Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-05-22
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(Synopsis of Preceding Chapters)
Alice Fairbanks a won her way
through life by her optimism. It
carries her through her fathers
death, her mothers invalidism, their
poverty. her necessity for working
hard. 1t attracts to her. FIRST, David
Thorne, with whom she falls in love.
Ihey are engaged II Alice is Won
dcrftilly happy until she suspects
David to be attracted to her cousin
Lois. She breaks the engagement
and hears later that Lois has mar
ried David.
In trying to piece together her life
again she adopts a baby deserted by
a wandering family. Through this
she comes to Know Lawrence Mar
lowe. and eventually becomes en-
gagged TO him. She feels she must
finish a desired college course before
marrying him, so comes to the city.
Here she meets David and finds that
he is still in Owe with her, and I'M
happy.
CHAPTER 10
The agony of mind hat Alice had
gone through two years ago, when
she had given David up to Lois,
seemed nothing to the agony of both
mind and soul hat h was going
through now. For she could feel
lGOuH all ln6 1OIliltI uIAidRRAlcS
that she had given up David for some
good to himself he loved Lois and
IL he had married her. of course he
must be happy, h had thought.
And she was unselfsh enough to
want his happiness above everything
else. Unconsciously. the feeling that
her sacrifice, her giving up, was the
cd her. Later, she began to pick up
the threads OF her life again. Time
had brought q little comfort-and
Lawrence had brought a great deal.
But now the sacrifice a been
wastedi
70, il David had been happy she
would have felt glad. She would have
gone on trying to be friends with him.
trying to fight down the feeling Of
love that was strong within her-and
at the end Of her college term she
would nave gone on home and mar
ried Lawrence. And things ould
not have been so very different from
the way they were when she hrst
came TO the city.
But David was not happy, and his
unhappiness brought him closer 70
her than everl
Christine often came back from
some of her classes to find Alice
walking back and forth over the
room. Christine. of course, knew all
-" -
You're my safety valve" Alice
would say. az don't know what |
would do without you. / guess /
would turn and u home
Christine always had to smile at
this sort of talk.
What a queer person you are,
Alice dear!" she said once. You are
so very strong sometimes, and SO
very weak others. You spent exactly
ten years of your life. the most pre-
ten years q woman's Ire con-
tains. as a slave to your duty. i
know" as Alice started to protest,
there was nothing for you to do but
stay home and work, and scrimp, ana
sacrifice, and remain a little ignor-
think of the girls VINO
would not have done thatl Very few
have the will power to stick to an
unpleasant duty. You stuck-now
YOU come up against another sort OF
thing, and you want to be weak ana
run"
But what can I dor" Alce cried.
"It's all SO hopeless. Dear. you must
look facts in the face Here l am,
engaged to one of the incest men m
me world and in love with another!
''Thank heaven you're not married
70 Lawrence yet" said Christine;
'aThat would make q worse middle
"Why?" Alice asked. David Isl