Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-20
And So They
Were Married
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR
Copyright, 1919, bv Public Ledger Co.
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4 kNOolI . neHrJ somehow 1ulSRbVe nllu
toas he and Dot drove up to the side
Of the clubhouse and he stopped the
car. It seemed as though he had Been
gone for very long time. 1t seemed
Zoo as though every one must know
what had happened and would judge
him accordingly. His heart lcaped as
he thought of Ruth. She did not seem
at all like his wife, but as the mysteri-
Gus stranger who was just out OF reach.
OF course he had loved her all the while,
but what a fool he had been to take
her for granted. What fool any man
a was who took an attractive woman for
granted, and imagined in his foolish
heart that he could have a better time
( with some one new and fresh. He i'm
y agined as he went up the steps with
y Dot that he would find Ruth dancing
around in the arms Of that cub Everett
|'who had dogged her footsteps every
minute of the last two weeks. He quite
4 suddenly hated Dot Salisbury. She was
/ lacking in all the forms of feminine
/ charm that she had had for him at first.
|, He wondered how he could ever have
told Ruth that she was different, and
/ that she amused him. Why she was
the kind of girl to amuse a cub like
Everett or even Kenneth, but not n
4 man like himself who had married a
real woman.
The little knot of dowagers looked
/ interestedly at the couple as they step
ped upon the veranda. Several
/ looked at each other and nodded, with
an 81 told you so expression but Mrs.
Moore with wise eyes on SCOTS face,
saw something there that brought her
L understanding. This was not a man
enjoying himself with casual Irritation
4 there was concern and worry on this
4 mans face.
The chair in which Ruth had sat only
a few minutes ago was now empty.
Ruth had left it with an impatient toss
! Of her head and Mrs. Moore did not
know where she had gone. Things were
! certainly going all wrong. She was
watching Scott and Dot Salisbury close
ly, and suddenly she saw Dot fling Scott
an angry little look and disappear into
the ballroom. Through the window Mrs.
Moore watched her walk across the room
and Immediately become the center of a
group Of young people.
Scott stood irresolute for a moment
after Dot had left him. He, too, saw
the laughing crowd within, and he saw,
not among them. She did not belong
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their cornflower blue, their shell pink
and their golden yellow ruffles.
Suddenly he wanted to get away from
1t all, and he thought of the pier. Out
at the very end of it he could be alone,
I alone to think what he would do. and
like shot he was down the steps
and striding down the gravel path that
led to the pier. He walked more slowly
after he had gained it. A heavy mist
had come up and almost hid the very
end OF the pier now. 1t was like
treading on velvet as one advanced into
the smothery white vapor that seemed
to swirl up from the darkness of the
waters. Then quite suddenly ahead of
him a figure sprang out of the gray
gloom, woman muffIed in a coat. She
was sitting on the railing looking out
to sea and she apparently had no idea
that any one was approaching. Then
/ she turned her head and saw him. They
were quite close now and Scott could see
the woman's face. 1t was Ruth!
She did not show any surprise, and
he stopped and looked at her and she
looked back at him. 1t seemed like
lifetime that they stared at each other,
but in realty it was only a few min
Rutes, then Scott sprang forward and
drew Ruth down into his arms. Her
face against his was cold but her
lips were warm and she was responding
10 his kisses with murmured endear-
ments, and caressing fingers against his
throat and on his hair
It was a moment snatched from Fate,
moment that Ruth would have been
glad to suffer two weeks for, mo-
nent In which were dissolved all mis-
Understandings and which seemed to be
copening forever that perfect under
standing toward which we are all striv-
ing. OF course it was only moment,
ahead lay hours Of darkness for both
Ruth and Scott, but now as she lay
lin his arms and he held her close there
eemed to be nothing in the future that
really mattered.
Tomorrow begins new episode of
tlig uariaI ;u aIIad Na.