Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-09-24

man, from the stern of the dinghy. His
| Cape Cod voice was tWangtly reproacn-
full Mrs. Hallowell had no business,
it implied, TO be late to her husbands
cruising party Especially since her late
ness had forced Lon to. row her out
to the ship after his boatyard hours.
| That, Kit thought, was life At a
moment when q girl needed all the
buildup she could get, to have nobody
but an unwilling boatyard man to fab
back on. In all the cutely written stories
of neglected wives In the cute magazines
there was some conveniently unat-
tached male lurking about to console
them or to make their husbands jealous.
But in places like Buttermilk Bay
IL your husband was In such q hurry
to see another girl that he had to rush
away from the house while you were
still struggling with the various prob
lens Of leaving the children for the
weekend, you were lucky If you could
even find a Lon Bodfish.
That was why she'd been so smart
TO invent 8 plan to win Tom Halloweu
back which needed only the elements
that were already here in Buttermtlk
Bay. Tom and herself and Sylvia For
roster Tom and Kit and Sylvia. Sylvia
and Kit and Tom.
But she was frightened now that she
had come TO the place where she would
have to see Tom and Sylvia together
for the first time. How could she keep
calm enough to fight when she was
shivering 20 just to approach the scene
of battle2 And Lon had swung along
side the Sea Urchin and was relent-
leSsly steadying the dinghy for her to
climb up the ladder.
Anything more, Mrs. HALLOWEEN" ne
asked from below as she achieved the
deck.
SOhI Lots more, Lon" she quavered.
but I've got TO do 1t myself Thank
you'll"
She stood watching him, row away
through the twilight and sang Fare
well to Thee under her breath, because
singing songs tagged with some goofy
reference to the moment were sort
Of escape when things became too mucn
for her But it drove Tom wild, who
had, he said, married her IN spite OF
the fact that she had been a singer.
Tom liked TO be understood rather
than expressed, he said. And sylvia
was so exquisitely reserved and SELF
contained, although Kit and the other
young married girls Of Buttermilk Bay,
when they had discussed Sylvia as
newcomer at the beginning Of the sum-
mer, had called 1t old maidish and
Inhibited.
Funny to remember that now. To
realize that she, Kit Hallowen, had
been what she'd always sworn she'd
never be-a SNUG young matron. Not
taking the slightest alarm at Toms
first casual mentionings Of poor, re-
pressed Sylvia stopping by In her sloopl
20 help him cauIk his deck.
Snug to suppose that Tom, after six
years OF married life where his emo
ions had been equally divided between
his ship and his law practice, COULDN'T
rary from the great big obltvious mans
nan that she bad mentally typed him
% be.
She supposed, too, that what she had
heard about 6ylvia--for she barely
new her--had helped TO make her L
eel safe. Not realizing that men are
liable 10 repeat their mistakes she had
never dreamed that Tom could fan IN
owe with another girl who was en-
,arked on q musical career, and
areeT so family humorous to the aver &
Ige male as playing cello sonatas.
Daise Potter, one of the Butfernlllk d
BAY young matxunS, had a horror story
q one afternoon when Sylvia mao
Mayed at q nei9hborhood tea and u
Everybody had talked over SylviaH q
'laying and Sylvia bad finally iugseo =