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PAGE TWO r MAY SETMfflf Ey'x/’vr» rQOTI DEAjraCE- PUDTON f' f- f > j O SEQUEL I . . . ! TTT J Before I tell you anything about myself, I’d like to ask you a ques tion,” Francie Lee began. “How old do you think I am?” • May narrowed her eye; and looked at the fare opposite lo r :> an artist might have studied model. Franeie’s pale skin was drawn around the orbits of the i e-.. Th eyes themselves were old. Th looked as if they had sen <■>, thing there was to s c. and I: ; I grown tired from too much strain. Below the ear and under cbm there was a tiny slackening of t'o flesh. And while there was no in the smooth hlnek h-ir it d : T> nT kgve the live look of health' '“Well,” May said truthfully, “I should say you are thirt’ four five.” -“Twenty-eight!” There was :i kind of bitter triumph in Fr uwi. ' voice as she answered. “In anoth< :• five years I’ll look about fortv.” May could only shake her head. “I was on the stage when I fi”-f came to New York from mv bom ' town in Ohio,” Francie s id. “' opee was in. vaudeville then, and !. was with her. Then she started midnight supper-club in New Yo and it wds su-.h a success that ; he gave up the stage for rood.” “I remember the place ” May Sey mour broke in. “I went thee one night three or four years ago with my busband.” ?“Adoree noticed that a greet mhnv men came alone to the <>ub,” Francie went on. "And she hired nF* and two or three other girls she know to sit at their tables and talk trrthem—entertain them, you know. “I’ll say this for Adoree .... she’s like a mother to us. She al ways sees that we get home safe’y And sire’s made a rule that none of us meets the men patrons out ide the club , . .” Franeie’s dark eyes grew darker as she paused for a second. “Goodness knows, we never want to see them again! We’re about roedv to pass out of the picture aft- i or four or five hours of trying to dance and talk to a lot of fat old men! “But ,at that, it wouldn’t be such a tough life if it weren’t for the drinking we have to do.” May’s; lips curled at that in a disdainful smile. “But vou don’t have to drink with ! them, dtf you?” she asked. “Not 1 unless you want to? And if it’s such a terrible way of living why don’t you go back to the stage?” DOMESTIC BREAD I ft I Will Keep Your Body In Good Trim I i I I . U E pl j > nwMWimr.-.- tny- ; _-.*<•«*iw«»<w«nM 4 ■ O.Sw£? I JJpF K PBi ■ /Th T/yr u Jfo® fesfl -s: . 'O' <i!<v ?' L...——^—- ■ ♦ „ Perfect health depends largely upon perfect diet one reason why the many happy people who eat Domestic Health Bread are always full of life and pep. You, too, can have perfect health without extra worry and care. Keep your weight up with Whole Wheat 11<° di i Bread. Order a supply for your table today. MODEL BREAD CO. Forsyth Street Americus, Ga. t I e I V/ Uw I I ■ ■ jt wr/iiwi r ■ LIZ i May was in demure gray when she met Waterbury in the lobby. “Wi 11, I did try going back once,” | I‘rancie said, gloomily turning her! I glass around and around in her I . hands. “But there's so much more ' i money in this hostess job. i “We get our tips just as waiters Ido, you know,”‘she went on frank-i ;ly. “Sometimes a party will give al jgirl as muc has SSO if she's been i bright and entertaining. Os course, a lot of men arc tightwads and think $lO is enough for talking your head off and dancing your feet off for a j whole evening. “There’s one man who comes 'down here sometimes with some of! the members of bis law firm. And' he gave mo this.’ She held out her arm to-show I May the diamond bracelet upon it. “That is, he gave me one like it,” | she said. “I had to pawn the real one a while ago, when I was stony ; broke. But I’ll get it back, I sup i pose.” i She gave May a narrow look. ”1 suppose you’re wondering what sort of a girl I am, to take present-' from a man,” she .-aid calmly. And, as a matter of fact, May was wond ering that very thing. “Well, I’m just as decent as J was when I left Mt. Vernon, Ohio I ten years ago,” Francie went on. “But just the sarney, I figure that ; if anybody’s around passing out di- I amend bracelets, I’ve a perfect right io one or two of them, my- ‘ THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER self!” ' - She looked meditatively at May for a moment and her eyes soften ed. “Ever been in Mt. Vernon?" she asked. May shook her hem.. “Prettiest little country in the world,” Francie said quietly. “All green lawns and white house. . . . and church bells on Sunday night. You know the kind of town I mean, don’t you? “Weil, I sang in the choir of our church, and everybody said I had al voice. So I made up my mind to go I to New York to go on the stage. “Landed there when I was eight even . . . green as grass, ju.-t a fool little kid with a big ambition. And when I finally landed a job with Adoree’ scompany I thought I’d licked the world.” She shrugged her shoulders, and ■eve a short laugh. “It’s taken me ten years to find out that I was licked before I start id.” she sighed. “But even if you went back home i now, you’d be dissatisfied, wouldn’t you?” May asked. “You f rally love I the bright lights and the jazz and ail l the rest of the life you lead hqre.” I 1 Francie gave her a long, search ing look. “You’re all wrong, dearie,” she I remarked. “If I'd stayed in Mt Ver non and married the town plumber, 1 I’d been happy. No, you needn’t ’ smile! I really was engaged to a plumber back there. “Jay P. Jones is his name . . . . i nicest, fellow I ever knew. Say. he’d i look like a prince beside these brace ■ let-buyers that drape themselves < 1 ever the cabaret tables!” “Well, if that’s the way you feel ; ■ about him, why don’t you go homo ; land marry him?” May asked, sensi- . l>ly. “That’s the smart thing to do. 1 it seems to me.” 11 Francie shook her head. “No,” : I she said, “I wont home last year for I la couple of weeks. I called him up: . and he came to see me—once. 11 ■ waited for ten days, but he never . Yame again. I guess he was afraid , of me—the way I talked, and the I kind of clothes I ■wore. They’re pret ty straight-laced out in Mt. Vernon, , vou know. It’s a nine o’clock town, I {all right!” I She got up and held out her hand to May. “Forgive me for hanging my hard ' luck story on you, won’t you?” she' I asked, smiling. “I really don’t Phone 778-For- I Fresh Steak Fish, Red Snapper, Salt Water Trout, Spanish i Mackerel, Mullet and Bottom Fish. WE DRESS ’EM WE DELIVER AMERICUS FISH AND OYSTER CO. ;■ '•I 216 W’. 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She’s a sweet little kid . . . the I kind of girl 1 would have been, may I be, if I’d stayed at home where I : belonged. . . .Well, there’s no use crying over spilled milk, is there?” And she was gone. May sat there at the little blue table, staring out at the ocean, her chin cupped in her hands. What would ten years of knock ing around the world do to her, she wondered. . . . Ah, but she wasn’t going to knock around, from pillar to post! She was going ot marry a rich man and settle down tone a good wife to him! , Her thoughts returned to Herbert Waterbury. She sighed as she thought of last night ... of that heavenly moment when he had held her i" his arms and>kissed her. “Well.” she made un her mind. “I think T’ll go out and buy mvse’f a few clothes. I wonder what his. fa vorite color is .4. .” Then she remembered her role of Wistful Widow. And she bought a filmy gray chiffon, a lavender crepe, and a stunning Alack velvet dress in a little shop near the Marlbor ough-Blenheim. “I ought to knock Herby for a goal in that dress!” she told herself as she tried it on. It was six o’clock when she re turned to her own hotel. She was tired ,and there were circles und°r her eyes. So she telephoned down stairs for a cup of bouillon, had a hot bath and wont to bed. She was all in demure gray when ■ of the wall-telephone in her room, ft , was broad daylight, and the sun wo I streaming from under the half-low : ered blinds. | “Good morning, Merry Widow.” I came a deep masculine voice on the telephone. “This is Herbert Water burv. Would you like to motor over to Philadelphia for lunch with me and Carlotta? “I’d adore it!” May’s voice thrilled. “When do we start?” WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST I i 1925 - : 'i “Half an hour t Can you make it?”’ ’ Waterbury asked. “Meet you in the lobby in pre zaekly thirty minutes!” May laugh ' ed. She tingled with happines that I flooded her like sunshine. She was al li ndemure gray when she met Waterbury in the lobby. “Dressed like a Quakeress, in honor of Philadelphia, 1 see!” he said, surveying her from head to feet. “And the prettiest Quakeress who ever quaked.” “I’m not quaking, thanks!” May anssweied under her breath, as Car lotta came up to them, folowed by Dan Sprague. Waterbury and she sat in the back seat of Sprague’s long, low 1 Mercedes, as they sped along the | smooth highway toward the Quaker City. “I’ve a herd of cows finer than * chose,’ Waterbury remarked, as I they passed a wide green field where a herd of Holsteins grazed. “You?” May asked, “Are you a farmer?” “Well, I’ve a farm up near Pitts- WHEN IS YOUR BOY’S NEXT BIRTHDAY? /m iv\ Pln Fi y Give Him a Watch I Watches Sold On Monthly or k Vd ' / Weekly Payments *3RUEN PeMigoft Diamonds sold on Monthly payments. AMERICUS JEWELRY COMPANY, Inc. g Phone 229 Wallis Mott, Mgr. Real Sport RIDE A BICYCLE! 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