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THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
OUR BOARDING HOUSE
With MAJOR HOOPL6 OUT OUR WAY
BY J. R. WILLIAMS
LOVE LAUG
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BY ELINORE COWAN STONE
CAST OF CHARACTKIII
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Derek palntrd her portrait.
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CHAPTER V
AS Constance walked home
. through the gathering dusk
after her talk with Miss Taft at
the Museum that evening, the ten
dollar bill In her purse seemed to
shrink and dwindle.
But life must be sustained even
If Derek was by this time skim
ming the clouds hundreds of
miles away. She stopped at a
delicatessen and broke the ten
dollar bill to buy butter, rolls,
cream and lettuce. When she
came out of the shop, she had
left one five-dollar bill, four ones,
nd forty-eight cents in change.
Outside her door, a dry cleaner's
delivery man was waiting for her
with two dresses she had sent out
several days before. When she
had paid him, she had parted with
another three dollars of the pre
cious ten . . . And this was the
first day.
She was exploring her ice box
to find out how far stores-on hand
would go towards averting a real
food panic when the telephone
rang. It was Miss Taft calling.
"If," Miss Taft's crisp accents
said, "time still hangs heavy on
your hands, you might like to talk
with Mrs. O. Major you know,
the aluminum Majors ... I hap
pen to know that she wants a
temporary secrtary to help 'her
with this Associated Artists' Show
she's sponsoring ... Only $25 a
week and expenses; but I under
stand that what you're interested
In is mental diversion rather than
sudden riches."
A lot you understand, Constance
thought. Aloud she said, "Go on.
You interest me."
"Fine. Then meet the lady at
Daimler's for lunch at 1:30 tomor
row. Give your name to the
maitre d 'hotel and you will be
conducted to her table as it you
were a grand duchess."
TU b there," Constance prom
toed. "And thanks a lot"
"And oh, by the way, look
your smartest sartorially, I
mean," Miss Taft advised. "The
lady has worn the same hat for
. years largely, I've always imag
ined, because she's never been ablt
to find another one so grotesque
but she likes her cheap help to
put up a snappy facade."
CONSTANCE went to sleep that
night pondering an idea which
she might have been surprised to
learn had often been entertained'
by other overwrought souls that
time is sometimes reckoned, not
in hours and minutes, but in emo
tional content ... It seemed
to her that since she had risen
that morning she had lived a
tempestuous lifetime.
Even so, she was too numb with
fatigue to forecast the misery of
the next morning. She had a very
bad half hour when she awoke to
sunshine streaming brightly over
the trunk and bags which stood
packed ready for going away
with Derek today.
She was awakened by the flor
ist's boy with the corsage Derek
had ordered for her all delicate
rose and mauve and blue with
lacy sprays of white . . . Derek
loved color . . . "White is too
much like a funeral, darling." The
fresh beauty and fragrance of the
Bowers tore at Constance's quiver
ing nerves like raw acid.
It was to have been a quiet
wedding just she and Derek with
two young married friends of her
own, Don and Anne Cable Derek,
strangely enough, seemed to have
no friends among his male ac
quaintanceship whom he particu
larly wanted with him.
When Constance remembered to
telephone Anne the news of the
postponement, Anne had insisted
that she spend the day with her.
"We'll have dinner together
Just as we had planned to do
FLAPPER FANNY
-COM. It) BY NCA ftMVfCC. INC.
PST : 1
"Ahh, violets! The first breath of Spring!"
"I t hought the first breath of Spring was little green onion."
CopyrijKt, im, NEA Sk., I.
after the wedding you and Don
and I," she said. "You can tell us
all about Derek's piece of luck.
Then you and I can take in a show
afterward. I'm going to be a
widow, too, tonight. Don has to go
out of town. He has a :ase before
the Supreme Court," Anna added
with the ill-concealed pride of the
wife of such a promising young
attorney.
"I thank you, Anne." Con
stance fumbled for words. "But
if you don't mind, I think I'll just
rest . . . I I've been terribly
rushed lately."
Just the wrong thing to say, of
course. She shouldn't let them
think she was crawling into a cor
ner to lick her wounds. She
should have gone, her head high.
But she couldn't face Don and
Anne's interested friendly ques
tionswatch them wondering,
conjecturing behind their eyes
while they -ried to make gay, in
consequential talk ... I wont
be pitied, Constance thought
"Too bad you couldn't ;at ready
in time to go with Derek. ' Al
ready Anne's tone was too elab
orately bright and casual.
"Wasn't It? But of course some
one had to stay to break up my
apartment You know we intended
coming back here after after
wards, while Derek finished some
work.
CHE hung up as soon as she
could, for fear Anne's generous
heart might prompt her to insist
on coming over to help speed the
packing.
The airmail letter from Derek
came while she was washing the
dishes after her desultory break
fast She was thinking. By this time
I should have been getting ready
... In a few hours Derek would
have been here when the mes
senger rapped at the door and
handed in the gayly red and blue
bordered envelope.
The letter had been mailed the
evening before at an airport half
way across the continent Con
stance sobbed when she realized
how many miles these few hours
had put between her and Derek.
"Connie, darling," Derek began,
"I am writing this at my earliest
opportunity. It is incredible how
very full every minute has been
since I last saw you."
And how empty tor me, Con
stance thought She read on:
"Baron Grapefruit has the most
amazing grasp of detail of any
man I have ever met Together,
we have gone with a fine-tooth
comb over every item of the plans
for the studio he is furnishing for
me. Already he has wired orders
to workmen for enlarging the
window space and installing spe
cial lighting. Within a week it
should all be ready for work. If
there is any angle he has not al
ready gone into and decided upon,
even to the gown in which his
daughter is to be painted, I have
yet to discover it I shall be lucky
if he doesn't go ahead and paint
the portrait while he is about it
"Fart of his plan is that I am
to take plenty of time to get ac
quainted with Miss Thorvald and
to study her before I begin actual
work on the portrait I am not at
all sure that this is not going to
be the most critical part of the
Job; for althugh she seems to be
a very casual, friendly, simple
person very much like a clear,
shallow, sunny pool you can't
help feeling that she has hidden
depths which it might not be easy
to penetrate."
Indeed! thought Constance, and
:ead the last passage thoughtfully
three times.
Then she glanced impatiently
ahead for some hint of the news
she most wanted to hear.
(To Be Continued)
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