The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-11-03

, Nothing OF the Sort he rumbled
Mrs. Dandridges face softened to
usefulness. shirley. am L." she
asked, with a quizzical. almost a droil
uneasiness. Why. I've got every emo
ton I've ever had. | read all the
new French novels. and I'm even
thinking OF going in FOR the militant
suirragette movement
The girl mad tossed her hat and
crop on the table and seated herself
by her mothers chair. Now reaching
down. abe drew one OF the fragile blue
Veined hands up against her cheek,
her bronze hair, its heavy coil loosen
ed. dropping over one shoulder like
sunlit seaweed. What was il he said.
dearest"
He thinks ought 20 wear wor-
sted shawl and arctics." Her mother
thrust out one little thin-slippered
foot, with its slender ankle cleaning
through It's open-work stocking like
mother.of.pearl. imagine In May.
And he knows I'm vain OF my feet,
Major. II you had ever had wife you
would have learned wisdom. But you
mean well, and III take back what
said about the julep. You mix 1t.
Shirley. Yours is even better than
Ranston'
She makes me one every day.
Monty" she continued as Shirley
went into the house. And when she
Isn't looking. | pour IL into the bush
there. See those huge. maudlin-look.
ing roses? That's the shameless re-
suit. IT'S Anew species. I'm going
to name 1t fpsium Giganticum.'
rfasp 1au OH cd he he
end OF a cigar All the same" he
need EN-. | reckon. You need more
whisky TO me and the doctor, and you
take Shirley and pull out for Italy.
Why not? A year there would do you
heap OF good"
She shook her head. No, Monty.
II isn't what you think. It's here
She lifted her hand and touched her
heart. It's been SO for a long time.
But II may-it can't go on forever, you
see. Nothing can
The major had leaned forward in
bis chair. Judith" he said. and
his hand twitched. 1T isn't true" And
then. How do you know"
She smiled at him. You remember
when that big surgeon from Vienna
came to see the doctor last year?
Well, the doctor brought him to me
I'd known IL before In way. but II
had gone farther than | thought. No
one can tell just how long It may be.
II may be years, OF course. but I'm not
taking any sea trips, Monty"
He cleared his throat and his voice
was husky when he spoke. Shirley
doesn't know"
Certainly not. She mustn't" And
then, In sudden sharpness: You
shan't tell her, Monty. You wouldn't
dare"
mo. indeed" he assured her quick
ly. 'Of course not"
It's just among Us three, Doctor
Southal and you and me. We three
have had our secrets before, eh,
Monty"
Yes, Judith. We have
She bent toward him. her hands
tightening on the cane. After all. it's
true To-Day am getting old I may
look only fifty. but feel sixty and III
admit 20 seventy-fve It's joy that
keeps us young. and | didn't get my
fair share OF that. Monty. For just
one little week my heart had It all
aif-and then we'll. then II was fin
ished. II was finished long before I
married Tom cambridge. II isn't that
I'm empty-headed. It's that I've been
an empty-hearted woman. Monty--as
empty and dusty and desolate as the
old house over yonder on the ridge.
Il know, Judith. I know
You've been empty in a way. too.
che said. But it's been a different
way. You were never In love-really
In love, | mean. Certainly not with
me. Monty though you tried TO make
me think so once upon time, before
Sassoon came along, and-Beauty
Valiant"
(Continusd.)
To lay an oyster open on a dish Tor |
any length OF >time diminishes IS |
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