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Show w If iini .FICTION ' V - -- at-lea- 1 - icsEARL eleanor! v asi PROVO SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY7 SEPTEMBER 2, 1928, PAGB THREIS 4-Valerie dldnt elup with s count dark, and rather florid a little-- dren for five .yeaIa;, she her little finger a dinner. ? ring; But, on the ere of 'her marriage, greasy looking, Sybil thought 'with told"him sparklea ana giaamsd.- A man was "AU right, baby," he agreed. . accepts a diamond ring from a cer- straight, oily hair and small eyes. above her A stick fcooked furiAnd Valerie's should I An ever "And if contrast for ' admirable tain lord Mountford, stop caring bending Tad, over his 'arm, and a glass la his live ous with rager-b-ut with for you, I wouldn't l it's all In the blond beauty. you est chapter. eye. He was smiling fondly and . , Bertha, was so dull she made for a single minute, she went on. 11 of twirling a small blond, nrusta'chs. Valerie positively radiant, and more That wouldn't be anything short CHAPTER VU . legalized-?-- " Tad had never '.seen Valerie look exquisite than ever. Sybil had "Valerie!" . nor more beautiful. He egirls-somhappier, He stopped her sternly. "I don't parations for the marriage, was heard that beautiful busier than the bride's mother. She times those ugly friends, in order like to' hear you talking like that. wanted to shake her as though she THIS HAS HAPPENED "but I died Instead, and talked with never seen anyone half as hand- lived in a sort of aura of lovely monogrammed Tad's handkerchiefs to seem more beautiful themselves, baby: You're my little girl, and were a naughty chiUl. "Yet he felt' ' some as nd Daddy. He said .V; SYBIL, THORNE, spoiled about you. I guess that my Tad. . . , How Is Sybil? colors rosy, golden shades, touched and pajamas, and debated endless but never before had she contradictory Impulse tO' crush lent any I'm. cray CRAIG -she sunsets. While I hope she's better with dawns and NfcWlIAIX, "Oh, merciful God!" doesn't leave you anything to worry her to him, and "kill the rest of thaf petted, tells - . ly on' the problem of a real Vnlce credence to the notion. of clouds Mrs. Thorne shrieked her terror. fever sounds so horrible. But perof heavy weddlng gift.' when he asks her to marry him . does it?" Sybil lived in men who sought Jher smiles. " He It was to be a very simple cere about, -- She dismissed her romance with JOHN LAW"Sybil! - Sybil! EdwardlCOME haps that was only a false alarm. black and sullen- - grays, through Almost every day she mad the had an absurd desire to slap her the well!" ''Oh,' Margaret's-by-the-SeAnd don't forget ot tell me how which she plodded tragically, while weary round of shops and stores, mony at St RENCE, who went to France with BACK TO ME'. . . elaborate nonchalance. with subject where the stone little chapel ' She crumpled at thelrfeeHmch your mother Is. You. don't suppose Valerie danced. ; J; ' the A. E. F. and never returned. pricing silver and glass, rugs and Valerie s grandmother had been "You cant ever tell what s going do- you, Tad, if I 4IRead It, Tad," begged his moth china k comparing values all the married SO piteous iittiegray thing.' Her she'd feel badly these days. It's just as -" years beforer NotHthat rr v. I to marry me now?" er, "out loud to Sybil and me.gray fcait in loosened vwisps about wore a veil? way from Copley Square to Scollay. there was anything ' sentimental well to understand each other." 'Just a minute let me glance finally, in an antique shop on about the Wests, but And Newhall, refusing to be jeafe j her face, all old and gray. And her "Probably Sybil won't want to be "Where'd you get all these only that St Charles Street; she compromised on us of a dead man, takes her in his dress of drab, gray stuff clinging in a bridesmaid, but I though,! I might through It first myself." Ideas?" he persisted.' "What's got afforded such ad an Margaret's Oh, you sweethearts!" admon an ancient secretary and a high boy mirable solution.' It was much Into you, Valerie.?" anna and kisses her devoutly, little unlovely, fashion to 'her poor, thtn have a maid of honor, anyhow. A "with with a bulging front .V.""-.i wedding without ANY attendants is ished his mother, playfully, dreaming that Sybil will marry him bodyv she smarter than it had been in the "Oh, I suppose I've y letters." mournful, somehow. And I think your remonstrated days' of Valerie's grandmother, and conceded. "One does, 'change", "But, . Mother," to please her dying father, whose Irrelevantly Craig thought of ash so you know." w to read to it Ha and stuffed old it through, she desires more tbatr es. Ashes of" desire, of youth, and try ought keep smiling. Sybil, "Valerie doesn't like , $ Sj. $ $ the rector was very High Church, ' happiness ' i ' things." anything In the world. They drive beauiy. Nothing left of them, but even .if pur. hearts ARE broken. in his pocket , V. was quite, the thing to be Valerie had forgotten to bring a It . . . Tad? Mrs. don't you, Thome bristled defensively churchy about a marriage. Jazz home to tell the news to Mr. Thome, a little old woman, anguishing. "Lord!"' he exclaimed, "I Just hapgift from Paris for her maid of i 'i,,.:.-"The 'house is lighted from top to 'T were distinctly passe. Dig honor, and Tad had driven hex pened to think. Tom Henderson's "They're' extraordinarily weddings .:, bottom and two solemn men, with r Valerie was for a 'phone call from me. pieces," she said,, "and there's noth nity, had become a sacramental down to find something. He cruised coming home; for the erTad did not intend that kta moth- waiting me block bags, jireleavlng ing could be in better taste than thingr and Valerie,-wha mipute, will you?", and Sybil should see. .Valerie's, Excuse, by Lthe around ths congested streets, seeknil.. leter. It was on his plate at dinner - The telephone was upstairs. In a frontdoor. ;v ing a place to park while Valeric carrying "I she "that it wrote, Craig had chosen aTTver cock a swagger stick to the altar,. Itched fan into a Jeweler's. moment he was down "baddy's dead!' ' fchrleks Sybil, wouldsuppose,; v n "be the thing to have a big time. r "A letter from Val," Sybil told sorry, Mother, but I tail set: a tray, and a mammoth now for sublimity. and crumples in Craig's arms. "I shan't be a minute," she prom wedding now. I'm absolutely heart-- , Poor must 'run down-t-o see Tom. He's shaker and many goblets. on with now St. Margaret's was austere. " It ised. "Any old thing will do for him. go "We're for thenews.' dying stoby about .broken father itabout your one so. to be he tried hard -Craig have I'll for me.' was, indeed,' the very place for a Bertha. She hasn't ah idea In the ;j I raean. "Did he."suffer' mucB?"VTfnn.'fc mother ma(1 a Krt waiting somewhere,, and '.I'll be of the family. Sybil's heart 'Went "little chaptek "vi family wedding." There seem- world what's what; It won't take Craig lifted SyblL to the ground. suppose' I ?can wear tny wedding pretense of cheerfulness before each downtown out to he with when discussed him, leave to ed to be nothing even faintly dis- me a sec." "Pull yourself together, darling, he dress just'Jhe, samei ' You.see I've other. "Sometimes SyblJ nought home early. Sorry I, have Valerie the advantages of & wed of Mr. " Tad parkTcTtbe car"rOFontrbfa counseled. "Dr. Parker hasn't come' everything all bought,' Tad. Mother the' iff orf was more wearing than you.' respectful "to ding breakfast as against a buffet Thorne at St. married about been! natural would have out yet Perhaps it was only getting grief thinks It would be quite unnecesluncheon, solemnly, like a wise Margaret'srA city church, of course, caterer's. - Valerie, was to leave, an consultation; : Herer(1et Tens sary' to change our'plana completely. Emotions repressed during the day "The women "beeaiTlheiniaeal In Old uncle. very order there for pasteries. for a lun would have been different. ".ZTTT.X v j'-choon - the was havlog- - ths next ZCOURTESY-'-- Jcarry. you." Though, of course, we sympathize have a , way; she dlscovered.rof silence. Dallying'; with herrsalad, f Herllstened patienttytO-'TJTto was Tad wonderlf looked forth Mrs. at "He took her in his arms and she so touch with your poor mother. Thorn beginning xip hesitantly. bursting night day, and Tad was to wait outside. ' -She used to lie on her back7after "Did you ThihkV she asked tremu Thorne, who was hemming curtains he had-evreally known Valerie a child. An hour- passed. A policeman re The, reason as n awful shock?. He's clung to him, sobbing, like s for Valerie kitchen. Did. he think why so many- women ig! was en before. Her. conversation funofshe had '.'that home,-Cragone to, bed, with her. arms loualy, I .been failing for so long, I suppose TdLcJ,edBort "AndTwasil't quested him to wove on. He drove depend-entirelon our-- service sta- -, be checked l was yellow She gingharorwould either crossed tirely exclamatory. and "he died.. And I you sort of knew.' But, then, it's overher face; to smother hy about that letter? You don't cut or would he like down 'Temple tion West street-an- d left him up. of the unfailing iaJUecause white, to or 'thrilled plain furious, -. - wasn't there. "simply Oh oh, Craig!" 'pre.' suppose, there's anythingWOrigr do banded with-delareaaruiiy Hard to realize. I. re- - the sobs. During the day she receive every tuna blue? The blue tlpath." She "despised" things or iPlace and slowly along Washington courtesy they He IeITfier rearTtflsheekrtmwnlwHtwty-AHne Emma died gerveL 5!Laj?q?'ed gaiety, so suc- - you, Sybil? Sometimes Ive won- - woult match ftany Uea ordinary linoleum "aUored' them, "knowing - no"- - half about Valerie. Probably they had Try0ffir-toirv78savlittle and the convulsive sobs that racked It was like that . Such a shock. ressful that somefimesTier molher, dered if Valerie lshTTust lots of trouble in many little ways Desi, ol course, out emotions. l v ' ' '.' selflsh."-Bd"Jad- 's way a such to missed "each .' had ?, '..-.other when h boy good her body we to been have tliough lpok!ngatrher mournfullyoud really' ought no matter what they ask "Youll he a wreck .by the time raover-Pcrhap- s" It seems like couldn't bear any-- the yellow affordapleaslng .con her had better go because alive, SybUL no one :There, there, baby. He cradled prepared; L'Did your "iather know? declare;vSakes , we cheerfully do it for them, such, irasi ; . " , he vou.'. cet told . irentlv. when I would her ever be would to the Val back Jeweler's. father guess your thing. poor her tenderly. "We won't go In, It'a iso. Complfcated ifterward !lf was conriaant ana lackey i she came to him one evening from annoyed ifbekept ner. waitings She as air in tires, water in radiator There were tearsrln herjeyes. and forcraig . honeys until you're felling better. they'don't have: time to make a will. nasnt oeen in his grave a month. and crank case service. Use our the of them.. He ran errands lot dressmaker's, exhausted and in had so much to do poor kid! way you on, ine child! go .Talklngf she raised her apkin unsteadily t$ for Valerie, made reservations and the Just try to stop that crying- - You'll When Uncle Robert died, there was and ' station. ' tears. car in Ha the at left v garage my laughing such a goodness. It her trembling lips. make yourselflaick-babyJi-- -' u bought tickets for Tad. Mrs. Thorne "Caveman!" she retorted, and he Park Square and took a taxi back of tremble. Aunt Mary -He leaned against the ' garden brought suit,' and the lawyers got doesn't seem right!" Oh, Mums!" Sybil slipped from when she took to weeping, found knew SUPERIOR-Serv- ice she had misunderstoodrr i Almost two hours.. WowLValerie'll Her little tirades annoyed Sybil. her chair to put a consoling arm his shoulder goodwall, still holding her to him," so it all. :Every cent' But-mt always accessible. Even be having a fit. that she seemed to get comfort ness, of course there wont be any who had 'growi to treat her mother about' her mother's slender shoul-llk-e Mrs. West- sought ' s Valerie-wahis advice. not as" innocent, s me saw.-hs- r iratJHanging. over an4rriUbl '" from his quiet, strong body. In a trouble in your family-- " Tad had lookine for an ancel ' ' thought She discussed a counter, where precious stones "1 suppose you'll all get a third. tunate woman took very little inter- - for your wonderful Tad. There isn't few minutes she grew still, and only ,Cralg was to be Tsd's best man, their married i.fe jw i t ha grea t eal .reslel,o."J - her reuttiit life: hef breath I always thought it was awfully on earth really good enough and Onts, of moaern"7raliHneas. anu royai purpie. ne was notaing , '' came in sobbing tremors. ' him for who and we're the ladies 'The least I can do." thought Syfof the' widow' to have was to be maid of honor. She was "I don't pi upooo iu have any chil- - her hand to catch the light And on It know "'I'll call to him," she said. "If aren't we, darling?" And then, if there's a daugh- bil, "is to be patient with her." Letters from Valerie were always Daddy were alive, I wouldn't call. It ter; she seems to get all that's left. Privately Sybil had her own foreEconomical Transportation him. can't But you But Sybil wouldn't be like that, of might startel Lucky jValerie, coming bodings, and they made her somewould-'waTad. - "Poor you to home to their wonderful Tad. Sybil, how more tender-- of courscfiher Her voice rang shrill and sweet "' have your share; I know. She's so when the letters came, roused her- little Taddy," she said within her heart 'Toot little devil," and kissed "Oh, Daddy! .. . . Daddy!" S broadmmded,' and then she works', self to artificial eagerness. She wished . tha,t Valerie would his "Suits when they came home His name was on her Hps, when too. Business women love to be and smoothed I've' noticed. '1 won find something to' write about be from the "tailors, She fainted. Craig carried her In, and they laid her on the broad win- der if you'd love me any more, Tad,; sides clothes, and '""lots of rich them lovingly as she hung them and "; the thrills of away. dow seat in the hall, and called Dr. if I knew more about business. I'm Americans," In bed that night she swore softwere Parker.. awfully dumb about figures' and Paris.' Girliab.enthuslasms He came from the death chamber things." Mother, says I " never did beginning to nauseate Sybil. She ly, and made a fierce small prayer. she hurts Tad, I'll pay her back. -with his little bag and his stetho- realize the value- of money, and knew that she actively disliked "Ifswear ::, .. I I will." Daddy says you'd think It grew on Valerie. scope. '' She Wondered The wedding was three weeks bushes' the was I dislike hef But It if Way' spend and pre"It's her heart," he said, ' . that's the ' way they ' brought tinged with jealousy. ' Valerie was away. whileTad then, pared a hypodermic decided Sybil, cross me so Valerie "Anything,", I so has tell he and up. only happy. young Daddy rushed for brandy, and Mrs. Thorne himself to blame. ' i' ' had not been beaten by life. Life, ing her arms beneath her head, and wrung her hands wretchedly, and Tad. see' 'to Tm indeed, had smiled .on. her m pass- speculating grimly, "can happen in you. ' just craiy called on God to witness her grief. 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