Show 3 f The Golden 3 Glory t tH H i 8 13 By LAURA R. R MONTGOMERY i t l Copyright I It TJ H EnES EnE'S a china slipper The 1 j auctioneer didn't trouble to mask muk his contempt as 81 he held aloft alot the bo dainty bit of rose-and-gold rose porcelain porcelain por por- 01 celain lain with its It buckle of tiny roses Who wants to start bidding Richard who had dropped In to bid on a buhl cabinet he wanted tor for fori his i bachelor apartment regarded It reminIscently How flow ninny many of those guy gay trines trifles he had teen seen during that winter In Paris when he be had lived on the wron wrong side of the Seine and spent months In lu getting as he pompously phrased it It And he be had becom t soaked In to the quaint and colorful life liCe of the ahe students and his pictures had revealed re ro Ills his knowledge kuo of the thi ways of those thoe lucky ones who fare tare forth with hl high h hearts and francs when they need fortunes Ten Teo cents rasped a nearby wom worn an on It might night do to hold matches s. s she added to her companion You have ha a n tighter self on your gas stove store answered the other It It wouldn't Interest me mr a showy matron I 1 use an electric range And AnI Richard listening understood the wistful droop to the pretty mouth of a girl who wore a n gold wedding ring Ing She wore yellow ellow gold where the matron of the electric range ronge displayed her revamped re ring of ot platinum set with diamonds The young oung bride craved crated on an electric stove store and probably lly used a coal cOllI range And I I reflected c regarding the buhl cabinet which filch had hind cost COt him more than titan that Hint whole winter In Paris want to find finda a real girl Th The satiny curve cUr of black ebon against a soft cheek chek next nett caught Richards Richard's attention The girl was a II poem In black and Her lIer small face tace was pas white cameo above th j small and very fery costly black fur tur she wore Shed look well my new V tapestry thought the artist or bending above n a copper In Ina Ina ina a north lI light ht when hen a grey fog drifts through the thc studio I expect she's going to bid for that blue and blue Ming Its It's priceless She did not however hu and much to tn his joy boy mc Richard obtained it It It was not until the end 1111 of t th the auction n when the odds ends ends hire tre put ti tip Ull that hint he noticed her glove gloye when she he raised her lier hand to bid It was darned darne exquisitely perfectly Gloria Green whispered n a man mono the story of her fathers father's failure He Ile died lied and she gave guve up 11 every cent she had to pay his bis debts This 11 1 auction Ill I'll on Is ls from frum their house It 11 WU was rented on a II long lease lele while th the family were were wr In Italy Ive I've heard that this sale Is the last lost of the Green fortune The Thc how house e paid till the thelast last debt and this furniture will be he beall benil nil all she has Wasn't fhe she a 0 fool The Theold Theold old Jill man had hud put everything In her name when he be saw the crash corning coming nail s. s she could coull have hate kept every evelY cent Wish Vish Id I'd had her chance Richard saw then that the IIII fur furns s II ns as old and ond that lint the smart little suit stilt of black had hind been dyed of If her beauty he had failed to notice these details Who Sho will bid a ft quarter for tor this Only a quarter Two hits bits Music M by liy bythe the tie pound here All the hits lifts of of- of the auctioneer halted even his brazen soul blenching at his eulogy of music of two seasons past The small gloved glo hand hond made a gesture and the auctioneer grinned contentedly at Gloria For the sake of getting her to turn towards s him bid a dollar A dollar dollar twenty twenty responded Gloria Ashamed of his bid as os he recalled he-recalled her circumstances Richard subsided and ond the package w e of music was Glorias Tell fell Miss Green rc n that that- I 1 will glee give her twenty dollars for that pile nf of music mush Instructed who had bad thought out n scheme for m meetIng meet meet- et In lag Ing tier her I believe there may be lie a n valuable pl piece 1 of sheet music In It Gloria had 1 paid for Cor her tier purchase and was now near the door The 1111 a auction was over o Surprised dark eyes eye's eyes k A surveyed SUT who ho ho pulled out out li his s ca curd card rl mid and banded handed It to her I am sin most mix mix- I taus mis to tn acquire that music and to Iw frank I 1 have ha a n faint Idea lla I that hul It may lUay be he worth much macs more than twenty 1111 dollars to dollars-to to me Im Tm afraid that sour u ur Idea 8 Is exceedingly ex IX lv faint she he said sahl This Is old music tc that Is In unite quite out of date dall' now Snow only valuable tn to me the because C Cof of at sIll she lie hl hesitated memories stir she hushed finished 1111 nl at la lat t. bis-t. t. t My I mother sun sang I these hC son songs sings Then aid Fald boldly If I Islay slay 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