Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-15
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CCOTT answered the telephone, but he
X ~ apparently did not know who was
calling.
'.Who is it?' he kept saying, "What
name-Cranford? Oh, yes, Miss Gran.
ford"
There was silence while he appar-
emily listened to something across the
wire. Suddenly his face lighted up.
"Yes, / see. Well, il you will tell her
her husband is here, perhaps she will
be willing to see reason. Ask her to
come to the telephone, will your
Scott turned to the others who had
left the table and were hanging around
the telephone.
"It's about Alice?" asked Bert
eagerly.
eyes, she's at the house of this girl,
some one Alice knew at boarding school
a Miss Crawford. Yes turning back
to the telephone, "is this you, Alicc?'
A mufled voice spoke to Scott across
the wire. muffled as though the woman
Z behind it had been crying. but eager
with the news that Miss Crawford had
evidently just imported.
"Is Bert really therc?'
"He certainly is.' Scott was angry.
''You'd better come right home.
"Tell Bert to come for me.
"I hope you're satisfied, acting like
, baby and frightening every one to
Z death" Scott was too provoked to
realize what Alice had been through.
He saw only one side of it and the way
4. Alice had treated Ruth and himself.
,N fr.
even his dessert which Ruth begged
z him to finish. And Ruth and scott
stood at the top of the stairs hearing
him run down at break neck speed Oh
his way to Alice. :,
''Bert's all right" remarked Scot'
as they turned to go in.
"He's a darling" said Ruth I'M ,
pulsively, "and I'm so glad it's all
over"
II hope it will be lesson to her to
4 curb her temper said Scott with
brotherly frankness, "but it won {; per
4 hans Il may for time, but Alice VIII
break out again. Bert shouldn't nave
come for her, he shouldn't have shown
himself so eager to get her back. Allct
should have suffered more.
But Ruth. who remembered Alice
suffering, could not stand this. Il sup
pose" she burst out, 'you would have
been perfectly willing to have had Ber
q, untrue to Alice. You men stick to
gether on matters like that. ! believe.
1t was on silly matters like this tina
Ruth and Scott kept up the friction be
tween them. It seemed almost as i
Ruth took certain delight in dis
agreeing with Scott, and there wa
nearly always GOODNESS of some kin'
between them. just as soon as the!
agreed on any matter as they had thi
afternoon on SCOTS suggestion tina
\ they look downtown for an apartment
something else interviewed and wiped ou
entirely their oneness of thought.
Bert and Alice did not come in unit
the next day, and then it was for jus
a minute, for Bert had to get back t.
his business. The two girls had fey
minutes alone while Ruth was helpin
Alice to get her things packed up, an
Ruth took the opportunity of askin
n Alice about everything.
"Are you happy?" was her first ques
tion. She wanted to add, "Are yo
convinced that you can't treat Bert lik
that and get away with it?'' But sh
didn't.
Alice was radiant, she did not seer
like the same girl at all. She talke
almost necessarily, but finally there wa
a break.
'Do you know" she began slowly
81 don't believe that Bert has becl
true to me-
Ruth was Mortified. "Alicc, how cal
you say that, what do you mean?"