Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-03-31

and Gar took possession of the place.
Marge and Diana and Isobel Peters
and Red and Tubby and Sewall Buck,
and a little later, Paul Somerset.
They'd been riotously gay. Red had
brought a satchel filled with the max
ings for cocktails and he and Gar had
mixed them, shaker after shaker, un-
I'll kitty's neat kitchen was cluttered
with Feelings and bottletops and en-
PITY bottles. Kitty had assembled
sandwiches and cakes and olives and
coffee. At half-past one the opera
tor at the desk in the lobby called to
say that a complaint had come in
about the noise and everyone had
shrieked at t~hat-everyone except
Kitty. The party was a SUGGEST
They. went at three o'clock, leaving
the ilvlng-room in a sorry mess cs
tumbled pillows and empty glasses
and plates and cigarette stubs with a
pail of stale cigarette smoke hang
ing over everything.
Now that's the kind of evening I
like-l hope the crowd sort Of makes
our place a headquarters" Gar had
declared with immense satisfaction.
II don't like Paul Somerset, Car
oh he's all right for his kind.
Marge is just having a little fun
I've talked it over with her"
Cars friends had seemed more
friendly. Or perhaps, Kitty had thot
as she fused in the kitchen over the
refreshments, 1t was that she felt
different toward them, now, in her
role as hostess. Tubby had seized a
chance to squeeze her hand and ask
her If he wasn't Mr.. Fixit? "You can
count on me, Kit. I'm not going to
breathe a word about it," Shed
wished she could tell him that she
wasn't ashamed of working In STRAIT
tons but there had been no time,
then. Tubby thot of 1t as Gar did.
Shed hated having Paul Somerset
come; shed caught herself watching
him with Margery Crosby, and think
ing of Carol. Was he seeing Carol
now? Or had their quarrel at the
HOFFMAN that day ended their ac-
quaintance?
1t had taken her the greater. part
Of the next day to restore order to
their dolls house. But she worked
cheerfully; Gar had liked his even
ing.
Pleasing Gar gave glamour to her
every thot, every task.
Her price in Gar, her belief that
he could do anything, was wholly
restored. She shared his Importance
when he talked about his work His
father had transferred to his office
ore Jonathan Drew who, in one ca
pacity or another, had served Dali
ton anu Winters for fifteen years.
Gar caileu him Old job Gar said
he was as faithful as an old hound
dog. He had laughed at Kitty's dis
may n morning when they both
oversight. "Old John can talk to thai
nan who was coming In at ten o.
clock. What have / got him for?''
And she had lost her alarm In a little
rush of pride that Gar had important
conferences and Old John under him
to take care of them until he got
around.
Gar was the lover OF those first
weeks of their marriage. She felt
no Jealousy when the Players de-
manded his time. Frequently he tele-
phoned that he'd be late for dinner.
he had to see Decker, or someone
else, sometimes Margery Crosby. Now
and then a committee met in the ev-
ening. But she had not felt left out.
as she had at his mothers house.
there was always his Homecoming
a moment apart from all Others IN
Its ecstasy Of closeness.
On, If David could only know half
now happy she was, she thot as she
opened her door, returning from hav-
Ing tea with David.
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