The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-29
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What madge Did to Help Lillian Pre-
pare to Appear Her Best for
Robert SavArin's Ewes.

quietly, waving the courtesy OF a
knock for fear OF waking little
! Marian As | had shrewily guessed.
/ Lillian was not asleep, but lying with
wide open ewes staring at the ceiling.
NJ my entrance she rose carefully from
the bed, and, putting her hands TO her
hair, began 10 take the hairpins from
the shining, silver mass.
What time did you say they would
lie here ~ she asked. going to the dress
ing table and beginning to brush the
beautiful, wayy hair which for so long
she had hidden under atroclouS dyes
because Harry Underwood wished his
wife 10 disguise her age
"Ihe train reaches Weekhawkcn at
q 80" ! returned 81 imagine it will
take them about forty five minutes to
reach here. fancy Mr.. Sayarin will
lose no time
! had not meant anything by the little
speech, and ! was surprised to see Lii
lian's checks s~ufiused with a flush
HE will be most kind, OF course" she
said, a triile coldly.
| resolved to keep my tongue wary in
the future II was most unlike Lillian
to be "touchy." but evidently comment
upon Robert Sayarin'S ]undlSguised adj
miration disturbed her.
There were many little signals, also,
which told me that Lillian's interest in
the artist with the romantic past and
the man who had been the hero OF her
girlish love story had not waned Never
had | seen her more captious as TO the
dressing of her hair, more particular a.
TO the gown she was to wear. She tried
two or three styles OF hairdressing un
Ill I-Seeing her hands tremble as she
held the bruSh-wcnt toward her and
took it from her hands.
"Sit down and let me do your hair"
| said with decision. You have been
through too much in the last few
hours"
To my surprise she Anbmitted quietly
"Wha a magnetic touch YOU have.
Madge,' she said after a little when |
had brushed her hair carefully and had
coiled il high on her head in the fashion
that became her best. II was nervous
as a witch when / sat down, and now
all the jumpy feeling is gone"
an Just keep on being your maid,
then" | retorted, until you're all
dressed What dress do you want to|
put on"
She stepped to the closet, and, pulling
il open, looked from one to the other OF
the pretty gowns hanging there.
81 know Mr., Savarin will under
stand" she said uncertainty, but do you
think that his sister, this Mrs. Cos
grove, might expect me 10 wear a black
gown? r haven't one hat is suitable.
could hardly believe my ears. Lii
Ian Underwood OF all persons, depre-
eating her own judgment in dress for
fear of the criticism OF a woman from
an obscure mountain town ] knew
that she did not even for near relatives
believe in mourning costumes, yet here
she was worrying because she had no
black gown to wear for the worn-out
she'll Of a woman not a kinswoman of
her own, whose last days she had made
easy.
What nonsense" I exclaimed. al
most but not quite forgetting to pitch
my Vote low on account OF Marian
Here, let me select one"
pushed her unceremoniously aside.
ard took down a gown which | had
seen Lillian frequently wear when at
work upon her illustrating, although,
Of course, she covered il with a smock
II was a simple little affair of dark
blue linen with embroidered collar and
cuffs, and it fitted Lillian's beautiful
figure perfectly.
THERE" | said, coming out Of the
closet, "let me get you into this. Or.
wait, do your face first"
Don't use that expression, Madge,-
she said "a she turned to her dressing
table. 1T always makes mo shiver."
A Spiritual crucifixion.
As she busted herself with cold
cream and rice powder, the simple
freshening toilet rite which so many
dainty women use, my thoughts went
back to the time which had made her
shiver," the time when doing her face"
meant covering its surface with a mask
OF rouge and liquid preparations, turn
ing II into the CHASTITY travesty Of youth
upon which Harry Underwood insisted.
What a spiritual crucifixion her life
with Harry Underwood had been And
now, when his desertion OF her. his en-
tanglement with Grace Draper. had
freed her from every moral obligation
toward him the legal tie Of marriage
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