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THE STORY: It did not seem strange te Mrs. Stephen Curt—Diana-—te have we much enjoyed her luncheon with Mrs. Richard Therpe—Evalyn—although it is the woman whom Stephen, famous writer and commentator, loves. Evelyn, blind, beautiful, gentle, ft is impossible not te love. Besides, Diana's marriage is a business proposition for six months and SI0.000, saving for Stephen a S2.000008 inheritan~e he would have lost had he mot married before he was S5. Diana's farmer father, Mr. Tucker, and old Ellen Cart, Stephen's stepmother, are hoping the couple will come $0 care for each other anyway. Spitefal, spoiled Adela makes life so difficnlt for her sister-in-law that only » Stephen's kindness and the friendship of "people like Eval'm and Phil Bruce, Stephen's best friend, make Adela’s insalts bearable, Otherwise Diana might wish she had returned to her downstate home and te Bill Jackson, her childhood sweetheart, instead of marry- » ing Stephen when she was fired by flir- y your head!” * tatiows Richard Thorpe. It is a blew, then, te return from luncheon with Evalyn, and find Adela and Thorpe in each | THIS CURIOUS WORLD

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN

At the sound of her startled movement they sprang apart. Guilt was written large on their faces. Richard, clasping a cocktail glass in one ‘hand, laughed unpleasantly. “Why, it’s the lady of the manor, herself!” he cried mockingly, and Diana, with a sick lurch of heart, thought of ll loving words concerning

Adela’s face was livid with rage. “Lady, my eye!” she shouted, regardless of listening servants. Her strange, dark eyes flashed with fury. “I suppose you'll think it your noble duty to tell my brother what you took pains to spy upon! And I'll tell him that youre a lying, cheating, eavesdrooping—!” Without a word, Diana tured and walked out of the room and up the stairs. She felt that »nly by keeping silent could she muintain her dignity. But her heart was sick within her as she thought of - Evalyn Thorpe and her childish A LARK IS SOMETHING faith in her husband. CA a OL aL She lay down on the bed, her | Saves MRS. Np hands over her eyes, her heart full | of misery. The feeling of exaltation with which she had come into the house was gone. She felt spent, utterly tired. She wished fervently | that she might have been spared that scene in the drawing room. If Stephen found out about this, his anger would be strong enough to

=< c«= AND HE TOLD ME ME WAS ‘JUG® MECOY---- [ Ten sue DID \ “ MILLIE'S SON! 1 WAS SO SURPRISED , YOU COULDA E JUST ANKLED UP WHEN YOU TOLD HIM IN UPPER KNOCKED ME OVER WITH A LEFT HOOK J ME AND ASKED YOUR NAME 2 ANICHIG AN . A FEW QUESTIONS / » 1 oy : E FOUN THEN I TOLD HIM fp] tear Adela from his heart entirely. THE CITY OF SAULT STE. al EG ! YOURSELF J MY NAME WAS His shame and humiliation would NR aS = ah | ¥: ; : LARD SMITH «= AND

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apprehensive. Diana caught her sur- T. M. REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. reptitious glance more than once ’ and knew that whether she wished

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it or not she held a weapon over Adela’s head which might be used to advantage.

AFTER DINNER Stephen asked Diana to help him correct manuscript and she agreed gladly. Adela watched them go jealously but dared say nothing. Tonight she could not invent an excuse to keep them from spending hours alone together. A short time later Diana heard voices, then the outer door slammed and she supposed that Adela had gone out with some member of the reckless crowd she called her “kindred spirits.” Joey Long, the pianist, and 2 woman named Jane Burt Stephen worked until late, at times almost seeming to forget Diana, so absorbed was he in transferring his thoughts to paper. He wrote of the South American republics and the necessity of cementing friendly relations with them in or-

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ate ravenously, joking like a pair of high school kids. This was a new Stephen Curt. Different from the man who commandered the respect of everyone, the terse commentator whose views were important in high circles. Different even from the man who had been at home in her father’s house and at whose feet she had sat and called him friend.

® = = “YOU'RE lovely tonight, Diana,” he said softly, and placing his hands on her shoulders drew her close beside him. Wide-eyed, she lifted her gaze to his and saw that his eyes were warm with a look that exceeded friendliness. Her lips trembled and suddenly

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ments of Europe. Diana was , too, enthralled almost, at this unfolding of

space long after Adela had come in, long after the house had settled into quietness. A cold rain was falling. It slashed dismally at the windows and a wild wind howled around the house. She remembered her conversation with Stephen the night she had returned from her walk with Bill Jackson. He had said that it would not be impossible to fall in love with her. But he had not denied his love for Evalyn. Yet could it be that proximity might have its way, and that when the time came to let Diana go, Stephen would find that he needed her? Diana knew that having their marriage a success was the one thing Ellen Curt

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though! And it was only when] he caught her slyly flexing her stiff fingers that he stopped short in amazement to glance at his wrist watch. “Great heavens—how time has flown! And you must be dead! Why didn’t you stop me?” “It was all so interesting,” she smiled tiredly. “Well, the rest of it can wait. I'm starved. Let's see what we can find

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