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Show " j Another Woman's ' Shoes . By SIDNEY BLAIR - ! ' - '. ' - (CopyrlKlH.) i T'A,UOI:LK- A15BOTT. almost ran j along ' the 'street, through the j early-mtirnitig crowds. She had jusr .,wrei)cheil the heel off one of tier j pumps ; sjte'd iave to stop at the sln.e-I sln.e-I maker's and-haye.it fixed, and Iliac i wotibl . make Jier bite ,10 . the . othce j hvre'.-i,,,,, for all. the other things itiat hib.il ' be' cnnviled into her. busy day. Site wanted 'to get in some shopping, I before bite' afternoon, when she. was j I.S hai'tt-te-H-wfth-fleoff ; must get It hi,' in fact, for sheMvanted to took her ;very ..best.;-- Not that Geoff would' notice, no-tice, in -.ill probability; he never had spemed to notice what she was wear-, wear-, jj'l". tlie ld day-s-back home. . The shoeinaket:, was bent low - iver aUleH'caie Itrtle iniiiip when Mjir.it. rie buri'red. Inwi'nfs slilip. '' She explained .fhiit. .she. wrist-have her shoe fixed at , ynce i .sJiVel bird -to inilk the last balf-:,!:;'"'k. balf-:,!:;'"'k. .-. ilb.; oi!f:..'lieel off, and she ''"'.'i'." 1 fx'ssibly go on that way : -Her shoes were rat her., square,, low-beeleil .oiw.-ibut -pye'u so 'l'f .had. been diflieiilt.-"But"-r banif tix'that now. Miss." he. told heiv::-. "I-ve"gorla rush order here f wo:..ru.li.-.4iriter-sirnd -my ila lighter's getting married tliis noon, and I:e:gbt to go home for that." ; Marjb'rip "looked ai hjm in despair-."-': 'Butwhat:'can 1 do?" she crieit.-"I'nji crieit.-"I'nji bite - mv!- And I " v.,; , He glaBed..'d6vn, at her feel., --ind then reached to a low shelf and held out a shoe to lier. Ii was patent leather,' a 'sflnVliigii-heeled pump, and ' a. .wide buckle? made it seem even har-rowei; har-rowei; and sllnnrier than ij.was. -' . "Try. this,". -lie told tier. "Just slip 'it on think it'll fit." ,. ; : .. . .; Mar.jorie,. shook Jier head. 'r;"I:irever"'wenr .shoes like that,".. she tnUHiinir' '"t iV ear j list flat, "low-heefed QnfiB:..rAn'j'-v''ay,- it'ish't "mine." "No, but it's mine,' to sell, 'maybe." be- told ..her. "A customer -of - tniiie sprained, her nkle,-, and she's got to ; wea lmV-heeled. shoes, for a, year, aft- i er ft 'g'e't's'weiT. and. she asked me If. I coubin't keep all her high-heeled ones here. :and maybe sell' them to one of my other customers. They're beautiful beauti-ful shoes. Miss. ,. Just try this one.v 31arjoriej,glanee4 at a clock. Kvcn later than she;,l : tbpught ! ,She-twlr-the' sline 'aiid sjjpped ..it-on ipiickly. It did ffM-b'U't how funny .lt looked with her thick stocking. Oh well-she well-she must get to the office, no matter what .she wore.-...' - At lirst It was hard to-get used to the Tiigh-heeled shoes; then gradually gradual-ly she began to like the feeling of them. ' By ' noon, when she went on her shopping four, she was wondering why she hadn't ever bad even one pair of Utghdieeled-shoes. '' $he was going to buy her new spr'nr: su!t--a seuslble tweed,' she'd decided : the. kind of spring 'suit she always bought. But the sensible: tweeds all'- -looked wrotiEr. somehow, when she i tried them on and stood before a loug j mirror.- They didn't go with tliHt oth-er oth-er woman's Shies. ' " " m-.-; ; "Just .try this one, Miss," the sates-womaa. sates-womaa. suggested. '-''This one was u dark-blue suit, with aV-touch of red In the collar and cuffs, and Its material ma-terial was soft,, clinging, yet durable. ' Xlarjorie tried", it . on, and marveled at effect.'- In the end she bought jf,i : . Mie arrived a" little early at the ho-tfili ho-tfili .-whefre. "sfie ' was ' to meet GeolTrey. but :Ue was ;. there. She -saw him in she ran. up-. the fewi wide steps leading from the main door to the lobby. He looked' at her, looked away, then back again, 'and as . she smiled came . rb)-' ward eagerly. . ... "MarjorieV I didn't know you. Mow you've' - changed 1" he exclaimed. "I caD:.hardJ.v believe you !" He.-led her'-to the tea room, where.. they ; -sat sin wide, dep chairs at n low table, where ; av bowl' of roses bloomed uinong the tea things. There was music far oft In an opposite corner, cor-ner, music that played a lilting accompaniment accom-paniment to their talk. "You used to be so well, so sort of sensible looking, as if you never could be frivolous," he told her. "It sort of scared me, because fm heavily Inclined In-clined toward frivolity, -you might say. But now. you're just the same, and yet you seem to he so much gayer." Marjorie wondered what he'd say if he knew that it was her " clothes, bought just that day, that had made -the 'change In her. She was playing up to -them,' to the lovely suit that wasn't .a- "sensible tweed," to the ha I, to. tliat - other woman's shoes wlib their beautiful buckles and their long, slim lines. "Do you know, Marjorie, even your feet have' changed;" he told her. "You used to' 'wear. Such" sensible looking shoes; sometimes I wished that I could tell you not to hide your pretty feet in them." Marjorie smiled at him. Why not tell him the truth? But It was days later when she did tell him about that other woman's shoes, days of which she had spent many hours with Geoff, at luncheon, tea. dinner, even at breakfast! And days during which she bad i learned that Geoff had always liked : her better than he did anyone else. I but had been scared off by his fear ; t-but she was- too sensible to care for ! a "lightweight" like him. i "You're not a lightweight." she lold ' him indignantly. "You're wonderful." "Go right on thinking so. my-wlfe-to-be," he told her. "And I'll forgive . you for fooling me so long, and keet-ing keet-ing tne out of paradise." |