The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-18
THE REVOLT OF
VERA SANDERSON
VERA MEETS MRS. DE Isle.
BY JANE PHELPS
CHAPTER 81.

CHAPTER 81.
+ My dresses came home when prom
Used, and L could not deny they were
stylish and pretty, altho I would not
admit it save to myself. But the dis
appointment I had felt at not being
allowed to even choose the colors
wanted, ranked, and when 1 showed
them to Keith 1 let him see it.
Il did so want the green evening
dress, Keith You don't know how
nice I looked in it, and how wonder
fully becoming it was. Anyone can
wear white, but few look as well in
that luscious shade of green as do"
isn't white more durable? Can't
you wear it longer without being
known by the color?" he asked, and
1 knew he had heard Margaret say
it, because his information was exactly
hers.
-'Yes-perhaps," I grudgipgly ad-
mitted.
Now show me the other
And I wanted a soft drak blue in
stead of this, Keith. Please, after this
go with me. or tell Margaret I am to
have the color I want won't you,
dear?''
st don't see anything the. matter
with this color, or with the dress.
either. I always liked that dark shade
of brown. I expect Margaret thought
of that when she selected it,
''If you like it will try to be salts
fled" L said YEARLY. What was the
use?
"You would be hard to please if
two such pretty gowns didn't satisfy
you. I am not rich man as rich men
are considered nowadays, Vera, Altho
can give you what you want in rea-
son. But you must not think you can
buy the most extreme things that have
to be changed often because they can
he co T
detect Margarets influence, the very
infection of voice. They must have
discussed my shopping pretty thoroly.
thought, with bitterness.
We were invited TO a dinner party
at the home of one of Keith's friends,
young, SO delighted to go, and after a
day or two I almost forgot my grudge
against Margaret because of the
gowns.
The night of the dinner came. When
1 dressed I couldn't help thinking how
much better I would have looked in
that lovely green dress. I thought l
looked washed out in the white. Even
Keith's compliments couldn't quite
reconcile me. For the first time in
my life rouged my cheeks. Keith
noticed it, and ordered me to wash it
off.
"You do not need any makeup -
he said coldly.
Margaret uses rouge, and I looked
too pale in this white dress. Then all
the women use it"
mo, not all-you do not"
After I washed it off and was all
ready, Keith looked me over criti-
cally.
"Do I look nice?' tried to speak
blithely although I did SO want to
leave on the bit of rouge.
VERY nice! That white dress just
suits you Margaret's taste is almost
infallible.'
made no reply but said to myself
that some time I would dress as
wished, in the colors I loved and that
ors that lived, not in sombre browns
or white.
1 was delighted when We reached
the home of our hostess. Margaret
had talked constantly to Keith about
some people 1 never had met, ignor-
ing me entirely.
Mr.. and Mrs. DeIand had a delight
full home. and we found a gay party
assembled. Dinner was served almost
as soon as we arrived. A real young
man, Tom Benedict, took me in. He
was very nice looking, and we were
years old, and interested in the things
I used to like before I was married
tennis, riding. dancing. ETC.
Keith had taken in very handsome
woman ABOUT margaret age, MIS-.
De Lisle-a widow. She was SO beau
tifuI1y gowned I could scarcely keep
my eyes off her. And she seemed so
gay, laughing and talking with Keith
in a way 1 never had dared to.
had heard Margaret speak of her,
but never had met her before She
had been in Europe when we were
married. I thought could be almost
as attractive as she if I wore the same
sort of clothes. We both had the
| same coloring, and both of US were
tall. I couldn't help wondering what
she and Keith were talking about. ]
determined to ask Keith all about her
when we got home.
Then I overheard the man at my
left say:
"Sanderson has returned to his old
lovei"
1t was a laughing remark, yet IT
caused all interest I had felt in Tom
Benedict to leave me, and I thought
of nothing but what I had heard.
What did that man mean2 Had
Keith made love to Mrs De Lis1e be-
fore he had known me?
(Tomorrow-Vera worries over
Keith's Past.)