Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-11


RICHARD DAUBENEY. Lucinda
old sweetheart, and
AIRS. AMELIE SEVERN, will
whom Bellamy at once proceeds tC
carry on an affair. Amelie and Bel
lamy lunch at the Clique Club anS
Amelie suggests that Bel divorce
Lucinda. He refuses and she sug.
gests that possibly Lucinda maj
divorce him.
Go on With the Story
Deal with that when il comes up
Frankly, don't believe it ever will
Don't mean to give Linda any rea'
son l can avoid"
s"what you mean Is, you really
love-"
II mean he cut in sharply,
"whatever my shortcomings. 1 re-
spect Linda, I won't hurt her IL
can help It."
How charming of you'll"
For all acknowledgment h re-
esived . silent inclination of his
head: and she began to laugh dan
gerously. eyes abrim with hatred
the heat in her cheeks shaming
sWeli. thank God I've come to
understand you before we went any
farther!"
"Amen to that"
and 50 all your love making has
been simply"
The same as yours, Amy"
s~Then why did you ever make
love to me at all, please?"
because you let me see you
wanted me to-"
The brutal truth of that lifted the
woman to her feet. II don't think L
care for any more luncheon" h
said In . shaking voice. IF you
don't mind $3.50
Bellamy rose, bowling from his
place. mot at all"
He offered to help with her turs,
out she wouldn't have that. threw
the garment over her arm and flung
round the table. then checked n
looked back. you understand-tnis
ends it-for all time
IT couldn't do you the injustice OF
thinking anything else
She made a tempestuous exit
through the curtains.
Bellamy consulted his watch. Just
On two: Linda's luncheon party
would be in full swing. He had
uothing better to do. might as well
look in at the Ritz. Linda would INK
1t 49,
To the luncheon-hour mob that
miIled in the foyer OF the RITZ
Carlton hotel. Lucinda bruce pre-
scented the poise of a pretty woman
WIZ has never known care more
than uncertainty as to her
moSr bocoming adornment.
"But I never dreamed you three
knew one another!" she was ex-
claiming in the surprise OF hndlne
Fanny Lontaine with those whom
she had hidden to meet her. "tanny
whv didn't you tell ne" -.
sBut 1 didn't know-your Nelly
Guest was Ellen Field married"
THAT'S so; I'd completely forgot.
ten you both come from chicago.
Hush" Nelly Guest gave al
stage hiss. Someone might near
Ard all these years I've tried SO
hard to live 1t down. It's not fair.
Six years married, Fanny retalheu,
aud would till the end. whatever lie
might hold in store for her, a Ooh .,
wondering and eager youthfulness.
Romance trembled veritably upon
her lashes. She had a way of hold
Sxg her lips slight apart and look
ing steadily at one when spoken 10,
MS il nothing more interesting a
ever been heard by the ears am
pushed in her bobbed, ashen mar.
Her eyes of a deep violet shade heid
an Innocence of expression little less
than d-isconcerting. Her body
seemed never to have outgrown ls
adolescence, yet it's slightness was
quite without any angularity or aWK-
wardness, it achieved roundness.
without plumpness, a stroke OF
physical genius.
sIt's heavenly" she now de-
cIared. cooliy staring at their
neixhbors through the smoke of her
cixarette-"simply divine TO be
home. I'm sure I'd never want to
sac Europe again if it weren't for
prohibition"
you're not going to suffer on that
account today" Jean sedley prom
ised. producing from her handbag a
little mask of jeweled gold. Il
But / shalli' Fanny protested
With tragic expression. "Itis the
frightfui hypocrisy that's curdiing
my soul and running my insides.
Fanny had launched into a start
ling detailed account of London's
latest fad in "treatments;" inc Lu-
cinda.s thoughts turned back TO ner
other self. -.
t u00 To kO OHs hOW ~
farce Of a life with Bel when faitn
in him was dead?
Strange that faith should nave
been shattered finally by such a mi
nor accident a. her overhearing that
mornings treachery. And she had
tried so hard to win him back, only
to learn he had gone from her arms
70 telephone. with lips warm from
hers to another woman, to change a
p1aco Of designation because he hao
Mean1y ferreted out the fact that his
wife was intending to lunch at the
Restaurant of their first choice!
Hor cheeks kindled with tndigne-
t3en-and blazed still more warmly
when she discovered that h had
1sen staring squarely at Richard
Daub6uey. who was lunching with
friends at a nearby table.
But Dobbin bowed and smiled IN
such . way that Lucinda's n
nton and her sense of grievance were
drowned under a wave of gratitude.
She nodded brightly.
Good old Dobbini She a never
~arorcciated how much she was
missing him, till he had turned up
nrain last night n offered TO take
his old place in her life.