The Little River news., 1919-12-03
\ PARKWAY G!RL
By JACK LAWTON.

l
 looking for Booth Arden, yet the old
 longing to see him was renewed by
 the familiarity of the place which had
 known his presence
 ] Upon her former visit Booth, being
 the nephew of her aunt's particular
 friend, had met Dora, naturally, and
 also naturally, because of her accept
 ed charm had paid her much attention.
 Dora liked Booth Arden, in fact his
 companionship had been the joy of
 her stay. She admitted this freely ! to herself. though she had lau@hingly
 waived the question when he had
 asked it. Yet Booth had seemed to
 understand her to read arjght the
 serious light which grew in her eyes
 as he talked to her.
 l Dora, herself. was sure of his love. /: Even now after absence and perpleXing l change the assurance ineXpicably re- | mained Booth loved her and she had | been ready to return his love, when | toward the ending of her previous
 visit, his attitude of adOring devotion | had turned suddenly to cold formality.
 Dora, stunned and pained, yet feigned indifference, and went on her 1 way.
 Do you suppose?" she first timidly asked Aunt Linda. "that I have in some way offended?' Aunt Linda pursed her lips firmly l together.
 "Ann Arden is at the back of it all' | she shrewdly answered. "Trust her to make trouble for me-" said Dora. Aunt
 Linda smiled wryly "She doesn't want
 that nephew of hers to marry" she ex- | plained land she's cunning enough to
 know how to prevent it." "He had not asked me to marry
 him." Dora blushingly confessed.
 And he won't" her aunt respond | ed Gas long as Ann Arden is around to see how things are going" q thought Dora reproyed, "that
 Miss Arden was your friend.''
 Two years had passed since the first visit at Aunt Linda's with no word
 or sign from the man who had brought the girl joy and sorrow. So now, as she watched the white avenue, she
 wondered if his car would come rolling along and if with his sight of her it
 would stop-or go indifferently upon l its way.
 Answering her thought the car came, slowed down, hesitatingly with it's owners indecisi0n, then stopped. Booth Arden came toward her..
 Booth is running around a lot with
 your niece again." Miss Arden told Aunt Linda some time later, "but l
 hope you won't let her be deceived.
 Love-pretending is natural with him,
 and he's dividing his time with a girl
 up near the Parkway. He admitted his preference for the Parkway girl
 last night. He is driving with her to- day out on the Lake shore. I'd hate to see your little Dora going home again
 griev!nc over him." So Aunt Linda indi gnantly went to Dora.
 "Don't you ever" she commanded,
 "go out with that Booth Arden firt again"
 No more was Booth Arden's car seen at Aunt Linda's door, no more did a
 happy faced girl go flying down the path to meet him.
 To Booth, his aunt spoke one eve ming in tone which rang with "I told you so.'
 "That Dora Winthrop" she said. vi oh 1,rith oil every day. What Belinda can be think l ing of to let her niece go about with a married man, and his wife not with | them---iS more than I can see It was hard to make you believe in Dora $ bOastcd flirtatiousness last year. though I had her own auntS word | for it. must say, however, that Pm
 surprised at Wesley's lack of plu- dence"
 Booth Arden arose at that moment to see Gail Wesley's pretentious car passing the window. Dora, fair and | merry, sat at Calls side. Miss Arden grew vaguely troubled. | It is easier to frustrate a known than | an unknown foe.
 Booth laughingly refused to divulge | the name of the new charmer. Aunt Belinda's manner was also | troubled as her friend came over to | call.
 "I don't know what has got into Dora" she complained. "She will go
 riding with Gail Wesley whenever he : honks his auto horn for her. When I tell her it don't look right she just smiles and says that Mrs. Wesley is agreeable. It's really worse, Ann, than having her out with that deceiving nephew of yours; sometimes l think she's doing this to get even." At this point of the conversation the sitting room door abruptly opened to admit two openly joyous young people. The women sat up and gasped at the | sight of Dora enfoded in Booths eager arms.
 "We have just been married" he explained "and we thought 1t best to