The Aspermont Star (Aspermont, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1936 Page: 3 of 8
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CHAPTER XXV—Continued
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"Yep. I wouldn't (et myself resent It,
feel that I waa out of luck falling In
tore with a man I couldn't bar*. If
jmn hadn't done that you'd have mar-
ried one of those fellows In the office.
Did yon ever think of that?"
She was In the deep leather chair,
watching htm seriously.
"I suppose that's so."
"It's so of every women like you; It
kit to be so. You were young In lots
•of ways, old In lot# of way*, eager
' and Impulsive and mad to live. You
Just had to run your head Into some-
thing."
"I wonder," Tony said, frowning
faintly, looking away.
"You changed for I.nrry; you grew
up. You were— well, like those picture*
In Bendy's book, when yon first met
iilm. You grew older and wiser and
lovelier."
"And better and more beautiful?"
Tony suggested In the pause.
"You know It's true. You're one of
the successful women of San I'ran-
•clsco now. You're certainly one of the
loveliest."
. '•Joe," Tony began, after a pause.
He pung down an armful of logs.
•Shoot."
"Do you suppose a person ever could
«ome to be glad of—of anything like
ttiat—like what hurt me and humiliated
■M and made me bate myself and ev-
ery one else?"
"I think," Joe said, standing pant-
ing on the hearth, looking down at her,
"I think that*. Just one of the things
one might be glad of."
"A la Browning," Tony suggested.
'"Then welcome each rebuff th:it turns
earth's smoothness rough."'
"Exactly—a la Browning. And a la
every one who ever really grew up.
Larry's never really grown up. you
know, and neither has Caroline.
Tony was not listening. Her eyes.
Used In reluctance and apprehension,
were looking straight through the east-
ern windows toward the stretch of
term road that curved to the highway
iff: mile away9HHHHH| 'i'vjV.vs-*
"Company I" she exclaimed disgust-
edly.
"Ob. hell." Joe mild simply.
"And I don't know that car, and I
don't recognize that man who's driv-
ing—"
"It's a chauffeur—there's a man and
woman In the back—damn!" Joe said,
looking over her shoulder. They turned
toward the terrace door and together
went out to meet the visitors In the car.
"It's Larry,* Tony said then. "I.nrry
and Caroline." She dropped a sud-
denly cold band to meet Joe's, warm
and hard and waiting. "I'm In for it
now H
The newcomers descended; there was
• little laughing confusion of hand-
clasping and kissing on the terrace.
Larry was heavier than he had been,
Tony thought, but as handsome and
.brown, as shrewd of gray eyes as ever;
Caroline was at the peak of her exotic
and startling beauty. In dashing black
and white, with a great scarf tied
under her chin, gauntlets with flaring
cuffs, a great silver fox skin linked
about her shoulders, and a hat about
six weeks In advance of the mode on
her satin black hair, she Instantly made
Tony, In her brown pumps and pleated
skirt and sweater, reel like a little
girl.
•Tony, luck to llml you here'" Larry
•aid. "I was going to ring you up to-
morrow."
Did he mean It? Or was he Just a
little confusedf Tony could not (ell.
the was only overwhelmingly conscious
that the dreaded moment hail come:
she was speaking to Lawrence Hellumy
' again.
"You didn't let us know I" the stam-
mered.
"You must botb lunch with us to-
morrow," said Caroline.
"When'd you get In, Larry" This was
Joe.
"Just this morning. We hadn't been
In an hour before we thought of com-
ing down here. I tried to telephone,
hut they said you couldn't be reached
by telephone."
"I have one, though. But It's not
In the book."
"Joe, wlmt's this sbout Rio?" de-
manded hHralster.
"Oh, they want me to go down there
for three years for the Foundation. It'a
• pip of a chance."
"And are you going? Let's not let
ftlm. Tony I"
"It's a wonderful chance." Tony said.
"Bat let's stop freeling out here and
get warm!"
They all went In to the lire; Larry
■ent the driver away with carofut In-
•troctlonsi
"fiet your dinner at the hotel, end
mm tack—at nine. Joe, you can give
■ dinner?"
"Clan we. Tenyr
•Joe. we're burled In food. We've
we've enchiladas, we've alligator
ilkfe-
•Oi. feWl" Larry aald. He gripped
Jtm taw* Mi a hearty, happy man
acr, He caat always tare been like
Veay laaagw, Teaf, Jen,
"And how are you all—your aunt,
and Cliff and Brands?"
"All flourishing. My brother Bruce
has a political Job In Sacramento now;
and he atays up there. CHITS married,
you know, and they have a baby girl.
Bendy has two boys, and feels that she
ought to write a book to tell other
mothera how babies should be raised."
"And when'd you come down. Tony?"
asked Caroline.
"Joe picked me up at Uemly's this
mornlug. There iva* a big lied Cross
thing yesterday, and I had to do it"
"And how's the old city office?''
"Just the same. The same old story.
Typewriters clicking, and the boys
washing themselves and dripping all
over their collars, and llefsy Ross
mooning ahout some murderer's little
gray wistful-eyed mother."
"You doing signed stuff?"
"Three or four times a week. v\nd
1 run n woman's page; we have two
new girls In the olllce now, both Stan
ford graduates."
"I'm going round there tomorrow."
"Are you going to have your ollice
again upstairs?"
"It all depends. Caroline hates San
Francisco."
"Yes, hut Caroline doesn't neccs
sarily have to stay there. I think Joe
and I could have a very nice time In
lllo," Caroline said for herself. "Yon
can sec us off!"
"You've only been married live
months!" Joe observed Innocently.
"Five months or five minutes," Caro-
line said, "I.nrry can't exited me to
sit up there alone In the H'uirimmt
while he runs his old newsi>uper."
"She likes to pretend she's jealous,"
Larry said, with a little laugh that
wus not quite easy.
"I don't like to pretend anything of
the kind," Caroline retorted warmly.
Tony iierceived. with a sense of shock,
that there was more In this than met
the eyes Some earlier quarrel was
lending depth to this one. "I say seri-
ously that I'd like to go to South
America with Joe. If he'll take me."
Caroline said, adding with a coquettish
laugh, "I'hll Polhemus is down there!"
"Well, we'll discuss It later," Larry
put in, temporizing, as she paused,
looking evenly at her brother. And
Tony saw the dark angry red come
up under his skin.
She went out Into the kitchen, when
Caroline went upstairs, and began the
familiar Inspection of Icebox and cup-
boards. Wood crackled in the stove,
and Tony, dodging the green thick
smoke as she put back the Iron plate,
found Larry beside her.
"This Is a lot of fuss, our staying."
"Oh, no. It's not. truly! We thought
Cliff and Mary Itose might come. All
I'm doing—" Tony said, bringing forth
a half-consumed ham, and hunting In
Began the Familiar Inspection ot
lea Box and Cupboards.
a table drawer for her longest knife.
"All I'm doing Is to reheat the en
chllailas and cut the ham, and—-let's
aee. heat up biscuits, and open plum
Jam. and make a unhid."
Lurry was not listening, and she
knew he was not. He snld In a low
tone, "Tony, how are you?"
"Perfect!" ahe told |lm, smiling.
"No, hot I mean—how are you?"
The HUle Intimate significance did
nM escape her, but there was no hint
or flactustloa la her steady wide-open
blue eyes.
"Happy 1* she told him, with a nerv
ous shied of laughter.
"I'm glad,' he aald la a low tone,
with his narrowed gese keenly n*e.i
oa her. "De yea nmllae that It Is more
than two yean Man we halve seen
ssch other?"
"Two sad a half, aheoet," Tony
agreed. "It waa spring."
"Tea know I waa easy Mr
"Joe toM ma. Uantt* wrote htm.
yea know. Aad when I veaM «m
■ A1.: . vfv:-
It is not delag tbetttif ve
do, that makea life
WWC a rrio«.
Whethet the "Pate"
Remedy You Use
is SAFE?
Don't Entrust Your
Own or Your Family's
Well - Being to Unknown
Preparations
bands went oa steadily alldag the Arm
pink bam; she lifted each slice on her
knife and laid It evenly oa the blue
dolphin platter.
"How well do you like him, Tony?"
"Oh, tremendously!"
"And are you going to marry hltn?"
Larry aaked.
Iler eyea clouded, and ahe gave him
a dubious look, slowly shaking her
bead. "No," ahe said.
"Then may I say something to you,
Tony?—because I have an opportunity
now and may not have another. May
I say that I'm terribly—terribly sorry?"
"I know what you mean," Tony said,
her bright eyes fixed steadily on his,
the color coming up quickly under her
clear brown skin.
"Of course you know what I mean.
Of course you know, and I know,
what we meant to each oilier. I iiiitl
been III. I was baillv shaken by Huth's
death, Caroline was . riyht there—"
Larry said. .Mid as her eyes n.uiowed
uncomfortably and she made a 'gesture
of restraint he went on, "My dear
Tony, tills Is no disloyalty. Caroline
and I hadn't been married six weeks,
hadn't been married six days helore
we both knew thai il was a mistake.
We'd been drawn Into it—lulled Into
It; you know what the circumstances
were. There In that little place, with
Itulh's mother dying, nurses there, the
doctor coming every day, we lived as
much alone as if we'd been on an is-
land. I thought—shed told me that
she cared for I'hll Polhemus; we'd
seen him out In China. I never thought
of myself at ull—
"And then only a few days after
Huth's death she told me—told me
that 1 had been the one always—even
In the early days of Utah's first know-
ing me, when Caroline wus a child.
She said we would go to Paris, enter-
tain, she said that that was why she
had refused I'hll."
"I rather thought that It was some-
thing like that." Tony said, In the
pause.
The man followed her, a little awk-
wardly. to the table, and sat down
fucing her across Its end. Tony had
a soup plate before her; she begun
the concoction of a salad dressing,
iw>urlng oil, measuring vinegar, occa-
sionally tasting the mixture on the tip
of her linger.
"Tony," Ijirry said, "If 1 had come
straight back, after Ituth's death,
would yon huve been waiting for me'.'"
"You know I would " Tony answered,
with a full, steady lo.A.
"1 failed yon," 1-arry muttered, look
Ing away. "Caroline's Interest Is
clothes— men—1" be said. There was
a pause.
"Oh, yes! Old Caroline <ec her chin-
chilla coat?" Tony asked cheerfully,
ending It. The man looked up In sur-
prise.
"How do you mean?" *
"Caroline used to say that If ever
she married again the first thing she'd
make her husband buy her would be
a chinchilla cout."
"Our marriage was a mistake—we
both see It now." Uirry said, paying
no uttcntion. It's ull like a dream—a
bud dream."
"But you dont mean, Larry, that
you and Caroline—already are think-
lug of a break?"
"I've come buck here to work," he
snld doggedly. "She says she de-
spises San Francisco society and
hates the West. Her heart Is set now
on going to Hlo with Joe—you heard
her Just now. I can't go; I don't want
to go. 1 want to stay here and dig Into
my Job." lie looked up. and his dark
face brightened with the smile she re-
membered so well, Larry's masterful,
slow smile. "And now and then take
you to lunch," he said.
Instead of smiling in return she
slowly shook her head, her face very
sober.
"No, no more of that! That's what
I paid for so dearly, Larry, knowing
that you belonged to her—to Ituth, ami
pretending that I had any right."
"Isn't curing for each other a right?"
"I thought so then. I'm older now.
I sea things differently now."
"You're changed." he said. "In all
the lovely ways lovelier, and In so
many other ways changed. You're—
definite, now. You're — outstanding.
Tony. I don't ask you to forgive me
I was confused with the suddenness
of everything—I was changed, too
from my Illness. Everything at home
seemed far away and dreamy: the
only realities were tbe villa, and the
hot sunshine, and Caroline all In white
Mng tremendously helpful and kind
the one lowly living thing In all our
lives • Can't yon understand?"
"I do understand," Tony aald. "And
I think." she added almost timidly. I
think you admire Caroline m re than
you think you da, Larry. It aeems to
me. now, since yea are married—Since
yeti did marry ee— au aeua *
So soon after Uutba death. Yea. we
both feel that; we both feel that for
that ery reason we have ao right la
separate." he riitHK, aa aha heal
tated. "But it waa eto elf thoee mar-
rtsgea that could only hate taken place
la esaetiy that way. Rjn M waited
■ year. It we hai ~L'"
"But you are not always unhappy,
LsrryT
"Not slwaya. At base there's some-
thing that holds- us together. Only
she's quarrelaome, Tony, and Jealous."
"I see the Jealousy."
"She's Intensely Jealous of you," the
man said.
"Of uie? It seems to me the shoe
ought to he on the other foot."
"Ilut she knows, of course, how I
felt—how I feel for you."
"I wonder how Caroline would have
felt If' all llulh's money hadn't been In-
volved?" Tony asked Idly.
"It wasn't ull Ituth's money," Larry
reminded her quickly. "She wrote Joe
of the legacies."
"And Joe got a splendid slice, and
Joe's the one, that ought to have It,
loo," Tony said, "lie helps so many
lioiipu-. There's no end to Joe's good-
ness I"
"And yet you can't love him? Tony,
Tony, Tony, how blind I've been! It's
dipped hsr H
"And Vet You Can't Lov# Him."
sickening," Larry said, with a rueful
smile, "to have had—to have had all
the difficulties in one's life that I had
to meet, and to have fell, as I did feel,
that If I ever were free I could make
my own destiny so wonderful, so happy,
and then to have had my chance and
instantly thrown It away."
"Were you terribly young when you
married Ituth. Larry?"
"Twenty-one."
"A hoy."
"That was all."
"And did you love her?"
"I admired her tremendously. She
was a great horse woman, you know,
and she had a splendid stable. I re-
member thinking her glorious, gallop-
ing along those lanes In autumn, and
telling her men In the stables what to
do with this fine horse and that. Yes."
he said, with the thoughtful expression
she liked best of all on his handsome
face, "l always loved lluth. Not—but
then there are different ways of loving.
I think she never had any misgivings.
I think she was never anxious, until
you came along, and everything goi out
of hand."
"That's the thing I find It hard to for-
give myself."
"One can't always help those things,
Tony. We didn't—after all, we didn't
— what slntll I say?—betray her."
"Not In actual fact, no, 1 didn't."
Tony said In a lighter tone, as she rose
to carry her salad dressing to the Ice-
box. "I didn't surrender. There were
times — " She smiled ul him over her
shoulder,
"Hut we didn't," she said. "I re-
member praying about It. hanging on to
my code until my fingernail* were al-
most torn out. Hut I'm gbid now—
every woman Is glad afterward when
she remetn l>ers."
Coining back, she sut down at the
table with Idle hands, looking at him
frankly.
"For that part- tin; and tlaine and
lireathlessni'ss and Mot eating your din-
ner and lying awake all nlglit—that
part Isn't the Important purt, is It? It
never ha* lasted. It never will."
"Couldn't It?" the man asked, a dark
Hush en his face, his voice low.
"No, for It Isn't the right, the wise
nml true part." Tony answered. "And,
fur the rest, Larry, seriously, seriously,
htiven'l you snd Caroline a great deal
In common? Haven't you two more In
ciiinnion than you and I ever could have
hud? You like dinners chinchilla ousts
-I despise dinners. I despise chin
t-hilln coats!".
n you two hsd s handsome apart
m.-nt In Ssa Francisco, entertained a
g, .,l deal, were in on opera nights snd
polo meeta—"
what are you talking about?" the
man ssked almost roughly. "You're
not yoe'n Surely not trying to—trying
in i*rsua4e aw that Caroline sad I are
rightly ■■Mil It I tell yea it wapaae
or those imaWvo. atafM thing! «**
•n snd wmaaa only do when they haw
when they'ee
auddenly to wake up, to come back te
our old point of view. We said tbea,
'We must make a go of this, we've
drawn the attention of all our world
to our marriage, we can't confess fail-
ure!' But from that moment to this
we've never thought alike, we have
nothing in common, we are only mak-
ing each other miserable!"
Tony looked at him speculatively.
"I noticed the gray Imlr. Lurry."
"That begun when 1 wus ill. Oh,
Tony, If I could only go hack the last
eight months and huve It ull to live
over again! It was so simple—so easy,
Just t<> bring Huth's mother home and
to come out here to you! But it seemed
to he a time when I had to plunge
madly ahead—dizzy with freedom, per-
haps, feeling that now I could do any-
thing, travel, buy a country place, have
horses, do ail the things that of late
years hadn't interested her—
"And within a few weeks Caroline
and 1 were somehow engaged, and even
then I wasn't taking It ail seriously;
even then I didn't reflize thai she was
in earnest. We liar-' said at first that
of course we would wait the whole year
—then she began to—well, and 1 did,
too. I'm not blaming anyone but my-
self. We were there at the villa, with
everything to settle, discuss, decide,
and since we were going to be married
some day, why not at once, and quietly,
and not tell anyone for six or eight
months?"
"Larry," Tony said serlouvy, "you
don't have to tell me. Nobody know*
better than I how easily one can do a
thing In one mood and wonder about
il iti another."
It was the tlrst touch of anything liko
sympathy, like tenderness she had
shown him, and lie grasped at It
eagerly.
•loin only promise me till* tl, t
whatever the complications of the next
year are. whatever Caroline and 1 de-
cide to do, you'll be my friend. I owy
have your friendship, mayn't 1, Totij ?
You and l may see each other, and tails
things over, and Ko back to the <Jd
days when wo used to go to lunch at
one and talk until half-past three?"
"I don't like to remember those
days!" Tony said, smiling. And In lh«
silence Joe put his head in ut the door
and asked: "Do we eat In here?" and
In r talk with Lflrry was over. The
door between the living room and the
kitchen was opened, and Caroline and
Joe began to set a table In by the lire
Larry took the hig leather chair akd
sat there staring ut the flumes, and oc-
casionally putting a word Into the 'les-
uitory talk.
"Whal'il you do with this plice,
Joe, If you go to Itlo?" he asked.
"Leave it just as it Is. Turn the key
in the door."
"What about the dog?"
"Oh, lie goes:" Tony said quickly.
"Any more talk of your going to New
York, Tony?" Caroline asked.
"Not now, no."
"I got my coat there," Caroline said.
"The dlvlnest chinchilla you ever na*.
I'll show It, jo you tomorrow."
Tony did not look at Larry.
"I remember you wanted one."
"Heady, Joe," Tony said. The saia.1
w as green and crisp In Its bowl; the
enchilada* smoking hot. Joe brought a
great slack of brown toast fo the table.
"Docs anyone want cort'ee now? No-
body wants coffee until later. Joe,"
Tony said.
"Are you (t<,lng to town tonight,
Tony?"
"No. Not tonight."
"Slaying with lirendn?"
"No." Tonv, her face suddenly pal
Ing, but her eyes like sparkling blue
stars, burst Into Joyous laughter and
caught .l<>e around the neck as she
passed his chair at the table. "Oh. Joe,
darling, we'll have to tell them!" sl>«
said.
Larry shoved his chair hack a little,
facing them with « faintly knitted
brow. Caroline's face was a stody la
hurt Incredulity.
"You two ore engaged," she said
quickly, as one not to he surprised
(TO Ut: COM I WED J
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* preparation you or your family
are taking for the relief of headaches
is SAFE to use regularly is your
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Me will tell you that before tbe
discorcru of Bayer Aspirin most
"pain remedies were advised
against by physicians as bad for the
stomach and, often, for the heart.
Which is food for thought if you
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Scientists rate Bayer Aspirin
among the fastest method* yet dis-
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ritis and neuralgia. And the experi-
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You can get Genuine Bayer
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by asking for it by its full nsaas,
BAYEH ASPIRIN. Make it n
point to do this —and see tint yen
get what you want.
Bayer Aspirin
Properties of Dye*
The layman usually thinks of dyte
as substance* that have color. This
concept I* not quite correct, says
Thomas M. Heck In the Chlcn^o Trlh-
une. It I* essential that a dye hava
two other proper!lea; It most sttach
Itself to the fabric to which It I* ap-
plied and it must stay there to a rea-
sonable degree In aplte of washing and
exposure to west her ft Just hsppeoe
that heretofore the only property that
we desired to attach to fabrics waa
that of color.
There Is a certain coal tar dys long
known to the textile Industry as mar-
tlus yellow. It Had been observed that
mot ha eteered clear of woolen gnoda
dyed with this particular dyo. Unfor-
tunately, no other worth-while dyea
could be found which possessed this
property.
Aa Bachaatlac Land
Lngano. la southern Switzerland, ||
one of the enchanting spots in the lea* i f
mt the Aipa Here the vegetation, cole*
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He er the
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So many people who are Ignorant
don't mind It.
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The new Cole-
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Burners ars easily regulated <
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