The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-19

about hanging SJock away, hAlUty laughed. T was working in Strat tons all the time Gar thought l was in Bridgewater It came to her that, if she made condolences to Carol she might win Carols in return.
 Carol stared at her, amazed across the brightly embroidered garment she had taken out of the box.
 n wanted to be independent until Gar began to work, you see :"
 T don't see why you ever came back to Gar?"
 ~Oh, Carol Kitty protested, laughing. T never really left him AIs was only waiting. And ev- erything is beautifully all right now"
 .sOh, you think it is, do you?' q sWhy, of course" g Kitty began to clear table for some books. She took up fram- led photograph which was lying there, face down. Carol snatched it out of her hand, but not be- fore Kitty had seen that it was Paul Somerset.
 ''Ill take care of that," Carol protested, coloring.
 "Carol. I know you know Paul Somerset. I saw you with him one day, in Hoffman's."
 'I'm all through with himl' Carol cried, passionately. But she held the photograph against her breast, her eyes belying her own words.
 Carol put the picture down with little air of carelessness. q told him if he wanted to let Marge Crosby made fool of him" But she could not keep to the manner. Her lips began to quiv- CT. T said I was through with him but if he so much as crooked a little finger at me I'd go to him"
 "It was that way with me, Car ol, after all those weeks" Kitty said simply, syn1pathetically. And the two girls looked alt one an- other. a little solemnly, wholly friendly now.
 ''Oh, we'll" Carol caught up ;ome books, handed them to Kit y. Put these anywhere. We've made a good start. Another day and I'll be settled
 Kitty went home rejoicing. She had broken down Carols indifer- snce. They were friends.
 She told Gar when he came home that she'd hunted Carol put.
 But Gar wasn't interested in Carol or what she was doing.
 When he sat down at their meal ae ascowled at the nicely Drowned chops.
 @see here, Kit, you won't get sore will you if lay down the law, to you9"
 She laughed at his preface in spite of the pang of alarm she felt,
 T don't want you to go market ing the way you do. Mother told me-Mrs. Close told her-CarTying basket. The least you can do is to appear to live like lady"
 A great anger flooded Kitty so that she shook. His mother how dared she talk to Gar like that?
 Gar took her silence for agree ment. He modified his tone. Tt probably did not occur to you how it looked. But now you know how I feel about it."
 He did not notice that she ate nothing that her eyes were dark.
 T don't want you working like a .housemaid either, Kit. They have women here in the building who'll come in { Following Cars suggestion, Car ley. soft-faced mulatto girl was established in the apartment. She came each day at eleven o'clock and remained through dinner And Kitty ordered her days needs by telephone. They were delivered at the service door. She threw her budget book away. When her weeks allow ance was exhausted she charged what she had to get. She spent her mornings curled on the divan, reading. Afternoons, she walked or shopped or went to Carols. One day she telephoned to David and met him again for ltea.
 She dressed with elaborate care every evening for dinner. Shed bought two new dresses, a stock of undergarments, stockings, shoes paying for them out of her precious savings. She was very gay. when she