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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1924)
STELLA DALLAS Hy Olive Higgins Prouty. M NOP8I8. \fter sewn years separation Stella DhIIhn In requested by lier husband’s at torney to iret a divorce on the ground of desertion. When she refuses "he Is told tlie alternnatiie will be an Hctlon In which she will be charged with In moral conduct with Alfred Munn. an old admirer, from whom she received attention while her daughter. Laurel. 13. was visiting her father. Stephen Dallas. In New York. She indignantly denies wrongdoing ami de clares she will fight. Stephen In desirous of freedom so that he may marry Helen Alorrison. a widow. (Continued from lesterday.) “Thank heavens for lawyers. I say dow. Gracious! I’d never have thought myself of getting something «*ii yoTt, Stephen, but my lawyer has been right onto his Job. lie s been down there to New York, and he says that I've got as much grounds to do a little naming as you have. So if you want a divorce. Stephen, go ahead and dig up Ed Munn. and 1 11 dig up Helen Morrison and we ll give the public something worth reading. Of course, T, myself, don t want a divorce. There's nobody I want to marry. I'd see myself dead rather than tied up to Ed Munn. And I can’t see that it's any advantage to a woman with a daughter she’s got to bring out in society to be a gratis widow. I’d just rather have you in New York on business, the way you’ve always been. I've taken an apartment in Boston now. and by the time Laurel’s old enough to come out, it may strike me as a good idea to have her father in the background somewheres, when we give her a hall at one of the big hotels. Mr. Hinek ly. my lawyer, says you’d probably want to do about anything I want i von to, just so I don’t show up your I iittie affair with that pretty widow I down there in New York. My! But 1 think lawyers are clever. I cer l^^jjfcinly take off my hat to Mr. ■^^Jlinekly.” * It was Helen's sweet voice saying, £ “Yrou have had a difficult day, Ste phen. I’m so sorry,” that called Ste f phen back to a brief glimpse of heav j en again. 1 Tie looked at her long and quietly. Then he said, "Helen, l gave you lip years ago, because I felt I could bring you nothing but shame. I must give you up again for the same rea son.’* CHAPTER XVT. 1. A new venture always acted upon Stella like fresh soil in a garden upon seeds. It brought our renewed effort and vigor. An experiment untried possessed all the possibilities of suc cess. Stella never considered failure until It was demonstrated. Even then she would not accept it as such—In variably searching for some hidden •advantage in her various disappoint ments and rebuffs. Even when she had the daunting situation of a forced exile to face, she kept right on spinning her thread of optimism like a spider rudely ejected from her web, falling dizzily at first, but quick ly recovering herself and fastening her* slender cable to the first solid support that offered Itself. “You never can tell," she said to Effle McDavitt. “It may be the best thing in the world that ever happened that there wasn’t any room for lau rel at Mlfjs Flllibrown's this year, and that I’ve got. to get out of the King Arthur. J'd gotten Into the way1 of thinking that the sun rose and set In Milhampton aociety. I’m go ing to take an apartment round Bos ton somewheres! A housekeeping apartment. Lollle is just crazy to havfe a home of our own. so she can entertain,’ and I guess it's high time. Mercy, I just wish I'd had sense ^Uto^nough get °'it of Milhampton be The town -has always had it in for Laurel and me, ever since Ste phen cleared out.” Stella didn’t know anything about ipnftments in Boston She didn’t tnow anything about where “the right place was to live,” nor “whom he right people were to know," nor which was the “right church,” nor lie "right school.” Her knowledge ■>f Boston was confined to the shop ping district. . ‘Hut that's where this flare-up with Stephen comes in handy,” she told EM*. Before I had to dig up a awyer to defend me against that rforjey Smith creature, I didn't have i soul in Boston to ask advice about lesifable locations, and desirable schools and things, that you have to Know ;n>out to start right in any lew place.” Mr. Joseph Hinckly. of the Arm of Hinckly, Jones & Hinckly, became ‘n {itella more than a mere legal adviser. His knowledge of Boston was somewhat conflnerfc too, although not to the same district as Stella’s. » However, lie never hesitated to give her ns authoritative opinion on any subject If she asked for it. That was instinctive with him. When Stella inquired. 'Common wealth avenue's one of the best resi dential streets, isn't it?" lie Imd as sured her there was nothing to com pare with it this side of Riverside drive. “Well, I’ve found an apartment on Commonwealth avenue, way out be yond the thousands, and its front windows are Just flooded with sun shine.” ' S“Snap it up quick,” exclaimed Mr. Hinckly. “The sunny side of Com ^11/ The most comfortable, popu lar and convenient article of ( furniture for a home is the Day Bed. 14 Styles to 1 Choose From Our Pricea, Complete With Cotton Felt Mattreaa $19, $21, $23, $34 1916 Farnam Si. Don’t Skid Cadillac Four-Wheel Safety Brake> Prevent Skidding. Try Them 0 Today. r J. H. Hansen Cadillac Co. HA. 0710. Farnam St. at 26th monwealth avenue! Great Scott! You can't do better than that!” Mr. Hinckl.v was fully aware that Ihe distance between one and one thousand In some instances, in some streets, is ns great as between one side of the globe and the other. (He himself had been born at the wrong end of a fashionable street, lie once said In a political speech). Hut he was also fully aware that hisVlient might live in the very heart of the Hack Bay and barriers more forbid ding than space would prevent her from ever crossing its thresholds. Stella moved into hei tlve-roomed furnished apartment just before Christmas. She still possessed some of the old knack in copying depart ment store window effects. Hut it had been a long time since she had had "her eye out for that sort of thing." With no one guide her, anrif the matter of expense a constant argument for the cheaper article, her results were not successful. As Lau rel gazed upon the slowly growing tawdriness of tlie apartment, the joy she thought she would feel in invit ing the vague new friends her moth er told her she would make in her new environment, once they got set tled, began to fade. The living room was famished in mission of the Royeroft style—big oak chairs with leather cushions; a rectangular couch, leather-cushioned also; a table (hat was strong enough to be used for a carpenter s bench. And all in spite of the fact of a two toned light-green, satin-finished wall paper of the 18!)0 "parlor period,” and an ivory-tinted mantel, which, mongrel though It was. showed more strain of Adam than of Elbert Hub bard. Stella put yellow flowered cretonne at the windows. She told Laurel that she had seen a colored picture of a mission room In a magazine with yel low flmvcred cretonne foe bangings, and it was perfectly stunning: Sh* knew where she could get some yei low flowered cretonne for only 9S rents a card ns elTectite ns linen at $6.50. But the hanging^ did not make the room right. I.aurel felt con vinced at last that the room would never be right. pne afternoon, when her mother was out shopping, she tried to give it just a little of the mine look that Mrs. Morrison gave her rooms. But it was hopeless. Afterwards she wandered through the apartment gas lug upon All its details with despair ing eyes. The kitchenette with its piled-up breakfast and dinner dishes waiting for their nightly washing (.Stella kept no maid, and she had her own way of keeping house), suggested to Laurel little of the homlness of Mrs- Morri son's big roomy kitchen, basking in the afternoon warmth of a great black stove, the table spread with a bright red cloth, and a cheerful, broad-faced clock ticking lazily on the mantel. The Boston apartment was very little like the ‘‘home all of our own” of Laurel's dreams. There was no garden. There was no lawn. There was no front door with a knocker, and a single bell. The only differ ence, as far as Laurel could see, be tween an apartment and a hotel was that you ate your meals In your own rooms instead of downstairs,' and it wasn't againHt the rules to use the gas for cooking. *> Laurel didn't like Boston. She didn't know of a single winding river over which to glide upon skates. In and out among alder bushes; nor of a single hare hillside, white with the first snowfall, down which to fly Into the sunset, upon skiis; nor of any stone wall to follow for pussy willows in March;! nor rocky pasture land nor rough woodland, to steal away to, all alone; in April. In search of trailing arhu(us. She didn't know of any corner store where stationery was sold and pencil boxes and return halls and jackstones. and gumarops. »r\en toi ,"i cents, and cocoa nut cakes, three for two. She didn’t know of any hump-hacked cobbler, whose tiny shop smelled deliciously of leather and was such a cheery place tu visit when school was over and her moth er was out. Jake, the hump-hacked cobbler, would bow and boh at her like a Hip Van Winkle dwarf, when ever she came Into his little box, and sweep off a place with his grimy shirt sleeve for her to sit down upon, and chuckle and spit, and tell her stories about what his father used to do when he was drunk. Laurel missed Jake. She missed Tony, too—the black haired, olive skinned young Greek, who kept a fruit store, and Rave her a plum or a pear, or a banana, not the least hit rotten, when she went to see him; and, smiling showing Ills beau tiful white teeth, told her about the lovely dark girl in Athens, waiting for him to send her a ticket to come to America and marry him. Most of all, perhaps, she missed Miss Thomas, the kind, wrinkled raced, quiet-voiced librarian at the Mllhampton Public library, who let her wander «it will, alone, among the book stacks, and take out and put back any volume she pleased without asking. She believed she hated the libra rian at the public library to which | Mr. Hinckly directed her. On her first day there the librarian had spok en to Laurel and made her blush with shame. Laurel had never used a card catalogue before. It hadn’t been necessary with Miss Thomas. Tn her engrossed Interest tn the myriads of varying titles she had drawn out and piled on the tabte beside her at least a dozen of the little draw ers that contained the luring cards. Suddenly somebody at her elbow exclaimed, “You mustn't do that!” Laurel gave a little startled Jump. She had been a thousand miles away. "It’s not necessary to remove but one drawer at a time." There w as displeasure in her voice. I,aurel flushed. The librarian began returning the drawers to their places with empha tic little Jerks an.) shove? Then, glancing at Laurel sharply, site ir marked, "Why. you've picked them from A to What book is it you're hunting for. anyway?" (Continued In The Mernlna Bee. Martha PROBLEMS THAT PERPLEX. □ HAVE never glvi n him a chance to think that I love him and now lie Is Indifferent," writes D. L O. "l-ast year we wrote nice, common love letters and I know he cared for me then, but does he now? How am I going to find out and let him know of this love?" Lack of encouragemerft does hurt some persons, D. L, O., but I hardly think you gave him the cold shoulder when you were writing those "com mon” love letters. By the way, what do you mean by common letters? Is love becoming -urh an ordinary thing that letters are of a uniform kind, are almost like the form letters sent out by business houses? Surely you don’t mean that love is so (heap as dis played in letters that it Is common, lane is supposed to strike each 'Ic tim differently, so Is far from com mon. You are the best judge as to the extent of this injjn's regard for you. If he has stopped his letters lo you and doesn't call it is very apparent his attention has been distracted. There Is no need of racking your train as to how you are going to find out if he still loves you when he gives proof by neglect. Bravely accept his friendship and be content With that and that only. You can't very well ^switch a man from the path he has chosen unless you have persuasive powers. 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