TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1931
PAGE SIX
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM, OREGON
mOOn
Chapter
THE UIBB OF A VEIL
Ruble or diamonds or the famous
Belaise ssDDMres. or what Kirk
liked best, the (Ingle (trend of
pearls!
Mrs. Belaise contemplated her
eelf In the mirror. Bhe waa 74.
Pace and throat were withered
(lowers, but with the fine blue
fjes, the delicate profile, the small
foot, she was still the spirited ghost
of beautiful Nelly eartoiis, belle of
New Orleans when the IV were
young.
Faithful black Lorena had waved
her mistress' thin white hair, had
drawn the mascara pencil lightly
long where the fine black eye
lashes used to be, had rouged ever
go delicately the sunken check.
"No lipstick, Lorena," Mrs. Bel
aise had remarked from the very
beginning of lipstick, "Hard. That
U what It makes us look. And all
beautifying Is merely a softening
process."
"Yes ma'am," agreed Lorena,
who really understood. Her mis
tress had not changed for Lorena
In these 30 years of service. Lorena
stood back now, contemplating the
rubles on her lady's breast. j
Mrs. Belaise shook her bead,
tumbled nervously with her gold
vinaigrette. She was always de
lightfully nervous on the evenings
(he played roulette. It was the
Dearest thing ah had felt to youth
In 40 years.
"Rubies look common," she said,
since they have learned to recon
struct them. Genuine pigeon-blood
these are Take thorn off. Try the
diamonds. I nevir know what
Dew dress will like best"
Lorena held the links of platinum-cupped
light tentatively about
tier mistress' neck. "You looks like
white angel, MIC B'lalsel"
Nelly Belaise thought of the first
time she had worn them, of the
ensatlon they bad caused. Thirty
one yean ago at the old French
opera house. Delphine, her daugh
ter, was a bride, she had grieved
over Oelphlne's leaving, and Arthur
Belaise had sought to comfort her
With these. He had spent his Inher
itance on gems for her. Sometimes
she had scolded him. "But these
are investments, Nelly," he would
ay.
Nelly Belaise had not needed to
realise on them. Kirk, Delphine's
son, provided her with all aha could
desire. Delphine had died when
Kirk was born, and Kirk's father
bad gone back north and married
gain when Kirk was a year old.
Kirk had belonged to Nelly ever
since. Indeed, he called her "moth
er" when he didn't call her "Nelly".
Now Kirk's father was dead and
Kirk had come In to the greater
part of the Stanard fortune, a
solid New England fortune made In
shoes.
Tonight Nelly Belaise took the
dlaranods from her neck. "They
never bring me luck, Lorena. Nor
the pearls either. I'll wear the
sapphires again."
Delphine had helped her father
choose the sapphires - In Paris.
Somehow Nelly Belaise could not
remember Delphine as She looked
aller her marriage. Somehow she
aaw her only as she was that sum
mer In Paris, or coming down the
curved stair yonder as a bride.
The sapphires were perfect. Lor
ena fastened the necklace, elapsed
the earrings In the pierced ears,
held out the tray of the silver jewel
casket that the small veined hands
snlRht choose their rings.
Nelly Belaise rose at last In the
full Ivory satin gown that fell about
her feet, the slim ankle and small
femmed slipper glimpsed and veil
ed again. Lorena sprayed perfume
n the leweled hands. Proudly Lor
ena watched her descend Uie stair.
Kirk Stanard met his grand
mother In the hall. He was not
unlike her. Brown hair graying at
SO, the same fine blue eyes and
tiKhllv annillne profile, Iwr wmtle.
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of DELIGHT
They went Into the drawing room.
his arm about her. Two men rose.
One was a portly person with a
frown carved between black brows.
a man of perhaps 60. Kirk Stan
ard presented him.
"Senor uasara. motner. you re
member meeting Senor Basara In
Mexico City? We went to a ball at
his home."
Senor Basara was kissing the
fragrant hand. Nelly Belaise re
membered, she remembered when
Kirk spoke of Senor Basara'a house.
"The senor has Just returned
from a trio around the world," Kirk
explained. "He has only this eve
ning In New Orleans, but he Is
sharing It with us and with his
consul."
Senor Basara smiled. His frown
did not disappear even when he
smiled.
Ah. and there was Adrian Fouche
who had Introduced ber to roulette
and made life a different thing I
Adrian with his youth, his black
soft eyes and languid grace, bent
his dark head over the hand of
Nelly Belaise. Even to her he must
make his murmurs significant, as
U touched with love.
I hope you have luck tonight."
'Ah. but I ahalL I am wearlna
tlfle sapphires.
Pompey, the old colored butler,
drew back the portlers. Mrs. Be
laise put her hand through Senor
Basara's arm and led the way to
the dining room.
"Tell me about this roulette."
Basara begged. "Have you just dis
covered It?"
"A month ago," Mrs. Belaise an
swered. "Adrian, the naughty boy,
has known the place a long time."
It was no resort lor you, glori
ous one before the days of Little
Buttercup and her magic touch."
Touch' Is not bad." laughed
Kirk. "All the same, I miss Little
Buttercup. She used to beguile me
while mother played:"
do you not piay yourseur
Basara asked.
Kirk shook his head. "I am a
cotton man, Senor. Gambling 'Is no
recreation. I get my fun watching
mother. She's happier in Dlvitti
than at the races.
"And roulette lasts all year." said
Nelly. "Senor Basara, won't you
loin us tonlAht?
"But there Is my boat, and my
call on my consul and If Little
Buttercup Is gone"
Adrian lifted a slender hand
"You should see Little Buttercup's
successor. Such eyesl such a body!
But me, she does not notice. I say
to her, Senorlta, I have a wager
what your lips are like.' You see
she wears a veil."
"A veil?' Basara was all Inter
est. "Where is this place?"
"The old Crolselle house," Nelly
Informed him.
"Ah. yesl That beautiful home.
. . . And this lovely decoy Is cov
ered with a veil."
"Not covered," Adrian assured
him. "Only the Hps, the nose. Tan
talising. I asked her to lift the
veil. She does not even glance at
me, but hurries By. .
"Perhaps she didn't understand!
said Nellv.
"That Is It. And she seemed
afraid. But the next night she Is
different. She carries her cigarettes
like In a dream. She looks at me
calmly. And so the next night and
the next. She has found Amert-
calnes are not so terrifying. Only
she Is silent. French. Spanish.
English, we try them all. She does
not understand.
"I approach Dlvltt about her.
But unfortunately I spoke to him
once about Buttercup, and she is
his wife." Adrian sighed. "He has
not liked me since. Little Butler
cup Is not gone. She sits In the
cage taking In cash. She says the
veiled one escaped from a narem,
and I must speak to her In Turk
ish." "And of course you can not,'
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