Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-27
Woman and Home
WhoPays?
Story No. s
Houses of Glass
By EDWIN BLISS
Copyright 1918. by pathe Ex-
change. Inc. All moving picture
Nehts and all foreign copyrights
ttFlctly reserved. shown at the VIC
tor each Saturday,
CONTINUED From Yesterday
CONTINUED From Yesterday

e. Nice place the Norrises have, don,
h you Think"
quite nice" Mrs Fall didn't care
Y at that moment to think OF the Nor.
rises.
BY the way. did you pass there or
I your way down. There was that in
Y her voice that bespoke something more
= than her words could he literally held
V to account for. Airs. Fall perked up.
2 mo, I came down by train-why?"
"oh, nothing. Only / thought you
might know who that young woman i.
he brought down in his machine This
\ afternoon-slim, brown eyed. black
hair"
"Alone?'-engerly.
i. 'No"-with combined hand wave
and shoulder shrug, as though that
dtdn't alter II any, she was with what
. looked like delightfully."- useless
s chaperonc-some superannuated neon
i petent"
"SsssssOooooooooo! Tell me, has
wife been down lately?"
mo; she dislikcs the salt air, YOU
Know. Says II reddens her complexion
or something like that, and prefers to
I; live inland further. She never comes
down"
81 'tMbIhfNiN1MA fmmmmm" Mrs. Fall
Z said no more then to her companion,
5 but as she rose and started to move
+ iefsurely off, Mrs. Hunters finely at
4 tuned ears received an impression Of
sound, that. after diligent assembling
and reassemblng in her busy mind,
She was gratifed to resolve into some
thing that sounded very promisingly
like Birds of feather"
Mrs. Hunter was on the scent. Not
i obviously on the scent Oh. dear. no.
That would never debut eagerly on
the scent--keenly on the scent-urgent-
3 ly on the scent, her bright expectant
eyes and patronizing. rreoccupied smile
signifying unQuestionabl to those who
knew her that the trail was warm, the
quarry faint, and ere night fall she.
Mrs. Hunter. would retrieve to camp
something to talk about between
dances for many week to come.
She called on Ethel in her country
place and was received with the court
i esy her position" made necessary.
Good morning, Mrs. Norris"
Good morning, Mrs. Hunter; this is
an unexpected pleasure"
We'll, you don't come to see us
Mahomet and the mountain, don't you
know"
That's very kind of you. Won't
you sit down."
Thanks. ] can't stay very long
Informal morning musicale at the
ofmsbys's-how detest them,-not the
!. Ormsbys. OF course; but I'm promised
3 tor eleven. Come down and sec U.S.
i won't you? We have some delightful
times. and you can bring your young
friend along"
Pardon me-"
~ say we have some perfectly charm
ing times-and you can bring your
young friend along"
MY young triend?"--in a tone OF be-
wilderment.
Yes. the girl AT your cottage. YOU
know. Came down with your husband
i yesterday-,ovely., young thing:-th
girl. OF course. such eyes. and such
lovely black hair"
Eyes, yes. TO be sure"-quicklv, and
s trying to cover the very evident fact
: that she knew nothing a all about IT,
II will. shortly. SO good of YOU 10
ask"
I'm afraid ] must be soine now
oh, Heavens" docking a, her watch,
Mrs. ormsbv will never forgive me,
Good bye. dear"
Good bye. Mrs Hunter, sorry YOU
can't stay"
Ethel sat there, mute and wondering
= trying, struggling 10 grasp the mean.
( Ing OF IT all, and vaguely dreadinp ar
she struggled 10 arrive at an explana
f3on all too plausible that would sus.
tain and re-enforce her horrible su.
81 ptcions OF yesterday. She had felt
yesterday. that II only the awful mis-.
conception linking her name odiouslv
with Mr.. Fall's> could he disptllcd. she
= could master the doubt that psryaded
z her OF her husbands relations with
Nyra Foster.
The fear that She herself would he
paced III questionable position in
the eyes of her husband had ont
weighed her fears for his fidelity "a
: her Her trip 10 her mother. and her
mothers reproach for her lack OF faith
had resolved her TO tell all and stake
her future happiness on his belief in
her In the race OF obviously incriminat :
ing circumstances. Now that she had
whipped her covering courage To- a
8 desperate. brave stand, and had made
4 ready to stand or fan on the strength
~ OF his love for her-now came This
hithy. gossipy candal-monser with 4
Z tale. whioh, il II were truc--and IL va
only too plausible would reawakeu in
4 hep her initial doubt Of his ndelity
strengthened and indorsed a hundred
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