Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-10
THE
HONEYMOON
HOUSE
By HAZEL DALE

Until Jarvis had planned to go
away, Janet had not realized just
how her friendship had narrowed
down. Now she discovered that
her old friends no longer inter-
ested her. The girls who had been
her best Chums at college and who
were leading the life that almost
every girl in almost every city in the
United States leads after college, no
longer interested Jan0.
Her real friends were the girls
she had met since she had married
/ Jarvis-Keats Barnard, the success
tul artist; Neva Hart, the model, and
Karen Mikal. the Russian girl that
Jarvis had found one night in the
streets, and who was by far the most
interesting of any girl Janet had
ever known. If Mrs. Carew had
dreamed for a moment that Janet
saw little or nothing of her old
friends and preferred the society OF
girls who had no family or social
backing behind them she would have
been veXed. But she believed that
Janet associated with them only in a
general way, and, therefore, thought
little about it.
To return to the existing circum-
stances between Karen Mikal and
Dick Armstrong, since Karen had
gone to the costume ball with Dick
and had met Dicks brother, the
playwright, things had been going
better for her. John Armstrong had
recognized instantly the superiority
of the girl, and with the quixotic
ideas habitual to him had decided
to do something for her.
Karen had left the factory where
she had been working and was now
living in a little furnished room in
a boarding house below Fourteenth
street. She went to night school
at Armstrong; expense and was
working hard, determined to pay
back every cent he advanced. John
Armstrong was busy on a new play,
and Karen unconsciously was a help
to him as well as an inspiration. He
had introduced into the play a char
acter with little to say, but a great
deal to convey. This part he in
tended to give to Karen as a sort of
a try-out.
Karen liked John Armstrong and
was intensely grateful to him. AS
she learned to typewrite, she did his
manuscript for him, and for a long
time she saw little of Dick.
He had kept away from her pur-
posely. She irritated him and arous-
ed him feelings that vaguely dis
.ull ed him. He did/not intend to
che nge his attitude toward life
things were too comfortable as they
were-but he realized that his
brother had gained through friend
ly understanding the confidence of
the girl. Dick and Karen appealed
to each other in an elemental way.
Karen did not stop to analyze her
feelings, and so she reasoned that
Dick frightened her. Dick, more than
half in love with her in a fierce law
less way that he would not admit
even to himself, was determined on
one point-conquest!
The night that Janet had gone
down for Karen to ask the girl to
come up and spend the night with
her, Karen had gone to Dicks stu
dio. She had received a typical note
from him, inviting her to a studio
supper-"just few of the people
you know" he had written-and
Karen, unable to think of anything
else, had bought a soft crepe blouse
and had spent the afternoon press
ing her blue skirt and getting ready
for the occasion. She had just left
the house when Janet arrived.
Karen walked, as the distance be-