nocewooooo use o M in SANDRA. Tliii .IEALOUS ily .lane Phelps ,agsewsooeooeeee nose eeecoeto RA IS RECEIVED SAND BY EVERETT'8 FRIENDS r ` Chapter XXIV - when I had been in Hendon about 5 month Everett’s. friends com- menwd ggtlipg on- aa. 'Some of them wore- very. _pIce, , others, especially ,gms-'of`thh'women,' I'dld not like-so well. 'l _felt they nutrtlanlzed _mei- . I .I /Wal Y0 I' all “HY 0 Els; ttlley 'uesduitwqtake _ that tone with md, I- _grumbled to Mrs. Gray with whom I`now often talked ot things which annoyed or worried me _.things entirely unconnected with Everett, or what be said or did. ' "They don't mean to patronize you ~\ I am sure," she had told me. "But you look so young that they probably take that tone unconsciously. _"1 shall be glad when I am old u h to be treated like something 4 .l,<»,. ._ wilfullness tllat if hc marriell one S beside a chlldl," I spluttercti. “Don't wisll to be old, my dea Mrs. Grallam. We get old fas .enough. I don’t suppose there‘s if mancalled on you who llasn’ we gone away envious of your yout and beauty." _ It was a comforting thought. Som of the women I had apostrophised a "caati" so now I thought that would show the "cats" that Iwa just as attractive as they were-per haps'some_ people migllt think m more so, as Mrs. Gray had said. it -was nearing the time for Rose’ vacation. I mentioned it to Everett and said I should like to invite he to visit me if he approved. "Walt until summer then you can go horns and see them all. Lot u have this winter to ourseves," had his answer to my request. - I was terribly dissapointed, ye there was something in the way h insisting; even from asking again. Until hc refused me I did not rea lize how nlucll I had counted on thi visit from Ilose Grandon. I fel thrown back on nlyself, newly lone ly, almost ns if someone had been there and gone. But I made no com plllint. When Evelett spoke in tba tone, I knew it would be of no use. I think Ile sensed something of m llissllpointlnent because for days af- e were talking `so intimately all th Y time that I kept stealing a glanc B0 at them. Everett caught me one and smiled reassurillgly. But th terward- he was kind, and took ln ollt u. good deal. But I was scarcol ccnsoied. I had -wanted Rose badly. I had 'wanted to talk of all the home folks. To chat about any- thing and everything tllat came illt our heads..-as girls, brought up a Iiose and I had been, always do. longed for a girl of my own age; on tllat liked the things I liked, an tl who understood me. But I had soon found that it was not what I liked, but what Everett would allow me to e do. But nothing since tile night h had told me of Leola had been quit r her lose her own personality by a a to rebel. I dismissed tl IZ t we arrived at -the home of ll h friends; but it was to rccill' “gill and agrin ill the time to come. I when we :sat at tube. The appoin 9 ments were exquisite. the 10011 ll llcious. But I was taken ill by é man older than father while Eve _ ett escorted the llandsomcst, anll being bored- Ol COIIFSG he woullln't B youngest looking-next to me-w man there. My escort wvus lleavie If than tile wine Ile drallk with suc gusto, and wllicll I never touched. that he needed to. I never had touc ¢ ed wine in my life. had spoken that prevented me trol: SANDRA Is ANNOYED BECAUS OF HER COLORING Q ' cHAl>'ran xxv » ` t . _ - I never hall been so bored in n ‘-woman llt the other end of tho tub next time llc callght me looking 0 them llc scowled. 9 "Mr, Grullzllll is awfully fond o I red-hclldell women." I started. Th 0 stage whisper of the woman opposl me had rcllcllcll me distinctly. _ me whose name suited llilll so we “You heard that!" - "Of course, l'm not deaf.” - . c so hard- to bear as his refusal to al-, .1 hmm.t thought of it' but you u low Rose to visit me. Perhaps ll was afraid 'I’d talk to her of Leola Ho neellu’t have been. I shouidn’t have broken my pronlise. We wfere invited to a dinner party at the home of one of~ Everett’s friends. A large formal dinner. loathcd the thought of going. Tlloy were all of them Everett’s age; mos of them people who had called upon rn'-. , Everett bought me a lovely new dinner dross. It too was sapphire. A soft delicate affair of chiffon lm ll sequins. My shoes and stockings s matched exactly. I-Ietty said I wa a dream in it when she helped me dress the night of the dinner. Ever- ett also said I looked lovely. I wore my hair in braids wrapped about my head. I had asked if I might no pllt it up so l would look ll. little older and more dignified, but Ever- ett had percmtorily refused. “You can be dignified with you hair as you always wcur it. And it lsn't at\all necessary that you look old. Anyone of them would glllllly change places with you. ‘I wondered if that were so. If wo men like those who had called on rue. stylish, handsome women would U0 Zlad to go backward and be young again. ~ _ -"Why-~ do you want to keep me so YOURS?" I poutell. He did not answer. and boldly J asked: "ls it because you think you can make me over or because I can be treated more like a child if I look so young?" the words weren't out bo- foro I was frightened. “Who put that into your head- lllnt I wanted to make you over?" "Why-~no one. It just popped in- f° lily mind." "Come-the car is waiting,” he Wifi. as he Iolliod my beautiful cloak, thu exact color ‘of my gown, about "LV shoulders. In spite of his not replying I knew by his»face that what I hall said had in some way adected him. -I com- menced to wonder if he had had that |11 mind when he married lnc.`Loola had been twenty-six. Nine years old- -_ ~ . ;~‘;~."r'- ` ". \ \ , \ A; I ~ -M ,` N. Rs BLT-STERED If In noni som ing asm eha‘¢:I.¢en '-700 KCIQA-KONIA. I l’ » all-are ' I C .00 ‘ '-1 » ¢uliiT¢ ex mmm. lm Additional medicinal, and ll\¢||¢M»I0 dililitil I-bl* ,__ mums nl'l$tbllo.\L-_?”0n'¢, -~ - or Q ,_""'_'vlthl»u\ Kolui- ‘ '- ’ ' ' ‘ lronui. nes-e iii' stay It hello - without I s _3.._.. ¢, ‘ __ ._._. ‘S ii ._ ,s :- e exactly the colol'ing of thc ilrst Mrs. Grahuln. Sho had just such hair ll you have." single onc of those old friellds Evcrett's \vllo knew “thc ilrst Mr lnllnncxt to me, and lilo llanlison woluun with whom Everett was tal ing. cllucklllll. I lnliell him still lno when llc cllueklcd. 1 of at kind." I suppose llc inlllglnell himself cl verly facetious. But I thought hi a stupid fool, and protenllcll not 1- llcur that, or unytllillg clsll llc sa to mc. I suppose it was childish me to do so, as I hoard him chuck him. .That dimier was one long drawn out agony. ~Wllat people could see in sitting so long. eating and llrillk- ing and talking I couldll't sec. I hoped they would dance or some- to some other old man or old woman talk I should bc wild. That I might also he an uninteresting companion never entered my head-not thcll. To my disgust there was no danc- ing nfterw-;lrli. The wolllcn all. got up frolu tllc table. and left ills men llrillklllg liquors nllli smoking. At holno the _lllcll alld women always loft tho table ut the some lime. I thought it llwfully foolisll for the women to go trailing off into thc drawing rooln llione; and was fright- cllcd when I thought l should have to talk to tllolll. “What beautiful hair you h`avc, Mrs. tlrallam," Mrs. Gllrry, tho wo- man wlloso spcoch I had overheard at the illblc. said to mc "It is just like tile ilrst Mrs. Grl'lll.'lm's hair. She was ll lovcly woman." _ "I llearll you remark on my llnir at llinller,"l said collil-y; thinking sho would lilo chllgrineli. But sllc only lllughcli. "lt is very unusual tllat a man marries two women of the some col- oring. therefore noticeable. Yell I could say nothing to Everett -about it because he had forbidden me to mention her. I wished he would for- bid also his friends to mention her. By and by the men camo strolling in. Then cards were brought out and two tabes made up. Tile rest preferred to talk. I like to play, but as no one suggested that I do so, I \ <~.~,,., t sorblng it before silo was old cnougl " le thou ht a ls SANDRA nEAl.lzEs THAT sus ‘lf I had dreaded the dinner befor ., E we started, I llrerllpsll lt still more "J"°'”" hell will Hull he enjoyed rlcll burgandy which the host was I B the habit of serving, and which Ever- ett ha'd told. me to ict alone. No l - p : . t the man next to lllc said. I suppos _ _ I mlght have - dom, better if l had 110*-. Uvun lf Everett would llllvc con- Y paid attention. But Everett unll tllllt sented to "H9" '"0 t° ‘l° S0- Th” Mr. Levcrillge the heavy nlun nox laughed a littlc before llc remllrkell: The ilrst Mrs. Graham! I suppos I EI:_‘;ll‘l‘;m"!1:, ;‘I‘(§"v”i*iat‘&|l‘_;Fngs‘~;‘(3)°’t;d llonsc that I hall not read between lt mans second 'clloicel I felt lik t scl'olllllil1gi Ihatcli them all, every gwen --me mst M” Graham.. me "Never lnillll. You llrc young. H won't get ll. chance to lnukc it tilrco ll more pride 1n_1\1m_ .and u feeling thing afterward. lf I had to listen' .__-1--»---- ffs . ing and talking as if- they were hav- ing the best time ever. While I WHS being bored to death by that same Mr. Level-idge who sat next me at dinner. _ | No one ever welcomed a departure more than did I that night, "I should have died if that old Mr. Leveridge had talked to me any long- er!" I said to Everett when he asked me if I had enjoyed nlysef. He laughed,.and said: "You must not call,him "old," it might hurt nl-y feelings. He is just my age." but he said it so kindly I was emboldened to reply. ' "He`s an old bore anyway. Do 1 UHVG I0 _S0 I0 many of those dinners, Everett? I dldn't enjoy luysclf one sinsi_e_lltile bit." "N0"-You aren't absolutely obliged I0 80- But as I enloy them and It lW°uld lfwk strange ll 1 dill not take 3'0"- 1 IIODG .YOu will be contented' to go .for my sake." I said no more although I was wild to tell him that -I l1idn’t carl; to hem- ubout “tile first Mrs. Graham,” 01- to be mid 1115' hair was like hers. 1 should have liked also to havu rg. peatcll Mr. Leveriliglrs fllcctldug 1-1,. """k- IWHB B0 disgusted Iwanted lo talk about it. Of course I coullln‘t er than I was when he had married Hillel' his Drvhibition. her. Had he thought because of her "Go right to bed,” Everett, said n when we reached home, "I shall read young girl he could mould her, makgl a while." Illlt I knew by the way 1,.. ; me that I had not displeased s . , n Loves HER HusaANn 0 cllAl>TErt xxvl t, 80il1l; to tllosc stupid sort of (lin. e_ ners us l_f .Ile meant it. llc had spo- .. “Cu #0 uwoly to me that l fell quite ,_ guilty because I had complained of 0. feel as I did. They were all about ,_ ills age. - h `I have always thought tllat if A Evcrott had realized how I longed n for ll companion of my own ogg at this time he would have allowed mo y_ to invite Hose Grandon to visit llle. - H0 Ovidcutly thought that lovely clothes, a llzlllllsome home and motor cars were all a. wonnln _,needed to E lllllkfl |101' i\Hl1Ill'» Perhaps they would have been all an older woman needed- BU! 1_ _WHS Young, at times fllll of guy splrlts. I not only want- ed. but needed conlpaniolls of llly ly own age. l life ns .I was at that dinner. In the Had I been °“I“\bl@‘ Of Illiiilllf ilrst llllc I liidn't llndcrstllnd llalf °h‘"'g.° of me h0“’*@ it Wllllill IIUVU U filled many weary hours. But 1 was lu §0l\S0llnellco was that I hall mllny 5 Idle hours, unoccupied lloursl during 8 which I thought of wllllt Everett had C i0id mc. and of Leolu, of lvltom l e was furiously jelllE-'Eli ME 5 to “NDS HOLE 5 _ Urse PAN THE heaviest Iron Pot or _ / the lightest little saucepan : ` /. 'Milk Can! and Frying Pans; Wash Boilers and Preserving tlcniwldoleo Pete and Tea Kuttlnl. I an or tiny leaks. All ora uk iysnd permanently mended with Tnlfraslt sally llspllal um. ll.- % ready for nu In two i Always ka) n parbrlyz in the i Annu. Il lllvc: marry lluilllrr. At Hardware Stores, Drugglstl and Grocers. Vol-hail lig. ilu., M. hr 2024 luminal if ~r/~`»»~~ Litteert cents dinner. Willie I did not want to go. I did want to look well as long as Everett insisted upon our accepting ller invitation. Already I llnli learn- ed the power of clothes upon thc minds 01 some women, null nearly all men. lilall the “l'li show thcnl" feeling because of thc patronizlng way they treated me. That is most of :llem--especially the women. “One would think I was an infant ln arms!" .l scolded one morning af- ter attending it fullctlon at which almost everyone treated me as if l wecr a child. And I begged Everett again to allow me to comb my haid as the older womell did so I would look less like a little girl. But ho again refused. If there had been any other wo- men ol' my age ill tho set to which Everett belonged I wouldll’t have been so noticeably young. But most of them had duugllters my ago wllo were still in scllool, or considered too young to be “out." I had hoard people say they hated to grow old. 'l was constantly wish- ing I were older; lnorc like the scif- containell, poised woman with whonl Everett, and consequently I, asso- ciated. It seemed to me that wheth- er onc could bc llltppy about olle’s ago or not depended on one’s cllvi- ronmcnt. EVERETT OUVS SANDRA JEW- ELS - CH.A.I’TEIt XXVII Irmet Everett :lt tho lnodistc’s and we selected a soft clillging stuff for my dinner gown. 'I`o my disgust Everett turned to the dcsigllernllll said: “Bc sure you nluke Mrs. G1‘al\aln’s things- very girlisll and simple.” "ll/'itat did you tell hcl' that for?" I exploded the question as soon as wc left the shop in such a willy that Everett looked at me in a blank puz- zled wlly. “Tell hor wlult'!" I-lc hall alreud forgotten all about it evidently. Y simple! I doll`t want them mnlle that way! everybody treats lne like lt chilli, and you lnakc mo look mol-é like one by tolling thc llrcssmakers such. things.” “You are acting and talking like one now-ll very young one.” As usual his tollc and manner pre- vented lnc from saying more, but it did noi. prcvcllt mc pointing. “l.lottcr rounli up yollr faco it lit- tlo Szlllllrll," llc snid when hc stop- ped in front of tl jcwclcl~’s. I had been so l'l‘llss that I hull paid no llt- tellilon to what be had sulll to _the clluuffuur. “.'l‘llc salcsnllln will think I have been spanking yell,” llc slllil- ell so qllocrly wllcn he sllid it that I laughed, and so made up with lllln. Everett seldom joked, but when llc llili llc was so comical I coullin't llclp laughing evcll if I felt cross. I had wonllcred all the lnorning if I was to Ilavc Lcola`s sapphires. I soon follnli out that he hall no sucll intention. llc bought mc a darling hlappllirc and diamond bl‘ucclot, and u wonderful sapphire penlillnt. Tlley cost as llluch us i`u.lllcr splcnt in a your for the entire family. ut I had become accustonlcll to Ever- ctt's iilllrruiity by this tilllc. At ilrst I had tllougllt of it as extravugallce onos like Everett, often made quick turns ill till: stock lllarket which brought them in ll great liolll of money; llnll which they spent as ell:-lily ns it value. I was lleligllloli with my lovely sapphlrl~s. What girl wollllill‘t bc? I really hull lllwllys lovcll ibut sllllllll of blue. it was'sinlply my fooling that Ilcolu had worn it that nllldll lllc object to wullrillg it. So l tlulnkcll Everett llnll loullcll ovcl' to kiss llinl. We wore in my town cur, so 1 thought it :lil right. lie drew llllck. "Relllcnllll~l‘ you arc in tho street, Sandra. Someone might soo you wllo citllcr did not kllow, or who dill not roi-,llgllizo mc, nllll would tulk of your indisclction. Salvo your l-llrllsscs for thc prlvllry of holuc." llcurd tllllt word "inliiscrctions' since llc luld iolfl me of Lcola being indiscrocl. Now I-wondered if wllnt- ing to kiss him had been what ho meant. If ho did no _wonder she did ihingifhe llilIn’i. like-no wonder she that color, and had the most gorge- ~ ilrst time ll stir of pity for hor mn ous jewels; sapphires, to wear with “Mr w that M Leum' was giving the through lull. Then I recalled that Ev- erett llad said he loved her so llcnr- ~it." l . - » Just then some women came up ', . - ly, and my .i€'H\0\lB¥ was “Bain in the anl s oke to he anll she sal no ' ' asc-endant I il 1'. d ~ - more. Perhaps she would have asked -_ S _ I-low I wished he hallknott lnrade me if I had sapphires also: it was ‘ ‘ 1 ' me promise not to spell o er. dreadful to have the "first Mrs. Gm- ,mul or ms. There were so many questions I ham" constantly thrust at llle. Andi I “UQ ¢||[w|||Q _ 1,7 ,___ \ wantcd to ask; so lnucll I longed to ‘i rl. we ' 'q. know. if Everett would only tell me things, tlllk them over with me, I knew l would be happier. There were so many tlllngs that troubled lint ncvcr would I dare mention --T0 make my wings gmish and. Ile was als lllludsolnc as any llcru , ' ¢'_ ‘ knew what Everett had meant by “indlscretions." Everett had me set him his office, then -I went home. I show- cd my lovely sapphires to Mrs. Gray and Hetty. and in their enthusiasm" and admiration for them I almost forgot tllat Everett had repulsed mo. "Mr, Graham loves this color," I said after a while in hopes that I might draw them out to say some- thing ubout those other sapphires, 'file always wants me to wear it." ‘ Neither ' said ,,anythlng, and I caught a fleeting glance of a look Mrs. Gray bent on Iietty. llid it moan that she, Ilctty, wus to say nothing of her about Leola’s things? I-lad Everett told Mrs. Gray that was not to be enlightened? Ifow wished I knew. I put the sapphires away withou again looking at them. Someway I always resented the fact that I was never to kllow about this other wo- man; the wife whom ` Everett had loved. I was persuaded that he llcvcli would love mc. That Ile had lnarricd mc simply bcCl1\1Se IIB Wall* cd a wife wllonl llc could mould, and wllo would-be a lll0ii\0\‘- Ono day I took my courilg illlnds und asked Mrs. Gray: “Did Mr. Graham and--cv llny children?" I couldn’t speak hc name. , "llasn't he told .you'.'~"» shi! bending a keen look on ine. “No-I didn't ask him when W0 had our confidential cllltt,"arld I llls- llllc to nrlug it up agulu. I telllicd tllinking l was wonderfully iactiul.` “’l`llcn lcall say notlllllll- MIG turnl-.li away, thcn ililiiclif 'But tl“’r‘3 is llotlling for you to worry Ui-‘UUA- ubsolutcly nothing." SANDRA DECIDES T0 BE CREET CHA1"l`ER XXVII Instead of relieving my f0iU`i“f MTS* Grlly's emphatic remark increased tllcln. Why woullln‘t she answer s silnplv a question as I had asked? All this secrecy was bztilling- It Ulm' ell to my unllllppiucss bccallse _of the surety I had that Everett dlll not love, never would love _mo, .be- cause he had so passionately C0-I`U<1 for Lcola. 01' course, I was not unllapp the tune. No sn-l us yuuus as I would be. But I had long fits of llc- pross-ion will-,n'] wllullercll about the llllllso lliscollsolatlfly, wislllllg. that I hall sollleonc llkle`ROS0 I0 tlllk L0- llivell liuster and 'Poodles would have been joyously receivl~ll. 'l‘llcn often when Everett was pal'tiL'uIu1'l.V Silffll I would weep unll sob until I was ill. Tlllln he would scolll mc severely; and porllllps go out :lull lcavo mc alone for dinner and tllo evening. "l have no wish to sit opposite you when you make yourself' so un- attractive," llc would say sllrcastl- cully, then leave nle. Not oncc had he taken me ill his arms ullll tried to soothe mc, null coax me not to cry. In ull the stories I llali road tllllt lvas wllllt llllsbanlls llili-cspc- cilllly if they llllll been lnurricll only li short iillllt. I lnlllie up lny luilld I should hllvo to forget my book llcrocs. l§V0I'0i.f. wus awfully lllsllppointing when I lzolllpzlrell llilll to tllclll. Not ill i00I¢S .in lilly story I ever llud read-at least I thought so. But llc llorl-:ssloru`l"‘l\lll> ellslrllss srcnorl v' i-W3' - In each office the . " INFORMATION AND SERVICE BRANCH ' DEPARTMENT OF SOLDIERS' CIVIL RE-ESTABLISHMENT ' has a representative to render special service In the could not very well offer. The next A il`.~Q 'A as much us ii I were breaking my Dr 2 _ I _ TeI.No. hour dragged unmerclfuily. Everett `»" -I" »‘»l`- " - ' ag ig' promise never to speak of her to at u IUCQIS CHARLG-rn:-I-QWN Muk“B&’Q“_sh‘| 7" warplaylng partners with the_n¢nte `.,,_.. ci ~ __ ' 4 anyone, never ask any questions, I and enerai H I . _ ,_ __ _ ._.,____, woman he took in to dinner. ‘They ' »-17-.. would get iiettv or Mrs. Gray to tell res» ' 'cl were wirrning,'and‘»-were 'both lnnltlffv _ ‘ine what they 'knew. Perhaps tht-y| '