Evening star., 1932-03-02
CHAPTER LXVI.
TIME strange warfare continued be-
tween Judy and Stan. STAINS
black eyes had held a triumph

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tween Judy and Stan. STAINS
black eyes had held triumph
| ant gleam for short time after
| Nick went away. He made
few pointed remarks, calculated to draw
Judy's fire.
But Judy refused to be drawn into
| controversy. Her heart was too sore,
too crushed to flame into resentment:
What did it matter what they said
about Nick. They didn't matter.
STAINS manner TOOK on a sort OF
dogeed sulkiness, he treated Judy with
an elaborate politeness barbed with
mockery. 1t was hard to bear. Judy
longed to get away from it all. To go
up to the city-find work. She shook
| off that memory of the other time She
| had gone to the city. That was olt-
ferent. Fate had stacked the cards
against her then. Now she had more
| poise-she felt capable of holding her
own against the world But why think
about II. Madame needed her. She
couldn't go now.
Judy could look pack on that mad
day when Nick sailed and see it In Its
true colors. Oh, Madame had been
right. 1t would have been disastrous
! for her to have gone with NICK. "A
! splendid, crazy thing to do-bound TO
end in catastrophe for them both.
Madame was right-even Nick couldnt t
have forced the world to accept her
Nick belonged to the world. she dldn
have the right to muddle up his NE.
But, oh. the thought Of what might
have been! Starry nights out there IN
| the back beyond-ano Nick. Temple
| bells and porcelain towers-color and
incense-and Nick Always Nick, with
his dear brown face and his steady
gray eyes. Nick, the dependable COM
rade-Nick, touching her on the shoul-
der, steadying her with his eyes-hls
smile. "All right, judy" Nick,
flying out of the moon-straight into
her heart. Nick, holding her tight in
his arms in the hush of the mountain
night-Nick, white beneath his tan, his
eyes stricken, murmuring, Darling
Good-by."
Yes, Madame had been right 1t
would have ruined both their lives,
| that mad gesture of flight But there
were times when Judy wished Madame
had missed the steamer. Better to go
out in a glorious squirt of flame than
| to shoulder here in the gray damp
ness.
Deadlock STAINS hatred was keep
ing him constant as no love could have
| done. He was out great deal, but 1t
| was obviously with male companions.
Judy suspected that he was seeing very
| little of Eunice at present He was
determined to give his wife no weapon
| to use against him.
And so the silent warfare continued
while to the world they presented
smooth and unruffled manner. Judy
even accompanied Stan to Eunice Will
sons house on the night of her elabo-
rate swimming party
The Wilson house was elaborately
decorated for the nights celebration.
The walls of the long ball room were
hung with costly rugs and rich bro
cades, turning it into a scene of Byzan
tine Splendor. Beyond was the SWIM
ming pool done up in a way to make
Roman empress weep with envy.
The colored glass dome was riot of
color The chambranles and the capi-
tails of the Byzantine pillars rising from
the tanks were polychrome, and up the
pillars themselves Towering vines had
been trailed so that the place was a