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rem line suite 0' ’°°t’x“‘;' of which she a
,,d,,,,, intl almost imnli§d
hopini; 9 0
dogilgfili-?lin thenl. In the onecould remembilrt h‘;`i‘l ,hey were. D C “I9 nsgligee of chiffon th,-ow over the chaise would be other
of tllclll-and 8
do \\'ollid So l_16l’
mililllbel' lheeleil way Ca\'=llS “Iggy lovely dresses and
t _
aliiilrkhcsss it siillilly °¢°U|'\"
that Adam Arnold would
I5 much right to enter that as she would llavc.
'rrllALs ._
Chapter 90
Luther slept pr-.lceillily that
had his own depress- but he had livellwith
more than a year now, and tinle, anyone canvlearn to worry 100.
Talbot had a fatal feeling
it-qi-ld had crashed and was still alive and llnhurt get up ilild illake coffee eggs as usual about half-
seven in thc morning. Any~ li was done! Aim' was seine
Adnlll. lhlli was all settl- and claire were stains
get-lllcll settled
she, .»\nly Talbot, accepted things culllly alld linprotest- She had lost her old beliefs,
thelil for licw ones. What Jordan sayi’ What did sho about ailyilliilg Jordan say? iicw liillcli had she
had not nlarricd Jane,
she have bllllileli ller girl
away with him. uny-
She ililll no nlatter
she lroulli have sorrow-
the brl'-iiilillg of all the
of morality and convention,
still llavli been glad that getting seine happiness
could find ilbtilinl: to be
ill .-\lll,v'.s deliberate oi this nlaii-lllore than
to ill' hcl' father, fat
selilsn and tyrllnical. llut Amy chosen it. _-he could only t. She tried to colicentrate the incl that she illllst get np make iireahl`:l.<l mon, tilinking would sl-lui hcl' to sleep for Ii hours. ` am Arnold lily awake too. But yalnilit- l>c':ail>'c a mixture of ber salillllviciics-why would
nt cucllillllcrs lvlleu they gave
illliigeslioll-clike, wine.
ee and cigaretlc.~', had upset to such ll liclilw that n large [Joi lead set-lllvd io exist in the li where his siolllach be-
i|f\iIil' la_\' alvllkc longer than roi the o:l_:»»l'-. it was done_ ind been irllllnpllant. She was, li, Going to illurry Adam ld. rich. l.iv:.<il. llnencllnlbcred
aii\'e:~', anxious for nil lilvre \\'a< to be ll:ld out of
f0\ll'Sf‘. lil- \v:ls-lvhrlt. 40
hi lll-A|ll--l'ci- would say. sr \l.l,- ililli lvals there any in llzlir toilir.~'.’ Silo was sure Used till-ul. til' course llc was
mildll inillle him dict, he to he thin. Probably he “i“'¢\i'S lilvail to dict, hilt
“Oi fiuilc inlagllle him
wilhout good things to eat
HEALS
and Red Pim-
An abund-
ance of luxu- riant hair full of, gloss gleams _ and life sho r_tly follows a gen- uine toning up of neglected scalps with
while they were within his reach.
She would be rich-oh, she could
travel, .she collld see the whole world, she could live beautifully, keel! yvllng. be rested. be envied- She could go on studying singing- "Amy Trllbot Arnold, the famous sopranogwill give a recital this evening at the-"V
Dick’s face canle into this
thought, and it fied.
"Dick will get fat too, when he's
old," she told herself by wi-ly of desperate consolation.
Bllt Dick was a lad, barely ill
of a boy, he would not develop a waistliue for 20 years-if thell.
“He did l-let so white. when
Adam made that-speech-" .she said to herself.
She remembered Adam with his
silver paper crown over one ear, the handkerchief that had blind- folded him around hi; neck, thc glint of his dialnond shirt ‘studs- nf course he would choose din- lllondsi the well cut dinner suit that only made his figure more settled-.she remenlbered she looked quickly at Dick, in her sur-
'ls quickly she glanced away, for
cause he couldu't support ber; Clnire quarreled with Luther be cause she wanted to go back on the stage to earn nlore money-
“He might have said goodnight."
Dick had gone up to Adam, quietly congratulated him while :lil tin' others were pouring enthusinsin upon thcnl. Then he had sat with Dee for a time, and when the party was piling into the car to start home Dick had .slipped off somewhere. `
"Anyway, Dick’s fearfully unin-
teresting." Amy went on telling herself. "He'd be an awful hon_lc- body. \Ve'd have n tiny place. and never go anywhere. l'nl too selfish to stand that.
It would be all right for a little
while. Tllell-"
She did sleep at last. But she
was awake when Luther break- fnsted, and went out to ,ioin him ln the dining rooln.
"So you`re~ going to retrieve the
family fortunes, and marry the millionaire." he greeted her banter-
alld happiness "
ikiss though his word; were cheer- iful enough. She fancied Luther de- 'epised her for marrying an “old
long as \ve know it, give us the
Delaiisf Ami' .saw them in ,l
- y i a ooflless, broken Dick'.s heart. nlade her mother thoroughly llliserahie, and lost her brother's respect to suv
Hive her 11 luxurious houle where she would ilot have to \\'ork ol' to worry.
That idea cheered her. She listened to the chubby girl
singing in rehearsal. She had a voice of angelic purity ami sweep ness und a trick of raising her solenln brown eyes and drawing her pale nlolitll to a wistful di'oopi- ness that would take hor ollt of the chorus into real operatic roles some day. Alily know her own voice was not as good. But this girl was intriguing with two lnen for a h
his twenties, half the age or Adam! xc' alice to sing principal roles null Dick's face was chubby-but iti::.,l:;:l(,‘0S;),I,l;‘;e(§;y smg and mek her
'.vn3 the roundness and chubbiness Amy was ma`!.|_ in hd. wa to
Y ii Y
success- and thereby mukillg_ller- self envied by hcl' coinrades.
She went llollle 'after rehearsal
with time to eat a light supper and to go back for the pei'i`ortllallt'.e. Adlltn's cal' was waiting to take her there und back, Adam himself coulll not come. Poor Adam could not stand nlany parties, hc always took it day off to recover.
At home was ll slllall box with
her nallie oil lt. She opened it idly. another gift fronl Alluul.
Froul the black velvet lining a
llialllond ring actually burst upon
Wise over A‘i"m'5 Swéoch' T"°“lller.--tile only wav to describe the
fl o tone as it can ht
" ` , ash of the ling s . t ' ' g
the sight of Dlck's face was like a th H I .h U ,I , .. pam that Shm- ihwugh her' lim? :=tllg‘ngoelllleil‘t
If only Dick had “"°m`3"`thM Sho locked ut it without any emo-
was al“'"5_'5 the problem' D°““l‘l ilioll except surprise that a diamond had “°‘ “umm '° "‘“"y Jan” bl" could be so lurge. There was the
inevitable note-
“Tllis is tile biggest I could find.
Galavina wanted it, nild I got it away and have been saving it up for nlontlls. l'll call at the opera
she thought. remembering that Jlmlse for you-»
So this was tho very stone the
great singer, Gnlnvina, had been trying to hlly! Alily slipped it oil her finger-it fit. of course, for Adam had her ring size. Silc still looked at it curiously and imper- sonally. she had seen diziinonds enough on the big singers, only somehow she had never- quite bc- lieved them. This stone to her was a gl'e-at piece of glittering glass.
'i‘ilen she remenlhererl that
Galavilln llnd been tall-:ing of thc iiilnlber of thousands this stone was to cost her.
Alid she. Aiily Tlililot. \vllo 1S
nlontlls before had been scrubb- ing willdows in a frame farlll- hollse, hor nails black llnlf moons froiil the dirty water, was wearing a alone coveted ily one of thc ri¢»hp_~it singers on the stage!
She looked at it on her finger. lt
_ ll18lY. and kissed her. "Good luck had M-timliy no relation to licr
h'lnd 'lt all it blazed and flashed
___.__._..-_-_ _,lm_-.
Bllt there WHS "0 Wnfmlh ii' his lllld almost scrcllilled aloud for
lmao." She wondered whether Dick IK Ones
' THE RING _
. Chlptar 91
irl told her
would see her, what he would say. eep
Well in Winter
The “CWB of Amyvs engagemgni Winter is a dailgerclls season
Tern-ble' got about ,of course. That very day iilfllgs “gli
when she went to rehearsal. the . -_ .H nd Storm. that the
dressing room buzzed with it. 0"” °0“ “N tl CMM
Amy tried to avoid talking of ll;<ll‘th(+):\ltil;oi‘sliIl;\i‘.`lglmta iiriifind ex it-strange to say. ‘ _ d an mm.h_ In Nm.
"How did you hear all that?" §‘;::’l“*;`ngf°i‘h(f'f°;\r0 om," cm,,,,,d up
she countered when a dozen 111195' In ' overheméd' badly \.,,mi|,,,¢@,i tions came at her askin: “_” m,,m, and an. ,,0,,n ,,,_.|z,,,l with whether it was so she was ‘¢° mms 0,. g,|,,,p¢~,_ wllill is needed to marry one of the richest men in Kew the mm. ,,,,,.,, well is illibyts New York." 0 - Tablets. They will rGK\\ ll U
A chubby little brown haired th`:,“,-,¢.¢,mfieh and bowels and drivv
loldl. alld by film' "G" the
8 - out ' ~ '
"My rommate is a friend of _Il ,,,,|,,. will he able to get over tilt’
man named Thonlpson. and iles win-icr season ill l“‘rfer-t satttsy. press agent for the Tweedle Slst- The nelvsales tax will not i1ni:'l;;lt§e ers. They told hinl-" it sermvll 1° the -price oi rlallys Own al ».
.snug have come direct frolil an nllthor as ,he ¢0mpa,i_vthp§;F=nItR`<;qt;l€{'nI§;:
itative source. Y _ can still obtain Mlm 25 Poms n
"Why not admit it?" ld ndver nny medicine den ` Rm from use all f l ll nm- town." the im, or bv mil- l‘_‘*‘ l‘ _. ' _
e ac R h looked Tha pf Wiilillllls Nlelliclile C0.
chubby girl wont on. S e _ _~' (_ 1 take the most demure and retirills ‘Jror “il P.
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dependable "Daring,-|ne_" ll0ihiI1i5 of ber own good opinion oil " l.__‘$i'a»r,~¢r~»
FWIUDZ hlir. itching scalp and h°_‘,"s,""'
the danruff is corrected immediate- M” dom "UW "I0 U10 lflyiill |y_ Thln; dry_ wisp), or fading hu" little bride-to-be," the chubby girl ,is qumkly invigérated' taking on comlnented. “Never lllilld, yoll'll new an-eng;h_ cow, and youthful get used to it. Going to pay off the beauty. _"Danderine" is deiigm. llwrtsage on the old home farm?" fu] gn me hair; R refreshing' mink Amy froze up. Tile farm had no uiating tonic-not sticky or greasy! "‘°"g5S@ 10 Day Off,-she colild not Any dl-ugetm-e_ N0 701 even do that! She could blly her - lnother 'handsome clolhesmunul
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the reputation' of being one of .
36aCo|\t “Danderln¢" 5, |,,,p,.°v“ the "swiftest" girls in the city. » ' "us “uh” “ll” md l°“°°’ ‘ml
-Llnlen, Neglemu Hair lysnt tv keen it quite for a °‘““d° '°“‘°d‘°""°“°‘ "’“*"¢
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would end the discussion. Cold, BronchlslCold, Chills, 50”
“Ali right we won‘t tell. But ar. Thmst,Cl-amps, ste,
details."
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i\llEHli011. it stood' high above its little covert cloth suit. and her wash waist.
“How vulgar of him!" she com-
lllented briefly to herself.
Of course Adam would buy the
biggest diamond in the city!
Her mother came to the door. "My land," she chier, surprised
into her old countryficd speech. “Do you mean to say that’s u real dialnolid?"
DICK COMES
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'M' Chapter 92 l milk
Ailiy had managed to secllre u
pass that night, so her mother and Luther were to go to the per- fornlalnce. lt \vall only "Aida" nga-in, bill the greatest tenor, wllo always filled the house to capacity, was away resting, so passes were livailable.
Mrs. Talbot hall long siilce over-
collle llcr ideas about operas. She had collcluded that tile beauty of the lllusic lllude the opera spiritu- ally clcvutillg. so that it did not inaltcl' what the actual story was about.
She hall once \vi>'llt~d that tllei
iibrettos might tell about peoplcl
who loved ilorlllaliy and luarrieilg in orthodox fashion in the lust. scene, but after a time she felt| that this would lnakc the wllolc| thing too lllllcll like everyday life,: tllereforc the opera would lose some oi' it effect of illusion.
"And it isn't real," silo consoled
hcrseli' as her last scruple was ready to give up and expire witllill her.
Latex' she suid: ‘ "it doesn't matter whether it's
real or not, it's so bcalitiflll."
Ordlirlnrily, she and Luther would l
have waited outside the stage en-i trance for Allly und they would! have gone uptown on top oi` u hus.i lint tonight they slipped oft’ alolle,i kllowiilg Adam would cull for Amy, and respecting his suddc-n right to have her to llilnself. "
That was the way in which Amy
begun to feel engaged. Not thc ullllonlicelllent und collgrutlllzltiolls of the party, lnot the hugo ring that ' -int heavily llpoli hor finger lllld kept her frclll putting oil llcr left; glove-neither of these things inl- pressoli the fact upoll her.
lt was the sight of Adnnl's big
car on the street, and the sllarlolv ot' his figllre sitting in the tonnenu waiting for her. llc took her hand ns they drove off-of course he always did that. _ H
"Your fingers are like icc. M'
said.
“Yes-I cail't Rei “W 5170"” 0" for
the ring." she answered. Then rc- lnelllbcring she thullkcll hilll wnrin- ly for the gift, and kissed hiln. hidden ill the slladows of the clos- ed car.
lie held her close to llnl. lI~is kiss
was `dii`ferent this time--before it was n casual caress. or un ilblllll' sire one--this was tho linilorinl; kiss of love-and of D0tlt‘@“i0"-
" 'll send ou a muff so voli cull
- _ 0
He took the rebuff good natllred-
iy and gave up tryiilg to hold hell hand.
“i'm tired," she apologized. ’ ‘ “All right. So am I. Never mind,
after we're nlarricrl. you won’t: have to work. Tllen it will bc all right."
“But Adanl--I want to!" She was
awake with genuine alarm.
"I want to sing. _You said !
might."
"Of, of course, you can .sing
whenever yon like. I only meant you \vouidn't have to do this sort: of tiling-rehearsals, and lessons and long hours. It`s all right n0W_ and then." I
"But Adam! I have to work hard,
or l’ll never get anywhere. My voice is not well trained yet. I only got illto this chorus hl~r:auS8` Jinl Clarke had so much inflllencel
“Vve had to work awfully hard
to make good. and nt that I've barely kept lily place among these better trai-ned girls. She rememb- ered the French and Italian lessons when she crnlllllioll so she could illcnlorize the choruses ill strange tongues, the dancing lossolls to give her case and .noise in so 'siinplo il tiling as \-:alkiilg o'.'l~l' the stage with 211 otllcr girls-the hours nf pl'ar-tice. the llllvtl work and the dread oi ovnr\\'ork that lvollid tire and hlli't her voice.
“l'vr\ got to go on just as l alll. Iii
isn't the lilollcy~it's the trlliniingr' Eventually l‘ll graduate tn small parts, -then l ilillst. study the pri-n- ciplil roles so l can bn rr-ally if my cllallco ever conlcs. When my voice is good enollgil. l‘ll try con- cert sillginl.-,'. which will be easier."
"lint you won't have to work.
yoll'll be rich." It was Adulu's an' swer to all problems. '
Amy guve it np, and dropped
hack iilto the cor-ner of the lilotor. 'l‘hf\v stopped ut. her door, and she pleaded fatigue -so as to go upstairs alone. There was ll light in the liv- .llg rooln-wmlld l)lck be there by ally cllance? There was no reason' why he should--yet he lllust como and demand an explaination.
Dick did not come for a week.
But. he did wait for her in the living room then. when she camo back from a performance.
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