Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-03-24

Quinn, his back 10 the others, stared
into the little fire. Emil Schelling
beat his fingers noiselessly against the
arm of his chair. his race liumined
by some inner ecstasy. 4 great con-
tentment hung over them; time stood
still-yesterday and the day to come
were nothing.
The evening was like other even
ings. After the music they argued.
David With Young Mark. heatedly,
Dorcas with both Of them. Emil
Schelling grumbled and grunted and
Max Adler denounced all their ideas.
Kitty let their voices tide over and
around her. while her thots went off
on a much-traVeled course OF their
own. Another day without Gar! That
Il had come and gone ana That she
had lived thru il gave her a uill
ama2ement. as ii she saw before her
a girl who was neither Kitty Bran
don, for whom life had been so joy
ously simple, or Kitty Frew, 4 girl
who could go on eating, sleeping.
talking, laughing. taking down tweed
ensembles and hanging them back
again. unfolding and folding sweaters
ana blouses, saying hriskly over and
over: Can / helm YOU, Madam" and
come back here 20 count what she
had gained in self Prospect, Tonight
She shrank from thar other girl who
could so go on. all that was tired
II disheartened and lonely in her
cried out against that self-respect,
she didn't want il, She wanted Gar,
Gari The sudden unhearable longing
for him brought hot pricking tears to
her eyes so that she had to shut them
tight and hold them so.
But after a little she opened them
to meet DaviGs kind. concerned
glance. He gave her a quick smile
and she felt %steadied, as If a hand
had been put on her.
When they were all gone. when
Dorcas had put out the lamps and
spread the fire and said goodnight.
Kitty went on 10 the little room that
was hers. Ii was not much of a
room for 1t was bare and furnished
only with a pine bureau and small
iron bed and a table and a chair and
rs wallpaper was faded and a little
dinsy but IL was hers, for the total
of three dollars a week.
Before she undressed she sat down
at the table and entered the days
expenses in a small memorandum
book. Breakfast. twenty-five cents.
lunch, thirty cents, stockings. a dol
lar ana a quarter. She contemplated
the figures she entered. Unless some
unexpected expense came up she
could save eight dollars this week.
She'd saved ten the week before,
When the amount reached fifty dol
lars she would put it in the bank.
h put the book in her bureau
drawer. She laid out a fresh blouse
for the next morning, hung away her
suit. Undressed. she wound her
alarm clock, switched off her light
and onened her window wide to the
cool night.
She turned her back on the Ozark
ness as II filled the room. She closed
her eyes r%esolutely. Sleep she must
have for the strain of the next day.
She picked a safe thread of thot and
followed 1t. Those tweed things
simply must be sold-another week
or SO and 10 one would want them
Mrs. Frew's day began early with
a prescribed system of exercises
After this she ate her breakfast
which Cora brought to her room. She
ate leisurely, heartily. When Cora
carried her tray away she lay on hei
{, chaise-lounge and read for an hour
the morning paper, a magazine, per
haps a book of new fiction. After
that. for another hour, she submitted
herself to Cora's clever fingers anC
Cora's cleverly directed flattery, find
ing both stimulating. At eleven o.
clock she received Pound to go oveI
with him the orders for the day.
But on the morning following Kit
tvs flight from the house. Pound
came to her door a full half-hour be
fore she expected to see him. Pound
was so obviously disturbed that Mrs
Frew dismissed Cora at once.
well Pound?"
IT'S Mrs. Gar. madam. She's
gone"
Mrs. Frew's expression did not alter
tho Pound, IL he had not been 81
completely held in his distress. nigh
have heard a quick indrawing Of he
breath.
What do YOU mean Pound?'
"She went last night. She wen
alone. Mr.. Garfield had gone out
/ think he went out to dinner, likely
And she went out just after him
She took her bag, madam. | called
a taxi for her. She seemed-well
she seemed upset. madam. If | ma,
be so bold, I'd say Mrs. Gar hasn'
been happy all the time. She actet
like she had something on her mind
I worried about her going like that
l thot maybe I ought to tell som
enc. But Mr.. Gar isn't in his room.