Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-04-21
Chapter 80
"HE's NINE"

0CHE didn't have time to cal
- you-' Miss Bixhy mumbled.
Kitty pushed her aside; she caught
up a negligee and threw 1t over her
shoulders as she "a to Cars room
To her agonized senses it seemed as
if there was a crowd around Cars
bed, the night nurse, two ~s-she
pushed them savagely out of her way.
How dared they stand SO between her
and Gar?
Miss Bixby came up behind her, put
shaking hands on her to draw her
back.
There wasn't a minute, Mrs. Frew!
He just went to sleep like like he
You mean?' The words came
shrilly, unbelievingly.
1T was embolus. Mrs. Frew. 1t
happens. sometimes"
you'd better come away, Mrs.
Frew."
all of you. rm-Im all right.
oh, go. please He's mine, | tell you
On an afternoon four months later
Ketehum Street HAD baked under the
August heat. But in late afternoon
a little breeze sprang up to bring a
saving freshness to the heavy air.
II stirred the curtains of Dorcas
4dDtl > ODtn MltltOMN ~
Kitty lifted the shades which she
had drawn against the merciless sun
1t was six O'Clock. Dorcas would be
home soon. Supper was ready-iced
tea in a big glass pitcher, fragrant
with mint, a big bowl Of green salad,
thin slices of chicken.
She set a table close to the windows
where they could feel the little breeze.
Three places-DaVid would come.
Perhaps he'd had some word from
his publishers. When she heard a
step on the stairs she ran to open
the door.
David, have you heard?"
He laughed at her e%agerness. He
drew a long breath. Say, this is cool
here"
But, David, have you heard?"
He took a yellow slip of paper from
his pocket and put it in her hand.
Little Lady it's all that we ex-
pected. We are in luck She read
the telegram aloud.
'Oh, David, I'm so glad! But l
knew it was good"
We'll, that's tina What have you
been doing to-day"
He a regarding her with close
anxiety. Her face, thinner now, was
colorless,. her eyes, with their sober,
hurt look, seemed wider, deeperset,
and the long lashes made little shad-
W against the transparency of her
cheeks. Her steady smile stabbed
David's heart.
"Oh, I'm fine! I've stayed in to-
day and it hasn't been bad here at
all. I've been very busy" She nodded
toward a sewing basket.
Kitty had been living in the house
on Ketchum Street since that day IN
April, when. bewildered, her heart Il
dead thing, she put her hand in Dav-
ids. Take m~e-away." The heavy
fragrance of flowers had filled the
empty rooms of the Frew house. jon
es had been moving things in the
d. awing-room. Miss Bixby had been
running up the wide stairs. a glass
in her hand. A door had just shut
somewhere.
David had taken Kitty to Dorcas.
Dorcas had given her her own
room, using another on the floor
for herself.
I'm all right Kitty had said,
bravely. Just tell me something to
do"
And Dorcas haG found small tasks
for her. IF youll get my scrap book
into shape you'll save my sanity"
Shed dumped an accumulation Of
clippings into Kitty's empty hands. |
Kitty had refused Dav;d's urging
TO go back to Bridgewater.
She never talked of Gar. what Of
longing and sorrow ana loneliness
she suffered she hid behind her stea-
dy smile, her sober, hurt eyes.
The Frew house was closed. Mrs
Frew after weeks of prostration, had
gone to California, taking Miss Blk |
by with her. Dalton Frew was living
at his club. Carol and Paul Somerset
were occupying Don over the garage
on Elmwood Terrace. David had told
Kitty all this but she had listened
indifferently as if those people OF
whom he spoke were strangers to her.