Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-19


afternoon. She had been mar
ried a little over year and
inatead of reading her attractive noVei
her thoughts wandered over the
months OF her brief happy marrleo
life. she had understood from all she
had read of marriage that the Hrs.
was the trial year tuii or jars any
adjustments, but to her surprise the
happiness had peen so great tnat Sne
fell almost guilty, there was SO mucn
trouble in the world. Frederic Cart
NELL was the dearest maine was 81
understanding and had sucn a. really
sunny nature that his wife oeciaieo
any one could get along WIN hiiii'
and
Here her thoughts were interrupted
by the soft gentle voice sngntly ioi =
eign: Lady, may l tell your fortune
You look very nappy- can reao liuSli
from the palm and your zone. FTeua
had seen a few gypsies but never o..
like this one. she was dressed mos.
nicturesouely and was really dainty
and clean. Her eyes were wonderful
her hair darkest auburn, her skin 1air.
"Why, yes,' she replied In ner
ouick. girlish way. i've never nau
INV fortune told. I'd love to near II.
The woman asked her birth month
md then took her. slender hand In
hers and held It. Her beautiful eyes
ssemed to look into unknown depths.
Then in a far-off voice she almost
chanted: II see a child in a beautirui
garden in a city suburb. Sne 10
beauty. She as happy. me yealo
pass uneventfully Till she Is To- when
her idolized mother dies. Two years
later her father marries the woman
he secretly loved for years. ons
proved kind to the girl ana she usoI
her. She goes away to me scnoo'
and barely a year after her return
home she meets a man she loves the
frat time she sees him. He Is TALL
blond giant They are togetner
great deal and then he meets the one
girl whose initials are l.. A. But the
man feels that while he has not pro-
posed to the first girl ne mas gone
nretty far and she has been very open
in showing her love for him and ne
doesn't feel free. 1t Is at picnic
when they wander away from the
others that she turns her ankle ana
he thinks she has tainted that ne
betravs his secret and she opens her
eyes and confesses her love. he teiis
her that he feels bound to marry the
other woman whose name IS freoa.
He marries the latter and they move
to a town not far away, put Wnlie nc
"a kindness itself to his wife he longs
81 for I. A. that when he goes to the
CITY where she lives on business ne
cannot resist going to see her and
while thew keep within bounds they
enioy such happiness as comes seldom
on this earth and they wonder how
they can bear separation any longer.
Suddenly the gypsy seemed to come
ont of a trance. "You look SO white
and strange" she said to the girt.
Have / told you painful things?
When / tell fortunes / seem to be IN
another world and scenes appear De
fore me till I come back to the pres
emit l hope I have told you nothing
painful
do ! owe your"
Three dollars" and she went away
as swiftly and silently as she came
But what a tumult she left behind
II all seemed so true: the woman
seemed SO above the ordinary; hef
English was excellent. She knew
her past. vet how could her ms
father have loved her stepmother be
fore her own mother died? We're al
men untrue? Oh, she mustn't beneVe
any of il. Frederic had known Lucia
Arnold in Cincinnati and she had beer
in her set and he had paid her some
attention And he was in cincinnati
now or had just started rev hour'
ago. He had stayed later than he nae
intended doing twice with such
plausible excuse. The IDEA or douot
ing Frederic, To think of allowing
gypsy to shake her faith in hus
hand as devoted as hers had been
She would practice her new music
She would get away from her diSloNa
thoughts. She could hardly touch he'
supper. Later she heard voices ant
two girl friends came in. They woult
make her forget.
ooh. Freda" said Alicia Freeman
Ibid a, beautiful gypsy fortune-telle
come here? She has been half owe
town and you'd hardly believed hov
she can read the palm. She toll
Mary Nelson things she didn't thinl
any one knew. She told me wonder
ful things"
riott. $50 many are excited over hef
You missed n lot by not seeing her
.eYo,, didn't give me a chance I
tell YOU that she was here" Fed
.atd laughing. "And I agree Wit
Won. she is a thriller all right
what did she tell you?" ROT
asked.
But Freda changed the converse
ton. After the girls had gone an
rreda had tossed about rest!essly ]
her bed she called herself names; sh
declared that no girl ever had hu'
Rand like hers. but oh, how she hope
he wonid be back tomorrow and nc
stav over!
The next morning Freda had a vii
desire 20 see the gypsy and make ne