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l IIFRffl A CnpjrrlKht by Kathleen Norrtl ' SYNOPSIS T1- luck th.it brought the Boston I. r ! os to California at the beginof the gold rush has deserted the j,r -.t generation. From a 4.000-aere r.-iin . their holdings have shrunk to a ii) farm, and the old family home in Clipncrsvllle. Phil, now twenty-five, has t- mto the iron works. Gail to the :> library and ICdith to the book department of Cllppersville's lnrg?st r.- Sam is In school, and seven y?*ar-old Ariel is becoming a pro'?. lein. I'hil is fascinated by "that terrih'. Idly Cass, whose husband has de sertol her. Young Van Murehison. s -fa wealthy family, returns from v.. ind Gail has visions, through i.ige with him. of the turning ?>f iho Lawrence luck. Dick Stebbins. Phd'a best friend, has the run of the iti'n-? . Arid i2 ?n??nlftne otit nf the hoit.-e at night for Joy rides. Phil sugto his sisters" consternation, that ?h-i invite Lily Cass to the house. Gail goes with Van for a week-end with 'he Chipps. his uncle and aunt. She is received coldly by Mrs. Chipps and her guests. At a roadhouse Gall sees a racrn > '-coated man helping Ariel into a r .i.i.-ter. Ariel admits she was at the place, at night, and displays no reniorse. Gall Is gloomy as she considers the family's outlook. CHAPTER V?Continued ?11? Kest of till had been the morning alter n dance, when, waki.ig in the his; hotel on Hie hilltop. (Jail had breakfasted in pajamas?the silk pa jamas Kdith had won when she won the Hope chest at Hie Catholic fair last year. After breakfast the party had split and scattered, Gail coins ofT with Van in the roadster. They had gone to the Cliff house and apostrophized the seals that were harking harshly on the rocks behind the drifts of fog; they had had tintypes taken on the board walk, and had tried all the swings and chutes. They had come downtown again and lunched on a roof above old Chinatown; hearing the cars honking in the streets below and the llshmen crying their wares. They had bought ginger and li chee nuts, had lingered long at the theater doorway, studying the cheap little photographs, bursting into fresh laughter as they pretended to translate the hieroglyphics to one an other. An idiot?yes, but Van was a most lovable idiot, the ideal idiot with whom to spend a silly day like this, when one's senses were still dreamy and dulled with the excitement of a gala night, and when one had hhn to one self?not showing oft, not given any chance to be drawn away, innocently to hurt one's feelings. This day in Chinatown was one to he marked with a white stone for Gail. At four they had known they must start for home. It would take almost two hours to drive to Cllppersville; Gail had not dared prolong the fun too far. Van had landed her safely at her own gate at six o'clock, and she hat gone Into the dim old brooding house, that was close and dark to night, with a sudden realization of the imitations of the place?the stupid11 ess of home. "I've had the best time I ever had in my life!" she could tell them over and over again, exhausted by sheer felicity. She told them the Jokes, the situations, the events. In an Inconsequential jumble. Edith had listened eagerly, sympathetically; Phil was not at home. Ariel had listened, too, but with a difference. "Ariel had an experience last night. She went out for a casual drive with the Camps after the movie," Edith had said, "and they broke a spring, and it was nearly midnight when she got In! Phil and I were terribly frightened." Gall's eyes and Ariel's had hashed together. But even when they were alone Ariel had not been communicative. "You run your affairs and let me ruu mine!" she had said, not rudely, vev7 simply. * But it wasn't a broken spring. Ariel?" "I Bay It was." Gail had been too anxious to get hack to her own dreams and memories to worry, even about Ariel. The day had had its marvelous mo | nienL It had come at four o'clock. | when she and Van, laughing over the j purchase of dragons, bowls, candle sticks, and charms in the sandal-scent ed, opium-scented interior of a dark little Chinatown shop, had been re luctantly forced to a consideration ot die Hying time. "Yep, that's so, we can't stay In 4?wn?we ain't married yet!" Van had aid. with bis wild laugh. It wasn't much. But it was enough for bar to remember happily now; it UCKY I By KATHLEI I showed that he did think of It, that it was in his mind. "We ain't married yet I" It would have heen a little belter !f he had 1 not put it in the vernacular. Still . . . it was sweet. She went to sleep dreaming of the newspapers of a few years hence. Her heart was very tender toward Van tonight. He had been a charming companion today, tins big tweed-clad man with the well-tilled wallet and the shin inn open car. Gall liked tlie memory of his smiling lean face grinning at her. She liked his clothes, his speech; she liked his references to places and things that belonged to a world of leisure and luxury that she did not know. Almost every week-end was spent at i the ranch In l.os Gatos now, and bo- | tween the Mondays and Fridays Gail I lived In but a dreamy half-conscious I ness of what went on at home. The women of Van's set had taken her up. and when the Chipps were back at home, as they frequently were In midweek, Mary Spence or Lucia would come to Clippersville to stay with l.enore, and they would all strangle into the library during the dull lorenoons to report their shopping expeditions, or to try to coax Gail to come off with them to a country club lunch eon. Life, at this accelerated pace, fairly burned her up. The new pleasures enchanted her, but never satisfied, leaving her always straining for more; which indeed was the position of them ' all?Lenore, Mary. Van, Fred, to say nothing of their elders. They went ev ery where, anywhere, they did anything and everything that might promise fun. Breakfast on the Maccleishes' yacht, for example; life on the Maccleishes' yacht had nothing to do with sailing or the water. The yacht might as well have heen moored ten feet underground in a coal mine, for all its gay party ever saw of the sea. Yet there was something distinguished about being asked to spend a weekend on a real yacht! The glory spread far ahead of it, ami far behind It. Gail saw her name in the Clippersville Challenge more than once during this amazing summer, listed among the guests at affairs whose distinction n few months back was beyond her wildest dreams. She had a feverish feeling some times of having lost lCdith. lost I'hil and Sam and Ariel, lost touch with her work at the library and <*r duties at mime?one coma noi live two lives, after all, and Van's very exactions were a delight, an answer to her wild young ardent prayers of last spring. Nothing mattered but that she should please him, should keep close to him. She grew wittier, quicker, gayer as the weeks went by; their talk together was merely a quick cross-tire of repartee. One night in late August she and Van walked home from a movie in Cllppersville. The night was insufferably hot, and the audience was glad enough to straggle out into the biack darkness of the Calle, where the air was some degrees cooler. "Whew! That was frightful,'' Gall breathed, turning her bared head up to the stars, shaking back her tawny mane. "This Is a snorter!" Van commented. "Los Gatos tomorrow, hey? And Into the pool." The moon had not yet risen, but there was an odd light In the world, at nine o'clock; whitewashed surfaces and the adobe walls of the oldest buildings wore an odd pale glimmer of white. The upper branches of the great trees over the Calle rustled wearily In a hot wind. "Maybe we'll go over to the beacb Sunday," Van said. ?T tl.AFO HAHT I" 1 "1311 " C ncic iuv.11 uun "Take you In a minute!" he ottered eagerly. The girl laughed. "A hundred miles," she said drily. I "And we'd get so hot going over, and be so tired coming back, that we wouldn't gain much." "Ice cream at Dobbins'?" he suggested. "Kind of mussy." But she turned toward the drug store none the less; the opportunity to be seen by all the town, having soda at Dobbins' with Van Murchison, must not be overlooked. All Cllppersville came In and out ot Dobbins' on a hot summer evening, and she kept wheeling about on her high stool to greet library acquaintances and neighbors and friends. "How-do, Miss Lawrence." "Hello, Gall." "How-do, Gail." "Good eveaing, Miss Lawrence!" They all saw that she was with Van Murchison. ursday, May 9, 1935 MCESlI . + * WNT7 Service ^ ^ "Oh. I love it I I think it's price ?ss!" Van exclaimed, laughing, as lull's troubled voice fell still. "I don't know what to do about it." Ia!l began again. "1 was wondering," lie added timidly, "what you would hink 1 ought to do. Van?" lie was interested now, but in an an oyed, reluctant sort of way. He said uickly: "1? for heaven's sake, what should know almut it': It seems to me If lie's such a tool she likes to run 'round iith a bounder like that. why. let her lo it!" "But you don't understand. Van," iail sidd patiently. "She's only seven* oen?she won't be eighteen until next Christmas." Scout, Murphy, N. C., Th .AWREI N NORRIS Ariel came in and put her slim arms I about Gail from behind and kissed the I? bright wave of tawny hair over Gall's <i ear. "lake our places," Gail said, get- < ting down. "We're done!" s She walked along beside Van silent- I ly in the street. The man kept up his regular stream of chatter for a mln- n ute; somehow it Jarred tonight. Gall q broke across it suddenly. "The reason I wanted to come away 1 was?my brother Phil was In Dobbins' s there." v "Your brother Phil was!" d "Yes. 'Way over in the corner, In one of the twosomes." C "Why didn't we yell at him?" Van t asked simply. <. She had to have sympathy; she had to test him. With a sudden letting I: down of the bars she said. "Because e his girl was with him."* "And don't you like her?" Van demanded, with his delighted air of dls ^ covering something amusing. ? "I despise her!" Gail answered sotn r berly. "Not really!" ho exclaimed ecstat I ically. "What? Phil's girl?" "She's not a girl, really, and it's I very serious." Gall said, determined to I sober him. "She's a divorced woman, i and she has three ;ttle boys about < three and two and one?" s "Oh, I love it!" Van said with rel I ish. "Phil! Old sobersides! I adore it! I'm crazy .bout it!" \ "Van, how can you say so!" Gail < reproached him, hurt. "She's a terrible girl; she comes from Thomas Street Hill; she was one of the Wibsers." "Oh, 1 think it's perfectly grand!" Van said, with his raw. Joyous laugh "Think of the trouble and expense saved?his family all ready-made!" But suddenly perceiving that she was not amused, and that a genuine mood of anger and disappointment was keeping her silent, he changed his tone and said rallylngly. lightly; "Why, what do you care who your He Might Easily Have Put His Arm About Her. brother marries! You don't have to marry ner: us ins uinertu. "I suppose so," Call conceded after a moment, wearily. "Want to Jump into the car and rush off somewhere and get cool?" "It would take too long, and I'm too tired, and I promised Edith to be home early. She gets nervous." The car was parked a hundred feet from the Lawrence gate. Hail went to the fence that had once been their meadow fence, and leaned on the bars and stared into the night that was now lighted by the moon. "Phil's marrying would simply wreck our home," she said, reverting to the topic deliberately, desperately. "Oh, forget it! lie won't marry her,' Van assured her easily. "I think," she began, a little thlckly ?"1 think what worries me is Ariel. She's proud, she's so sensitive?" "Shucks! She isn't any prouder or more sensitive than you are!" Van said unsympathetically. He hated to be serious, Gail knew, lie was hating it now. "The thing about Ariel is," Gail pursued resolutely, "that she is running around with that Buddy liaisch crowd ?of course they may be a perfectly decent crowd underneath?" "Why, she's nothing but a school child!" Van said, In distaste and dis pleasure. "Well, she's not such a school child but what she iets Buddy ltnlsch take her out In his roadster- '* 4 x ii?i wasii i no ninurance to tne ate .Miss Juliet Capulet!" Van remind- ; d her joyously. Gall laughed faintly, and was silent. , "I'll come for you early tomorrow/' *au presently said. "How's nine /clock? That gets us to the ranch at koon, easy." The girl felt cold, unresponsive, leavy. They were standing close together at he old fence rail; he might easily iave put his arm about her. But he never attempted that sort of thing; ' [jail wondered sometimes if it were some queer lack in her that prevented Inni, or some missing quality in him. Going into the house she determined that she would not go down to Los Gatos at all tomorrow, and felt a great relief In the thought. If they wanted her they could make a special overture next week. She wandered away to her own room, returned In pajamas, brushing her thick mop ot tnwny-goid hair. "Phil was at Dobbins' tonight," she said suddenly, "with Lily." Edith opened her lips to speak, made no sound. They stared at each other. "lie wasn't!" Edith whispered after awhile. "He was." "At Dobbins!" "In one of tlie twosomes?the alcoves." "Oh, Gull!" Edith wailed. "I know. It's awful." 'He's crazy/' the younger sister said darkly. They brooded upon it in silence. Gail felt tired and blue; discouraged about Phil, about Ariel, about her own hopes and plans concerning Van. A sense of futility, of helplessness, was heavy ujH?n her as she went slowly downstairs and slowly moved about the kitchen, pressing her white linen, freshening her printed clillYon. TO BIS CONTINUED. Pantomime Originated With Old-Time Romans Pantomime owes its origin to the plays of the ancient itomans in which the male characters were always played by women anu the female characters by men. Hence the tradition that the principal boy must always be a girl and the dame must be a man. Attempts to depart from this rule have seldom proved successful, states a writer in Tit-Bits Magazine. Pantomime was brought to England in the relgu of James I when soma Italian players introduced a dumbshow burlesque in which the principal ammeters were Ariechinno, Columbine, and EI i'antaleone. That was the origiu of the harlequinade. 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