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Show MAGNA TIMES. MAGNA, UTAH ?dJ about 1 weeks he all woman will always have It" Magda said. forgot something for a man that hit wile hasn't havent got any doubt ha did. divorce, nd has to marry the other nd W Mrs. Joe Jones, or whatever it la, and shes won out." "Not always, Vicky said. "The man I apt to find that he didnt want her quite aa much at he T thought he did. Oh. the man usually Is stung, men, Magda agreed. I know one fellow to New York-terribly- jctlce Petherxpandedlt. who paying three alimonies. It keeps him broke, poor kid. He wants to marry a dear friend of mini. ..." Continued CHAPTER X 12 L out all other misery blotted Lons and she turned desperste-th- e duty of the minute, and tying of wrapping (be Ljj Lts, the heaping of bundles. Honing I flat stood fdownstairs of trimmings on the in lone cold state in drawing room. cold in the drawing room; worked in a sweater; left I ?toria There Christ git tnmming undone. to heart in it today. always been a wildly test to the Hardisty family first Christmas b (be dreadful g Quentin and Vicky and Gwen all been ilL 'It would be no It would i holiday tomorrow. trseem Christmas again. Eh. my God! Vicky said, stand-itaii-n the middle of the room, ing her hands that were sore b wires and string and tinsel, were cold and dirty, tightly her eyes. My God, what shall i had ttm r to be done and what had eQ, the rest of the trees iming Nurse must help; It was much to do alone in this cold n. Victoria went out to the the old sen and asked Claus, nan gardener, who was brewing self some coffee on the laundry e, to look at the drawing-rooators. Company tomorrow, ten upstairs again to find beds , and the children dressed and .latiEg about with theirusual anous activity. Bricks, Cray railway trains, and blackboards all to evidence. The question actings arose; when were they ; to hang the stockings? he holes of the nails we had rear are all here! Susan said With i tedly, to interested ie hearth. investigation the gentle twin said, if we hanged them they be filled by sup iother, re knee, might no, , Christ darling, because isnt until tomorrow! e nursery door opened; Gita insinuated herself into the 1 closed the door again, r Mmt said malls sick, and I come 1 over," she said, ttorias face paled, but there no one to see. tone to, Gita. Better close it, .because Madeleines getting ail 1 if her bath arent you, my theart? She rubbed her face 7 against Madeleines little fluf d and felt the tears, hot and 1, in her eyes again and the ! of despair in her heart noon Quentin telephoned, fntyou, Vicky? Vic, will you the pocket of my coat the and see if there (a a lit book there? IU send down you find it u a minute. Quentin. It was ootora wife was no it talking; 3 only Victoria Hardisty.' In he was back. Its here. Claus to bring it In? but oil, wont that mean that no car? dent need it Im not going I was downtown this morn rything all use. right? Then Vicky said guess so fdont heavl " get too tired. Ill be Put down the telephone, moved Lr er ked- - In another mi I Was flung upon It, in a tears. To have to end have to end the happy en he had felt so sura ,t nd the children were Lu, V have "ext Christmas day Dursery to which Daddy danger P and somehow ... 4 falter. Vicky? ate 1,.', n the afternoon, from 5heer fothm liability to wa g idle Tv.mre near the flr iJ.ch tho ,t c tnf room. v chy responded i.00 mueh Christmas!" Jpfus1 .he ssid, tterM 1 t! omutf u J heT. cryin t?u,rrematter? Wh ?Sed yehrows to lnnocent surprise; at the fire, biting and tuoked , Pwsistd Magda. 2eaUy"tder iged. jLdJJ. Magda said then. bgan I w?.oice i and deUb cleared 0,117 1 woman that 1 re going to be tock?tft re. tel that about it? WOn Magda said mildly. Victoria looked un quickly. You know why? she demanded in surprise. "I suppose so," Magda said reluctantly and uncomfortably. She Jerked her head in the general direction of the Morrison house. "Dont take it so seriously, Vlcl" her mother urged, after a silence in which the had obviously been casting about for something to say. "Seriously!" Vicky blew her nose, wiped her eyes, spoke in a calmer and quite determined voice. Tm not going to make any fuss. she said. "But if thats what Quentin wants, I wont stand in his way. "Oh, but you cant ever be sure. Quentin doesnt seem to me like a man whod go very far in anything like that. Look at the lovely way he ia with the children, Magda argued. "I know. Vics eyes watered. "Thats what makes it so ghastly, she said in a whisper. "What have you seen. Mother? she asked, after a pause. "Oh, well, that he liked her," Magda answered somewhat cautiously. "And certainly that she was after him! she added with more confidence. "Well, shes got him! Vicky said grimly. her mother presently "Vicky, began placatingly, in real uneasiness, "you wouldnt break up a home like this just because Quentin happened to look at another wom- Pearl Ashbumley Victoria was not listening. "Quentin may wreck my life, she aald. "But I wonder how hell feel when he discovert that hes wrecked his own. lost his children, made himself ridiculous1 She paused. "Aa far as the children go. If man is Successful and makea money," Magda aaid, "they pretty soon find good reasons for getting back to him. Ha takes one to or ha gives another a ear they dont take aides. You never resented anything I did, poor kidl Yea, but that was my mother! I know. But I was the one who got out I threw Keith Herrendeen over. You know. Vic, its an awful mistake to bring children into a quarrel, became they dont understand and it Just scares them. I certainly wouldnt bring them into thlal Victoria protested almost indignantly. "Well, I didnt suppose you would. All you tell em la that Daddy la going to be away for a while, and that you feel happy about it" Oh, my God," Victoria prayed, to an agonized whisper, aa the full aenaa of her own helplessness and of the desperate nature of the situation strengthened to her heart Daddy going to be away tor a while no Quentin to come into her room from the dressing room to the early morning, when spring light waa widening over the wet garden, and Eu-rop- e, an?" "What else can a woman do when everything shes ever loved and trusted" Vicky stopped abruptly, choked by the tears that rose in her throat "After all, one has tome pride!" she added, to a lower tone. Oh, its all so horrible, she said bitterly, half aloud. "Its all auch a nightmare I "Shed marry him, like a shot" Magda predicted. "Shed get a divorce and a big settlement from Spencer Morrison, and then ahed ' marry Quentin. "She can, Vicky said, trembling. "She knows Quentin is going to bt the biggest of them all, Magda went on. "How old is he. Vic? "Forty-fiv- e nearly forty-fiv"Ah. well, Magda said, "thats the time they get them!" Victoria did not question this cryptic comment; she was not listening. "Its like a death. Vicky said. "Its jrorse than a death Oh, Lord, no, it isnt, Vic. It happens all the time. But it never seemed as If it would happen to me. Vicky fell into brooding thought "It ends everything everything that I ever built into my life, she said. "And perhaps Tm wrong. Perhaps men like the sort of women who go right on to marriage and have their own affairs! Perhaps a home and children and a woman who loves him arent enough. "Oh, I wouldnt say that! Magda said soothingly. But something to her completely false tone made Vicky laugh suddenly. But you think that dont you. Mother? she asked, looking up. her haggard cheeks suddenly scarlet Well, yea and no, Magda said, pondering. "I think most men would like a mother-wif- e and a a show-of- f wife, she formulated it slowly. They love home first and to find a big steak ready, and a fire, and kids all washed and fresh and ready to be shushed off to bed, and someone to love them to a quiet sort of way. And then they like another woman to flatter them, and meet them placet, and be admired. this, a faint Vicky considered cowl between her heavy brows. "And what would a man think of a wife who felt that way? "Oh, well, you cant go by that Vicky! Magda assured her hastily. "No, you cant go by anything, VJcky lifelessly agreedL In the old days, you see, it was harder for em! Magda presently observed, as if Jiinking aloud. "Harder for wives?" "No, harder for the other women. "How dyou mean harder? "Well, before there waa so much divorce. Magda offered limply. A woman had to be a mans mistress then, and that wasnt so good. Other women wouldnt speak to her, and the man himself got pretty sick of it after a while. Then be came back to hia wife.-"- - "If she waa a sptoelesa foot supplied Vicky. "She didnt have much choice. Thats th way things were. "That isnt the way things are nowl Women have changed ell that, at least God knows its not fair, even now, (that men can do what itl But they do, and get away with at least a woman doesnt have to make a doormat of herself! "In th old days sh forgave him. "Yes, and a strange man some-m- n for a woman! Vicky put in hotly, triumphantly. "So that if I wanted to run around with well, say Dr. Bledso Quentin would presumably watt for me, and bear everything, and then forget it aa if it had never been? "But youre not that sort." Magda reminded her. I should hope Tm notl" Vic-for- te excteimedrtegalnWiUTiintr f scoring In ,the argument But strangely enough, against this mother of hers who had known so many worthies men to so. many discreditable ways, and who ao rarely argued, or indeed said anything considerable at all, she could not seem to score today. You dont think. Mother, Vic asked quietly, that any woman who bad borne a man children, spent years of care and love on his own child, nursed him when he was ill, worried ever hia bills and hi diet for seven years you dont think that that woman can calmly put up with his setting up a a mistress, and shaming beg. end wronging her. end wronging his own children, too? And then when hes tired, Victoria rushed on, warming to her subject, "and comet home calmly, ahe la to forgive Mm, and make a fuss over him again! Well, perhapi there are women who could do It, but Im not one of "Bat Mind You, Pm Not ing Yea. Advis- wood fire was (napping! No tired doctor for whom to call at the office to proudly, ao lovingly, in the late and drive home to afternoons, warmth and fire and heartening dinner. No picnic on the scimitar shore of Half Moon Bay, with Quentins big figure recumbent and asleep on the land, and small forma, barelegged to the hip, digging and running in the level warm rush of wavesl aha Teel happy about itl echoed bitterly. And to despair ahe added: "I than never feel happy again! Theres nothing I can do. Whatever I do is wrong!" People get over divorce," Magda alad. "I never will." Funny thing, Magda mused, as her daughters bitter laugh died away into silence and the room was atilL "If a woman I mean the wife, now could only keep her mouth shut and wait, ahed win out every time. You mean kisi a man, and be kind to him, and keep hia house comfortable, and let him go off to the other woman wheneverh likes? Victoria asked, to a proud, When Drawers Stick Black lead or black lead pencil rubbed on the edges of a drawer which has become swollen from heat will enable it to be opened and shut quite easily. sprinkled with grated cheese and dotted with butter. Bake in a moderate oven until well browned. brushingthetopa-wlth-Spaatr- The smell of new paint has a very bad effect on some people. To minimize it, fill a pail of water and aprinkla In it some hay and one or two onions, freshly sliced. Stand this in a room newly painted, and much of the smell will be neutralized. Odor, said that if a woman could do it she always won out Won the other woman's leavings, you mean! "Well, to a way, I suppose. And as I say, Vicky, it may go on for years. Three years, four years but then the break cornea. Her husband and hea Just a good, or aa kind, or whatever he was, as ever-coback. Unless shea said something he cant forget fir done something radical, he comes back. Then its the other woman'i turn to worry the wife is holding thirteen trumps. Shea got Ma children, his home. shet gentle and kind and respectable. Just aa she alwayi was. "Id never respect myself again if I countenanced encouraged that sort of thing! Vicky exclaimed. mes dont care whether you encourage them or not so long as you don't cry and fuss, Magda observed, with her irritating power of making a point while not trying to do anything of the sort The minute a man leaves you, what you think doesnt matter to him any more. They can walk right out on things, Vic. Women can't quite. If you make all this easy for Quentin, he'll think youre a good little sport but be wont care whether you do it by divorce or by Just being decent Stupefied by this philosophy, and by the blankness and darkness of her thoughts, Victoria was still staring at her mother dully, her brow knitted, when Anna came In to announce a caller. Magda had time only tor one more word: "Ive always thought and Ive been thinking it especially lately, she said, that of all the girls I ever knew you were th one to try the long way I mean stick to your guns, and not let what anyone does make you anything but what you are. But mind you, Tm not advising you. You were smarter when you were born than IH ever.be." Vicky dragged her eyes, eyea into whose mutinous light a new look suddenly had come, from her mothers face to the maid face. But her thought were still upon what Magda had said, and she bad to have the message repeated. "Did you say someone was here? "Mrs. Morrison, madam. She says ahe Just wants to say Merry Christmas! Vickys color, under the glow of the fire, faded a little. She turned toward her mother. Magda shrugged. Say youre not at home, Magda said, to an undertone. But an odd determined light had come into Vickys eyes, and after hesitant moment she told Anna aimply to ask Mra. Morrison to come upstairs. A few seconds later Serena came in. Uncle Phil Saudi Th meat common error in th management ef the child U the facility with which a mother nuke commands and th ease with which ih promptly ignores their outcome. Dr. Dantda B. KtUy. History will wear many false heard to conceal truth abort oar current iff sirs. Richer & IP uh burn Child. Peace will bo promoted by preserving freedom of action and by keeping all decisions in th realm ef rationality rather than hystote c& rwioma. require faith, kopa courage, determination, integrity and Uru Carl Raymond dependability. Cray. J Homo-makin- g But It' Callousness People with no feeling can acquire reputation for great fortitude. When one undertakes to "plan happiness it consists mainly in eluding unpleasantness. Ita all right to bank on tha future, but Its quite another matter to draw checks against it. Advantaga of living in small town la that you can be so many kinds of a charter member. A pedestrian used to be a person who walked. Now its one who Jumps. Some people seem Imbued with the idea that common aenaa la too common for them to associate with. MELV1II PURVIS Yfi .0 Ult "'I S'1 eh0e d. Magda "Months, anyway. Year, maybe. "Year! Yicky echoed. And with a brief and mirthless laugh ahe hand plunged her head into her and rumpled her hair. You make roe laugh. ahe muttered acomfully. "You aee, the want something that you'va got Magda offered mildly. "Well, the can have it! "So that it a tort of compliment to look at it In way. You have en, got Youve lik that Vic. la a terface the fact. QuentinWomen like ribly attractive fellow. to be him; and hea always going part of being around them-t-haf fool about it doctor. Dont be the sand like into head and run your is. A strange a giraffe or whatever it to-w- t used ai adverb since early times. A number of auch usages are to be found to Shakespeare alone; for instance: "Loves Labour Lost (act art enter v, c. 1, L 45): "Thou than a swallowed "Merchant of Venice (act 1, c. 2, 1. 17): "I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done; "Macbeth (act ii. c. 4. 1. 38): "Lest our old robes sit easier than our new users art: Among other adverbial Smiles, Byron, Tucker. Spenser. Steele, Keata, and Mr. Stowe. Some the use grammarian now condemn adverb. 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