Wanted: A Husband

address, to keep her appointment. Part of it subsided at sight of the indication that the elevator was still on strike. The remainder had vanished lon

's the mat

s. How-whoof-uff!-d' you

ined the actress practically

cal. "It would kill

are now. We're goin

rcy's big, dull eyes. "Yes

h a carefully judicial air, "that you'd

up w

at makes life

ubiously. "Far from it. Food,

t get any lun

" pursued the accuser

before dinner," was

lentless judge. "One is one too man

th sullen resignation.

hours

o much. You shirk and postpone too much. You nibble too much candy.

w do you know all th

ce, of course. And

read'em there. Not

too cynical to believe that you'd take the trouble to do anyth

how do

f my profession to be good-looking just as it is to

for you? You're beau

p of ill-assorted features. I'm reasonably pleasant to look at because I work hard at the business of being just

ighed the girl. "When are yo

paragingly at the girl's

omething to put'em

hat if I had som

pplemented the other. "Unfortunately it doesn't work that way with

ng me anything now. You're

e! Can you do this?" Lifting her hands high above her glowing head, Gloria swept them down in a long cu

I can't," w

the other enticing

r. "I've got cors

wful ones. T

," she

, was what her instructo

kes me look sloppier than ever," she

l now as you've been looking all the time. Don't get another pair until I tell y

Andy

the actress concis

d the girl. "Anyway, you'll t

lk as if you wer

Miss Greene with a proud, reminiscent gleam in her

o Jacob Remsen as a commutation ticket to the last stat

Darcy Cole. Put her

nly m

ia G

lly into her imitation

of you to take all

spoiled; like a good picture daubed over by a bad amateur. So if I can rescue you as a brand from the burning and put you back on earth, a presen

y piously, feeling for

to be clear on one point. I'd like to

f course," said

r any o

here be? I told yo

spicions by acting like a school-girl yesterday and tearing your hair because the first

mean Mr. Remsen? Surely you

rsonally. But I seem to get a strong indication of Man a

red, and eventually scarlet, u

that acute person.

Raines's fault

t's all Maud's

all Maud's fau

do exact justice. "It's partly

Maud and the British War Offic

hat the British War Office h

Who i

M

h an official Britisher, all wound roun

"Propaganda matter. It's sent out by their press bureau. But

o they sen

ust have got me confused with Dorsey Coles, the ess

When does th

elen were awfully curious ab

ural

, I just l

wear the expression of one about

Maud had been catty about

es

hear. She said, 'Darcy's been sitting to Holcomb. Fancy it! Darcy as a model! I can no more

with a pillow as she slept and have come he

in a small, tremulou

raight. "No!" sh

ngland seems pretty much interested in her

er plaintively. "You don't seem to get any nea

not to laugh a

ll

w'em both, I

ar

ng next October and letting me understand what a favor it was to me that I was to be double maid of honor, I

y! Gor

him on my vacation in Canada and helped him try out horses for the British Government, which had sent him over for that

his right," p

elf, just on the basis of

t's just t

n't make

ot ent

sake, do be

aid Darcy brokenly. "I

e's ima

he's real. A

at book did you

's Pee

ted herself upon the couch where she w

peech. "For this I shall love you forever. I'll do more. I'll ad

Veyze Holdings, Hampshire, Engl

traightened up. "Sir Montrose Veyze," she repeated thoughtful

e I found any one that

commended him to your favora

he's un

s impo

came across that in

w f

e one of the fifty-seven varieties

re you going to do with

rejoinder. "Maybe he won't come back

plague you," retorted her friend with convicti

id Darcy tearfully, "is an

You'd have to go i

hing else for me to do if he lives through. I won't

u. But when are y

he advantage of havi

edding," decided Gloria. "Just for c

I'd like to have him tall and slender and with

, doubtless," s

ho

ty V

ou know Sir M

his sister's last ti

it seem so ghastly

an admirer of mine. I do think, Darcy, that with the whole of Burke's Peerage to choose

desperately. "Any one can have him!

him, certainly. Not a bit like Jack Re

fully attractive,

ar. It's a pity

he lo

ht make a real actor. He's the best amat

does h

body's little sunbeam. Never mind Jack. It's the imag

do with him!" implored

and diamonds. Nothing has given

t i

cy, for half of your beautiful, inspiring, heaven-sent lie. You take me into equal partnership in it, and I'll be your little personal Guide to Health and Beauty until we

eckless adventure shot

ain," she ag