The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-03
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by KATHARINE
HAvILAND. TAyLOR
D 1854 asA sEav'ce. INC.

gettin' me something to eat" Her
blurred gaze did not Waver from
Pablito's broad back and her
heart swelled within her.
Years before masculine bru-
tally that had rubbed the first
dust from her tawdry wings had
made her decide she would do in
an do dirty" any male who
crossed her path. Now she knew
she could not keep that vow.
She stopped and bent down 30
that she could mop her eyes with
the edge Of her wide skirt. Beau
turned. Come along" he ordered
with short, forward-b eckoning
nod of the head.
Lottie shifted, lifted her chin,
smiled stiffly and Joined them.
Back in Florida the camp was
cloaked in gloom. Several of
the more sensitive feminine visl-
tors had gone to their beds with
Mysteries to lie there imagining
noises and, In choked, futtcring
voices, TO ask their frightened
maids about those noises. Most
of the men stalked the beach,
smoking hard and necessarily
and talking in undertones. The
doctor who had come by airplane
from Palm Beach sat at the side
Of Therese Jeffries' bed. She
alone, OF all the visitors. had not
INDUCED in Mysteries. He wished
did the doctor-that she would
cry. Crying would be more nat
ural. Women who were made
widows by the short, sharp thrust
Of Spanish dagger should cry
He coughed little and frowned'
He always did this, having
| learned that fashionable clients
invariably prefer to be considered
seriously Ill. This time the doc
tor feared his patient really was
seriously Ill, or that she soon
| would be.
| Therese Jeffries had not spoken
once of her husband and that. too,
was unnatural.
| Marcia Treadway paced the
] length of the veranda that lay
across the front of the cottage she
had chosen as her home ut the
camp. No one - no one, she de-
cided-was 80 wholly and tragi-
cally bereft as was she. There
was nothing she could say except
to make the usual comment and
she had to be careful lest even
that be made in too deep a tone.
| Marcia knew that many Of the
other guests had been aware OF
| her Irritation with Ted Jeffries
an dthat they had watched with
| the keen interest that arises from
vicarious savoring of sensation
| they had expected her, perhaps
to run away with Jeffries. Marcia
| smiled over this and her smile
| was scared by an edge Of scorn
Well, she had been willing enough
but these others had not learned
| to know Ted as she knew him.
II his voice had been silenced
q few hours sooner Marcia would
have had her earlier vision OF
| him to believe In all her life. Az
| 1t was, she would always see him
and hear his reply to her frank
offer to go away with him. jeff
ries had evaded clumsily with
random remarks about a mhn's
duty to civilization, his duty ia
his wife and his duty to protect
Marcia against herself.
Utter cad he had been. Marcia
knew now, and a weak one. Fol
; the first time she was sorry for
| Therese Jeffries because Therese
| to must have learned long age
| how weak her husband was.
Marcia thought then OF the boy
called Pablito and her hear
| missed O beat. She did not want
to think OF the boy called Pablito
She thought, moistening her lips
AFTER all, he must have done
something that made him rur
away!" She tried to shape thii
fact into an excuse for her own
silence.
II was a horrible burden, this
feeling of young life at her
| mercy, In the palm Of her soft
| weak hand.
Al first 1t had almost un,
nervcd her. Field, told by q
| frightened servant what had hap.
| pened, had hurried toward Jeff.
| yies' reom declaring, II know
| Wig did III"
Marcia had followed, thinking
| 10 tell him that she In some meas.
] ura knew who did y. That fa1
y rs |lli s. IIII