Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-04-01
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AS for David. no one ever found
Aimself in a more curious position.
All his life he had been ~singularly
Indifferent to girls. To be sure, the
English girls with their marvelously
healthy skins and their ready conn.,
radeship had attracted him some
what, but only as friends. He had
never felt sentimental toward any of
them. When he travelled, 1t was the
art galleries rather than the social
life of the various countries that
appealed to him. His first real ac-
~auaintance with American girls came
with college, for the school he at
tended was co-educational.
But even then his mind had been
absorbed with work, and the girls
played a minor ri in his interests.
Then his opportunity came to put
into practice the theories he had
been studying. He was to take a
position as instructor and as one of
the overseers on the Model Farm
which the state was opening as an
Inspiration towards scientific farm
3ng. This work a brought him in
contact with Mrs. Joyce. from whom
the state lac purchased the farm,
and through Clara he had met Alice.
II eve knew a girl like her." he
confessed to Clara one June night
shortly after the meeting. She has
the incest eyes. They laugh all the
time she talks"
There never was a girl like Alice
Clara answered enthusiastically. And
she told him briefly the story of her
chum-the fathers death, the moth
er's invalidism, the tiny income that
could only be made to reach by the
utmost economy. And she manages
10 make a little on the side." Clara
said. II don't see how she does It.
OF course, h could take a position.
mud hcln that WAN md Whan her
mother grows better she will-but
Just now $40 a week is considered a
fair salary in this small town, and
she would have to pay almost that to
O woman to look after her mother"
Yes. Alice is a are creature" Mr..
Joyce remarked. she Is the happi-
est girl we know, and has least cause
10 be so. She wins her way with
everyone with a smile. I could tell
you of a hundred cases where her
cheerful laugh has brought her
through, It's been a tonic to her
mother
For a time this genuiness and
optimism fascinated David. He had
never met n girl Hike this before.
Sometimes her constant cheerfulness
irritated him-her consistent refusal
TO worry bothered him. A girl. to
his mind, should worry over her ap-
pearancei And Alice would not. But
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found her perfect.
And now he had lost herl A week
after his engagement was broken
with her he was promised. or had
&promised, to marry another girl. And
David was still vague as to how 1t
*1ad come about. Moreover, by Its
very nature 1t was the sort of thing
he could not discuss with anyone
else without being a cad.
Lois was charming. of course. His
heart Warmed at the thought of her,
and her sweet voice n manner, her
deep blue eyes n the shine of her
hair when the sunlight caught 1t.
She was quite the most appealing
girl he a ever met. a pet and a
paything-hut he did not particular
~ want q pet and a plaything for a
wife.
Not knowing what he Intended to
say, lie rode in town and went to the
Fairbanks house. Perhaps Alice
could do something-what, he did
not quite know. Perhaps Alice would
say she had never actually broken
the engagement, that all she meant
was he should keep away until he
felt quite sure he did not love Lois.
That would give him what he called
O legal loophole of escape. For. OF
course, he was not engaged to Lois
IL he was already engaged to Alice.
He hated himself as he rode In.
He was not the philandering type ut