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willbe fair ^j$osQmondVufard/n CHAPB HR TWENTY-FOUR Val Carrington’s bed room, which was connected with that of her husband by a lavish bath, was a large, beautifully furnished room, luxurious almost to the point of being sybaritic. The color scheme was peach and ivory, with effective touches of bright blue. The decor was modern. An ivory shag rug covered the floor, the windows were hung with diagonal ly striped blue and peach satin. The bed was low and wide, with a cufted peach-colored headboard, a blue satin spread and a nest of ivory silk-and-lace pillows. It was a bed fit for a queen. And in it Val lay like a queen, her pale hair spreading across the little pillows, her eyes closed, so that the incredible black length of her lashes touched her cheeks, soft as a caress. But Val wasn’t sleeping. She simply did not feel like making the effort of opening her eyes. She didn't quite have a hang-over—pot quite. But she felt lousy. Her head ached and her mouth tasted dry and unpleasant. And, as she lay there, hiding from wakefulness as long as possible, the memory of the quarrel she and Wade had had the night before struck at her. The quarrel that had terminated with Wade saying brutally, "Oh, go to bed. You’re not yourself. But we’ll have to talk in the morning—we’ve got / to get things straightened out.” So now it was morning Val thought, and no wonder she didn’t want to wake up. Maybe, though, she’d slept late enough so that Wade would have left for the of fice. But no, it wasn’t likely. Wade’s working hours were elas tic, often he didn’t go down to La Salle Street at all. And he’d been up just as late last night as she, he'd be juf‘ as tired- Even more so, Val reflected with a touch of malice. Look now much older he, was. She buried her smootn cheek more deeply in the silken smooth ness of the pillows. Oh, blast it! Why did they quarrel so much? She hated quarreling. Sometimes she almost hated Wade. She would hate him if he kept on being so utterly pig-headed and unreason able. so different than she had ex pected him to be. It had all been quite wonderful at first. The early weeks of their marriage had been just as Vol had anticipated. Their honeymoon in the south. Long lazy sun-filled days, spent ' lying on fabulous beaches, splashing through smooth sapphire surf. Wade, tanned and handsome in swimming trunks, kissing her bare shoulder, whis pering outrageous nonsense into her ear. A gay coterie of kifldred spirits had sprung up about them at every great resort hotel at which they stopped. Val had loved it all. The days had been too sh«ert for their glamorous pursuits. The 155— Seeds, Plants, Bulbs SEEDS. SPRAYS, SPRAY MATERIALS dusts, duster*, for farm, garden lawn. Cross Seed Co. Dial 6868. Headquarters for hybrid corn, soybeans, pasture mixtures. lawn grasses and everything for the garden. T W Wood & Sona 156— Sit., Work. 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Val had been passion ately responsive to Wade’s ardor. ,She had been convinced their mar riage was a wise thing, that in it they could both find happiness, and the forgetfulness of all that had gone before, the bitter sense of loss from which she had been afraid she could never escape. Even when they got home Val had seen no reason why their life shouldn’t continue to be a gay round of pleasure. It had proved impossible to rent an apartment, but Wade’s bachelor quarters were luxuriously adequate. V a 1 had been happy and busy, having the place re-done by the current in terior decorator. There had been parties in their honor, they had entertained in turn, everything had been just as Val bad hoped for. Naturally, she had assumed Wade was satisfied, too. Why shouldn’t he be? The knowledge that Wade wasn't satisfied had come to her so gradually she couldn’t have said just when she knew it for a fact “Do we have to go out tonight —again? Val, let’* slow down a bit.” The first time Wade had said that Val broke the date in question agreeably enough. She assumed merely that he was tired, that perhaps he wasn’t feeling quite up to par. They had stayed at home, Val remembered, and she had worn one of the glamorous loung ing robes from her trousseau. She had lain on the couch before the fireplace and Wade had sat be side her, holding her close and kissing her, telling her how much he loved her, how wonderful she was. Val had enjoyed it. But when he began wanting to spend more and more evenings at home—well, there were limits! Val was young, she liked a very gay time. Wade was forty. He had been having a gay time for a good many years. He was beginning to grow a little tired, somewhat surfeited. And there was another thing . . . As time passed and tne months of their marriage added up, they quarreled with increasing fre quency, with mounting heat. “You’re getting to be an old man!’’ Val accused furiously. “Only a few months older than 1 was when you married me,” Wade snapped back, resentful. , “But — you were different then. We had such fun always. You liked going places, doing things . being with our friends. It was a part of what I loved in you.” “I love you—just you, Val. Not the chasing around, the whole crazy whirl. Don’t you see, if that was all I wanted, there’d have been no point in my marrying. I could have had the other with any number of other girls. Gay com panions are a dime a dozen. But it was you 1 fell in love with, you I wanted for my wife. Only — I thought you’d grow up when we were married.” “Grow up?” There was hot young scorn in Val’s voice. “Don’t you mean settle down?” “Maybe I do! Is there anything wrong with settling down? Or do you intend to go rushing crazily on all the rest of your life, from one night club to another?” It wasn’t one quarrel. It was a composite of countless quarrels, big and little. Bitter words, spok en in anger, remembered, resent ed, left festering in the mind. And in between, passionate reconcilia tions, intervals of truce, lasting days or weeks, but always eventu ally broken. And now, Val thought, her eyes still closed, her cheek still press ing her silken pillows, the basic cause of it all had finally been brought out into the open. Last night, for the first time, Wade' had admitted what was in his mind, what he undoubtedly had been working up to from the start. Wade wanted a child. Val recalled how she .had taunt ed, after that first blank moment of incredulity , “ But why bestow such an unheard-of honor on me, pet? It wouldn’t be fair to your other wives.” She shouldn’t have said that, of course. But she had been so furious—and just a little intoxi cated. 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It’s quite logical, really. You should have suspected it from the start, from the moment he asked you to marry him. Otherwise, why would not he have' simply kept on play ing around with Susan and the others? If that was what he wanted—all he wanted. But I won’t, she thought, I won’t! (To Be Continued! 'This Funny World EKTORE FASTER E<Sk3S 754 “For that kind of dough I could go to the Bijou and see Lana Turner” ¥-y COPR. 1947 IV NtA StRVICt. MC.TJ. BEG. U. ». ?AT. OFF. “Certainly marriage improves a man, if you get the right ffirl—vour father was just as thoughtless as you at your 8 age!” DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS I. Low grades of tobacco 6. Endures II. Proofread er's mark 12. Path of a planet 13. Fragrance 14. Ascend 15. Fresh 16. Fate 18. Wager 19. Woolen velvet 21. A wine 24. Poems 28. Lubricated 4. Jewel 5. Became stuck in the'mud 6. Water craft 7. Blunder 8. Hebrew month (anc.) 9. Slope upward 10. Let it stand (print.) 17. Retired 19. Iron 20. Sharpens, as a razor 21. Male swan 22. 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