The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-05-22
ACupboard Skeleton
BY
SERTIH DE 5. WEBSTER
copyright. by Joseph b. Bowles

Lady Farjoyce (fancy-dressed n IN
e nouiogne fish Wife, tripped pa
2 WIN smokecolored Persian Kite
winch she was energeticallv trying
d. 'aihe on Dehalf of the Ready Amb,
lance society 1t was to help along N
~ a. >. funds that the fancy dres
u oanar and fete had been organize,
ies' there was no doubt about N
q .auiance OF Lady Farjoyce. and / VIII
had been her intimate girl frien
: ever since John Farioyce hrougbt ~
from country parsonage to king,
court often marveled at her unfiag
ging scintillation.
presently | came across her aeain
, "ot rid or the Persian smoke bal >,
!, asked.
les, the duchess has got IL Shes
10 sweet to cats--l wanted the dueb.
ess 10 get 1t, she answered. with her
charming rapid utterance.
AND the duchess got it,a renIiad
| with terrible Significance and con,
demnation in my tones. Come and
sit down with me while | consume
some pink cakes and tea"
Inc Boulogne fishwife and sa,
doWn AT one of the many small tahlas
and two minutes later John Fariovee
ana his son joined us.
1t was an irritating fact that a nor
son could never secure ten minutes
WIN this pretty person who certainly
heiped to keep London alive. withou, |
Inc intrusion OF Lord Farioyce and
the boy.
a husband who remains still fioun-
oeringly in love when his heir has
passed the velvet suit and long chris
era, IS always more or less of a bore
10 ms wife's women friends.
Tired, darIing?" he wbisnerad
looking into her extraordinarily bril-.
Ilaut dark eyes with "a devotion that
% be well-bred should cease with tho
res, and no. she replied "Phvs.
caliy I'm stiff-nentally I'm enioy-
ng myself, and-oh! do look at Mrs
Noodpees bonnet.-and-what was
aying?"
May | stop with you for half an g
our, mother?" asked the bov-a "
iue-eyed son of his father. al
Della Farjoyce's voice neither soft- W
ned nor slackened as she answered Ii
er child. Affection and camaraderie III
ere there. but the mother note was
lsent. Ia
Not unless you want to be rafY'ed
y son" she replied. I'm .rafF,ine SO
erything | get hold of to-dav-t
low shall be asking some one IN on
he half-gninea chance on your ia. 1t
er, and--yes, Mr.. Wingate. Cafe go
antant-my turn2 What now2 Ht
time for another pink cake? How
rparous! Come along with me. rim
uise, you can sit in the front row"
I've minutes later Lady Farjoyce's aga
cking red lips we're cooling out the
INT refrain of IN old French patois mo
&, while her audacious scarlet ly
'klngs and shoes CT was always ="
'tery how such feet came from a sta.
ntry parsonage) skillfully broke Low,
action leaving an impression of {
lcate step-danc!ng behind. TAM
nat same evening | sat alone with frin
in her boudor II
should think you must be about A
happiest woman in London!" ask
nlated, involuntarily. won
'rce of contrast drew the obsarv, MIR
from me- ct was my birthday coin
had been thinking about my cove
and looking in the mirror q good lived
IN
fould you? Why" to m
was still so busy wing cor. ing
s, that I did not observa tbot "B
had laid down her Russian cig. a bro
e, and was resting her white chin 1T
white hand decorated by one stanc
2 csrbochon emerald ring know
n.y. ! replied. gazing vaguely are q
the shell-sbaped room with ire How
! nebulously- walls nainted Wi
nder. Why? Because of evarv- rever
You have youth, wealth. beau The
Ilent. love. position, health and later,
thing every woman wants. Yon duke
be the happiest woman in Lon II,
and. besides that, you seem the cover
sst woman N London," Ca
IRE Della Farjoyce answered she swere
rom the empire sofa and walked left o
the room, the frothy frilIs of was
lken pink skirts tr!ckling buoy
after her across the pearl velvet
In
leniy she stopped directly In with n
IF my chair establi
are a woman TO be trusted. the ler
aren't YOU" she said. scanning son stl
itures. though she must have Major
their unchiseled angles by ment 1
safe, 81
not reply. but | suppose the concern
and our seven years inter the yea
Intimacy must have answered erly CHI
because, without further hesi- beaoons
the radiant Lady Farjoyce con- ing to !
OF 81
me at $50 tomorrow morn Hudson
the Terminus book office during
vt to do -. but K will help me Septemt
rds. ! can talk TO you some
bout II. and there won't he
need for perpetual-er-hap- The 4
hen" nouRbt.
lally at half-psst nine I ar PortsmO
uf for nuca naff. - - Cd ao q.