The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-09-13
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Newport with the Seymour Donald
sons. He thought I had piles Of
money-poor Ralph, my third hus-
band, you know, had left me de-
cent little lump of insurance-but
when I told him the truth, for some
reason which I can't remember
right now, he cut and ran like a
frightened rabbit.
IT never had line from him, and
I'd been simply mad about him! But
you know how it isl He fooled you,
too, and I've never pretended to
have one-tenth the brains that you
have"
"And did you make him sorry
when you saw him just now?"
Flora adjusted the brim Of her
wide leghorn hat and twitched at
the full skirt of her pretty lowered
tatffeta afternoon dress.
ITO tell you the truth, darling,
I was the tiniest bit sorry for him.
You had so evidently reduced him
to a pulp. Poor Schuyler! How Bit
ter he must feel to think that he
had forty million dollars within his
grasp and that he let 1t slip through
his fingers!
But tell me everything. darling.
I'm simply thrilled to death to be
here and to see you again." she add
ed asan afterthought.
Vee-Vee smiled as she made a
place for her aunt beside her on
the swinging chair. mo. I'm much
more interested in what has been
Happening to you. How is young
Peter Darrow? Still devoted? Still
proposing.
my dear, I'm through with men,
positively through, finished, fed
upi" Flora assured her niece ve-
hemently, as he snapped open her
vanity case to regard her makeup
critically and to repair any dam
ages that her emotional greeting
had wrought.
IT tell you, Vee-Vee, I shall be
driven to marrying Jack Preston all
over againl He's waiting patiently
at the McAlpin right now for my
telephone call"
But If you are through with
menu" Vee-Vee laughed.
"But that's why I shall marry
him!" Flora assured her with i'm
mense gravity. "Jack isn't a man,
he's a husband. One knows where
one is with Jack. He is certainly
the most faithful ex-husband I ever
saw.
"Now, II Jerry Macklyn had had
the good Judgment to prefer an ex-
perienced woman-a blond, at that
to foolish virgin who runs of
chasing another man and gets her
self kidnapped"
ct gather that Jerry has been
rather difficulty" Vee-Vee laughed.
when are you going to marry
him? Or is this taste Of caviar life
going to turn your head?" Flora
demanded, in lieu Of an answer.
IT rather think" Vee-vee said
softly, that I shall wait till he asks
me again."
Then you'll marry him tomor-
row and lose this fairy-tale job Of
yours, for he will ask you tonight.
He's coming, Of course?" Flora re-
torted.
But there was really no danger of
Vee-Vee's losing her "fairy-tale job"
the next day, or any day during the
long weeks that followed, for Jerry
Macklyn did not once take advan-
tage Of her invitation, seconded by
the Crandalls, to visit her at the
Manhasset Bay estate.
HE wrote her fairly frequently,
and it always seemed that she was
opening mail to which she had no
right, when she slit the envelope
bearing the name Miss Vivian
Crandall."
His first letter explained that his
reception, as Vivian Crandall's sole
male caller, would arouse storm
of gossip and rumor, storm which
might break over their heads when
Vee-Vee's "job" was finished.
OF course she had to accept his
Judgment as sound, but she reflect
ed resentfully that he might have
worded his refusal a little more re-
gretfully. have begun and ended his
letters a little more warmly.
AS 1t was, she treasured every ap-
parently careless word of affection
the hasty scrawls contained, and
paled miserably over his frequent
references to both Rosemary Fitch
and Vivian Crandall.
"He probably fell in love with Wv
ian because she looks like me, and
then "fell out of love with me be-
cause I'm not as wonderful as she
is" vee-Vee told herself in a fit Of
extreme depression.
"But II I'd have her advantages I
might have been more like her. She
is wonderful" she added honestly,
but her fairness gave her little hap
piness in the realization that she
had lost the man she should have
loved all along and whom she now
loved far more deeply and genuinely
than she had ever loved Schuyler
Smythe.
When she consoled herself with
the reflection that Vivian Crandall
was safety out of his reach, because
all her love was given to Paul ALI
son, she would remember, with
startlingly severe pangs in her
lonely hear. that his letters con-
tanned quite as mary references to
Rosemary as to Vivian Crandall.
1t seemed that If he did not dine
with Vivian Crandall and Paul ALI
son that he took Rosemary Fitch to
Coney Island or to a Long Island
roadh01isa for a chnra dinner