About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1925)
PAGE TWO . MM SIEINIOWB ra fOOTIOOSEp Jby PE-ATI2ICE- PUDTON ©FL SEQUEL TO”0«e FLAPPER WIFE" ©NtA M The foursome had dined late, and it was almost midnight before they left the splendid main dining room of the Ambassador. Out of doors there was a whit? moon. A high wind seemed to blow the foaming breakers in from the ocean. “Oh, isn’t it gorgebus?” May cried, wrapping her black velvet cape around her. Her eyes danced like those of a gypsy under the blow ing hair. “You’re gorgeous!" Herbert an swered her. “Your eyes are blue black diamonds tonight . . ." He stopped dead in his tracks and stared at her. “You’ve lost those black pearls you always wear around your neck"!" he said. “Oh, no, I haven’t. I left them in my room at the Traymore," Ma told him. “Did you have them locked in the hotel safe?” Herbert wanted to know. May shook her head. “No, they’re on my dressing-table. Don’t worry about them. They’re all right, I'm sure,” she said carelessly. Herbert Waterbury groaned. “You’re hopeless, child!” he said. “First you carry SBOOO around in your bag as if it were a dollar bill. And now you leave a priceless neck lace out in plain sight on a hotel dressing table! “What if the chambermaid comes in to straighten up your room, and just naturally lifts it?" May shrugged her slim shoulders. “She won’t,” she answered. “There aren’t many dishonest people in the wo-ld.” Watebrury laughed then, in an annoyed sort of way. “You’re the most careless woman I've ever known.” he said. “I sup pose this husband of yours took care of you like a child, when he was alive. And so you’ve never learned Io t ike care of yourself. Have you?” May thought deeply for a moment, before she answered. She wondered which woman would fascinate him more . . . the crafty Mav she knew herself to be, or the helpless, innocent May he thought she was. She thought she knew his taste! “Well, p’raps I don’t know how to look after myself so very well,” she began in a soft voice, “But 1 get along pretty well, on the whole. Money bothers me. . . .1 can’t keep track of it. It just seems to run through my fingers like water.” “What you need is u man to look after you and your affairs,” Her bet said sternly. “A strong man. Som one who would invest that money of yours for you.” “Oh, this little bit . . . I’m going to spend,” May purled. “But 1 have some other money . . . quite a sum . . . that I really would like to in- vest.” She giggled suddenly. "I remember what you said the other night, Mr. Waterbury,” she went on, ‘‘about women being un able to handle their own money , “Please don’t call me ‘Mr. Water bury,’ any more." ho interrupted. “Mv name is ‘Herbert’.” “Well, then Herbert!” Mav laughed. “And don't yon want to call me ‘May’ instead of ‘Mrs. Sey mour’?” “May,” Herbert repeated the word caressingly. “May! You are like that lovely month, if you’ll for give me for saying so . . . fresh and blooming.” “I’ll forgive you for saying so," Mav answered, gravely. At that moment Carlotta came running up to them. “I’ve quarreled with Dan,” she said, “And I ditched him. Please take me under your wing, you two!” There was distress written in her round blue eyes, and her voice trembled. May was sure that it was not she who had quarreled with Dan. It was more than likely that he bad said something to hurt her tender feelings. “How did you and Dan happen to quarrel?” she asked the crestfall en little woman as they stepped in to the elevator. “Oh, he began that will-you-mar ry-me-tomorrow talk of his," she said with a pathetic attempt at air iness. “And it just bores me to tears. Just to tears!” And as if she wanted to prove that a proposal of marriage from Dan Sprague really did bore her to tears, she began to cry. May put her arm around her, ami left the elevator with her at the sixth floor. “Look here, Mrs. Frolking,’ she said severely, “you mustn t let go of yourself this way!" Carlotta was rapidly becoming Attention, Masons Regular communication Americus Lodge No. 13, F. and A. M., to tdght 8 o'clock. Masonic Hall. All Masons cordially invited. C. M BRADLEY. W. M. g. L. M'DANIEL, Secy. dxfl If ■ X ,• U f fl. Mm il wh - ' i p ;i ’ r K-u ?'■ !- 'aWSE fX. •& y x £ Fwaaaw (IKJ\ ■ OfW Vi WH F V- ftJLI' s - ' What s the matter? Afraid of the surf?lt s wonderful she cried. hysterical. She flung hehrself down in a tapestry-covered chair in th.’ corridor and shook with great rob bing gasps. Timely Offerings of Cool Cotton Dresses at End of Season Prices. Unusual Values in Voiles, Broadcloths and Soisettes —IOO Dainty Voile Dresses from Co-Ed and other stan adard makers. Styles that will be good next seasons and will cost three times as much $2.95 /fr •, I< \ F Ax-?, vZw ' / /F" 09 —Final clearaway of light Colored Silk Dresses, Flat ' / i ) Crepes and other'popular materials; values up to $25,00 , \ 4 ‘V yy $14.95 C —SO hand-made Chambray and Jap Crepe Dresses, all I l colors; some are hand-embroidered. O At S IOO I I —Now is a good time to buy Linen Dresses. You can buy I / such good makes as Queen make and Nelly Don for less I I than half their value. £IJ $4.95 CHURCHWELL’S Lamar Street Americus, Ga. May opened her hand bag and hunted for her key. “What’s the number of your room?” she asked. r THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER “Six sixty,” sobbed Carlotta. May almost carried her to the door of GGO, unlocked it, and push ed her within the room. She switch ed on the lights, and sat down on the edge of the bed. “Now, I’m going to stay right here until you get to sleep,” she said. “Aren't you silly to cry like this about a man! As if a man more or less counted!” To her relief, Carlotta began to undress herself quietly. May looked around the room. There were clothes scattered every where . . . beribboned underwear, silk, slippers, scarfs, and hats. On the dresser stood a photograph of Dan Sprague, in a heavy silver frame. Carlotta picked it up and kissed it. “Isn’t be sweet?” she asked, wip ing the tears from her eyes with an absurd pink handkerchief. May thought that “sweet” was the last word in the world to de scribe Dan Sprague. His thin, fine featured face was sullen; and yet there was a touch of Satan about it. The ears, were pointed like a faun's ears. And there was a deep dimple in the chin. May remembered a downright old English couplet: Then she remembered a dimple (•left the chin of that debonair and disturbing person . . . Herbert Wat erbury ! “Well, I’m no angel, myself!” she I thought. “I can give him a run for | his money if he starts anything!” | Whatever else she was, May Sey | mour was always honest with her- I self. I The next morning dawned bright : and warm , . . one of those heaven ■ ly days of early October. While May was reading the morn ing papers, and drinking coffee in her room, the telephone rang. Carlotta's high soprano greeted her ear: “Hello, Sleepy, we’re all going swimming. 'Want to come along, don’t you?” “Os course, I do. Wait for me in the lobby for about five minutes, will you?” May asked. “Meet us on the beach. We’re all dressed to go in,” Carlotta answer ed. “And hurry! The surf's wond erful !” In less than ten minutes May was in her bathing suit and down on the ; wide expanse of sand. It was not , I hard to find Carlotta and the two men, for there were few batherss at this time of the year. A bronzed young life-saver came ; along, and smiled into her eyes as he passed tier. , “Please don’t drown, lady,” ne ( said. “The water’s awfully cold to day. And 1 don’t want to get my suit wet.” May smiled back at him. He was like a Rodin statue . . . this tall young man with his superb muscles and splendid shoulders. A minute later she found herself contrasting him with Herbert Wat erbury. She had to admit that Her- ■ hert in a bathing suit was not the ! 1 fascinating Herbert of a tweed suit, ' or dinner coat. | Somehow or other, he gave the im pression of flabbiness. I “A few setting up exercises wouldn’t hurt him!” May thought, ■ as she came up to him. 1 “But he is handsome, after all!” she said to herself, as he took her 5 hand, an dsmiled his cordial, de ' lightful smile. She turned to Dan, and noticed •, that his surly look vanished as be ■ looked at her. ’ I “Gosh, you’re a pretty thing!” he said. “I never realized it before!” * May was indubitably lovely that bright morning. She wore a scarlet ! suit and cap, and scarlet sandals ‘ i were bound around her whita ’ • ankles. ' j She turned, smiling, to Carlotta • and saw the look of jealousy and sus ' ? picion that the little woman flashed *’ at her. | “I certainly hope she doesn’t think I’m trying to take her Dan away from her!” May thought. Then she brushed that, and all other worrisome things from her mind, and gave herself to the joy of the swim. The water was cold, but May was a fast swimmer and was soon t ingling with the unwonted exercise. ; She turned over on her back to float, and saw that Carlotta and Herbie were still on the beach. She swam back to shore, and ran | to them. “What’s the matter? Afraid of the ! surf? It’s wonderful!” she cried. I “Herby doesn’t swim and I’m keep I ing him company,” Carlotta ex plained gloomily. “Well, come on in, any way,” I Mav urged him. “I'll hold your hand j and take care of you!” She laughed like a hapny child. But the laugh died in her throat as she saw the look on Herbie’s face. I IRIDAY A»r,. r ,.. She realized in a flash that he' 7 00/V a afraid to go into the water. very least. The Oh, well! What was the diffeW>- / ?> h* s house in Brookline ence? You had to overlook a lot Xf/y /! 'i #l '"vinced her of that! things when a man had money! And’ (To Be Continued) 98 WHEN IS YOUR BOY’S NEXT 4/iA birthday? /F 1 1 C M “■ H Give Him a Watch 14Watches Sold On Monthly or X) ’ ” ’ ’ Weekly Payments •SRUEM PeNagoa Diamonds sold on Monthly payments. AMERICUS JEWELRY COMPANY, Inc. 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