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I And the nose on The Heads face was very ploin. It vas large and ari3tocratic and commanding. It sniffed now little scornfully as ] Honey Lou went on:
 T wanted 10 be like the girls Jack had always known. I wanted him to be awfu)iy proud of me- and so I put myself into Angela $ hands, because you all seemed to admire her so. bought the kind of clothes she told me to buy. l bought my cakes and ice creams at the shop where she traded. even went to the beauty shop where she goes to have her hair bleached--''
 Where she has her hair bleached!" scoffed The Head. "what nonsense! I've known her since she was a child and her hairs always been that color. Where she has her hair bleached, indeed"
 That's what I said!" snapped Honey Lou. "No grown woman ever came by that baby-gold hair naturally--and I even saw the stuff she uses on it. White henna. Any way, she's just as false as the col or of her halr. if you only knew 1t and I wish I'd never believed in her or listened to her! If I'd done what I wanted to and stayed the kind of girl I was when Jack mar ried me, we'd have been happier he and I. He liked me better the way I was. We'd have been hap pier if we'd lived in two rooms over a livery stable and saved money. And I'd have gone there gladly and been perfectly content I'd live witi Jack in Zulu hut, if he want ed me to-
 The Head studied her for a mo- men with her black eyes. Then she smiled and shook her head.
 Do you realize how silly all that sounds, Honey Lou?" she asked. No person could control another persons life as you say Angela has controlled yours. Why don't you face the facts and admit that you've wrecked your own married life by the mistakes you've made, your self? Why try to put the blame on lovely girl like Angela who has honestly tried to help you all she could?"
 Honey Lou stared at her in utter amazement.
 mi joh hoy r., e. sides with her." she said. T might have known you wouldn't believe me, no matter what I said" Sud- denly her voice broke and she rushed out of the house.
 The front door closed, and a half minute later The Head saw her hurry past the windows and on down the street. Q
 CHAPTER LIV
 Honey Lou let herself into the silent flat.
 She went straight through it to the kitchen, stopping only a second ct the door of Jacks room. Her eyes passed over his brushes and
 
 smooth under its snowy cover.
 Looks exactly like a grave with snow on it." Honey Lou said to her self drearily. Then she laughed. "Jiminy crickets, but I'm nice and cheerful today-Ill be seeing ghosts neXt!"
 In the dining room, the fading brides roses did make her think of little white ghosts-ghosts of a happiness that was dead.
 She passed on into the kitchen and washed up the dirty dishes that Mary had left stacked in the sink. Then she swept up Mary's room. and threw all the motion picture magazines and old hatboxes she had left, into the rubbish barrel down in the yard .... The brides roses went in after them.
 After that, Honey Lou packed a steamer trunk with her plainest clothes, telephoned for a taxicab. and powdered her face to hide the tear marks.
 Al SlX CLOCK she walked Into the flat on Arbor Street, followed by the taxi-driver and the trunk.
 Back home and broke," she said with mock cheerfulness to her mother and Margret, somebody will have 10 fish up enough coin to pay the taximan, because l haven't a nickel"
 Margrct paid and tipped the man.
 Married life at an end?" she asked. when the three women were alone.
 Honey Lou nodded. Tt looks that way to me- she answered airily, watching her mothers troubled face.