i I 9 9 _ H A Copyright by Kathleen Norrla SYNOPSIS a The luck that had brought the Bos- t . - Lawrences to California at the be; nniK of the gold rush has deserted :h?? present generation. From a 4.000.i :r^ ranch, their holdings have shrunk s to *i small farm, and the old family a in Clippersville. The death of r father forced the three eldest Si '.dren to work so that Sam and little ^ \riel might continue their education, a now twenty-five, had gone nto n he sron works. Gail to the public 11- V brarv and Edith to the book depart??f Clippersville's largest store. -0;teen-i-ear-old Ariel Is becoming a prcblem. and Phil is fascinated by "that fpitible" Lily Cass, whose husband has I erted her. Young Van Murctiison. father. He has no right?and Edith :1 'ms no right ? "Neither of them," she had recom- s nonced, with a little difliculty, "neither ^ of them understands how much?how iwfnlly one wants to go places?do ' f h in era ? Phil, who runs around with Lily Wibser!" Ariel had helped her scornidly. And the younger sister had given her a sudden, passionate kiss. "I love yon, Gail!" Ariel had said quickly. Put this rare demonstration from c cool little Ariel had brought no re sponsive happiness to Gall's heart. To v ha\e Ariel protecting her, abetting her iu deceit, in dealing with what was a not open and f'air, had given her a i: wretched sensation that the solid v ground was failing beneath her feet. Kven the scornful reference to Philip v had alarmed her. After all, Phil was t the head of the family; Phil was sa- a cred. There was no law nor order anywhere if Phil was to be scorned. g s Driving along the country roads that j were smothered in spring beauty. Gail's i spirits rose. Nothing could prevent c her from having a week-end in a Los Gatos country bouse now. On Sunday v evening she would join the family at 1 the dinner table, on Monday morning I: she would be back at work, and every- i thing would .return to normal. But she 1 would have this wonderful memory as c ** much pure gain. f She was always In a gale of high spirits when she was with Van, any- 3 way; It was impossible to be otherwise; he was the gayest of the gay. t She questioned him as they drove t along. "Who else will be on this house t party. Van?"* "On this souse party," Van respond- ? ed cheerfully, "will be, first, mine host < , and his buxom wife. Dnine Martha. They will draw the ale, heap oaken < logs in the great fireplaces?" t "Oh, for heaven's sake, you idiot." t His shout of Joyous laughter. i "No, there'll be the Chipps." he be- i Ran again seriously, "and three or four 1 good auction players?they have to have those. They'll play all this eve- : n,ng. all tomorrow morning, all tomor- c row night, and all day Sunday. In be s tween games they'll eat, drink and ask < If anyone wants to swim badly enough i take the bother of undressing. ^ l The Cherokee Scout, Mu uckyl By KATHLE1 "Then there'll he Lucia Tevis; she's b cute kid: she's eighteen. She goes %% 0 Vassar next fall." a "Miss Mary Tevis' niece?" "Yep. Then there's Mary Spence; 81 he's from Boston, visiting Lucia; she's 1 keen girl. too. And .Tim Speedwell tnd Fred Hunter?Fred's a polo man. iut he broke his arm. so he's resting? md Bill Billings. and maybe his sister, nd the Duchess?Lenore I'bipps?Mrs. 'hipps. She was Lenore Murchison." "She's your half-sister?" "Yep. Stepsister. My mother mar ied her dad. when she was about? ih. well, she's a year younger than i mi. But she's lived mostly with her ifi iiuui uicui. one iinit-iit'U, suiiieu, ? nude herself appear at ease as a J ow-toned conversation that had evi- d lently been interrupted was begun I igaln among the girls. s The men merely rolled in the sun n awned and exchanged monosyllables. "You did not." "Quit that!" "Say, lis I en . Gail heard, over and over v igain. * The girls. Lucia. Mary, and Lenore, I nurniured interestedly. a "Oh. come on." said the Duchess sud- r lenly when there had been a good deal t >f this. "We'll never get dressed!" f Immediately they were all running s lown rhe path to the cabin. Gail with hem. The only one who took any r lotice of her was the Boston girl, g lamed Mary Spence. Mary spoke now t ind then kindly to Gall as they all f >egan a flurry of dressing for dinner. c They left their bedroom doors open h ind ran back and forth lightly clad > >r not clad at all. Lenore and Lucia 5 died their bathing suits on the strip 1 >f lawn outside the cabin, and slipped nro thin cotton ktmonas, brief and al- s nost transparent, to wander about g i n nd mot her. She's getting a divorce!" They drove through Los Uatos. 1 leepy in late afternoon sun and ringed " vith wooded hills, and turned southrest on the boulevard t lint led to the ^ cean, twenty-six miles away. The car ^ noun ted sloj>es. rolled smoothly under nighty oaks, left the paved highway J or a comfortable dirt road. Few houses were visible now. But he gates bore names: "El Nido." "llillrays," "Jackson Farm Road," "Hidden 'aradise Road." The gate into which * "an at last turned the car was marked * Far Niente." * There were fruit trees here, scat- r ered in among the natural forest e rees; there was a tennis court, dap?led with shade and light and draped r ii a hanksia rose vine heavy with ' r :olden bloom. Flower scents were evrywhere. beauty was everywhere. Under a loaded rose vine, on one of he porches, four persons were playing ridge. Gall, as she and Van apiroaehed, recognized one of these as ier hostess. Mrs. Chlpp looked up at them sharpV, and without changing her position oncentrated her cards in her left hand ind stretched a hand toward Van. "Oh, hello, dear! How d'you do, Miss .awrt'nce?" she said, in a quick aside. 'Van. they're all swimming, and here's nobody here to? Kxcuse me Just >ne second. HI Iyer.'* she interrupted icrself, speaking to one of the playTS. "Van," she went on. "I'm not sure where the Duchess has put Miss?Miss -awrenee. Hut you take her up to the rirls' cottage and just let her park icrself somewhere until the Duchess xplains. Will you do that, like a daring?" Kesolutely, Gall would not let her;elf feel that it was rude, that it left inything unsaid, undone. "I'll be all right!" she said, with a mile and a nod. walking off with Van. drs. Chipp made no answer. Van led the way to one of the cabns, a brown, enchanting place with :eraniums and lohelia in the window oxes, and a wide open door Into a I entnil sitting room. I "Take any of these rooms?gosh, t hey're all full of suitcases!" Van said, t leering in at doorways. "Here?here's t me?this must be you. Make yoursen :omfortahle. Are you going to swim?" a "I think not. Not?well, maybe 1 v rill !'* s She decided against the swimming, ij tnd walked out to meet Van, ten minites later, looking her prettiest in a vhite frock, white shoes, a white hat. u The boy lingering in the garden path, L waiting for her, was trim in a black lathing suit, with a towel across his ^ ihoulders. Hoys and girls, as wet and sleek as ieals, were sprawled in the late sunihine on the grassy ramp beside the 1 >ool. They were drinking a pale yellow 1 Irink from tall ice-tilled glasses; a ocktail shaker stood on the grass. 1 Gail found herself the only person vho was not drinking, in the group. Che circumstances seemed to alienate loor. "Mary, you know what I asked you o do?" the woman said. "Oh, yes!" Mary answered. "Will you do it now, dear?" "Oh, yes; instantly!" said Mary, mining out of the cabin. She and -Irs. Billings, conferring, went rapidly lown the path together. Gail swalowed once, with a dry throat. Then he got up and began to saunter slowly ifter them. She encountered the boy named Fred iunter in the path, and fell upon him elth all the boldness of desperation, die laughed with him, narrowed her due eyes in their thick black lashes it him, and when he said somewhat lervously that he had been going up o the cabin to wake Van. whose aunt elt sure he had fallen asleep, Gail aid gaily that she would go, too. They awakened the drowsy, surtrised Van, and they all laughed to:ether, and Gail, still holding firmly o the now manageable Fred, waited or Van on the porch of the men's a bin. She walked down to the house letween the two of them, disposing of 'an's good-natured attempts to shake oubg Mr. Hunter by a determined. If Ight, hold upon the latter's arm. At dinner, which began immediately, he was between the two young men. lo far so good. rphy, N. CM Thursday, Lawri N NORRIS rushing their hair, rubbing themselves ith towels, and gathering garments nd cosmetics. Gail, who was not going to change, at on the upper porch step a few feet bove the path and stared ai. the eauty and luxury of Far Niente as It ?y on the slope below her, and presnded to he satisfied and absorbed In . hat she saw. She knew now that all tie vague, shy fears she had felt In nticipating this visit were going to e more than Justified. She knew that Irs. Chipp was not going to he nice o her, that the girls were entirely InilTerent to her, and that she should lot have come. Her clothes were not right, her traintig was not right, her background was tot right. She simply did not belong ?ere, and they were all more or less onscious of It. This nice Mary Spence. lerself a stranger in the group, was leing cordial merely on general prin iplex. It was nothing to her that hese Galifornians had social distinclons between themselves; they were ill the same to Mary Spence. "1 shall have to work !M Gall told lerself grimly. She must work, talkng. smiling, keeping herself occupied, or all this endless evening and all tonorrow and most of Sunday. It soundd like an eternity. Suddenly she noted two of her companions In the cottage, Lucia and Lelore, walking with two boys named j ' lr- . M .A 7 , / ^|||| "I'll Be All Right," She Said With a Smile and a Nod. 3111 and Jim, down the path to the louse. They must have left ? <* ?t age by the back door, which faced oward the men's cabin. Perhaps the >oys had called them. That left only Mary In the house, ind If she also slipped away Gail rouId have to go down to dinner, at ome spot unknown, all alone. Her ieart began to beat hard in nervous nticipation. Presently a middle-aged woman came ip the path toward her, and with a not inainiable half smile for Gail stood till, a few feet away, calling, "Mary!" Jail recognized her as one of the card ilayers. "Yes, Mrs. Billings!" Mary called, mtrino hop horn) on! Af iho nnpr>h April 18, 1935 3nces . Tl WNU 8?rviw 5 S llut It was work. It was bitter, hard, endless work; all struggle, no relaxation anywhere. She was conscious of carrying a heavy handicap. The girl9 were all against her. They ignored her; they looked bored when she spoke; they deliberately carried the conversation into channels where she must be 111 at ease and unfamiliar. (Jail fought ou. Her cheeks blazed, her blue eyes shone. She lost ail consciousness of Van as the uian for whom she was beginning to care, of the beauty of the place and the summer | night, of the novelty of dining here I with these fashionable folks. It was all a blur, through which she was determined to hold her own despite them all. When Lenore, at the end of the long meal, during which they had all eaten, drunk, and smoked too much, said provocatively to Van something about needing him to conspire with her upon something that would surprise the i others, Gail countered by saying that she and Mr. Hunter wanted to get up a charade. "That's what they call It now, is It?" one of the boys said, ami Gall Joined in the loud laughter. The Infatuated Hunter was by this time incapable of any emotion, even surprise, and he and Gail went down to a marble bench on the lawn, where she held him as long as she could, listening to his fatuous vague words, and laughing and keeping him laughing as If it were the greatest fun in the world. Later she - - anuexeu ran innings, ami r?*ii into u I 'loop-toned conference with hltn about ! airmen and air records, pretending to be so absorbed In the conversation that when Van came to got her to dance she had to call a few last words over her shoulder to Hill. They were dancing on a sort of platform, with vines trailed up over its lattice* I top. The moon shone down between the leaves, the radio droned and choked ami droned again. tJaii danced well, and loved dancing, ami was happy for a few minutes. Suddenly they were all disputing as to whether they should play bridge or go down to Moekerson's. Moekerson's was a roadhouse over on the linlfmoon liny road, sixty miles away. "Come on, let's -? dance at Moekerson's! Maybe the place'U he raided." "I am the captain of my fate, folks, I am the master of my soul!" Van observed, rising with a wine glass In his hands. "In the fell clutch of circumstances, what d'you thinuk 1 do? D'you think I wince, or cry aloud? 1 don't?" II*' was hauled down. "Well, *lo we go to Moekerson's?'* "Listen. Let's not, and say we did!" "Well, I'll tell you a story!" Jiin Speedwell said unexpectedly. lie told it. TO BR CONTINTKU. 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