PAGE EIGHT tte fo THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. rr -- SUESDAY, JULY 290, 1010. THE BEST FOOD AT THE LOWEST COST EARLY CLOSING For the benefit of our employees our store will close at 5 o'clock every evening except Saturday. A.'GLOVER License No. Bands TT Well, she would see, he told him- self grimly, tiving himself at last, and reaching home at almost five o'clock. The Clements had gone, and the little girls had disappeared some- where about the grounds, but there were callers, He could hear their loud dismal parlor. A look of refined pain crossed Dean's sensitive face, and he went quietly 'upstairs. Geraldine, whisk- ing 'into his room half an hour later to close windows, was surprised to find him reading in a chair by the sunny bay which was streaming with sunset light. She told him about the Clem's troubles and the street im- provement assessment that meant no "It may or may not interest you to know that Miss Bond thinks I. have written a great play' Dean said feily after a while. His tone niade her instantly re- sentful. "I don't see why you didn't say so! I don't see why I have to draw it out of you hy: degrees," she protested. And as he did not answer, she added a little stiffly, "Pm very glad, of course." Still no answer. Geraldine felt her heart sink; she was vaguely con- scious of a wish that she might have the courage to quarrel with him, in the old vigorous way--the old way that had ended' with tears ,and for- giveness, and laughter, so many timé®* But somehow there was a coldness between them now--a self- control--a general inclination to avbid, rather than healthily to meet, the issue. "He doesn't love me any mor€!" she thought, going leaden-hearted into her own room ,and standing at the bare window to look out into the softening and deepening . twilight. She had said it a hundred times be- fore of late; to-night she began to wonder what happened when a man and woman stopped loving each other and yet were man and wife. "I'll never let him leave me, and I'll never give him a divoree," Geraldine said to herself, "so he might as well get over his nonsense and come to his senses at once, I hate all this politeness and weariness and silence --~I'd rather he would drag me. about by the hair!" And she resolved that at the slight- est provocation she would school her- self" to fly out at Dean in the old way. But even while she so decided; jocking down the shabby avenue to the gate, she knew that when she was i ness, was really opposed to her incoherencies, she would slip from his hen his articulate reluctance Aprol! The Sweet Oil of nse only about Apr) ua of lard or but COUPER 341-8 Princesa stret. Phone 76 Pie Sr EAA ry Sock. Hatt and MENNENS RA-KONIA | Sunlight | Wash Days. A Sunlight Wash Day is free | a toil Y with this wretched sense'of being snubbed and. whipped and si: lenced again, : She did not realize that Kennedy Bond's; interest in his 'work had opened a new world to Dean, had set him, thinking, however vaguely, of the road he might find that would ¢ him away from all the unutter- ably stupid and tedious facets of his present life, But she felt a new force in his mood tonight, felt that it was.an active rather than a negative protest and the thought filled her with un- easiness, "I T've really lost him," Geraldine said to herself, with a little flutter of fear at her heart, is it too late to do something now to hold him?" And with a nervous anxiety to dis- pel the cloud of the moment, she walked to his door again. roan you want to go up to the # Ov 1» ey "I think--from what Ha Kent when said he telephanad-.- at the 'Waites havp Miss Bond there," Ger- i ted, uncertainly. e sub Ve. @ she stood hesitating go But Dean, who was ' The Luck of Geraldire ; BY KATHLEEN NORRIS, Author 9f "The Story of Julia lage" "Heart of Rachel," "Josselyn's Wife," "Sisters," ete. % voices and raucous laughter from the to new car for the Clements this spring Mher daughters, easy soul if she had said an unfor- | actual contact with his cold- aney, EEE 2 ens time eat again!" Ger- and | fortably. The met meny, ¥ Lard wife and daughter down stairs. in time to meet the departing callers, and gave them au dark look. An in- formal Sunday supper at the out- rageous hour of half past five was bad enough, without Having * these ie, gossiping women as witnesses it. hd "Joe Barron feels awfully bad about the boys turning down that of- fer," Mrs. Hanna, obviously cgsting about, in her amiable old way, for some remark of general interest to d to her greeting, said confidential ly, "Pll tell you how it is, Mr. Laird. The house really needs so much done, do you see? And they've just got so much to invest and no more--" Dean looked at her with an opaque eye, whilé the women of his tamily exchanged horrified glances. ' "Were we to dine?" he asked his wife, in a tone so cold and so deliber- ate that Mrs, Hanna made po further social effort, but hurried away after wondering in" her tundte thing. When she was gone, Dean looked from his wife tg her mother. "Do I understand that Barron did make an offer for this house, Gerald: ine?" he asked. "Through Clem--yés, Dean, yes!" she answered, hurriedly and guiltily. "You knew of it?" he asked, mea- suredly. » "I--yes, I knew of it. Clem told me on condition that--" she paused. "And 1 thought all along that you should be told!" she added. "When was this, if I may ask?" "Abont--oh, two weeks ago." "You've known it for two weeks?" "Well--yes." "Come, lovey, we'll go in to sup- per," Mrs, Fitzpatrick said hastily to Janey. Dean and his wife remain- ed looking steadily at each other. A full minute passed. Then the man turned to the hatrask, and took from it his big coat, his hat, and stick. "Where are you going?" Geraldine asked, with a quie Jump at her heart. He did not answer, but stepped to the door. "Dean! Aren't you going to have supper ?" 0 answer, He opened the door, glanced at her briefly through nas-- rowed lids. f "Listen, Dean!" Geraldine said, in a rapid but cautious whisper, "you shan't walk out of the house like this, simply because you werent told of Barron's offer. I told Clem-<I told George--Dean," Geraldine interrup- ted herself passionately, as he show- ed {ed no evid of having heard her, "if you walk out of this house tonight, without discussing this matter like a 'reasonable $human being, as I ask you to, you peedn't come back! I'm sorry and I've said I'm sorry--and that ends it~-and as the boys would- n't have accepted that figure anyway "tow, Dean, listen--I'm 'serious! OU "Good-night," he said, with brief distaste. He closed the door hehind him and was gone. o Gemidine after staring tlankly af- * him for a seconq, drew a long breath, nodded her head slowly, and turned back into the | dare hall. he Was more angry ghten or surprised. Dean had done this, or almost this, beford, - : It was distressing, of course, and humiliating, and annoying, but these scenes were part of married life, and one must simply endure them, thai was all, She went slowly into the dining- room; where her mother and the chil- dren were commencing a delicious supper. Lizzie had made Dean's fa- vorite batter-bread, snc had opened a bottle of the sour, black, Diekled walnuts he liked, Geraldine sighed. Gone," she said, with a shrug. "I thought he would," her mother arswared L 2Well, | get a good dinner somewhere, and come in about PS el 'He i ve any yunch," a well that fo i» ts for i then!" Mrs. Fitz said pk in har- ¥ (To be continued.) Lr | TALKING IT OVER Wilh Loma Moog N Falling in Love With Plain Jane There hag come back from the War a man with eyes that see, and a heart that understands. When he march- ed away to war the Dimpled Doll kissed him good- bye, and cried 'a little as she did it, (she is the type that can cry with- out getting a red nose). Her sis- ter, - Plain Jane stood - by, but she didn't ery at all, ™ not then (Plain g Jane gets blotchy when she cries.) The Dimpled Doit dried her tears on the shoulder of a handsome salior fitleen minutes after the train pulled out. . There were dozens of men ready to love a Dimpled Dod. » II Plain Jame cried over the man who went to war de know nothing about it; but we do kmow that she knitted Socks and begged and bribed the Dimpled Doll to send him an oc- casional note in answer to his long and frequent letters. And ws know algo, that' when the Dimpled Doll took his picture from the frame. to make room for a dashing lieutenant, Plain Jane picked it up and toob it 4g her room. The mun wno went to war camo home unexpectedly: came home cov: ered with glory, his heart bent on marrying the . Dimpled Doll. He wanted to surprise her end to kiss the exclamations of astonishment off her lips. But tha Dimpled Doll had pone to a dance, abd he found Plain Jane at home; somehow he found himself tell" her ail that he had done, and thought, out there during the two yearns of his absence. 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