The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-26
CHAPTER Il. WHO HOLDS TRUMPS?

.dIl lUcd1 uI1VCH Wealth and family . :" The
 words shot across her memory Mrs. Frew had said it of some one-Joan Travers and Jerry Mont. Carol, stop! Why-why should you want to hurt me?"
 Carol shrugged her shoulders. T told you I had my own req
 sons. And maybe when you're sunk yourself you liIe to see some one else writhe."
 Well, I'm not writhing. Not even to please you am I going Q let you disturb me. I'm sorry
 'ou're not happy. I can't under ! tand it. You have everything most anyone should want" :, Carors answer was explosive. Everything! You've lived here two months and can't see? Why, I'd leave this house in minute if I could-just as David did. will some day"
 Over her own outraged emo 1 tions Kitty felt a need of Carols greater than her own, and it held her, pitying, for a moment. But she had no way of reaching out through Carols strange unfriend-
 mess, and before any word could be spoken Carol went on stub bornly:
 | "I thought maybe I could open your eyes but you won't listen
 You can't see a game when it's played right under your nose. Well, that's that
 Kitty's control was close to th7 breaking point She would not let Carol see it break She would not
 Rrithe for Carols satisfaction. But ! ihe had to catch the back of her
 shair and hold tightly to it to l steady herself.
 eTf you mean Gar-and Marge l-In trust Gar to play any game flair"
 | Carol had moved toward the
 door. She turned with little
 mocking smile.
 But Marge isn't holding the 1 Itrumps. you seel Oh, that's what you don't seel"
 When the door closed behind
 Carol, Kitty knew only a hot in- Eaignation in which Carols parting taunt lost all significance.
 She wants me to be jealousl She wants Gar and me to quarrel. lWell, we won't" She'd been fore J warned, indeed. She'd been very Iclose to jealousy this evening. She
 could thank Carol for saving her. 1 Her moments pity for Carol was
 gone. Of course Carol wasn't hap
 py; who could be happy who SC
 enjoyed the process of hurting 1 someone else?
 She and Gar must go away from this house, from Carols spying watching for opportunities to say such things as she had said to- night.
 'I'n talk to Cars father tomor- trow morning"
 Gar came in little after ten
 She met him almost gaily. Oh lshe'd been ever so busy
 we closed that deal for the , harn," Kit. Gar threw off his coat | and lighted a cigarette. "It's go- i, ling to be knockout, the whole lthing. Marge has an architect i making some drawings already [ lAnd Somerset-say, that boys g lheadache He's had a past or ] Icant smell one. But he knows , This job. And. you wait. He's go ling to make a headliner out oi lMarge before she's through wttf Ihim." Gar had drawn Kitty dowr Unto his lap and she cuddled hel l lhead against his shoulder happily g lShe was thinking not of Somer' set and Marge and the barn bu 2 Ithat when they had their owl ,. Ihome 1t would be like. this, the! l would sit like this before a fir ' land talk. < y But her determination to tall ]; Ito Cars father stayed with her ? lShe slipped out of bed early tn q Inext morning and dressed quiet $ fly so as not to waken Gar. Sh $ watched the clock and when 1t hands pointed to the exact hou e Iof eight she went downstairs, he C lheart beating a little fast becaus l. this talk meant so much. T MT. Frew was already at tn u table, his newspaper spread befor y him. Oh, why, Kitty thought a | she went in, hadn't she got dow
 before he'd started to read it. Bu $ his welcome seemed to hold onl a real delight.
 a ~This is nice, Kitty-to hay
 your company. Perhaps if I ha n your pretty face across from m
 every morning my digestion migf T be betterv
 d. And Pound smiled, too, and be IT gan devoting himself to hs at needs.
 or MT. Frew-" And then the at It surdity of that checked her to hay re no more intimate name by whic ' Ito catch his attention! But | Us had not heard it.
 Id Well, are you happy with |