Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-14
And So They
Were Married
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR
COPYRIGHT. 1919, bv Public Ledger Co:
START THIS STORY TODAY
ftT ET's see it," said Scott calmly.

ttT ETss see it," said Scott calmly.
IL Ruth looked her surprise.
When she saw that Scott meant what
he said she got up slowly and went into
the bedroom. The hat which had been
sent home that morning lay on Ruth 8
white little bed 1t looked prettier than
ever with its imported fruits and its
glstening black straw. Ruth wanted
it quite terribly just then. She knew
just how it looked on her tawny hair.
~and the temptation came to her to put
IL on.
Seated before the dressing table she
quickly rubbed her cheeks for extra
color, ruffled her hair and then crushed
the little hat down softly. In the soft
'rose-colored light from the candle sticks
on the dressing talfe the effect was
magical. "I wish Scott could see the
difference between this and q cheap
hat, then l,ed understand" she thought
to herself. Then she went out into the
dining room, her head held high.
He looked at her critically, and mans
separate items that went to make it up.
. Great" he sa laconically.
You do like it them"
Il like you in it, you'd look we'll in
any hat"
> Ruth looked at him despairingly. "Oh,
tScott, you don't understand after all,
ssdo you?"
! 'I'll manage the hat he announced.
s"But Ruth where on earth did you get
,the money? I know 1 didn't give you
lNenough for that"
, Il charged it to mother. But it will
sbe all right" she said, suddenly afraid
tat the look on his face. Mother doesn't
anind at all, and if you like I'll go down
nd So, aud ava 1ln
abill Cancelled"
And never charge anything again,
Ruth. If can't pay for it, I'm afraid
you'll have to do without But we
mustn't begin anything like that. l
couldn't do it, that's ALL
RNths heart was happy again. The
knowledge that she was to have the
hat without any struggle, without a
7subterfuge of any kind. was so unex-
pected that for the present she did not
stop to think whether or not Scott could
afford the extfa expense. 1t was nearly
half his weeks salary. Scott himself
knew that he oughtnt to manage IT
dust now. But his pride forced him on
Nm spite of his common sense The in
,cident, however, brought him the reali-
cation that there would be others like
it. For the first time he understood
what it meant to take care of an eX-
pensive woman, a girl who has been
, brought up to have everything and takes
it as her right 1t wasn't that Ruth
was selfish and demanded more than the
average woman, it was simply that she
Knew no other way of procedure.
She promised not to charge anything
more to her mother, although she did
argue for a time in favor Of it.
= I'VE could have more things"
- But we'd go into debt for them to
your mother
: Every one goes into debt sometime or
sother."a
''On their own responsibility, perhaps,
this would be going in debt to your
another"
y On this point Ruth surrendered.
That evening after she had cleaned
away the dinner debris and had washed
her slim fingers in warm soap and water,
rubbing them afterward with lemon,
she and Scott sat in the living room
side by side on the davenport. 1t was
then that she remembered something.
The episode of the hat had side-tracked
the conversation that before dinner had
threatened to precipitate a Quarrel.
Ruth sat up suddenly. -, "
Scott you haven't told me why you
don't like Mrs Sears
never SalQ uluH ike EeT
You intimated it. tell me Why
Scott considered.
1T don't exactly know. There was just
something too bright about her smile
something too much like effort in her
manner"
"Why, ] think her greatest charm is
her spontaneous fr endiness."
.Where did you meet her?'
AT Natalie lJergens' bridge She's a
a friend of Natalie's mother"
Have you been to see herr"
Eyes. l played bridge there couple
of weeks ago.
;, Ruth's cheeks burned guilty. She
would have given anything to have beer
able to tell Scott the truth about that
afternoon. Somehow his criticism OF
Fleta had made Ruth suspicious Once
before Scott had been right and she had
been wrong and she had suffered in con.
sequence. Perhaps he was right in this
case and she ought to stop seeing Fleta
The coming bridge meeting filled he1
with dread, and quite suddenly she de.
cided not to go.
Tomorrow complications ensue from