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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1935-01-10, Page 6PAGE ' SI X i,..:. 1,:: Occieteet MARGARgr . SANGSTgie SYNOPSIS Ellen Church, 1,7 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. AU 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 mew baby, then .a bubbling child, then a charming younggirl , . 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 at last disclosed to Ellen. The news of the husband's death killed Mrs. Church. . . Ellen, "alone, turned to the only contact she knew, the art. agent in New York. Posing, years of posing, was her only talent so she was introduced to two 'leading ar- tists, Dick Alven and Sandy Macin- tosh. Both used her as a model and both fell in love with her . but Ellen, trying to follow the warped philosophy of her mother to "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 his wife. Ellen insists upon .living her own life, maintaing her home in her small room, even though Tony is ,wealthy ...; Jane, of Tony's wealth set, is disappointed in Tony's sudden marriage to Ellen. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Ellen, reading Sandy's note, gritted her teeth and realized that she was indeed in a box. And so it came about that, with the advent of the week -end, Ellen found herself en route to the house party—and in a car with two men. On the way out Ellen had been picturing that home. She had seen it, inher mind's eye, as a magnificent place of stone and stained glass. But 5n a way she had been wrong. For Jane's home, though it was large and stately and magnificent, was magnifi- cent in the early colonial manner. It was a simplicity so reminiscent some- how of a certain old house with its shabby garden, that broughtthe quick tears to EIlen's eyes. And then the door was opening and the butler was unbending from his dignity to give Tony a personal greet- ing. And Tony, with an air of one who belonged in the white house, was instructing the butler to tell Miss Jane that they had arrived. Miss Jane, Miss Jane! As she ap- peared in the doorway of the draw- ing room, she seemed more attractive than she had at any of their previous meetings, Ellen thought. At that moment of meeting, Ellen was glad of Sandy's support rather than for Tony's. For ,Sandy was barging in with his usual carefree manner. Now the three of them were fol- lowing Jane into the drawing room to meet Mother, and to have tea. Mother—a' faint reflection of Jane herself—offered a greeting from •be- hind the heavy silver service, while from around the room rose shouts: "Hello, Tony, it's about time you were getting here!" "How's the boy -how's the married man!" There were quick introductions = introductions to people whom Ellen hadmet only on certain magazine pages. Sandy had already disappeared with the girl Margie, who was among those present. Ellen had seen hint drag her, unprotesting, to a window seat behind a flowing damask drapery, Ellen was telling Tony that she took her tea without either ,cream or sugar or lem- on, and Tony, his arm lightly around her waist, was drawing her from one side of the room to the other, saying, "This' is • my wife, y' know!" And, Jack, here, was in my class in coll- ege." Ellen heard herown a voice making, polite responses;. catching the double entente of a sentence here and toss- ing it back. She had dragged off her small hat anda running s rung ng her slim, nervous fingers through the tousle of her curls.—Jane was still standing by the doorway of the drawing room with one hand resting on a bell cord, with the other outspread over her heart. Ellen,through the veil of her own lashes, could see the hurt in Jane's eyes as they followed Tony's broad tweed -covered back down the length of the room. All at once, for the first time since Jane had dawned upon her horizon, Ellen was 'being sorry for the other girl! Jane's mother was g sa,in some- thing, and Ellen bent near to listen. "We're all so fond of Tony," Jane's mother was saying gently. "We've all been anxious to meet his wife. Jane's description of you hasn't been very clear You're so pretty, my dear—" Jane's mother sighed, "and so young. Tony's a very fortunate boy." All at once, impulsively, Ellen's hand was reaching out to touch the hand of the slim woman tinted in silver and amethyst. Here at least, in this mad room, was one oasis one cool, friendly oasis. * * * As Ellen dressed for dinner in the room to which she had been allotted, she felt that she was touching on a BABY'S CLOTHES SHOWN AT MURDER TRIAL Robert Peacock (LEFT), a eistattt prosecutor, holds evidenee introdtleed. it Lindbergh baby murder case, es Arrtlioey Hauck, prosecutor of I;•Ittl t,, erdon county and Capt. John Latetb of New Jersey state police look on, The clothing is that worn by the kid- napped baby at the time of his abe duction and murder,, Bruno ;:Caw rt- mane, indicated for the crime, is ttovte on trial. WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES. part of life so softly upholstered that it was ,unreal. Her suitcase had.. been opened by some unseen but deft maid. Her un- derwear had already been Iaid care- fully in bureau drawers. Ellen was glad that it was pretty! Her best ev- ening frock wasspread out upon' the ber, and beneath it stood her satin slippers. Rather wearily Ellen climbed . out of the dress in which she had jour neyed from the city, but her weari- ness vanished after a warm scented bath, She wondered what time dinner would be served, and whether she would be seated next to Tony at din- ner, While she was wondering, there came a knock at the door, which, with a fluttering of the pulse, she answered,' It was a maid, correct in taffeta and white organdy, Ellen smiled involuntarily at sight of her, and the maid beamed.' back. Here again was friendliness. "Miss Jane," the maid told her, "is having the young ladies in her dress- ing room for a first cocktail. She said to come in negligee—the others will be that way. Just—" the maid was quoting, "a breathing, space be- fore dinner. Her. negligee? As site wrapped it around her small, slender body, Ellen was conscious of its dificiencies. But She did not draw her hand away, eve en though it was held so loosely. then she hadn't expected her negligee to be under observation. It was a plain little thing of dark' figured silk, cut along boyish lines, and with pock- ets. As she knocked upon the door, the mirth died down suddenly, and then Jane's clear, crisp voice called out, "Come in!" Ellen pushed the door wide and en- tered. Ellen feared that she looked as alien, in her plain little coat, as she the felt—for . other- girls s weredressed g in cleverly cut satin, in wide ankled pajamas, in negligees that fell from gleaming shoulders to swish around gleaming slippers. Frankly, as Ellen became one of the group, they ap- praised her, Jane was shaking' the cocktails -- Jane in the white satin that she so often wore; only this time the white satinwas cut with trousers and a mandarin coat that had clever touch- es of peacock blue and silver in its embroidery. Nearby stood the girl Margie, draped against the mantle shelf like one of the loose-limbed debutante dolls that are so boneless and so dec- orative. "Hello, Ellen," said Margie, and there was more warmth in her voice than there had been in Jane's. "Say, I'm glad you brought your boy friend. He's amusing -the one with the whiskers, I mean." Ellen laughed. She didn't dislike Margie. "He thinks ,you're amusing, too," she said, "He's mad to paint you." "Nude?" asked Margie, Her voice had a slight rising' note, "Isn't that the way artists usually paint their WO - men?" Ellen felt her color rising, but she answered levelly. "Some do," she answered, "but not Sandy. He's a fashion reran primar- ily, although he does stunning illus- trations." "Oh," said Margie. That was all. The other girls were bending for- ward, frosted glasses in hand, cigar- ettes held before carefully rouged lips. One of them, a dark young per- son, spoke languidly, "You're the first model fever sawn" she said. "Do you pose for the fig - tire?" • Again Ellett answered as casualty. as she could. "Only for my mother, years ago •--" she told the dark girl. "She was an artist, you see. She was tether. an intpertant artist, You probably wouldn't know . , I'rn afraid that if I wanted to pose it the altogether I couldn't compete with sottie of the Models 'who go in for figure wont, bey own figure-" she laughed, apolo- �r Thursday, January 10, 193S NEW SALES MANAGER. FOR GOODYEAR CO. Announcement is . made by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Canada, Limited, of the appointment of R. W. Richards as General Sales Manager of the Company. Mr. Rich- ards has been for twenty-two years in the sales department of Goodyear of Canada, and has for the past three and a half years been assistant sales manager. Previously to that, he was manager of the truck tire department, getically and smoothed the that shrouded her knees, ' Jane stopped shaking the cocktails. She poured one for herself, with a steady hand. "I won't offer you a glass, Ellen,' she said at last. "I know you don't drink.. You've none of the obvious vices. Is it—" she paused, and the dark girl, whose name Ellen didn't know, went on. "Is it a pose?" drawled the dark girl. "Your Elsie Dinsmore attitude? If so, it's a good one." Ellen stretched f in her eat out front of her, and regarded the toes of her plain little black slippers. "Call it a pose, if you want to,' „, she said,at last. Int not the type YP to smoke and be catty and get tight. One has to be dark and dramatic to get away with that, I fear—" Margie, still draped against the mantel, chuckled. "Atte., kid," said Margie, almost in- audibly. Margie was blonde. Dinner was again a magnificent jumble—all the way from the caviar in its little ice molds to the magnifi- cent birthday cake that was carried in, blazing, by the butler. Ellen didn't sit next to Tony—she sat nest to Sandy, at the extreme end of the table. "Below the salt," Sandy whispered to her. Tony sat at Jane's right. Somebody was toasting Jane. It wasn't Tony. -that was all Ellen could tell. But it was sombody with a voice well bred and assured like Tony's. "There's nothing we can wish her," said the voice, "she has everything!" "Yeah," said Sandy under his breath to Ellen, "not quite everything. We know." Ellen wanted to slap hire -to do more, to murder hint! They danced after dinner, in the same drawing room. When the danc-. itig began, Jane held out herr hand to Tony with an air so proprietary that it gave Ellen a tittle kicked feeling in the pit of her stomach. But she scarcely bad time for any definite feelings, for she was being whirled off in the arms of the stout boy who, like many stout youths, was an ex- ceptionally good dancer. And then somebody was cutting in --one of the Jacks or Jims or Char- leys who had been in Tony's class in college. It was the fourth dance before El- len found herself in Tony's arms -- found herself being steered, with a complete directness of purpose, to- ward a conservatory that opened out of the room in which they danced. "I've got to see you alone," Tony murmured in her 'ear. "This is the queerest situation I've ever been mix- ed up in." "That," said Ellen, "goes double!" "Gosh almighty!" said Tony. Just that: And— "I wonder why I carne--" Ellen asked of hien, very seriously. Tony's hands were holding leers so tightly that her wedding ring bit into the two fingers next to it. "Have they been giving you e, bug- gy ride?" he asked Ellen, "I heard that they looked you over before din - nen Margie told ate," "They tried to," Ellen told him, "but I can take care of myself." 'Sometimes," said 'Cony, "I wish`, you couldn't!" "What 'vas the idea, anyway?" El- len, wanted to know. "This party, t mean. If it hadn't been for Sandy, andfor the way he precipitated me into it, it would have all the earmarks of being an annotmeement for you and Jane of something or other, I feel like' a guilty secret," "You may be guilty," said Tony, 'but .you're to secret no't arty dark silk morel To tell you the truth, Ellen," he admitted, "I don't quite .get the hang of this thing, myself, Believe it or not—when the party came up that night, it was just sheer devilish-•, ness on Jane's part, 1 realized it at the time; it took me off my feet for a moment, She'd said nothing about any party to me, before, She just said it to get your goat. I'm not even• sure it's her birthday, tonight—I nev- er can 'remember dates. I wouldn't have told you this if Sandy hadn't made her come through in a bag way. !!Then he did I was tickled to death. It gave me a chance to be with you again, I told a dozen lies -white ones -about how my friends would feel— and yours— So that was that! Ellen all along had suspected, from Tony's bewilder- ment on the night of the impromptu meeting, that there had been some- thing odd in back of the birthday party arrangements, (Continued Next Week) Hostess (at children's party, to small boy): "Well, my little man, how are you?" John (aged four): "Quite well, thank you, except for a bit of whoop- ing cough." Friend: "Did you fish with flies?" Returning Camper: "Fish with them? We fished with them, camped with them, ate with them and slept' with them." He: "You were no spring chicken when I married you." She: "No, I was a little goose." First Pickpocket: "Why are you reading a fashion paper, Billy?" Second Pickpocket:. "Well, if we are to do business in our profession, we must know where pocekts are worn." ncji' .S/'t^Y'^+ . 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