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,-MAT . , 1932.
KITTY FREW
IT
by JANE ABBOTT
BYXOrSM! Kilty frsa has
raced across country to her hus
band Oar leho hat been injured
in an automobile crash. Bhe had
eons home to llrldoewatrr otter a
auarrel with Oar, but she forgets
his interest In Moras Crosby uni
his lavish spending, in her marry.
David, Gars halt-brother, meets
her.
Chapter 36
A MASK STRIPPED OFF
DAVID put his arm around her
shoulder. "Oar'a all right, Kit
ty," he aald quickly. "Ho'i con
iclom this morning. He struck on
his head but the X-ray showed
there was no fracture o( the skull.
His shoulder's smashed up and his
ankle's broken but "
"David, I want to to to him at
once!"
"Of course," David answered
quietly. He directed a redcap to
carry her baggage. He kept his
arm through hers, steadying her as
he led her through the station to
the tail stand. He put her Into a
taxi and sat down beside her, tak
ing her hand and holding It tight
In his. The Angers of her hand In
his tightened convulsively,
"David, we were angry with one
another when I went awayl 1 said
horrible things, David. I'll never
forget them. I told him I wasn't
coming back from Brldgewater,
that It was all a mistake, a bad
business, just as you'd said, You
didn't have any right to say that to
me, David, for me to remember, to
say It to Gar!" Bhe dragged nor
hand from his hold, she leaned
away from him, tears stroamlng
down her face. "If he dies before
1 have a chance to tell him that 1
didn't mean that "
"You can tell him. He Isn't go
ing to die," David retorted grimly.
"I failed him," Kitty added, mis
erably, "just when be needed me
most."
David offered no comment They
rode In silence until the car turned
Into the drive of the hospital
grounds. Ha touched Kitty's arm
as she hurried ahead.
"There are some regulations, you
know."
To Kitty It seemed an endless
Interval of stupid questioning and
answering before she was admitted
to the room where Oar lay. Why,
he was his wife!
David left her at the door of the
room. She did not know It; she
bad forgottenahls existence. Bhe
saw only Oar's dark head against
Ithe flat pillow of the high hospital
Ibed.
"Oar I"
And then a tall figure came be-
,tween her and Gar. She faced Mrs,
tFrew.
"You cannot disturb him now,'
Mrs, Frow said in a low cold tone.
"Who let you In? You must go
r.wny."
Kitty stood, balked. For a mo
ment she saw the older woman's
face stripped of Its mask; hatred,
consuming jealousy, triumph was
on It. She faltered before It. drew
back a little uncertainly, frightened.
And seeing that, Mrs. Frew smiled,
"Kitty!" It waa Gar, calling In
halt-moan. Kitty pushed Mrs.
Frew roughly out of her way. She
dropped at the side of the bed, put
hor cheek against Oar's hand where
It lay on the white sheet.
"Gar, darling. It's Kitty. I'm
hero."
"I thought yon wouldn't cornel
He drew a fretful sigh. Ills flngera
mvcd, caught In her hair, feebly
troked it.
"I came as far as I could, darling."
"You won't go, sweetf You won't
go now?"
"No, Our."
She heard a rustling of skirts,
whispering, a door closing and gave
no heed.
"You mustn't let hlai talk, Mrs.
Frew," a competent, trleodly voice
aald over ber shoulder and she nod
ded her head. As It she didn't know
that Oar must be kept very quiet!
When a doctor came In the room
he rose to hej feet and moved to
the window but she did not take
ber eyes from Oar.
"Doing very nicely,' waa the doc
tor's verdict. Ha looked at KlUy
and smiled.
"Ho'll get along fast, now that
you're here."
It seemed to establish her right
In tho room. The nurse conceded It
to her with a sympathetic look.
"We were pretty worried this
time yesterday," she whispered to
Kitty. "We didn't know, you see
You wore out of town? He called
for you, Arst minute he knew any
thing Kltt.r had gone to the bed again,
knelt there, her hand holding Gar's.
T nurse pushed a chair up to
tve bedside.
"You wight as well be comfort-1
bit, X.-s. Frew. You can ring If j
u need ire. That's the bell." I
She tiptoed out of the room,
leaving Kitty alone with Gar.
The room was very quiet except
for the drip of the rain outside.
Kitty relaxed in her chair. It seem
ed an eternity since that moment
her father had turned from the tele
phone, calling her. "Winton wants
you, Kitty." Sally had been there
with her, and her mother. They'd
been looking at the bridesmaid's
dress, laughing, talking. And then;
"Gar has been hurt in an auto
mobile accident Can you catch
a train to-night?" David, talking.
The hurry, the concerned facea of
hor father and mother, Phil saying
he'd drive her over to Albany, and
then the endless hours of the night,
the torturo of uncertainty.
"Oh, Cor" She put her hands oul
to him In an expressive little gos
ture of longing.
Every word of that night's quar
rel came back to her, to Aay her.
She'd goaded him to aay things he
didn't mean; she said things she
didn't mean. They'd insulted one
another, hurt one another. He'd
Aung himself out of the house and
she'd locked the door of the bed
room. And the next day she'd gone
to Hrldgewstor without seeing him.
"The room next is empty, Mrs.
Frew. Why don't you take a nap?
I'll call you when be wakens." The
nurse had come In,
"I know how you feel," she went
on. In her half-whisper. "But he's
all right and you don't want to be
sick yourself. When he's better
he's going to be awful fussy his
shoulder and ankle, you see."
Reluctantly Kitty yielded and let
the nurse take her to the adjoining
room. It was cool and white and
quiet; though she thought she could
not sleep, In a few minutes she wss
sleeping on the narrow bed.
She wakened, bewildered for
moment by her surroundings. She'd
been dreaming of Sally. Why, to
morrow was Sally's wedding day!
sne must go to Brldgowater, talk to
Sally about taking things so seri
ously-
Then, fully arousik', she sprang
out of bod, alarmed. That nurse
should have called herl Perhaps
Gar needed her. She rushed out
Into tho corridor and there stopped
snort racing Carol.
"Gar?" ahe askod, frightened.
Carol shrugged her shoulders.
"Oh, I guess he's all right, 1 don't
know" She was moving toward a
door across from Gar's. Her man'
ner said plainly that her presence
here had nothing to do with Oar.
She was carrying a long box of flow,
ers in her arms. ,
. "I suppose you know Marge Cros
by's gone?"
And with that she opened the
door she sought and closed it softly
nenind ner.
Paul Somerset she'd gone In to
Mm, of course. The brief lines she
had read in the paper, crushed In
her Angers, came back to Kitty.
The exultation that had edged Car
ol's voice struck ber with sickening
meaning. Carol expected that she,
too, must rejoice at Marge's going!
The old tear assailed her as she
opened Gar's door.
The nurso was carotully nutting
a pillow under Gar's head and he
was muttorlng crossly under ber
ministrations. But when he saw
Kitty his face cleared.
"I told him it was a shame to
wake you up, Mrs. Frew, you wore
sloeplng so soundly. I pocked In.
And ho almost took my head oil "
"Can he talk now?"
"A little. But you mustn't let him
get excited or move around. You
see they haven't got his shoulder In
a cast yet. To-morrow, maybe. I
tell him he's a lot luckier than thai
other poor fellow they brought in
witn mm "
But Kitty's arms had slipped
around Oar; her face was against
nls. Neither of them heard what
the nurse said, or cared. She went
out
"Kitty, you haven't told me"
"I love you, Gar, and more to
morrow and more the noxt dav "
"Kitty, I didn't mean the othei
night."
'I know, Gar, I know you didn't
1 didn't, either. I hate myself foi
what I said."
I don't suppose It would make
mo any worse It you kissed me, the
way"
She put her lips on his. Her
closed eyea were against his, their
breathing was one.
Gee, Kit, what it It had knocked
me out?"
"But It didu't, Oar. Just joni
shoulder and your ankle"
"What it I had never seen yoi
acnln? Kit, you've got to bellevs
me, all the time I never cared i
hang for anyona but you"
(Coryrtil, Jirt Abbott!
Mrk. Trtwv tilts to rtQaln eon.
Irel ttf air, In th next Initallmtnt.
nd Carol UKtl bold sup toward
frfffdom.
FACING PROBE ON
ALLEGED ATTACKS
SALEM, May 30. AP Ornnd
Jury invMtlgAtlon of ftlttgrri turh
on tat officials through th me
dium of the "Sitlurttny Night" and
MKW8 -Exam! tier,, Portland publica
tion, will Rt under jr In Mult
nomnh county within the next lew
weeka, Burnett Goldstein, apodal at-tomey-general,
advised Jam W
Molt, atate corporation comm la loner,
today.
In a letter aent to Goldstein laat
Sunday, He alleged that the attack
were being made for the apparent
purpose of thwarting the activities
of otfldnU charged with the en
forcement of various laws. Mott
made special reference to the law
pertaining to the operation of sav
ings and loan assentations and libel,
"I have caused an examination to
be made on the tiles of these publi
cations with particular reference to
I matter contained in your letter,
! Goldstein wrote to Mott. "I am
;Of the opinion that they appear to
: Indicate deliberate attempt, thru
Ithe medium of these; publications,
, to attack certain official charged
i wllh law enforcement."
j Ooldjteln made special mention
In his letter of J. A. Char 1m worth,
I publisher of the "Saturday Night,"
j and C. A. Degrace end Carl John
ston, alleged owners of the "Newa-
j Examiner." Degrare aiui Johnston
j are now under indictment In Mult-
j nomah county.
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BRINGING UP FATHER
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ILL SHOW THAT R'TIV CiOV THAT LWta 1 I'LL JO"iT TIP THE MALL- BOY OFF TO JUST LT HIM WHAT TIME. I I I i PSfSV?!" I
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