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SYNOPSIS
Ellen Church, 17 years old, finds
herself alone in the world with her
artist mother's last warning ringing
in her ears, to "love lightly." Of the
world she knew little: All her life
she had lived alone -with her mother
in an old brown house in a small rur-
al community. All her life, first as a
new baby, then a bubbling child, then
a charming young girl . she had
posed for her talented mother who
sold her. . magizine cover painting
through an art agent in the city .. .
Mrs. -Church's broken life . . . the
unfaithful husband, his disappearance
and after seventeen years of sil-
ence announcement of his death was
WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES
Thursday, December .6, 1934
lieved to know that it was Sandy who
had come up the stairs—Sandy, and
not Tony.
But at any moment it might be
Tony! For hadn't Claire said that his
car was waiting, at the curb?
Ellen was wrenching herself free
from Dick's grasp. Was beginning
to shake again, to shake as if she
were chilled, as if she were feverish.
"I'm all right n -now, old thing,"
she tried to say breezily, although she
found it impossible to articulate. "I-
1'11 go n -now and g -get my things
on .. . I really have a date, you
know."
Sandy threw himself down on the
sofa, beside Claire.
atlast disclosed to Ellen. The news "With the baby you met, last night,
of the husband's death killed Mrs. �I suppose?" he sneered. "With the
Church. ., Ellen, alone,' turned to !boy who rode around the park with
the only contact she knew, the art . y t,.0—oh, I know all about it"
agent in New York. Posing, years of
posing, was ber only talent so she
was introduced to two leading ar-
tists, Dick Alyea and Sandy Macin-
tosh. Both used her as a model and
both fell inlove with her .. but
Ellen, trying to follow the warped
philosophy of her mother tee "love
lightly" resists the thought of love.
Her circle of friends is small, artists
and two or three girl models. Ellen
attends a ball with Sandy. While
dancing a tall young man claimed her
and romance is born:' A ride in the
park, proposal, the next day marriage
to Tony, and wealth. But she'd "Love
Lightly," Ellen told herself. She'd
:never let him know how desperately
she loved him,' even though she were
bis wife,
'NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"I'd advise you to shut up, old
man," said Dick, sternly: "I don't
blame you, in a way, but there's
something here that neither you nor
1 understand. Only this—you said it!
laughing's all that Ellen can do, jut
now. If you haven't enough sense
to . see it, if Claire isn't woman en-
ough to get it, I do. The kid's at
the end of her rope."
" 'Still' formidable, still gaunt, he had
/left Sandy standing wordlessly be
side the sofa on which Claire sat. He
had left Sandy, and had gone swiftly
to. Ellen's side, and his long arms,
reaching out, had drawn her little fig-
ure—in its beaded play suit—close to
his chest.
"Easy now, youngster," said Dick.
"Lay off that stuff! Cry if you want
to, if you must. But lay off that
business of laughing. You'll be ill—"
Ellen; found that she was clutching
Dick's arms, way up close to the
shoulders. They were tense, like ir-
on. They were bony, they weren't
cuddly, they were just something to
hold on to—but, oh, how dreadfully
she needed them! As her slim fingers
bit into their tenseness, she began to
regain .a certain amount of self -con -
"Then," Ellen's eyes were blazing,
"then you can just be still about it!
For even if Sou did buy my ticket to
the Six Arts, you don't own me. I'm
sorry that I left you—at least, I was
sorry! But I'm not, any mare.'
Dick had been very quiet for a few
minutes, but although, Ellen struggled
to be free, his hands weren't relaxing
their hold, not a particle.
"You're not leaving the studio, not
in this condition," he told her.
"What's it all about, youngster ,any-
way? Did you have anything to drink
last night? Answer me that l"
Ellen tried to master this business
of nerves. If she didn't Dick wouldnt'
let+ her go. She knew Dick.
"Of course, I didn't have anything
to drink," she said, almost gently. "I
never drink. Don't you trust me?"
"I used to myself," said Sandy,
"trust you. But not any more. Even
Gay wouldn't treat a guy—"
"Be still!" roared Dick. Like most
men, his helplessness had the effect
of angering him.
Ellen, there in Dick's arms, wanted
to scream at them. She wanted to call
Claire ugly names, and she'd never
wanted to call anyone an ugly name,
before. This bantering, when her
whole future was at stake! For if
Tony came em searching for her
how could she explain things? These.
arms—Dick's arms—that held her?
How could she say anything in the
face of this scene?
"Oh, Dick," she begged, "let me
go. I'v`e got to get dressed. This
date—it's very vital; you don't un-
derstand. I've got to keep it. I'll
stop by in the morning and tell you
all about it. You'd not try to keep
me, if you knew. When you know,
you'll say it's all right—"
Dick was nuzzling his chin into the
hair at the top of her head, with a
movement unexpectdly tender.
"What I'm afraid of, honey," he
said, "is that you've gone and got
yourself into some bad sort of a
scrape. Maybe it would be better if
you told me now. 1'11 kick' them out,
trot She could realize, as she fought Claire and Sandy, if you like. I'll
to keep back her spasmodic giggles, have some dinner sent in for you,
that it was because she had been re- and you can get all calmed down."
.But Ellen was crying, now.
"I've got to go," she sobbed, "I've
got.'a date!"
"Is—" It was Sandy speaking; be-
fore her tears some of his 'wrath had
vanished, but he still desired informa
tion--"is the date with the same boy
that you ditched me for, last night?"
The time forr evasion—some of it,.
at least—had passed.
"Yes," sobbed Ellen,
"Who," it was Dick now, "who is
this insistent young man, child?"
Claire was gazing up at the ceiling.
"He's tall," she said, "and God,
how glum! And he has blue eyes and•
a swell sunburn, and the snappiest
red Rolls-Royce in the city."
But Dick was, insisting, himself.
"What's his name, Ellen?" he ques-
tioned. "I'd like to know,. myself."
Ellen had relaxed hopelessly up
against Dick. At the moment nothing'
was any use, any more. Suddenly she
was more tired than she had ever
been in all her life—and older, too.
"His name is Tony Brander," she
said. "Anthony Brander, the sugar
man, was his father."
Claire yawned. The yawn was far
too elaborate to be plausible.
"Nothing of the piker about yott,".
she said, "is there?"
Sandy whistled.
"One of those!" he said. "Saw his
picture snapped at the races, in Vogue
last month. He's an orphan, they
said,"
Claire laughed.
"What a break!" she murmured.
But Dick didn't say anything for -a
moment. In fact, his silence made
the whole studio seem silent. So si-
lent that the clock, chiming five -for-
ty-five seemed only an echo to the
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He advanced toward Tony and ex-
tepded his hand.
"I can't pretend that I'm not shock-
ed by this news," he told Tony. "El-
len is very dear to me. She's been
rather like a little sister. I feel that
I'd have liked knowing slightly better
the man she married. But you look
awfully regular, Brander, his voice.
never wavered, "and I know, sudden
as it seems; that Ellen must care for
you very deeply. .And I'rii sure, very
sure, that you'll be good to her."
Tony was flushing. • He was very
young at the, moment. He took the
proffered hand.'
"You can't blame me," he said
grimly, "for wondering. It seemed
rather strange. Ellenasked me to.
wait for her at five, by the door, and
she didn't come. And then—"
Dick's hand was on the boy's shoul-
der. It said as plainly as a voice
could have said:
"Steady, old chap ... steady!"
"I don't blame you one bit," he said
aloud. "I'd_ have felt just as you do,.
myself, if the Situation had been re
versed."
(Sandy's mouth had come shut, He,
too, was standing.
"My name's Mackintosh," he said.
"I should be telling you where to get
off instead of welcoming yoi.t to our
city. I took Ellen to the party last
night, so I suppose I'm directly res-
ponsible-"
Claire interrupted. She allowed
herself to display direct and unvarn-
ished curiosity, in a big way.
"But you knew each other, didn't
you, before last night?" she question-
ed. "After all," she was mimicking,
"I ought to be told."
Beseechingly Ellen's eyes sought
Tony's eyes. Claire mustn't know the
irregularity, the suddenness, of the
whole thing. It would be a beautiful
morsel of gossip for Claire, and her
intimates. An agony of embarrass-
ment lay in Ellen's gaze, and Tony,
seeing, responded to that agony.
Swiftly he had crossed the room,
swiftly his two hands bad enfolded
Ellen's outflung hands.
"Oh," he said quite airly, "Oh,
we've known each other for centuries.
When," Ellen was stunned to hear
him quote the line, "when she was a
tadpole and I was a fish—"
Claire laughed.
"When the world," she said,
even wetter than it is now!"
Sandy was laughing, too.
"Speaking," he said, "of wet worlds,
I think this calls for a party!"
Party? Ellen wanted to scream out
at the thought of a party.
"Oh -no party!" she murmured.
But Dick, with his white face oddly
aloof, was the one who failed her.
"Certainly a party!" he said.
Claire was already at the 'phone.
knock upon the studio door. Her high chuckle was floating
through the room.
Claire was the one who called a "Ellen, she was saying, "yes, mar -
summons. I# wasn't her studio, but riedl Come around and make -it legal.
In the excitement Tony's arm was
around her shoulder. It wasn't a chill
arm any more, but Ellen—wanting his
embrace with keen desperation —
wished that Dick weren't watching.
"Tired, dear?" questioned Tony.
And then, "You're cute as a button
in that get-up!"
Ellen had forgotten the white buck-
ered about it, mutely, l skin, the beads.
But it Dick who spoke. "Let me go, Tony," she said. "I
"This is my place," he said. "I'm must change into my own clothes ..
Just behind this screen—" (She was
acutely conscious of his unspoken,
"Do you dress, and undress, behind
that screen? Alone—with a man—in
this studio?").
"No," she added, "I'rn
really."
Walking sedately she went behind
the screen, and began to pull the
white buckskin frock over her head,
and to untie the endless strings of
gay beads.
From the other side of the screen
sounded a babel of voices. Voices
that talked incessantly.
Dick's voice, saying dispassionate-
ly, "You are a nasty little cat, Claire.
Why don't you try being decent for
a while...."
And then Tony's voice Tony's
voice. Saying,
"If there's going to be a party, it
seems as if it ought to be my party.,
Seems as if I ought to throw it. It
seems as if some of my friends ought
to be in for the big time—"
For if Tony come up searching for
her—how could she explain?
So to one friend, so to another, so
to another.
Continued Next Week)
'was
she was like that.
And then Tony walked into the
room. There was a narrow white line
around his mouth as he looked across
Ellen's head, into the eyes of the
man who was holding her. Ellen,
with her face twisted back awkward-
so that she could watch across her
shoulder, noticed that line and wond-
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Alven. You you haven't been here
before, ever. Who are you?"
Tony's voice was so steady when
he answered that it was almost ab-
surd.
"It may be your place," he said,
"but it's my wife you're holding in
your arras. My wife! Funny, isn't
it?"
You could have cut through the
atmosphere of Dick's studio with a
knife, .the air was so thick with con-
flicting emotions that, thought ' the
hysteria rose again in Ellen's mind,
she couldn't even laugh. It wasn't
possible any more to do anything as
simple as to laugh!
Again, by same miraculous change,
she wasn't a part of the thing. She
was .standing, on the side lines, sh.e
s. reading from a printed page
These people—she didn't know them.
t Dick, with his face gone sudden -
old and greenish in its pallor. No
wa .
Th
Na
fly. t
Tony, her Tony, with pain looking
out of his eyes at her. Not Sandy,
not tired,
with his mouth hanging; ever so Ellen, buttoning her straight little
slk htl o en, blue :ere e dress paused; Tony's
g y, P P ,
Only Claire retained . her noncha- friends why, she'd never even stop -
lance, • ped to consider Tony's friends! She
"So!" said Claire. And then lair hadn't thought' of Tony as being-
guidly she rose from the sofa and she hadn't thought of bin, exactly, in
strolled across the room toward Tony terins of having his own group of
and extended to 'Hirt a !pink -tipped friends! Somehow she didn't want to.
white hand, meet those friends. They'd kitown
"Congratulations," she said. "I sup- Tony for so long—so much longer
pose they're in order," than she had known him, so infinite -
Tony wasn't seeing Claire.—he was ly much longer. All at once, she hat-
ed them. So this was jealousy!
staring at Ellen, though Eller' wasn't
in Dick's; arms any mare.
"I suppose," said Tony, "that they
are!"
It was then that Dick spoke. Dick,
with a vague color corning back into
his cheeks—Dick, with a great effort,.
f. 1, h faith in
him,
ills ti yiitg a grr s three.
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Tony had already taken Claire's
Place at the phone, fie was ringing
up numbers, one after another, Say-
ing—
"Yes,
ay-ingy"'S?es, I've news for you! Yes, I'm
married, '] 'o . not Jane. No, it's
someone you don't know. Oh, today!
Corrie to my post bachelor (Varlet'. 'r
ways up -and -at -it, had just finished!'_
three hours of wood -chopping and.
was starting off for a round of golf
when photographed.
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but man has produced antitoxin and
insulin for their treatment. We pro-
gress through' the use of our intelli-
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for help.
Questions concerning Health, .ad-
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sociation, 184 College St., Toronto,
will be answered personally by fetter.'
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