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‘SISTERS IN LOVE’
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By KATHLEEN MILLER
Tiie story thus far? Sue Francis
is in love with Michael Burke, who
himself is in love with Sue’s older
sister, Cynthia, to whom he be
comes engaged, Cynthia has been
married (before, but As divorced.
Mrs. Francis, the mother of the
two girls, becomes seriously HL
and Cynthia’s weddin is postponed
ed, Sue has accepted, without
enthusiasm, a proposal of marriage
from Carey Andrews, Michael’s
cousin. Cynthia’s ex-husband re
turns and creates a scene which
Michael sees and misunderstands.
In a row with the police the ex-
husband is shot; Sue explains to
Michael the real circumstances,
Sue and Carey are to be married
immediately.
CHAPTER XI
Carey stood looking at her hard,
like a successful gladiator who
gives ho quarter. ’Intentions?”
Sue repealed after him in a tiny
voice. “Oh) yes, of course, I’ll phone
Aunt Sally and perhaps she cap
come over, or send her
stay with mother,
Will j. .. ‘ *
phone?”
■She was being
polite to him. Carey seemed almost
to wince under it.
lently, dropped his
table and followed
of the living room.
"Sit down, won’t you? I’ll only
be a moment.” Sue left him there
and walked blindly across the hall
where the phone hung upon the
wall just inside the kitchen. She
dialed a number with a shaking
maid to
r, Come in, Carey,
you mind waiting while I
coldly, distantly
He
hat
her
j
came in si-
on the hall
to the door
finger.
“Miss
Who is calling, please? I’ll see if
she’s in” , . . from the butler’s
bland voice, as a preliminary to
Aunt Sally’s excited questionings.
“Sue, darling? 'Oh. and how is Em
ma? Oh, you have no idea how I
worry about her. But of course you
haven’t! You’re all too much upset
and overworked to spend time
thinking of poor little me. If you’d
just phone oftener -— Come over?
Well, now . . . Oh, are you? But
how romantic! Isn’t it? Can you
give me ten minutes to change?
But of course it’s no trouble!
been meaning to come over,
simply too rushed . . .
Sue swung the receiver back
the hook and stood staring at
moment:. “I’d better wear my suit,’
she was thinking dully, “and my
white hat and gloves ...”
Long before Miss DeForrest
drove up in her cliauffeured sedan
Sue was dressed, -even to the hat
and gloves, and walking, the floor
of her bedroom, back and forth,
like a caged'’'animal across the blue
plaid rug. She’d say good-by to mom
at the very last minute, not giving
those keen eyes of her mother’s too
long a time to search her face,
which must be saying all to plain
ly how miserable she was.
how badly frightened.
“I could tell him I’ve changed
my mind,” she was thinking vapid
ly. ‘ “And mom would just stay
here . . . and Cynthia keep on
-working— I could back out—”
But all the time she know that she
was committed irrevocably, that,
■there was no going backward. And
the realization weighed like stone
in the bottom of her heart.
Then she heard Aunt Sally’s high
voice floating up the stairs. “But
I hurried so fast, Mr, Andrews . . .
•or may I call you Carey? . . . that
I declare I'm all thrown together
haphazardly! And where is the
■dear little nearly-wed?”
Sue hurried to the head of the
•stairs. “Hello, Aunt Sally! It was
lovely of you to come. Mom’s so
anxious to see you. Won’t you come
upstairs?” She met Carey’s dark
■eyes over Miss DeForrest’s crisply
waved head and turned away.
“Your dress is sweet, Aunt Sally.”
“Oh, my dear, do you like it?”
asked the older woman in mild sur
prise. “It’s simply a little thing I
picked up to lounge around in.”
. Sue peeped around her mother’s
door. “Company, mom,” she an
nounced.
“Hello,
cis held
friend.
“Then
De Forrest’s residence.
onto
it a
And
with his hands thrust deep into his
pockets, vertical lines between his
brows, His head snapped up as Sue
came slowly down the stairs, draw
ing the while gloves over
der hands,
“Ready, Sue? And—by
—prisoners on their way
tion have been known to
same look that you have on your
face,”
“With as good cause, do you
think?” Sue glanced at him levelly;
then flushed
again, hastily,
open for her silently, followed her
out, and shut it behind them,
“Seriously, is it that (bad?”
joking note was gone from his
as they walked in the warm
light to the waiting gray sedan.
“It could be worse,” Unexpect
edly, Sue found a laugh that she
didn’t know she had left. It cheered
both of them, as her eyes crinkled
at him shyly,
you’re the
worst of it.
■Friday,
judiciously,
moved to
a busy day for Sue
Mom’s packing
hard to keep the tears from her
eyes, as she piled plain stacks of
nighties into one corner of the suit
case, hankies into another, and
Mom’s best quilted robe on top of
them.
Then she plopped down beside
Mom’s bed to coax an unwilling
wave into the thin gray hair be
side that pallid face, to put a soft
pink glow on the ends of her fin
ger nails, using the last of Cyn
thia’s very best nail polish.
“I want you to be the prettiest
patient they have,” she told her
mother, smiling through her heart
ache.
Then, with Mom all ready and
awaiting the ambulance, 'Sue hur
ried into her own room to get her
hat, and whisk a last film of pow
der across her nose. She dropped
into the bench in front of her
dressing table, and stared deject
edly at the reflection, that stared
just as dejectedly back. *
“I feel so old,” she whispered.
"So grown up . . . Why do I still
look such a baby?” Then, a vagrant
thought: “I wonder it Carey minds
. . . my looking such an infant?”
She had to laugh at that. “I don’t
see how he can. He seems satis
fied— In fact, he’s the only man
—except Tod, of course, if he counts
—who ever sees me at all when
Cynthia is in the’ room. He must
■like me,” she had to admit to her
self, honestly, wishing. she didn’t
have to think about him at all.
At noon Cynthia . came home, having secured a" half day off. The'
two girls ate a sketchy lunch. And
they managed to coax Mom to sip
a few spoonfuls of broth; Mom,
so obviously frightened and wor
ried, and who just ag obviously
was trying not to show it.
The ambulance was late, in com
ing; that made it harder. To be
entirely ready, to pace up and down
through the small rooms, unable to
sit still, unable to meet each oth
er’s eyes—it Was nerve wracking
to both of the girls, already edgy
with strain. Then, finally, at 2
o’clock, the ambulance, huge, white
"‘up
and
de-
was
her slen*
ttie way
to execu-
Wear the
and looked away
He held the door
The
voice
sun-
‘It’s quite likely that
one who’s getting the
decided Dr. Reynolds
Mrs, Francis could be
the sanitarium. It was
There was all
to do, and it was
Sally,” and Emma Fran-
out a thin hand to herher
____ I’ll just run along .
Sue kissed her mother’s cheek
riedly. ” ’Bye, mom.”
There were quick tears in
mother’s eyes. “Haw silly of me,
said mom tremulously, “but I feel
hur
her
“How silly of me,”
"hnL T fried
as If i "were losing you already.”
“Oh, mom!” scolded Sue gently.
“As if you ever will. Now be nice
to .'Aunt Sally, and don’t growl at
her as you do at me.”
“You’ll have 'Sally thinking I’m a
regular dragon! Good-by, dear.”
And mom’s tender smile followed
her to the door.
Carey, too, seemed .to have been
unable to sit quietly,'He was wan
dering about the small hallway,
most top
Exhibition
the cham-
Shropshire
Ontario sheep took
prizes in the Regina
held August 1st with
■pionship honors in the
class going to the entry of B, L.
Smith, Oakville, Ont, J. P. Ken
nedy, of llderton, Ont., had a
championship entry in the South
down class.
and somehow terrifying, .slid
the driveway to the side door,
Mom, little and pale, with a
termined smile on her lips,
carried into it.
“Comfy, Mom?” The ambulance
was sliding -along slowly and
smoothly, and the girls were beside
Mom, Sue with a warm grip on her
mother’s cold .hand, her small face
smiling as bravely as it could. “I-Iow
do you like your private car . . .
and the chauffeur’s livery?”
“I think he should take some
thing for it!” whispered Mom. in
a valiant attempt at her younger
daughter’s brand of humor. And
the two girls laughed at that, rather
tremulous laughter, but still it was
laughter. For the duration of the
trip they were all resolutely cheer
ful.
The sanitarium didn’t look like a
sanitarium at all. More like a coun
try home, with its green terraced
lawn, its clustered shrubs and
shaded walks. Oh, I’m glad it’s like
that and not like a hospital, thought
Sue. and her heart lightened.
“This’ll be like a week-end in the
country,” she told her mother. “Do
you suppose I could persuade them
to let me stay, too?”
And She wished uneasily that she
could stay here, anywhere, rather
than go back to town and ibe mar
ried. Married—-to a man who, if it
wasn’t that he imagined himself in
love, would probably hate and
despise her for a mercenary, de
signing woman. “It 'doesn’t change
things that I wanted the money
Mom. and not for myself,” she
fleeted grimly. “That could
easily be simply an excuse
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the window of
pretty room-—the
paying for—--and
stood at
cool and
Carey was „ , .
unhappily, unseeingly down
garden where flowers rioted
She
Mom’s
room
stared
at the
and any number of contented birds
were chirping sleepily in the after
noon heat. It was peaceful and
lovely and refreshing, and Sue was
unconsciously steeping her soul in
its beauty before going back to the
town.Town! But how were 'they go
ing to get back to town? “Cyu,”
gasped Sue, turning quickly to
where her sister was rearranging a
bunch of marigolds in. a flat 'black
bowl that sat on the low
side her mother’s bed. ’
we going to get home? I was only
concerned with
never thought—
Cynthia looked up, with
smooth and golden laugh rippling
from her throat. “It’s all right. I
thought about it. Carey
for us. and Michael, too,
get away.”
“Oh,” said Sue flatly,
again to the window.
I look, she was thinking,
is bounded by Carey,
this and Carey is going to do that.
I’m so tired of hearing about him!
When he came with Michael,
who evidently did get away, be
side him in the gray sedan—she
was very cool to him. her manner
saying quite plainly that she didn’t
give two snaps of her small fingers
for any number of 'black-headed
men. Mom was kissed tenderly by
both her daughters, and they were
all very brave. No one cried—
openly. “Good-by, mom. You’ll be
swell here. It’s marvelous” , . ,
“Yes, of course I shall be. It’s love
ly. Good-by, clears” . . . “We’ll be
here Sunday tor sure. ’By, mom.”
It was
so small,
room; to
an empty
aided not
much to unhappy to be very rude
to Carey. Curled up in her own
corner of the seat, she rode in sil
ence, feeling her familiar world
torn to shreds, feeling the future
black and the present as quicksand
beneath her feet. Carey respected
her mood and ’ was silent, too, his
brown hands steady on the wheel,
his dark face grave.
“Thank you.” she told him, and
smiled briefly when saying good
night. She walked into the house
that
were ------------- . -
one. And Sue shivered in the still
ness.
“Come in and we’ll raid the ice
box for
Michael
silently
“Guess
said Michael, “May I come over—
later?”
Cynthia lifted her heavy eyelids.
There were dark smudges of fa
tigue under her eyes. “Do you mind
. . . not tonight, Michael. I’ll grab
a bite and go to bed early. Good
night.” He kissed her lingeringly
and followed' Carey down to the
gray sedan.
.Sue was making coffee. The in
viting aroma was seeping out into
the hall. “What are we eating to
night?” asked Cynthia, coming into
the kitchen and dropping wearily
into a chair beside the table.
“Crackers and cheese and jam.”
Sue was tired, too. Her voice was
flat, her feet dragged as she walk
ed from the refrigerator. “Is that
all right?” Her eyes 'da-red her sis
ter to say it wasn’t.
“Oh, perfectly. Sue—” Their
eyes met, then—they were sobbing
in each other’s arms, not trying to
choke it back any longer. “I was
a pig about Michael and you,” sob
bed Cynthia. “I knew you wanted
him, but I didn’t care. But now—•
isn’t it all right? Now you have
Carey—”
“It’s all right.” said Sue. Do I
really mean that? she was wonder
ing. “Let’s not cry any more. It’s
so silly . . . Miom’S going to be well
soon. She has to be . . ‘So let’s not
worry about it any more. Yes ... I
do have Carey—”
The next day was Sue’s wedding
day. It didn’t seem real; she didn’t
believe it, even as she pressed the
filmy blue ’dress that she had worn
to Cynthia’s announcement party,
carefully mended as to the ruffle
■ the thorn had snagged. So she gave
Up trying to believe it, and went
automatically about, ’ doing the
things that had to be done, as if
there were no wedding looming a
few hours away,,
“I wish I were-getting married,
1 too.” sighed Cynthia. She was lin
gering over a last cup of morning
coffee preparatory for .her usual
frantic, last-minute dash for work.
“If I just hadn’t promised to work
at the telephone office for another
month! But it’s no fun getting mar
ried if you can’t have a honeymoon.
Where are you and Carey going for
yours?”
“Honeymoon?” said Sue, startled.
She looked at her sister with wide
young eyes. “Why-—I don’t know
... I hadn’t thought*—”
(Continued Next Week)
Next Week; Sue and Cynthia
have a very plain talk, in which
their very different notions of the
inarriagc arc tlenionstratcd*
marriage itself takes places
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Carey did
hard to leave her there,
so lonely in that big, big
think of going home to
house. Resolutely Sue de-
to think at all. She was
was dark and still, as if it
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dinner,” suggested Cynthia,
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we'd better not tonight,”
The Hurondale Women’s Insti
tute held their July meeting on the
last day of July, This meeting was
a pjchic for the families of the
Institute members and was held at
Grand Bend with 125 present. Af
ter a bountiful supper served at
0.30 p,m,t a program of sports was
enjoyed, under the direction of
, Mrs, Jas. Kirkland and Mrs. Wm.
Etherington. The following are the
results of the races. In the penny
scramble for the children under 5
years, Barbara Kernick. found the
most pennies; girls five and under,
Barbara Kernick, Sandra * Taylor;
girls five to eight years, Phyilis
Cann, Mary Skinner; boys five to
eight, Hugh Rundle, Dalton Skin
ner,
gap, Patsy Tuckey
twelve,
young
Tucl
Mrs,
ey;
Wm,
ladies and Oscar Tuckey’s side for
the men. Nona Pym won the guess
ing weight contest. After the sports
the members enjoyed the various
amusements of Grand Bend ’before
departing to their homes.
girls, eight to ten, Jane Mor-
boys eight to
Wayne Tuckey, John Rym;
ladies, Lois Pym, Patsy
kicking the slipper, ladies,
Perkins; men, Oscar Tuck-
the clothes-pin relay Mrs,
Kernick’s side won for the
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VOTES
At ft
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first and ......_
given to a by-law ajithorizsing the
sale of $250,00(1 debentures to
cover the erection of the proposed pew court house. The by-law will
be submitted to the Ontario Muni
cipal Board for approval before it
is given the third reading.
Favored by IT
Considerable discussion for and
against the by-law resulted in its'
submission on, a division vote of
17-7. As follows: For—-George Ginn,
A. Alexander, Stanley Machane,
Elmer L Farrish, John Armstrong,
Cecil Wheeler, John Pepper, Ar
thur J. Amy, A. Nicholson, Walter
H. Woods, Hugh Berry, L D. Bee
croft, Brown Smyth, J, J". Evans,
R, B. Cousins, R.
W. Tuckey, 17.
Against — Cecil Watson, William HH
Winter, N. R. Dorrance, Roy Ratz,
R. E. Turner, 7,
Absent
George MacEwan,
Nott, Clinton;
Bly th,
Lease Airport
Another by-law
the leasing
Fort Albert
Assets Corporation for
of the Huron County Plow
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