1TH! STORY SO FAR:
‘ 1m GORDON. beautiful
. marries DICK GREG-
. stniggllng lawyer. Her
of marriage is too and line
. . .hut no work or
, refuses to do her on"
‘ ork. and hires a maid.
RM has to let the maid
Gloria has swamped him
debts for her clothes sud s
shew becomes lnistusted with
,NEY WAYBURN. an no-
“it‘- When he leaves town to go
“New York. Gloria follows him.
he spams her. Then she
Into get a Job as a chorus
I”. and fails. She begins to
' l finalise how homesick she is. how
MISS BRIGGS. Dick stars out
late one night. Gloria ls sure
he is spending the evening with
Miss Briggs. But next day she
learns he was at the home of.
flit. JOHN SEYMOUR. who had
killed himself because of his
wife's love affair with JIM CA-
REWE.
A few days after Dr. Sey-
mour's suicide. Jim Csrewe’s en-
gagement to a young college girl
is announced. May Seymour de-
cides to leave town. She begs
Gloria to go with her. .tut al-
though Gloria ls unhappy with
. Dick. she refuses to go. But
finally she does leave him. and
goes back to her parents' home. .
> no day she meets Dick on the
street. With him is Miss Briggs.
ON GO ON WITH THE STORY)
LORIA'S one fear was that the
two might see her.
Quickly. as if she were flee-
"g. she ran across the side-walk.
all into a. drugstore. She sat down
lit the soda fountain and ordered a
, When it came. the sight of it made
er ill. She paid her check and hur
ried out into the fresh air and the
unshine
. . Thank goodness, Dick and
Plies Briggs were nowhere in sighti
suppose they’ re having lunch
.omewhere. together." Gloria
thought. with a pang of self-pity.
Kile walked along. not knowing or
«ring where she was going. . . .
‘Then a poster outside a moving-
icture theater caught her eye.
, ealous Wives"—the words flamed
lit on it.
'Gloria. smiled grimly to herself.
‘I’m one of them." she thought. "I
hink I'll go in, and see what it's all
., about."
She went into the dark, cool cavern
of the theater. She sank gratefully
ate a. chair. . . . Ah. it was good
\to be here, alone! Away from her
mother’s disappointed eyes. hsr
sther's kindliness. from Aunt Don
.css' sharp tongue . . . away from
There was no sound in the theater
except the whirring of a. huge elec-
tric fan in the center of the ceiling.
Down in the orchestra pit. the organ-
“ at was turning the leaves of his mu-
ine.
The picture flashed on the screen.
gainst it Gloria could see the all-
trent of her . g. . Dick
She leaned over to touch him
upon the shoulder. Then caught
rself. . . . No. he would have to
cords to her! She was through beg-
ging him to take her back. . ,_ ..
taut there was a certain cold com-
rt in the thought that he was not
th Miss Briggs. at any rate. She
rmust have merely walked out of the
hullding with him on her way to
ch.
Gloria was glad of that. The
hought that Dick could give her up
or a. plain woman like Susan Briggs
“hill added to her cup of bitterness
reghsps. after all. he didn't care so
"Suddenly Dick shifted I. little in
in seat. Gloria held her breath.
Suppose he should turn around and
so her there! . . He would think
hat she hadfoiiowed him into the
I Beatrice Bum“ ©ioeslm13mvxoa mo:
to think she wanted him to take her
back. . . . She was through!
Softly she slipped from her chair.
and walked out of the twilight of
the theater.
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UT a great loneliness dropped
down on her like a cloud. as she
went out into the tlironged
street. How lonely a crowd could
make you feel. . . . _
Gloria turned away from the cen-
ter of the town. She walked along
familiar streets. She knew where
she was going. . . . Home!
Not to her mother’s house. but to
the little place that had been Dick's
and hers! She was going to that
forbidden place . . . the one spot
on the whole wide earth where she
felt at home.
,How cozy and happy the ,llttle
green and white house looked as
Gloria came down the street toward
it! It seemed to twinkle a welcome
to her with all of its shining win
Cows.
. . . But in the center of the
green lawn was a real estate agent‘s
"For Sale" sign. Gloria had a sud
den impulse to pull up the sign. as
she might have torn a. weed out of
the lawn. . . _
"Hello. there. lady!" a voice hailed
her.
Her neighbor. Mrs. Donberg. was
leaning out of one of the second-
fioor windows of the house next door.
"I was thinking of calling up the
real estate people to ask them to
show me through your house." she
said in her shrill voice. “But now
that you're here you can let me in.
i'll be right over!"
Gloria eyed her coldly. “I'm
sorry. Mrs. Donbei'g." she said.
"but I haven't any key with me. i
—I Just came to pick dome of the
roses in the baciward. . ._ . Were
you thinking of buying the house?"
"Well. we'd love to have it. It's
a. little bigger than ours." Mrs. Don-
berg answered.
Gloria. know perfectly well that
she had no thought of buying the
house. “She Just wants to look
through it. to see all my things! .. .
The big busy-body!" she told herself
"I'm going in." Gloria made up ‘lier mind, suddenly
angrily. as she walked around to the
backyard.
She didn't want Mrs. Donberg
poking around her house! She dldn'l
want anyone to look through her
house: . . . And the thought that
someone would presently buy it and
live in it was unbearable to Gloria.
Why. it belonged to her . . . that
house! She had picked out every
scrap of wallpaper . in. it . . .
every stick of furniture! \tht right
had Dick to sell her house. . . .7
"I'm going in." Gloria made up her
mind. suddenly.
O O I
l\ the grass lay a clothes' pole.
Gioi‘la‘put the sharp iron end
of it under one of the sunroom
windows. Using it as a lever she
finally managed to get the window
open.
'She laughed aloud when she stood
in the sunroom. “No wonder there
are ac muny burglars. if housebreak
ing is as casy as this!" she thought.
She sat down at the piano and ran
her hands lightly along the keys In
the opening bars of Olfenbach's
“Barrel-oils." .
“No." she thought. springing up.
"I‘d better not play that thing. . . .
It always makes me want to
cry. . . ."
She knew that she was on the very
edge of tears.
Who would have thought. a year
ago. that she could ever have felt
this way about a silly old house?
=Gloria looked around h There
was Dick's chair . . . an the read-
ing lamp swung shove it. There
was the little red smoking-stand she
had given him. The tray on it was
filled with fine gray ash.
I . 1. She closed her eyes. She
could see him sitting there. with a
book in his hands. smoking his old
pipe! . . .
Ah. it wasn't the house that Gloria
was homesick for. she knew. at last.
it was Dick she wanted! Dick!
She dropped into his chair. and
laid her head back against the
brocade where his head had rested.
Tears nlled her throat. burned be-
hind her closed eyelids.
"I mustn't cry!" she told herself.
"I mustn't let myself feel this way
“out him! It's going to break my
humifldo. . . ."
But the house was alive with Dick.
The table where he had made lit-
tle marks by lznolrklmi out his mm,
the writing desk. the magazines
piled on one broad arm of his chair
spoke of him.
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LORIA shook herself. and went
upstairs. Her test made no
sound upon the steps. She felt
dreadfully alone.
0n the threshold of Dick's room
she paused. Hie bed was It!!! just
as she had left it . . . made up
with clean linen and the best em~
broldered illowosses. He held not
slept at he s then. at all! He must
be living again with Mother and
Father Gregory.
Gloria looked into. the clothes-
closet. Yes. his clothes were all
gone. '
The toll of his dresser was bars.
The drawers were empty. The
books had been taken from the little
bookcase that‘ stood beside Dick's
bed.
But on it stood a large framed
photographof Gloria herself in her
wedding dress. So Dick had not
cared to take that along with him
to his father's house!
’ “Well. who could blame him?"
thought Gloria. "I don't suppose he
has very many happy memories of
me. after all. . . .'
Now that she stopped to think of
it. there had been more storm than
sunshine in their life together.
“And the whole thing has been my
fault." Gloria told herself sternlv.
it was the truth . . . and it hurt.
She turned to look at herself in
the glass. as a judge might have
looked at a prisoner.
She put herself on trial. . . .
She knew she had done none of the
things a good wife ought to do for
her husband.
She had never taken care of his
house . . . never looked after his
comfort. She had told him bluntly
that she would never give him I
family. Children were too great a
bother. . . .
She had not even been utterly
faithful to him: hadn't she let Sten-
ley Wayburn make love to her? . .
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8 Gloria stood there before the
glass. the telephone rung.
it startled hex. Slhe had sup
nosed Dick would have had the
phone taken out of the house . . .
He Must have tornoiten it.
“Hello." she said.
"Hello. Glory." May Seymour sn-
swerod her. "So you didn't leave
homo offer all?"
“i did." Gloria said. "i just came
look here this afternoon for a few
minutes . . . to get some thingwl
had forgotten. i'm staying at my
mother’s house. you know."
“Walt there for me a few min-
utcs. oil! you?" May "5km! “l'il
he right over. i want to talk to
vou'
y“All right." Gloria replied listless
‘.'()nl.v hurly. i want to get out
nyf this lilac. it's spooky."
The flu use that she didn‘t want
to see May. She didn't want her
In the house.
alone there. for n while .
think things out.
She heard May laugh mirihlcssly.
“Spooky?" the repeated. "if you
think your house is spooky.
ought to spend a night here in mine.
it‘s fairly haunted. . . . Goodby."
Gloria shuddered as she hung the
receiver up on its hook. She won-
dared how May Rinyod there in the
house where Dr. John had killed
himself! . . .
O s e
SHE ran downstairs to see if there
i.
..to
were any cigarsts in the silver
box on Dick‘s smoking stand.
May loved a smoke. occasionally. . .
There were s half dozen cigareta
in the box. Gloria stood looking at
them. for a minute. Then she picked
them up and threw them into the
empty grate.
No. she made up her mind. she
would never smoke. again! She was
through doing the things that Dick
said no nice woman would do!
Even though he should never
know it, she would become the kind
of wife he had always wanted her to
be!
(To Be Continued)
She wanted to he"
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as Dig Feature
ohm known professions!
re. including Leo Nomll.
ovle "stunt" man. tsko
iiscosoene which pron
,ot the spins-tingling
Ird Dix's latest star-
“The Lucky Devil"
ins shown today and to-
" the Regent thentro. The
screen original by Bryan
“Code of the
who longs for what he
Hefwsnts it so awfully
finally succeeds in get-
” Farnian is u. demon-
sure camping outfits. lilo
with the beautiful car
it; that he wood like to
own one. its invests halt of his sav-
in!“ on oneness to win a car at s,
bazaar. “Their the fun begins be—
cause he‘firins it. Love, thrll’ls.
races and suInenee enter into the
story. . '
"The Pony Express" comes to the
Regent. Wednesday. Thursday and
li‘ilday. This treat picture is said
io be the coast of "The Covelod
Wagon.” the picture which took the
country by storm. Featured in the
picture m Betty Compson. Ricardo
('ol‘tttl Ernest Torrcnce and Wallace
lici'ifi'. .
AT THE PALACE ‘
(lurid Vtudmilio and Classy Picture
pr'l‘hreo Days.
it is hard" to say which is the bot~
1ur part. of the bill offered at the
Palace theatre today. tomorrow and
Wednesday.» the. picture or the
vaudeville. Both are far above the
mango standard offered to the
public.
The picture “The Street of For-
gotten Men." a Herbert. Bronon pro-
duction. is called one of the great-
is pictures of the year. It features
l‘crcy Marmont. Nell Hamilton» and
MM); Bruit.
The film tells the story of. u young
man: how he came up in life after
n. struggle in "The Street of Forgot-
lt‘n Mon." Intormingled with the
story is agroat lpve'tnlc.
The vaudeville bill is headlined
by "'l‘ 0 La. Parity Revue." a Span-
isli d cing and singing act. with o.
(-ust‘consisting of ten women and
ihroc men.‘ Then there is Kramer
and Curr. liokum comedians. Bob
Richards. a splodnid loner soloist.
will sing. ..ln addition. there are
two other good acts on the bill.
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. AT THE RIALTO
Spirit Fakcrs Revealed in "The
Mystic”—u Gripping l'hotoplay.
Youl-ve often wondered how spirit.
mediums work. whether they. worn
real or hand. Now comes the first
lug picture that solves ihut doubt
and reveals in n stirring drama. how
LAST OF WEEK
More Spectacular Than . g
"The Covered Wagon!"
, with ,
Betty Compson, Ricardo
Cortez, Ernest Terrence
and Wallace Beeryv
“The Pony Express” ‘V
fake mystics pull the wool ovcrthc
eyes of their victims. This picture
is entitled "The Mystic." and is now
playing at the Iliallo theatre. You'll
never forget the romance of a. girl
of the shadows lifted into the sun.
light by a mighty love. It is in,
gripping Dicture.
THE LA PANTY REVUE
A Snappy Dance and Song Act With a Big Cast
Kramer 8: can Bob Rich
Eokum Comedians 'reilor Singer
And Two Other Big Acts
BRIDGEPORT THEATRE
A I‘The-lhlalf Caste’
First Legitimate
, action of Season
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Thursday, Friday, Saturday
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100 Pies given away at
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WHITE CARGO
t. Regent
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nouncemcnt. was made today
‘ d Esterson. proprietor of the
‘ nt‘Theatre. that he had booked
tiegitimatc attraction of the
terms”. It is "The Half-
ot which Walter Scanlon
ack McClellan ale co- authors.
be .played at the Regent be-
e end of the month.
Half-Caste" is a vigorous
citing drama with scenes'lald
Piggly Wiggly
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