The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-22

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easily laid
Eustaee Myers called to his wife.
"Brcnda,"
Shc came down the stairs slowly
"a slim young-looklnx woman.
many years tho junior OF tho two
men. she was pretty In q thin. fret.
fuui kind Of way. and beautifully
dressed
she turned a passive ebert 20
meet her husbands kiss. She coiored
a little as she shook hands with old
FerEerron. A woman never really
forgets . man who has loved her:
no always holds = special little place
in her heart. even when he u old
and gray, She never somehow rel.
egatcs him 10 the focus OF ordinary
friendship.
At luncheon she ehattrred fnces-
sanity. she gave one . curious i'm.
preasion Of restics4snexs.
There were people who said she
was not happily married. others who
raid she was tho sort Of woman who
never would be happy under any
circumstances. Perhaps they would
have been nearer the truth had they
said that the biucrcst disappoint.
mcnt Of her life was the empty nurs-
cry upstairM
There had besu { baby gfrs-a
delicate little thing mat just opened
IT. eyes for = moment and smiled.
before Il closed them again eter
nafiy; but the wife Of Eussacs
MyeS stiii secretly w~pt over the
box Of tiny garments that had
never bean uped. and tried to fln
her empty heart with other thfngr.
Edmund IL going over to Bed.
mund with me this afternoon. her
husband told her. lie hopes TO dig
. secret out Of the village. sup
posa Which h II Teddy---a miss
ing h1r or . runaway marriageg-
Old FerEcrson smiled.
Nothing 10 romantic: merely .
few judicious inauirfes.-
Brenda broke In. In her rather
high voice.
"Eustace has . romanos shers on
his own accounts iittis circus girl
who met with an accident last week.
She's made quito an impression on
him, ] can tell you; no sends her
grapes and port vino and all man.
ner Of things.-
'Tndeeds''
Old Fergersou's face ala not
change. his voice vas merely DO
iiteiy interested. but his fingers
frightened their grip on the stem
OF his winegiass . iittie. You don't
mean 10 say they have . circus ut
a place like Bedmundr'' he asked.
Eustace Myers laughed.
oh. yes--cnce . year. bAiieve.
People flock to Il from miles round.
This girl Brenda II talking about
did . sort Of trnpexe act. and she
fell. Horribly dangerous thing
ought not to have been allowed.
from what can hear. I happened
TO be In the village At the time,
and they sent for me. Marvellous
thing she wasn't killed: as II II.
her back IL badly injured. Some
man who calls himself her guardian
told me she was q gold mine to him
offered to pay anything II could
cure her. 70 they left her behind.
Tho circus had to go on, OF course.
got one OF the villagers TO take her
in--woman who had been a nurse
very decent Sort
And Ehc is--rccovcringf-
Myers shrugged his shoulderx.
Il can't say--yet She doesn't
seem TO want to iive-ehows no
energy-sccmed positively disup
pointed when I told her hoped to
pull her thru I darcsay she has .
hard life OF it,
And you say you are going to
sec her this afternoon?"
Good graciousl yes Brenda
broke in again. exasperatingiy.
.Eustace goes every day: he hasn't
missed once. ! shall be quite jealous
soon"
Myers laughed: he looked At his
wife affcctionately.
Nonsense! She's only a child: be-
sides l believe she's married al
ready
Married. shrilied Brenda why.
thought she was only about six
teen."
Eighteen, she tells me. At any
rate. there was ring on q ribbon
about her neck. saw II when I
first examined her. and II was the
first thing she asked for when she
recovered consciousness"
Mrs. Myers looked interested: she
leaned nearer to her husband
How excitingl You never told
me, Eustace."
Didn't /? I suppose forgot"
Tho doctor felt In his pocket "she
asked me TO keep II for her: she
seemed desperately afraid tho man
sherney might get bold Of It Here
II is
He drew q blue ribbon from his |
breast pocket: there was = small gold
ring attached to II. He dropped |
them both into Fcrgerson's out !
stretched hand
1t said much for Fcrgerson's self |
control that no sign OF the emotion |
he was feeling was visible In face
or voice ~ he looked with Amiling