Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10

'tOh,.I know why she's done It," Sue
went on. ~ Some other plan which she
liked better he's suddenly gone wrong,
and She promptly came to hs as the
neSt-best' thing She's a SWEEP child,
isn't-Hhe and its a delightful. com.
pliment to u.s.. kn,t it! 81
Again Jenntc made no replyy Sue
was now glaring. For an instant she
was silent, then she burst out again.
"And she's not here to see us at all.
''I told you she'd broken her engage.
ment, and had started In to try to pick
up things again with Kenneth. She's
after Kenneth, and for her own reasons
she's decided to be right on the Job.
That's why she's here! Wait and see
and Just watch how that girl per-
forms ~
At the close of the afternoon Kenneth
arrived for the week end, Billy Urayson
with him. When they all met at din
Nor Jennie ut once perceived that Sues
statement of the main reason for
Gloria's coming was correct. And the
correctness of that statement was even
more apparent when, after dinner, the
young people started dancing in the
great living room, Sue and Jennie al
ternating at the piano. There were no
lost motions in Gloria's courtship, no
indirection due to maidenly reserve or
even to pretended desire of being
sought. She went straight and undis-
guised for Kenneth, just as she went
for every other thing on which her will
or fancy settled-with the confident air
that it was hers by right, and that no
one would presume to deny her.
Jennie, watching, had to admit that
she knew of no one else who could carry
off that manner half so well; IL Gloria
were not actually a beauty, with her
large, proud eyes and her dark hair
which she still wore bobbed, she at
least had the prestige of beautyship
which comes from being frequently de-
scribed and published as beauty In the
society periodicals and in the picture
supplements of the Sunday papefs; and
further, her manner, and also the i'm
preston she made, had behind them
the undeniable reality of her. social
her Queenliness unquestioned, and her
self fully conscious of 1t, would have
dared ~, so direct, SO openly posses
sivc.
AS for herself Jennie swiftly dis
cerned that Kenneth liked and admired
her much the same as he had on the
night of the first theatre party and
on the occasions of his recent visits
home. But that was all. To the swift.
appropriating method of Gloria he
seemed almost instantly to begin to
succumb. He plainly liked her, was
plainly finttered by her definite prefer
ence for him; and, indeed, was there
human reason why he should not be-
considering that she was striking
figure in herself, and considering all the
worldly advantages OF which she wa:
the iiVing summary!
Watching this game. Jennie was fol
a. time rescntful in Kenneth's behalf
lie was altogether too fine, too worth
while, FOR Gioria. But presently sh'
regarded 1t all more philosophically
she didn IKE iloria, and she did like
Memneth-out n sne couidn he'p IT, ant
c,,s f.o 49,.
! r;sos nonus tc tnein a,seinooh otoushi Two sur
nt pt9ts ~ " r"; "tnhiv h WHICH niaue hsr Ior
set s.h ''e ,Tha rha'I , between AZ Hloria anu hen
sI;na s,gtm 1aIn ahe ,esser o. these came Whei
nrnf.a,aI n.,'. Jannion, hnoTn nere unuer M
. prolessiohat name OF Jackson Holt,
The surprise was not Sims arrival o