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morning a bel boy brought a thick
iporning a belboy brought a thick
special delivery letter to the door of
'lay Seymour s sitting room. There
was no answer to 'his repeated
knock, for May did not hear him—
she was singing at the top of her
voice as she splashed in her bath.
So he slipped the letter under the
door and went away.
May loved music, and she adored
the sound of her own silvery so
prano voice.
• “Depuis le jour. . .” she trilled,
after the yearning manner of Mary i
Garden.
But as she sang that lovelierft of ,
ail love songs, she was not thinking I
of any man’s love, but of money! Os I
the things that she would buy with '
Herbert Waterbury’s mono} '
“We’ll have a box at the opera, of >
course. . . .” she thought, ami in I
her mind’s eye, she could see her i
self sitting there in a gown of |
white velvet, with diamonds wink- ■
ing from tb.e lobes of her ears and
the column of her snowy neck. Be
side her, she could see Herbie’s large
firm-featured lace looming out of |
the darkness above his gleaming
shirt front. Oh, it was going to be
wonderful to have plenty of mon !
ey! Wonderful!
May stretched herself life a great*!
tiger-cat as she settled into an!
armchair in her sitting room a half
hour later, ami began to cal the
excellent breakfast the waiter
brought her.
The four-minute eggs in their sil
ver cup were just right. The coffee
was molten amber; the poppy-seed
rolls were fresh and soft and
without money, alt Ibis perfection
of food am! service would be ini
possible!
May sighed luxuriously and blink
ed sl«cpily at. the sky. as sin- bit in
to her third roll. t’Oh, but I'm
happy . . . .’’ she thought.
But was she? Was she. really?
Tb.e thought of Herbie’s anger with
her last night was more or less dis
quieting. It would be terribl- now
if he didn’t nujrry her..* just lie
cause of a harmless flirtation with
a boy like Jack Darnley!
“When my money from the house
conies I’ll turn it'over to him to 1
invest. That'll soothe his injured '
feelings," she deemed.
She went on thinking about Her
Lie, as she lasfily touched a match
to a cigaret, and leaned back in her
chair.
“It would be nice if I loved him
. . she said to herself. “But 1
guess it just isn't in me to fall in
love with any man .
At that moment her eyes fell on ■
the thick, square envelope that the I
bellboy had slipped under the door 1
an hour before.
“GoGodnight Nurse!" thought
May. A little thrill of horror pass
cd through her.
What if it should be a note
from Herbie teling her that per
haps it would be better for them to
end their engagement!
....Or suppose it should be
farewell message from young Jack
Darnley, telling her that he was go
ing to shoot himself!. It would
be just like that wild boy to do it,
too! What a fool she had been to
let him fall in love with her
May’s breath came in frighted
gasps as she trailed her silk negligee
across the room Io pick up the letter
Then she breathed a long sigh of
relief as she saw that it bore a
Americus, Georgia postmark.
“Mrs. May Lucas Seymour." .she
read in the large, unmistakable
handwriting of Ulysses X I'"organ.
The very sight, of it was-warmly
comforting io her.
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It brought back, om e more, the
sound of His deep, low voice, ami
the sight of his kindly face with the
clear brown eve that : coined Io
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I'o read the letter, itself, was like
greeting ;;n old friend; and yet it
was very business-like in tom-. Fold
cd within it was a New Ybrk draft
for $12,0(10.
Without an in.-lant’s hesitation,
May swept to the telephone and
< ale<f Herbie's room.
j “Good morning, merry . no. 'dm
khe'said with forced gaycty. “This
i- May speaking-— ’’
JJ-is voice greeted her coldly.
“IL- is jealous!" she thougl.t. "If
1 had any brains I’d make him
marry me today, before hy changes
his mind about me— ’’
Aloud she said: “That money of
mine just came, and I'm going to
turn it over to you, as you sugest-
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'I ed, to invest for me— ’’
II Waterbury’s voice interrupted!
’ ! I:er.
, ! “Have ydn |>ati breakfast?"
“•lust i'ini.-hid it."
■ j “So did I I’M meet you down
stairs in a half Lour, and we’ll go
. i over to the bank, together," he said
; i All the coldness had melted from
I his voice. • I
, ! "That's bciau.'- Im's flattered by i
! j my coufidi'nce in him," May said to
I herself as she hung up the receiver.
i "Gosh, I hope that stock of -Dan'
;| is good ’’
An hour later the $l2<H)O from
; the ale of her house was in Her-
I bert Waterbury's hands. So was
! the s2()ot> that remained from her
! original SBOOO.
• May held out her bare hands np
, pealingly to Herbie as they left the
bank on Ocean Avenue, and started.
- back to the hotel.
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"Look at me! I'm a penniless wo
m.'il!" she said with an air of inoyk,
LrugC'ly. ‘ You have every cent I
' ' ft in Ibe rt<>rlil!!”
A tartled look cam into Waler
liur. -. brilliant blue eves. ‘Every
cent you had in the world!” he re
peated. “Why, I had you dop'd out
. as a miljion-dollar widow—"
, “Your mistake, sweetie!" May
told Him cheerfully. ‘My husband
was the kind of doctor who did most
of his work without ever hoping to
be paid for it. Two-thirds of his
work was for charity, pure and sim
ple. . ”
She stopped and frowned. Sup
pose Herbie had proposed to her
thinking that she was rich! Sup
pose he was a fortune hunter
But, no, that couldn’t be! H"
had shown her photographs of his
wonderful houses! A man with
homes like those was nothing less
than millionaire. What need
would he have to marry for money?
“Let’s got married today!" .he
said sudenly. ‘After all. what
sense is there in waiting around for
a week? We love each other—l
don’t we?”
“Wo sure Alb!” Herbie answered >
vehemently, slipping her arm I
through his. “But I think I’d like
to run up to Pittsfield to see my
little daughter for a day or two,
first. I think I ought to tel her
I she’s going to have a new mother.'
! May drooped. “What if she
doesn't like the idea of having a
stepmother?’’ she asked, “What, will
you do, then?’’
“Marry you iust the same," Her
bie replied. “Marry you just the
same,' my girl!” But. there was a
flatness in his voice.
A feeling like jk cold hand grip
ping her heart, “-ntcred May’s
breast. “I wish I had that money
of mine back again!" she thought
uneasily’. “After al), it’s my whole
fortune—”
That afternoon at five she met
j Herbert in the restaurant for tea.
i She had put on her new gray suit,
’ and had pinned a boquet of orchids
' t(5 her breast.
“Queer thing—that he's never
I thought to, send a single flower
since he asked me to marry him!"
she thought as she smiled at. him
across the tea table. ‘And he’:;
never mentioned getting pic an en
gagement ring, either!".
Probably the thought had not oc
curred to him, she decided. So she
slipped off her black pearl ring and
put it down on the tablecloth.
Then she held up her bare left
hand. “By this time next week I’ll
be wearing your wedding ring,
won't I, Herbie?” She asked, smil
ing straight, into his eyes. ‘Shall
you be glad !o see it on my hand?”
Without answering. Waterbury
pulled out his watch and looked al
it. “Half past five," he mused,
frowning. “That means alt the
jewelry shops are closed, doesn’t it?'
He laughed suddenly. “I never
realized until this minute that you
ought to have an engagement ring,
my dear," he said in his delightful
I voice. ‘We’ll go out and buy one
f ; r.';|., (ybimy, in the morning, won't
May noth d, with -shining- c.-cp
“F'tihhy—l' never thought of it,
cither,” she fibbed, without the
flicker of an eyelash.
i “Hut I would adore om-," I,
j aded. A diamond—a square dia
t mond, darling."
I “You shall have it," Herbie prom
ised. “The largest one we can
find.”
He lighted his cigaret and looked
across the table at her with thought
ful eyes. “Heard from young Jack
today?" Im asked with studied care
lessness.
.May shook her head. “No," she.
answered, with downcast eyes. “I
thought I’d cal him up—and then I
decided that the kindest thing to do
is to let him alone to let him
forget me, poor child!"
There was genuine pit} in May':
voice. She was sure she had broken
young Darnley’s heart—ami she
was sorry for having done it! He
| was a lovable young kid. under his
bravado and his cultivated devilish
j ness—
' “He did make love to me and I
I let him,” she said to Waterbury, in
a sudden outburst of frankness. “I
had no idea he cared for me the
wav he did— ”‘
Her voice died away and she
stared acros the restaurant with
puzzled eyes. Waterbury turned
and followed the direction of her
gaze with his own eyes.
At a table in the very middle of
the room sat young Jack himself!
Across from him was the prettiest
girl imaginable. /X girl with peach
es-dnd-cream sWn, hair of spun gold
and eyes as bTue as Rajah’s sap
phire! A needed no paint
and powder to increase her childish
beauty! A girl who was the incar
nation of young innocence and gay
et j!
May had seen her about the hotel
for several days, accompanied by a
blond, elderly woman Mho was evi
dently her mother.
“Muriel Mackey—daughter nf old
Corliss Mackey, tile railroad man"’
May heard Waterbury stry. “That’s
the girl young Jack will probably
marry after he'd had his fling."
“I want, to speak to him," May
said, when she ami Herbci-t had
finished their tea.
As they neared Jack’:-, table h<*
looked up and saw them.
“How do you do. Mr. Waterbury.’
he said jumping up and greeting
Herbert, cordially.
Then he stuck both his hands in
to the pockets of iiis wide trousers
and looked May up and down in
solently. sneer overspread his j
features, and—to her horrified as-J
tonishment—his mouth opened in a |
laugh that seemed to ring to lhei
very corners of the crowded restau- I
rant.
(To Be Continued)
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