Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-05-12
Chapter II
THE DOCTOR SCENTS MYSTERY


THE DOCTOR SCENTS MYSTERY
Gin continued to look steadily at
Jenny.
Might be awkward, for instance,
if that gentleman in the car outside
was to be told that you'd got mar
ried when you hadn't he said and
Jenny saw for the first time that mis-
eyes were very wise and kind.
.'The gentleman you met at the
corner of Eyle Street last night
he's outside the hotel now. Just
drawn up; he has"
Jenny got to her feet. She wonder
ed suddenly if she were meaning
everything this quaint %convesa-
ton with Gill and the clean little
shop and the street outside shown IN
the copper urn. she looked out OF
the window shyly although she wou-
Id see only what she had waited Tor
Garth Aveney at the wheel of his
car-come to taxi her to picnic with
him in the country.
He is very early she said half
TO herself. 1T isn't nearly ten"
She moved to the door and Gill
stood aside. Gill-oh yes; of course
Gill had very decently asked her II
she would object to his telling people
that it was she that was Mrs. Town
send.
You may tell people it was "I' she
said-"after today. Today is going to
be mine"
Gill grunted. He too was staring,
out at the car under the portico. He
opened the door for Jenny to pass out
and still he stared.
AS she stepped out on the pave
ment she saw that Gill had seen
that Garth Aveney, with a sudden
shrug and jerk. had switched on his
engine again ana was driving away.
"P'raps the gentleman has mis-
took the time" suggested Mrs. Big
ger. She had joined them in the door
way. How would it be if Mr.. Gill
was to holler after him, dearie, and
let him know you're here?'
Jenny shook her head and NOV
ed away. She felt cold in the blaz-
ing sunshine and most utterly for
lorn. Gill and Mrs. Bigger might
watched the slowly retreating car un-
til it turned the corner. but she could
not
Gin was walking at her side.
mo sense in letting anyone think
you're married when you aren't he
commented in his abrupt bass. Il
shan't say nothing, one way or the
other - takes a lot of questions to
get anything out of me. But there's
no sense in your letting Miss Rev
ell"
I'm very glad to let Miss Rev.
ell say anything she likes said Jen-
ny as he paused. I'm most awfully
glad she can make use OF me. You
needn't consider me, Gill Thank you
tho, all the same
Gill grunted. Aveney's car had dis
appeared; the street was empty.
Jenny crossed back to the hotel and
went inside. The lounge was cool
n held very few people. An intri-
cate gilt clock on the mantelpiece
showed ten minutes to ten. She sat
quietly down by the window.
1t was, after all, reasonable to sup
pose that Garth had found himself
ahead OF his appointment and had
gone for a few minutes and would
return. Reasonable TO sit and wait
while the gilt hands sluggishly moved
to ten O'Clock.
Nevertheless, she knew quite pos
itively that he would not come. He
had not mistaken the time. He had
not been at a loss to her where
abouts. 1t was simply that he had
arranged to take her motoring and
had got as far as her door and then
had decided that he couldn't, hon
estly, face the prospect Of a whole
day in her company. Later on, no
doubt, he would send some formal ex-
cuse.
Why should he bother about Geor-
gie's cousin-when it was George
with whom he had fallen in love?
ut says here-about that airman
Townsend-''suddenly remarked an
old lady in a corner, re-folding her
paper-"that he had only just got
married when he had that accident"
YES NODDED the slightly younger
lady near her. 'Iremember him. He
had dreadful dyspepsia; that account
ed for his temper, people said. | rem
ember his wife, too, poor little soul. p"
II didn't know he had one"
"She died-She was a very beau
tiful girl. Very fair and timid. Quit
unable, | should say, to stand up to
him. If you have finished with that
illustrated paper, may | have it?'
Jenny glanced at the clock. 1t was
past ten - nearly a quarter past,
Remote in her thought, she had not
heard the chime. She got up and left
the lounge and went to her oon
again. She must go to the apartment
1t seemed silly to take off the COO
frock and hat, but she felt that L
would help her to forget what today
had promised her: and the smar
dark dress that George had chose
for her would help her to do wha'
she could - anything she could--t,
pay George back for all her wonder
full kindness. AS she adjusted the ores
she could see in the mirror h pill
of last evenings paper. The Recor'
was still on the top.
Possibly Garth Aveney had reaI
a. owr lort v,frhf. ranut nrnhQh 1U n
had read his papers this morning
And they had all told him the sam
thing ---that George, whom he loved
had married Eddie Townsend. Jenn.
shutting her eyes for a moment, he
fingers clenched upon her littl
fluted frills, could hear again tn
thrill in his voice as George sent hi
away. Goodnight, Miss Loyalty
You've been magnificent. He ought
shank his stars for you"
No wondtr that he had felt
couldn't endure Georges little cous.
today. no wondtr at all. Nothing
cry about.
Jenny bathed her eyes, finisht
dressing and went down to the sire
She told herself that it was all dol
with now, all over and forgotten thI
moment when she had stood ignore
upon the pavement and watched hi
fling aside his just-lit cigarette, pt
his hat down over his eyes, reach f
the gear and-escape.
And she told herself that she h;
been nothing but a fool. She h;
thought herself, if only for, a d.
a golden girl. and all the time s.
was just a puppet, a doll; a sill
little figure moving grotesquely in t
shadows of Mrs. Bigger's copper-ur
Drawn up before the building
which was Georges flat Jenny sa
an ambulance. Evidently Eddie h
been brought home.
She halted in her step, then we
steadily forward. Since George
h~esitating $780, There's q me-
about Ed" Jenny had given only