Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
DAILY NOVELETTE,
THE BLUE GEORCETTE
DRESS
CONTINUED TOMORROW
By Bertha Herman

.tx1ERY well. if you are going to be
v az snobbish as that you can have
rorr old ring back. So there! ~ Toss
inc q beautiful diamond ring from her,
and with n bang Of the porch door May
Aew IN the stairs to her room There,
standing before the mirror, her face
aaame and her eyes wonderfully blue,
she said
"Wer. I'm glad of it I'm glad of it !!
To think I might have married such
mean. unreasonable thing
The difficulty was the eternal lover S
quarrel. Bob was going away for sew
eral weeks on a business trip to De-
troit. and had asked May to cancel the
bungalow affair that they had promised
70 attend the following week.
R-r-r-r-r-r ring! the telephone bell
tinkled loudly. In an excited voice May
answered the phone. thinking 1t pos
sbly might be Bob. If it were-she
would--no, she wouldn't-yes, she would
just hang right up!
"Hello. May! Yes, this is Ida. Ida
Scholl. Did you hear what the club
is doing? Didn't you? Oh p. We're going
to have camp. Yes. with tents n
everything. Yes, out Maine. Sure, all
the girls will be there. You'll come,
too? Great. Will I sign up for you?
For the whole month of August. That s
fine. We've only one week to wait. I'm
so excited Isn't it thrilling"
May hung up, after receiving this
news. and contemplated the result. Yes,
she was glad she gave Bob back his
ring. She wondered if he took it. She
had flung it out on the porch. He
might be fool enough to walk off and
leave it there. Some. impulse prompted
her to run out and see if the ring were
still there. OF course he took it. Well,
she would go away to camp and have
an exceedingly good time with the girls
| and forget him. He was mean thing
anyway. Possibly she may meet some
other hero there. All. romance was
stirring within her! Wouldn't it be
wonderful to show Bob that she could
not be trifled with
The 1st of August found happy
group of effervescent youth at NORTH
station. Weren't they going out tc
camp. and weren't they going to have
wonderful time? One little girl ir
pink linen dress and big blue eyes
looked a trihe more serious than thu
others. but she, too, had the delightful
look of expectancy on her face.
One perfectly incompatible week full
of delightful experiences with canoes
cameras, camp fires, gentlemen and th'
like had already slipped by to the re
great of most of them. To May, how
ever, it seemed as though the day wer'
made of about seventy two hours an;
the week of almost 13O days. He
thoughts were constantly turning home
ward, and especially to the scene on he
porch two weeks before. Could she sticl
it out. the four weeks away from hom
and him? Did he ever think of her? Wa
he going out with other girls? Should
she write to him and tell him she wa
sorry? Oh-what was she to do? i.
Another week passed brimful of pleas
ure for Ida, Bess. Hlda and the rest
but painfully dun for May. The mex
evening Ida laid her hand on May
shoulder and whispered something II
her ear.
SIS that true?" asked May, ney
= light suddenly aglow in her eyes.
"Yes, and he didn't even have to g
to Detroit. He hasn't gone out wit
apy one, not even the boys. once sine
YOU left, and he feels perfectly miser
able. It'll do him good, though. H
will appreciate you more when you com
back, although, goodness knows, yo
were the one who always started tn