The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-09-22

appeared and took the baby upstairs
again
ITS time for his nap" Gloria *
planned. "and besides. I have tho
most wonderful breakfast ready for
you cooked Il FOR you myself with
my own hands.
ChhtteunE. bhs eat down opposite
May In the sunny little dining room
and poured coffee for her. Then che
brought ahifred eggs ana a thick
Tbone steak from tho kitchen.
Here's toast" she purlcd. ilfiing n
snowy napkin, "and honey aud oh.
dear, forgot had orange juice for
/ sou,
Frownlng. she dashed back into
I the kitchen and brought a tall Elnf1
of IL. SGT In bowl OF cracked ice.
May hadn't had such meal since
she Ind lefi tho hotel IN Atlantic
cts nor much Of an Hppollt. either
By tho tins rho had had her third
cup OF coffee rho fcit more cheerful
than sho had since the night Herbert
Waterbury had disappeared with her
money.
And presently she began 20 tell
Gloria about him an about her A.
lantlc city adventure from beginning
30 end.
But May surely you weren't
going Co marry this Waterbury IN
cold blood when sou didn't even
love him, were your" Gloria asked
when aho had finished
May nodded. unbalanced. 'Of
course ] was going 20 marry him"
she answered. frankly why not7
The thinF was after was money.
and thought he had ~
Rhe crossed both arms on tho table
and looked straight into Glorla'n wide
brown eyes Listen me. Glory
Gregory" she said. II was dead tired
~ having people annb the. ! wanted
90 be- treated like a human being
ngnin--to be- respected instead ~
being summed Ike an outcast
We'll. ! figured that the one thlng
people do respect IL money. They do.
you know They kow-tow 10 Il. They
bow down and worship u, Not only
that. but they worship the people
who have Il. So made up my mind
90 get money. II had 20 so out and
steal iil Bui instead Of stealing IL.
had mine stolen from me. Poetic
justice. suppose you'd call it,
Poetic nothlng' It's the wickodest
thing ever heard or Gloria cried.
jumping up. And think this
Waterbury ought TO bo found and
jallsdl Lot'a so down 10 nse Dick. He
could do something abou; u. I'm surol
Aud wen set him 10 take VS. out aud
buy Viz a lunch 81 the hppleai place
In town.
She caught Mays hand and raced
her upstairs
Here's your bags-ali uppaclged
IN the guest room. and everything
put neatly away, Don't you think
I'm a perfect hostssS7 Why. what's
the Natter Gloria asked. for May
stood dropping in tho doorway Of the
dainty. chlutx'hung room.
II can't" May answered. II jua,
eah't-Ro out and face people IN this
town again Now. don't tell INC I'm
silly! This morning. aa drove on,
from tho station. passed Myfa Gail.
and TIRED TO speak 10 her and she
looked night thru me. aH II I'd been
no much thin air. she groaned.
'Atyra Gail--what shc does Is
hardly what Ia call tho cats pa
jamas' She doesn't natter Gloria
said loftIly. You powder your face
and buckle on your srTnor. and we'il
10 out and face tho town without the
flicker OF an eyeianh."
Then. as she saw tha, May was
Koing TO refuse once more, she went
on.
Tho only why 20 face lie. May, IA
10 faon it--not TO run away from II,
or turn your back on ~. I.lro's
hard proposition. and you've got 10
be hard stuff II you're going 10 NEE,
il properly, Come on-lst'a FDs'
And No May braccd herself 10 NEE;
her world
To Bc Continued