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~ THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1930 PAGE ELEVEN PASSION FLOWER by Kalysy Norris sin § 3 "(Synopsis of Preceding Instalments) "I want your arms about me once," Dulce Varney 'whispers to Dan Wallace. * They are to- g8ther in the stillhess of a Cal. ornia spring afternoon. Cassy, Dan's wife, is asleep with her chilren in a luxurious bedroom in the Varney ranch house. She feels secure in Dan's love for her and her love for Dan. They may not have money like Dulce Varney, their attract. ive young widowed neighbor, but Cassy is proudly rich in happin- ess, Has she not defied her pare ents, the staid old San Francisco Pringles, and married Dan Wal. lace, * their chauffeur? And has "not her very struggle with pov. erty bound her to Dan the closer? Now that money pro- blems are less--for her father had given them the use of a tumble-down ¥anch in Napa--and Dan (with financial backing from Mrs, Varney) is running his own garage, there seems nothing in the world but joy. Dan and Dules; now in love with each other, meet secretly, Casey's father dies and at the same time she discovers Dan's affair, Aud instantly, with a shock that sceemed to make the whole world reel, Cassy understood, She understood her own blindness, and Dan's absentmindedness and his critical fretfulness. And she kiew why Dulce had been sp troubled lately, showing puzzled moods, ap- ologetic moods, silent moods, fitfully and unreasonably, from time to time, She felt a little dazed, as if her head had bad a blow, "Tha't it," she kept saying in Wer mind, "That's it, That's been the | trouble" { No mistaking the situation, Dulce | hud been quietly crying; Dan's face] 1] | agitated and concerned, Cassy swal- lowed with a dry throat. "Now what?" she asked herself in a whisper. "Now what? What are we all going to do?" The old friends of the Pringle family, coming and going through these solemn days, said that Cassy was a much developed person after nlmost five years of marriage, and that Mr. Wallace was a nice fellow, so thoughtful and considerate of every one. As for the noisy, curly+ headed little boy--well, he was poor Mrs. Pringle's one great consolation, Dan had come down to the city the day after Cassy. She drew a long breath of relief when the funeral was over, and when the drive, with Dan, back to Napa, had restored her to the familiar shabby kitchen, and to the enchant ing Margaret. She tried to convince herself that the scene down at the ferry had no significance, While Dan slept that night, Cassy lay awake beside him, thinking, thinking, thinking. And the next morning she had to tell him that she knew, They 'were at the breakfast table in the kitchen, Winter sunshine was streaming gaily in; Cassy had Margaret in her lap, and was feed- ing her, "You ought to telephone Dulce to- day, Cass," A sudden wave of anger and pain engulfed her, She said quickly, but in a tone that quivered and broke on the last words: "Dan~1 know Dulee," The words echoed blankly on the warmed air that was scented with coffee and toast and bacon. Dan put down his newspaper and locked at her steadily, "Oh? I'm sorry," he said, a little gruffly, "I saw you--down at the ferry the day papa died" "I'm sorry," Dan repeated, With a cold sweet blast of outer air, Tommy and granny came in with some CERS: "I feel rotten about this," muttered thickly, following into the big pantry, She blindly began to straighten spice boxes; she would remember those allspice and cinnamon tins all her life. "Who told you?" about you and Dan Cassy "I saw you down at the Monticello | big Ferry," YCome now," Dan said, "you've got something more to go on than thatt " . "Don't talk to me that way, Dan!" she said, her voice shaking. "Well, what was the harm of my stopping for a minute to talk to any one I know as well as Dulce?" "There was harm in it after you had lied to me about her being at La Lomita!" She was saying just the things she didn't want to say, and taking just the tone she didn't want to take She began to tremble, "I like: Dulce," Dan offered sulk- ny Cassy made no answer, "Why shouldn't 1?" Dan demand. "1 got word to Dulce, and she said | ed jo tell you that she felt terribly jorry, and that she'd see Margaret wery day." "Got word to her?" "Yes. She's up at La Lomita, you tnow. She's been there all week." "Of course." Casgy was broken, apathetic, quiet, "Oh, no reason at all " she answer. ed, frantic, ot doesn't--=mean--anything," Dan sare B "Oh, nol" Tears shook her took refuge in anger. "You don't think for one instant voice, and she | said, touched himself by her pallor | road between the tall bare trees, that I'm jealous?" she asked, in a low, 'scornful tone, "Hal" Cassy went on, with a mirthlessly laugh, "If it was only that! You don't think I mind your running up to La Lome ita, and flattering Dulce Varney, and spending all your spare time there, do you? No, "It's not jealously, it's just the ug ter ridiculousness of the whole thing! You, a husband and father, with all the problems we have to solve about the children, and the ranch=and you run after a pretty widow, cight years older than you are, who has money, and who's had two husbands" She stopped, ashamed of her tone and her words, taken unawares with u 'passion of resentment, Dan did not speak, "You don't #iphose I'll ever want to see her again?" Cassy demanded bitterly, after another silence, "You don't suppose I'm going to make a joke of it?" "Say-say=" he protested, far do you think it's gone?"' "Oh, 1 don't suppose it's gone far at all, That isn't what worries me," Cassy answered impatiently, feclin herself thin, dishelved, shabby, hal sick with a cold, tired and unpopular and supremely at a disadvantage, She groped for a handkerchicf, found none, and went on resentfully ; "But this sort of thing makes me sick Married people with 'cases,' writing notes and making appoint~ ments" She stopped, and after a Dan submitted doubtfully, you like me=not to sec more?" It was Cassy's turn to be silent, She did not look at him or trust herself to speak, "Would you?" Dan persisted, Cassy shuddered, turned. fo pass him on herWway back to the kitchen, Dan put his hand on her shoulder, and the touch weakened her through all her being with sheer love of him, big stupid blundering boy that he was, and she longed to 'put her arms tight 'about his neck, and cry out all her loneliness and. pain on his tweed coat, But she held her head stiffly erect, "Listen, will you let me talk?" he "How. silence "Would her any and her manner, "Please~Danny-I can't talk about it," she stammercd, Her brown face was wet with tears, Dan looked frightened, "Will. you come upstairs, Cassy?" "I can't now, Some other time-- please. i He went away. They heard the engine of 'his car chugging in the frosty dooryard, Then, ih a trail of smoke, the car went down the It was like a nightmare--she and Dan talking to oS) other like this, The whole morning was like a night. mare. When Margaret and Tommy were running and shouting in the yard, Cassy went into the sitting-room, de. termined to make it livable for the winter, She opened the shutters, and looked out into dank shrubbery, All that must come out. In this morning light the room was like a vault, gr 5d PERSONAL SERVICE Tollet 2 p 1GreenPeas2:~ 15¢ SOAP Soda' WASHING ares. 1 §e BOTTLE 29¢ Corn Flakes Pkg. Oc JcakesQ 1c 1 CAKE FREE Recommended by Leading Skin Specialists Certo MATCHES ru count | PRUNES I SOUP Cam Large, Choice, Sweet pbell"s=Tomato Only ® SOAP Comfort =~ ¢ = o CORN STARCH conve lg| Toothpicks Capa ms 2 rr 15¢ 8c «The Cup That Cheers i hundreds of v) par ko oat oan br Hit fun pp tion "|Special Prike This Week DOMINO Snap cleaner Tapioca i). 10¢ ory SOAP Molasses "ii 10¢c Gel atine rir. O¢ Helnz--Small Tin 'Baked Beans 10¢ os nl Paper Hage 153 § 'ga Tomato Catsup 19: Large Bottle Large Boxes "Je 10¢ 10e 10 Bars 45¢ + pug 10 Catelll's~10-08, Pkt. " - 10¢ Worcestershire Sauce uw: 10¢ BAKING . Soda ne 10e Sugar 2: 1e Pumpkin®.'10¢ r 15¢ ch %.' 10¢ Med, Cake meu 10€ Aylmer No, ¥ Tin uee 2 19e Her heart was bleeding, she could feel it; Cassy pressed her hand over it, She made herself think of the work she was doing, Cassy put some' trash into the stove, She had turned from Its roaring depths with a flushed face, when she heard her name from the doorway, Dulce was standing there, Her face was white, and tears rushed to her eyes, She came forward, with a little appealing gesture, but, as Cass backed a step or two, Dulce stopped, and they stood facing each other, "Cassy=you've got to talk to me [ had to come. Cassy, I feel so ters ribly about this!" Cassy did not speak, «Her mouth was shut in a firm line, "Just now=-with your father's death=--" Dulce rushed on, "If you could know how terribly--how ter~ ribly I feell I was up at La Lomita when Dan telephoned an hour ago, I rushed downs" The other woman continued to stare at her without the movement of & musele, "Oh, I could kill myself!" Dulce whispered, "You didn't," Cassy observed, sud. denly finding her voice, "Ah, Cassy, oy shan't talk to me like that!" Dulce protested. Cassy was trembling violently, "No, 1 sippose there is no use talking at all!" she agreed bitterly, "Listen," Dulce exclaimed, with an attempe at dignity, "Lisen to mel It was wrong for me to=-to fall in love with=to begin to care for Dan, Ill admit that! But I give you my word--1 give you my word, I never saw it coming! I liked him. I thought we all. were having the most wonderful summer, Cassy, lists en to me=" She stopped, and there was a little silence, "You were my friend!" Cassy fale tered, bursting into tears, Instantly Dulce was beside her, one arm about Cassy's shoulders, "Cassy, will you just listen one moment? It isn't as bad as. it seems, truly==truly, it's not! We just play- ed around together--like a brother and sister, until, all of a sudden You remember the day you all came up to La Lomita, last summer? Well, it was that day." "I don't know that it Cassy said coldly, thickly, "It does matter, Cassy, I had never in my life been in love before. Can matters," you imagine that? I had never dreamed what it could mean, 1 was ~well, after that day at La Lomita ~1 was beside myself, 1 was dis» tracted, I couldn't sleep, Many and many # night 1 walked the floor, telling myself that it simply couldn't be my fate to find the man I loved, in=you don't believe me, but it's true~in the husband of my friend, in a man nearly eight years young er than [, - "I ought to be ashamed of it, I'm not, It's so much the biggtstthe most wonderful thing I've ever known, You don't grudge me that, do you? That's all 1 ask. Just to know that there's a person like Dan in the world, and that we did find cach other, I'm going away, I'm going east almost Jrmediately, I had planned that weeks ago, onday, when you saw us down in Ban Frans cisco, Cassy, T had gone down to see about tickets, and when Dan teles phoned me at the hotel that he was coming down, I said that I was com. ing straight home, I didn't want to see him=he simply waited at the boats until 1 came along, That wasn't my fault, "The ranch across the road here is for sale, and I'm going away, I'll not come back for a long, long time, What more gan. I do? Cassy won't you tell me that you forgive me, and that you understand?" "Oh, 1 suppose 1 understand," Cassy said coldly, impatiently, "You that there never been anything wrong, don't Cassy 1" ' "Oh, 1 suppos; sol" Cassy con- ceded wearily, "I don't knows" Cassy added to Dulce = "I don't know that what I see or feel matters much" "Don't make it harder than it has to be, Cassy," she said, "I make it?" Cassy asked proudly, "I have nothing to do with it!" "It's one of those things that just ~happen," Dulce offered, reluctantly, "It doesn't have to happen!" Cassy answered in @ hard voice, "Peopledo fall in love with each other," Dulce reminded her gently, Cassy made no reply, "You know people can't help that," the other woman persisted, Cassy, tired, grimy and shabby in het dirty kitchen apron, her face dusty from the work she had been doing, stood stubborn end unconvines ed, her face dark, her sullen look has you, evading Dulee's pleading black eyes, "I haven't anything 'to say!" she said dully, Dulce stood baffled and hurt, for a minute, watching = her mount the stairs with the baby, Then with a subdued, sorrowful look on her vivid face, she went away, (To be continued) i: (Copyright 1930 by Kathleen Norris) NATIONS ADOPT RESOLUTION FOR LOWER TARIFS France Intimates She Will Raise Duty on Canadidn Salmon, However Paris, July 3.~A resolution fa- voring the lowering of tariff hare riers was adopted by the European Customs Congress at its closing session here, While the "rench participated in the congress, there were strong in. timations in Paris, that France in. tended. however, to raise her tariff barriers still more agringt foraign competition--=and (he plan wae contingent on parliament's action on a bill whieh concerned fish, France would raise the tariff on eanned fish, Including American and Canadian salmon and pilehard a8 well as the Spanish and Por. tugnese sardines, In fact, the first battle in the anticipated tariff war may be over the somewhat lowly fish, The congress was composed of delegates from a dozen Kuropean pations, Including ¥rance, Dritain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland, Russia, Switzerland and the Bal kan and other nations, , Ig rvesolu- tions were therefore adopted hy delegates from every {important country in Europe, A resolution also was adopted urging that a note be sent to the United States calling attention to the principle of the economie in- ter-dependence between Europe and the United States, The resolution urging the Eure. pean nations involved to take mea. 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