The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-08-31
CHAPTER Continued

"Not May-Not May the nine
teenth r.
The laxative girl swung around,
and put her hands on her hips. Her
expression was a little sarcastic.
"Now listen. No kidding! Do you
think it's December the nineteenth?
It's May the nineteenth, Grille,
and" She went on talking, but
her audience was no longer listen
ing. She was thinking. This was
the nineteenth of May and-her
wedding day.
She looked once more into the mir
ror. Her eyes were starry with ex-
element. Beside the vanished
face of the other girl she looked
very young and very beautiful, but
she was not thinking Of that now.
She was thinking that some Of the
pictures of her jig-saw past were
beginning to fit In. She had been
married that day to the man In the
cab. She hated him. The shock of
marrying him had made her lose
her memory, and no wonder.
Her action in leaving that man
had been purely instructive. But
she was glad that she had done it.
Still, she wondered, was it as simple
as it now seemed? She married q
man she hated and then lost her
memory because he was SO horrible,
and then had left him. She was
not satisfied. 1t seemed too easy an
explanation. Why had she married
him? She would have to find him
again sooner or later and tell him
that she must divorce him. She
could do that at Reno-for this
strange chatty girl to whom she
had scarcely been listening was
talking about Reno.
Ill had the dough, Baby, be-
heve me, I'd be on my way to Reno
right now"
Its easy to get divorce in
Reno, isn't it,"
"If you have the dough-! But
that's big If, Grille"
"How much does it cost?''
"About thousand dollars, includ-
ing the trip and everything, but I
know a girl who did it for seven
hundred and fifty. She had q friend
living out there, and her living ex-
penses didn't cost her anything"
at doesn't take very long, does
1T"
sit takes exactly six weeks. Oh
ask me anything about Reno. ]
s know. I've been studying up on
It like 1t was the Bible. You got
TO go out there and establish a resi-
dence, stay there six weeks, then
file your suit !"
AS she talked the nameless girl
was wondering. 1t was little fam
tastic to be thinking of Reno when
she did not yet know for certain
that she was unhappily married.
Could it be possible that the man in
the cab was not her husband? Sure
~ in a few moments she would be
able to remember about herself,
and when she did there would be
time enough to make plans.
$50 it's actually the nineteenth of
May today"
Ill yes. There you go again."
The nameless girl slipped her
wedding ring slowly back on her
& finger.
The girl in the blue coat winked.
'slsot so crazy about it, eh-well.
there are q good many like you,
Baby" She leaned over and exam
ined the nameless girls ring more
closely. Its not a bad little item
to hock," she said.
81 think I'll throw it down the
first sewer I come to-" said the
nameless girl. z.5
The women grew kindly and fer
vent. There's always, Reno" she
said. She became thoughtful. eff
that cheap-skate husband of mine
weren't so d-n stingy - Baby,
there's always Reno, if You have the
dough. And you seem to have
plenty !" .-.....
"You mean could get divorceF'
said the nameless girl.
Its easy in Reno-specially fol
n girl like you with plenty of cash.
The woman's eyes had dropped to
the open hand bag on the dressing
table. The nameless girl wondered
If she could divorce man whose
name she did not know.
"Renol'' said the girl in the blue
/ coat. Cd! And II you knew
s what / have got to go through you
wouldn't hesitate" She ramDled OF
in a tone that was full of resent
ment and self-pity. The nameies
girl Maid little heed. Again she no