Show ANDRA THE JEALOUS JEALOUSy By J Jane ane Phelps CHAPTER Ev Everett rett Is Changed in Many Many Ways Gradually my feeling regarding the note I found became less less' poignant This was vas due in part to my interest in and love for tor my boy in part to a n. change h in l Everett This change w was was s almost intangible so so slight was it from day to day But that it jt was vas i I there I realized While he still ordered me mo to do things he did not use the word as Often orten as formerly It was I t wish I oftener and po no o. o one who has not lived under the same conditions can cant I understand what a difference that one little thing made in my life I Iwas Iwas Iwas J was row nW ow glad to please him where before I 1 had had rebelled at ht being told I I must do so and soI soI so I I want you ou to learn to be self self- j reliant he Iw said once But I want I it the right sort of ot reliance not reliance not a a mistaken idea that what you vou do is right light what others do wrong You I Iare I Iare Iare are older now more capable of ot Judging judging judging judg- judg ing for tor yourself t 1 know I 1 can trust trust I you and I Intend to do o so But I be careful Sandra The dividing line Une is very narrow at times You are young joung and very attractive It will be necessary necessary sary to watch your step if it you rou are areto areto areto to have the freedom you seem to think indispensable to your our happiness happlI happi happl- ness I was was' astounded It was was' had been a along along along long time since I 1 had made any complaints months in fact tact I 1 had rebelled rebelle and bitterly before my baby aby came because he treated me so like Uke I a child chil so bo little like lino 0 a a. wife and comI companion com com- I panion But it had been a long Iong time I since I had mentioned the subject I so his hia evidently prepared speech about giving me more freedom came as a i surprise I i One day he caught me looking at I II I him I him I expect wistfully for he ho said said- What is it ft Sandra Do you ou want II to a ask k me something o. No No How could I tell him I was I wishing he be would tal take e me in his I arms an and tell ten me he cared for me the I same w way y he had cared for Leola Leola- whose name now that the picture was J 1 gone we never mentioned How Ilow could 1 say that I wanted to be bo told in the words of 9 the note he had written her hei that I made his heaven Ho Ito had called her his dearest dear and sail salli other things about trembling because because because be be- cause he loved her so much and that would have made me so happy if it said to meI meI me I thought you looked a question he remarked Never pleasantly b be afraid to ask anything you wish It If Itis Itis is Js only by asking that we learn what we wish to know v from others other It was nothing Gradually the chan change e I had Md noticed in Everett was noticed by others Mrs Gra Gray remarked one day Mr Dir Ir Graham feeling well why yes Why yes why I asked Ed EdVon wondering wondering won Von dering if It he w were re ill and I 1 had not sensed itHe it lIe He seems changed more quiet in ina inI I a way yet et more approachable I I think the baby has been a help to him he is younger and seems to be i happier since he h hI cain carne came i Little LIlUe did she know that every word stabbed me The change hango in i Everett his kindness to me was not I caused by an awakening love for me I as I had tried to think but solely to I Ithe the baby If It a n mother ever could be jealous of her own child I was was of I mine for tor just a moment Then ashamed I sought the nursery and holding i j him close I begged his pardon pardon pardon par par- don in whispers and told him I J too I had changed because of love f for r him had become more womanly and so could not blame the father who also had felt the influences of an angel right down from heaven in the the house I wanted Everett to love his baby I should have been heart brol broken en had hadI I he not But I J also ardently lom longed ed edI for his love I had now given him I my whole heart my every thought He lie was all aU In all an to me the me-the the man I Ii i loved the father of ot my boy I anguished an nn for the same love h iti in ret return rn I Yet I ne 1 rI gave exp eslon lon to my I great love for my husband I r didn't j I dare daie are for toi fear ea I should be repulsed I CHAPTER Sandra Is Shocked Bv By a Letter Letter From From Rose i I had another long long- letter letter from irom Rose Itoe Ro e Kemp My heart ached a as as I read read it it and tears teats filled mV cit eves eves Often during the reading I I h had d to rDe them them away so that I could see the words words De Dear r Sandra Th Sandra The Sandra The end has come comet come I Iam Iam Iam am am about to leave Walter W Walter I can en endur endure endure en- en dure dur no more I have suffered s so that J I feel old oh so old And I look Jook old too which in his eves eves eves' is un unforgivable or l abIe He has been sd open in affairs that I can can no longer retain a shred d of ot re respect respect re- re and live with him I 1 might have known that a marriage begun in deceit It it was deceit when I did not tell teU fa father father father fa- fa ther and mother or you would you would end in failure But I J loved him so so Sandra I IwAs Iwas Iwas was afraid I w would lose him if it I did not do as he asked I J knew his reputation reputation tation spoke to him about it But he swore he never h had loved as he loved me and that was the reason he had been called a philanderer that now now he loved me Ile ne would never stray again I little fool that I 1 was believed him hIni He was handsome he made love lova so wonderfully I was Iwas was his ang angel I. I his I at fh his little love and a thousand other things that I longed ed to hear and that I believed he lie meant The sad the awful part of ot it all aU is that I 1 still love him still him still love love- loveto to bear hear j I him say those very verr things he said when I f I he was urging me to marry him Now I know he dOesn't mean mean them yet et I shut my ej eyes es and mv my mind and try to comfort myself IT t that at he be does thing a little of ot me iI i iI I think Sandra that men test too much are n never ver men of deep feeling Walter Waller protested overmuch He is shallow and Without honor with honor with women women women-as as I wrote you vou before It is b strange what a queer queer angle some V peo people peo- peo opIe o- o plo pIe have on things isn't It it Walter WaIter has the name here in Chicago as he had in Hendon of ot being strictly honorable honorable honor honor- able in business His word is considered considered considered consid consid- ered as good as his bond among men of ot affairs s. s yet vet he will lie to wheedle and cajole one one woman oman after another without the slightest compunction once I J told him 1 I wished he would meet some woman whom he really leally loved and that that she would trat him exa exactly Uy as he h had d me What do you ou think he said That he was love Iove proof Then h he went on- on onI I r did love Io one woman but she ewas was as as as the stars bec because use she had the bad taste Uste tp love her husband Can you you imagine anything more cruel than that speech Someway 1 I have always thought he liked you OU Sandra Do you suppose just because he knew he couldn't have you he imagined ImI imagined im Im- himself in love with you Buthe But Buthe Buthe he couldn't really be in love with anyone anyone anyone any any- I one but Walter Valter Kemp Kemo II I know you will re regret ret that I 1 am amso amso amso so miserably unhappy I have written father told him the whole story of ot repentance ce on mv my part of ot the neglect and unhappIness caused hec because use I was wasso wasso wasso so selfish so BO self willed But I also tried to make him understand how dearly T loved Walter Dear old dad he did understand and nd there is nothing nothing noth noth- ing but love and nd forgiveness at home I for for me me He fie wrote me to come at once and he he would attend to all details for a divorce if It I still sun wanted one I do want one at times Umes then at other times I feel that if It I free Walter Valter I never neer can I be happy again I will have lost all 1 hold on on happiness when whop I lose him I cannot eat or sleep t am an so I miserable P Perhaps if it I leave him for a few fe weeks he will miss me and want me back I 1 think I shall shan tr try that I will WUI go home although it will be hard I to face the girls and boys if It they know and see what happen happer I I think of ot you often dear Sandra I I you and your husband nd and that precious precious precious pre pre- cious baby bab How wonderful wonderful it must be beto beto to be married to a man who loves Y you you u thinks of you instead of one who j neglects and embarrasses you Love from your yur unhappy Rose Poor Rose 1 I said as as' as asI I laid the I letter awa away Poor girt girl Then I 1 added Mv Ms troubles seem small compared to hers herz YEt et I r. r too have been unhappy a a good od deal doal of the time Then a still small voice whispered Yes but never have ou been truly trub doubtful of or your husbands husband's faithfulness faithful faithful- ness And Rose knows 1 ITo tTo To be continued |