The unpretenders

THE UNPRETENDERS

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
JOHN LANE COMPANY, NEW YORK
BY ANNE WARWICK AUTHOR OF “VICTORY LAW,” “THE CHALK LINE,” “COMPENSATION,” ETC. NEW YORK JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXVI Copyright, 1916, by JOHN LANE COMPANY Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company New York U. S. A.

“Perhaps Anne——” suggested Michael.
“Why, yes—certainly, Anne,” seconded Doromea, eagerly. “Of course Timothy’s our friend, but Anne knows that we have just this last chapter and—all we need do is to ask her.”
“Um-m. What is she doing?”
“She was trimming a hat on the west porch a few minutes ago.”
“ Trimming a hat? Why, she never has one on her head!” Anne’s husband looked at his unfinished manuscript aggrieved.
“I think it was Gladys-Marie’s hat.” Doromea struggled back of plot to remember. “It had a look of Gladys-Marie—an incoherent sort of cloche, you know, that was meant to have been a sunbonnet.”