*2 MfVdAY' JANUARY 1932 IBrapti erg to t H'fissT INSTALLMENT r My B flgn Jocelyn forgetting whatlj it "usic master taught her, playj ' * a ';'su2ic. her own mother, MarceJla I Dut #i(Sj3rnud. It was like the voicef, h H ?! stranger in the house. J' Jfc josc from the prie-dieu in I d alcove of the long Spanish-look. I , ^om, difficult to recognize as], * living :wm of a New York I.' .pjrunent, and came forward past , Evening massive furniture to J 1,3 at the player, rt * There she sat, the daughter Mar- , tel K* had puC L'l?o a fore*n C(>n- , id Wveat twelve years before, a smooth. | tj] golden girl eighteen years old, osomed, narrtjw-waisted and ?*? i? HViU-M B round-hipped. She usea, wucu I1C1 to Ifves met. her mother's a slow smile, ch Hsite did nothing quickly. But when j tie I die played this music of her own ( jjiere was a chance. Marcella was ] gs H^uick to recognize it. Jocelyn had < I _ down her chin and theire ] of Its* ?n lier eje;' w^lsn the slow , e. I smile left them, the difference be- ( re I ;Tceen June sky and thunder sky. f at B Then Marcella thought of the ] er contents of tha: little crypt above j I ter prie-dieu and of Julian . . # and ( oi all the things that this daughter I must never know. 3 -i want her to bq safe," she mur. , I mured to a nur when twelve years before she had left the little girl ld trembling in the dim waxy-smell- ; , I ing ParliT ?f the convent. And ir greeting her ore the wharf of her j 5" native city with all the wharf tall >r towers stretching up behind them ,n Marcella had said again to the same nun, twelve years older, more men ana mere frail. "Oh, dear sister Delice, how shall I keep herj I Jocelyn Harlowe's first ball gown J I -it was for a costume ball?was I white as all first ball gowns probJ V ayy should be. Standing sheathed I A in all this pur .ty of color Jocelyn I; 4 H herself had a look of sleek brilliance I < 1 which did not express her age, her 1 simplicity or her profound lack of j 3 I all worldly experience. I; It was not the convent child's 1 I fault that shf: looked so uncon-j] I icntional. She was really ignorant,!] I 3 veritable ncvica in living, but!, -here was in her blood and in herj B train a swift rebellious maturity j ] I to which hor body had subtly shap-| a I A husband in her mind. It mustj ( r* I tie managed quickly before Jocelyn] I was fully awakqned to reality. She 1 I must be made to long for it ignor. < j I antly as a release. If marriage, if j this man, could be presented to her ] I I cs an escape, as the opening rather 1 I than the closing of life's doors. . . < I Eefore Joselyn's return from ; France Marcella had been busy 1 I warming chilled contacts, meltiugl the edges from metallic connections J, cf one kind or another. She had) once a great position in the city | j I and it was not too difficult, in spite 1 I oi what had once shattered her liie to make herself remembered. 1 B So when she brought Jocelyn into the ballroom she was able to obtain < lor her, aided by her own exotic therm, a sufficiency of fantastic partners?to Jocelyn they all seeni ed Romeos ar.rf the ballroom an ir- 1 hdescont bubble of delight?and at last even to attract for her the sup. 1 per partners Marcella had desired. Ibis was Felix Kent) dressed as the 1 Jack of Diamonds,' and with his < legular Saxon face and large eyes s curiously resembling that conven- ; ticnalized gentleman of fortune: r "But you don't look it," he said, seating himself beside flushed Ju- ] liet at the small palmy rosy table i they had taken for themselves. "Yen { don't look it and you don't act it < and ycu don't?yes, you do speak ] it You have a delicious little French i i accent. And, well there's some thing about thq way you move your lips : and use your eyes in different con. tentional. Perhaps I'm not going ! to be disappointed after all." 1 This was the address altogether i different from any Jocelyn had yet 1 received. On older man, evidently. 1 lie condescended to her. .Wedl that : f as of course to be expected < 'Mr. Kent," she said, "you have really no right to any disappoint- ] rnent, have you? Because you can'! 1 have had an interest in mc (there' i fas shadowy delicate drum-roll on' j he "r") ever before tonight." 11 "XT ? -. 3 1 _ iuure wrong. I've had an in- 1 I test in you for?let me see -twelve . years." "But you are just seel-y," scoffed Jocelyn at her sweetest. "And I tare not any French accent at all." "Twelve years ago I saw you in a bank in Paris. And I said to your mother, "Give me first option when 1 she comes out, won't you, Marcella?" But Mr, Kent, you are not so as that." "1 am nineteen years older thar. Jou are, Miss Jocelyn." I 'And my mother did give you aj firsts-option?" questioned Jocelyn i nith her eyes down. ^Wit stared and laughed delight-1 I ar-d drew in about her as ^ though he ? "au uecome lor her a \VMm curtain, sheltering, darkening. "She did, really. She said to me j Warren ton, N. C. JRE BE Katharine Newlin Bur that day in Paris, 'There isn't a man in the world I d be so glad to tiust her to, Felix."' Kent laughed. But he was giddy and filled with instant fear. There had never in the world been a lovely child like this one> so frankly hungry, so ignon.ntly passionate, and so untaught; with not a jot of the deep cold wisdom of experience. He could hardly be air to surrender lier to her next partner. Kent sought out Jocelyn's mother and bending his fair lean height . i. a_ i a.. ii j a x_ it a - ?. move ner ne laurqa ana raixea ana talked. Marcella was wise. She declined innumerable invita. lions. An occasional tbeatre-party she lccented. Several of thesq were given in Jocelyn's honor by Felix Kent. But Marcella, brought her charge home after the play, for. bidding any extension of gayety for Jocelyn. Shq was not to be whirled iff to the cafe or restaurants of afer midnight joy.Jocelyn was meek, bad suffered a long discipline in meekness. But her nerves began to quiver. "Thq ether girls," she said with i sairt of fierce timidity, "the other girls go on, Mother." "You are not like the other girls," :aid Marcella) "and I will not let you become like them." Jocelyn murmured "They're very nice." Marcella's hand fell upon hers and tightened sternly. "I am the judge of niceness." And Jocelyn sat still under that touch. Often Felix Kqnt came to see them. During his visits in the liv mg 100m Marcella was a constant chaperon. Jocelyn would play her piano or sit with her eyes down lis. tening to her mother's hard manufactured conversation with an older man. She had nevqr before studied a man at such close quarters. Felix Kent was a man shapely and hard 2nd different in every fiber from tier thrilled self. The convent child ft It this difference in all her nerves and pulses. There came an evening when Marcella left them alone. Jocelyn was at her piano dutifully executing a commended meloiy. It was intricate and held all ier attention. She did not know hat she had been left unchaperoned in the room with Felix Kent. IJe camq and stood close to ner leaning on the piano. In the slim severity of evening dress he looked sleek and attractive, like a panther blis eyes were now filled with their extraordinary incandescence. "Stop playing just a minute, vyipqqp ft 1/Wl/ViJU) J^AVMWVI Sh(! obeyed, let her hands fall and gave him her meek child's look and her slow, unchildish smile. "Your mother has left us together. You knew I love you.'' "Yes," said Jocelyn, looking Sown and trembling. "Do you think you can lcVe me?" "I don't know, monsieur." He laughed in a soft delight and Srew closer. "I may put my arm around you, oveliest?" She made no movement or sound aut he, interpreting her silence, aid draw her to him and she cane softly suddenly, so that all of he: i'oung body seemed to be his own Then he kissed her mouth. At that she was up and at the far side of the rom. Never had he ?een a living creature move sc swiftly. Both her hands were pressed against her lips. Her bosorr panted. Hqr eyes were distended and wet. "Oh, no," she whispered. "Oh . . ""* n<-> T ran't." Kent came toward her, not close For her arms were stretched ouc tc keep him at a distance. He ever vent back against the windov tvhich held an amazing picture oi lighted towers and silver smokt and of a sky color ed like the petal: ?f dark pansies. "Darling, I'm sarry. I beg you' pardon. I know I frightened you Please do forgive me." He felt a though he had been sent back ii a dream to play the part of a Vic. tarian lover. Phrases came to htn from half_forgotten old romantii novels "I won't do it again. Yoi BUD 'N' BUB 1 -J RfcjS / J ~ y/ u\ THE W, yondII' * 'I: may takq your own time, I want' i ! you so I want you to marry me." j 1 After a considerable silence Joce-ji lyn composed herself. But she stay- j ( ed against her window, drawn up 1 thepre as though for an instant ( spring backward into the great dark' city of refuge beyond the window- t panes. "You won't do that again?" ' "Not until you wish it. Please, j .Trv.elvn civA rrm Inst the tin of i your silly little convent fingers." I She let him takq her hand and j kiss it. She brushed the other hand across her eyes and smiled. "Then it's alright?" he asked her. "I think so. Yes: If my ] mother ..." "Your mother gave me her consent at that same costume ball when I was the Jack of Diamonds." "Do you mean that I will marry ? you . . .you are asking?" ( "Yes." t He had kqpt her hand, was hold- c ing it close to him in both of his ^ own. "May I have a piano?" whisper- i ed Jocelyn. t The question sounded so like metre childishness that Felix laughed t out, and again but very carefully, i put his arm around her. She came i to him but no so softly, so com- J pletely as before. "Vnn shall havft everything.", i promised the Jack of Diamonds. ? The engagement of Miss Jocelyn < Harlowe of New York City to Mr. Falix Kent of Chicago with all possible other details of information < was presently in due form announc- ' cd. And Jocelyn wore upon her, < third finger a diamond as splendid ( as a stag1, ] "You shall be married in the : spring after a four months engagement," Marcella promised. Later there were evenings, however, when Felix's new role of restraint was 1 difficult to maintain. On one such 1 evening he left Jocelyn abruptly 1 with a manufactured excuse. She went back into the room and sat down by her piano, brooding. ' The door from the passage which led back toward the bedrooms open- ! Od softly. Jocelyn whirled about, surprised. She could see no one. ] But the door had moved. < She was startled. Then she saw him coming round ' a great throne of a chair which had interpo6ed between them. The clippie. The little bent man sidelong. with bright eager eyes. Jocelyn would have screamed but lie arrqs'iea ner wnn speecn. "Don't be frightened Jocelyn," he' >8! , -n. I1 We represent Old Fit Casualty Comp ; Of Established strength and , ' ij CITIZENS m f R. T. WATSON, President; . . j i j Warrant r !l FIRE LIFE $>> s i ' "Consult your Insuran i your Doctor kRREN RECORD said gently in a voice full of pleasantness, "I wouldn't scare ... I wouldn't hurt you for the world, ifou see, ycu poop: child, I am your father. And Jocelyn recognized him. For years Jocelyn had had a photograph in her possession, se:retly. All other pictures of Nick sandal had been destroyed, clipped nto splinters and burned to black 'cathers by his wife. 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