New Britain herald., 1925-06-03

ley Wayburn?" There was surprise in Mays voice. She, too, believed the story of -Gloria's desertion of Dick.
 "of course not! Don't be silly!" Gloria said sharply. T went down to New York to go on the stage. didn't even see Stan Wayburnp'
 That was a lie." she told her. self bluntly, as she left the tele- phone, and began 10 undress, but its my story and I'm going to stick to it!"
 She would never let anyone know that she had followed Wayburn to New York and that he had turned her down! She could never raise her head again and look people in the eye, If they found that out!
 Gloria tiptoed cut into the hall and half way down the stairs She thought she heard the sound of Dick closing the door. But no one was in the lower hall. The clock there struck twelve slowly and boomingly. ,.,
 Where was Dick? Why didn't he come? Surely he and Miss Briggs couldn't be working until midnight
 Suddenly as Gloria stood there on the stairs. she was afraid.
 The empty house seemed to be filled with strange sounds and rust lings. The pantry door creaked. |. And was something or somebody moving in the dark dining-room
 With her heart in her mouth, Gloria dashed back upstairs to her room. She slammed and bolted the
 door behind her.
 The lights in her room were blaE- ing. Without stopping to turn them
 off. she plunged into bed and pulled the covers up over her head like a
 frightened child.
 She lay trembling for long min
 utes, listening for the sound of
 Dicks key in the lock. -. =. Where
 In the world was he at this hour of
 the night? Why didn't he come home? He had no right to leave
 his wife alone in the house half the
 night while he was out, doing what? That was the question!
 Surely he and Miss Briggs weren't still working in Dicks of
 flee! Where were they? Together somewhere? -. The questions swarmed like bees in Gloria's brain : She forgot her fear. Anger toward . Dick took it's place.
 She swung her feet over the side of the bed and stepped out onto the rug. Then she put her head ou
 of one of the open windows ant
 looked up and down the street. Bu it lay empty and still under th' , hushed calm of midnight. 3 As Gloria stood there, she hear' a sound in the house. itself! It cam T from downstairs . :. the hars /: tinkle of metal against metal. Some u one was at the silver In the side z board drawers. Burglars. = Gloria pressed one hand tight t l. her breast. She felt as if her heal
 were jumping out of her body |. K 1t beat go fast. She tiptoed acros z the room to the door that led int a the hall. She put her ear agains 5 1t and listened for a long time. Bu Q there was no further sound. e Gloria began to wonder if sh = really had heard noise, doWnstair = or not. Perhaps her tired brain ha q been playing her tricks. -.
 We'll, as soon as Dick came sh B. would find out If anyone had bee e in the house. She wouldn't | n afraid to go downstairs to the dir l. ing room then. But why didn't h Q come?
 u Gloria got back into bed, and la s waiting for him. Oh. but wouldn s. she pan him when he did get hom o though. The very idea! Leaving h' q alone as if she were Lola Houg 5. or any other faded. middle-age 'A wife!
 She'd let him know she wasn n going to be treated like this. 'r She'd leave him first, That's whi she'd do. She had done it once, ar u she'd do 1t again!
 sr The next thing Gloria knew " was morning. Her room was file IT with the warmth and sunshine 5 early June. Through the open vii
 dows came the sound of neigl
 bor's lawn mower and the sWe ie smell of fresh-cut grass. Il. Gloria smiled and stretched he ra self like a tiger-kitten. Then she r lh membered last night. She frowne sh Softly she went out into the hs h. and listened at Dicks door. ! re sound within. She opened the do ld and peeked into the room. ne The bed had been slept in. Dicl
 patamas lay on the rug beside a where he had stepped out of the to There were ashes in the tray on 10 bedside table. He had been hor CT part of the night at least. A 's he had gone that morning withc ne even saying goodby!
 at Gloria closed the door of ) room.
 "rn be jiggered if make bed or clean up the placer DO said to herself. He can't treat ht' like & servant and expect I'll be ng for him. Because I won't!"
 While she was waiting for her le- to fill, she went downstairs to lid dining room. The drawers of sip sideboard were piled one on top a each other on the floor. They VI
 empty.
 So there had been burglars in in house last night! And they had ti TOT en every piece of the fiat silver u Iad had been Mother Gregory's wedd 'un present! Not so much as a spt leu was left.
 Gloria shivered. Then it was pit buryiar she had heard taking I