Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-01

Lucy's confidence. which /
doubt. The puss is sly. as /
think l remember warning you, my dear"
Jacqueiine senior entirely unprepared
and sat in sofa corner smiling and relaxed
her little hat shading the brightness of her
eyes and face. All the uptilted lines were
gay insouciant- and -unsuspecting. Judith's
next speech brought catastrophe change.
Didn't you tell me that young Peter
Wayne is an ardent sutton of little Jacque-
Ines"
Linnie regretted she ardently regretted
that betrayal OF her daughters wistfuI con-
fidence. Did /? I'd no right to say it, You
know how mothers are they think all the
young men must be crazy to carry off that
wonderful daughter"
No no." Judith's fingers. long blue
white magnificently ringed, terked with
tyrannical impotence. Il have an excellent
memory. You practically announced a COM
ing marriage Jacquelne.
Linnie was deeply flushed and leaned for
ward to speak urgently Il had absolutely no
right TO announce anything of the sort Aunt
Judith
Well, perhaps you know already that
something's gone bit awry. That would ex-
plain your evident desire to retract and
camoufage. Then shant bother to tell you.
a trifle cooler perhaps.
20 no, Aunt Judith please / beg your
pardon. l wasn't trying TO snub. i mean TO
check your confidence. I'm truly terribly
anxious 10 hear, especially if il had TO do
with Peter Wayne He has been very atten-
tive to my Jacqueline for some time"
80 | understood Well one day last week
81. i think it was Wednesday he was seen
lunchng with our beautiful Lucy in a New
intimately indeed and even in public
though with a complete understanding kiss
ing her
TNNIE first gasped then laughed aloud.
- But Aunt Judith that's really farcica
Lucy or course there's some mistake She
hardly knows the boy"
But Linnie remembering that Lucy
had gone 10 New York on Wednesday last
and that Lucy had been even more than
usually beautiful and radiant and complete
and there had been Of late deep and secret
glow in Lucy's face though Linnie now
fancied with pang. she had been sucking
life and JOY from Jackie's increasing pallor
and diminishuent
Had something really gone wrong with her
little girls great confident love and happiness
something she herself had not suspected, had
not yet been told? Jackie had been very hard
10 get hold Of lately.
who was it gave you this. story. Aunt
Judith p" she asked. trying to recapture non
chalance and leaning back with an imitation
Of her former ease.
Molly Parker an old school friend. ! see
her occasionally and yesterday she told me
that she and her husband great old
gossip Martin. behind his handkerchief had
seen this act in a romantic drama. Lucy in
a grey summer frock with big picture hat,
violet streamers. very ingenue! putting up
her face 10 be kissed.
And young Wayne. who it seems. is the
image Of his famous grandfather jumping
up TO go round the table to embrace her.
as If In a moment of ecstasy he'd quite for
gotten they weren't both in the Garden Of
Eden. Well l said 10 myself, there's some
thing very odd about Lucys behavior.
odd as there was in her private discovery
and return of my pearls, something secret.
to use the mildest adjective.
And if young Wayne has been offering
marriage with one hand TO Jacqueline Sey-
mour, and she accepting il 1 thought TO my
self perhaps Jacqueline's mother should know
what he is doing with the other.
1T appears that Lucy has been giving
her acquisitive instinct pretty free rein of
late. Jacqueline's pearls and now her best
young man. Hush! Here's Lu, as flushed
as Bacchus. and just from one sniff of
grapes Don't say a word. Jacque1ine, Doris
has announced lunch. Shall we go in ?"
Thefe were no more condolences but great
deal of amusing talk to be endured. Judith
was her most entertaining self. Linnie gave
no evidence Of her distress, her strong wish
10 be alone. She did not leave until the hour