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and so do you! And know what you're doing hcro" Dick said, "I know what my wife's doing here with you, .., And that's all end cd"
 Stan's mouth wont mp at one cor. nor in his crooked smile. He nhit cd the ash from his cigaret before he answered. But Glory could see that he was terribly afraid .. that he needed all hts acting ability 10 carry him through ihis crisis.
 "Is that so?" Wayburn asked, carclcssly.
 Dick turned 10 his wife.
 Co upstairs while VIC settle this thing" he ordered her.
 Glory braccd herself She shook her head, slowly,
 "No. l won't go upstairs" she said "AlI this concerns me as much as it docs you Only you're so silly 10 make a scene about such trinc. Why l don't begin 10 sec as much Of Stan as you do of your Miss Briggs every day. How do l know you started away on business trip at all? How do l know that you weren't somewhere with her all day",,. II looks prct- " queer to mc--your rushing back here when you wrro supposed to be out of town. Mighty queer"
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 Get upstairs" he said savagcly. His voice was like a whip.
 Without another word Glory went.
 She fairly flew ur the long flight. and stopped at the top 10 listen. There was no sound from the floor below.
 In sudden panic, she flew into tho room that she and Dick shared and locked the door behind her.
 II was the sort Of thrill that a cavc-woman might have felt thou sands Of years ago, az she watched two stone-aEe warriors fighting to the dear over her.
 ! She laughed wildly and hysteri- ] cal)y.
 ! "Oh. if you were only like that al ways" she thought, She shivered at inc memory of Dicks righteous anger inc cold fury in his eyes when he had ordered her upstairs. He had never seemed so splondid,
 And she had ohoycd him :. For Inc first time in her life shc had ohcyed him, .. Shc was nor tally afraid Of him. too!
 The telephone on the table beside her bed rang sharply.
 Hello. dear" It was Mays voice. "I just called ur 'o see fl VOL were all right Has your lord and master calmod down, yct?"
 NO, he's still ranting around, downstairs" Glory answered, 'but I think he's awfnl)y sick :. really, I do. May He looks it. think that's how he happened to come home ahead Of time. He said this 1 morning that he was going 10 be gone two or thre days"
 "pon't kid mo, Birdie. -. I'm simple" May answered in her cheerful slang "Ill bet you a new spring hat that he had hunch you'd throw a little party as soon as he was gone, and he came home unexpectedly to find out. Well, you didn't disappoint him, did you dear?"
 She laughed. Nothing in the world was serious 10 May hut her clothes, her complexion. and her good times.
 "No, you're wrong for once, May" ! Glory gravely told her. Dick wouldn't spy on me. Hes too honest and aboyr-b board. himself. I'm sure les sick, Will you please asl, Dr. John 10 com" over and have a look at himo Dicks never been quite well since he had the fu be- fore Christmas. you know"
 "John's not al home, although expect him any minute" May an- swercd. "Yon might try to r"ach him al his office"
 She rang off. Glory called Dr. Johns ofico. He answered the phone himself.
 "Win yon stop in here 10 soc nicl, for a min1e on your way home ?' Glory asl,cd him. He came homo sick while ago"
 There was q .ong silence.
 "l don't understand, Glory" Dr John said a last. 'I just saw Dick half an hour ago. lie stopped in a my office on his way from the train looking pretty shaky. l told him tr go homo and go 10 bed .. anC that I'd look in on him again, aftel dirncr."
 "Oh l hdnt know that" Glor, lat"r"I "Wr]l. come now, anyway will you? rleasc?"
 Sbe was afraid 10 he alone iE 'h' house with Dick, after Wayburm hac gone. Sl.o wished that she had no given Earghild the afternoon off,
 "1u bc there inside of Gftoor minutes" Dr. John promised. GIor! could tell he was puzzled. Swiftly she took off her blue gowr and slipped the silver hand iron her hair. She took a plain blacl dress from her closet and put it on For she fcrvently hopod that bel had not noticed how she lad deco rated herself for Wayburn's visit!
 Glory picked buffer up from he dressing table and ran it idly acros her shining nails. 5 Shc was thinking hard. She bo gan to wonder it Stanley WayburI was worth all inc trouble that h' brought into her lifc... the heart break, the jcalouslN and the lies. He had seemed a despicable coUar' downstairs just now, when Dick ha' faced him with that deadly angc Of his. Glory had seen the fear il