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Show Something. Mrs. Manners said hesitantly something rather horrid happened last night, and Ferdy was arrested. Her eyes fiHed she again, straightened the collar It was all rather horrid, again. and itll all be forgotten this time next W'eek, she said cheerfully. So lets not talk about it! Arrested! Victoria echoed, aghast Why what happened? There was an accident I dont know just what happened, Magda said, her eyes watering. It was all so horrible! He had been drink-inof course, and he was driving May Finee home they were both in the car asleep, right near where the smash was. Who were? If it had been anyone but May! Mugda sighed. However, they say the poor fellowll get well, and Ferdy can stand the damages. He was all smashed up, the man they ran into, and its a miracle they werent all killed! But if hed been with anyone but May! Whos she? Oh, shes a cheap little Idiot I used to know years ago May Smith; she married Tony Feeney and divorced him and spent a few weeks in Paris, so now shes Madame Finee, and she can hardly remember an English word! And does Ferdy like her? Magda looked at her daughter ruminatively, answered mildly. Rather. And of course shes making passes at Ferdy. Oh? Vicky said. It was the old atmosphere again! Or rather, at the Manners money, which is very stupid for me, Magda ended the subject cheerfully. Stupid, thats what it is, for Ferdy d never look at anyone like May! And now tell me more about today did you say Grace Peacock was there? Shes Margery Kings mother. I know she is, and I know she went all over Europe trying to get a priest to marry her to Joe Peacock, and couldnt Vicky said Margerys nice, g, SYNOPSIS Herrendeen, an little girl, had been SJuie shock that came L too young when her rlith Herrendeen. lost his for- f' soul, he iS eentle, unobtrusive as an obscure chemist , mployed Francisco, at a meager Magda, cannot adjust "change She Is a beautiful salary a herself woman men ! Pleasure and a magnet for and Victoria have Magda "down at a summer resort and . ' lns them for the excus-- ? , eaves for a bridge party, a "runaway. rself for being such Is grief stricken , Hat night Victoria she hears her parents quarreling, ierrendeens return to their small apartment. Keith does Francisco of Magdas mad social life re-- ' , quarrel frequently. Magda and a diamond from flowers man fiom Manners, a wealthy na whom she had met less than arrives a few before. Manners a later. Magda shows him that has been In the Her-- , family for many years. Vic is 4 when she learns her mother contemplated selling it. Manners made Into an evening wrap for ' week-end- RON lre itribiw, ODthietoimer bornedfingea, r; iiqinctyr-c is betitoi t heuefa-- n On.5 r ironing Be rta wreyoorr, Llffhting Cotrou nt It savooo, thing U roD. 0 Chi-dra- i, ft, STOVI co. Coiatt a m KCiiu. , hence t inquist. CHAPTER lertment, II Continued 3 this night that there on vas was nence jst talk of sending Victoria to Victorias heart rdrng schooL of joy at the on a bound t $1 inquisit, to be a time of It appeared almost that she and her diately sr were going up to Tahoe to Anna Brock. Mrs. Brock was i friend who had a daughter line; Victoria and Catherine own each other, not very indy, all their lives. They had s rather shyly liked each oth- - iertinent seemed s sg plans. .1 will you be ' SECTS ats a onre? If we t .e a! sealed our pretty expensive trip J dealer can afford t surely you can affori once? there, SHRUBS up at all, week- - up try. isnt going to cost said her mother. us ver; The cot belongs to Annas sister, am xid wont be much. i, are we sort of boarding " nor or, not k Ids. r? nettling like that. putting then gave Victoria a little h iAII Hant tram, parting. it belonged to my mother it mother before her youvi t, the pearl and onyx set. you to have it. e a kep ch was M t p. Evan ona A friend at done te vc I eat ii I him. Dad to have much fun And shi her shoul write you I love you! the first day or two Mrs ' and Magda talked togethei nary laa(l, inly. Adler rough del aonous mil r and inexhaustibly Je and Victoria did no for they were embarked upoi 'ost enchanting adventure o: hves. All day long, and fai be beautiful summer nights 10 talked and laughed and cooked and walked to r giggled their way througl lures that supplied them wit! s material for laughter anc "fitially ' ve wae m n causing rvousneee I 'f ! atui M.f" J colo" clean EAL to 111 H upper Tor, clung not going you were going! back to him over e bette r felt Herrendeen, go, relieve how all ied scence. whom httle II cabin was On the the eas lake; it was so smal happy party had the feel nvmg out of doors. 'a or two to the west was the a settlement of informally lake homes; the Brock as all by itself, with a little r sandy beach of its own. and Magda and the two girls themselves the sori ia be Esther cm City h'br , T1- - weak a"1, I d'd ,t ml loing and ,ca h comP to fund"1 n lr that women love in sum-ads, bowls of berries, boxed 3 1 ea 1 j s. ,! and the! Bred,' Ct he fruits. "rias beautiful mother had lend one of the homeliest ol Hut Anna Brock had an charm of her own, and 8 tremely brilliant. She 1.renc1 an3 German, and in er she was going to New teach Latin in a boys nd then Catherine joy ol rse be mnd ,e San phced Wlth Vlc Rafael boarding would still be togeth- - r 11 I e the V "i- ,Ufi it. j !'S I ,11ml- 'fa . - y i, If 7 itej j r,r,ri J r ipV 9 affo: Er(-'a- tfJV1 ' how can we oria asked one day, Lu.a,ld hrr ddufthter h: lrou shallow do; to 8 t rock and we , n ite II iipoe - a Euod chance to talk BUi, 0ut Anna or Kitt: !fida said, by way a moments hesitutn want you to fc her mother pre "'iStttxng a divor Nevada d li.i la'1erAuntm Annas cab leJu a llne andon that d, 'ng drive we we rnd arranged it. u,1't 0 ft this. looking at h mother steadily; she had not moved a muscle. Now she swallowed with a dry throat. There were tears in Magda's yes and in her voice; and she stopped short and looked away over the dazzle of blue water. Oh, the break is terrible, I know that I know it now! But after a few weeks after a month or two everyone gets used to it and the two persons who have grown nervous and irritable and wretched together are free! But then when will I see Dad? Victoria asked, tears gushing from her eyes. Can I write to him? My darling, of course. And hell come to see you at school, take you out to movies! Why, Im writing him today, and Ill put your love in. It seemed less strange the next day; Dad and Mother separating. Still Victoria tried to adjust her thoughts to all the amazing angles of this new turn of affairs, thought that she would go and see Dad often, too, if she could get away from school. And perhaps next year he and she would have their little dream house on the shore for a few weeks, and cook waffles and scrambled eggs. This was late August. It was in early October that Victoria, slim and busy and happy in the dark blue Dominican uniform, with the dazzling collar of her bluejackets blouse turned back at the neck, and the pale blue scarf that marked her as a freshman blowing in the autumn wind, was stopped as she was racing in Catherines wake across the school playground. Letter for you, Victoria, said Sister Beata, extending it in a clean, cool hand. Oh, thank you, Ster, V'ctoria gasped, seizing it. It was from her mother, who was down in Santa Barbara with the Arnolds. It told her happily, simply, that her mother and Ferdinand Ainsa y Castello Manners, for you may as well have his whole name, my darling, although Ive only got the first and the last on my new cards, had been married that day at noon. Her father came to see her now and then, on Sundays. They were oddly silent, oddly ill at ease with each other. Victoria saw her stepfather only in flying glimpses for the remainder of her school life. He and her mother were at the big Manners cattle ranch down in the Argentine for two years, and when they came back Victoria was preparing for a second trip to Europe. Mother Raymond had written to her mother about leaving her in the school there for the final year of French and music and culture generally, and Victoria had only one real visit with her mother before it was time to go. Ferdinand Manners had leased the big Chalmers place in Burlingame; Magda was back among her friends again and giddy with happiness and triumph. Victoria spent a somewhat bewildered yet happy Easter vacation there, exploring all the garden paths and all the big rooms. She came back to California at another Easter time, eighteen years old, and ready to graduate with her class. Her mother met her in New York, and they made the transcontinental trip together. Ten weeks later Victorias handsome bags were packed again, and she went down to the Chalmers place for the summer. The beautiful Chalmers house was open to summer breezes and filled with summer flowers; the Chinese butler, discreet in his purple and blue silks, motioned her upstairs. Another Oriental took her bags; her mothers maid, who had crossed the continent with them a few weeks before, met her at the top of the stairs. Vic asked to see her mother. Magda was in her magnificent bedroom, a large airy apartment flanked by an enormous bath, by a complete dressing room, by an upper balcony. Victoria found her mother stretched on a couch by a window; she was not reading the magazine she held, and her eyes were absent and reddened a little from recent tears. At the sight of the girl she began to cry again, and they clasped each other closely. My darling, youre home at last! If you knew if you knew how Ive wanted you! Magda sobbed. She Instantly regained control of herself and smiled wnth trembling lips, straightening the collar of Victorias blouse as the girl knelt beside her. Va- - it all wondetful? she said. It was perfect. And at the end we all cried because we weren't all going to be back in September! But, Mother Victoria laughed. dearest, you re not well? 'I've been feeling wretchedly. awn-mge- d slowly. And . youre adorable, only you have those Herrendeen eyes that you must remember to keep open, Did you get Magda said lovingly. yourself some lovely things in Paris? Not expensive. But I Some. got one yes, I have two or three youll love. Have you had it waved, Vic? My hair? No, thats just brushing and setting. Convent-bred- , and with an instinctive distaste for Ferdy and for Fer- - this, Vicky. But the beginning of it all going wrong was of course that there were always other women. His wife was only to wear the jewels and be introduced to all the business friends, big German and Spanish cattle men, scores of them! The wife is a figurehead after the first year. If she has sons, and keeps the peace with his family, and forgives him everything, the man is pleased with her. If she gets temperamental, tries to assert herself, he is annoyed. But he goes his own way just the same. Victoria looked thoughtful, her fine dark brows drawn together. You oughtnt to stay here. Where, Magda asked simply, ought we go? The summer idled itself into autumn, and Victoria and Magda went down to the shore again. This time they had the smartest cottage at the lodge, and the beautiful Mrs. Manners was much admired and entertained. Mr. Manners, she explained to everyone, with a flash of white teeth, was fishing for steel-hea- d up in the Klamath. Every hostess told Victorias mother that she had a wonderful man for her as a dinner or bridge partner, but Victoria noticed that Magda found none of them really wonderful. In October Ferdy went off on somebodys yacht for six weeks. He seemed a httle guilty about it and gave Victoria a large check to waste in New York. Later she suspected that his twinges of conscience were because the yachting trip that he had mentioned as involving only a few fellers actually included the owners wife, another woman, and the ubiquitous May. Magda did not know that, or Victoria believed and hoped she did not They came back to California in December, and Ferdy came back for Christmas. Little was said of the feminine element on the yachting trip, and the three spent the holidays in a splendid suite in the Fairmont hotel up at the top of the hill with the green Iron balconies of their breakfast room hanging over the fascinating jumble of masts and stacks and long pier roofs on the Embarcadero. Ferdy now said that he thought he must go back to Rosarios for a few months. He thoughtt Magda would be a great fool to go. It would be hot traveling; and she hated the place anyway. An unusually long period of affection and placation resulted in April in Magdas decision to go with Ferdy to South America. Victoria told her mother she was going to stay in California. Well because Catherine and Mrs. Brock were going up to the lake again, and wanted her. Well and because she really would like it like it better. She might come down to Rosarios later, all by herself. But but really she would like it better this way, now. Magda was gently hurt, puzzled, Ferdy smiled, but Vicky knew that he was furious. She held her and affectionground, ate, but not to be moved. In the end they left without her, and Vicky and Catherine went up to the lake. A week later, when she and Catherine were sitting down on the lake shore one day, Victoria told her the reason: Catherine, cross your heart and hope to die if you ever tell anyone this! I do, said Catherine solemnly, suiting the action to the word. It was he," Victoria said. Who? Your stepfather? My stepfather nothing! Vicky echoed, repudiating the relationship. 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In pattern 5768 you will find complete instructions for making the THIS doilies shown; an illustration of tty dys world, yet she knew that she must either meet him halfway with flattery and flirtatiousness, submit to kisses and embraces, concede him confidences and little harmless intimacies, or he would not like her at all. On the very first evening that Magda told him he must stop carrying on with her daughter. The idle days began to go by. Victoria wondered what she was to do with the endless line of them that stretched ahead. For a week she enjoyed the new life lazily; then bequite suddenly the whole thing gan to pall. Magda had her own beautiful suite of rooms; Ferdy had his. They lived entirely separated lives; sometimes they saw each other during the course of the day, and sometimes not. Quite often they dined at the same house, but the dinners were large, and Ferdy went to them before Magda did, explaining perhaps to a servant that he was meeting some friend first at the club for preliminary cocktails, and Magda always went late, in great slate, in her beautiful car with her own driver. So that even then they had no moment together. good-natured- Foreign Words CHAPTER HI (TO BE COMIWID) Her mother was not happy. GalHome Hubby Chooses lant and smiling, keeping a brave Although it is both a written an front to the world, Magdas soul was a wife is ti trying to feed Itself on husks. What an unwritten law that she told Victors of the last few live in the home which her husband courts of sevyears was a story of disillusionment provides for her, the and loneliness, in a setting of lux- eral states have upheld many women who, for petty reasons, have reury, travel, extravagance. fused to do it. Not long ago, says London Biarritz had been dull, dull. 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