Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ I SECOND INSTALLMENT Synopsis: Pauline, sentimental, trustful, sincere and loving love, be comes engaged and married Denni.- O'Hara in the belief that their blissful happiness will continue unchanged thru all the years. On her wedding morning she awakens witb a strange premo?iition that maybe love doe change, a thought buried in her mind were jade, and her cigarette holder j stared at the rose-patterned ^aipet was jade also. * with eyes that suddenly seemed to see “Why should he disapprove of n great deal, rou?” Pauline asked, realizing why. She had been married si.x month;:— happy even as she asked the question. Den- happy inontho, yes, decidedly r.is liked “wQmanly w’omtn”—the do- months and yet . . . SCI iption was his own. “Barbara looks “Temperamentally Dennis is your like a cross between an Egyptian exact opposite.’’ quean and a film vamp,” he had pro- Barb.ara’s words ca:ne back to her 'ested only last night. “Why on earth with insister.t tuith. Dennis was not by a, JeUer jTrpni her closest friend, -an’t she wear frocks like this?” and In the least sentimental — he hated Barbara, the night before.~1Pa^Une Ii^3"pihched"a sbft Totd of htS'Wlfe’S'avhat-he-cant'd *-^iTV-hr^’--NT>w PaoliW, adored Barbara, who had been mar-'between a finger and thumb. ‘ • .or.nie to think of it, bo hardly ever ided, was the mother of a child which [ Pauline had. flushed with pleasine.: used any terms of endearment when died, but now divorced and living ai “Now if Barbara wore what I call he .<=noke to her. life which some of her friends could ‘fluffy’"clothes,” he went on, floun-! Pauiine sighed. It was the little not understand. Between Dennis and dering amidst explanations, “some-' things of life that were so disappoint- Babrara is a seeming wall of personal thing blue—with some lace—” | ing, she decided. Only last night, for dislike by both. Six months after Pau-! “She’d look frightful!” Pauline toi.i instar.-e, he had come home earlier line’s wedding, Barbara cofnes for a'him. . than u ual from the city and had gone short stay. ! '“Why .should he disapprove of.straight down to the garage and had Now Go On With the Story ■ urged, as her friend did not tinkeied about with the car. reply. “Men,” said Barbara, When they were first marred his always dis- Mist thought would have been for her Paulino hung up the re«ivor slo»- _or_popidn-t i, ly and turned away from, the tele-i,“_j„ * ^ phone. j “Dennis isn’t coming home till late ” she said. Barbara Stark blew a cloud of cig" arette smoke into the air, turned a page nr the magazine she was reading, then looked up. “Oh! Business?” she askei ca.'Uallv. “He didn’t say.” There was a little silence. Pauline the work she had been engaged upon went back to her chair and look up so happily a moment ago. “I should give that up if I were you,” Barbara said in her lazy, musi- j j cal v(uce. “How long have vou been , | at it?” . * ■; “Kver since I was engaged.” Pauline i sprerkd the cloth arms- her knee—and-- regarr^cd it criti'^ally. , “Time flies, don.sn’t it? You've been 1 marrii il —r how long?—six months?” ’a.-iked Barbara, musingly. j “Xi-ariy.” Pauline’s blue eyes sougdtt j -h£x...fxicr.d.s fuce ralh-er sonihroly. “It j stand.” Pauline submitted herself to a stiff “Oh,” said Pai*line. She was not cross-examination. Perhaps she had quite sure what Barbara meant, but been unwise. It was a mi. take to show .™iit. sounded profound, and then she^you w'ere too>.fond of a man—Barbara asked the question which for months^ had always said that — Barl^ra whoj set fns longer — sometimes,”- she. ad- mitti-Hl. Barbara laughed. “Not very “com- , pliniontary to Dennis.” “Dennis is a darling.” Pauline gath ered up the elaborate cloth. “He's a perfect darling,” she said, with enthu siasm. • Barbara stifled another yawn and turned another page of the magazine. “.Ynd they lived happily ever after,” she quoted rather cynically. Pauline leaned forward, her chin resting in the cup of her hand. “I want to ask you something,’* she said, suddenly. “May I?” “fdy lanrh, why not?” Barbara’s dark brows Jifted in mild amazement. “What is it? I promise to answer to the best of my limited eloquence.” Pauline slipped to her knees beside her friend. “I think 1,,’m juft beginning to un- der.“tand that life isn’t the simple thincr I thought it was,” she said slowly. ' I “If it wc’o we should find it dull and —k ‘And'Tou’ve never loved anyone since,' Barbara?” Asked Pauline she had longed to ask. “Barbara, did "was so cyniuplly worldly wise, ‘you love yourburband when you mar^i But even Barbara admitti'd to ried him ?” be- j ing in love! Pauline wondered who the The answer came without he8ita-|"’»" be, and decided that it wasi lion. “I thought I did, but we had been j P'^bably the married man with v.hom , maiiied exactly—I think one hour—about. < when I knew 1 did not.” | A bell pinged through the house, ^ dreadful!” - 'and she ^hanged hurriedly and wehli Barbara laughed. “It was rather, I downstairs. Peterkin was alone in the' but I’ve got over it, and it was an e.x- drawing room—Barbara had not yetj perience I don’t regret.” * apjieared — and Pauline went up to» you’ve never loved anyone him with an uncon.cious little si^h of “A nib since ?” “Yes. I that.” “Oh!” I’ve been fool enough for Pauline .scrambled to her uniiiteiesting,” Barbara declared.^”It’s j ho was he? Do tell me! ’ t.he unceitainty that keeps us goihg at! K^^'-bara moved away to the win- all. AVhat is the important question wouldn t interest you, Pauline looked down at her new j s^jd. wc'lding ring and tw'isted it thought-1 Ever>thing >h.? you intere'l. like Dennis?” she fu’ly; then suddenly she raised her cyt*'- • - “Wby^don’t you ^ttsked' ^ Barbara was lighting yet another cigi'ierte—her .w'hite slender fingers paused in their tark; then she anr swered evenly: “But I do like him. I like*'him immensely.” Pauline shook her - fair head. “It’s nice of you to say so, but somehow I don’t quite believe you. Thera’s a Foit of feeling of antagonism v/hen- ever you and he are in the same I relief. “It’.s so nice to .see you. Peter- kin.” “Glad to see me?” he a'k-*d jerkily. He Iboktd down at her, hat he kept hi.s hands firmly cl.ir'pNl behind his hack. Pauline nodded. “You’re ? bit of my ! old life, and you’re so .safe,” .she .aid j comfortably. He laughed rather gri.nily. “is that a compliment? — and where*.s Ib-n- ms about me,” Pauline pleaded. Barbara turned, smiling a little. “Thi.s wouldn’t. It’s nothing ruman- tic.” 7 . „ ' Bu^''Pauline would not be depied. • “Dut on business. “Didn’t he loVe her? Oh, but; he “Alre:..ly^?” There was an unkind must have,” she insisted. • Mttle note in the question and" Pauline I “I never asked hjm. One doesn’t go dn v- away from him offend»*d!y j about proposing to men who don’t you’re still quite hai ny':” Uhow the slightest intere.t in one, you , uv, . „ . . , ,, , She met hi.s eves .‘erenoly. know'. I . . I er- room. i^arbara interrupted calmly: “I know, but—” ' Barbara patted Pauline’s cheek. “I said I’d answer one question, and I’m sure I’ve an.swered half a dozen,” she protested. “What are we going to “Isn't it rather he who doe.n*t like ! do wnth our^ves thiiv^eyem^ “PctefkTn^coming to dinner.” Barbara raised her eyebrows. “Poor Peterkin!” “What do you mean?” “Why, by coming here to see you.” “Why shouldn’t he? eyes fectly.” He let her go at that. “Well are we dining alone?” “No. Barbara is here." Hts eyes hrijhtened. “Is «hv ? I like that w^man—she’s a fascinating devil. I w’onder she hasn’t go* married again. “I wish she would. There i —” Pau line broke off. realirvng she had been about to break a conMde.nce by speak ing of the man whom Barbara had ad mitted loving, and the next moment me, don't you think? And isn’t it per haps because I am here^ that he has suddenly decided not to come in to dinner tonight?” Pauline sat back on her heels and looked up at her friend. She admired "Why Ehuuldn’t he? He’s my eou-, Barb.aia immensely, and yet nobodyjSin. , I, had quite a cheerv dinner in had ever called Barb’ara beautiful. I know-a cousin who adonis the Denni.s’s emptv chair, before "Strikinir looking, ” had been Dennis ground yon walk on. Now aat s » Pauline insisted on placing a O Hura’s reluctant admission. “The | man w ho s love I believe in, Pauime. ^,^^ ^ 1^,,, sort of woman a man looks at because I You t-e the only woman in lucic” he’s not quite sure what she is.” |'Vou ought to have married Turn—P romantic!” Barba.-a teased It was a true if not very lucii de-l consider you admirably suited.” scription. Baibara was tall and slim.| “Barbara! I don’t care for him in! bM she rather affected a droop, and I that way at all.’ ! me answered. She was rather-quiet ahe had queer nondescript eyes thatj “I know you don t. but all the same,^^^,^^ dinner-afterward, when she were sometimes dark and sometimes j you are admirably suited to hrin. You, lying awake listening »ale, »nd g behutiful mouth, .nd hair,are teth sentlmenUl, wherf** Dennis, she realiMd there hwl not been mach nacersity for her to talk. Then she heard Dennis’ step up the if a real leaf brown. She wore clothes j—” She stopped, but Pauline caught that were like nobody else’s. “God. her up quickly, knows where she gets ’em,” Dennis' “What about Dennis?” grumbled. She seemed to be a perpet ual source of grievance to him. “She gets them at quite ordinary shops,” Pauline said, ever on the de* fensive for her friend. “But you see she dcstfita them herself, .and she’s so Original.” "* Barbara certaiirly looked “original ’ anough now, aa she stood with one hand on her hip looking down at Pau line with an indulgent smile. She wore a frock of the brightest jade “Nothing, except that temperamen tally he’s your exact opposite.” j “Then we must have been made for each other,” Pauline insisted. “ ’Like attracts unlike,’ they say, don’t they?” “Attracts, yes,” and then, aa if re gretting the word, BariMura laughed. “Why do' you lead me on to Calk such nonsense? Oughtn’t we tq dress? Pe terkin will be here directlyL” When she was upstairs in her room; littif garden and the sound of his key ■ in the door. She flew out of bed and down the stairs, barefooted ks she was, and when he opened the door she flung herself into his arms. (Continaed Next Week). green girdled with a band of dull or- Pauline made no attempt to di^s. She j •, ’ k*- '-1*'- '--•■•’i''' ilw?/.*: o;:'.*.■.2 -‘.li c. jzd and. NOTICE Why not place that gift aabaetip- tkw mow? ! have some attractive of fer^ aaitaUe foreycry age aad taste. JAS. W. bALDWELL L'u: :g :2*.:o r Are Now Ready For Distribution Application forms have been mailed to more than 200,0(10 motor vehicle owners in South Carolina. Licenses should be applied for new* to avoid delay a’hd possible penalties. Observe the simple rules shown below and you will Ussist your Hiphw’ay Department in ffivinu: you the best possible service, and maintain at the same time most risid.economy in operating expenses. PERSONAL CHECKS NOT ACCE1»TED Remittance must lx* made by either eertified personal check, postoffice or express money order. Personal checks will be returned to the send ers, and ’cih-rency sent through the mails will be at the sender’s risk. BE SURE YOUR CAR IS REGISTEllED IN YOUR NAME If you purchased your car during lUil2 from one who previously registered it in his name, ^ transfer blank from your auto dealer. After filling it out, send to this office with proper lemit- tance. TO AVOID DELAY, TROUBLE AND EX PENSE, OBSERVE THESE RULES 1. Read the instructions on the application blank care fully, and follow them. 2. Don’t send checks, unless certified. Money orders and certified checks are acceptable. Cash sent thiough the mails is at the sender’s risk. 3. Be certain that your car registered in your name. 4. License plates must be di? played by Jan. L t. FULT. CO-OPERATION MEANS PROMPT SERVICE Prompt application for 1933 license plates and proper fill ing out of the license appli cation blanks means prompt and efficient service. To save time and trouble,, order your licenses by. mail instead- of coming in person. 1933 LICENSE PLATES MUST BE DISPLAYED JANUARY FIRST Motor vehicles driven over the public highways after Jan. l.^t must di.splay the new license plates on both front and the rear of the vehicle. '-1 State Highway .4»4)staffice Drawer 1 lOS Motor Vehicle Division ('olumbia, S. C. DeceTinber 2nd. and 3rd. Must Go Regardless of Price! Making Way for the New CHEVROLET TRADE IN YOUR OLD CAR FOR A NEW ING EXCEPTIONAL BARGAINS. 25 Late Model Cars * Here is Big News! We must sell all the U.sed Automobiles that we have in stock now. We have some splendid cars, ('ome in and look them over^ We have cut and slashed our prices to the Bottom Dollar for this sale. Everythii^ sacrificed. Every car must go. Nothing held back. ‘Thouiuuids of car ownora will want to r^lace their I^esent car when they see the 1933 Chevrolet. We must be in a position to handle 'their used cars so we are sacrificing every car instock now. Todd “ ' Company Laurens* South Carolina rtl I - \ “7-