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Show IjOSSELYN'S WIFE! I I II f A QUARREL 1 sxS01':-!:i KUn and l.at- I ,.,',r orl'tiam. wlU'Cvil rue-ana. I ".Ait" h'"" ''"!r A 111,1 1 v-ja. 1 Vrt Wisaiusloii. email I v ''t'1 Il'wn Kl:cu la l"!- I I.'- ,rt hr cm'' b.tix ('.. I ; v, iir "'" "'1'",oJ 1 ;'.f.,J or hfr molher Mi-. K. -. I :: m,,l"'!l,!,, I I v,15 ,.ircv and tt'a ti'-'i l o."- I ' ''-".fa. a l v fr'om lht" I I '.'n t l:',st' " t:::t"M ru!- I ' . . 'ft ' a rr:srkI'!y atiiavtit I -'TJn an.t inc..-:, o'.!-r I Sa uWr tor ('tl'T I 1 jihter. l : " Intro- I ! T.j as V.r an.l M'' J '-'"" I i f0 '"" " :,;i I ;0-r.r !. I 1' k,r hi':'" 1:"'vt "'orii u. I 1 .ii ' I o -ft' J""';u a " ot ' cr I I 1 : r ,w He liji d.up- I j .'.ej f h: fait'.cr a ..!... a I j-1 3 trot on i'o.i k. .t; ; Ic-ruia I 7a the co .!!' lv.-i.tiux io ' I I or. a. M-s- K- ..;.::: ,1:1..- I j u i:. s:'- o". 1 : o I tM:n "-! i! I ! lr.,, M-.t S r: to Port V. ! I t..x 4.-.t. 1 ''-'"J : I 1 r..:rt. but it i i.i I -" '-sM :. o-.i. a".l : e I Wo. 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I 1 :.cr :.at th"a:!,- t.er ..:, I t'Ti"-- to n.-Cc h,r s: k-c:a.J a:ik J ir.ite. rir.J han.!. i' !oors I i :i- t-e;.in to liacr w'.;h Mm. " I i:':,:ti:'eoir( !:vrt::-; ;..r h;n I - t wit, ct..:ff:ni'il s..rt of oy. I :a the same ti:e ;th tvr. I i a hos that lnoi-Vn:al!y f-ir i. I t.10 n"-"-:t stt;r.; f..r any I -'s--:?. triin to :ri like a s- -i,e It I .... ' t:"f- S w 'ays playing I ' It a;us! din) to i.:;:v an ,a I innlbiiwi lU-'lia.J I '"r "l E'!i-n. lie a iiie-re- a I '! p,"-r::i? 1 v-ue little c;.n.c t:,.,t I ""t !ve apprwiuie-! al its -t irorth. ani that micl.t stop , I - -al .edv;cs no one the ier I p- I had her own rpsrre too a r-3 r;' f-"m Oil !,, ,!,at "worrie-I I se'f!8n Ktent tt:at s!:e knew her- I r- rV eri!ire'y f1i.;,r.,rH,rtion.ite. I !hrr'p 118,1 ,ake" lit.rt v . 3 " "Id frier.,!, an,) ha.l fl.viSe,l he'r '- ll r "" her far!,er-in-laWs I.ouse . I LW traanent hotne. J"'?'1 drre " kiD(1,-T- Q '' k'T m;'Dn,"r- 6n,J -itl'"ut muk-? muk-? 4"-MmCIllarl)r en,rharlc. yet Ms I B7"S ha'' m"fle Kn"n vaiTJely I t-.-r'T'" 8he had not b-fc a,i j 11? Jad Dokpn on a rerraln I icd T, ' evnMig. when KPen h??- 'h0 had rnt tl.e Mav lot do,BtoSanis Fo,m lateil) I rjr' 3 l!,tle earlier than uvt.ul. n, ri,.i?''n7P"n the,n at . Tom.nv f k. Kiif 0U' "'e ?ar'"'n on a 8"''f j I rr, " D "nd Uan-iet were oc the 'Nw!l0ne U",aD ,!l,,t P3 81,(1 To'n"!y home.- 'I ' J coat V? ''is d'1l,z!tp'-. "an.l put Or,rJW ,hi"'S a '"' of trotihie!" 11,1 Ham t-'rentiy. merolr smiled. t him ' deiSlltedl- ran off to I all , g t0 be wl"i the' Josse- 6.n,f 8u''in.err he aske.l. after a 3 'is, Ellen answered. PA r,anirr'd0liZesT"nray. They're Tj '"-ikJ 'J about vvanting us, CV" Ds meDtioD any oh- Httai , Ellen, who had ,0? W an at"i""Itiere of lion-h lion-h 0f lu(e. looke.l at l.i.u surprise. e oLb!' 18 lo"ki for a I i "T Itf " s:lld unco"'1'nrt-$ unco"'1'nrt-$ J rt?t" for p.kk'11" yU dQ,t thlDk iVt'i0"" s"e asked bravely - 31 "e Joe 's sister," uUI1m. -No. It'a not ",M- 1,'" J-M-lM, has ,,,. ., that, he can sPu. utU hf lu,M1. ( ' "iu'fh "'I1'.. - far. Xl, Ul 'at. I..U-1.UI I ,,., t,,.,, lri tu ,-,.1;''",M 11 n '"-'""' for any ,.f von '';U,n' """--ho s n,., a normal won,: M.e l,;1S lu-r -luarr, Ls -her f.,,1- Clr! " "I knmv you Jon't I.iin,,,,-""-,''1 'l. M.,llln:; in her turn. -Hut ",ul 1 "'on,- h.aut, fully. ' not H hit alike. yo k.,ow " "I I-eiiM kiv you are n,.t t;,.,,r,.(, l:,',,rr,:l''l "Well. jot. k,:w .:, , ''"I I !"lM:ri tulv, ,. A, lh(r. not ;.;v:ir;n; at that m,,:, ,-.! he :! i.. , u'.s (.,. ,..,( for ,.,.ri u1) atol,o,l her hutton it ever her plain pon.-ee j:wn a n hour later. h, n the e.e -o:r:n h.one. he a.ked llar-"!'"i:t llar-"!'"i:t I or "VLiMr taken a fnnev to youtltf X!,,. J ly n. hahy. havetr't oj I loie her!" Harriet re- ! t-RthuavUetilly. -Iton', tou : !. pretty. ,!M, v. n her dear ,!:.!'. w.(? 1, .n't en think she has I !-''-! l h:'' ''' 7 1 think siie s a thou-j thou-j at:.! t.. :. ; r- f or than I.iii.an " ; ('. '.::. r.o'.N ; I ,.r fa-l:,.r s::;i:,.,. I -."... .!a,!.!y. 1 ,! : At ifi.M I th'nk " "--'en tiute i,vtiT than I. IP I -an-" ! "Ah. well, thai' a dtfTerent :h!n;. ; ' ahy." he r-n, e !o! n!i a si-.-h. Hut llarr.et did t hear hit:!. "M:o i.,oi so, :n t Kn-w tuuv j-te: -' v l. i!.t,!.!y. N-w think of ; her e..t:-.::; ever here twioe a week to -; n I the day :h M: lhi'dwin. To. ( ''...y. she r-a:i: ::, ah n,- the water- j fr-t:t. t.tlVSi!.- w:fh all these old nien j !: '"i-t'-J a '-f the r.ever had seen w.li. ,s.-,-n t!..t-.-s s:,y diffen-nt or lived ar.v eti . r !!.".: she's J.:M like a little I ;irl. X!rs I'.aiduin will say to her: ! l'i:t n tha (,;r-n. li 'er..' ind sl.e ei ey ) If he Was i-i'l t o.:r n il," "I j,.u'd he -! a::ied .if the I.ati- , tt.ers. !f i.'ii were any nh'.tVn to them. ! Jih ;' her father aked. witli a sido-Se sido-Se r:r. She h.-i.-hed. (lathed, and s.;t:.-ezo ! his arm in cro:,t felieily. "I'ad :.v. vou're horril le!" s!;e t-1 ! I.!m. An-! she ad led demurely; "You ; l.ke Ji-. don't you?" i "Who s; -ke vf Je?" her father lacked ip.n.H ert'y. "J.e who?" ;ut Harriet ..t;: r. f er::i!t this du;ilie-I du;ilie-I ity Si e l-'d l.itn vIvarlo::s'y that Ji j v fis to come d -n to !:;n'-he..n on Sun-' Sun-' d-, rr- ' they were to- t-y the tennis. ! i if there was n- lat-n t-nin; rain. ' To I til father nr.d daughter the ; ' i::.;.--lr.,- t'-ii!i.-lt of tie seas'-n's irt '. w :. r:u d..y tT-.en.orai.iy sw.-et as i i they m-fored hoa-.e. Tii'-re were hiaes , ': .'iti-l fruit-hl .s,t:..s in the village, doors i were ep.-n. ! areheadod w-iiin-n chatted over par h-n pates. Ail the country sea ! were sot free flpain. vo'.ees ar.-l the fr.rk'rtp of ii".--. nnd the honk of motor h-rr.s. A hundred li't'e hoats j r. d the si, tiny waters of XlannaSM't j hay; o'-! fapftrn J.: timer, saunterins hot:.e. iifte-I his disreputal'le old hat to Joe's friends fpitn tl.e Toint. "T never was chid ti.at I'm ir-in; to he rioh h-fi.re." Harriet said softiy af'er awl iie. "It didn't make me happier hap-pier a! scii'K''.. an-! it never has seemed to iu:nt very mueh sln'e. IPjt J"e's so amhi-ious. that I'm glad now fur Joe. He er.n travel, and after awhile he can write h 'ks. as he lonps to do." Her father Rlaneed at her. She was looking straight ahead. Into the feathery feath-ery erf en tunnel that w.'S the road: her plain, intelligent little face was lUhted with the great light of youth and love. He did not answer her. He thouirht of the nursery Into which he had reverently stepped, nearly twenty years n"o. to look at his daughter. And his he-art was wninz with an exquisite ex-quisite emotion that was partly Joy and partly pain. rn.vs went hy. nnd were weeks. It was June, nnd stili the youn.-er Josse-lyns Josse-lyns were domicile! "Villino dell' (irro." where a!l the roses were In (lower now. ard the lawns as jrreen .is jade. Stili Gihhs was desuirorily huntine for the rirht studio. Interrupting Interrupt-ing this enterprise whenever -olf kept him In Wheat ley Hills for the day. or when hi" father pianned a two or three days' trip for them nil in the car. outwardly, the life they lived was Ideal. The lovely house was at Its pre'tties-t now. and Lillian pave luncheon lunch-eon and dinner parties Ihre? or four times a week. She imd Ellen tailored to tea at the Huh. i;n! hroueht the men home after their golf, or departed :n Kreat hnrm-ny for lunch or can! part'es. in the car. Hen had some dalntv new sommer gowns, a routrh crash with dark hltie stripes, a handkerchief hand-kerchief linen exquisitely frail and simple a rose-cheeked French gingham In which even LHHan and her friends seemed interested. But she was not happy. She did not want all these new luxuries and all these new friends; she wanted (.ihhs. and she realized thrit they were da, y growing further and further apart IK did no, need her now; they had less and less ,o plan, to discuss, to deade. n their firs, days in America they lK1(1 pnne to their room tg talk ttre-.esslvkllke ttre-.esslvkllke children, to compare -and exchange confidences. F.ut they hi this no longer. Gihhs vras nsually i ed of talking on the brief occas.on when he and his wife were alone. He talked at breakfast, talked while run- "Ins into town In the car, met his old friends at noon and talked, came hack to Wheatley Hills to he swept Into the '"lending ,lk at the Hub, talked at dinner, and talked far Into the night. He would greet K'len carelessly, and dross In silence. His life lls fu tl) the brim wi-hout her. all these lives were packed full without any par tleular reference to the claims of husbands hus-bands und wives, tlihbs thought he was having a glorious time, 'he nji excited, ex-cited, flattered, carried away by popularity. pop-ularity. The men welcomed new blood, another rival on (lie links, another an-other hand at cards, another eligible dinner guest, dancer, and raconteur.-The raconteur.-The women were all captivated by his unusual appearance, his easy French, his art. and his ambition. They found in his Indifference a supreme charm. He did not play their game any more readily than his odd hut nice little wife did. hut while no man ever dreamed of taking the slightest liberty with domestic, do-mestic, serious, pretty little XIrs. Joxselyn. half a dozen women at least would have been glad to he able to speak of (Phhs as a "suitor." l.iiiian htrily called lillen's attention atten-tion to it: to the petti, -oats that always fluttered across bibbs' path at the ciuli. to the Intimate conversations for which traps w.-re eternally laid beneath his wife's very eyes, and lillon was filled with n sort of sick ai.g.-r and terror. Anger because she did no, want to light for what was by all rights her own. and ter-r because sometimes she was smitten with the thought that she h id nothing with which to hold hltn. should he try to to. She C"t:h! not be her old self In this environment. She no longer felt like the busy little wife and mother who had so gal'y climbed tip and down the 1 eights of Xi-nt Saint F.tienne, Tommy toddling beside her. Gihhs rushing to the lan-l.rg to meet l.-r. or to bid her farewell. Surely this was not the same liPen who went Into Yvonne's kitchen and mixed "rombrond Amerieaine" to the amusement and adni'rrMon of the sturdy I.lil-ise? Had she. only a year or two ago. been able to call cheerfully to Gihhs through a Prittainy twilight that he must undress Tommy at once, the bath was waiting, and was it the same Gihhs who had obediently come across high grass under gnarled apple trees to present her with a warm nude, dusty Tommy to bathe? Ah. and there were other times to remember: a night in a Fnneh hospital, and Gihhs" shining head against her arm on an Immaculate counterpane, and the tiny cry that was so soen to be stilled echoing through the gas-lighted, hot room. T.ut at this memory the thick tears would b'ind F.llen's eyes. She had mourned her baby, her delicate, wistful wist-ful little Hose, but she looked hack at that s-rrow now as something sacred, s-mething precious, something that had bound Gihhs nnd herself together more strongly than Joy. She would go into the nursery at -Vil!in- dell' Orto" and begin to busy herself about Tommy's little person-Was person-Was he going to bed? Let mother undress un-dress 1dm. She would fall into a deep musing over the little buttons and straps. "I can undress myself, moth'!" Tom my would protest, wriggling. She would catch the warm, hard little face to hers in a hunger of love. Perhaps the child would glance at her in sur prise. "Are you crying, mother? What for?" "Indeed. 1 don't know. Tom '." - a. m a Their first real estrangement came this summer. Not that Ellen and Gibbs. as norma! young persons had not quarreled before. There had been occasions, in the very early days, when a fancied coldness in his tone, or a let ter that Ellen must write to Joe in the hour Gibbs wanted to rend to her. had caused them acute wretchedness for hours, or minutes that seemed like hours. And then there had been the day he wh'pped Tommy, after, as Ellen put it. deliberately goading a baby of less than four years into such a state of excitement that he didn't know whether he was telling the truth or not. But this was different. Gibbs had taken a dislike to Joe and he and F.llen could hard'y mention Joe without feeling. Gibbs told Ellen Impatiently that Joe w-as all right, he might be a detent enough fellow nnd all that, but that he. Gibbs. did not like to have Joe (linked dw" ''I? throat all the time. Josselvn Senior, was inclined to be hospitable to EPen's brotnei. to hrtng aim vine to Sunday lunch, or to keer hn for dinner after the Saturday ten j r.is. George Lathrop was often aM "Villino dell' Orto" and Harriet and I Joe naturally drifted together. But LiUhin. Ellen divined at once, did not like Joe: Joe had absolutely nothing ,o contribute to Lillian's life, and Ellen suspected that Lillian, in her languid and indirect manner, had iniluenced i Gibbs without Irs knowing it. j One hot erening iate in June Ellen j went upstairs tired and exasperated j after a wasted day. She had motored , to Huntington with Lillian for a lunch- ; eon and bridge party, and had been talkine and eating and laughing a!i I d.(y Now her skin felt dry and hot 1 her bead ached, and she wan eiperlrno ing the exhaustion of a auddenly lea-Honed lea-Honed tension. She had sloped at tha nursery t imd l.l..le nloiu and sulky. .Mr. Latimer had not yet brought Tommy Tom-my buek'm. Ycs'iii, tt was quarter past six. l-ilien went on to her own room to find Gibbs Hung across (lie bed In one of the heavy naps with which he sometimes some-times recruited his forces for the evening's eve-ning's demands. He rolled over when she came in, nnd lay there blinking and staring between yawns at the celling. "Time is it?" he asked presently, and when she toll him he added: "I n a seven o'clock dinner anyway! -My head feels rotten!" "You smoke too much!" Fllen suggested sug-gested dl.spasslona tely. lie himself ,.ad often admitted It. and also admitted that he could not drink as steadily as the other men. But he s. ovvled at tills reminder. Th truth whs that late hours, rich food, hot weather, alcoholic stimulants, and the unnatural life they were leading were had for them both, and any pretext pre-text would serve In these days for a quarrel. "Where's Tom?" Gihhs now asked Ellen knew that he knew, and that he had del ibei"a tely selected a ouestion that would Imply a criticism of bet management. "Joe's coming over to dinner. Gihhs, with the Lathrops. And he Isn't to dress, you know, for they've been out In the boat all afternoon. So I said not to bother to get Tommy home before be-fore seven, he can have a simple dinner din-ner and pop Into bed as soon as he gets here." Gihhs was now sitting on the edge of the bed with trs silver hair In a mop over his flushed face, and his head In his hands. "I must say I don't approve of this constant upsetting of Tom's routine!" he ol served. Ellen, now at her dressing table, with the stiff lines of a silk mhe fulling full-ing about her. flushed in her turn. "Last night you kept him up until quarter of eight." she answered lightly. light-ly. She scored here, for Lillian had had friends for a later dinner the day before and had captured Tommy, and made him bring down his violin. The child had been reluctant to play the simple little airs he knew, and Gibbs" paternal authority had been needed, and the threat of a whipping. Eiien imd been excruciatingly uncomfortable during this scene, and had presently escaped with Tommy upstairs, alraos: as near tears as the child was. "You simply said that to be nns'y," Gihhs remarked with some heat. "You know the child Is out too late, yon know that no sensible mother would allow a child of six to go off in a yacht, and yet you deliberately permit per-mit " "There was nothing deliberate ahou' it, Gihhs! Tommy and 1 went-over to see Aunt Elsie this morning, in the small car. And Joe was home, and asked to keep him. You know perfectly per-fectly well " "I know perfectly well that any crazy tiling that Joe proposes appeal to you! Anything to show me ! ovv absolutely indifferent yo3 are to my wishes !" "Gibbs. don't talk like tha: !"' she sa.id, in a changed tone, a tone more distressed than angry. Ordinarily, the faint indication of a desire to conciliate con-ciliate would have softened Gibbs, hut he was still in the prickly discomfort of awakening after a daytime sleep and he answered hUingly; "Oli. cion't let anything I say -ount I'm not Joe. of course !" And as Ellen El-len was silent, with hurt tears in .t eyes, he added grunibilngly : "If George Lathrop wants Joe for a son-in-.tw. just because his daughter has set her heart on him. and if you want to see your brother every day. and three times a day well and good! All I say is: I'm done!" "It's Lillian that has set you against Joe!" Ellen burst out angrily. '"I know the way she talks about him. In that pleasant, amused voice of hers! She's made you think he was countryfied and stupid nnd slow just because he's never fallen in love worh her " "That's enough!" Gibbs said. In a stern voice. Ellen, even as she spoke, had had a feeling that it was more than enough. She stopped speaking, ashamed and sulky, and went on with her hnirdressing. There was a silence :n the room for perhaps twn minutes, and then Gihhs added wph cold disapproval: dis-approval: "After ail LilHsiK has done for you treating you absolutely like a sister !" Then again there was a pause, broken bro-ken this time by the entry of Joe and Tommy from the nursery through thf bathroom. Tommy had had supper on the yacht. It appeared. He was theoretically theoret-ically nnxious to be allowed to srav up. actually his tired, sunburned little lids were falling over his eyes. El'en welcomed her little brother almost as warmly as she did her son. She put her arms about Joe's neck, and the silk sleeves slipped up to the shoul ders. She knew- t'ibbs part icniarl y resented Joe's manner of coming nnd going informally to and from their rooms, but she could not be urikind to Joe to please Gibbs. "if you don't mind. Joe Eiien auti I are dressing." Gihhs punished her hy saying Icily. Joe. instantly aoo'.igetic. withdrew. The Josselvn did not speak to each other for the remainder of the period of dressing, nor. except when It w-as una v oitlaide. for sever:;r rioyc. The rift between tne younger Vj Josselyns Has, bee operied and li is widening. 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