| Show I I q I r q I I c Ip Ir t I bi I I x 2 t I You Vou poor simp simpi I Gloria flamed at her to ma e a bid like that when you had a bust hand handl I I J ie B n D. D THE STORY SO F FAR R. R Gloria Gordon beautiful flapper marries Dick Gregory a young lawyer lIer idea of of marriage is fun Luti un and nd fine clothes but no work for children n. n She has hysterics Dick tells her shell she'll have to do her ber own ho house house- se- se work Dick borrows Maggie his mothers mother's maid to teach Gloria to cook But she refuses to learn Gloria gives a gay housewarming and invites Stanley Wayburn an actor with whom hom she was once in f love When he comes Dick is instantly in- in in-I in j jealous of him although he devotes all his attention to Mrs Irs Myra yra Gail The wild party part breaks up when Lola Hough Rough scolds Bill her husband husband hus bus band for petting May rray Seymour wife of o Dr John Seymour Maggie Maggie Maggie Mag Mag- gie disgusted quits her job J Gloria hires Ranghild Swanson as maid although Dick tells her they cannot afford a a. servant Then Gloria buys hundreds of dollars' dollars worth of clothes and insists upon having a new car In despair Dick sells his old roadster to buy one v for her L Gloria takes Wayburn joy joy- joy name and Is seen by Mother lother Gregory who begs bess Gloria to mend her ways Next day Gloria invites Wayburn May Seymour and Jim Carewe to the house A party is In progress when Dick returns He puts the guests out of the house Mother Gregory manages to have Gloria elected to the Home Women's Women's Wo Wo- mens men's club May lay Seymour finds that she has been left leU out of the membership because of her affair with Jim Carewe Crushed she de decides Ie- Ie to give Jim up NOW G GO ON WITH WITH THE THE STORY Early the next morning while Gloria and Ranghild were busIly busily busily busi busI- ly unpacking the wardrobe trunk the front doorbell rang three times Mrs Se Seymours Seymour's mours ring Ask AsI her to come up here please Ranghild Ranghild Rang Hang hild hUd Gloria said Sure en enough ugh it was May May triumphant In a new spring suit and a felt relt hat crowned with lilacs macs She was freshly rouged and powdered And there was a flicker of humor in her green eyes In short May was again Ah hah you thought Id I'd be in sackcloth and ashes didn't you she asKed Gloria in her impudent turndown turndown turn turn- just because Id I'd had a way old down from a club of miserable frumps Not on your our eyebrow pencil pencil pen pen- cil Those dames cant can't high nat me dearie deane I dont don't want to belong to their little group of serious serious serious seri seri- thinkers ous May sat down before Glorias Gloria's dressing table and rubbed some per perfume perfume pers fume un under er her pointed chin ane une grinned impishly Are you going to join Women's Women's Wo Wo- 0 exactly see you ou In a Home mens men's club she said Youre Youle hardly hardly hard hard- ly a type Glor Glory I wish you wouldn't join i I think you you- owe it to me not to sho show those women that Just t to V they cant can't snub me and get awa away with it Gloria set her lips firmly Ive promised Mother Gregory Id I'd join she said She had no intention in intention m- m of being an outcast along with May There were points where friendship ceased This was one of them I thought you ou didn't care a darn whether you OU got into got Into the club or not Gloria went on anwa anyway You just said you didn't May bit her lip That was pure bunk she con con- Whistling in the dark to keep keel up my courage May wiped her eyes and blew her nose loudly Gloria could see that she was having hard work to fight back the tears in her eyes Between you and me Gloria she said shakily its all but killed me tx tI hear that they didn't want me in n that club I never used to care what women said about me but this got sot my goat somehow You tako talo It from me its it's no use trying to buck other women They've laid down certain lines JInes and a girl follows them they'll get her they've almost got m me Why Vh this morning when Jim phon phoned d I wouldn't even let him talk tall to me fraid the phone girl might be he listening In And V cross my heart there never has been anything really wrong between me mei i and Jim just a little foolish foolish- I ness Gloria was sure that May was telling the truth I came in to ask you to togo go downtown with me but I can see youre you're too busy bus May s said id naturally natural natural- ly after arter a minute or two Dont forget that Im I'm having the card club Thursday will you Its It's the last time well we'll all see our loving enemy Myra Gail Gall before she goes away next week weel I 1 thought you liked Myra 1 Gloria said surprised Yeh I love her the way you do May retorted ed making little cl claws ws of her two hands But just the same sanie Id I'd rather have her for a friend than an enemy and a a. friend of all an these club women women women wo wo- wo- wo men who've iced me besides May picked up a hand mirror and I studied her face I Ye gods I believe Im I'm getting aline aline a aline line between my eyebrows she cried or 01 is it Just a shadow By the way isn't this hat of mine the cats cat's I spent all the money for the butchers butcher's bill on It Theres There's one place where I Ican Ican Ican can knock the rest of the women a Chicago loop anyway clothes Glorias Gloria's smile pitied May She knew that May was far from being well dressed Her lIer hat bat was too garish garIsh gar gar- ish her tan shoes shoes- too tan her thin stockings too thin Myra Gail wa was the dressed best woman In town when It carne came to that With ith a pang Gloria thought of Paris and the clothes M Myra ra would bring home from Paris I After May had gone she went ent back unhappily to the job of unpacking unpacking un un- packing the trunk that was as destined destined des des- es- es tined not to cross the ocean in the hold of ofa a French boat How lIow stingy Dick was not to let her go with ra M That afternoon a letter came a large laige white envelope with hand hand- writing that had a a. certain dash a careless charm Gloria knew mew somehow that It was front from Stanley Va Wayburn burn before she looked at it A thrill ran through her as she opened it Russet dear It sa said sad d. d Theres Theres so much I want to say to you And yet yeL when I come to to write it it It isn't much just this I must see you Women Where here Make it soon Phone me No o name was signed to the little note flote Gloria didn't like that It seemed cowardly not to sign ones one's name to a letter She would have liked Stan to run chances for her But then she knew he never I would He never had Safety First That was as his motto She tore up and threw it into the waste aste basket Then it into the waste basket Then fearful fearful fearful fear fear- ful lest Ranghild might piece It to together together together to- to gether and read It she took the torn pieces downstairs and burned them in the living room grate After Atter t that lat she ran upstairs to her room bolted the door and telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned Stanley Wayburn An hour later the two of them were together speeding along the lonely country roads west o of town in the car that had been Glorias Gloria's birthday gift from Dick Glorias Gloria's heart was like a wild bird suddenly freed from the cage that had bruised its wings The rhe eyes she turned to Wayburn were starry with happiness ss and wet with tears of relief at seeing him again Ive missed you ou so she said Wayburn's rn's arms went around her hei like a vise He kissed her hungrily I I I Gloria closed her eyes Look out Stan yelled He grabbed the the- steering wheel ju jut Just t in time to keep them from swerving off the road Into the ditch that ran along it Gloria straightened her hat and took a tighter hold on the wheel Well Vell she sighed if I have todie todie to todie die in an automobile accident Id I'd rather be with you at the time than anyone else in the world Stan smiled grimly Im not so keen leen On dying ding just now so keep your eyes ees on the road he said Under his harshness Gloria a flower It was blue dusk when they drove e back Into town The Tue street lamps made golden pools In the wet streets Gloria drove e the car into a dark and lonely side street to let Waburn Wayburn Wayburn Way Way- burn out A few days ago this precaution precaution pre pre- caution would never ne have occurred to her But Dut since May lay had been black balled by bythe the Home Womans Woman's club Gloria was waR afraid of people and the things they might say about her and Stan Will you ou meet me day after ater to tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow same time and place Stan asked opening the door of ot the machine Gloria shook her head Cant she said Thurs Thurs- day Ive I've promised May Ia 1 ld 1 go o to the tho card carel club meeting that dt diy day She lon longed ed to ask him he couldn't meet met her the next after arter- noon But Buthe she he didn't have ha the courage cour our age She had a a. miserable ron eon on- on that there was a woman mixed up in Stan did en e en engagement encasement he had Search for fot the woman and you ou often orten found Stan at atthe the same time And Thursday afternoon when Gloria went U up the front walk to toMay's tota Mays Maj's ta 1 louse she wa was still wonder wonder- |
