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Show I A Telegram Serial ' - "1 f SOLD FOR A SONG edn ; eyou want to be. Tou etabtu sensible sen-sible as Ray and I are being. W bar only ono objective, to broom fin physicians In our field. We've thought about that objective night and day since Mr. Emery fare us the chance of accomplishing it "Neither Ray nor I have even ( thought about any romance, you know that "Both of ue have agreed ere won t ' marry until we are definitely earning earn-ing enough money to marry. You hould feel the aame way and have the earn objective. "Tou can't mix career and marriage, mar-riage, Andrea, no matter how much you think you can. The best thing to do ia to forget thi Westcott man and remember that after all you have aome duty to your mother and your family." Tom pulled the car up to a itop at the curb. Marie stslked stiffly out from the front aeat and started up to the entrance of the SUber building, where Dr. Creel's radi) studio occupied rooms on the thirtieth thirti-eth floor. Helen and Andrea followed. fol-lowed. Andrea was beginning to get ' ' nervous. Perhaps the plan would CoattniM4 M rollowlnf Fuel -sens to be fond of someone" After she bad spoken Andrea realised rea-lised that she should have been silent It was better to let Helen have the floor. Helen always had the first and last words anyway. "We've tried to tell you, all of us. how dangerous It is, but you won't listen to us. It isn't only yourself you are harming. It's all of us, Billy, mother, Ray and me. Billy, mostly, because he's the youngest and there's so much to do for him." That was the way Helen usually startsd, on Billy, because she knew how much Andrea loved him. "In two years Billy will be in prep school; didn't Mrs. Emery tell Kyle that he could go to Warwick if he wanted to? You know very well that If Mrs. Emery were to take away her support Billy couldn't go any place. He'd probably have to go to work. We'd all have to give up what we've planned for ourselves. our-selves. Lite a Knife - "Mrs. Emery's likely to do it you know she's that kind of a woman. We're likely to .pome to the house any day and find it locked and all our stuff on the front terrace. "Then what would we do without a cent in the world and our futures all planned, yours as well as all the rest of us? You should think of that, Andrea. "She did that with her nephew, if you remember. You were with Ray and me when Simmons told ua about it" cry's nephew had occupied the guest house for several years before the Marquands. It had been built for him and his family. "And If you remember, too, she holds a note of his, and she's made life pretty wretched for him. "Maybe it's fortunate for him that he isn't able to earn any money, but you'll be able to earn money, Andrea, we all know that and you know It, and Mrs. Emery will never let you forget the money, if shs does put us all out" The girl closed her eyes. Her head was starting to ache. Helen's voice jabbed into her nerves like a knife. "It's so simple If you would only Andrea sfarquend. at, owes sirs. sVrrthe Jfenerr, her wealthy pstroaeas. S17S.O0. This sum accumulated over aa eight vear period durlns which sere. Bmerr paid all Um espeoaea of the afarquand fesnlly, including Andrea's votes culture, in return. Andrea must be ready to etna; every afternoon until aba. Bmerr decides ahe la ready for a debut In opera. Andrea's mother, Lillian Lil-lian Marquaad, bar sister. Helen, and her brothers, Ray and Billy. IS, and Marie, the cook are frantic when sirs. Emery telephones for Andrea to sing and the girl Cannes be located. Andrea appeara and Alberto sUcoo, her vates teacher, rushes Andrea to the music room where airs. Bmery ewelte ber "performance." Andrea la thlnklnt of ber appointment with the handeoms. strange man outside Bmery park the nest day. when ahe notices Mr. Bmerye face Is mask-like. Indicating displeasure. Kyle Hewton. her 'secretary, 'secre-tary, alts beside the woman. The song ended. Rloco ears Andrea was maenirt-eent maenirt-eent and barer sang better, aire. Bmery "thought her voice waa bad today." That evening Andrea asks Billy the Identity of the couple and the young man who live In the near-by cabin and leama they are Jeffry Westcott and Bam and Joyce Plorey. Andrea meete Jeff clandestinely outside Bmery park and be tells ber he leaves in a month for a two-year South American expedition. Shs tells him to meet her the nest day at the aame time. Melt day Billy appears at Jeffa eamn and tells Andrea An-drea their aecret tunnel under the wall aurroundlng Bmery park haa been discovered. dis-covered. Mrs. Bmery summons Kyle Newton and tells him she Is manning to have Andrea marry Barry ChrtsUan. her accompanist. Kyle, who lovea Andrea, An-drea, Is stunned. Andrea unlocks ber desk drawer to read Jeffs last love letter and Is furious to find someone baa read her lettera and diary I CHAPTER NINE Marl and Tom, on of Mr. Em- litaaa 11 lilal . VI J sf UeKUS I BJ BBS. BV sea ss WSWWWaswassj wsw-wa . driver's seat Andrea and Helen in the tonneau. Andrea was looking at Marie's stiff black straw sailor set on ber head at an exact angle with her shoulders. Under the brim of the hat was a Ught black bun of hair. She could not see Marie's face, but she knew it so well, the straight uncompromising uncompro-mising lines from the nostrils to the edges of the straight thin lips, ths deeper etched lines in ber low forehead, fore-head, the heavy dark brows that almost met over the bridge of her nose, the large nose that gave such an Inquisitive cast to her face, and the smsll brown eyes set too close together. Never Lauahs The mouth seldom smiled and when It did there was no real mirth back of the smile. The eyes never reflected what smils ths lips might hsve. The pale yellow skin never lighted up, nor did any color ever come and go on the high cheekbones. Andrea In the eight year she had known and Uved in the ssms house with Marie couldn't remember hearing her laugh. Now and then the woman chuckled, but the chuckle was liks a cackle. As a girl Andrea had instinctively instinctive-ly stayed out of th kitchen, and the Sundays which were Marie's days off were the most carefree days she knew. Helen stayed out of the kitchen, too, when shs was at home, and away from Marie, for there had try to cooperate. Just try to please Mrs, Emery until you get an audition audi-tion with the Metropolitan. "Rlcco says he's sure they will take you on. After that you're made, radio, money, everything you want You'll earn piles of money, tons of It I know. "Msybe you'll be singing at the Metropolitan opera houss this winter. win-ter. You'll be able to pay Mrs. Emery back every cent you owe her, Ray and I will help when we finish school and start out for ourselves. our-selves. Billy will help, too. "But we've all got to be established estab-lished before we can earn money. If Ray and I had to stop now" Helen drew a quick, uneven breath and her voice faltered, then grew more tense ss shs continued. "Why, w couldn't we've everything every-thing planned. It wouldn't be fair to us, it wouldn't be fair to mother and to Billy. Th past eight years would be wasted. You're so blind, when you can't see that Andrea!" "I see, I see," shs muttered. She wanted to say she saw other things, too, which Helen didn't see. She saw that she loved Jeff and that he was going away, and she didn't know what she would do when he went Ono Objective When she thought that she wouldn't see him for two years, her whole future became blank. Helen wouldn't understand if she told her that She would only present more arguments. Even Kyle hadn't understood un-derstood as she thought he would. "You can be sensible, Andres, if 1 been no friendship between any member of the Marquand family and Marie Barry. They accepted her, shs accepted them and cooked for them the delicacies deli-cacies shs had once prepared in the kitchen of the big house until her disposition mads it impossible for her to get along with other fellow servants. Ths only servant In the guest house, she displayed no sudden bursts of temper, only a slavish desire to do as Mrs. Emery directed her. She followed her orders explicitly, She never forgot anything, no matter mat-ter how trivial. Sharp Voice "She probably copied them and has given the copies to Mrs. Emery," Andrea thought fiercely. She was thinking about Jeffs letters which Marie had read. The black hat became the most hateful hat shs had ever seen, and for a moment she didn't know whom shs disliked the most, Mrs. Emery or her servant Helen leaned over and closed the glass window which separated the front seat from the tonneau. Andrea An-drea turned her eyes away from the hat wearily. She knew what was coming. Whatever Helen had to say, she wanted to say privately. She dldnt want Tom nor Marie to hear. Sometimes Some-times they drove in silence to town, sometimes Helen scolded. When shs did, Andrea felt like a small child who didn't know ber own mind, year younger than Helen. "This Is all such utter nonsense, Andrea. You should know thst" she began. Her voice was shsrp, a little whlney, too, In its sharpness. "You are making all so unhappy with your stubborn attitude. Mother Moth-er most of all." "I can't see that It's utter non- 'Sold for A Song' tOasUsnee Fiem Praeediaf rasa) not work. Perhaps It would have been easier to try it tomorrow when aba went to Mrs. Hyde's but she couldn't wait until tomorrow. All aha had to do was to Jet away from Hehm and Martev At-home when she hsd written to Jeff it bed seemed so simple, even as she explained ex-plained to Billy, it had been so simple. She stepped Into the elevator with the others as shs planned, staying close to the door, but her hands grw cold snd then hot and ber teeth started to chatter. Other passengers got into the csr, which wss an express and which wouldn't atop before the tenth floor. A womsn tried to edge her back, but she held her place. Then there was the click of the starter's castanets and the wheese of the door as it closed. The car was going up. "Ten," someone called, but It was unnecessary because the car always stopped at the tenth floor. Andrea held her breath. The ear came to a atop, the doors opened end someone pushed around her. She stepped out, too. and the doors shut. She looked wildly around for Jsff. He was there waiting, his arms ware open for her and then they hurried to the atairs to race down the ten flights to ths street .To bo continued Thursday. |