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 the packages. Are you being a
 good Little Sister while I'm gone,
 and staying at home nights and
 leaving all the boy friends alone?"
 And so they drifted into an 'un-
 derstanding." Merry never went
 out at night except with Mons
 while Bill was away. She didn't
 know whether she was engaged to
 him or not.
 She didn't know whether she
 wanted to be. or not.
 I'm not in love with him. Not
 a little bit" she told herself, that's
 certain.'
 But so far as that went she
 wasn't in love with anyone else.
 either. And so she was content to
 let things slide.
 One cold. starry night shortly before Christmas, Cassie teIephoned
 her just as she vas going out of the door of the beauty shop.
 "Morley's going 10 stay down.
 town for dinner with some men," she said in her high voice, "and
 ATuriel is coming over here to have dinner with me. Why don't you come, too? We can have some ithree-hand bridge"
 Merry went.
 l II was the first time Cassie had asked her 10 the new flat in Cor Itelyou street.
 Even Mons had been invited 10 ii only once. For Morley Kaufman 1 showed no more desire to know 1 Cassies family now that he had married her than he had before. i He made it clear that he had married her and not her family. Merry decided that he was an un- bearable snob and high hatter" But there was nothing of the snob about Muriel. his young sis ter. She was far more natural and simple in her ways than Cassie. Tonight as Merry ran up E the stairs of the Cortelyou street apart ment, Aluriel opened the door Of Cassie's suite and came out on the landing to meet her. She had seen her only once before, on the day of Cassie's wedding. But she greeted her like an old friend.
 Hello, there!" she called over the i banister. "We thought you were 1 never coming. It took you ages to get here"
 She slipped her arm around Mer- 1 rvs slender waist, and together they i, went into the hallway of the flat. 1 Cassie, looking like Tennyson's 1 "daughter of hundred earls," in a new black satin dress with cloth- | of-gold collar, came out from the | living room.
 In the room behind her. Merry | caught a glimpse of cracking ! woodfire of fresh pink roses re- flected in a long mirror, and of wide davenport heaped up with bright -colored silk cushions.
 Hurry along and take off your things. Dinners ready" Cassie 1 said 10 her, giving her peck on her glowing cheek.
 Merry followed Muried down the | long Barrow hallway that led to the | bedrooms. There were four of them | in Cassie's flat and two bath rooms !
 Casse's own bedroom was like | moving picture "set." It was hung [ with blue-green taffeta. The fur | niture was painted pluegreen, and l the rug on the floor was pearl gray. [
 All the brushes on the dressing i table were ivory. and they had | Cassie's initials in gold on them l There was a half dozen bottles Of i perfume ranged along the back of it. And the top draker was filled with jars of rouge, boxes of powder great velvet puffs, eyebrow pencils lipsticks, tweezers, jars of cold cream and boxes of thin tissue paper for removing cold cream from the face.
 What a heavenly room." said Merry, as she looked around it,
 But she said it with sigh, as she pictured her own little room at home. The little shabby room under the caves, with its iron beds, battered dresser, worn-out alarm clock and imitation shell toilet set
 The rest of Cassie's fiat was just as luxurious as the bedroom. #
 The dining room, where the three girls ate, was white panelea and the furniture was black wood, There were candles at either end r of the long table. and new glass bowl of Shasta daisies in the cen ter.
 The food was delicious. Cream of celery soup, cold veal bird, fresh green peas, vegetable salad in chicken-jelly, and frozen choco- late pudding. -.-,,
 "I's just a scratched-up meal Cassie said easily, when Murlel praised it. She leaned forward ana \ lit a cigaret from one O. the candie flames, frowning a little as she did it.
 Merry looked at the hand that held the cigaret. Its fingers were slim and white, the nails were like polished coral and on the thifd finger a wedding ring and an en- gagement ring sparkled like clus- ter of stars.
 If did not look as if it had i nounded the steel keys of a type writer day in and day out for a good many years.
 And Cassie, herself, with her l waved hair, her clean fresh look, her indifferent air fitted into all this luxury beauti- fully. She seemed much more at home here in this nine-room flat than ever had seemed in the h shabby ala house on Chester street. h
 well. Merry" she drawled, when | they were having tiny cups of coffee in the fire-lit living room, I nhow does everything go at the beauty shop?"
 Merry gave start.
 She had no idea that Cassie | would let Morley kaufman's family I