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Show I Woman's Page H Zoe Beckley's Story Sewing Hints Easiest Way to Make M a Skirt- To Keep Bias Seam From Stretching When H Cutting Thin Silk Recipe for Walnut Croquettes. H CORA'S CONFIDANT. Cora was sitting in the twilight at M the window of the hotel suite in which H she and Dnvid livod while their house M was being built at Colony Park. She H was waiting for Dav:d to come from H his all-day, evory-day conference with H Mrs. Brett. She was alone Practically m all the time, so constantly did Mrs. H Brett monopolize David's working day and many of his evenings. H After her first uncongenial meeting M with Mrs. Brett, when the latter spoke H barely a score of words to her. Cora M had decided to court Mrs. Brett no H longer and to allow the situation to do- H velop in its own way. But on th H dav her loneliness seemed to nae B driven her to the limit of her endur- H 3HCB H It was with a reeling of relief that M she heard the telephone ring and an- H swered It It was David's voice. H -Cora, dear, I'm phoning trom Mrs. H Brett's house, I'm detained here on H some-work we've got to put into the M hands of our builders first thing to- H morrow morning So don ; al . or H me with dinner, honey. I m awfully H 6orry to be kept." . H Cora had been feeling at Uie limit of M self-control ever since she had come M to Colonv Park. When she hung up m the receiver no wild or hysteric action H on her part would have surprised her. H She had an overwhelming impulse to M burst in on Mrs. Brett's conference H with David and make him choose for- H ever between Mrs. Brett and herself. H Or to run awav from David and never H see him again. Or to take up some H weapon which would put her on equal M terms with Mrs. Brett and fight her to H the death. She became frightened at B her own state of feelings and mind. H Where she got the impulse to write H to "Wanda Laurence, to confide in her, H to ask her help and advice, she did not H know. But she acted at once. Nor- H mallv. Wanda would be the last per- H son she would appeal to in this situ a- H tion. She wrote Wanda the outlines H of the situation as it then stood and H appealed to her: 1 "Wanda, tell me what I can do that H will be less mad than the things I H feel I shall do. I tell you, I trust Dai- Hj id more than I would auy man on H pari.li. Yet, Wanda, if you only saw H her! She is the most terribly beauti- R ful woman I ever saw! She is more H capable than most men and has the H vitality, the brains, the lure of twenty m Vtomen! H "She has thow power to make David H or to unmake him. And she is using H that power just now to build him up H so high in his profession and financi- H ally that It makes me dizzy to think H how much he will owe to her. But the H loneliness, the uncertainty, the anxlety H yeB .ni confess the maddening H jealousy it often brings me is driving H me almost out of my head. M "For, Wanda, she is using her pow- H er now as much to punish me for re- H fusing to come to her house to live m in the first place. In my sane mo- Bi ments I know David is safe from her. Hll But, oh, Wanda, how few those mo- Kl ments have been with me of late! At H 1 this very hour I am sitting alone in a B hotel room consumed by the devils of H 1 craziness. H "Wanda, you're a woman. You H "know men better than I do. You have H Interpreted many a woman in trouble. H You know David. Try to imagine the B type of woman Mrs. Brett is. And M then, Wanda, sister and friend, help H me with the wisdom you can send me. Hl Otherwise I think I shall do something that will throw David's life and mine : Into utter chaoB. Help me, Wanda!" |