Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-12
And So They
We're Married
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR
Copyright, 1919, By Public Ledger Co.
UIIAVE you told Jane all thisF'
IL Ruth asked evenly.

IL Ruth asked evenly.
mo-" Bob replied almcst mlserably'
II couldn't"
"What has happened thenF'
80, just chickering's and constant
faultfnding and making up again, but
1 always know when we make up that
it isn't for good, for something is sure
to happen"
Ruth had a sudden inspiration. Bob
had intended to ask her advice about
this when he had come there this after
noon. She could see that. She wished
suddenly that Helen were here to help
her. Helen was so efficient, she would
know just what to say. Why was it
that every one unloaded troubles on
Scott and herself? 1t seemed that she,
Ruth, had been settling martial troubles
off and on the whole of their married
life. Was it because they had something
that other people hadn't? Was it be-
cause other people sensed this and
envied them? A warm glow of feeling
surged up over Ruth. If that were true
it would help so much in tiding over
her blue spells when everything seemed
to go wrong, her temperamental spells
Nhth IL ltuSb lining thut SNotS c"it
or did she misconstrued and allowed it
to make her unhappy. If she could be
instrumental in helping this marriage
of James she would be so proud and
happy.
eff you haven't had a talk with
Jane" said Ruth finally after what
had apparently been a long period Of
thou sht, ''you should do it very SOON"
BIB looked aghast. "What, talk to
her about things like that? Why I
couldn't, I couldn't hurt her like that"
"You'd hurt her a great deal worse
il you ceased to love her Bob, and
that's what will happen If things go
on like this"
Bob considered this remark, his eyes
fixed musingly on the swaying blue cur
tains and the trailing green of a flower
pot in the window.
'Do you know" he said abruptly,
''that after all a remark like that is
true. If outsiders heard that a man
she is untidy, they would think 1t a
small reason. But it isn't u small rea-
son, it's as deadly as any big reason .
A man can't dream about a woman
who isn't dainty, he can't visualize her
as he wants to. 1t t~errifies me when I
think of it."
Ruth thought what a dear boy he
was as he sat there talking out his
heart to her, she felt suddenly that if
she had Jane there she would give her
a good shaking. Jane was the most
utterly provoking mortal in the world
with the least sense of responsibility.
When. Bob left that day, he had
promised to have a talk with Jane,
a good plain talk about ugly facts Of
life. He had also promised to see that
his mother did not interfere with Jane
and that he would be careful about ap.
parently siding with his mother against
his wife.
keep matters between yourselves
Ruth had warned him, 'and let me
know how things come out"
That night Scott brought home {
blue Persian kitten. He carried it care.
fully in a basket four times as big a.
the baby cat and made Ruth guess wha'
it was. Finally when he lifted it gu
and put it into Ruth's arms, and sh,
had cuddled it a while, and when they
had both stood over it while it Tapped
up some milk, Ruth asked Scott sud
denly how he happened to think of get
ting a kitten.
Don't o like it?"
20, yes" said Ruth catching it VI
and resting her cheek against its vel.
vety fur. II love it, but l never would
have thought of getting one. How die
you happen TOT"
Il thought it would be great fun tc
have it running around the house,
was Scots reply. Ruth thought of this
afterward and thought of it in various
ways. 1t struck a chord in her that she
remembered having felt some time be.
fore, but she could not remember Just
what it was. She taxed her brain in ar
effort to recall it but she could not. AL
evening it kept occurring to her at diff
ferent times while she and Scott were
at the theatre, but vaguely, so that she
could not connect it with any thing.
When they reached home and the
kitten leaped to meet them with absurd,
funny bounds, it struck Ruth again. II
was annoying the way 1t kept comini
back to her again and again.
1t was after they had gone to BEE
and Ruth had dropped into a slight doz,
that she woke suddenly, remembering
1t was when she had held James baby
Joy, tightly in her arms.