Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-12-29
Winter
By KAY WARREN
q By Mcclure Newspa per Syndicate.
WNU Service

none OF 0lS friends seemed able t(
decide. He was thirty yours Older
than shea hale and vigorous fifty tc
her fragile twenty. He WIS good look
Ing. successful In large wuy In bust
ness. be had social background and
great personal magnetism.
Victoria was beautiful, she was
young. she was we'll bred in the best
sense OF the term. Though her family
had no money she had been we'll edu.
Gated and had Travelled little and
met the right kind of people SO that
she was perfectly able to take her
| place as head Of Traynor's big house.
That wasn't where the trouble lay.
He had kept the house open for two
or three years alone since his moth
er's death-she had been one OF the
social leaders OF her day. Victoria
stepped into his mothers shoes, SO far
as social graces went. Everybody
talked about the reign Of the new Mrs
Traynor as foregone fact.
Victoria really loved 1raynor. he
knew it. He. OF course a.inred her.
Everybody knew that. And they
seemed ideally. beautifully nuppy
| The gracious old house glnwed with
hospitality OF the hest sort. victoria's
| young friends and his older ones min
| gled In charming groups
That may hive been where the trou
| Dle started One of her friends was
| lack Circuit He WAS an artist. Poor
Not more tIan twenty three
One night William Traylnr and Vic
tnria were alone In their big library
He gathered her unresisting. into his
arms And as he held her he WIS sud
denly painfully conscious Of her youth
Of his greater age.
lf--nne of Those Ifs TINT change DIES
tinies-if Victoria Ind lain there quiet
ly, for moment In her husbands
arms life would have slnuaihed OH
Traynur's mood Of bitter resentment.
so ready to turn into rigging jealousy
would have passed as suddenly as Il
hnd come. leaving no memory be
hind 1t.
But Victoria. unmeanlngly did JUST
the wrong thing She loved her hus
nand. She put soft creamy hnnd
up to her husbands face
William" she said 1--we been
thinking. We hive SO much. I've
everything
He drew her jenIously closer.
.I've heen wondering II you'd do
something-rather big--to make me
happy
She went on "Ynu know luck Or
cutt He's-well. he's genius.
know It. But he needs year In Paris.
And he's we'll. he can't manage It.
You know he has an invalid sister 10
look after He's portrait painter
and somehow or other he ought TO
be given hia chance See whnt I'm
getting nj denr7"
Il think So said Traynor In hard.
low voice. But Victoria didn't notice
his voice. She went on with her plea
for Jack
well I've been thinking about him
And wondered II you couldn't per.
hana do something to give him his
year ahrnnd. We've gni so much
and ne hns SO little. | Thought maybe
we could look inter his sister--I mean
find a nlnce whore she could stny In
exchange for tutoring some place In
the country She's nvely girl. and
awfuly bright And then Won could
commission him 10 nnlnt a portrait OF
me--nexf summer. when we 70 to
pnris But yun could tell him he must
hive training there before he does II
and ynn could pay him In ndvance-
mure than It's worth. And that would
fix things up" She stopped. flushed
nnd delighted with her plan Getting
no renly from Trnynnr. she nsked him.
wouldn't Won like a portrait of me
done by .Incl nrcnti?s
Traynnr rose. pushing ner roughly
away from him lie stood his huck
to the fireplnce. his hands IN her
shoulders lie laughed hnrshly
"A picture Of you for me done by
Jack 0rcutt7 A beautiful Idpn. A
lovely thing Of course A sort Of con
solution prize given by Spring to Win
Ter He'll 70 to Paris on nv money.
and be waiting there for voil when we
go over next summer? Thnf's a pref
ty idea He'll do your portrait for me
You'll keep vnnr old husband and HIS
money md have yonr Young =
Trnynnr saId no more Victoria her
face whittier than her dress. stood fac
Ing him She stifTened under his hands
and he took them away. she said
nothing. as she turned and left the
room
In fact she never spoke to Traynor
again Arrangements were made
through others. She left the house
that night. and In the course of time
a divorce was managed.
Victoria really loved Trnynor. A
couple Of years later she married
Jack circuit. or course nobody got
the story exactly right, People said
Victoria Ind tired Of Traynor-ii was
another case where youth sought
youth. and age was leff with nothing
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