Show ANDRA THE IE JEALOUS By Jane Phelps ps CHAPTER Rose ose Is Tactless T I I 1 looked from the window and as aI she he d do down n. n the steps to the wait waiting ng taxi hot tears f filled d my eyes I I 1 was always the one left lert I 1 thought thoughts as s I brushed them away Rose came in about ten minutes before Everett got home pome We were chatting in my room and he cal called ed up and asked if It he might join us I Iwas Iwas was was so so astonished for a moment I couldn't an answer answer for altho although gh he had been jeen very nIce to Rose this time I had lad thought it was simply to make makeup up to her for his actions the actions the time she I Visited me before He us a box of or candy and each of or us a lovely corsage bouquet bouquet bouquet bou bou- for tor the evening Now tell me what you have been doing all day you two You look as fresh resh as a rose Miss Grandon He gave her an nn admiring look We shopped all the morning then this his afternoon I 1 proposed we rest 1 as we were going out tonight Ro Rose c had flashed me a warning glance g I But even had she not I would not have mentioned meeting Walter Valter I Kemp or that she had met him again Ifor I 1 for or tea I felt feIt hurt that Ever Everett Evertt tt had said nothing complimentary to me after saying something nice to Rose Rose was not a tactful girl irl After I Everett left us to dress for dinner she he said I 1 notice you still sUll decorate the walls with Number One Everett thinks it would cause comment if I had it taken down I should be more apt to think he loved to see it than to care what people said He Ie doesn't strike me melike melike like the kind of man to care much about what others think of anything I he might do He y isn't usually J I admitted I flushing Have you got used to beng Number Number Num Num- ber Two Sandra she asked after a moment I I 1 dont don't b believe I 1 Num-I Num ever could I 1 would be thinking of her herall herall herall all the time If m my husband kissed husband kissed I me or said nice things to me I 1 would think he used to say the same t s tto to her an and first I guess that is what would hurt me not being first It t isa i ia Is Isa I a good thing you haven't my disposition disposition dis dis- position I would have thrown those I pictures of Number One Ohe out the very day I came here Oh no nor no you wouldn't I replied I thoughts of oC Everett in my mind You think you W would but Uld bU when It came right down to it you wouldn't want to hurt your husbands husband's feelings But Rose you must be careful I changed the subject Everyone knows Walter Kemp and you will get talked about If you go around with him They say he only admires one woman or girl until another comes along Ill look out for myself as far as ashe ashe ashe he is concerned Now I must go dress I 1 I want to look nice I told him we we w were were going and he said she blushed and hesitated What did he say that makes you I blush so He said he would have to go also and watch his divinity from afar that a lovely thing to say tome to tome tome me Perhaps I Perhaps 1 I guess Everett would think it silly Of or course he would Everetts Everett's old Rose ran away then to dress leaving me with a feeling that I almost hated her She had made me I unhappy first by talking of ot Leola calling me Number Two and then she had expressed what hat I had felt so soo j many times that times that when Everett i kissed me or said nice thinks to me it was only a a re repetition of ot what he I had done arid and nd said said when Leola was I with him I 1 didn't mind so much what the she said about ut the pictures I had overcome that that- feeling to a certain certain certain tain extent and s sometimes would forget forget forget for for- get all about them until them someone called them to my attention Then what she had said Just be before before be- be fore tore she left me She had thought I that a wonderful compliment of Kemp's Kemps and Kemps and to tell the truth so did I. I I would have been delighted could I have had one like It paid me But I she sno had said without in n any way j softening her words 1 Of course Everett would think i I such a compliment was silly It and had added Everetts old CHAPTER A Theatre Party Party Everett was old I thought as I dressed yet et he did not look old In the same way Father did although they the were wore almost the same age He had I Ithe the wi wide e awake air aJr of the city man j t was always faultlessly groomed and j I while dignified was never pedantic lor or bored appearing when out In comI com com- I at him anda and j ja I pany At dinner I 1 looked I Ia a thrill of pride ran through me at ati j 1 his distinguished appearance followed followed he wish M that by an unaccountable like Alic Alice Allee were young very young Sloans Sloan's husband yet that he he looked Just as he did We had not been In our seats at the few feN minutes when Rose ROs theatre but a nudged me Theres Mr Air Kemp Jemp over there in that box he caught sight turned to to too d. d Everett of ot us and bow bowed bowd at an and looking see what we we were caught him bowing He scowled the faintest bit but also acknowledged q Kemps Kemp's greeting by a faint bow I knew knew he would be here Rose whispered I 1 couldn't see why she flattered because because be be- should be bo particularly cause caus' cause there were two lovely women in the box with him also two met Afterward Rose said he was s alone because she couldn't be with him I thought it such nonsense when she had only met him two or three times But I guess she was right right after after t r i events seemed to prove her herr so Isn t the he handsome she added 1 Very I replied yet I 1 Ul like e Ever I etts ett's style better Just why I s should Ild have haves said said- s id it I do n not t know some know some feeling of standing up for what b belongs belongs be be- longs s to me probably I Hes lies stunning of course for an anold anold anold old man especially in evening clothes I but Mr Kemp is my kind There it was again Would Rose I ever ever stop calling Everett an old I man If she only knew how I envied oId older r. r women I must tell her all aU about how I 1 felt that felt that older women women women of ot Everetts Everett's age were so much more entertaining so much more attractive that young girls were not to too be mentioned mentioned men men- In the same same class I rI would tell her of Irma Barton how jealous I had been until she had told I me of Leola and of herself Perhaps I could mal make e eRose Rose understand that no longer did Everett seem old to me and that I would be delighted could I add a few years to my own age age so gaining in inexperience experience We Ve went directly home after the play I thought Rose Rosew w was s pointed but b paid no attention ri J James mes served us a light supper Jn in the dig din dining ing room before we retired retired however h wever I 1 would have gone to some s some me restaurant restaurant res res- for lor supper Everett tt said Ad Addressing addressing ad- ad dressing Rose but Sandra hasn't quite recovered and I 1 thought she looked tired t i f li V This Is very nice Rose had hadre re replied replied re- re plied meekly 1 fj w My l Heart eart was singing for Joy Everett had thought only of me I had looked tired so he had made his plans because of that I 1 are arenow now if Rose had said he looked old or that that she liked a young man better No Indeed My husband suited me I If It only I 1 could hold him I was so young so Ignorant of all that he knew It Jt seemed sometimes that I 1 must bore him And I had once heard him say he could not endure a person who bored him Then after we had bidden Rose goodnight and were talking over the play on one of his emotional surprises came again to me He caught me in his arms' arms and held me so closely that I I was almost breathless Tell me you love me he said tensely tens ly better than anyone in the world world even even 1 if I am so much older Tell me ine Sandra His eyes were glowing and he l kissed me me again and anc an again agail He was in in a mood I did not understand understand perhaps perhaps' bec because because he us he so seldom gave voice to his feeling feeling any any feeling for tor me I di dA love you Everett Sometimes I am a little afraid of you but I r al alf j f ways love you I 1 want you to love love me too too love love me better th than n anyone anyon e in the World or out or-out out of it To be continued continued |