Judge — December 26, 1914 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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ee REALLY, my dear, ought I to do it? Can we carry it off all right?”’ “Of course you ought to do it. You'll be no worse off in any case.’” And so the scheme began to take form. Mrs. Gilkins had misgivings as to the out- come, and her conscience smote her as to the method; but she still loved Gilkins and had become desperate over his flirtations. Gilkins was leisure-ridden and had insisted upon going to southern California for the winter. He had long neglected Mrs. Gilkins, finding flirtation more exhilarating than her soci- ety, but for form's sake he had invited her to accompany hii Arriving at a fashionable hotel, Gilkins had lost no time in searching for excitement, leaving Mrs. Gilkins to her own devices. Of late, desiring again to attract his attention, Mrs. Gilkins had marvelously improved her appearance. She always had dressed with distinction, but now she had recourse to other devices affected by the modern woman. Even a beauty doctor had prescribed and practiced to wonderful effect. And privately she had become adept in all the latest dances. Mrs. Gilkins was again really a very attractive woman, but a husband on the primrose path seldom casts a glance backward. Gilkins hadn't noticed it. Miss Harford was the most engaging young woman at the hotel, and Gilkins had at once made up to her. Miss Harford's fiancé was due to arrive in a few days, but apparently she saw no harm in dancing with Gilkins, who was more than expert at Sauce for the Gander Ry J. A. WALDRON eee this universal exercise, or in walking about with him in that half-seclusion that the architecture of a fashionable resort hotel insures. And she listened to Gil- kins’s ready conversation with seeming pleasure, for Gilkins was clever, and women usually were unable to resist his patter up to a certain point. Gossip was practically dumb as to Gilkins and Miss Har- ford, because the women at the hotel who had passed the period of flirtation, and to whom gossip was no dearer than the breath of life, noted that when Gilkins was not about Miss Harford and Mrs. Gilkins were almost invariably together. Gossip was inclined to remain dumb when, after Paul Rim- bel arrived and had been duly introduced as Miss Harford’s fiancé, he also was occasionally seen in quiet confab with her and Mrs, ins. But Gilkins by no means gave up Miss Har- ford after Rimbel’s arrival, and much to that young man’s seeming dislike tried to monopolize her as before. Though she gave a fair amount of attention to the younger man, she was not inclined to ignore the older. On the evening of a dance that had been projected for the benefit of sufferers from the European war, Gilkins was more attentive to Miss Harford than usual. They had just finished pacing one of the modish measures together when Mrs, Gilkins appeared on the floor with young Rimbel. Miss Harford looked at this couple, as Gilkins thought, with a jealous eye; and then comicbooks.com