe the lovel lovely old Cosgrave living room A fire of cedar logs burned on the hearth and the tall candles were lighted Their glow brought out the burnished beauty of tawny chrysanthemums spilling from a great bowl on a low table near Amelia Toward the thedoor thedoor thedoor door English violets rimmed with their waxy green leaves lay their fragrance on the air Roger Amalia was saying earnestly the Cosgrave men have never lost their women I hope youre you're not going to be the theone theone theone one to break that tradition Rogers Roger's mouth drew into a firm line He was about to answer when he was called to the tele tele- phone But Roger its it's a show you shouldn't miss Hugh Chase said And theres there's a girl there you'll never forgive yourself if you miss Come on old stick in the mud Snap out of it and grab grab yourself some fun Ive I've reserved the table already And so finally Roger said hed he'd be there Anxious Wi Without houf Any Reason Next morning Roger was anxious to be on his way to his date with Hugh Hugh anxious anxious for no reason that he knew There was wasa a sort of nervous excitement about him all through lunch And it was still with him in the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon as he ie dressed Through some strange sense of loyalty perhaps because he knew she was lonely Roger called Emily when he got to the city He knew as she eagerly accepted his invitation that he really had hoped she would be busy buy that evening Why had he called her Old habits family customs clung to humans like ivy to a wall And sometimes often he recalled the ivy was bad for the wall wail and had to be ruthlessly torn away even though beautiful Oh Roger its it's like old times Emily said when he arrived at ather ather ather her door She was tremulously glad to see him And something about it irked Roger faintly as ashe ashe ashe he kissed her with a brotherly sort of duty They were immediately taken to the table Hugh had baa reserved Emily sat for a moment after their first drink had been Continued u on ou Following Page Serial Continued from Preceding nr Page brought to them and then went to the powder room There she scanned her face anxiously leaning leaning leaning lean lean- ing toward the mirror touching her already rouged over-rouged lips with her lipstick The air was thick with smoke and powder pow er and heavy with the scent of flowers and per per- fume There were several other women there but none of them had mattered until Lovely ap ap- ap- ap Then they all turned nervously from her to their vanity vanity vanity van van- ity cases Lovelys Lovely's eyes went straight to You here Lovely said Yes I hope you dont don't mind The answer was typical of Emily Oh no I with blithe casualness casualness casual- casual ness from Lovely I 1 haven't any lien on the room Well you needn't get nasty about it from the still not understanding understanding understanding un un- Emily Every woman in the room had stopped It looked like a stage setting And some of the women recognized both Lovely and Emily What do you mean by that Lovelys Lovely's eyes had narrowed Anger licked along her words like flame Just what I said Oh no you dont don't And Ill I'll make you eat those words Im I'm finally going to tell you just exactly what you are And what youve you've been doing You couldn't take delight honestly and hon hon- You think you have taken my husband from me Well you haven't And right now this minute Im I'm getting my husband back I 1 hate you Emily's words were smothered Tears were ruining her make Lovely stood for an instant looking at her and then walked out of the room Seeing Roger with Hugh was IiI like e reliving a year in one quick beat of her heart But it was like her that her courage did not desert her Surprise darling and greetings greetings greetings greet greet- ings she said as she sat down between the two men And then thenon on a more tender anxious note Oh Roger how are Midnight and Merry And Blaze And your mother and father And Aunt Amalia The name of the theone theone theone one she had been most anxious about she had not dared utter all right Roger said saida a little stiffly and quiet settled over the table And then Roger asked tautly Wheres Emily She went to the powder room too Do you always have to ask about Emily from Lovely Then still there Crying We had a n fight We fought like two Kilkenny cats on the roof on an old barn Roger looked shocked but Hugh laughed and it was just at that moment Emily little and sweet and subdued joined them Roger looked at her patient pretty face and was maddened by something he did not understand He turned on Hugh To be continued |