Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-23


Wen all go home and reappear Saturday
night at the dinner at the Hunter Club, and
dance and say the same things over until we
eat scrambled eggs and bacon at 4 o'clock
Sunday morning"
Kate patted her arm.
Go home and get some Sleep" she advised
SYou're just little low. We all get that way"
"But / stay low" answered Celeste bitterly
Then she wrapped her coat around her with
o GRACEFUL languourous gesture, wiped the Bit
terness from her face with . smile and went
downstairs
KATE followed. Mike was talking TO Blake.
She called to him across the room, and
he Signaled that he was coming. They were all
saying good night to the Ludlows. The usual
adjectives-the same agreeable compliments
and the cars started
why do you always want to stay so late"
she asked, after they were home.
Cant you how tired am-how badly
I need Sleep"
well. why don't you go and get some now?"
he asked reasonably and yet with a touch Of
strain in his voice. That's what I'd like to do"
But you weren't up with the baby all last
night And you slept all afternoon in Turkish
bath"
'what if I did,"
''wen I can't do things like that And
don't see how you carry on your business
with any success from Turkish bath"
"Or with the encouragement get from my
wife" he added. Well don't know what
'fOh. I'm just tired" she said, with break
IN her voice
Then go to bed!"
But even in bed she lay prickling with irri-
cations. She sure that. even IL she had
seemed unreasonable, she was fundamentally
reasonable. Michael wasn't sympathetic. And
Is she drifted off to sleep the thought of the
court house contract tangled with her last
arguments.
It was that odd pain I'm her back that
bothered her. And the tight bands of pain in
her head. She didn't tell Michael about them.
She didn't want to bother him. especially after
that mess the tiles for the new court
house. He had lost that contract Old Mr..
Harrison had said that if Mike had come to
him in time, it never would have happened
But after the award was made on the day
of the Ludlow party. there was no getting
around the decision without stirring up mess
and perhaps some lawsuits that might not help
any one. They all said that no outside Arm
would ever again put over anything like that
But that did not help the Cars.
Mike seemed to be waiting for Kate to say
something about it, He had been almost
hostile.
soh, wen have to get three times as many
small jobs, that's all" he said, and added, cor
not"
Sometimes he was like that-sullen.
1nSy Idu- gone 10 the movies WIFI TIE MeT~
Eills, that night-the second show-and back
afterward to the Merrill house. In the course
OF the evening Mike had grown much more
cheerful. But it wasn't going to help finan-
cially, If Mike was charming and cheerful in
the evening when there was no money to be
made, at the expense of being entirely different
in the daytime Kate was worried about him.
And about herself. There must be something
wrong with her head. 1t couldn't ache like
that unless there was something wrong She
began to vision operations.
But the doctor said there was nothing wrong
She had gone to his office without telling ony
one, and waited for an hour and a half while
men and women with haunted eyes went in
ahead of her.
you're probably little nervous" he said
"I think the headache is just nerves, and the
pain in your back can be explained in much the
same way. Perhaps you haven't been getting
enough sleep"
Kate told him how that was
Still he didn't care He didn't think she was
an important case. She went out of his Office
with prescription for mild sedative in her
purse. and a few suggestions, and felt rather
ashamed of having been concerned over her
self. She had the prescription filled. Tonight
when she was going to bed, she would have
some of it. Not at o'clock as the label said.
because they were going to the McKinnonS' for
dinner and bridge.
CHE had tried to back out Of this party to-
night, but Michael had wanted to go. He
liked Alec and always had good time at the
McKinnons'
Come on Be sport" he had said to
Kate
She closed her door put on a negligee and
lay down on the chaise Tongue. Relaxation was
one of the things the doctor had suggested
but it did not seem to come. She picked up the
magazine she had bought and turned over the
pages A personal article about an actress
UVh0nn she had a1wavS liked STONED nv another