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Show ryt W July 9 193L MAGNA TIMES, MAGNA, UTAH erenlty Ih little elck from en Jarring awakening, honor did not have much to ssy. Anyone as beautiful as that did not fears. SMH-t- hat was to it? It was Quentin to whom have have much to say; she made all the other women look plain and adeea talking in the lane. badly dressed and sound chatterQuentin kissed her good-niga boxes. ku the top of her The atmosphere seemed definitely went to his own sleeping clearer when they had gone. They Porch. Almost immediately the went early; the bowed, carefully heard him enorlng. But Vicky lay walking lean man with the neat awake for nervous, restless, unreablack patch over one eye, and the soning hours. superbly moving woman with her fair head held high. Everyone Could sud-vag- ue Si , !na vffl4i Continued -1- Vie-torl- her absently, looked at Lj, Gut rue t to Victoria. going down Chinee of your Duarte with me I Cn. K r W thii after- - Mo1' forlint ot on Sundayl an of them ind Nurie with 1 end the Carter coming aU the Theyre bringing fought that ince you would be a WTbe here Ounce lor a children sup- - vet lquj Lotr recti kj tadctj Ur! soring Wfcf ay. H coin a, himself on like this hot still doctors are going, to have your golf you're tj t morning? toil know," he said irreso-- 1 thought I might tele-- , jdmny. We might have our fc,1 other U wait it. said noncommit-Victorimade vaguely un-tone, sent him another glance. Quentin wasn't .juji, Quentin idlpr a yk,i! rat ibetpL1 Youll get over ud tee her, won't you. Vic? et? She was completely at untying Susans bib, as Susan (ditto her. "Take your cooky ra, darling, she said to the ind dont wake Baby shes nght here. S the side porch! rt over and see the Morrisons, tjj completed it. i0h, yes! somewhere, something rang. Through the familiar I chill lamt wind seemed to i faint apprehension of trou-s- i Vicky couldnt an-l- t, change. was only vaguely con-- s that she felt it, but it was rshow the Morrisons walk over to iftemoon for a few minutes, if Quentin, she said, on an 1st, after luncheon, atin was stuffing his pipe; !.e ot look up. In their more than years of marriage he had made a call that Vicky could jee, sauntering forth search of dogs, ren, his favorite chair under la$5n the long terrace, he relely over his shoulder, t don't you bother, he said, nber. Now, h garden in nt got enough to I'll afterward what sort do! there, later, and give you some idea outfit it is. wan-ve- il jud be a darling to do that! But oddly she did happy about it, and it was rj Mid. tel flat Sunday that she dated ange in Quentin. Not under-m- g why, she nevertheless was lous af the fact that life some-Wr- it go back, after that Sun-- r wat it had been before two weeks after the day 'fcky and Quentin had first eif lovely neighbor, her eyes wddenly opened, and after ltaria understood. had laid that he thought go over to the club, $11 might oother eighteen if it got cool-watch the polo. Vicky n off, had a g nth Mollie, who since her ma-- r port was given the rest uternoon and the evening as nt cloud-clearin- concession; Nurse wn ol openinghelped aU the little out night apparel, put-- y various books and toys horaery. ! were all in bed, with Victoria's head and hair to t hundred agonizing di-4r- m kisses Tjees. Five minutes past supper due within the V ear not much room for re! Her chiffon was at Perhaps that white JpT1' me good-nig- had worn this morn- - a wide upper hallway with a pleas-gb- t, hke the light under closm8 the CUed now (U? nurs-nemb!a- . da ( r her Un8ered for lts big open window, if the coolln8 and soft-- r, breathing the freshened aer eyes on the green-Efe- at trees. he could look down toaflrd; and the berry Stretch of ne" i lawn .v,fla 8 CW grazed in th ev'ergreen hedge vided lie ,rneHarcilsty Property but d exiulsitely estate the Morrisons oor. ere Was 8 small S t th.r. 10 whit. fl!nd strip lane Vic gure wth the level of th. ,et.tng tun shining on pal. d hair nd the whit. d the u were the against ot lane. f cour,- - She iiK(ar.aso1 isdow. Cl ,i, Ieon. apparently; TeomB!lr,; Siinat enough to hide anyone who was close to It on the other side. a stood watching her and reflecting upon the inescapable power of the beauty that had been so suddenly introduced into their compact little group. Mrs. Morrison continued talking In the lane; the revolving frills of the parasol tumbling, tumbling. Dusk was falling fast now; Anna, coming upstairs, touched the switch that lighted the hall behind Victoria. How many would there be for supper, please? Victoria turned about; considered. The Keatses had said theyd stop in on their way home with Kate, and Dr. Miller would be here. Six, please, Anna. No, seven; thered be Gwen, Vic remembered. Anna went downstairs again, but when Victoria turned back to the window the lights in the ball bad spoiled the lovely dusk, and the white frock was gone from the lane. She went into her room after a peep at Madeleine. Quentin was tearing off his clothes. Oh, did you Just come up? I hoped you'd gotten a nap. I went for a stroll. A stroll?" "Yep, I walked a little way. It was lovely out Feels hot in here. It does feel hot You didnt get as far as the hospital, did you, Quent? That womans coming on all right isnt she? The roar of the shower drowned any reply Quentin might have shoutd ed through the bathroom door; when he came out again Vic was getting into an old black lace. "Its frightful to burn your shoulders in Just the pattern of your bathing suit, she said. "I wonder how that woman keeps so white? Quentin did not answer. "She was down there in the lane Just now. parasol and all, Victoria pursued, now doubled over to Insert her heels one at a time into rather tight slippers. "Zat so? Quentin asked, shaving. "Yes. I happened to be looking out of the upper hall window, she was talking to someone gardener, maybe but no, its Sunday night Maybe it was a lover, Vic said, trying a heel, scowling, taking up the slipper to flex it vigorously. Shes having a terribly dull time, poor soul, with a sick husband and no friends here. Quentin was pulling his face about with hard fingers, testing his shave. He was peron talking, n wa nuite invisi-bedgit was tall e; SUPREME COURT ht CHAPTER IX discuss-thennheh.nd- Vicky made a point of calling upon her neighbors a day or two later, to Invite them to dinner. Feeling oddly formal In her aBk gown, with calling card in her purse and white gloves carried as a final touch, Vicky sat in the patio of the Morrison hous with the injured man end his lovely wife, and talked eomewhat atiltedly and constrainedly. She and Dr. Hardlsty lived very quietly, she explained: as indeed e doctor has to do when he is building up his practice, end has six small children! Vicky end-ewith a little laugh. Oh, yes, you poor thing!" Serena aald so heartily that Spencer Morrison laughed his sinister laugh, and Vicky hated her. d, I didnt Mow whether coming to tract fanatic con-- " could settle down to Vicky and Violet and one or two of the other women turned the lights low In the drawing room, gathered about the fire, and analyzed the Morrisons at their leisure. Quentin had said that he would walk through the garden with the Morrisons, but the night had proved to be still blowy and rainy, and they had had to have the car for the twice two hundred yards. On the whole, wearily glad that It was over, limping upstairs in her stiff new slippers, Vicky pronounced the affair a drag, a bore, a failure. their game. It went on and on; hs never saw it; she could see nothing else. Vicky grew nervous and irritable,- - wondering about it; wondering when- - dine with ugwould give Mr. Morrison any pleasure or not, Vicky said later, when she was walking home, and Serena bad volunteered to accompany her. i AND HOW IT WORKS Iloto to Get a Hearing By ROBERT MERRILL ETWEEN D'co the Supreme in Washington and a citizen on the Pacific coast an entire continent intervenes. But when it comes to -- the protection of his Const- itutional rights, distance means nothing. His case in a local state or federal court may reach the Supreme court of the United States by steps easily and quickly taken. How caa hs get bis problem before our National Umpire for a decision? Hers, step by step, is the method: Suppose, for example, s stats should pass a law making a homo-ownliable for the cost of repaving th street from curb to curb In front of his house. Th home-owne- r claims that this Is a municipal expense, which the city should pay out of its general er fund. Appeals From State Court. "I beg pardon? "I was wondering The city Ignores his objection, files a lien against his property and if Mr. Morrison would think it more bother than it was worth? "Oh, he can walk that far, Serena said vaguely. Victoria did not pursue the subject They were In the little lane that separated the two properties now, and suddenly she stooped and picked up a small bright object And a- - she did so she felt her heart begin to beat faster, and the blood in her face. "Quentins cigarette lighter! she said. "Hei been looking for it everywhere. Serena commented, Imagine, undisturbed. "He probably dropped it Vicky said, suddenly trembling, when you ancLhe were talking here in the lane last Sunday. Half an hour later. Quentin came upstairs to find Vicky changing her gown for dinner. "I met Mrs. Morrison Lord, she is a lovely creature!" Quentin observed, plunging at once into his ablutions. "Shed started to walk to the village, it was too much for her, and she asked me to telephone for a taxi to pick her up. Bu instead I ran her downtown it seems he wanted the mail, 1 guess he gets his own way pretty well! and then took her home. It only took me ten minutes. She tells me he looked out of a towel, his hair in wild wet confusion to say in satisfaction "she tells me you called there today, Vic. Im glad. Shes a lovely woman, and shell be great company for you. Victoria, at her dressing table, continued to brush her hair. Once she looked steadily at Quentin, in the mirror, but he did not see her, "I told you they could come Thursday night? she asked. "Yep. Who else are you going When he and she were going to to have? bed after the bridge game, quite "Gita and Gwen and ourselves suddenly Quentin said: Mother. and "How about asking them to din"Quentin turned, his face colorner? ing with amazement "Who? "Why, my dear, you cant do "The Morrisons. that! he said quickly. "Oh? Oh, dyou suppose hed "Do what? come? He seems so cross. I cant Why, have those people, the first imagine him social and agreeable. and not make an occasion of time, "Sure hed come. She said to- It! day he would. Vicky was genuinely astonished. "How dyou mean, Quentin? A seconds electrical pause. Then "Well, I mean that theyre imVicky said without volition exactly what she did not want to say, in portant people; his father is Sir Percival Morrison. I do think that U ever If ever were going to spread ourselves, this is the time! -"But hes an invalid, Quent! "He i and he Isnt Hes lost an eye, of course, but hes an Englishman, and youll find them regular sticklers for formality. Oh, no, well have to make it a formal affair, and Dr. Austreicher. Id ask the Rays and the Sinclairs '1 see! Vic murmured as ha paused. Her heart was lead. "Why do you say 1 see? Quentin demanded suspiciously. "WeB, we havent given that sort of an affair since before the twins were born. We've had nothing but Sunday lunches, and bridge dinners fer Just four! "Why, but theres nothing so formidable about it Vic! He spoke with a sort of amused impatience. It was not amusing to Vic. She understood his mood too well; his unwonted fussing over evdinery detail of the approaching ner; his strange excited spirits when the night finally came. Quentin, who usually loathed such affairs, was nervous as a young wife over the candles and flowers, and welcomed She Was Talking to Someone, the guests with a Joviality and asApparently. surance that seemed to Vicky almost as bad as his usual manner of want exactly the tone she did not endurance. to use silly suspicious words in a grim and polite The Morrisons came last; the tone: wifes light suspicious who wore a black patch over "Oh? I didnt know youd seen her man orfe eye, limping a little, evidently today? the nearest chair; from glad to drop Into back I met her, coming in flawless beauty. shining wonSerena had my walk, Quentin answered, he Vicky herself felt tired; things the dering at the same instant why too well throughout any not gone for seen her hadnt said that he had she had small heart long rainy day, a moment at the club. in the affair. "In the lane? of the dinner The earlierI,stages "Yep. Just why not, success. a not were Vicky was dent a moment When was unable to perceive. she spoke, It was to say amiably Vic sat next to Quentin. Vicky SeSerena see to over that she would go Impressed, from her miserably was rena in e day or two to arrange that the guest of table, of the the dinner. But under hes surface end half-close- Tt threatens to sell him out for non' payment In Jhe local state court th moves to strike off th lien. The court relying on th state statute, refuses. The home-ownappeals to th Supreme court of th state, which dismisses his appeal and declares that either th citizen must pay or have his hous sold over his head. "Am I through? asks the home-owne- r. er not replies his Certainly ney. attor- find out what th "Well Su- preme court of th United States thinks about this. 's So the attorney sends to Washington a short printed petitlonstatlng the facta, giving the decision of the state court and asking the United States Supreme court to order the state court to send its record for review. "Doesnt Mrs. Morrison Play? State Court Supplies Record. Vfcky Asked. When thia petition reaches Washever he was out of her sight where ington every one of the Supreme Quentin was, wondering how often court Justices separately examines it and also the printed answer of the he saw Serena, and under what circumstances. lawyer for the state. At the Jus"I saw Serena today, Quentin tices' conference on the following said one night, when their acquaintSaturday morning, if all or a maance with the Morrisons was of jority of them think there is substance In the citizen's claim, they only a few weeks standing. grant the petition and the record Oh, that was nice. Did she come comes up from the state court. to the office? case is then The "No, I took her to lunch. set down on the argument list Law"Oh? A pause. Then the inevitable interrogation, as unwelcome yers on both sides file briefs. When to Victoria as to Quentin, but the casel about to be reached for argument all parties are notified. dragged from her nevertheless by a The citizens own attorney either apherself. "Happower stronger than pears for him or entrusts the argupen to meet her? to an attorney In Washington. No-I spoke of it Sunday. She menthome-ownThe doesnt have to apto be in said that she was going alL at pear town. The case Is now argued. The I see. And do whal she would, Justices go into a huddle over it to have sigthe pause would seem After thorough consideration the denificance, and do what she would, cision is announced. The first pavshe could not seeih to fill it with ing of the road, it may find, pecusome casual pleasantry. benefits the citizen's properliarly Presently Victoria and Quentin ty, and therefore the cost can be had to dine with their neighbors. assessed against It But subsequent Quentin, who rarely went to dinrepavings of the space between ners, had accepted this invitation curbs are a community responsibilconwithout as a matter of course, ity, and must be paid for out ot the sulting Victoria. She knew In ad- tax money which all th citizens vance that the event would bold contribute. no pleasure for her, she felt like a State Ceort Reversed. d child in a home-mad- e The Judgment of th state Suand came she gown when the night preme court is therefore reversed, and Quentin walked across the side and th record is sent back across lawn and past the berry patch and ths continent with instructions to the pasture field, and went through strike off the lien. the old gate into the lane, and so on If, In such a case, the citizen has of th state in to the Morrisons for dinner. The afbeen a fair was indeed informal.- - Only which this property was situated he their four selves were at the table. might have sought relief in th local Serena was no such housekeeper as United States district court instead Victoria Hardisty, but she made no of in the state court inIf he had lost his csss both there apologies for a poor dinner and different service. The winter night and in the local United States was clear and cold; after dinner circuit court of appeals, his subsethere was a fire intermittently re- quent approach to th Supreme court of th United States would plenished by Quentin, and Victoria backhavs been th same as In th appeal Morrison played end Spencer from the state court Just described. gammon, and then cribbage. The great help to the citizen in At first they played In the sitting any such typical case lies in the room, but presently Spencer sugfact that the final decision Is in the gested his rather untidy study, concerned with where there was an electric heater. hands of an umpire, He and Victoria went In there, end constitutional rights. In this Imaginary paving case, she exerted herself charitably to and city council could make the games interesting. Nine the mayor see only community advantage in Victoria struck; ten oclock oclock, the householder go on paywas overcome with sleepiness, and making for successive repavings. Foring she felt that she could decently sugtunately the Supreme court exists was heart Her home. gest going and to see both sides of a not on the game; she felt nervous so to Insure the citizen picture loss against and distracted. Presently she rose; of his property otherwise than' by they really must go now; after ell, the due process of law guaranteed children small of she had a houseful to him by the Fifth and the Fourto consider, and Quentin must make teenth amendments to the Constituan early start in the morning. tion. Her host seemed petulant and anC Western Newspaper Union. the gry that she should break up with himself Dog Is Affectionate evening, but contented Surely there is no deeper love asking her to come over any day, any hour, to get her revenge. than a dogs affection for his masabout two, if ter. 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