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Show fBORROWEX) HUSBANDS By MILDRED K. BARBOUR WklLDRZV K. BARBOl B iam ndat.d r.m rf i - - ; ' NN hcel?r fc Syndicate. Inc.) K. mllHi-'-nl in a little heap on Eurtto ct Cie" clasped close Ms Kai down at her stoically, f LL, people. " ag.un h- 1 F .bU, - Put everything F i , i i, ii. t ''' a clear the kitcli. n lo. ' - B only P'-t carted on the hall H morning.'' L"u n . ,i;d An" 1 1 E jiy i i,,. onl-v done ; Wtf K No ' ' -he ' ' '" 11 -,', I'm glad ou didn't' llf .lc'an. : " Lu vim" Mi"--'. 'I'- 1 xv 111 Kciani: ' ""' "' 1 Siir dressing room, the package . Id Coned tightly in her mm- L all tin 1 ' ' ""' '" " Krcel KrDri''i' '",;''' re.)' : I gKhen --he mi the tring with E. haul- lifted the lid. and t layr-i '':' 'came upon a t-asou n -f su. h ,te coior and t stun i hat the I ne soul ... . . ' I "i - a KtUe . r ' adn ii .itioi hal -))' : ": 1,1 n v' r"nK he Sh ' 1 (" '''-'""- W Kf laCe nil i !;:f."i C i it W L. crystals hs lrldt. ent a ,1 m9 th ' 1 .-Ct-r after - - ' kd scj'J-i. e oi I'.M '' ' -'t h. i 1 gvi-oop1 1 :" ' n ,j d it upon Gerrj c dear I 'an ihur Kheai i." it !- i '' .1B anting for ..i wlv.-n ou it , : - - gel Kick from Chicago so that ou Will give a tender thought to. ' Tour lonejy GERf'.Y Nancy turned to the paper which had wrapped the parcel. 'J ho po.xt- mark had not been obliterated It bore the date of the day she had arrived in Chicago to bid farewell to Gerry and the hour of collection was the identical one at which her train hud pulled into the station. Gerry hud purchased that gift for her and It had. been consign. id t. the mails before he came to the train .o , meet her on that Ill-fated uft;rnoon1 Nancy buried her head in the heap ol l" and chiffon and wept. 1 She cried partly because she was so very happy; part y because her heart was breaking at thought '.f Qerry. Sh- wait s glad, sn Infinitely glad, she 'told herself, that th matter of Gerry' cheque found in Fleurctte's handbag had solved itself m that manner. Always she would have- had doubt. If the explanation Unsubstantiated, had conn from Gerry. This denouement denoue-ment was unquestionable. Irrevocable. But when she thought of Gerry go lng aw ay. w ith doubt of her In his heart: when she remembered the long months when she had not sent him u I Connie's suite at the Blackston'e a : message Which he had had every right to ignore she cried wit'i the pity of It. ; The exquisite gown s?c-med to burn i her arms with the tlery iniitenco of its reproach. She dropped it carelcsaU on ihe Moor, sped l the library and nchring a cable blank wrote: , , "Gerry, forgive me again. I've only just found out everything." " YOV HAVE PERSONALITY" So John Rogers rrrnde Jane his private pri-vate secretary and moved htr and her typewriter Into his own office. Thus, began Jane's first experience the first of her adventures as old in "BUSY BYES," Marguerite Hurler's great serial Btbryi which begins next -Monday In the Standard-Examiner. |