Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-16
THE GIRL WHO
HAD NO CHANCE
By Marian Rubincam.
Protected by GoorIe Matthew Adams.
ANOTHER LEAVE TAKING.
Chapter NN.

Chapter M.
hut II Ruth acquired little practical
help the first day she went out on her
business career she acquired at least
LOT Of information.
Mind, If any men from here come to
YOU for rooms. the manager AT the factory
warned her, ''you call me up and ask mo
about them. and I'll tell YOU what sort
they arc and whether they ~ able TO pay.
II they don't pay ON timo, tell me and
IN hold IL out of their salaries.
That may not be ethical, he went
ON. but vou look like an awful kid 10
hc running boarding house, and you
don I look old enough to have much sense
about business matters.
I'm afraid | haven yet
Yet | like that" the man laughed.
An right. If YOU need hclp call me up and
III advise YOU, and II your boarding house
doesn't make fortune, come around and
TN give Won Job here though it wont
pay much.
Thank YOU. I may do that, too, Ruth
answered, looking ~ hlm seriously.
Gossip m small town runs fast
fact that is often a disadvantage, but
that sometimes il useful Alarlxetown
knew soon enough that the q Mel girl
had opened her house and would take IN
roornrrs or boarders ~ moderate cost.
Mn Bedding. doing odd jobs of badly
paid sowing IN different houses, also apread
the news. and praised the gIrl with all her
enthusiasm
Her fathers brains and her mothers
gnlmption. one woman remarked.
Gong to put the family on rs feet while
the parcnts are away. i She Well, only
hope ms Dorothy grows up to be rs ind
~ her
- advice poured in upon hcr-hut
~ roomcrs Marketown like all other
httc cItIes ~ ~ class. was suffering from
d dcclue IN the population i had not
the lure of thriving city nor the hold of
tho country: II was neither n big place
.ora tinN comfortable one and there was.
after All. httlc reason for IFS existence Its
,nlng men and women usually left for
Pttsburg Philadelphia or New York, for
q had not even the advantage Of being
near the coal hcld>
Mr. Weed gave her the best sugges-
ron
There an four teachers at the High
school who want to i've together TO save
,,i,cnscS she sald Mvra was telling
M about u before she left They intended
taking a house, hut none Of them had any
furniture. and thcv didn't want 70 buy
any hccausc thcN may not be here next
Year
Now. why don't you turn over vour
ton aoor "a them lou can give them the
Iargc room for thclr living room, and the
tuo small rooms under the gables for bed
t,ams two N room and then YOU We
another httlr room Tor thor trunks and
tltng-
Then thcy colld get their meals in the
tchcn -or Il give them board. Ruth
.crcd the - eagerly and with Mrs.
Woei she worked out how much she
should charge
Meantime Tim was constant visitor.
,'Nlll you miss me- he asked her sever
Al times every evening.
oh I'M dear" and Ruth always went
to hi willingly, hiding her face against
has :, oulder.
VIII YOU think about me shivering
IN a hall bedroom all alone IN a strange
place" he asked, his hand over hers.
YES. but You'll be IN the city How
marvellous that Will be. The girls tones
were wistful.
'Yes. maybe, but it will he mighty lone
h. At least youl Il be here with su your
friends
But wit my two best ones away,
Ruth corrected him, and smiled into his
ewes.
They we've sweet, long evenings by the
opcn tne, while October ran on and NoveIn-
ter settled down with a damp coldness
Ruth plcd the logs up every day. and
at right they made Il merry cracking
blaze. She did not want TO start the
furnace FIRE vet-It took too much coal TO
warm the huge housc-so she and Mrs
Beldiag had taken 70 eatlI & u the kitchen.
warmed ~ the stove there, and they took
the chill off III II bedrooms by tiny coal
oil heaters. But the library WAS made
gargcouslv cheery every evening Tor the
expected guest
Bur YOU Il have Nvra. Ruth remem-
tered You know she likes YOU. and 81.
seems 20 be havug nice tunes with her
COUSIN Youll J. invited there
i hope not Tim ausewred. But
there no dat ger-a nch woman like
Nyra cousin wont want q poor clerk
hanging about.
But Ruth was sure Tim would be pop
v.ar wherever he wci.f, md the man had
to laugh Il hcr frank admiration, coaxlng
kiss from b 2 and q renewed promise
eot to stop lov: Inn.
- he DAYS ran on until the day be-
i.,re 10 was - lee ve
/ won; 90 to the train with YOU, for
} might ~ -ltll and CRY she said, IS be
Stood ~ h'r fpf his goodnight kiss. I'D
rlth,r say goodbye here IL he freight
H. swept her into hls arms again and
.eld heT 50 for long time Ruth. poor
girl. 'elt that she wa- saving farewell 10
ID Tie hight Life. and love IN the world
ud .he clung 70 hIm almost desperat, "
But IT. only for little tims. then
I'D send for you, ne whispered And
you u always love me-
Away, always dear, she promised
md with ter face wet. she pushed him
away-and waited TIL she heard the door
,los, on hlm before She let loose the sobs
that Wcre shakl Z every fibre Of her body
Tomorrow III the City.