Show 1 ANDRA ANDR By Jane THE Phelps JEALOUS CHAPTER 76 16 J Sandra Is Delighted to Dance With V Her Husband I did not tell Everett that I had lunched with Irma Inna Barton I spoke of my call at the hospital told him Thpmas would soon be at home etc But he was singularly distrait seemed scarcely to know I was talking Suddenly Sud Sud- denly he denly-he he spoke Are you happy Sandra I J dropped my fork in my surprise Why Why sometimes But j you ou are unhappy often orten I cant can't help being unhappy when I am left alone and when you do not want me to have hae any young company or anything I was used to so 80 many people at home not home not servants but the boys and girls and people who cared for me And now you have no one who cares 1 ICo 1 0 o I purposely misunderstood him Of lor course Mice Alice Sloane and Dagmar Stewart may liko like me they wouldn't ask me to their homes if they didn't But nut no one really cares cares' like the folks at home He said nothing more but lapsed Into silence again After dinner was finished he went to the telephone ne and c called up the theatre He then turned to me and said nun Hun upstairs and fix your hair a little lItHe We will go to a new play that opens tonight It may amuse y you u. u I was not particularly anxious to togo togo togo go my mind was too full of ot what Irma Barton had told me and of amazement at his questions about my happiness But he had said It may amuse you He had thought of ot my pleasure That made me happy and andI I hurried upstairs humming a littleson little son song as I went As I passed the door of or the brilliantly brilliantly brilliantly bril bril- lighted library I glanced up and J eola's Leolas pictured eyes seemed to tobe tobe be looking at me with something like hatred lurking in their depths Did she know I had taken her place and did she hate me for tor It It Some day soon I would ask Everett If that picture picture picture pic pic- pic- pic ture might not be put somewhere else in in some other room where I wouldn't see it so often orten But first I must let him see more snore surely that I 1 too was going to have hav my own way as she had had hers The play was delightful and afterward afterward after atter- ward we had supper Everett was kind and when he saw me looking enviously at the dancers he said Would you ou like a turn Oh Everett It was all I j could say because of ot my surprise and delight Corrie Conic on then But remember Sandra you are never to go on the floor of a public place with anyone anone but me I made no answer I hadn't time for just then he swung me off into a waltz Good evening a voice said just justas as we h had d seated ourselves after a a delightful dance together How do you do Mr Graham Your wife wite has hass no no doubt told you of our meeting Yes May I have this two step Mrs Graham I looked helplessly at Everett Buthe But i he made no sign that he Intended to I help me out So I said I J never dance in public Mr Kemp I except with Mr Graham I Break Breal your rule t tonight night please They say say I am not such a bad part part- ner I IMI Mr MI Kemp Is a finished hed dancer Sandra yet that is scarcely a reason you should make an exception in his favor is It No Indeed Someone who doesn't dance as well might ask me and be hurt by my refusal might think ItIs It ItIs itis Is because of their awkwardness you see Everetts Everett's smile was wa reward eno enough gh although I had desperately wanted to to I dance with Mr Kemp He took his dismissal gracefully and left us Thank you for helping me out I Isaid Isaid l' l said to Everett Ill always help you when you try to do the right thing Then Well dance part of ot this two-step two and then go I knew he had had no no intention of dancing again and It more than made up to me for tor my disappointment Ive had such a nice time I said as we reached home Thank you Everett Before I 1 slept I went over all Irma Inna Barton had told me all I 1 had learned about Leola and foolishly made up my mind that Everetts Everett's unusual kindness kindness kindness kind- kind ness that evening had been the result of or my few attempts at self He had been afraid I 1 would be indis Indis- creet CHAPTER 77 Gifts Gifts for the Home Folks Years afterward I knew that it was my outburst of several days previous that had c caused used Everett to ask me if I were happy and to dance with me that that he had been dwelling upon J 1 i j I f I I I I what T r said about hai having young company company company com com- pany like the boys and girls at home And he had determined to lo try and give me a little more pleasure pleasure him him himself self He feared the effect of young ung people upon our life Ufe together They might make me discontented This really had been the cause of his refusal re re refusal to let me go home or to have home folks visit me Had he he told me then explained that he would have allowed young company company company com com- comI I pany had he not feared it would make i ime me discontented I could have assured him on that point and perhaps might I have had courage enough to tell him that I had learned to love him so well that no one could take my affection from him When he was kind and pleasant and with me I asked for nothing more It was when I spent long days dars and evenings alone that 1 I longed for companionship and naturally naturally naturally ally for those of my own age So the days passed passed occasional occasional happy happy happy hap hap- py ones when Everett was kind and considerate others when I felt terribly terribly terribly terri terri- bly lonely and alone Thomas and James were both about attending to their duties The burglar never had I been caught The detectives insisted that my ticket had given him his chance so 50 making me feel that I was in a way way- to blame for fot the loss of my sapphires I had been married Just two years ears when Everett said sald If you ou wish I will take tak you vou ou home for a visit You really wilt will You Tou will go too I exclaimed I never could be beC become become be- be C come accustomed to his sudden kindness kindnesses kind- kind ness nesses s H He had many times absolutely absolute absolute- ly refused me permission to visit my home always saying that he would let me go after a while Yes I would have taken you long ago had It been for for the best I IJ wished you to be become ome thoroughly acI acquainted ac- ac j I quaint d with me with your our duties as asI asa asa a a. wife wIre before you returned to the I companions of your girlhood I 1 did it for your our own sake although you may may oay think It strange You are older now have more poise et cetera You will perhaps know better how to maintain your jour dignity as a wife ev even n when your oung young friends call me grandpa and oth r r. r b because cau e. e l I I. I am older than you They really didn't mean anything face fice flush flush- Everett I apologized my jing ling Ing I 1 h had d forgotten that he had heard them them- call him grandpa nor had I the slightest idea that my younger brother had told himI himI him I know they didn't and care nothing noth noth- ing about it save sav that hat now ow y you q ar are more capable pt of holding folding your own with them I shall t take ke you leave j.- j. you u for a couple of ot weeks then come for forn n jod O. O I haye Kaye business near there he explained I was delighted to go home Hetty helped me pack and I 1 Insisted 1 that at she put in all my pretty clothes al al- al though she declared I woul wouldn't nt have I time to wear them If I were to remain away only two weeks I didn't say to Hetty but 1 I thought th that if I couldn't wear them I could show them to the girls Mother too would be glad to see what a handsome handsome handsome hand hand- some wardrobe I had The day before we were to st start rf Everett gave me a 50 bill I Get some little trifles for your peo peo- people people o. o pIe he said t r I 1 thanked him re really very much pleased at his thoughtfulness I took I the car called for tor Alice Sloane and spent a happy afternoon shopping I l' bo bought material for a dress for tor Mother a soft challie for afternoons a set of boys' boys books for my brothers and a dressing Jacket for Dad I showed them all to Everett before I packed them and he said I had used very good judgment In In my selection Heres a box of sweets to add to to I your gifts he said handing me a pound five-pound box of ot candy Your mother moth moth- I er-as er er as I remember was fond of sweets and the boys surely will not dislike them I Ix scarcely knew how to act when Everett was like 1 this But I thanked him profusely then packed them after after arter aft art er which I went back bade down stairs only to find he had S one ne out without telling me Mr Graham was was called out HO I told me to say that you need no not sit I 1 up for him James informed m me when I asked where he wasHes wasHes was Hes probably gone to s say y goodbye goodbye good good- bye to Irma Barton I Isaid said to mys myself lf all aU my good good feeling reeling because Of ot his kindness gone To be continued |