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Show f BORROWED HUSBANDS By MILDRED K. BARBOUR PER ri.W i n M01 OG1 KD N I I'l l Bright 19 21. I. The h. B Cloe : ' he nyw. 1 .ind Em.l Rlali h i 1 0O nr Mntruders. jy. after one gUmp"' ' Kdlth's Id the wny cj u 1 -t 1 bach flown kllway t" 'Ip front door. VfmpaeH J p sprang up from lr and i " ri Jiff a, r Sfm uli. i out. Vu i n I orm t ' h ' illcd." once more In the taxi. V the drl i urn hot toim'ri "dfl giving him the old ftddr erself that le was going to, thi home lown h ' r. i ; 1 1 jr. Sh e COU Id ell 0,1 h I li '' I' .'I I.. . StJneo or tea as In the "I I 10 hasten In..' ' 'lr.-s.s for before ' houl.l arrive from! K fan afr ptions t, i i';' 'Tie In the: ent she hnd u I left lh- pr. 'i jtor'H d- n f ' III Iron I'l I er a RE to rP'ii r lv i 1 ft Kill'1 ber iw InnUin f her l put m i ' h- r I on' 'I hand and 9 Nunc im cy, I A .I i r"'' n a How muPI I 1 1 .iil.: i mi ' I Edit p you km at school i lever ha iimn' as tauRh' mi- to i xpi K every.. n M i mi j Eat thi'-I v accep I I fully and graciously. Her relief Was unbounded that Edith had asked no 'questions, but had accepted Enid Blair's presence In that utveonventton-al utveonventton-al scene as COBOlMive proof that there had hetn no m-rlous affair between be-tween her husband and Nancy. In a way. Edith's Ingenuousness amazed Nancy. Even her reasonably short acquaintance with the doctor told her that he spent little time burying bury-ing dead loves. From the episode of Kleuretie she knew that the obsequies! of one romance were scarcely over be- i. ...... ,.cr..i. I 1 "You will May with me, of courwe Edle," she sald as the cab drew up before her own apartment house door "I may have to forcibly evict 'Mama' an( J'upa' Harding and the terrible child not to mention Pejrpy Lewis and poKstbly her former husband, nevertheless, never-theless, you find I are frotng to have a home while you're In town." Kdlth patted her hand. She seemed seem-ed grateful that Nany avoided a dissuasion dis-suasion of the scene In the doctor's den. "I shan't be In town long I had definitely made up my mind to sail for Europe as a social worker for devastated de-vastated France Everything is arranged ar-ranged for me to go next week and I nothing has occurred to alter my plans." "M dear, what a surprise' What noble work' You've changed your mind, then, about adopting a baby?" Edith smiled sadly. "I think that out of the depth of my suffering I ctn find sympathy and love enough for more than one unfor-: tunato." As they were golns up in the ele-1 vutor. Nancy said suddenly. ' "Edie, maj I ask one question0 Who was your Informant abOut the doctor! and me?" Edith looked surprised. 'Why. I thought, of course, you had gderaed. It was the nurse. Edna' . |