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Show ivf i 1-.- ' J? f t 1 '- 1 - mil nr "Ttiii attractivo living room, in groan and honoy boigo with yollow aeeonh, wa dot.gnod tor ma I newly married eouplo whovo budgor Hmitad. Not a tinql pioca was ehoon a a Hmportnf "Htnt Each will bo uioful in i mora"oUborito Tiomo tator Tnra-wnrif pglntad aHTrhHrir-fourth aHTrhHrir-fourth waH, at loft, it covered with graon and whito plaid linon, itratchod taut and tackod to molding. . A TELEGRAM SERIAL.. HAWING MADNESS I CHAPTER M Far from detracting from her beauty, Fays Ulna had only made her look more ethereal, Tha coarse hospital coat aha wore enhanced tha delicacy of her petal-like petal-like akin and lovely feature. Pallid and without a touch of make-up, aha lay on tha high narrow bed. Kerfs Rata Karl's rosea, tha asms sweetheart rosea ha had aent to Judith, were on tha .dressing table, but . on of the long etemmed pink bud was on the pillow beside her. . 8he lifted It now, preaalng Its velvety vel-vety texture against her cheek. "She ia too 111 to be acting,' Judith thought with a lump in her throat. "So you're going to be married!" Fay sighed. Judith frowned. "Karl told youl "Yea!" There was a moment of alienee during which tha aputteriag of the radiator was tha anly sound. Then Fay said. "It would be ilk that It would be you ..." Judith's heart waa beating thickly as she asked, "What do you mean 7" "I love hlra," Fay aried in a voice as fierce as It waa weak. "More than you know how to love, Judith Page. "I suppose Tm a food to admit It, but after all, what can I lose? ."Where Karl la concerned I have no pride. You wouldn't be able to understand that would you?" Judith replied. "I couldn't love a man unless I thought ha cared something some-thing for me. . "But he does not car about me," Fay boasted. "He'd merry ma If It I weren't for you. I understand him ao much better than you do. "And I love him as he la. I'd never try to change him the way you will "But it won't work, Judith. And eventually he'll come back to me." "Come back to you?" Judith repeated, re-peated, white lipped. "He met me firat Ha fell In love with me the firat night b played hi Kansas City." Fsy smiled. "But he loves me, too. That' what you'll never understand. How Karl can love us both. "How he can be In love with more than ona girl for different reasons How one will never bo enough for him." "I don't believe it," Judith declared, de-clared, bat even as she aaid it aha knew that aha had always harbored thla euapicioa ia her own heart "You'll expect him to be faithful to you," Fay aaid scornfully. "I certainly ahalL I Then you're a fool You ahould be grateful for even a portion of hi heart "Man Ilka Karl ara incapable of-fidelity. of-fidelity. I ehouldnt expect It That a one reason why I'd maka him a better wife." Twist Hands Judith's hands twisted together until the fingers ached, but aha poks quietly. "Are you inferring that Karl haa already been making lova to you?" Fay's eye aa blue as an angel' washed with tear mat htra "Do you think if ha hadn't I would ba telling you thia? Where waa ba thia morning whan your train arrived?" "You asked him to stay with you." Judith accused. "Ha didn't have to do it Ha wouldn't have done It If I hadn't meant mere to nun than yeu da. Oh, ha doaan't realise at. "He thought It was because I waa ill and scared. And ao I was. "Ha eouldn't bear for me to face an operation without someone I loved beside ma He understands me just aa I do him. "We are alike, cut from the same pattern, but he won't find it out until U will be too lata lor all of ua." "Even If all you aay Is true, Tm till the one he want to marry," Judith said. "But it won't work. And In youi heart you know It juat aa I da You U try to make him over, but he auiu me juat aa he 1. "Imagine trying to pcrauade him to be a bank clerk?" In apita of her secret determination determina-tion not to argue with Fay, Judith could not resist saving, That wai his idea aa much as it was mine He wanted to stay la Kansas City.' Fay lay back on her pillow, looking look-ing frail and exhausted. "A temporary lapse," ah conceded. con-ceded. "I'm not denying that hi Iovaa you, Judith. "All the mora ascauas von are thl him about It Judith could make no direct accusation. Karl himself didn't realize the power Fay had ever him. Wouldn't admit that hia tntereat waa more than kindness But Judith had alwaya instinctively instinc-tively suspected it "If only aha weren't ao beautiful," he moaned. Supposing It was true as Fay aaid that Karl wanted to marry Judith because It waa tha only way he could get her? Tha Other Woman Afterward what? Whan she waa his wife and Fay was tha seductive other woman with him constantly, a part of his band a Judith wasn't could Judith compete with her? Could she endure, the sgony of continual Jalouy? Watching Karl'a open affection for the ainger, uspecting their relationship? Waa that any kind of marriage? Everyone, literally everyone, had warned her that ah couldn't mak a go of It but In apita of that even in apita of Fay's threats shs would have tried K if her confidence In herself had not been lacking. But aha knew now she couldnt keep from expecting Karl to act like her father and the other husbands aha knew. When ha didn't aha was dissp-potnted dissp-potnted and nagged at him. Then he reacted with a frozen re-entment re-entment which completely alienated alien-ated her. Ia apita of aU her resolution ah had bean hurt and furtoua whan ha did not meet her train. She had delivered an ultimatum which ha had refused to accept Perhapa It was a good thing, because be-cause aha waa left with no recourse now except to go home. Fay McRay might not have any pride, but Judith Page would not wait around for any man. Would not marry anyone who had talked to her about it aa Karl had thia morning. ; Becomes Angry The mora ah thought about It the madder aha became. He would ask her to understand, implore her to be reasonable when ; Fay herself considered the fact that ha stayed with her Instead of meeting meet-ing Judith's train an indication that ' Fay was more important to him. Judith paid tha taxi and entering the hotel stopped at tha desk. Was there a bua for Kansas City? What did It cost to go that way and what time did it leave? It left in an hour and the price 1 was within 15 cents of what ah had la her puree after her bill was paid. ' She could board It from the hotel. ' Hastily she repacked her bags, feel-; feel-; ing nothing but an utter weariness. as one who has been severer hurt ' sometime ia conscious of no pain. To be continued. i Cc.yritht, 139. Register and i Tribune Syndicate. kind of girl h has to marry to get. He will marry you. Tm reconciled to that. But as long aa I'm with hia hand and he'll never fire me even you can't make him do that you'll never ba aure of him.' Judith rose. It was taking aa unfair un-fair advantage to quarrel with a girl who had juat had aa eperatlon. Regardless of the eril threats Fay had made, aha eould not fight back. Thanks for making youreelt ao elear," aha aaid. "Don't mention it," Fay gasped. As Judith left the room the nurse came dowa the corridor bearing a large glass vase filled with pink rosea, Heard Voice AU tha way back to her hotel aha waa hearing Fay voice. It seemed incredible that a girl eould have ao more pride than to admit that aha loved a man wha was about to marry someone elee. T would have died rather than do such a thing." Judith told herself, reflecting at tha aama time that thia was ona of the differences between them which Fay herself had pointed out. Judith wanted to believe that Fay had lied. But the things she aaid had been toe intangible. It waa what aha hadn't said what aha had tm piled, that, really hurt. -- Svaa tf she sacad Karl aad told I |