The Greeley tribune., 1912-10-10
THROUGH A GLASS
BY VIRGINIA BLAIR.

OeretanO Z lew tuiuSs tuaS "" a.
% terribly stupid about"
'What, for instance ?" said he'
lover, with . sort Of dreadful calm
ness.
But Betty was not warned. "You'd
hate to see other people going of
and enjoying themselves. You
wouldn't think you were selfish be-
cause you wanted q little remnant
of the time Of the person who had
sworn to love you-for better, fol
worse"
He went slowly down the steps OF
the porch, tall and striking in his
blue serge yachting cap and white
shoes. Betty loved the ground he
walked on, but when he looked back,
she was gazing indifferently out over
the harbor. "I'll be back in an
hour" he called.
please DON'T" came her voice
family. He stepped into his boat,
started his motor and was off.
Betty lay back in her invalid
chair. On the table beside her were
the roses Gregory had sent. A book
he had ordered for her lay in her
lap, the Persian pussy cat he had
brought to cheer her loneliness slept
comfortably on blue cushion at her
feet.
But these things did not make
Betty happy. She wanted him to be
tied to her side. She was lonely.
blue, Jealous.
Greg's old friends were on the
yacht anchored out there near the
club house. He had gone to join
them. In that group was a girl with
whom Greg's name had been con-
nected before he met Betty. Greg
had denied that there had been an
engagement. But Betty felt that
there must have been something Sc
rious in the way of love affair, for
what girl could help loving Greg?
And there was reason to suspect that
Greg's heart had been involved, for
Helen Thorne was a noted beauty
and Betty was little and thin, and
just getting over an operation for
appendicitis.
"And there isn't any romance in
appendicitis" mourned little Betty,
and gave herself mp to the clutches
Of the green-eyed monster.
Her mother came out presently.
"Where's Greg" she asked.
'Gone," succinctly.
'I'm so glad" said Mrs. Bradford.
"he's been 90 devoted, Betty-and
men are usually go fussy about being
tied down"
Il hope he'll never come back"
said Betty.
"Bettyw
Il told him 20" Betty went on.
I wouldn't have cared, mother, if
he lad simply gone for boat ride
but to think he could be happy-to
be with other people-when l wasn't
there Betty's eyes were over
flowing.
Dear child" her mother stroked
the thin little hands, "he felt that
it was q duty-you know how good
the Thornes have always been to
hiln-he has known them all his
life"
But Helen Thorne-mother,
what did people say about them?'t
You're jealous" her mother ac-
cused her. "Oh, Bettyw
"I'm not" Betty's face famed
'Ebut you know how Greg love:
people who can do things out Of
doors-and-and I'm tied dowr
here, mother-and the doctor says
won't be strong for months"
Il know, dear, but you must trus
Gregory-you know he worships th'
ground you walk on"
"But l was different when he fel
in love with mel wasn't ill.,
you're not a hopeless invalid
child--the doctor says you will be a
well a. ever in q month or two."
Petty felt that many things coul,
happen in a month. 81 don't wan
any lunch, mother" she said list
lessly. "l'll eat a peach and take
nap"
But when her mother left her sh
did not sleep. She picked up a pai
of opera glasses, another Of Greg
O;fte and swent fhe n;cfuro h.fo.