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to them again?’’ the old man said,
doubtfully.
■ I suppose we couldn’t!” she an
wwerea smiling. “No, and I wouldn’t
have you go in with that cold,
-either 1 I’ll go in about five and
stay at the Plaza, and have a really
nice time, so don’t give It another
thought! You have to go this morn
ing. Gibbsr
Now 1 he answered, rising.
Tm painting a lovely society lady,
weight three hundred, and a mus
tache I* ,
Tommy laughed gayly, danced
with his father to the door, and
watched until the roadster disap
peared down the drive.
The day \ re on. At eleven
o’clock Lillian, whose woman was
shampooing her hair, wandered,
with all Its glory spread loose over
her shoulders, to Ellen’s door.
“Snow, Ellen!"
Ellen had been writing, but had
stopped, and was staring blindly
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Elton Had Been Writing, but
Had Stopped ahd Wa» Staring
Blindly Ahead of Her Through
Tear-Filmed Eyes. ,
ahead of her through tear-filmed
eyes. She was glad she did not
have to face Lillian as she looked
out of the window.
“So It Is!” she managed to say
huskily.
Lillian wandered on, stood in the
bathroom door, where Lizzie was
working mittens and warm woolen
wraps upon the excited Tommy.
When she turned back into Ellen’s
room the younger woman had en
tirely recovered her self-control.
While they lunched, snowflakes
fluttered softly down from a leaden
sky. A wind began to whistle
about the corners of the house.
Outside there was great emptiness,
an appalling silence. Ellen forced
herself to settle down with her fa
ther-in-law lunclf; in the study after
the old man seemed su
premeiy happy as she opened “Jean
Christophe.” He was established
in his great chair by the fire, wjth
a plaid over his knees, and inter
rupted the reading now and then
to congratulate himself upon hav
ing escaped the necessity of going
out that night. Bnt Lillian seemed
ns restless and nervous as Ellen
did.
At four o’clock she came In to
say goodby, exquisite in her furs,
and Ellen suddenly decided to try
to walk herself into a better frame
of mind. She saw Torrens walking
about the big car, as she went down
the drive, and presently it passed
-bar -and she wuveiL.tp Lillian In
farewell,
It was bitterly eold, and a strong
fitfully was blowing. The snow fell
; the storm was coming, but
tt was not yet fairly under way.
Ellen, usually normal and sensible
enough, felt a sense of Impending
horror Close upon her. She did not
want to go back to that dreadful
house, where selfishness, and de
eelt, and cruelty flourished.
But she did go back, and sent
her wet shoes downstairs by Keno,
and slowly got herself Into some
thing warm, she went to the
Study, where Just before dinner
Josselyn, Senior, joined her. Ellen
was almost frantic now wtth unde
fined nervousness, her hands were
icy cold, her face burned, and when
the malds dropped a spoon
at dinner she gave a sharp little
cry. She and her father-ln-tnw
were alone at the stately meal.
Here comes the storm!” he said
pleasBntly, as a wild assault of
wind drove violently against the
windows.
1 wish Gibbs were here!"
Ellen exclaimed, jvtth suddenly wa
terlng eyes. “Here—or that I were
anywhere in the world with him!”
her heart added.
And tonight where was he, while
S ed 6 about r ren 7f! this ,e ? house t,y and of shadows heavy-heart
menaces? The thought and
ner like a gnawing tormented
Wh pain. Where
HU.*.-. smile she loved ” so wa well, * enjoying the the
ot Out wonderful voice accents
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not TfeailfifuT, as Lillian WAS, sTfe
was thin and nervous, and alien to
his atmosphere, but she was his
wife, after all—she was the same
Ellen who had talked with him
there at the yacht club, in her pink
dress, and given him the freshness
and the glory of her youth.
"Oh, I could be pretty again I”
she mused, beside the study fire “I
could be gay again! But not here—
not here!”
Her book lay Idly in her lap, and
after awhile, glancing toward him,
she saw that her father-in-law was
dreaming, too.
“I’m a little worried about Ltl
Hon!” he said, as their eyes met.
•Tm afraid they had a bad X trip!"
And the finely groomed hand
was stretched for the telephone.
She heard him call the Plaza hotel,
and ask for Mrs. Balnbridge Wal
lace. Ellen watched him with a
sort of fascination.
“She’s not with'the Wallaces,” he
said, In a puzzled tone; “that’s odd.
They say sh<*telephoned at about
six o’clock that she could not reach
}&«?■ ““ 1 “ Wl ° g ”“ h *
-Etlen’s face was deathly white. i
“They’re together!” she wits
pered. And with a gesture as priml
tlve as it was unconscious she
wound her hands together, and
pressed them to her face. “They’re
at the studio—together 1” she mut
tered, blindly beginning to pace the
room. “Oh, Gibbs—Gibbs—!”
The old man stared at her for a
moment In utter bewilderment
Then the slow blood of age- crept
slowly Into his colorful cheek, a
hundred half-forgotten episodes ’
rallied to support the new sus
plclon. His gallantry, courtesy, un
tiring animation nnd geniality were
a deliberately adopted philosophy.
He had not been Lillian’s husband
for eight years without perceiving
the real woman beneath the soft
and lovely surface. He felt for her
at times the angry contempt of a
genuine nature forced to treaty
with what is false. But her arts
had seemed to him so patent, so
pitifully childish and apparent, that
he had never drenmed—
No, he had never dreamed of
Gibbs! And as the thing burst upon
him, suddenly confirmed by much
that he had seen and heard with
out understanding, in the last few
weeks, he knew what a fool he had
been not to foresee exactly this.
“You think they-” lie began.
clearing his throat. Ellen recalled
to herself In the midst of her
looked with quick concern
upon his suddenly aged face.
“Oh, I don’t know!” she said,
more quietly. “I don’t know any
thing! But I—I’ve been thinking
about ft all day! They may be
dining together, and then they will
come home late. It seemed to me
that they were planning It—” She
stopped her restless walk, and came
to the side of his chair and knelt
down beside it with the endearing
penitence of a passionate child. “I
may be wrong!” she stammered
eagerly, “Lillian may be somewhere
else—Gibbs may he at the club
dinner! But they do meet—they do
write each other,” Ellen went on
with trembling lips, and a shaken
voice, “and lie has changed to me.
I don’t count with him any more—
h®’ 8 forgotten—he's forgotten—!”
She burst into hitter crying, and
the old man fumbled * his hand
or
kerchief, and pressed it against her
cheek, as she hid her eyes on his
shoulder.
After a few moments she freed
herself, and went back to her own
chair, where she driijd her eyes,
and managed a watery smile, but
did not speak. She felt shaken and
exhausted; yet the relief of speak
Ink at last had seemed to lift a
weight from her soul,
“I blame myself for this, Ellen,”
Josselyn. Senior, said presently, in
some- agitation. He got un. tobk
bis pipe from the mantel, filled It,
and laid It Irresolutely aside,
“Well!” he said briskly, “I will
think about this, my dear, and we
will decide what to do. We will
take it in time. We will—take—It
—In—time,” And now he lighted
his pipe, his tone resolute. “It's
nearly eleven o’clock, Ellen, and
time for you to go to bed. Tomor
row—” «
They lingered for a moment over
their goodnights, and he laid his
hand on her shoulder,
‘‘One thing more, Ellen. Will you
forgive him?”
Hev quick tears came again. Her
voice thickened.
“I—I love him. There's nothing
forgive!”
H e r father-in-law stared down at
her from his greater height as if
he aaw something admirable In the
honest, earnest little face, and the
wet blue eyes,
“You are a good woman, Ellen,'*
he said. “Gibbs’ mother was just
such another! You shall have him
*>«<*• my dear, and this will all be
times, forgotten. It’s the fault of the
Ellen—but no harm has been
done - y«h I’ll think about it—I
have been talking of going to Eng
land, and Lillian seems to want to
go. She’s like a child; she forgets.
Only tell me again that you’ll for
K^e him, Ellen, and he happy
again!" i
Ellen went up to bed comforted,
« n(1 undressed while she dreamed
ot « new life for herself and Gibbs.
‘They would take the (he little
moot that adjoined stii&e. Hfcy
would be alone acaln. the old happy
atmosphere would be recreated. He
loved her, under all this new mad
ness—
Ellen saw herself In her mirror;
her cheeks burning:, her eyes starry,
her loosened cloud of hair framing
her thoughtful face. Hope came
ba<*. confidence came back, a dim
ple deepened In her cheek. It was
all her foolish suspicion, after all.
Gibbs had been at the dinner, and
would come home on the midnight
hraln, and turn the electric lights
full In her eyes while he gave her
a yawning account of the speeches,
and tore off his white tie. And Lil
lian had been—she did not care
where Lillian had been!
But when she had Jumped Into
bed, and midnight struck, and one
o clock, and two o’clock, and he did
not come, the anger nnd doubt re
tnmed In double force. The storm
was still racketing about the house.
Ellen felt coltl under ller thick
blankets. She tossed and turned
locked her arms under her bead
and staTed Into the dark, turned
and tossed again.
Her father-in-law had disposed <ff
the matter simply nnd sanely. But
suppose she was right, suppose
Lillian and Gibbs had really thrown
all honor to the winds, were really
together tonight, then what? How
f puld she—how could nhy wife for
Ive that? To have his father take
away the (lunger, as she might take
matches away from Tommy, proved
nothing for him, and solved nothing
for her.
And If he and Lillian did not
cIl00Be t0 he separated, If that pas
slorl hnd carried them far beyond
nny P lan s that she and Ws father
might moke—7
The cloc k struck three; struck
Ellen 1 felt as If she would
.Sf again
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ris 3611 Sun * Smoke roge straight
from a hundred chimneys into the
clear cold air. Ellen saw a woman
with a shawl tied over her head,
feeding chickens; another woman
kissed two bundle-llke babies at a
gate. The little woman In front of
her, In the warm tram, was con
suiting an inslgnlflcant-looking
kindly little man about a Christmas
list. “The children will go out of
their senses when they see it!” El
len heard her say.
Then they were In the big sta
tion ; In a taxicab, The streets.
where languid gangs of men were
shoveling snow, went bv Forty
second; Fiftieth; Fifty-ninth. They
were at the door.
“You have some explanation of
this early trip for Gibbs?” her fa
ther-in-law asked suddenly In the
lift. She turned to him tortured
eyes.
"Oh, yes—toothache, she nn
swered breathlessly, abstractedly.
A second later, outside the studio
door, she caught his arm. They
stood a moment transfixed. They
could hear Gibbs’ full, unmistakable
voice. A Woman’s laugh—Lillian’s
rare laugh, sounded in answer.
flung Instancy the Ellen’s door. companion
open
Gibbs and Lillian were alone In
the studio. Gibbs, In his painting
apron, was busy with the wooden
screws and cogs that adjusted his
big easel. Lillian, bareheaded and
wearing a splendid robe of Chinese
green, was beside the fire, coffee
and rolls were on the little table
before her; she was enjoying her
breakfast.
CHAPTER IX
E LLEN eral phases had passed of violent through emotion sev
In the past ten days, like everyone
else In the house she had been un
dergoing tremendous mental adjust
ments. But more sensible or more
adaptable than the others, she had
disciplined herself to accept the
new order of things. Ellen had the
advantage of some preparation,
whereas the events of the memora
ble Wednesday had fallen upon the
others like a thunderbolt. She had
suspected, doubted, and dreaded,
for many heartsick days and weeks
before the crisis came, and now,
while they all suffered In their sep
arate ways from the shock. Ellen
even experienced a desperate tls
faction. It was over: Gibbs ed
she her knew no longer, and he knew'That
it.
For a few days the repetition of
this fact gave her an empty, vague
feeling, and a sensation “of fatigue
She was Rlways tired, and her head
.
felt always confused. Gibbs loved
her no longer.
Well, what next then? She had
faced terrible things before. The
old leather harness, for Instance,
and the feverish days of pain In
the old dining-room, by the air
tight stove. And later winter days,
Its Paris now, when she had roused
In the night to listen to the baby’s
uneven breathing and had wakened
to remember that the crib was
gone, that Rose was gone—Rose
was gone I
And now she most keep sane,
and fate these new, strange things.
Gibbs, her awn husband, loved an
other woithwi more **>-- 1.1 * wlfa.
I (TO BE CONTINUED.)
GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
THE SCHOOL NEWS BOX
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ing Myrla. She says something’s
the matter with her heart.
Miss Paaik: Well, maybe if you
would move over here she would
n’t have heart trouble.
French Revolution, pronuncia
tion in any French class after a
summer vacation.
Congress of Vienna, where the
famous sausage was first made.
Diet of Frankfort, recommended
to all thin people.
NORTHSIDE SCHOOL
Northside school will observe
Visitors’ Day, Friday, December
12. The teachers aiid pupils ex
tend a cordial invitation to every
one, and especially to those pp-»
rents whose children attend
Northside school to visit our
school on this day. Your presence
will be an encouragement to both
teachers and pupils.
Beginners’ Grade
We began this week with a visit
to the Alamo where Mr. Freeman
sent us an invitation to see a pic
ture on the care of the teeth.
Some of the little folks were re
luctant to accept the invitation
because they thought it meant
their bad teeth were going to be
extracted, but when they found
out they were going to see a pic
ture of “the other fellow” in the
dentist’s chair, their tears turned
to smiles. They came home en
thusiastic over the treat that was
given them and the decision to
take care of their own teeth.
Each morning since most of the
children announce “I brushed my
teeth this morning. See how clean
they are. ti
We have had a great time the
past two days being entertained
by the other grades with Thanks
giving programs. The songs, stor
ies, recitations and original com
positions would do credit to chil
dren in higher grades.
In our own room we have learn
ed Thanksgiving songs and made
things suggestive of the day. This
morning Miss Flemister let us
draw and color Mr. Turkey with
his consequential air. Two little
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boys have impersonated Mr. Tur
key and Mr. Duck acting out their
visit and walk. Our teacher has
told us about the first' Thanksgiv
ing Day and shown us a pair of
real Dutch wooden shoes that
came all the way from Holland.
Our room is decorated with a
fringe of pumpkins, corn, peppers,
potatoes, chestnuts, beets, car
rots and turnips. In one corner of
our room is a sand table showing
a Pilgrim village on one side with
a stockade fort and log cabins
and an Indian village on the other
side showing the ~ J men smoking
their pipers, shooting their bows
and arrows or paddling their ca
noes. The squaws are sitting
around a fire where they are
watching a pot boil.
We have pictures of Pilgrims
going to church through the snow
with guns oyer their shoulders, al
so Dutch scenes showing canals
and Windmills and little girls and
women wearing caps, aprons and
wooden shoes.
First Grade A
The children of first grade A
were invited into Miss Bryan’s
and Mrs. Johnson’s rooms Iasi
week to a Thanksgiving program.
They enjoyed both plays very
much.
Second Grade A
After the enjoyable Thanksgiv
ing holidays we have been busy
'this week getting ready for
ors’ Day, Friday, December 12.
We have made our room
tive with Christmas
made in our drawing lessona.
Our grade entertained the
grades in school recently with
play, “The Dolly Show.”
taking part in the play were
elie Powell, Evelyn Love,
Eason, Mary Smaha,
Smaha, Thomas Lane, Hazel Pul
len, Lillian Kelly, Rudine
and Lloyd Head. Second grade
enjoyed the Thanksgiving
given by first gj-ade A last
. Third Grade A
We are hard at work again
ter our Thanksgiving
but not too busy to begin
Santa Claus and Christmas
We are planning a Christmas pro
gram for the 19th of this month.
We invited the other grades of
Northside to our Thanksgiving
program of songs and recitations
appropriate to the occasion.
Thomas Hammond stood up
longest in our last spelling match.
He is the only member of our
class who can boast of four stars
on our spelling record board. He
wrote the best story, too, in good
English on “Thanksgiving Day.”
We are expecting our parents
to visit us on Visitors’ Day. 7
Third Grade B
Third grade B made some at
tractive Christmas trees in draw
ing this week under Miss
ter’s supervision. The children on
the honor roll in spelling are
Mary Lee Estes, Laura Ison,
Wayne McKneely, Katie Leach,
Ewell Atkinson, Oveline Hubbard,
Willie Cook and Alvin Martin.
This week third grade B chil
dren have been doing some inter
esting rapid drill work in arith
metic on the combinations. We
are beginning to prepare for our
Christmas program and are busy
finishing up our work for this
term of school.
SAM BAILEY SCHOOL
Fourth Grade
The pupils on the Honor Roll
(for the past two weeks are Ruby
jBonner, Sarah Evans, Robert
jReid, Margaret Rucker, Doris
Sauls, Helen Shockley, Florence
Tankaley, Gaynell Babb, James
Buckalew, William Eason, Rufus
Eason, Doris Grant, Sarah Reeves
and John Rosser.—John Rosser,
Class Reporter.
N
Fifth Grade C *
We wish to thank Mr. Lester
for letting us go to the picture
show to see the picture on the
“Care of the Teeth. i •
We were proud of the hundreds
made in the arithmetic test this
week.
The boys beat the girls in the
arithmetic match held in this
room the other day.—Minnie Ruth
Suggs, Class Reporter.
Firth Grade B
We had the following program
last Wednesday:
Declamation, .. Thanksgiving,
Jimmie Johnson.
Story, “The Harvest Festival,
Marian Rogers.
Declamation, «< What Makes
Thanksgiving Day,” Jenous Lang
ford.
Reading, “Little Pilgrim Peo
ple,” Margaret White.
Thanksgiving song, the class.
Recitation, “When the Frost Is
On the Pumpkin,” Martha Starr.
Reading, “The First Thanksgiv
ing Day,” Bob White.
Song, “Thanksgiving Day,” the
class. 1
We had a spelling match on
Tuesday, and Alice Grant won the
prize, a box of tooth powder.—
Margaret White, Class Reporter.
Fifth Grade A
Wednesday, after the last re
cess, our class enjoyed a lovely
Thanksgiving party.
Margaret Cohen and her com
mittee arranged an interesting
program as follows:
“Thanksgiving Prayer,” Stella
Marahle.
“Origin of Thanksgiving,”
Charles Mills, t
Song, class..
Reading,' DorQthy Gdodin.
Reading, Alice Cariisle.
Poem, George Niles.
Reading, Bulah Mauney.
Thanksgiving poem, class.
After the program we enjoyed
delicious cake, candy, fruits and
nuts. We were so glad to have
Mr. Lester with us.
Each pupil. had brought an
offering for the poor, so after
school five cars of happy children
went out to the poor famt to
carry this offering, It made our
hearts glad to see how much it
was appreciated by the inmates.
We wish to again thank the
following for the use of their cars:
Mrs. - Condit, Mrs. Carlisle, Mrs.
Touchstone, R. H. Barnette and
Mr. Blakeley.
This party for the poor is an
annual custom of Fifth Grade A
as we know that *< Ye have the
poor with you always, and when
yc will ye may do them good. »»
Sixth Grade B
To Mr, Lester and the Board of
Education; We wish to thank
you for securing the services of
the State Supervisors, who are to
be here during this month to make
improvements in our schools. We
are interested in having our grade
measure up to the standard of
any other grade in our state.
Mr. Duggan, Miss Duggan and
Miss Lane, we want to extend to
you a hearty welcome to our
schools and to our class. Sixth B
pledges to you its co-operation at
all times;
Signed, Sixth Grade B.
Sixth Grade A ;
This grade is busily engaged in
a contest in “Behavior” against
Seventh Grade A. Watch closely
next week for results. Every o|e
in this room is doing their best
and we hope to win.
Seventh Grade B
The pupils of this grade enjoyed
the lecture and pictures at the
Alamo last week dealing with the
care of the teeth. The class was
studying that subject in Physi
ology and the diagram of the
parts of the tooth proved helpful.
Seventh Grade A
The boys are about to catch up
with the girlrft in the contests, so
we will have to keep busy to keep
them from' winning this month.—
Nell English, Class Reporter.
SAM BAILEY ANNEX.
First Grade.
The children in the first grade
are very enthusiastic about Christ
mas. They have not yet made the
Christmas border to go around
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Third Grade.
Books read during the last tw#
weeks by of the pupils *
some are:
Rose at Boarding School, Amer
ica First, Little Black Squashy
Mother West Wind, The Ginger
bread Boy.
.
We have learned the 24 Psalm*
and are now learning the Ten
Commandments. We enjoyed the
play “Scenes from Pilgrim Life,'*
which we had during the Thanka
giving holidays.
We have as our guests now two
Indian dolls that look just Ilk®*
we think the real Indians 1
They belong to Katherine Mitel
We are enjoying making p
ty things with which to decorats
our room.
We shall be glad to have ever f
one who is interested in us and
and our work to come to see us
any time. m
Fourth Grade A.
Miss Duggan gave us a teat thi*
week in arithmetic, English and
reading.
Our teacher, Miss Merritt, told
us to bring a penny and buy one
Christmas seal to help tubercu
losis. We have been having good
lessons in everything thia week,
and it did not make us in the
least not want to come back to
school after the Thanksgiving hol
idays.
...
Rosalind Milk, Reporter.
ART STUDENT. it
Irate Father: I’ll teach you
to kiss my daughter.
Edward: You're too late. I’ve
learned already. •