A Fascinating Story of
Marriage and Divorce
CHAPTER XLIII <
x If Aunt Em has been in the
house next door, her voice could
inot have been more clear.
"Everything’s just fine, Love-
Joy,” she said. "I baked the
.baby his birthday cake and put
a pink candle on it.”
' It was not until that moment
that Lovejoy realized that
yesterday had been young
Tommy’s first birthday.
“You didn’t let him have any
of the cake, did you?" she asked
anxiously.
'• “Well—just a tiny bit,” said
.Aunt Em. “And I soaked that
in his milk.”
Lovejoy groaned into the
mouthpiece. But Aunt Em was
running along cheerfully and
didn’t hear her.
“Now, don’t you worry about
anything,” she was saying.
“This ain’t the first baby I’ve
taken care of, remember! I
brought you up all safe and
sound, didn’t I?”
“Yes. But pleace don’t give
Tommy any more cake!” Love
joy wailed into the telephone.
“Keep him on milk and orange
juice and spinach juice until
I come home, please, please
PLEASE I”
“All right,” answered Aunt
Em’s voice. “Don’t yell at me,
Lovejoy! And you’d better hang
up now. This must be costing
you lots of money. Don’t for
get to send me your address.
Better telegraph it.”
There was a clicking and
bumming of the wire as she
hung up.
Lovejoy hung up her receiver,
too. She sat looking at the
telephone for a minute or two
with staring, troubled eyes.
“She’s been feeding the baby
birthday cake!” she said finally
to Steve. “Can you feature
that?”
Steve leaned across the table
and took both of her hands in
his.
“I wouldn’t worry about it,
dearest,” he said in his sensible
and soothing way. “You told
her not to do it again, and it’ll
be another year before the
baby has another birthday
cake. She didn’t say he was
sick, did she?”
Lovejoy shook her head with
its satiny waves and its little
ringlets around the ears. She
looked like a little girl curled
up in a chair in her woolly
pink robe.
“No, Steve, she said every
thing was fine. She said I
wasn’t to worry about a thing.”
“Well, then, why borrow
trouble?” asked Steve. “Run
upstairs now and try to get
some sleep. You have a big
day ahead of you tomorrow.
Major Badminton is coming up
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vhen a nurse told me to get
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from Los Angeles to talk to
you.”
Major Badminton had been
Sheila’s lawyer at the time she
divorced Ellsworth Nettles.
“I’m going back with him,
and at the end of the week I’ll
drive up here and get you and
Sheila," Steve went on. “You
don’t have to stay here every
minute of the time you’re
establishing your residence, you
know. You can take a lot of
trips with me and Sheila *•
* * Yosemite Falls and Lake
Tahoe and the redwood forests
and Death Valley and—"
“What about Holywood? Td
like to see Hollywood!” Love
joy cried, her gray eyes shin
ing like stars in the lamplight.
“Steve, I’ve longed to go there
ever since I was knee-high to
a grasshopper! I’ve read about
it in the moving-picture mag
azines until I think I could
find my way around it, blind
fold!—We’ll drive down there,
won’t we, Steve?”
He nodded, smiling at her
enthusiasm. “Yes, if we can
get Sheila to go. She loathes
the place,” he said. “She’ll
kick if we try to get her past
Santa Barbara.
The next morning at break
fast Lovejoy spoke to he about
going to Hollywood.
“You won’t like it, Lovejoy,”
she said lazily, glancing up
from her plate. “But it’s only
a hundred miles from Santa
Barbara. You and Steve could
drive down there and back in
a day—and have hours to
spare besides.”
And so it was settled.
♦ * ♦
Major Badminton came the
next afternoon and Lovejoy sat
in the cool, shadowy hall of the
ranch house and told him all
her troubles for two hours.
He went away late that night,
assuring her that she would
have her divorce in a few
months without any doubt.
“And if that husband of yours
tries to make any trouble,” he
said, shaking hands with her,
“we’ll just threaten him with
his own affair with the Shane
woman.’*
IV seemed odd to hear him
speak of Norrie and Tom in
that way—“that husband of
yours” and “the Shane woman.”
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WHEN we think of the so-called “eternal triangle/*
we think of unhappiness and heartaches, and that it
is like a square peg trying to adjust itself to a
round hole.
Steve went away with him.
On Saturday morning he
came back. He came back in
a huge black and white tour
ing car decorated with Cali
foria license plates.
“I went up to Santa Barbara
and got your car,” he told
Sheila. “The caretaker wasn’t
any too keen about letting me
have it. I imagine he and his
wife have been having a fine
time, driving it around, the
country.” (
Sheila’s eyes hardened.
Lovejoy was beginning to find
out that there were depths of
hardness in her that were like
layers of blue quartz under a
lovely meadow. She had away
of scolding the chambermaid
and complaining about the
meals that surprised and
shocked Lovejoy.
‘Well, they won’t get a
chance to drive it. from now
on,” she said briskly, "I’m go
ing to sell it and the house
for just what I can get for
them—and the sooner I do it
the better!”
She spoke as if she had no
real use for either of them—
the house or the great ex
pensive car.
On Monday afternoon they
drove into the courtyard of
Sheila’s Santa Barbara house.
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It was a rambling one-story
house made of natural red
wood. Its latticed windows
opened upon a hillside garden
that looked like a giant bouquet
of pink and yellow roses.
At the bottom of the garden
ran a wide automobile road,
and beyond that was the ocean,
blue and wide and quiet on
this windless afternoon.
“How can you bear to part
with this house?” Lovejoy asked
when she and Sheila were un
packing their bags in a big
double bedroom that overlooked
the hillside. “It’s the most
heavenly place I’ve ever seen!”
“I can bear to part with it
because I spent the most un
happy days of my life here!”
Sheila answered stonily. “Every
room in the place reminds me
of some quarrel that I had
with that husband of mine!—
It takes more than rose gar
dens and hand-carved furni
ture to make you love a place,
Lovejoy.”
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But there are triangles and triangles, the angles of which
vary very much.
In the world of fashion and fame, 'where fortune and
ambition are so abundant, the eternal triangle, three-sided
as it is, fits perfectly into that circle.
Well, that was ‘ certainly
true enough, Lovejoy reflected.
The house on Tudor Road had
been filled with expensive and
beautiful things. But neither
she nor Tom had known an
hour’s happiness in It, some
how or other.
"And, as long as I own this
place. I’ll come back to it
every now and Sheila
was going on as she laid her
gold-backed brushes out upon
the dressing table. “And I
don’t want to see it any oftener
than I have to * • *”
She walked over to the win
dows and stood there, with her
back to the room, looking out
at the shining Pacific.
“I don’t believe a woman
ever quite forgets the first man
she loves,” she said after a
minute or two. “I divorced my
husband and I’m glad of it—
but a few weeks ago when I
heard that he had married
again I went all to pieces.”
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1980
Lovejoy found herself woun
dering how she would feel
when Tom married Norrie Shane
—if he ever did marry her,
She probably wouldn’t care
very much, she decided, Tom
and Norrie and the old life
seemed very dim and far away
now.
It was the present with its
change and its thrill and its
luxury and ease that counted.
It was-Sxve who was important
to her now—Steve, whose boy
hood lingered in the comers of
his eyelids when he smiled at
her. Steve, whose arm around
her was like a shield, keeping
all the worrisome things of
this world from touching her. *
That night after dinner he
put in her regular long distance
call for Aunt Em. But the
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Former wives, present wives, and future wives seem to
mingle most amiably. The men in the case being so rich
that they can afford to be nice to each other.
“I’ve had him!’’ says his former wife.
“I’ve got him!” says the present wife.
“I’ll get him!” says his future wife in perfect harmony!
later the operator reported a
two-hour delay on all calls to
the east.
“You’d better cancel the call
dear,” he said to Lovejoy at
half past eleven. “We’re starting
at five in the morning, and you
ought to get some sleep. It’s
a long drive down to Holly
wood and back.”
So Lovejoy cancelled it and
went to bed. She had talked
to Aunt Em the night before
and everything at home bad
been all right then. '
“I suppose it’s silly to call
up every night,” she' said,
covering a yawn with two slim
fingers. “Aunt Em would surely
wire me here if anything went
wrong.”
At dawn she and Steve start
er for Hollywood in the big
black and white car.
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At seven they had coffee
and waffles at a little restau
lant in Ventura, and at ten
they drove over Cahuenga Pass
into Hollywood.
(To Be Continued)
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