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“But Harriethi clever." my father ' remarked one afternoon. “She can manage anything It she tries bard enough."

“I-Iow did she do this?" I asked idly. I liked the music as well lrliiil a sent below, or a bench at the very top of ‘the house as from n tbox-— in fact, liked it butler- for 'll\" boxes were public and I tinted being, stared ut. I'eople with opera glasses leveled them at me, and I could fairly Ilenr the C3illIlIGI1lS—-"Wllt)S she? Number l0‘- let's see, the Bennett box!" This was a glance at the bOX-lIOlll€l"$ names on the pro- gramme. "Oil! she's u Bennett! Is that satin nrcharineiise she's wcar- Intg? I hear site's separated from‘

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her husband. don't that woman‘ awful, to object to my whispering!” Just such talk as this I had heard

again and ax-"ain whilo the most err — quisltt- harmonies were being pol‘- formed.

"Well," said my father, brlilglllf! mo back from my thoughts. “She prlimiseti one inipecunious lady. Mrs. .t\., with social prestige en-

ever sees him. Even (liven- “is site liroppinl-t liiili'."' “No, she's been dropped. She al- ways lS'~I)£‘I‘\'6I'Sti creature. She‘ will do things slic shouldn't. People: won't stand it, Will you motor backl, flonwrmw?" _ ‘ullflll to get the box, that MFS. IL. Volce- "Elln- mllvyer “'a"l5"" l “Yew, l 53"] Suddenly‘ AM Sllmhvith no lift-stifle but etiougll inane)‘ “Huniph, speaks well for helvdcnly I felt frce~trct~ of the critic-‘m W“. m,- lp would ml“,- [hp box, age", ruy aunt remarked. ‘ism of the tiny town, the looks of and ,5“, n ha“ me time m Mpg _.\ “Connie's very clever." saldldisapprovai. the whispered talk that M!“ u paw for 1L Then your m,“ qulokiy, ‘ ,l'oilowcd behind me. flirting-net] "m u, invite he,- m ([1]). "Calls you ‘mother. l “Site's coming bat-k with us.’ ‘ma. H- 51“, ma,“ Sign it 0y,“- w “of; “Yes. She did that hersellll sup-taunt lIllrril-t announcrtl when niyfm “MR She Sign“! it" ‘ pose it's the curious neeil of u lzillicr ranle. “I thought we Wflliltll‘ “Rmhvr 50mm “m; uugcpupuloflSl child to call someone ‘IHOIIWFT l"l‘1 ll- Sh“? fllll l‘) be "lwl" l“ ‘lwsslrlt’ aunt Iinrriet." I suid stivcreil‘. take a greater place in her life than well again. PPPIIIIPS after all. We‘ “I_lIIR(‘l‘IlpIIltlllN_ e)’ cit-vol‘. or tact“ _ her own mother, I've had lIPI‘ this ran putt-h up things for her." ‘ltur put it as you will," my father: summer, you see, while her mind “Only lot ml- kv-cp tfonniofll lJPg'|:lYlS\\'('l‘(‘Il. "Slip has tlic box. slid is: has ‘been fornling." ‘ cell. “I'll llirc a nurse for her from inviting Mrs, II. to (linncr, which‘ “HumDh! What do the people lliy own allowance, fllitl llllie ll WI" .\Irs. II. wants. and sh‘? IS ‘lvlillllllfi ?" arut l a lartmollt-—" 1 box to her and to . - l. "0- allllnngs: sszlowllllalapeople about, dheylatzreeti to this. And in f1 rut throat IHIIIIQT l slllil» “u: here. Ella comes occasionallvuvcek I was osttlbliSllt-‘(l In a yer)’ I played the sanw cut throat IZZIIIIP She's the only one who doesn't bc- fine zlpartmcni around the 00TH?!‘ as hard on I could all that \I\'lllll'l‘. 119v?" trout my zlunt's. I had the Ilrfil filial“ .\ly aunt turned swiftly. iter of my ailoivancevmorc money “I thought so. Gossip because of than I had handled for some time. the child—and that red-headed art- Reaction Iuld sat ill. I ivulitotl null‘ ist always hanging about you.“ ,to run about. tn be frivolous, in tel-

ed my distinguished aunt's disap~ proval of my house. - “Your father will bs here In half an hour." she remarked next. "Connie. go ask Ellen to come here," I said tn the baby, who went through the house. We heard her-

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"Auntie, you shouldn't disapprovtnlmv a mad ‘ ‘ _ of gossip. You were just this mum-ikecp llil~ from tbiilking~iiiliikllls oi LesterliViu, wondering where ll“ W41“ Illltl

what bl- “'11s doinfl- _

ent telling me about the scandal-J‘

"That's different" replied ml‘! aunt. without mentioning in what‘ way one sort of gossip tiiflsrcti from another. She was saved by the ap- pearance of Ellen, who had stopped appearing where my aunt was. ‘

“My father will ‘be here for din- ner. Iietter have Jane in to help. and fix things particularly nice to- night."

Father did not come in half nu hour, as my alunt said, but Elia did She was lip the path lOWflHls tho porch before she saw aunt Harriet. Then she hesitated and flushed, but came on. Her eyes took in my‘ guest with frank curinsity~auntl Harris-ts silver color dress bot“ white woolly coat with its black) embroidery fluni: over a chair. hm" Parisian hat, her rings and herl white gloves~all the (lelttlls that; went with the stunning car that‘ stood before the house.

Ella. stayed a moment. feeling, and looking awkward, and went away.

"So that's the only friend you. have in this awful town." Anne liar-i riet remarked zludibly enough for. her to hear, I thought. "What's wrong with the others?" t

"'I‘he_v‘ve snubbed me," I said I and smiled." 'I‘hc_v think I'm Im moral because I left Win. and be». cause I'm living hers alone. Thcvl don't understand the baby. nor Col-I

in's presence. They think I'm duo“

‘lng Mother Taylor. If I speak polite- ly to one of the boys here, they say I'm after him."

“I-Iumph," said Aunt Iiarrict again. "So you find a few flaws in your perfect little town! You always said a small town was the only place, that a big city was a. den of sviI—"

"I take it back," I answered peni- tently." There's as much bad Ilen-

as in the biggest city. Oiiiy in tho‘

city there's a chance to gloss it over. I-Iere everytone knows. The principals are higher in the small town, they are not so lax nioraliy— Ibut when they are—"

"‘.Exactly, they aren't even clever about it."

"I'm not condemning the small town—"

“No, butt you see that evil and 200d exist eide iby side wherever you go." For a wonder, my aunt had dropped her clever, sophisticated manner, and talked simple common sense." Before you saw only the wrong in the big city because you were tired of it. You would see only the good here tbecaluse you Ilk- eddt. It was new to you. Now you are disillusioned. Better come back with me, and find the good iir‘ the big city."

"Yet, Win would not have fallen In love with another woman Iiere," I answered slowly. “He would have been afraid of the gossip of his old friends. In the city, the place was so biz It didn’t matter what people said."

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Isl. who had built it tivl-r to r-lutti his tastes, before hr- had lit-en will‘ M1 m tint-ope for a year. lie sublet

it. to lilo through my zlulllflszil-ttllitllli‘

;1\l4'u,<l]i]l with llilll.

"I fziuvv lll‘ lrld luorl- money’ than artistic .bilit_v." I l-tuiizirketl when‘, wr- first visited Ill" place. ‘

It was \‘I‘I'_V cllaruiiu: but ?1('I1I'I'I‘-- lv the sort of plllPo \\'ll(‘l‘(‘ one Plllll'l work. It was a pint-c to be idlr- in.‘ tn sit and rl-ni atld tirl-ilnl, to have Iva‘ h) H, 1. n-ipntle, Ill IIIIK lightly-do ye little dances and illlllll?l'.<'. Iwl-rvtiiililr was‘ <lPSl‘lItt‘tl for mm. dud pleasure, ilotllillg for work.

_\I_v living" rlloln was lilo wi-ralit-‘Il "studio," mom two stories hull Willi a Ii 'p..u't- and 1i lI1llt‘(lII_\' Willi it grt-at lllillltll -'li‘.l\vl IIIIIIL‘ over flit‘

lialwoilr rail. firm: Iow l-zlilrlll-H 31"] ftrllking to my falbl-r, who clllnr‘.

my t‘ll.~ililltl< vwirn (llllllll. iilifl a alonu llil‘ hi; window ili

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ljny aunt, puilriiin to an vxdl r-htlllv ltullv grand that stood near u great windo\\'.

i ran my Iluuds t,*'\i‘l' Ill wa< low-iv ill ton-l. Suddenly l lh-lt at llilllll‘ ' 111.1‘ llt'\‘.‘ zlpzlrtnitllli llilil spukt-lt In IIII‘. I tilt-nub! of W" Ojilll" and ('0llI'f'l'I$-I to coma. \\'l1*"l mp Qilfififlll ()]ll'll"ll llit‘ IIIIHIPIIIIIS who would bt- ill lllp wit)‘. l Illmlclit 0i‘ tbc» Ill-autiful IIIilF-It’ I luialli hear ----zl.ud the hour's I muld spend 11PM"

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‘ ‘i was not rut, out for the small town- Wulzner, Martha thought lllWI-"l wicked. though she played val: little on ll(‘l' lillonosrlltvlt- and lvHl the musical comedy "hits" on her piano and listened to sollifi “LP-ll very doubtful IIIGIIIIIIILZS Ill the till) vttutieviile house.- in Welllsvllie.

I sat down, plflyllli! I1 IGW jl-"lm UIICOXISCIOIISIY lIl_\' flngrs found‘ some Qt‘ the "Love and Death music fro-m ’I‘ristzul. I remembered

Slftillj-{tl tillisician Nardtinski at Gwendol_vn's—\vitil GWPII and my husband stranding in the doorivay" Iistening-Pantl the picture nl‘ tllenl walking away, his hand finding lit-rs as I saw it in the polished illirror- like wood of the piano cnsinir.

I broke off tile musk‘, and walked up the stairs, past the tiny ‘room that was the lllblfifllly, and into the bedroom. 'I‘h<\r-.- were twtr-minc. ‘Winicli was (illllfllllilg, and one for my maid. ll(‘lIl\\', a iiandsotnc dining room was fitted to serve delicious dinners to guests.

"Do you like L?"

"i . I IlllH\\'PI‘t‘tl. "I can't kr-ep Connie lit‘l‘t‘—~—l)ill lit-r illother writes SlItB wants her bark litld oi’ course. I must let her to."

"I think you'll be too busy to miss licr," my aunt observed.

She was right. I had no time to myself for wrecks. Aunt Ilsrriat. whose enormous energy Icnpt llill‘ going long after I was ready‘ to drop lutrrivctl etich day as ICIIcn was serv- iing me a breakfast. This Slit»? lil- laiated I have in ‘bed and I lmiilli soon enough I needed the extra rest it gave me.

Then she took me in her our tn a tires-smoker, or ll IlllllllilPl‘, or a boot mukor, We spent. our tum-u- ings wasting money and time. We lunched at some smart restaurant with her friends, or some 0f the. girls I used to know.

We spent our afternoons at. mati- Ileos. or shopping again, or at tells. People began to drift bltck to town, and we made a round of calls chat consumed hours.

In the evening. it wll-s theatres. dances, dinners. The opera npengd and I enjoyed that. My aunt ninn» aged to serum a box to herself. after a terrific struggle with ihrtw woman of grcat social position and n social clinflicr with unlimited

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".\ cut-throat siame" I had called‘ till» social game my aunt was Illa)‘- mg‘ put l pl;l_\'litl it. and I enjoyed‘ II. 'I'liis was reaction from the Iona‘ quict summer .tbo days that never varilid. Iloforc. I bull risen l-zlrl brezlkfastcli, bathed (‘onriic at dressed her. sewed, Itlucliod ptlm liaps had niotorotl, and lltltl $11"!!! the rest of the time on tiir- tiorcli or. in til.» ium- ll\'lli‘_'. room. lentils: url sewing. No on ruiiio. except WllPlll (‘oliu wa. ting and except furl Ell: . Ollill calls. It was pleasant enough. had had any real friends iittll- town. I would have been con. tented. Ilut the lIL'.l.\' t! ‘ lilo nil-till littir- snlill-s that I sa ' will-re- over I passed. had given iiie a sudq den hatred for Wellsviile and every-l thins it stood for.

Now I liud physical comfort and lllxtlry, ziniuseincnl, new people will Enid ones too, and my fanliijfis thor- ' . Iliuril as I rebelled

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ily enough Iullul-ur-l-tl to be tinlltltipl‘ iil’ I did not do as they liked. “Weill lilakc SOIIIPIIIIIIZ of (Tili-

Iglflflljfl yt-I," aunt Iiurrict said out»

fliftcriititin when we hnd conin in to~ tgetlier from shopping. Slit‘ Wflfi

wiroiluli a great Ilt'1ll IllPSP tlflY-“K

"l still iliiuk we'd lIt'iIt'l‘ lilki‘ lit-r :out of New York," futllci" rt-nlzlrlltzti, loliilring bat-k ill his chair and lulanriug l-zlsllully at the p- ‘ f a ‘new hook ho had llrotiul along. ‘Father rarely looked directly at mo. Iotll ho and l!l.\' fllllll in the room whore I was tLIltl disrussilig me in all itiipt-rsonztl way. as tllouuh I

' .w(‘-r'o a piece 0f iurnilurt- or all oil

lpaiiltinz. _

“'I'but’s because you arc bored Ilore. and want to go abroad ilKillll " .'lulit ilarriet veinarltl-d silurply‘, “I sillalrt lake Connie front tllc cit!‘ yet.‘ It looks as though we were running f\\\'tI_\'-lIl‘('lliliiP of her rel-- etlt unfortunate affair."

My aunt rarely referred to mi‘ marriage. Sim cot around it by call- ing It an “unfortunate zlffair."

“Besides, I can't leave New York this winter." silt-i went on. "I have a ‘great nlany things to tend to."

.\I_v father glllltrctl up from tilt’ book. with rt little smile.

"S0 you intend to rliii tiwendolyn nut 0|‘ town, do you? Wily hear a grudge against her? Sim played your zzinie~you svantcti Connie to leave her husband, Gwen (‘tllIlP along, and (‘onnie left him. I should say you had better give her dinner parties in gratitude, than try to cut her." .

“I um very fond ‘of Gwen iii many

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Letters like th ts ti}

value of the Vegeefibleamymgqutlllii? These women speak from the fullness of their hearts. They describe as cor- rccizly as they can their conditions: first. time symptoms that affected hem most conspicuously; and later- tlie disappearsnceof those sym toms. Theyare aincereex ressionao atl- tude. For nearly fl ty years Lythli E. Plnkhamh Ve table (kimpourld ha; no pra by woman.

‘qfltllfllfltl to dresses ailll aunt iiarriot

had an.

d Sllc ran inc entirely.

She always spoils herself."

"From which I deduce that. (Iweli has gone after some young mall you bullpen to approve of! \\'cil, she will likely g0 hack to tome in a year. She told me so."

“Probably! She begins at Rome llid does the circle. Farris, London, tut-n ncre. New she's beginning all over again."

I had listened quietly s0 far. Now I asked wllllt the trouble was.

“Perfectly Iiarniiess," my father protested. llc had gone half way through his hook by this time, skim- ming the pages ragiitfly‘,

"Perhaps," stiid my aunt, and rc- latcd a long tale, similar to lily mm cxpcrit-nt-te with (iwendoLvli and ‘Winthrop.

"I don't like her, of course, I llcv- er have" my aunt finished contra- ldit-tiiit’ herself." Illit I shall rut her ‘new. I never intend to see lller ‘.'lgain."

, I ivas secretly t-tlzld. 'I‘lie talk of silver Iioliie that

dross come

,iiad me pllt on a “lave which llilll

knows better how to bring you up

n I do. I've been neglectful aa a parent. I'll admit, But I never felt like a parent. I like you. more as a pretty woman than because you are my daughter."

I conside ed this, wondering whether it was a compliment or not. From my point o! view. which was the domestic one, it was not; from his point of view, it was.

“What do you think aunt Harriet has in _niiud about mo?" I asked curiously.

My father stretched himself out

in his chair. his feet on a Iow foot- stooi toward the fire. "Nothing in particular, exccpt to make you a great success. I'm aware that you're not interested much iii that, and I'm sorry. After all. it's the only life you are fitted for, the only one you were trained for. You have everything in you to make you a great social success, and you know yourself that when you tried to be quiet and domestic and obscure, you were miserable." “I kiin\v,"" I said and my tone must have sounded miserable.

"So you see, there's nothing In that. Better let Harriet manage things for n time. She's very v clever. She's put you in the pro-. per sort of house for the season-— small. but as you are young and " alone. you do not need an elabor- ate establishment."

“lint, father, the rent of this placc~and n cook and assistant and a maid. and my car-———"

"'i‘ruc, but why have moncy if you don't spend it?" Father til- ways looked so bored at the men- tion of practical details that I did not pursue this subject.

Iio Iield out his cigarette case.

"l know you don't like thcm, but try these. they're mild. I have them made from n special tobacco grown llI Egypt, and put up there just for mo.“

I took one and looked at father's IIIUIIOfTTPIII printed in gold on the ivhltl- paper. As long as I was be- ing dragged Into the game, I might ns \\'t‘ll play it thoroughly. He held a lighted match to the cigar- etto.

hlvllllllllll‘. my aunt Iiad staged a inngliifitrciit dinner party. to which (iwl-ntitllyii brought the Ribbles. 1 lllltl to attcnti, though I begged not to and. indeed, worried so over see- ing (iweidolyn again that I was ill for n day before. _

Ihlt I went, and having made up my luind about It, I took care to look nly best.

"You must appear like a sweet llllli‘ ingenue of about 17," aunt Iizlrritet remarked. “I'll have n diwss made for you, Felicie knows uinlt I lvant. And my innid will do your lialr, very low ovcr your I‘IlI.‘-', I think. Not too much rouge only a toucli—" she rattled oil, tin- til she liud a perfect picture of mo. as slur ivantcd inc.

The dinner was a great. success, tbl- lIiIiblr-s were (rharlnt-tl.

“l mentionedcasually that you were divorcing your Iiusliziizli," said my aunt.

“lint I'm not!" I cried, shocked

lday. Slll- looked it over and applxiv .

-l~<l, tlt'('ltl('tl I lllitl bt-Itot‘ lmvo lI|_\ ;bair (l(llll' in a ilulrl» yolltliiill fasll» ‘l ll, uiid allviscrl a very little black llllllllif, on my lower t-ywilzlslies. “hiakl-s the cywi rounder and ‘llltll'l' serious hulking. The lllliitljllllw- Iiit-atczl baby type is Illc rage this ‘\\'lIIl('I‘ and you'll do very well lul‘ ltiiai."

t‘ I<‘;lthl~i- hull Illllfilltnl the hook a llistrollrst- on the II4'\V political Silli- ‘atilm following a recent president iaikilvl-lioll. lie had spent less than all hour gIailcirr-J. over it. Ills atten- lion l-vt-u then half given to our ItalIk. ‘Flint twining I heard him hold ltorlh for an huuiwoii the turn in ‘politics. Ilo had a strange knack o1‘ getting evcryuliing out of at hook by giant-int: through, n couilbinatilm of really ltcen intelligence and a Ill(\III(ll'_i' that never failed. Ilut his htlSti was that lie knew nothing and road very iiltic, and cared for ttotli~ ing serious.

"Tile Itibblco are coming back next week from Florence,” he rc- marked.

Aunt. IIarrIeVs eyes glanced. “I must get tllcnl for dinner before the .\lzirsdcn‘s" she ‘said promptly.

“You won't though. Gwen, you see. has them tied up for the win- ter. Stayed with them in Florence. They're to be the social lions this season."