Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1940-08-09

How about charades?" said Mimi
rive minutes later they were acting
charades for Judy's benefit as If they
hadn't a care in the. world.
Judy was terribly upset. She felt
she ought to tell Roger what she had
heard, but she hesitated-partly be-
cause-so characteristic of her-she
didn't like to repeat what she had
heard through eaveSdropping, partly
because she had never spoken to Roger
directly about his divorce
She knew all about it, of course,
from their many mutual friends. Roger,
a promising young lawyer had done
the only thing that might have wrecked
his serious determined life-he had
fallen madly in love with a great
heireSs. He had seen his danger and
had tried TO run away from fate, but
Marie had fallen in love, too. and be-
ing accustomed to denying herself
nothing. she had run after him. OF
course she had won; they had been
married and ought to have lived hap
anyone but Roger. Unfortunately he
decided that they must live according
TO the income he was earning, and
not according to the fortune which
she had inherited Marie, if she agreed
at all, agreed without much conviction,
and certainly didn't stick to the rules.
He made constant scenes, over matters
that seemed to her trivial-as for in
stance when at one of their first din
ner parties, she had ordered cham
payne instead of the modest white wine
which he had considered suitable. Or
when he discovered that the small
solitaire he had given her as an en-
gagement ring had mysteriously be-
come surrounded with diamonds twice
its size. He worked all day and often
late into the night, and when he
came home if not cross, he was Ger
tainly dlinclined to any form of light
entertainment. Many women would
have been bored by such life-par-
ticularly rather spoiled young heiresses.
No one was much surprised when at
the end Of five years, Marie insisted
on a divorce.
Since then she had been living at
the Riviera, spending her money as
she liked and telling everyone that be-
ing divorced from Roger was like get
ting off treadmill.
Judy's sympathies were all with
Roger-her sympathieS were apt to be
with the person she liked best-but
her deep loyalty went to Mimi. She
good lttle-girl exterior the child was
being emotionally destroyed and that
only she. Judy. knew it. She wanted
to tell Roger, but a somewhat timid
delicacy made her hesitate to force
her views upon him. A few days later,
however, such delicacy became i'm
possible.
She and Mimi were breakfasting to-
gether as usual Eight o'clock breakfast
was the only real sacrifice Judy made
to her job. for she liked to sleep late.
Mimi evidently had something on her
mind, and at last it came out.
Look, Cousin Judy" she said, II
want to ask you big favor. Sohp
and I want you to do something for
u.s.
Mimi, darling, of course . any
We'll. this is quite big thing"
What is it?"
I'VE want you to adopt us both"
"Mimi-but what about your par
ents"
oh, of course we'd see our parents,
Cousin Judy, only there wouldn't be
all this changing about and quarreling
about dates. And then you are so much
nicer about them than they are about
each other. We don't like that feeling
of their hating each other. Please do,
Cousin Judy. Sophy and I think that
only unmarried ladies ought to have
children at all-they stay put so much
better than married ladies'"