The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-18
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 KATHARINE STRYKHURST,
 beautiful, 20, falls in love with
 MICHAEL HEATHEROE who
 owns a riding academy, Kath-
 nrine,s father is rich and her
 stcpmother is snobbish.
 Michael becomes engaged to
 SALLY MOON, local coQuette due to Sally's scheming. In spite
 of fl1is. Michael asks Katharine
 to marry him and, iInpnlslvely, she agrees. The marriage takes
 place in an obscure little town.
 Katharine and Michael each go to their own homes. Almost im-
 mefilately Michael learns he has
 inherited fortune and title. He
 woes to New York to see the law.
 yer in charge and is injured in
 traffic accident.
 Sally, unaware of MichaePs
 marriage to Katharine, slocates
 him in a hospital, and takes
 charge of the situation. kath-
 arine, believing Michael has de.
 serted her, is heart-broken. She wants to go away but her step.
 mother opposes the plan.
 CHAPTER XXXII
 Violet Merser had nerved her self for the interview. It was not one she faced with pleasure, but Katharine's worn face and the tragic expression in her dark eyes they day before had decided her.
 Mir. Strykhurst's secretary said she would sec if her employer was busy. Violet, looking about her with recognition, was surprised to find everything so unchanged. Sev- enteen years since she herself had been 20, and ensconced behind that desk Cor at least, one very like iD, feeling important and thrillingly adult.
 Victor Strykhursts hair had not been white then; it had been black ---ebony black with deep, rich wave in it. Ho had exuded sort of power. She had been exceed ingly young and inexperienced. Small wonder she had fallen in love with him
 And in love she had fallen, head over heels. There had been no reservations in the affection she had poured out upon him, this motherless girl who had been poor and restricted and unhappy. He had been flatteringly kind to her merely that, at first. Later there had been little attentions, presents, the extraordinary homage of cer- tain yelled looks.
 Y IIa I.oI Epnmt, t1a eya mo qn Ualt And she---well, she had not even tho first inkling of the rules.
 His wife, he had told her, was ill, had been an invalid for years. Divorce was out of tho question.
 Proud, loving, fierce in her loy- altles. stormily innocent. she had believed all of this. It had taken n day at seaside resort wither he had summoned her. ostensibly on a business errand, to open her eyes. She had seen him then for what ho really was rich man greedy for all life's sensations, lov- ing not her but tho new experience She promised.
 Z Horror-struck, sho had shrunk from him. She had been too es- sentially honest to face tho inev- itable difficulties of the affair he offered her. But tho struggle, in the days that followed, had been . frightful one. Temptation, time and again. had almost overwhelm- ad her. She had loved him so ter ribly.
 In the end her strength had been superior to his, She had gone away. left his employ. She had thought, for q long time, that she hated all men.
 She thought of this as she wait cd for the trim young woman In the exqulsltoly cut dark frock to returnh Was Victor having his usual hour of dalliance with this girl, she wondered. She rejected the thought because the girl looked cool and hard and certain of her. self. Besides Victor now was deh- nItely "an older man." The male charm and strength she had so ad- mired in him were no longer so powerful.
 "Mr. Strykhurst will soc you now" The secretary looked Violet over appraisingly, calculating to an inch the definitely modish costume of summer silk, charming but !n- Expensive. Violet smiled and went into the inner office.
 He had risen to greet her; and