The Washington times., 1933-01-10
CHAPTER XIV

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knows what slick work you do,
and she'll be mighty glad to
get you. I'll fix it for you first
thing tomorrow morning. .
What happened between you
and Kim, Mary Faith?"
Mary Faith put her head to
one side, thinking. Well, for
one thing he was bored, Jean,
and I didn't know it. I didn't
mind staying at home nights
or going to a picture show
with him. AS long as he was
with me I didn't need any
body else. But he got tired OF
me, it seems. -"
Tired of you, bah!" cried
Jean with infinite scorn in her
voice. He marries the best
looking girl and the incest girl
in this town and gets tired Of
her in five months! He didn't
have sense enough to appreci-
ate you, that's what! I've
known you for five years and
I've never been bored by you
IT'S too bad you didn't
marry Mark Nesbit, Mary
Faith, when you had the
chance. And you did have it.
Everybody at the office knew
that he was absolutely hay-wire
over you."
She took a vanity case out
Of her tan silk bag and pow
dered her face before she fin
iShed what she had to say:
1.-THE trouble with Kim Farrell
is that he has a heart as big
as a hotel. He falls for every
girl he meets. Il never told
you at the time but he even
tried to date me up while you
were engaged to him; and I
was always humping into him
when he was out stepping with
other girls. Remember how
used to urge you to marry him
before he left you high and
dry?.. What are you going to
do now? Divorce hin?"
Refuses q Divorce
Divorce. The very word was
paralyzing to Mary Faith. She
stood staring blankly at Jean
for a full minute before she
answered her.
"Oh, no, I'd never divorce
Kim, Jean. What makes you
ask me if I would? You've
seen him lately with some girl,
haven't you?"
'No, I haven't, but he's left
you, hasn't he? And, so far aS
I can make out, he's left you
without cent to bless your.
self with. I should think you'd
want to be free from a man
like that-after the baby comes,
Of course. It's just possible
that, in the course Of human
events, you might want to
marry again sometime, you
know. Such things have hap
pened."
mo, I'd never want to marry
again. No matter what hap
pens there never will be any
body but Kim for me, jean
and there's just a chance that
he'll come back here to me II
he knows that I. want him"
jeans lips, painted the bright
red Of sealing wax, curled in a
smile that was half tenderness
and half contempt. She shrug-
ged her shoulders once more.
II must co." she said. "T
have a date with q man from
Phoenix, Arizona. Burr sold
him a car the other day and
brought him out to the house
last night to paly cards with
us. He's a whiZ-tall and
tanned and blue-eyed. You
ought to hear him talk about
his ranch down in the Salt
River Valley. He grows every
thing on it from cantaloupeS
to cotton. Well, I hope you'll
enjoy working for Florrie. I
think you will. I'd work for
her myself but I don't believe
relatives ever get along in busi-
ness, do you?" And she went
away to keep her engagement
with the ranchman from Ari-
Eona.
Begins New Work
On the first Monday in June
Mary Faith started work as a
stenographer for the Write-O
Stenographic Service at $25 a
week. The office was a big,
up-to-date one on the ground
floor Of the Arcade Building on
Spring Street a few blocks
away from the Towers Build
ing where Kim had his law Of
flee.
The Arcade Building was the
largest building in town. It had
its own restaurant, its own
barber shop and beauty shop,
ITS own newsstand and shoe
shing parlor, its own circulating