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Show "borrowed husbands i By ISg MILDRED K. BARBOUR 4 tSs C1X !M TV SOT Is u ADRIFT t JW etc-. f n7Eedd 'inK the )4lMlad ' i' r tho Hardim; n't 'Tby r- nrl rai I laBpch ' ' f llM her JU M fi w. If da ma; -i n. 1 1 (MB f reater than jUf r.ijril fror Of them turned up In il RAi the UHpthei disappeared Hkblc C 1 r - n rl a u . u s h - 'Kgltion re ealei I thai their kH l.n f,,r mrkfr.nl. Vfflpot foi (VjHg on (l-irn . oik hc fire-v m d SBf'nr' " primrose drawing Kfi taken lUriUsn A' idsnl In Papa Har-p Har-p t I lmMO'T ( Ing II flrln- -Krobsh! r n.nst truthful ' Hi pu: (Bra -1 atjnpy at ifly anri yf even .-: i ItgKto dl -.i i- l an! . heart It htirt her Incredibly to lo 'onnie'a friendship n tho ugh It had IfM'juenily been demanding and Ilk ' rome. Bhf made no effort to eee Cono. 1 .ind no word rnm fr m th" hoi, acroaa the Park. Hh had aent Anna for Semlram! and he had beep delivered de-livered to tha maid without comment or question. Anna had given the gratuitous gra-tuitous Information that Mr Stanley was Just coming In from a motor drlv-? when she had lft the house with the Peralan. Nancy and F.dith were aa happy together to-gether im two women In their position ould be They dined at home every night, generally going afterwards to u theatre or to a concert. Edi'h wa away most of the da. so Nancy did not know whether r not she saw Ir Langwelt It .vas not until the night before fhe Balled that Kdlth came into Nancy', room obviously ready for confidences Nancy, prepared for bed. her blonde hair hanging loosely over shoulders: a peignl slipped over her nlghtrobe. mtrkf.fi I i- t K r. ! Mil v Inrlnd W. r- f V. I rk reeling on her crowed hand. A gentle gen-tle breeze front the river wafted tnt-srent tnt-srent of aprlng across from the Je-aey Je-aey hills. She was looking out acoss the darkness, try'lng to rind In the mysterious purple night end tho slow-moving slow-moving river a paychlc wave which would bring her In touch with Gerr She turned around at Edith's foot-btep foot-btep It wa-s the old Edith of boarding school days who stood there. Her hair was braided demurely on either side of her face and ehe wore a little white muslin gown, as plain and simple as a nun's robe nlv her eyes wer those of a woman who had Jived and loved and found suffering In both "I wanted to tell you." said Edith, "that 1 have een Frederick. I told hint that I am leaving him forever end I ahull keep my word. T don't know what ne Intends doing." |