Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-27
CHAPTER XXI.

Anne could no more have refused
Mrs. Carpenters offer than she could
have done some desperate deed. Her
life was too empty, too grim, too
r~nonotonous to refuse the luxuries
that the Carpenter home offered, the
pleasure and privilege of being with
Geraldine: everything, in fact, that
she had w had in her life.
Each day she stole away immedi-
ately after the solitary lunch with
Aunt Martha, and she remained at
the Carpenter home until 5 o'clock.
Sometimes she sat upstairs in Geral-
! dimes rose and white boudoir at the
kittie desk and answered letters, little
society notes on monogrammed sta
tionery.t Sometimes she sat down.
stairs and went i've bills and made
out checks which were carried to
Geraldine to sign. And sometimes
Geraldine was restless n Anne did
not work at all, but sat and played
two-handed bridge, which Geraldine
taught her.
: The SIS which Anne received every
week was like a fortune to the grl..
With her first weeks salary she went
to Miss Stevenson and paid for the
book that her father had destroyed.
She had never been so happy as she
was when she went to bed that night
knowing that at last there was a
way in which she could make money.
Bill Snyder came back and found
her changed. 1t puzzled him. be-
When he spoke to her about the
money that she had sem back to
him, she replied simply that she had
found It impossible TO keep it..
81 thought you hated to W for
the book" he Sneered. Isl you'd
rather owe a stranger than you
would me, is that it'?"
"I hate to owe any one anything"
Anne replied.
"What about that other matter we
talked about?" he asked her. You
know your father want it. Why
don't you act sensibly about il?
You'd get more in the long run I'd
even buy a place in town If you don't
want to live on the farm, and you'd
have freedom and pretty clothes"
He felt himself very magnanimous
as he spoke. He thought himself an
excellent match; he could have had
any one in the village. Sometimes
he wondered why he wanted Anne
Pat all. White-faced and in her ugly
clothes, she was not the kind of a
woman he had dreamed of marrying.
Yet there was an evasiveness about
her that inhamed his passion. Her
very shrinking from him made him
determined to make her marry him.
Anne's appearance was worrying
her a great deal these days. She
knew that Geraldine wanted her to
look differently and yet she did not
dare to make any change in her
dress for fear of discovery. She told
Geraldine this fact one afternoon.
Proud as she was, she knew that it
was necessary.
And so your family don't know
you come here" Geraldine said cur
iously. 1t was a rainy afternoon in
November, and they were sitting be-
fore the fire in her little sitting room.
The contrast between the two wo-
men was marked. Geraldine wore a
gown of scarlet wool, and her strik-
ing iron-gray hair was pulled out
softly about her face. Anne wore
a dress Of drab gray. The material
was excellent, but it hung on the
girls slim figure in an ugly fashion.
Geraldine studied Anne's face lazily
and thought of what marvellous pos
sibilities it had and how stunning the
girl would be if she were dressed as
she should be. Even the dress she
had one cut to fit her and with a
touch of color at the throat and
wrists would make her look like a
different person.
why would they mind?" Geral-J