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father, close together, their heads
(Continued from Page 3)
bossed in thankfulness for the bless-
passion that you are dreaming of, ings that were theirs. Together. Al-
does not. hove is the emotion that ways together. 'Mama' he loved to
a man has for his wife, for the mother call her and his voice seemed softer,
of his children, for the companion of somehow, gentler, then. George and
Frances holding hands quite frankly.
his years.
"This," his arm included the silent Grandma in her shining black silk,
company, "is it. Here you will seek turning tenderly the flat gold wedding
in vain for the glamour and fire of ring, so large for the trembling fin-
the 'Grand Passion,' Init you will find ger. Sanders alone, absorbed in his
something holier richer—peace and memories. There had been a girl, he
understanding contentment, unhur- had told her, and he had never for-
ried happiness. Sigh for these things, gotten.
little girl.
Why didn't Felix look at her? What
"No! No! I don't want that." The if she had told him her ideas of love.
girl's tone rose hysterically. She Of course they were her ideas, even
dropped limply back into the chair. if a hit intensified by a story she had
"I don't want calm, unhurried days. I reed just before in a current periodi-
want to lire to breathe. I want the cal, of fair women lauded in story and
love that is free of wordly considera- song who loved briefly and fiercely.
tion of duplexes and diamonds net It would be wonderful to love like
with diamonds. I want Romance. I that. Glamour—Romance.
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want to know what real love is.
I'eliz married to someone else. May-
The head drooped. Her sun-tinted
be next New fear's Eve, he would
curls fell in a ruddy cascade about the
be sitting, as George and Frances
white forehead.
were below them, holding hands.
"I know what you want. You (low strange that would be. flow
want—"
imposaible.
The father, now utterly outraged,
Rabbi Margolis was preaching. A
would not be denied.
prayer for the New Year with its be-
"A rest, that's what she wants. My
ginnings, its new hopes and possibili-
poor baby. She's tired, she's been
reading too much." Mrs. Meyers ties. A New Year!
What was the matter. Her throat
walked swiftly to her daughter, and
pillowed the bright head on her ample felt so tight, so queer. It was warm,
that was it. There was Lorene and
bosom.
"My baby." Mrs. Meyers held her her husband. There was a new rapt
daughter close. Strange, unbidden expression on the woman's face she
thoughts raced through the older wo- had not seen before. She seemed
man's brain. Harmon Metzger, that transfigured. She looked wonderingly
dreamy-eyed penniless youth. The at them. They were happy then.
echo of his leaden footsteps. It could Felix married to someone else. An-
never be' she had told him, as she had other woman's children calling him
been told. Her marriage to Jacob 'Daddy.'
Meyers, practical level-headed Jake.
Everyone seemed happy. But that
There had never been any regrets. bleak feeling in her heart. Why didn't
She would not influence her baby. Her Felix look at her? She had hurt him,
baby could love whom she pleased. A then, beyond hope. What would to-
tear fell unheeded. Thoughts raced morrow seem without Felix, and an-
on. That was a splendid match for other day and still another. Empty
Lorene. Such a nice boy, Felix, as days stretched endlessly before her. A
WIGWEWIVIMIOMIA tine a son as she could hope for.
fear almost physical at the vision
Nice people, too. How tragic clutched at her heart strings. Why
he had looked, Harmon, when didn't he look at her? Just once!
she had sent him away. She could
Her hand, groping for a hand that
see the pulse beat in the blue-veined would tear this nameless fear from
temple. There had never been any her heart, fell on a tiny box that must
regrets, never.
have fallen from his pocket on the
She followed the course of the sec- bit of red velvet plush between them.
ond tear with interest and started
It was open. A diamond sparkled
guiltily. A hurried glance at the
jeweled wrist-watch brought cons- and scintillated in the dim light. A
look of wonderment lighted the girl's
ternation to her face.
"What's the matter with us? Have face.
Felix turned to see the little table-
we all forgotten. Here it is almost
five o'clock, on Rosh Hashona Eve, aux. A wave of bitterness engulfed
him.
and you know how Rabbi Margolis
The irony of it. Tonight, of all
doesn't like for us to be late. You'll
see if we won't be crowded to the nights. New Year's Eve! He had
hoped tonight to ask her, as he had
Auxiliary Temple services."
In a few minutes they were speed- asked her a thousand times in his
ing away toward the Temple, the old- heart, to begin their new life to-
confi-
er folks in the family car, Adelaide gether, a life, he had been so
dent, that would be brimful of hap-
and Felix in his little roadster.
piness.
Felix, silent, plowed silently
And now this. Bitter disillusion-
through the traffic, obeying the
signals automatically. Once in that ment. What did he know of romance,
crowded little French hospital, he had of the grand passion, he, who only
shaken off the lethargic fumes of an loved her. She was probably laughing
anaesthetic only to find himself in a at him, at his foolish antics, his en-
world of chaos and pain. Ile had gagement ring.
Ile reached for the glittering
prayed then for unconsciousness. lie
lunged now for a release from this bauble. The girl was quicker. With
a swift movement she had released
living nightmare.
The silent girl at his side, the the ring from its white velvet casing,
strange creature who strode rough- pressed it silently to her lips and slip-
shod over his most precious dreams ped the narrow band on the consec
and ideals. She did not know what rated finger.
A happy flush suffosed the radiant
love meant. It was all over then,
their years together. What a thun- face. In tae brown eyes that he wor-
shiped
there glowed the light he had
dering idiot to think, to hope, she
might have cared a little. She had seen there but once before, for an end-
less
second.
been his religion, his all. Love, she
The ringed hand found his own and
said, could not endure.
They were at the Temple, a noble clasped it.
The new Assistant Rabbi was chan-
structure of limestone of Gothic de -
sign. The crowds that surged about ting in a clear melodious baritone.
"Felix," she whispered, and there
the entrance halls separated them
from the other members of the family. was that in the word, scarcely more
A trustee ushered them to the bal- than a breath, tremulous and broken,
to transform the universe for him
cony.
"Look." Adelaide pointed a finger who heard as in a dream.
"Felix," she said again, but this
down stairs. "See Mama and Papa
and Grandma and all the rest, right time her voice was steady, her gaze
Colnailn
direct,
unhesitating, unashamed. It
See
ita(
there, in one row below us.
were as though she had looked into
them?"
a
strange
heart, her own, and had
Felix did not answer. He did not
hear. He could hear nothing but the found there a truth that must be told
at
once.
Adelaide,
self-sufficient
- Tumbling of that precious aircastle
THEATRE
that had seemed almost complete— Adelaide in quest of Romance, had
C1 A I2ljele
t .r4B
come
upon
it
suddenly,
unexpectedly,
almost. The thought brought new
gloriously near.
anguish.
"Felix,"
she
repeated
yet again in
"Felix," she repeated. She could
not see the utter hopelessness in his a voice infinitely tender, "forgive me,
14.716,19139.,,t, 8.0 t.51r(*udly
didn't
know what
I
eyes. But the stern immobility of the if you can. I said
love meant. All our years together,
chin was new.
And he had not spoken at all during and I didn't know. I do now. It
their ride together. There was a sud- means you, Felix, you, always and
forever."
den emptiness in her heart.
The boy who had always adored her
Ile was pained at her words, then,
her ideals. Well, then, he could be. did not answer, because the soul, in
Those were her ideals. Her body be- the presence of the eternal miracle,
came taut in defiance to an invisible is ever without words. But the an-
swering pressure on the hand that
argument.
Ile was just like all the others, bore his badge of devotion drove the
dull, unimaginative, ordinary. He delicate prongs of the platinum set-
would probably marry and settle down ting deep into the firm flesh of the
to raise a large, noisy family in a slender fingers—and did not pain.
duplex with taupe rugs and over-
stuffed furniture. Very ordinary. No
CLOSE HEBREW COURSES
romance there.
(Formerly 306 Washington Arcade)
Her thoughts became confused.
RIGA.—(J.
T. A.)—The Soviet
Felix married to someone else. flow
authorities in Smolensk have issued
odd that would be.
an
order
closing
the Hebrew courses
The choir rose to sing a Hymn of
Glory. She stood, too, tall and straight which were being given there under
the
direction
of
the
well-known He-
her shoulder brushing his. It was
nice to have him there. She was grate- brew writer, Lubaschitzky. A pro-
teat
has
entered
with
the central
ful for the touch of the rough tweed.
How clearly she could see her fam- Commissariat of Education in Mos-
was obtained.
cow,
but
no
satisfaction
ily below them. Her mother and

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Saturday Nights the Men's Departments remain open until 9,
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Suedes in the latest style—two
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$40,000 Stock Sacrificed,

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Pnces Slashed on New Fall Suits

234 West Grand River

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hats by Bruck-Weiss, Henri Bendel, Joseph, Ferle
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Van Rensselaer

202 Fisher Arcade

Exclusive new Fall models intended for our
regular trade — must be closed out at any
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IN TWO GREAT GROUPS

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Plain and fur-It immed
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(Under New Management)

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Showing

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Smart
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Plain, enlist, :dared and
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$25.00

Wonderful Dresses

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The New China Cafe

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e25.
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Grey N.. I—Velma t; $150
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reger For
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to avoid disappointment

to Clone

NO CHARGES
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$35.00

Fall Millinery 'Wraps & Coats

Every hat in the house, re-
gardless of cost or former
prices, wiN be sold at this
ridiculous'y low price.

While
They

Last

$5.00

The very Same wraps that
we intended to sell for as
much as $150, but we are go-
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sacrificing them at $-i775.
Plain and fur-trimmed mod-
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$35.00

Don't confuse this with the ordinary sales you see advertised. This is all brand new mer-
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