Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-12-17
Moonlight and
Money
By Marion Rubincam
M BROKEN d o

SIl<AL IL W
So Harry had beef dining with
another woman! That was the
thought which whirled through her
head as Louise sat staring at the ire
after Carol had gone.
One by one the possibilities of the
situation came to her. If Carol mad
seen him, other people they knew
would see him also. This meant gos-
sip. Would they think Harry was
neglecting her and that Mrs. Shafts
bury fascinated him, SO he cared
more for her than for his W wife,
h thought hurt her pride.
Perhaps they would believe she
had deserted Harry when they found
she was living with her parents and
Harry was still in the country. In
hat case they might imagine Harry
was going about with this other
woman out of pique.
Either idea worried her. And the
fact remained that only a few nights
after she had left him, Harry was
sufficiently consoled to dine with q
party at a frivolous restaurant. If
through some fault of hers Harry
had left her, Louise felt sure she
would not have the heart to dine out
with q festive crowd.
Her fathers footstep in the hall
interrupted her bitter musings. She
turned and called him.
yes, my dear" he said, coming
into the room, his overcoat on and
some books under his arm.
Are you going so soon?" she ask
ed IN surprise.
81 only ran in to see how you and
! your mother were getting along, and
TO take these books to the club. Do
you want anything"
YES" Louise answered with a
little note of authority in her voice.
II want o to sit down and a to
me. Please do, and tell Anne that
you'll be here for dinner"
Her father obeyed her, ch~eerfully,
as though he rather liked being told
to stay for dinner in his OWL home.
! Dusk had deepened into darkness,
and the only light was the pickering
illumination of the fire. 1t was easy
to talk this way, Louise thought, and
she wanted to speak intimately to
this man-this man who, though her
father, was yet almost a stranger to
her.
You asked me whether I left be-
cause there was another woman
she began when they were both seat
ed in the big Longing chairs by the
fireplace. you saw Harry and an
! other woman and two more people
| G4illiS IOSCAAiCI AZ inv Ao l
didn't your"
IT saw Harry and one woman
lunching together this afternoon .
her father replied. That's really
WHY I came up to see you"
She was quite blonde and rather
pretty, wasn't she?" Louise asked.
She was blonde and rather str'k-
ing, I really don't know whether SHE
was pretty or not. I vas going into
the restaurant, but Wen out again
so they wouldn't see me-"
ut is Mrs. SALISBURY" Louise
unused aloud.
you must not think there is nee
e~ssarily any harm in Harry and an
other woman dining or l%unching TO-
gether, my dear" her father said
TITS done often enough and inno=
Gently enough. I merely think under
the circumstances it's-er, well, bad
taste"
An Idea was growing in her mind
IF she could find from her father
what the trouble was between her
mother and himself! She began her
questions.
but ordinarily it's quite all right
isn't it, for Harry and Mrs. Shafts
bury, or any nice woman, to lunch
together-even though Harry is
married to me?"
"Well, my dear, you can't put
Harry in a prison and not let him
see oil, converse with any other Wom-
an, you know" her father eVaded a
direct nswer.
"Of course, I don't want to inn
prison him. Do you think I'm jeal-
ous?"
Aren't you a little bit?" This
/ question surprised her by its direct
ness.
Perhaps" Louise confessed, try
ing to be quite fair. DO you think
a man dislikes jealousy in a woman
There's nothing he could d ike
more, particularly if the jealousy Is
~unfounded."
There was something so intensely
| sincere in his tone hat Louise was
startled. She thought a moment
She believed suddenly that she had
J found the key to the mystery that
long ago separated her parents. She
began again.
do you think 1t wrong for a
woman to idolize the man she is In
love WITH"
mo man is worth being idolized
by a good woman" her father said,
Besides. she's bound to be unhappy
when she finds her dol Is broken, as
broken It must be some day"
"Yes," said Louise half to herself,
my idol Is broken"
Tomorrow-Better and Worse.