The Washington times., 1931-04-04

around our rheumatic knees"
"You take a lot for granted"
shifted Jenny. But she smiled.
Sure I do. That's the only
way to get along in this life,"
uuoth the unabaShed Larry.
But don't worry, honey, I'll
take a jaunt out to Oakdale.
She'll go there, I'm sure. Ill
take her and shake her"
And bring her back to mel"
ordered Jenny. "She needn't
60 to Westwood House. She
can see Aunt Margaret here.
she needn't lay eyes on Trav"
ers-but I can't endure to think
of her eating her heart out
somewhere, thinking he hates
her Oh, she told me he'd
hate her! Larry, can't you
choke this Delight person or
give her an ounce Of arsenic?
Because it's Mary Lou whom
Travers really loves. And she
loves him. This other woman
Doesn't count" said Jenny mag
nificently.
well, who said she did?"
asked Larry.
Lorrimer got him by phone.
II thought you'd be there.
Can you come over?" he wanted
to know. Jenny, too, if she
will-its rather important"
The Plot ThickenS
While Larry was answering,
Jenny danced frantlcally
around him, Kissing, "Remem-
ber, you're not supposed to
know anything about recent de-
velopmentS;;" at which Larry
found himself smirking into
the phone, his face wreathed
in false smiles and his voice
tinged with jollity as if Lor-
rimer could see him.
So a little later, they rode
over to WeStWood and, while
Mrs. Lorrimer talked to Jenny
in the library and explained to
her, very carefully, the whole
situation as it now stood,
Jenny listening and interpola-
ting the necessary exclama-
tions and murmurs, Larry and
Lorrimer went walking to-
gether, in the lockwood garden,
where Lorrimer told him
briefly what had happened.
"No need to go into details.
You know about everything. In
a sense you're responsible"
Lorrimer said, trying to smile,
for it was you who gave Mary
Lou the advertisement, which
I can only designate as ia
tall"
"Gosh!" thought Larry, 'he's
taking it like a soldier"
And" Lorrimer went on, "it
was you who found Delight. She
wants to talk to you. I don't
know what about. I've asked
mother to tell Jenny the story
you don't want to keep any
secrets from your wife, do you?"
Re asked. "And moreover she'd
have to know Soon."
"I'll see Miss Hartford" Larry
promised. Lord, what a mud
die! And, as you say, most Of
it my fault"
I'm not blaming you. I'm
thanking you," Lorrimer as
sured him, "for if it hadn't been
for the advertiSement-and you
and Mary Lou, I'd be
right where I was, last autumn,
which was in considerable outer
darkness. You know, Mitchell,
I don't have to tell you."
you're not sore at Mary
Lou?" asked Larry, directly, but
a little more hesitantly than
was usual to him.
mo"
Larry looked at Lorrimer's
face, closed against him like
fist, not hostile but a little
menacing in it's complete lack
of revelation, its hard reticence.
"Well," suggested Larry, with
an assumed lightness, suppose
I go see Miss Hartford? Didn't
YOU say she'd left the revue?
Perhaps she wants me to square
her with the powers that be-"
In Delights Room
Ten minutes later he was in
Delights room standing at the
foot Of her bed, hands in his
pockets, red hair ruffled and
with a disarming smile upon
his young, attractive counte-
nance.
"Well, young man." COM
mented Delight, you seem to
be able to take a lot Of time
off"
I'm a free lance writer"
said Larry proudly, that is,
except for the swell signed
articles do for the press, now
and then. AS for the pub
licity agent part of it, I grieve
to say that my job is over. I
didn't show up at the first
night, you see. and the man.
agement was hurt"
"You have certainly done a
lot of damage around here"
said Delight reflectively. What
did you mean by telling my
right name? assure you my
right name is one of the few
things I don't, as a rule, tell
anybody. When I entrusted it
to you, how was I to know it
would mean anything to you.
or to anybody else?" she said.