Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-05-15
DISCOVERY

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(Synopsis Of Preceding Chapters)
Alice Fairbanks has won her way
through life by her optimism. Her
father dead. her mother an invalid,
the family poor. Alice has always
had hard work and no pleasure. She
falls In love with David Thorne, they
become engaged, and Alice is won
derfully happy.
But a cousin. Lois Kennedy, takes
David away from her, and Alice
hears they are married. She is
heart-broken. Sometime afterwards
b adopts a baby deserted by its
family and. through II, comes to
know wealthy Lawrence Marlowe, to
whom she finally becomes engaged.
b feels h cannot marry him I'M
I'll she has completed some college
work she has always wanted to do,
so she comes TO a college in New
York. In one of the new classes she
finds David again. He Is one OF the
lecturers.
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Alice never knew how h went
through that class. There are some
women who have the ability to think
ana act quickly under any circum-
stances. to adjust themselves readily
to unexpected conditions, but Alice
was not this sort. She had had no
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gencies.
So she sat perfectly still and was
miserable and thoroughly frightened.
There before her was David-David.
the man she had beer engaged to for
O few blissful months. whose image
had never been entirely banished
from her heart. And here she was,
promised to another man. in love
with this other man-but stirred and
shaken by the sight of the old lover.
For more than an hour he talked,
outlining the work for the term,
while the rest of the class took oc-
oasional notes. and while Alice kept
her head down, her pencil notion
less against her note book, hoping
she was not %betraying her inward
agitation.
How rich his voice was, she
thought, full of pleasing infections.
Unlike the dry, monotonous tones Of
the former lecturer She could not
help but notice, too. ~what an excel
lent lecturer he was now he was
taking what could be a very dry sub
1ect and making it thoroughly fasci-
Iating. And. woman-like, she thrill
cd with pride for that accomplish
ment of his.
The class came to an end and Alice
rose last. protected by the figures
standing in front of her. She waited
mt a AlOOp II CluotCA So eibOdt IiAC
desk. then slipped cut IS quickly as
she could, feeling sure David had not
seen her.
The cold air made her feel calmer.
She hunted up the protected bench
where she had first seen the two
little students with their heads to-
gether renewing a previous terms
Irritation. and sat down to consider
things.
( What was h to do? OF course
she would give up the class. She
could arrange to take something In
its place at the faculty Office that
afternoon. And she could find out
when David lectured and avoid that
part of the college at times when he
was likely to be about.
Yet she knew that course was es-
dered whether 1t would be possible
to avoid meeting him. She did not
know what she was going to do when
she entered her room.
Christine was lying on the bed, one
silk stockinged foot extended over
ahe side. dangling from its toes a
gaily embroidered Chinese slipper.
She looked up over her book. then
drove away the impish grin that was
almost always present.
"What Is II? !" she asked. Have
you seen a ghost?"
I Alice sat down In the armchair. A
sudden desire to tell her new friend
came over her. Christine was so de
psndable. for all her nonsense! And
Christine was so self-possessed under
all circumstances.
Its almost the same as a ghost"
she answered. I've seen the man
! used to be engaged to-"
Good Lord, and you never told