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'BY "RENE RYERSON MART
CHAPTER I
TT all began the day before.
Naturally, I didn't know that
anything was beginning then. I
mean It began the day before wo
found the body. That was on
Wednesday, and It was unreason
ably hot for early June, hot with
a muggy, uncomfortable stickiness
that presaged the storm to come.
Margaret had come up to my
room after dinner to finish ar
ranging my things.
We'd thought we had the house
all aet for the summer, and then
that morning had come a tele
gram from Kathy she's my old
est granddaughter, child of Wal
ter's first marriage saying that
the had changed her plans and
was coming to stay at Kraiktower
for a couple of weeks before go
ing to New York. , i
Originally Margaret had un
packed my things in the turquoise
bedroom, which has the sitting
room attached. They are the
rooms I usually occupy at Kraik
tower. Connie, she's Walter's sec
ond wife, and a comely thing with
her blond hair and tawny skin,
had been assigned the mulberry
room at the other front comer of
the house, while Jack and Judy,
the twins, and their nurse occu
pied the rose room In between.
Margaret is the only servant
who regularly sleeps In the house.
She has the back bedroom at the
head of the stairs. Margaret has
been with me for 30 years.
But Kathy's coming upset this
neat arrangement.
Everyone at Kraiktower In
lummer wants a bedroom fronting
the lake. Not only because of the
lake breeze but because they are
the only decently furnished bed
rooms in the house.
Ten years before when Michael
and I had the house done over, ex
pecting to make it our year-round
home, we had these four spacious
front rooms redecorated in the
colorful modern manner with all
new furnishings. Our old furni
ture and the family heirlooms
from which we could sot bring
ourselves to part were relegated
to the back bedrooms.
As a result one of these is done
in atrocious golden oak with a
brass bedstead which was our
wedding bed, and the other, the
one Margaret sleeps in, is a con
glomeration of odds and ends in
cluding the enormous black wal
nut wardrobe which Grandmother
Pottier brought over from France
with her a century ago.
So following receipt of the tele
gram that morning, Margaret and
I bad gone into consultation and
decided it would be best if I
moved into the mulberry room,
gave Kathy the rose room, and
put Connie into the turquoise
room. Then the twins' small beds
could be put up in the adjoining
sitting room.
That would leave the golden
oak room to serve as Walter's
dressing room when he came
down. Miss Lake, the nurse,
would have to go out to the tower
to sleep.
Everyone was suited except
Miss Lake. She sulked all day
after Connie apologetically in
formed her of the change. She
felt herself a bit above the other
servants and didn't like the pros
pect of sleeping in the queer,
four-storied tower which gives
our summer place its name, and
furnishes living space for the
chauffeur, cook, and housemaid,
besides serving as a garage.
As I said, Imogene Lake sulked
and nut in her time fussing un
necessarily with the children ana
left all the labor of moving our
clothes and personal belongings
to Margaret and Clara, the up
stairs maid. It was no wonder
that Margaret was tired and a bit
snappish.
She finished arranging my toilet
things on the dressing table, put
my favorite books where I could
reach them without getting out of
bed, and with a muffled, "Good
night, Miss Marthe," at last hob
bled out of the room.
I was too listless to turn the
radio on after she had gone. Be
sides I had some grim thoughts
stalking my conscience that might
as well be faced then as later.
Kathy's dark eyes that morning
when she had rushed in and
grabbed me in one of her hoy
denish hugs had thoroughly up
set me.
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Thoy were brilliant and bright,
but they weren't the eyes of a
girl who is happy because she is
soon to become a bride. And
Kathy should have been. She was
going to New York to buy her
trousseau.
I HADN'T been altogether happy
about the coming marriage,
anyway, although Walter Biid
Connie were so relieved to think
that Kathy was going to settle
down and get married respect
ably married that they talked of
nothing else. Now that I had
looked into Kathy's glittering
eyes 1 was even unhappier.
George Baker was all right, In
his way. A well-bred, well-iai-lorcd
young man. He was indus
trious, too, devoted to building up
the sizable fortune which had
been left him into one, two or
three times as large via the bank
ing business. You couldn't pos
sibly find a fault with him, but
you couldn't find anything excit
ing about him either.
When I thought of Kathy, our
Kathy, as his wife my mind
bnjged down. The prospect was
too unutterably drab beside the
memories Vf my own earl- mar
ried days when Michael had had
nothing but his youth and an idea
and every day had a brand new
and bewildering adventure. ... I
sighed. Perhaps there weren't
any love marriages like that any
more.
The next moment I scourged
myself: "Don't be a hypocrite
now . . . sighing and feeling sorry
because Kathy is being cheated
.as if you werent to
blame. ..."
Hadn't I helped break up that
early 'teen-age infatuation be
tween Kathy and Derek? If we
had let Kathy go her own head
strong way then, even as I had
when I ran away and married
Michael, she wouldn't have been
facing any cut-and-dried, mon
eyed marriage to George Baker
now.
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Weakly I tried to Justify my
self. After all, Derek Grady
hadn't been another Michael
Kraik. Subsequent events had
proved that. Derek had since
spent a term in a reformatory and
was, I understood, on parole now
for another offense. It was well
we found Kathy that time and
brought her back home.
I finally fell asleep and slept
like n log in spite of the heat and
a bad conscience, and woke to a
day that promised to be a rcnlica
of the one before.
If only It had beenl
(To Be Continued)
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