The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-01
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CHAPTER XXxIII

y and twisted his yellow ringlets
into curls.
"I'ye got an awful, clanmy feel
ing" she said, "as if something
dreadful was going to happen to
him"
She clutched him to her heart,
and held him so tightly that he
cried in fright, and dug his small
fists against her face, to free his
little body from her embrace. Tad,
picking out idle notes at the piano,
stopped his humming to laugh.
Eve said that to ADAM" he re-
marked, whenever Cain or Abel
got a cold in the. head. All mothers
have the same 'clamny feelings
and the offspring invariably sur
wives"
Mrs. Thorne drew her purple af-
CHAN about her narrow shoulders
and shivered.
I've got SOS I believe the Lords
never going to be through punish
ing u.s." she confessed dismally.
Though if He ever let anything
happen to that baby, it seems as if
there'd be nothing else to live for"
They all worshiped Teddy, and
declared Staunchly that he was "a
real Thorne." He was a hand
some child with endearing, small
manners. 1t was, for instance, his
adorable way to slip his soft baby
hand into the hand of one or an
other of his worshiping relatives.
He was an affectionate baby and
unusually denonstrative. When he
was tired he liked to be held, and,
with one hand clutching his own
yellow curls, would lay the other
conhdingly against the cheek of
the person who held him.
CHRISTMAS came, and Teddy,
~ at months, was lovelier and
more winsome than ever. Tad
brought home small tree in the
back of his car, and it was Valerie
who begged to decorate it.
She hung the baby's stocking, and
bought him toys enough for a dozen
children.
Then between Christmas and New
Years she sold her pleated silver
crepe-only slightly mussy-and her
scarlet Russian blouse to Dolly Wes-
ton for $40, and purchased with the
proceeds a broadcloth baby coat of
rosy taupe with beaver collar.
You mustn't, Vail" demonstrated
Sybil.
why not?" she demanded. "I
love him more than anything"
a FTER the holidays Mabel
IN phoned.
"SybiI, dear" she pleaded, you
simply must help me find an apart
ment. We came back yesterday,
and went directly to Aunt Emma's.
But Jacks as nervous as a witch
with aunty puttering around. And
we absolutely must get into place
of our own.
my dear, I never was so happy
in all my life. Jacks perfectly Won
derful. But he'll die if we stay here
Il know he will.
rents are something dreadful
A hundred and twenty-five Tor any
place you'd look at. Seventy-f1ve
for the most miserable little
kitchenets.
I'm dying to see the new apart
ments on CommonweaIth-electrict
refrigeration and everything. I
suppose they're simply out of sight
but we've got to get somewhere
and that's all there is to it.
Jack says he doesn't care what
it costs. He's like that. The most
extravagant creature you ever saw.
Why, on our honeymoon, he sim
ply made me buy everything as
much as looked at. Oh, darling,
it's simply too good to be true.
keep pinching myself to see if I'm
really awake
Sybn met her that afternoon. A
new Mabel, in abbreviated skirts
and French pumps.
For ten years." she explained,
surveying her stubby vampS COM
placently, "I've been dressing like
a stylish stout Now I'm on a diet,
and buy my clothes in the misses
department"
Sybil laughed. Marriage" she
observed, sis like the things you eat
one girls meat, and another girls
poison"
"Well, my dear, the dose you had
would have poisoned any one"
It
LABEL nibbled a bran muffin,
1Y1 and toyed abstemiously with
a salad of beets and eggs.
please don't think me too nervy
for words" she burst out suddenly,
"but why don't you get a divorce
and marry Craig? Is it because
of that boy who was killed."
Sybil pushed her sundae away