Show jANDRA ANDRA THE JEALOUS By Jane Phelps CHAPTER 94 Great News N for Sandra S The next afternoon Irma Barton called caned to Inquire after me I was sure then that Everett had been with her herthe herthe herthe the evening before yet I greeted her cordially I had told Hetty to ask her to come upstairs for a moment moment-I I i would ask her what she had Intended to tell ten me the day I had luncheon with her herI I was so sorry to hear of your ac accident accident ac- ac Mrs Graham she said In greeting Everett told me j you ou knocked the candle against your n negligee You will have to follow fonow my example and use a small night lamp instead of a candle even candle even if It It isn't so ISO artistic I Iset set get the curtain In my boudoir afire one onet onet t night and nearly burned the house hOUS I down Since then I never use a a. candle can can- dle dIe I was very grateful to Everett for fori 1 making any explanation unnecessary So we chatted a while Then I re reminded reminded reminded re- re 1 minded her that she had told me she want wanted d to say something to me and I had gone gone- home without knowing what it was Oh yes I remember she said after a moment Of Of course course you know that your husband husband hus hus- band and 1 I have been friends for years before YOU you were born she added whimsically although I awfully hate to admit it Makes me out an old woman doesn't it I knew Leola reola as I told you you knew knew and loved her although I also aIRO knew her faults Everett reef rea z tl he did not make malte her entirely hap hap- J. J I Py although she loved him and he humored humored humored hu hu- hu- hu mored her beyond all reason His Ills greatest fear is that he will not succeed succeed succeed suc suc- in making you happy He loves you u very tenderly tenderly more more I think than thane he e ever loved Leola But In his anxiety to do what is best for you you you-so so different i from the wa way way he did with Leola he Leola-he he thinks you misunderstand him of often en enand and do not care for him as you would I did he be give you your way Walt a minute minute minute-I I have thought at times you might resent his calling on me Joining us at bridge etcetera I hope you dont He Eels Heis is a a. great friend of the man I am to marry very soon and So BO I feel free to ask sk him once onoe in a a. while to come came to us us' us as ho he used to We would have asked you also also but our parties are often late Inte I on ones s and he he Oh I know I dont don't play a goodgame good goodgame game at all and he would be embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed embar embar- to have me I Interrupted so BO happy that she was g going to be married married mar mar- ried and that cause cause of at my ray jealousy re removed removed removed re- re moved I could think of ot nothing else else else- also glad to exonerate Everett fr m what always had been neglect In my thoughts but which my pride would not let me acknowledge as such to Mrs Barton I Then that's settled I hope we we- may maybe maybe I be good friends some day even though I I am old enough to be your mother I she said smilingly as she rose to goShe go I She looked so absurdly young so 80 stylish stylI stylish ish and so dainty that I laughed I heartily and told her she didn't look a aday aday aday day over Thank you my dear I am going to kiss you for that and she blew me roe a kiss from the tips of her fingers as she stood in the doorway I settled back among the pillows with witha a happy sigh I would tell Everett she had called but I decided not to tell him lm what she had said I imagined she wouldn't want me to and then It had been good of her to explain things as she had I was hurt that Everett left m me to play bridge or to spend the evening evening evening eve eve- ning having any sort of pleasure in which I could not join But I had not rot let her see It and so was plea pleased with myself What sh she had said about Everett Ev Ev- erett that erett-that that he cared for me perhaps than he had for Leola was Leola-was was compensation compensation compensation com com- enough for one day I had yet to learn that married people people people peo peo- lire are far happier l if they arent aren't constantly constantly con- con together too intimately associated asso asso- elated That a man gets tired a woman woman woman wom wom- an stale unless they occasionally separate sep sep- arate Sometimes now I think l if we could all aU live once then go through a a. process of ot reincarnation so that we might retrieve our blunders we would be a race of ot supermen supermen and women women Then I thought if a a. person loved an another another nn- nn other it was only the natural thing to want to be with that other every moment mo mo- ment to ment to share their thoughts and to exclude anything which even even occasionally occasionally occasion occasion- ally l kept ept them apart We have to live to learn to live live live-Is Is Isa a true saying but unappreciated by you youth tho To be continued |