The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-06-20
=. MI1z NaGx |. .Iveekhe6xka By Mabel McEIliott
SYNOPSIS
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 KATHARINE STRYKHURST,
 beautiful, 20, falls in love with
 MICHAEL HEATHEROE, who
 owns Q riding academy. Kath-
 arine's father is rich and her
 stepm0thcr is snObbish.
 Michael becomes engaged to
 SALLY MOON, local coQuette,
 due to Sally's scheming. In spite
 of this, Michael asks Katharine
 to marry him and, impulsively,
 she agrees. The marriage takes place in an obscure little town.
 Katharine and Michael each go
 to their homes. Almost imme-
 (liately Michael learns he has
 inherited . fortune and title. He
 goes Go New York to see the
 lawyer in charge and is injured
 in . traffic accident.
 Katharine, believing Michael has deserted her, is heart- broken.
 VIOLET Merser, once in love with Katharine's father, per-
 suades him to let his daughter go to New Mexico. Katharine makes preparations for the trip.
 Michael recovers meanwhile,
 but his memory is impaired. Katharine meets him on the street and he does not recognize her.
 CHAPTER XXXIV ....
 The lofty room was almost empty except for g. few groups of red-capped porters. Katharine, with her tall, white-hair father at her elbow, followed a man carrying their bags through the cleaning, long corridor. They were to meet Evelyn Vincent at the train gate.
 The whole vast station had an unfamiliar air. When shall I see this place again? the girl thought duly. It seemed to her that she was saying farewell to home, to the city for good. Perhaps by some conniving she could manage to stay in New Mexico until the spring, when she was to come into her mothers money. Then she need never see Innicock again. Travel strange places--would help her to forget
 She had urged Violet Merser to come down to see her off. But with a queer little twisted smile her new friend had said she thought she'd better not.
 'She doesn't like father, that's it." Katharine thought with a flash of insight. We'll, neither Bertine nor her father had been specially nice to the Mersers, had ignored them, in fact. But Violet usually didn't notice such smallness in peo- pie. Violet, herself, the girl thought, was so generous and genuine per- son that she ignored in others the qualities she deplored. We'll, but father had come around amazingly in the matter of the trip. No mat ter how Bertine stormed and rant. cd, he had been gently persistent. He had said that perhaps Kathar- inc was old enough to decide by now just who her friends ought to be. And this Miss Vincent seemed a pleasant woman, distinguished ana charming.
 "pve never understood Father in the least" Katharine thought with B pang of compunction. She had always seen him, as 1t were, through a haze of Bertine's ways and prejudices. Maybe he was on her side really.
 They were making conversation now in the polite. labored way peo- pie employ just before train de- parture.
 Sure you've got your money safe?"
 "oh. yes. And my travellers checks" The girl patted her big purse. She was in pale tan tweeds with a fur scarf slung over her slender shoulders. Her fair hair gleamed under the brin of her brown felt hat. Her brown gloves, her slim brown shoes, were perfection.
 They saw Evelyn Vincent just then, heard her agreeable deep voice and saw that a man was with her. His back was turned. could just see the gray topcoat and the gleam of a fair head. She was unpleasantly affect cd by the prospect of having to talk to a stranger. It seemed to her she was so deadly tired that any effort would be devastating.
 But when Miss Vincent turned. smiling, Katharine saw that the man was Dr Kaye.