The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-07
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER xxxVI


 It was Nancy who broke the news to Dana, Well, Scott's done itl" she said. "'Landed right at the top -- high, wide and handsome"
 pana's hand went to her heart. Why didn't Nancy go on9 Why was she standing there, smiling 50 queerly9
 "ecotts been taken into part nership by Dr. osborne" Nancy continued. "ffell be factoring ell tho richest patients in town. Now I guess youll write that note and say you're sorryI"
 Dana did not answer for c mo. ment. So Nancy believed that was why she had left Scott and that now she would beg him to take her back. That would be what Scott would htink too. Sometimes lately 1t had been al. most impossible not to write to him. But she could never write to him now.
 "When has all this happenedS" Dana asked,
 "Just to-day. It's just been an. nouneed. They say pr. osborne has had his eyes on Scott for . long while and Scott cinched matters when he performed an operation pr. osborne said few surgeons could have done so we'll"
 'Tell mo about it" Dana asked.
 "There's not much to tell, Dr, osborne sprained his arm and he couldn't operate, 50 he turned the job over to Scott pr. Osborne watched him and well 1t seems acotts 0 sort of wizard In the operating room. That's oil there aA to the story, l guess"
 Nancy stopped. She was suds denly sorry for Dana who looked frightfully cut up, as though she might faint. It must Do pretty bad. ct that, to realize you had given up an attractive husband because he didn't have any money, and then have him dip into the professional pie and draw out c plum as big as this,
 Nancy was sorry for Dana, but she was glad for Scott. He de- served something extra nice after tho way he had been treated.
 "Aren't you glad, Dana9" Nancy asked curiously,
 "Why, of course" Danas wide Raso met her half sisters. How could Nancy doubt that she was glad for seott9 No one knew as well as she how much he deserved It. This big chance would mean other chances. Scott was going to the top, Going without her.
 Dana sat down and stared, un- seeing, at tho magazine she held in her hand. She was glod - oh, so gladl It WAS strange how you could be glad and yet completely hopeless because of the same piece of news.
 T heard, too," Nancy went on, "that Scott has given up the apartment and moved back into his house. He told somebody that the people who had been living there had almost wrecked the place and he's having 1t done over. Everybody thinks it's queer that he'd bother unless some wo. man was coming there to live. There's talk that 1t means you and he are planning to 90 back to- gether."
 "No." Dana said. Tt doesn't mean that"
 Mrs. Cameron had come from the dining room. and stood, unob- served by the sisters, in the, door, way. She spoke harshly: Nancy, sometimes I think you haven't a grain of sense. Dana couldn't go back to Scott now if she wanted to. It's been four months and she hasn't had a word from him. He goes about making Q success of himself, moving into another home and yet he hasn't time to even speak to his wife. don't know what Dana would have done if Ronnie hadn't been here to cheer her up."
 ooh, Ronnie!" Nancy's voice flashed out like Q sharp blade re- leased from its scabbard. T had forgotten"
 Lets hear no more of such silly chatter about Scott" Mrs. Cameron commanded. "You need mt waste any pity on him, either. Your sister is the one who should have your sympathy"
 q suspect Dana will make out pretty well in the long run" Nancy's voice had 6 rough, ugly note. She hoped they wouldn't suspect how hard 1t was for her to talk at all with that ache in her throat.
 Why did her grandmother al- ways have to bring Ronnie's name into everything? And why did she always look at Dana so sig- nificantly when she spoke of Ron- nie? It was indecent. You'd think Gran would remember that Dana was still Q married woman, no matter how much she wished Dana was free.
 Nancy hoped Dana would stay married. Furthermore, she hoped that now, when Scott had made e soft berth for himself. Dana would find a way to bring about Q reconciliation as fast as she could.
 Perhaps it was fear of that very thing that prompted Mrs. Cameron to talk to Dana that afternoon. Mrs. Camerm's dislike for Scott was based on something more than his lack of money. Al nmrtnernhip with Ur. Osborne would