The daily independent., 1936-09-03

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car in the drive. Perhaps Dorrie
would want to go out after dinner.
A bridge table in the living
room, with cards and scores litter
ed on it, testified to recent activ-
ity. Then he saw Dorric in small
sunny room just beyond, sitting
relaxed, quicsccnt, her hands
folded in her lap. The sun touch
ed her FURNISHED hair, accented
the creamy pallor of her skin, her
red mouth, the delicately moulded
nose.
Hugh stood still moment while
emotion burned through him. 1t
came on him with a surprise, al
most a choke. This lovely woman
was hiS-hiS. He left her in the
house each morning .. she was
his to return to at night. The
pith of his heart -.
"Dorrie."
She started a little as if recalled
from distant visions, then rose and
came toward him. Her sea-green
eyes had an excited luminosity in
their depths as if her thoughts
had been pleasant ones.
Hello, Hugh"
Didn't you hear me come in?"
She smiled slowly up at him as
his arms went round her. mo,
l didn't hear you
What were you thinking
about?"
She shook her head. Don't
know day-drcaming, l guess"
He kissed her. Her hand curled
in his: a flush rose on her deli
cate check.
Have good gamc?"
$3.50. Joan and Orinda-LcS-
Icy Gates for q fourth" She
moved forward the table and put
the decks of cards in their paste
board covers, Lesley is a poor
loser"
Fluvanna awakened from a
dream of jim Marsh, her husband.
She had the illusion he was bend
ing over, trying TO tell her some
thing, and all the sick, unruly as
SOciatiOnS that h memory
brought unfurlcd themselves and
waved exciting banners. Present.
iy lying with her eyes wide open
and seeing the rcassuring light of
day, the sensation cbbcd.
Kczia was homc-W S right
across the hall, sleeping in the
green and gold bedroom. KcZia
was probably the reason she had
dreamed of Jim. The child didn't
look like him no, Hugh re-
Sembled his father in stature and
feature. but Kczia'S whole person.
atty carried a haunting reminder.
The expressions she had, the
tricky way she raised her eyes and
made them aspiring and WiStful,
her cajoling manner which con-
cealcd her purposes, the will to
have her own way, all limited at
the feminine counterpart Of jim.
She rose and drew up the shades.
The perfume of lilacs came up
from a bush beneath the window
and brought back the spring OF
long ago-lilacs, the murmur of
growth and two people under an
umbrella Just q week after
she met him. 3d.
That had been q momentiOuS
night. a kind of prcSCienCe about
it from the second the Clements
had presented him. Fate did that
sometimes. Uusually it worked
SoundlcSsly, but once in a great
while it spoke a single word to
yoll-"Now."
Ella Clement had said: This is
our cousin. James Marsh, from
Philadelphia. He is opening an
insurance agency here :" and
Ella had gone on Chattering in her
tangential way about the Marshes
living near some park, and her
visit to them, one when she had
met some SCnator-What was his
Inamc?-and the really very nice
people who lived in Philadelphia.
Later when they were alone for
a moment, Jim had smiled with
his enigmatiC eycS-Strange the
pull of some eycS-and. said:
They've told me about you. I've
been wondering how you got your
name Fluvanna. I never heard it
before, but it has a nice sound,
like deep water flowing under a
bridge"
She had gone home that night
with a disturbance in her heart
such as she had never know be-
fore, and said to herself: IF he
asks me, 1 shall marry him" d.
Yes. it had been like that.
She found a note under the
knockcr on Kezia's door. Wake
me at eight. I'm playing tennis" I"
1t was five minutes to eight now
She ratified the knocker and heard
a sleepy response from Kezia.
In the kitchen, Anna, a chunky
girl of Roumanian parentage,
turned from the stove with liquid
shine of welcome in her long dark
eyes. "G'mroning Mis- Marsh"
"Good-morning, Anna. Break
fast almost ready?
Ready in ten minutes or so.
haven't squeezed the oranges. Miss
Kezia be down."
"Yes, she's getting out. She is
going to play tennis with some
friends. I'll go out to cut some
flowers for the table"
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