The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
SYNOPSIS


 town, MarbuFg, ~ and espdN NiaIIy AMY JACKSON that she can make q success Of her fife. Amy Inns been her best friend until HOW- ARD JACKSON broke the engage ment Jane had forced upon him and married Amy.
 In New York Jane obtains a pO- sition in a real estate office and soon Is making a large income. She has an affair with ROGER THORPE, married. but tires of him. When he offers to bear the expense of their child she con- temptuOusly dismlsscs him, Amy takes the baby, named NANCY. promising never to reveal its par. entage.
 When America enters the World War Howard eniists in the ayia. ton corps and goes to a training camp in Texas. His mother comes to stay with Amy and little Nancy. Amy cOnfides to MARY JACKSON that she is expecting child of her own.
 Howard comes home for a brief holiday and then returns to camp. Jane flies into a rage, accusing Amy Of taking Howard away from her.
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 CHAPTER XxXV
 There's nothing l can do about It. thought Amy. T needn't have tried to be facetious with her. Facet1ousness is always dangerous, put she was giving herself such airs, and pretending to pity me! Ii shed really pitied me I wouldn't have cared, but she only wanted to make me uncomfortable and envious, watching her spread her feathers. Maybe I ought to have just been thankful she didn't want Nancy, and treated her nicely, no matter how she carried on. But for her to begin again about How ard-and to fly off the handle and scream at mel Oh, it's no use all that was kind and dear and friendly between us is gone. It went when 1 took Nancy. Some thing happened to. both of us then that can't be patched up. There's no use our even going through the motions of our old friendship"
 But as she walked slowly along she began to forget Jane's spasm of anger, to forget Jane herself. The charmed circle of her world drew in about her. She was safe there with Howard, and their son.
 But it was otherwise with Jane. As she stormcd away from Amy her anger blew higher. She knew she had made a show of herself and that she'd been set down and laughed at. There was the worst sting, that she hadn't impressed Amy or shaken her boise.
 She simply has no sense!" Jane silently screamed. ITO try to pre- tend she's happy and contented under such conditions! She has nothing-nothing! That grubby old house! And the most awful clothes And not even a maid! Her hands were a sight, don't see how she can touch the piano." She was almost home when eau tion stopped her. "I can't go in ard talk to Aunt Rosa yet-shed know I didn't go very far. What dump this town is! 1 believe I'll go down to the telegraph office and wire Andrews to send for me to come back tomorrow"
 As she went on she brought her anger under control, but she could mt lose or reduce it. Rather it mounted, became more vindictive If it had occurred to her then that Amy was afraid she might claim Nancy she would have done it. regardless of consequences. But ste was so far from thinking of the child, or wanting her, that she didn't even see her as a weapon to styike Amy vitally. Instead she felt she was defenseless against Amy, and all of the grudges she had more or forgotten came back to her with overwhelming power. Amy had stolen her lover and for some unfathomable reason had kept his love. Amy had achieved nothing, had amounted to nothing, and distinction by her own ability happy and unenvious and treat Jane's superiority with mockery. It all made Jane want, quite frankly, to reduce Amy to dust and contrition and apology, to see peace and serenity beaten from her face, beaten out of her life.
 Nevertheless she managed to sit calmly before Miss Rosa's sharp eyes, which watched her as they talked across Miss Rosa lavish dinner table, though there was a malice in her comments-hadn't Mrs Lowe aged frightfully.-and wasn't Mrs Jackson a funny old thing, trying so hard to be spright- ly!-and that little Moreland crea- ture certainly was an odd thought! and as for poor Amy, she was