The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-04-04
A Bach lor
Husband
lCcntinucd from Saturday,
BY RUBY M. AYRES
copyrisht 1881. BY W. ]. watt q 90.


chris eamo into the room mo
ment later. lie looked at his wife
anxiously.
"i'm sorry. Marie Celeste M
said. 1.-THE wretched car broke
down. and u took me han an houi
TO get II right l hope you haven
been anxious about usg How are
you. old ohapf+
where Ia Dorothyr- Marie asked
and Chris looked away from her a,
he said. Il believe she went straight
upstairs 60 dress"
I'm 40 and tell her not 20 hurry
Marie ran up TO her friends room
glad 20 set away for a moment
She knocked at the door. and. set
ting no answer. turned the handle
and went In. Dorothy was stand
lng IN the middle OF the room. hoI
hands over her face.
"porothyl oh. what Is the mat
tere"
Dorothy started violently. sh'
dabhcd her eyes hurriedly with her
handkerchief and tried 90 laugh.
"Nothiugl Don't look go scared
I'm only rather worried
The dinner was hardly a success
What's the matter with every
onef- Dorothy asked impatiently a'
she and Marie followed Miss Che.
ter 10 the drawing room.
She excused herself presently or
the plea OF headache and went q
bed. She shook hands with Feath
ers and kissed Marie and Mis-,
Chester. but Marie noticed with q
queer little shrinking at her heart
that she seemed TO avoid Chris alto
gether. and her thoughts went bach
to the moment when she had found
Dorothy crying.
III you two are going 20 IN, ha
<aar this afternoon Chris said al
lunch neat day. I'm so and look
Feathers up. He asked me last
night II I would. hut,I didn't prom
lsc." lie looked at Marie. "i1
come with me- IL you like. he said
quickly.
She laughed
'-ot course mott We rhan- s,ay
long. shall We. Dorothy
She was childishly pleased when
during the afternoon. they found a
palmists tent In a corner Of the
big hall where the bazaar was belng
held
A woman sat at a small round
table In the half Hight OF the tent
I'VE want to have our palms
read" Marie said. she was con.
scious OF an eerie feeling. and she
looked back az the closed flap Of
the tent nsryousiy. ~Dorothy-you
Marie went reluctantly. sn. would
like 10 have heard what Dorothy
was told.
II was only . few minutes before
Dorothy vas out again. her face
flushed and her eyes bright m II
with unsh-d tears
The psirnlst asked 70 Be alone win
Dorothy.
Marie went back into the tent
She had taken off her gloves and
slipped her wedding ring into her
pocket The paimist had addressed
her as madcrnolselic. and she was
curious TO know n she would still
believe her TO b, unmarried when
she had examined her hands
She laid her palms upward on the
veive; cushion. and the woman op
posite took them In her soft clasp
smoothing the palms with her fore
fingers and peerins into the little
lines and creasss for q moment
without speaking.
You are very young. but you are
already wife. You have married a
man whom you love desotediy. but
he Is blind And because he "a
blind he has let your love WAIVER
from him 20 the keeping OF an
other. You are proud! You have
wrapped your heart about with
pride until you have stifled its best
affections and persuaded yourself
you do not care.
You have rnoney-much money.
she said But your friends are few
You are shy. and you do not make
friends easily. There has beer
one great moment of danger In
your hfe-I cannot tell you what Il
was. but I can see the sea In your
hand-and again In the future
can see much water. II vii
come again In your life. and IL car
ries on Its bosom trouble. and many
tears and = She looked again
into Marie's face.
Marie smiled family.
II was nearly drowned onc~.- she
said. Il can never forget it
She paid double the fee and weni
10 Join Dorothy.
What did she say To your
Dorothy asked as they drove away
together. she told me that / had
had one disappointment in my life
which shah never get over
She laughed. "She was right. too
Not that believe In fortune teli
ing"
Were Just dying for rome tea
Greyson," she told the maid who
admitted them. Il hope you've got
some for us"
''Mi5s Chester II having tea now,
the girl answered There IL n lady
with her In the drawing rooms