Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-23
And So They
Were Married
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR
Copyright. 1919. bv Public Ledger Co.
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Y IN go downtown. She could not be
induced to dress in something pretty
and come and shop. The prospect of a
lingerie sale at Lacy's did not tempt
her at all, the lure of filet trimmed
1 crepe de chine left her cold. She could
not be comforted with the compliment
her mother gave her ON the choice Of a
new hat. French pastry at Marcelle's
had no inducements for her. Liza had
had to force her to eat breakfast. In
short, Natalie was no longer child
she was an unhappy woman with not an
imaginary trouble, but with the pros
pect of losing husband staring her in
the face.
Mrs. Jergens was not the kind Of
mother who could rip off her white
gloves, unite her perfectly adjusted veil
\ and sit down to comfort her daughter,
i to coax her to a better frame Of mind,
or to discover once and for all the
real seat of all the trouble. The thing
h that Mrs. Jergens feared was not so
much Natalie's unhappiness as it was
Jacks possible unfaithfulness. She had
no way of learning the truth, of things
and she had a shrewd suspicion that
Natalie was keeping something back.
She was too we'll placed in her own
little society crowd to wish a scandal
to come of Natalie's marriage. She had
beaten too many other match making
mothers when sne had annexed JACK 10
the family. So this morning when she
nnaiiy sand with sign Oh reliet 1ound
herself going down in the elevator and
realized that the unhappy Natalie was
left behind and that she had the entire
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JACK was not IN ihc pest Oh numors.
re had READ huth note 10 MN on
.ne way down 10 business ana had ar
T,vea at the once piqued ana angry.
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e .s .s:tI st was s,1l int: III - ne D..a"e
o' " 'N"Io si i,i "n e'e''
Mrs. oersens pegan piayiuIy.
LOU naughty ooy. "hat nave you
Deen DONG 10 Natahe!
Have you been over homer" Jacks
tone was ominous, and his fingers played
nervously with pencil on the desk be
fore him.
"Yes. / have been at the apartment,
and I discovered Natalie dissolved in
tears. Have you two quarreled?" Mrs.
Jergens was still playful, she was tact
full enough to know that Jack would
brook no interference If she went too
far and became serious. She knew he
was stubborn in the extreme; that
square chinAfn more than told tie tale.
Jack leaped to conclusions headily.
So that was it. Natalie had seen that
letter at breakfast. that was the reason
she had been found CRYING. No doubt
she told her mother everything. No
doubt she had even suggested her com
ing here to the Office. He wouldn't
stand it, he wouldn't have it, that was
all.
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,n;.h orn,r
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sho rooI;rod fnon, IaoI's no;na that -.
,nantaJ nn ,,,ar;nn WIN 'Na' i'0
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hnrst o,t ~ dotonao oA Ne ~ 'oAe' 'n'
.ssho a;d .ho Se,,s. L A., r
won't have apy interference. Jf she
wants to sniyel about a lot of imagined
nonsense TO any one who comes in. let
her do it ,but I won't be ipterfered with
and that's certain"
In some half forgotten stape before
Mrs Jerpens had becn carefully nodded
in the society mold. in a time when hon :
est passion and sincere anger had not
been entirely repressed, in the time per :
HI NOT care co much for the sneecb Of
naonIo and who were mt ruIed hv nm