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nfl... JOHN SEYMOUR.
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. home town after a year's
,‘ A veiled so ss to escape
In. May comes lets oas
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,“IIWCI'. DICK GREGORY. '
GLORIA, his wile. She tells
who In her close friend.
It the story of Dr. John's lei- .
has followed her Maui
Where. Andsoshohumndsfll'
her mind to ‘fseli out”-~to at
V vert evesythlng she has ‘llh‘ .
rash, an go away to Europe
"where no one will know her
her story. ‘ ‘
Next morning she goes, to
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wealthy widower who is In ‘
real estate business-to ask
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to sell her house tor her. Linn-‘- . if
sen advises her to‘ keep the
house, live in it, and tees the
townspeople who hsvc‘hillldeted
her. But Ms! tearinliy hislsts
that she wants to be WNW.”
And Fol-can dually promises to
sell the house.
, That night at dinner with the
V Gregory's, May tells Dick to sell
her stocks and bonds tor what-
is enough
money to keep her afloat for n
your, while she hunts a new hus-
She irsnlily admits that she is
din; to marry money whether
he‘ioves the men or not. “Men
have never been iair end square V
'wlth me.” she adds. "80 why
houid i be fair and square with
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E look Dick threw her across
the dinner table cut like 3 Toledo
. , blade. And May met it with
up. bright defiance. ‘
‘l'ou needn’t sit there glaring at
No like that. Dick Gregory!" she
sipped, "I meant just what I said
‘ 9 man ever has been fair end
My own husband
that. Into her memory flashed s.
picture or Dr. John's nice-friendly.
kind. concerned. She . opened her
lips to defend him when“ May spoke
again.
"Gloria can tell you how he left me
clone day utter day. night- aster
night." she went on‘in a cold. hard
. voice. “And then raised the root he-
. cause I played around a little with
.Jim Cnrewel—It- you call that being
' {pinto a. woman I .don‘ti". ~ ~ I
3 men laughed grimly. “lieu knew
h V as a. doctor when you married
him, ' he answered. "You knew what
I. doctor's life is. You knew Dr.
- John would be away from home moist
o: the time. And you had no busi-
ness marrying him unless you'd
made up your mind to settle down
like u. decent. woman—~"
“Oh. blulli" May cried impudently.
1"‘You tuik us it l'd been all tangled
- up with Jim in some kind of dis-
graceful love affair instead of Just
”as silly little friendship!"
“Silly little friendship? is that
arenlly all there was to it?" Dick
asked. looking straight down into
*the slate-colored eyes across the ta.-
"ble. And under his steady gaze. two
spots of color came into May's white
cheeks.
"We-ii. it wasn‘t much more than
ndshlp," she sale, mly.
' o straightened suddenly in her
‘ and brought her two hands
hard on the table. "But what-
wos, John got even with me
. she maid. "He know people
say in been a bnd‘wlfe to him.
. he killed himself. And he left
the alone to line: the music. And be-
ieve me. it has nten terrible . 3. ..
‘laclns it."
, She shook her head, and drew one
'0! her beringed hands slowiytcross
her eyes. as it she wanted to shut
lent the hateful memories of the past
fear. from her brain.!
Gloria pushed her chair back trons
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the table and rose. “My wordi How
gloomy we all are! Let's tell: about
something cheertul. tor a. change!"
she said. “May's future is all that
counts. anyway, isn't it? The past is
-—nast, thank heaven!”
She slipped her arm around May's
shoulders. and the two triends went
out onto the . porch. Against the
blueblsck screen 0! the night, a cop-
per colored moon hung low and
large.-
"I hate Dick when he's in one of
these hoiier-ihendhon moods of his!"
May said in a. vibrant undertone.
“But i hate men as c close. any-
way. Don’t you. Glory? . . . They're
always trying to tell on women whnt
to dOl and when to do it! They make
me sick!" '
Gloria. laughed. "You don't hate
men. Mayi" she replied. “You like
men. really. But you tee] hitter to
ward them. new, because you‘re hit
ter toward everything and every».
body—but. don't ‘be. Maybe just
around the corner is the love you've
always missed . . ."
May's voice. when she answered.
was filled with.scom. "have? Pit-
fle'.” she said. "i don't believe in
love, and 1 don't want any or it.
thanks! . . . John was supposed to
love me, and so was Jim Col-ewe
. . . X0, I don‘t want any love. But
just give mes little money, and i
can buy the happiness and excite.
men: that I wont . . . money! That's
my creed."
She stopped suddenly. and held up
a. finger. "Listens" she said, almost
in e. whisper, “Listen!”
Somewhere across the hushed town
came the longdrswn. lonesome
shriek ot a. passing train.
"Wherever that train's bound for.
i wish I were on it!" May cried.
"This town gives me the horrors! I
can hardly wait to get nwny from
it!’
She turned suddenly and almost
ran into the house. Gloria stood.
motionless, where she had left her.
tor a. moment. She thought of Dick
and the Baby. and her heart swelled
with almost unbearable happiness.
“I believe in love," she said soft-
ly. into the darkness. Then she gath-
ered up the porch pillows. pulled up
the awnings and followed May Sey-
mour into the house. '
But there was no one in the liv-
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She sli ped-henarm
around Me a shoulder and
the two riends went out on
the per V . .
in: room but Dick. sunk into the
depths at his brown armchair under
his tnvorlte lamp. On his knee was
a. small memorandum book. .
“Didn't my come in here?" Gloria
asked in surprise.
Dick shook his head. without look-
ing up. "Just peeked in. on her way
upstairs." he said. "to tell me to sell
her bonds at any. price so long as i.
sell 'em soon. fiVhot's the matter
with her anyway? Wanderlust?"
"hi-no," Gloria answered. "Not ex-
actly that. Site Just hates to stay
here where everybody knows her.
She's in the most dreadful frame of
mind. Dick. She told me she doesn‘t
care the snap of her lingers about
anything but money!" . .
"I've heard women say bctore that
they were going to marry tor
money." Dick remarked, with a grin.
“dihd then tell dead in love with
some poverty stricken widower with
six children. . . . Q'llnt'a what your
old friend May will pmbebiy wind up
by doing, too!" . y . ‘ ‘
He added up a column in the little
leather book on his knee bolero he
spoke again. "It that's the two! she
really reels about money." he said.
“it's too bad Dr.VJohn dl 't h!”
more to leave her. I've fill it been do:
in: a little figuring. and i don't be-
lieve she has much more than 310.000
in the world . . besides her house.
of course." i V
“That's not such on. awtui‘iot. is
it?" Gloria celled. "And May spends
money like water. too. She's most
awfully extravagant.”
"Well. it'll buy her all the scenery
she needs tor this husband-hunt of
here. at any rate. Dick nnswered
dryly. . ' .
"I hope she does lend a husband!
-, .- .- A husband Just belt as nice
. . . as youl'.I Gloria said. dropping
down on the armor Dick's choir. and
punctuating her remarks with little “1‘ 0“! “warm '5". "I. W
kisses on his hair. ”But she won'tll
. . .Becauso. . .there._. .isn't
anybody halt so nice . . . as you
. . . anywhere in the world! .V ,, .. l.
See?" -.
With 9. tincl kiss, she got up and
ran upstairs to the guest-room.
"May I come in?" she asked. tap-
ping on the panels ot the door. With-
out wnlting tor an answer she went
May. with her toes messed m
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V ‘thst'VsinVy crowns scross the
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hur'blsck calendars. s
. Above the column-collar trains:
the white flesh rot .W's slim neck.
lay a. nest row" or block pestle. Real
ones. too. . . . in'ths‘opinion ot the
lam, florid nlsn lust across the
stale. I y ..
The lsrsa florid man had not aim
‘ his eyes troin Weieymour tor the
last halt hour. Non," he. had but
known it. had she, Men her eyes
from him! V e
lie was clearly mirrored in the
window pane through which May
was apparently smell-ins the New
Jersey landscape. As s. matter or
fact. she wee watching-her neighbor
watch her. " ' i .‘
“l certainly cosmic hare msds s
hit with him." she'mnsrked pleu-
ently to herself. “Or else he's a Jewel
thiet. and thinks my pearls are real."
Her blinds went up to the bends
around her thron't. For beads were
all they were. ,Imithtion pearls. but
good ones. And,” had paid 81.60
tor them only the“! before.
Then her, head! dropped again to
the lam bended has in her lap. Yes
. . . itwesthere . .‘. thexrostroli
of hills that Dick Gregory had given
her s tow days ago. Eight thousand
consult-«an MAWNWMH bills.
its; netted the has." A tiny smile
deepened: the dimple "in one of her
oheelsl.‘end then‘hded away. it
would not do tor a widow . . . even
‘ a Widow with a. dimple in one oi her
cheeks . ..' . to smile too readily. or
too otten.
A widow should be wistful. . . .
That wealth. idea! The Wisttul
Widow!
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AT decided. when she got oi! the
train at Atlantic City, that she
was glad she had come here
tor a week or two. before she would
even begin to think shout Europe.
Europeaesmedsonrsw . . .
And it was cheertul. here, this '
warm September. The very taxis-ha
that dash“ up to the station. sud
dashed swsy again. seemed cheertuh
There was a hint of earnivsi in the
sir. even st the and ot the season.
‘Take me to the Tremors." she
said to oi. taxi-driver. as. leaned __'
back against Lbs lather cushions ct
florid man she had seen in the train. ,
would stop. . . . Butporhaps he lived ‘ ‘
here in the town. Perhaps he had a"
home at his own. end s. wife.
large. blond, florid wife . . . ”
But when the lexical: clapped It
the side entrance at the m.m
May stepped out. the first person she
saw us the dorld man. himssltl
He was going into the hotel. inst ‘ :.
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