New Britain herald., 1925-05-06
THE STORY so FAR.

seymour anu ollli ~e'N'N' house. A party is in progress when Dick returns. He puts the guests out of the house.
 Mother Gregory manages 10 nave Gloria elected 10 the Home Wom- ems club. May Seymour finds that she has been left ont of the mem btrshlp, because of her affair wlth Jim Carewe. Crushed, she decides to give Jim up.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Early the next morning while Gloria and Ranghild were onslIy unpacking the wardrobe trunk the front doorbell rang three times.
 That's Mrs. Seymour's ring ASK her to come up here, please, Rang hild," Gloria said.
 Sure enough 1t was May.
 May triumphant! In a new spring suit and felt hat crowned with ,ilacs, She was freshly rouged and nowdered. And there was a flicker of humor in her green eyes, = In short, May was herself again
 "Ah. hah, you thought I'd be m sackclo,h and ashes, didn't you? she asked Gloria in her impudeht ,rav "lust because I'd had a turn dawn from q club of miserable old frnmnso Not on your eyebrow pen oil, Those danes cant high-hat me ,.sto don't want 10 belong to their little group of ser'ous thinkers. u,..,..
 Nav sat down before GIoria'F dressing table and rubbed sofne perfume under her pointed ch'n sho grinncd impishIy -, % %ATn YOU going to join? I don exact,v sco you in a Home "om' on,s club,' she said. "You're hard ,v homekeeping type, Glory. wish you wouldn't join, l thinl vou owe it 10 me not to. Just tt show those women that they can cal, snub me. and get away with H.
 Gloria set her nps firmly
 i've promised Mother uresor ri ,oin." she said. She had no 1n tnn-ton of being an outcast alonl with May. There were points "her' fricndslip ceased. This vas one 0 th"m, ,
 "I tho,eht you dt1n'' care darl whether you got into the club 0 not. anyway" Glor,a went on. " o' just said you didn't
 May bit her lip,
 "That was pure bunk sh" con fessed. "Whistling in the dark | keep up my couragc,'
 May wiped her eyes and blew he nose loudly. Gloria could see tha she was having hard work to figh back the tears in her eyes,
 Between you and me, Gloria she said shakily, tits all but kllle me to hear that they didn't wan me in that club. I never use .to care what women said about m' but this got my goat, somehow. 10 take it from me, it's no use tryin n buck other women. They've lai down certain lines, and unless girl follows them, they'll get ne
 they've almost got me.
 "Why, this morning when JIl phoncd l wouldn't even let him tai ,o me froid the phone g' might he listening in, And cro' my heart. there never has bee ,anyfbtng really wrong between IT and Jim .. just a little fooIlSl ness"
 GIor,a was sure that May w telling tho truth.
 "J came in 70 ask you 70 downtown With me, but l can $ you'ro too busy" May said natura Iv after minute or two, "Doi forsc, that I'm having the car , .rIuD Thursday, will you? lf's | las. tine we'll all see our loVi enemy, Myra Gail before she go kawav next whtk.
 "f thought you liked Myr' Gloria said, surprised,
 ,'Y,L. 1 Ioye her the way y do,' May retorted, making I't
 Flaws of her two hands But J th. same I'd rather have her Tor
 frierI than an enemy and sn friend of all these club "ohl
 wro've iced me, bcsil"s''
 May picked up q hand mirror \
 studied h"r fac.
 "Yo gods, l believe I'm ge',ihs
 line between my cyebro"S'
 cri,d. "or is it just shado" ? .
 pv inc way. isn't this hat Of nj
 inc eats kanittens, | spent all
 money for the butchers biH on
 Thrrf's one place where
 krock he rtst of the women 10
 Chicago Ioop anyway .'. Tn
 clothes
 - G)oris's smue Wued May.
 know that May vas far from b' 1 v,ll-dr,s ss,i. Her hat was too z l tsh, her tam shoes too tan, her o stockings 100 thin
 Nvra Gail was the bcs'-dres q voman in iovu, when il came
 that With a pang. Glorts thou s Of Paris and the clolhrs N E would bring home from Paris Fl After May had gone, she " Hl hack unhappily 10 the job of L hacking the trunk that was
 fined not 10 cross the ocean in N1 hold of French boat .. ] o sfinrv Dick WAS not 10 let her g with Myra!
 
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