Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12
And So They
We're Married
BY HAZEL DEYO BATCHELOR
copvrioht, 1919, bu Public Ledoer Co.
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nF COURSE, at the hotel where Joct
~ had arranged TO have her ston =
.eiegram would be waiting for her. She
.onIor.ed herself with that thought,
OF trled to, for there wasn't much com
o'I even In that. When she arrived
IN Atlantic City she went to the hotel
ana asked Immediately for a telegram
tnaL must be waiting for her.
The clerk turned the register for
her to sign and then looked for her
ieiegram, but there was nothing there
=, Natalie followed the boy up to the
big corner room where the wash of the
sea came in at the window. She timed
him and heard the door close after him
before she dropped on the bed, dis
cpnsolate heap.
Back in New York Jack had missed
the train that Natalie had taken. and
had simply neglected to telegraph her.
lt was with feeling of relief that he
had not been forced to say good bye. OF
late he had dreaded Natalie's eyes. he
had dreaded the precipitating of a scene.
lie was glad for more than one reason
that Natalie would be out Of town for
few days. He ate n solitary dinner
and decided to run in on Ruth and
scott. Ruth seemed to draw him like
magnet. she had even more attrac-
tlon for him now than she had long
ago. She had the womanlness that Nat
allie lacked and that he wanted more
than anything in his wife.
And Ruth deliberately showed this
womanliness to Jack because in her
woman's heart of hearts she knew that
W fro tnl ,,.ith M t,1;
Ruth was forced through lack of money
to live a different life from Natalie's
not because she actually wanted to,
but inasmuch as she was forced to do
it. She would make it seem as at
tractive as possible.
Not any of the three young people in
the cozy little living room of the Ray
mond's thought very much about Nat
alie, alone in the big Atlantic City hotel.
Once when Scott mentioned having
missed the train, Ruth did think of
how lively it would be down at At
lantic City on the boardwalk. but if
anything she cnvicd Natalie her chance
to go.
''I think it's shame about Jack"
Ruth said. after Jack had departed.
"Why?" Scott asked
"Oh, because he isn't happy"
He ought to make the best Of
things"
Ruth laughed with easy tolerance.
"Of course, YOU men would always
take a pretty girls part"
II think that inasmuch as Jack has
married Natalie he ought to do his best
to make her happy
''In will Won II COO Sonp
Natalie gets over the strain she has
in the world. Why shouldn't she be?
She has everything. money, clothes
everything she wants
THAT isn't everything"
"It is for some women, dear; it is
for Natalie. Don't you suppose ! know
her? I know her a whole lot better
than you do"
You think she married Jack just for
his money!"
''I'd hate to put it that way, but I
think she was fattcred by Jacks attcn-
tions. He's older than she is and then
her mother was licked to death at the
idea of getting Jack for Natalie
And why do you think Jack mar
ried Natalie?'
Ruth flushed scarlet. In her heart
Of hearts she thought Jack had married
more to show her. Ruth. that he did
not intend to stay single than for any
thing else. but that was an idea that
she intended to keep locked up safe
in her heart.
'Well," she began. 'Jack is the type
Of man to get married and Natalie is
good-looking and young and attractive.
There needn't be any question of love
In marriage of that kind, generally
the wife understands and doesn't poach
on the husbands preserves and vice
versa
Scott stared at Ruth's soft young face
under the lamp light in amazement. Did
all women think of married life in this
fashion? He hated to think of Ruth
as so callous as that. and wherever
had she learned such things in the first
place?
Tin the next installnent Jack makes
q singularly selfish mOve.)