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Show TfBORROWED HUSBANDS Mlllll MILDRED kI BARBOUR iflflBrrn votcf from ttti: lu.r w V,Htat. r'-'i. b th" Wheeler -yn- di B;passcl ! v.- n L'r.id Clair and C. flE7ll. Nancy never knew leH(iWbin TV lli. h Uas (Hi.- to liMV. 'Sfnc fi'iaif r hour. LT t, VjIh wa ! It r. PrJ Mfrc tol i " th o B1 'l0 vv 1 :" '"""c nsue BcfciM En.'l Clair's affair now, not eelc,y It i ''"I" '1 earnestly thai tho! hi) ribv8SBjd ' ,0 hor FPI,rs an(il !UfStlo JBthc 1 liV'wBe bri' ; had r devei bsJTncr '" ' ' lie was on- e emirL0,Vyo"',t-' L ' : '' e e?1 Vpey a j 1 1 i i' ' tWoBhjdcrncath. JLr bur. rj soph!-; a tnovT hid a heart as sust ar? thiMerou, . ' I'-- ttn biL1''1 fidn't Know Ik.tv i fish frioKKime ; 'rim ld' faoaHpt she ha., tried Mindly tc botl c 'Klie rules he laid down. th iEmed . . r, 1 1 Da l m i Xa.i:; tNor'j'K' UT'' "lit. 41 tC Bite; .IratrrinF and lur .5 ttMKgered lur ve:l Nan.-; iiH1' I--" hide the tears which th' . 1 h y WsJfcpt c .-- -d t el5BPed ov''1' 'll"J ppcnc'1 Jhe Bp!" she said ' hcTilv not . 'ht i-jH't li r. isTk"1 aKPartl' ' ' Minal ia f rl.E'an fiirly line o:i You're 'he M?:4Bd an 1 ...fast BBJuie would said ' BiM 'H Blni' on, B and imr Mlonr'B'gav 'It !' driver 4 I n!d Blair to cry that tears, the swlf lht tears of outh. would wash iwu . tho poison of thnt unfortunate infatua tlon that the only danger, tho onh aftermath, of that Ill-advised affan would 1.. its memory. She dropped the girl at the door to her studio-apartment ni hear from you soon," she .ald warmly, sneezing her hands in a silent proffer of sympathy. "Thank you You have been very kind. Bui I am leaving town. "Not Chicago?" escaped Nancy Involuntarily. In-voluntarily. Tho girl shook her head with tremolJng lips. "No. not Chkago. Never Chicago again." Nancy drove back to her own apartment apart-ment with o heart curiously lightened, I With Lahgwell gone, it seemed a a though the last link that bound her to an unfortunate situation had crumbled I and she .-tood erect and free, the shackles powerless and broken at her feet lj She wanted to do something to cele-i cele-i brate her emancipation. She hall (thought of collecting Connie and Peggy Peg-gy Lewis ami giving a, theatre party with tea afterward at the Play-a ostensibly osten-sibly to .1. i.r .t.. piggy's reconciliation reconcilia-tion with Iteeve Lewis, hyt in reality to announce to her own heart and conscience that she was ireo, herai If, Nancy Burrard. and none had Che right to command her time or her sei -I vices I With that thought in mind, she hur-i hur-i rl-d up to her apartment and Into the library to phone. Anna met her at the doorway, a parcel In her arms. "I found Ihls In the bottom of the hall closet where those people." Anna's An-na's pronunciation of the Hardingrt was Inlmita'bife, "munt have put it When it came. The postmark's nearly four months old." Nancy took it uriously. Suddenly her heart contracted. It bore a label, a color picture of a dainty Dresden lady bearing a be-flowered be-flowered hetbox above the words-"Fleurette words-"Fleurette et Cie" and it iva addressed ad-dressed to her In Qorry's unmlstak-;ible unmlstak-;ible handwriting. i |