| Show LADY BLANCHE FARM SYNOPSIS riT thrum through h Vermont Harr young II Ho ton um rl me ne meets H III a 1111 8 1111 I ft a A. A It II whom h ho h. I la IA I It II Itt t b Ing It a long lone to 10 I definition utI sIA I the i 10 of not nol boasting a Ii hotel that lift he become herome fur for tho rho n night IK lit a guest of nt her Mary M Mr Mary receive a Philip with true tru Vrr Vrr- moat un und and he lie the ac ni inre of her 1 hi r ree roe n na 11 t her r attic 1 1 0 Starr rr On li Mary MaryI II fa I 1 with Dale aIe noted In who where offlie omle Philip Philipe In II employed Iii llo informs Inform her of nr his hid de- de alre Ire to I win Ilium ho for Ills hl wife M tIe e tells lell him Mm of nn an old nit family mip r con Concerning the lh hi of the Manning Manning Man Man- ning family II y aul Manning I t. t Inclined to 10 t lie be not hot realizing Starve Mary true worth Marys Mary's for hula bin undue lire era h holly biilly lIy received II liy br Paul laul end 1 the tho girt begins to 10 have II as IlS to I. the of tit the limo Onlo ng l Ii n It n a for tor Mary's Marys hand but nl makee e no In hlo hie CHAPTER VI Continued VI-Continued Continued 6 6 For sake Don't Dont you ou e that I want to 10 get It from anti stay away uy It If we zed up 1111 this end put lilt all 1111 hint money Into It w wed we'd cd have hll to tu keep rout com ID log hud to It tl I the rho la last t thing on in earth I want to III do dal I 1 dont don't went want r nn tin old fashioned house I full of nf old old- fashioned furniture In an nil old ald fashioned fash h- h toned village I I 1 to tn live In n a big hi city I 1 don't dont t want lit a II quiet existence I 1 want to glue give parties IrUe till all the time Urn Urn- except when Ii II I am nut going out to 10 them thou thou- afternoon bridge parties and little evening I lien I or and turtles imd heaps of lIt dancing lancing And I 1 simply going tl to the a timid shopping it around for Incy locy nightgowns III and Retting gelling nn un I Ice e ennui cream soda In the middle of the mornIn morning morning morn morn- ing In and having lunch nt at n a ton tearoom room That's Phala what Ive I've done the few fw times Ive I've been to town to visit Why Rhy Philip I thought you were going to tn help me meto meto meto to from front Lady Indy furm fermi I II I 1 thought you wanted me to have lun-e a good time and pretty clot clothes hIs hI's and of ot new frh friends There flure something almost grotesque gro gro- grotesque tesque about tier her In spite of ot her love love- loveliness liness as aa she stood before him In her livery brocade clamoring for tor tawdry possessions end trifling pastimes The sudden dread lest the delicate fabric of ot hula his romance might be rent before Ms ids eyes ejes filled Philip with fear tear Hut But this fear flar was engulfed In the terrorized terror Ize premonition which his research had find aroused Somehow he steadied himself and managed to peak penk lightly I do l want you ou to 10 have a good time and party clothes and pleasant friends darling he be said cold And you jou ou shall 1 11 We wont won't wiy anything thing more morl about this scheme of ot mine since 1111 It doesn't appeal to you It Jt was only n a fancy anyway I He Ile drew her close cloe Jo 10 him hint drugging himself for the moment with the dElI de de- lI ht tt t of ot flIng feeling her In his arils Hut But he sought out Mary I always took stories of ot trouble to Mary sure of help and understanding un and comfort The fact that It II was Ironing day clay and that he found her In the middle of a sultry afternoon tolling toiling awny away In Ina a hot kitchen end not nol sitting with folded hands blinds In sonic some secluded and restful spot ns as comforters are traditionally trl supposed to be hI found made madl no difference differ diler- once ence lie could not bring himself to of ot outburst but hut he dill did speak of ot the ominous sense of ot foreboding foreboding fore fore- 1 boding o which had lied boon been awakened by hy his hili perusal of ot Hastings Hastings' history cud and which had hall persisted ever since Mary listened to his recital In silence end and without stopping her work And when Philip had she she- I hl went to the lit stove 0 I for n hot Iron tested It with her hand and I began t to press Areas out Seth's Ihs overalls before she answered You dont don't think weve we've kept this fr from m you wilfully do you JOH nu she air said at Bt length You know I 1 asked you rou t right o off mitt If I there were wort anything thing I In that hat would would yon jou want Willi lean II'S and anI you jou nu sold no Anti And Im I'm m sure that the reason lenson she Fhe didn't tell tIll you yon the whole story tor that day by hy the brook was simply tux a ns as she said you Oil would thInk she hI was wu awfully con eon end fresh if she Inferred that thai 1 she thought she ho wa was hla beautiful 1111 fill and z likely to be hI lot loved n ed nt at first sight b by af af a n f s handsome orne stranger She hl Ilor doesn't rend t much and she's probably forgotten jt i part of or the legend anyway even If she ever rend read It You You You-you you wouldn't be bl r no eo cruel II as to spoil spell her 11 10 lovely happiness happl happi 4 nl ness II bj by telling Ill her about It now would you Good Lord Mary Iary you dont don't think y I 1 want to do you It would Just I shoat kill me ml to glee give her up up Then what do d you mean mla n t I 1 thought you jou OU might think think think-I I think myself I 1 ought to to-on to on her act ne RC ac- ac t f count you know f 3 On nn her account said Mary ary stu i It t If there Is III any truth In a thing t like ilkI that Isn't It my duty duly to Wh t Why 5 So So she she could do something safer i of ot rou course r l' l ef the overalls j Mary folded carefully i r p There Isn't anything safer for a II girl Irl r r to do tin she III said Fald In a II low law voice than tr tt to marry the man she loves s If If-If If If K pit fJ y lie III loves lons her And If her life lit Is the f j t one that's short hort what whal es that mat tent I ter If It Its It's full and perfect corn com and com complete plEter I 1 guess youre you're right said Philip Philipi l i jo huskily Then Mill chill hl hesitating It ou You dont don't suppose i think right Just because I want t. t ti do rte you I PId Ph l l you ever er think anything was Will rl right ht mast t for fur that riMson ruun searched his Philip conscience e. e I dont don't believe 1111 go he hP gold at st last lulling a her L A Romance of the Commonplace By FRANCES PARKINSON PARISON KEYES KEVES Service L Ly by Frances KI eyes Mary Jary spilled hack hud und and looking ather nt at her lur hat but thinking of ilia luau III ho hI Philip felt fell that lIal Ihl Ills Ibis episode was closed The Ihl episode Ihde hail nothing w whatever what what- hat hat- ever nr to III do II willi the JIll past hut hat a II good gaud deal luil to do with the JIe present nt Try Iry an as he III IIII might old hl mid he lie certainly did d try Iry- try Philip could nut d In bid liking ng Paul What hul was WIIl worse I the Ilia more mort he III Ka saw V of ot him the loss Tess he hI liked Irked him The flue dislike II g like UkI noticed Lot but II vu hushed up 1111 by Vi Violet ii et to he tie entirely mu mu- mutual luul lual And Ami Paul 11 wits was spending HO KII much ranch of hi his time thill 1 especially o since silice the nr- nr of ot the till new OW motor III In the society of Mss Miss I Kin III a B summer vi visitor visitor vis vis- n II worker In III a 1 New 1 York Turk department tIll depart ment store storo that his family lIm was WitS favored fa fn h less 11 and less by lIy his presence Philip who had marveled lit at the way Mary bore Imre Paul's Pauls shortcomings anil not only bore but hut forgave 1 10 0 them from frum the beginning marveled still more at nt atline atthe the line apparent Indifference with which she bore hor his fra frank nl neglect Hut But Mary Iury was II ns as he hI was WD eventually eventual ly Iy to 10 discover lr far less Iss Indifferent than he had Imd supposed and knowing a little of ot the capacity for suffering that many silent and self contained self persons persons per per- sons possess the discovery disturbed 11 a t 1 1 1 j Me su Mary Tried to Struggle Away From Him Hot With Fury Sick With Shame and Disgust him not lIot a little Next to Blanche there was no one lne In tho the world for whom he cared cured as ns much as ns he ho already did for tor Mary and they were naturally thrown a ft great ut deal together Going Into IntI Seth Mannings Manning's house one day clay dayon clayon on an errand he first encountered Moses Moss Wheres heres Mary l Inquired Philip In her room said Moses In her room l I Philip echoed It was vas so unusual for tor Mary to he be off duty en even for tor a few minutes that the fact was alarming Yes Ij In on the bed bd Is she sick No rJ in Hard added town Moses with emphasis Do Va you jou Ou Know why hy pursued Philip Paul said Moses lo laconically Philip turned thoughtfully away lie Ile was sleeping in the tile room rO adjoining lulls on n his brief visits at nt Lady Indy Blanche manelle farm and he had some Idea of the hours his future brother In law brother law was After vacillating for tor a al l short hort time between his reluctance r to meddle In other peoples people's affairs and nOlI Ma his lr s at nt the Ih thou It nf of J s 's unhappiness he ho waited up for tor Paul that night and endeavored e m t r talk with him The attempt was vas far fur fro tro cess ss ful Philip tried to put th 11 question fairly and kindly Hut But Paul was it-as en en- raged You had hind hotter better mind your jour our own business busl busi ness tle he Ill Shouted so loudly that Philip feared Violet and Blanche might both bOlh be n roused arouse I dont don't tell tIll you jou OU bow how to nonage tJ things with my Sister bister do I U 1 Youve You've o uto dune done Just us lIS you ou joud OU d d-d d d pleased 1111 about II t the tie whole affair since true the d 11 day ly you jou OU tint first struck the farm form lid And Ill I'll thank you jou ou to let mine mute alone i. i I 1 gue guess s I know what hal Im I'm about I Im Int afraid you jou OU dont That's Thais Just It said Ih Philip III p. p And lId Im I'm older titan than you jou OU and have he been about a bit more an and and l- l OU Oh 01 joure youre afraid I 1 dont don't are you Well ell I 1 should worry Jeered Paul laul who whoa a was picking up UI more or less New IW NewYork NewYork York slang lInn Were Vere a good little boy arent aren't we WI Never hit It up 1111 In all our lives rs I Well run ruin alon along tl to bed that's the best place for tor one of ot your advanced ad ad- years jears and you experience jou must look out tut not lint to 10 keep klel too late hours or get your our feet felt wet or something like that that night might be fatal l J Then as Philip hesitated Paul bu burst t Into oaths before which Philip hitherto unacquainted unacquainted unac unac- with certain phrases of ot rural vocabulary stood for tor a mo mo- moment moment ment and then Into his own o room nod and closed d the door And so to the 1111 second episode also came to en an abrupt end and be he strove stron to dismiss both bath from his mind The day which h seemed to tolie the lie Impatient bridegroom IU so fo Inter Mow low In III arriving I no carne came at last warm char und cloudless The little whit church where all tint the ll had ball always alwan worshiped and where bere the marriage I ceremony wa was performed was dec del decorated I orated a liS as It tt peter never Ir had been before In Inthe inthe the bundled hundred am and fifty years earll of ot Its ex er- I The nil n orchestra I played at the farm A welding wedding supper sup star I per Ier more mare Sumptuous than Hurt any ny of which had I ever eur partaken was spread on 1 tables rubles under huge hue awnIngs awn awn- lugs Ins lIn tiding over oter the lawns and two moms runes were lre flied filled with presents I which any 1 bride might well veil have hl been pr nut to 10 display and pOS possess I S. S Blanche wearing the countes pearls enveloped In III n mist of lit white tulle tulip and hurt lace lare looked more morl exquisite and like fairy than Ilian ever Philips Philip's friends und and they termed Kt be in to were lre legion were there in full tone force nor lied hoot reil- reil before how holy ninny many toll friends Mary ry had too tale liale was there with his sister and niece Mr Ir Davis 1 the senior partner of ot the firm hind had Ill I'll came In 1 too with hi his wife and sons and II rill tunny others All 11 VII wits there of ot course and most of ot White r and surge some of ot Wallacetown and andall andall I all nil Included that summer pretty palmed minted Rosalie King I with tier her cousins the Westons i Finally and Ph Philip III I drove off In their own motor showered with rice Ice confetti cheering and waving from roni their ribbon bedecked car as ns they I went vent The guests J remained a little longer to laugh lauh and cry and talk It over Then gradually they went horn home lome motor motor horns horns tooting aged carryalls carry carry- carryalls alls creaking boys bays and girls singing as ns they walked arm In arm up the lusty dusty road to the village Jane crossed he the lawn to her own house and sat looking at nt her tied ribbon candy box for or some sane minutes before l she he went to bed Violet collapsed In nn an or orgy y of ot satisfaction and tears and Mary Iary undressed undressed un un- dressed her hr and made her Iter a It hot drink with a n bromide tablet melted In It And finally coming out of ot her cousins cousin's room at two o'clock In the tile morning after having made her as comfortable ns as could be expected to to quote Via Via- lets et's own feeble whisper whisper she she met Paul Paui face to face tace In the hall I Ilie He lie lurched towards her unsteadily I There had been champagne and a strong punch served at the wedding I Tor for Violet had had some fear that Philips Philip's Boston Hoston friends might think her countrified And all the eve e evening I ning Paul laul had been alternately consuming consuming con con- suming sunning first punch and then champagne champagne cham cham- and then theu punch again The Tho re rev results stilts of ot his overindulgence were all too obvious In both his appearance and his manner Mary nry looked at nt him and her bee very ery soul revolted How flow dare you youl l I she the cried this dis disgrace grace race your sisters sister's wedding day like this I Paul Taut seemed hardly to hear bear her But Hut there thre was no doubt that he saw her and that he found her very ery good to 10 look at Philip had once said Bald that Mary Iary was lovely always but that If she ever eer got angry she would be meg mag Mary Mury was very ery angry now DOW so angry that lint she hardly knew that she was wounded to the heart as well She was Indeed magnificent beautiful ful as Paul had never seen BlIn her ber had never known she could be He lie threw his arms around her and br began nn to kiss her violently on her neck her cheeks checks her lips Mary Iary tried to struggle struggle gle gee away ny from him hot with fury sick with shame and disgust He lie only held her closer At last she succeeded In do freeing one arm and with all her ber might struck him across the mouth Instead of sobering laul Paul It stimulated his hU raging senses to the point of ot frenzy He lie confronted Mary Iary with unleashed fury You canting hypocrite 1 I ho he shouted shout shout- ed rd furiously moping around all summer sum sum- summer mer acting ns as If It you jou ou were crazy to have hate me make nuke lure luve to you I And now coin going for me I like e a wildcat when I Itry Itry tr try It I 1 I gue guess I knew what whit I was doing when I let you ou alone 1 I guess |
