Show ANDRA ANDR THE JEALOUS By Jane Phelps ps CHAPTER 56 Mrs Gray Gi Gives es Sandra Wise Couns Counsel So So muc t had hafl happened so much that was disagreeable in connection with Roses Hoses that t f t. t I had al almost ost forgotten the little bla blank black k trunk in the attic and had not nut b be fn quite so vindictively jealous of anything which reminded me of Leola Now row I determined to find ind the key of that trunk Batt But t how J One day I was standing before her picture In m the library Suddenly there rushed over me such a spasm of hate that shook I-shook I shook my fist at the beautiful lace face e I ill wish I 1 clar dared smash the ilie old thing thin L LIr Mr Ir GJ ih would be very angry Mrs s vo c broke rOke in In I I. I T i y J had supposed Iwa I was w alone and and started thad- thad I I 1 mean 1 an it ll Gray Jt may be wrong it may be childish but how f. f would you like to to have an r womanS womans woman's wo wo- wo- wo man manS man's s r picture staring at you ou all aH the I time if It you were were a mans man's second choice I cant can't forget her for a minI minute minute min min- I ute no matter how I try with plc- plc t three tures of her hanging on the wall wallI I I 1 would try not to look 1001 at them l or think of them I am so sorry you are unhappy sh she added kindly I I dont don't know snow what I woud do If It I couldn't spit out at you once in a awhile awhile awhile while I 1 exclaimed claimed and I meant it After she she was not to be disturbed in her management of ot the house that hat T did not interfere in any wa way she had been invariably kind and even at times timE's almost loving in her attl attitude ude toward me Many rany times tunes had llad I I 1 done dona as aa I 1 felt Inclined I 1 would have thrown my arms around her neck and told her how I 1 appreciated her and that I 1 was learning to l love ve her almost as if she w were re a sort of ot mother I But Butof Butof Butor of or course I didn't Everett had warned me so many times to be dignified with the servants never to talk to them save about the necessary work for which they were responsible that J I seldom gave vent to my n y feelings either for her or Betty Hetty Tell me all aU you please se my dean deas Mrs Graham I 1 shall not repe repeat t it But be very careful before the others Even Hetty much as she loves you is young and careless Dont Don't look so unhappy You have so much to be grateful for so much that other young women do hot not have But want But I want to be loved I 1 exclaimed ex exclaimed exclaimed ex- ex claimed passionately Loved L ved as he loved her I pointed to the e piC picture You will I will I am sure you will if you have the patience my dear Mrs Graham Graham Gra Ora- ham You are very sweet very lovable lova lova- l lovable vable va- va ble and he will see It In time Even she could not say lIe ne he loved the me me then That stood out sd so plainly that I moaned What did he ask me to marry him tor for Mrs Gray I 1 would have been happier home with mot mother er I knew I was not telling the truth that nothing would make up to me for Everetts Everett's presence even when he was was seemingly set upon making me me miserable I think he wanted hom wanted home wanted home chil children dren she dren she spoke with hesitation Yes that's what one of his friends said Married me meto meto to bear him children chil chil- children dren Well Vell I 1 wont won't She didn't and he loved loyed her I wont won't b be a wife just for that You love chI children dren I 1 have watched you stop and speak to them In the street street she spoke very quietly Of or course course I 1 do I 1 adore them But I will not have hav any for him Not I until 1 T k know oW he loves me Jf It he wants them let him adopt them themI I sank into a chair I had given way to my emotions until J felt al almost almost al- al l- l most ill III But no matter where I looked those big laughing eyes o of Leola followed me In all her pictures pictures pic plc- tures her eyes laughed even when there was no smile on on her lips They looked like the eyes of some elfin child just full of 01 mischief ready to tode todo todo do de something daring Please try and forget her forget her Mrs Gray said resting her hand for a moment on my hair You will be happier I 1 cant can't forget her and he he doesn't doesn't either He lIe will in time It It rests with you jou how complete his forgetfulness is i Make him love you ou so much that he has no room for regrets You would not want him to forget if he ceased to regret She left me 1 It rests with you OU how complete the I forgetfulness is I repeated aloud as the door closed I 1 will make him love me so he has no regrets regrets regrets-if if it is possible CHAPTER 57 Rose s' s Goss Gossip p. p It Is one thing to determine tomake to make a man love one especially a aman aman aman man who is still sUIl In love love with another woman and another thing to d do o it Also it is hard to attempt w when 1 your your heart is flitter bitter filled with Jealousy and ati al an outraged sense of justice I had told Mrs Gray that I 1 couldn't couldn t I forget Leola and that Everett didn't t I either either The day after atter Mrs Barr came for the first time to teach me what I didn't want to know I had proof roof of this this this-or or so I thought I Had not not heard Everett come In It was a dark gloomy afternoon Rain had been falling failing in a sort of ofa of ofa ofa a drizzle all day the sort of a rain that that gets on one ones one's s nerves nerves I 1 wandered wandered wandered wan wan- dered into the library Evidently he did not hear me The door had not been quite closed closed although I I-am I am post post- positive tive he thought it It was and my slip slip- feet made n no noise on the thick rug He lie was sitting by the tile table a picture picture pic plc- ture ture of Leola before him When I spoke he opened a drawer and hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly hur hur- shoved It in He had no idea 1 I had seen I knew by his actions I was already nervous and miser miser- able And t the e sight of him sitting there with her picture when I supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed him at the theoffice office hurt me dreadfully But this time I said tt nothing simply apologized for m my Y intrusion and withdrew Everett was very punctilious In all such matters and had insisted from the first t that at- at we respect t each others others- privacy I Idid Idid Idid did not realize how very wise he was wasand wasand wasand and often rebelled but now I can understand understand many things t that l seemed foolish and foolish and one 0 of of the th then that at every person in the world entitled led to to a certain amo privacy That night he went out dir di aft after r dinner and did not re return turn long after midnight All the thel lonely evening I thought of himl Leola Instead of reading or orS tiring as he had suggested Ha Hanot Hanot not done so I might have But I declared to myself th that kept t. t If II not be dictated to that I woul as I 1 pleased So I wandered the rooms until I went to hedia miserable wife indeed The world Is full of pe people deliberately go into the Hous Houss Worry and try to pull it their own heads I was one of t kind regardless of Mrs Grays Gray's advice and ond my own wn common Mother had written that Rose told her I was vas terribly unhappy Everett but she hoped Pos e She said she had asked ked not to say anything about the her h r visit she h had d told m mo but but but that she feared she had hadt tai taias as she had heard some sonie little go goTo To be continued |