Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-12
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When fate takes hand in
wonans life things are sure TO hap
pen. Julia Grant wanted happiness,
and she thought happiness came from
doing right. That was why she took
Dan Carson back into her life after
he had Tilted her When she discov-
cred that she had fallen in love with
Doctor Norville she was still deter
mined to keep her promise to Dan
aud then Lucy, her younger sister,
came to Julia and made a confes-
sion. While Julia had been in train
ing in the hospital Lucy had fallen in
love with Dan herself.
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TULIA knew that lucy had every
- intention of telling Dan about Doctor
Norville. and that night as she thought
things over in her room just after din
ner she realized that the only thing to
do was to tell Dan the truth herself.
When she met him she was even colder
than usual under his kiss, and he drew
back to look at her with an expression
of real pain in his eyes.
Julia. why are you always so un-
responsive?"
She answered his question with fat
remark: Dan, have something i'm
portant to tell you. I've thought it all
over and I've decided that the truth is
best Then you can settle things IN
whatever way you like.
"You talk as though it were some
thing very important" he said. trying
to smile.
s"It is"
'Well?"
Dan" she stopped a moment, and
then went relentlessly on. Dan, l
don't love you" She stopped and look
ed at him fearfully, but he was smiling
tenderly.
my dear, I've known for long
time that you don't love me as you did
Il deserve that-but I'm going to make
you love me. Just give me chance to
do that, to make you happy, that's all
! ask"
"But, Dan, listen" Julia persisted.
''It's so hard to tell you, but must. l
don't think that I ever can love you.
I'm sure Of it,
''You can't be sure of 1t. dear. Oh,
Julia. love you so much"
"Oh, Dan," she burst out desperate
w, "don't make it so hard for me, please
don't!"
He caught her by the shoulders. They
had been standing together under the
center light and Julia could see the
queer CLEAN that suddenly came into his
eyes.
Julia, you're not going to leave me
now?"
mot if you still love me after l
have told you the truth" She shook
her head and the motion brought two
tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Oh, Dan, don't you understand? l
love some one else."
\. His hands fell away from her and he
had sudden queer smothering sensa :
tion that some time, somewhere, sim :
liar thing had happened to him. Then
be remembered. He felt the same hu-
initiation that he had felt on night
long ago when girl with throaty
laugh that had always sent the blood
rushing to his head had told him that she
loved some one else. He remembered
his infatuation for Nancy Cromwell
and all that had gone with it, and
QulLc Suuutuly ht hhtW thut thio " oS
his punishment for hurting Julia as he
had. For now he loved her and wanted
her more than anything in the world.
and she had just confessed that she loved
another man. The mills of the gods
grind slowly, but they grind exceeding
small
If Dan had been big man he might
have done the big thing-released Julia
Immediately. But every instinct in him
told him to keep her. to hold her, to
take his chance for happiness, no mat.
ter what the outcome. He forgot that
evening months ago when in that very
room a white-f faced girl had taken the
blow that he had handed her without
flinching. No one knows but the woman
In the case just what such blow means,
Just how soul soaring it is to have a
man confess BADLY that he no longer
loves her, but that there is some one
else. Dan had asked her for his re-
lease; his heart had been full of love
for another woman; he had given no