The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-08-01
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GLORIA GORDON, beautiful flap.
per- mArrlvs DICK GREGORY.
sirugglng young lawyer. Her ides
or marriage ts FUN and fine clothes
4. but no work or chtldronl
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do q for her. altho Dick says they
can't afford a maid. And she swAmps
him with debts for her clothes and
an automobile.
Gloria becomes infatuated with
STANLEY wANBURN, an out-of-
work actor she and WAyhurn, with
NAY SEYMOUR and jim CAREwE.
make Jolly foursome. MAyburn 10
offered n Job on the New York stage.
Gloria lends him $500 OF Dicks
money 70 help him out
Dick becomes ~ with pneumonia
When he RECEIVERS DIR. JOHN SEY-
>IoUR, husband OF tho fliKhty May.
ends him away for rest Gloria
= efuses TO 20 along. because picks
mother. whom she hates. is going.
A soon as they leave. On their
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he spurns her, and tells her he has
Just married his LEADING woman.
SoSIA CHOTEk.
For two weeks Gloria tries 20 land
Job and fails. Finally she comes
home 20 Dick Hs takes her back
into the house. but not as his wife.
lie feels sure that she would never
have come home IL WRyburn wanted
her TO stay in New York. one night
after her return Gloria finds Dick
having dinner In a downtown res
taurant with hts secretary, MISS
BRIGGS. OF whom Gloria has always
heen jealous
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
GLoRIAS first impulse WAS TO
VI laugh when she saw Miss Briggs
and Dick at that half.hidden table
in tho corner Of the little restaurant.
II was certainly the best laugh Of
Tho year-to catch the straight.laced
Dick out stepping on the sly To
catch him taking his secretary out
20 dinner without telling his wife
about Il! II was too funny
The corners OF Gloria's mouth went
up in a malicious little smile.
Then Dick turned and saw her.
and something In his eyes startled
her with It's intensity. What had he
and Miss Briggs been talking about
10 make him look like that7 Could
il be that he was in love with her.
after ALE
All the laughter died on Gloria's
lips at the thought. Was she going
10 play second fiddle to Miss Briggs
in Dicks life? Was she going 10 be
ona OF the great army OF wives
whose husbands are In love with
their office girls? Well. she
just guessed not! Not so you could
kpo,ice ~
i With fury in her heart, Gloria
marched forward 20 the table where
Dick was sitting with Miss Briggs.
Dick jumped up and pulled out a
chair for her.
swell. this is a surpriseF' he OK.
claimed.
yes II noticed you looked sur
prised when you saw me" Gloria an
swered with sarcasm that bit.
without a word OF greeting 10
Susan Briggs, she sat down at the
table
Have the waiter bring the rest OF
my dinner over here" she com
Inanded Dick. unless you have
something TO say to Mss Briggs
that you'd rather not have your wife
hear"
She laughed unpleasantly. She
took out her vanity case and dabbed
a bit OF rouge on either cheek Then
she raised her eyes TO Miss Briggs.
You don't have to wear rouge. do
your" she asked. You're as red as
beet. You look as II you have a
fever. right now.'
II II was true. Foor Miss Briggs
had flushed to deep. unbecoming
red under Gloria's words.
She looked as II she wished that
the earth would open and swallow
her up. And. as matter Of fact.
Miss Briggs was devoutly wishing
herself out OF that little restaurant.
She had come there that night
alone. when Dick had asked her 20
work late. Five minutes after she
had begun 10 eat, Dick. himself. had
walked in. IL would have been queer
II he had not sat down TO share her