Stella Dallas
By OLIVK HIGGINS 1‘ROITY
(Continued From Saturday.)
Alfred Munn Invited her to every
dance there was at the R.vcr club
that spring. People began to talk
Women, she told lithe, began to envy.
She knew of at least a dozen who
would give their eye teeth if Alfred
Munn would ask them to dance with
him. lie really was ss good as n
professional, lie had asked her to
l>e his partner in one of the new
fancy dances last Saturday night.
They had been the only two on the
Poor. K very body else had sat around
and stared, and applauded afterwards'
oh, she \\r s really managing to make
|<ililt© a splash m Milhampton with
Alfred Munn. At the Luncheon club
she belonged to. “the girls" had dis
cussed little e*«e last Friday. Rosa
mond was simply green with j*al
ousy. Stella could tell she was. be
cause she acted «n cool and offish.
Lots 01 |.-topic were "jollying" her
a bou: him. Mu- got it from all sides.
Kvcn that r<lcr old tabby-cat, Mrs.
Palmer had heaid the talk. She had
stopped her on the street one day
and Riven her a little motherly ad
vice. Too bid nobody ever invited
Kd to dinner, or to anything small
or private. lie would !>e so much
more useful She couldn't see why
they didn't. But never mind, lie was
convenient Jus* as he was. and oh,
awfully kind! She was Benin* a lit
tie tired of him she must confess.
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But then, slis always did, when "the
n.,w wee olT. ,irul "itiey got a little
slushy.”
Hflle wondered If there wasn’t dan
ger of Stephen's hearing about the
splash Stella was making In Mil
hampton with Alfred Munn.
"Why, of course," Stella exclaimed
lo that. "I want hlrn to hear about
It. I don't Intend to give Stephen
the satisfaction of thinking I had to
go Into seclusion the minute he
cleared out. Me had an idea I
couldn't get along In this town with
out his telling me how to do it. He
meant to use his importance to my
position here as a kind of gun to
point at me and make me do Just as
he wants, when we get together
again, flood grnrious. having a good
time, being successful all by myself,
is the only gun I've got to point at
him, my dear."
But Stella was Inexperienced In the
use of firearms. Her gun exploded
when she didn’t expect it to. And
she herself became the victim.
4.
It’s possible to receive a bullet
wound, even a fatal bullet wound,
[and be unaware of it, until you put
your hand to the spot where it
tingles a little. You're surprised when
your fingers come into contact with
something warm and wet. You're
[ shocked when you draw them away,
and find them red! Laurel was the
messenger who brought the first sign
of red to Stella's horrified attention.
Stella sent out a dozen invitations
to a party for Laurel In June. All
Laurel's schoolmates were having
parties this year. Stella Intended
'hat Laurel's party should surpass
them all. There was going to he a
tailless donkey, and a peanut hunt,
and a cobweb contest, and a Jack
Horner pie, and creamed chicken, and
ice cream and paper caps.
Laurel mailed the Invitations on a
Friday night. AH day Saturday and
Sunday she was full of the exhilarat
ing consciousness that others were
sharing the wonderful secret now.
When she started to school on Mon
day there was a sparkle beneath the
calm gray surface of her eyes that
made them look almost black—like
the pools of meadow brooks In mid
morning sunshine. When Laurel
fame home at noon her eyes seemed
to have faded like the pools when
the sun 1* hidden behind clouds. In
stead of the blackness and there was
a grave, wondering, bewildered look
in them.
"Nobody can corns to my party,
mother," she announced briefly.
All day Sunday the mothers of the
■ eciplents of the pink envelopes had
been busy at the telephone.
Twice iauirel had to tell her moth
er that nobody could come to the
party before Stella grasped the sig
nificance of the announcement. Then
‘b rcely she threw her arms about
l^iurei, ar.d held her to her tight.
"We don't care. We don’t care!''
she burst out. “Let them stay away!
We'll have jur party by ourselves!
Don't you mind, Lollie. We'll have
the party Just the same—you and I
and Uncle Kd Munn. Cats'. Just
because father runs off and leaves us
all alone! Well—we’ve got each oth
er. Lollie, anyhow. I won’t ever run
off and leave you. and, or, Lollie, you
won't ever run off and leave me. will
you—ever, evert" Stella was crying
now.
Laurel did not cry. She stood very
still, ar.d listened, and afterwards re
membered.
CHAPTER X.
1.
It was several weeks before Stella
knew how serious her bullet wound
was. She was calm by that time.
She could talk over Its details with
Etna McDavItt with perfect compo
sure and with a touch of brusque
humor, too.
•■Why." she said, "Ed bores roe.
He never gave me a thrill In his
life. Oh, Mllhampton makes me sick!
Narrow-minded, evil-minded, nasty
fnlnded, I think. I'll tell you Just
how it was. I was down there in
Boston, for two days, shopping, get
ting favors and things for Lillie's
(party. Naturally, when Ed suggest
'd that he run down and take me to
the theater In the evening, I was
pleased to pieces. Wouldn't you be?
I love the theater in Boston.) We
didn't stay at the same hotel, though
for the life of me I don't see why
we shouldn't. There were a hundred
nr so other men staying there. Glory,
how I hate all this winking and
shoulder shrugging stuff about hotels
and bedrooms: When Ed suggested,
after the theater, that he drop around
and have breakfast with me, why, I
said. 'Sure. Mike,' quick as a wink.
It never entered my head but what
that was all right I didn't care If
somebody from Milhampton did eee
me. Married woman like me! Break
fast! Right in a public dining room'
What's there so horrible about that,
I'd like to know' I didn’t want any
thing of Ed but a little fun, and a
little advertising. When Stephen
wrote to nte in that iceburg-v way
of his and asked If I would like my
freedom so as to be able to marry
Alfred Munn. 1 could have screamed:
Marry Kd? Why. I'd commit suicide
first. 1 don't want to marry Ed!
Hasn't anybody any understanding of
the human animal? .A woman can
have other reasons for liking a little
attention than just the one the shady
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dead. I like a little dinner and theaS
Hr jiarty just for fun's sake Hon
estly, Effle, sometimes I think I’m the
only one who's got a clean mind in
this town.” ,
Stella took rooms for the season
at a fashionable hotel (>n the coast
of Milne that summer. She had nev
er spent a summer at a hotel. It
might prove diverting. She eertaJnlv |
needed something diverting, she 1
thought. But Whatever It proved, th' ™
arrow- of direction iiolnted her out
of Mllhampton for a while.
“I’ll give the mud sllngers In this
town a rest for a month or two,” she
said to Effle. “By the end of the
summer perhaps their muck will hav
all dried up. <*f course. It would b»
rather nice if I could fall Into some
harmless, but showy ’little affair’ tffis
summer, with some attractive gentle
man or other, up there at that fash
ionable hotel. That w-ou!d prove
there wasn't anything serious In this
Alfred Munn husiness. It would be
rather nice, too, if some of the cals
in this town could hear that I was
having a wonderful time this sun -
nier—being taken light Into all sorts
of inner circles, and select groups.
Oh, there are lots of possibilities in
this summer hotel scheme of mine,
Effle. ray dear,"
Htella equipped I,aurel with a doz
en new frocks, replenished her own
wardrobe, and. stout-heartedly, set
forth to new fields and untried coun
try, in search of fresh laurels with
which to cover up the dried and
dead ones.
That was the beginning or her sum
mer hotel era. In the fall not. ever,
llffle was told. In detail, or the dis
! heartening experience-; of the first
experiment.
"You can drill forever fcr oil In
some places, but unles- oil is there,
it won't do any good,” was how
Stella briefly summed it up. "NexJ
summer. I'll try the Cape—or the
mountains possibly."
Stella didn't go back to the d“
tached house when she returned from
Maine. Instead, she took two-rooms r
and a-bath in an apartment hotel that^
had lately tarn built in a ro.de. j
tial section of Milhampton. '
The apartment hotel offered h‘i
more companionship than the d«* ■
tached house. There would at lea X
lie tjie necessity of getting out of
kimono when you went down i
meals. Besides, she could have f>''
pie to dinner more safely. The in
valuable Htdwig, whom Stephen bad
engaged six years ago, end taught
and trained, had left to he marrie
Stella was afraid to trust a new ‘le
ant with all the hard and fast ru' f
In an apartment hrdel, all you liart
to do. If anything went wrong, wa* »o
shrug and say, "Oh, dear, isn't f*,e
service In this place dreadful?"
Moreover, there was social adva
tfiges The King Arthur ithat was
the name of the new apartment i
hoteli was to be patronized by what
Stella called "the right people." She
needed all the advantages that she
could get from close proximity
the right people.
'Alfred Munn had left Milhampton
by the time Stella and Laurel re
turned from Maine. He had gm
inti another business in another city.
Somebody else had taken ov"r the
horses. In time people would for
get about Ed. Bullet wounds heal.
Scars can be covered up. Of course
it wa« a handicap not to have a hus
band if he was still In the land > f
the living; at least it was a handi
cap In MUhimpton, Massachusetts. In
California single married women were
as plentiful as sunshine, and as wel
come, Stella had heard—Oh, she d’d
wish It had been In some place in
California that she and Stephen had
happened to put down their roots
But It couldn’t be helped. It was
only common sense, of course, to
keep on growing in the same pl*c‘
where they'd started. Stella appr i>
elated her own limitations to t! ye
extent of realizing that it would 1 0
difficult, even in California to woi
her way up alone to anything Hi
the position that she hod attaint
with Stephen in Milhampton.
(Continued tn The Momlna Bee.i
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