The Washington herald., 1920-08-30
The Marriage Mill
LN. - MEETING "MISS-
BORNE.
By Mildred 4. Bdrb0tfr
Copyright. 1890, by The Wheeler
Syndicate. Incl


After her first uncompromising
greeting, Barbara Wales relaxed to
an almost gracious attitude. She
was plainly pleased at. the supposed
outcome of Alison's matrimonial
venture. Barbara Wales was the
type to whom seeing things turn
out unfortunately when she has so
predicted, is triumph.
Alison was hopelessly enmeshed
in her wealthy cousins assumption
that her visit TO her mother meant
that she had definitely left her
young husband. Her mothers si-
lent warning, expressed with fin
ger on lip behind Miss Wales back.
had effectually checked the correc-
tion that had sprung to her lips.
and seeing how pleasant relations
were all around as a result of the
misconception, she made no effort
to set right the blunder.
Let things rest for the present"
her mother had advised her in an
undertone as they went up to Miss
Wales sitting 3 room. 1T will do
no harm"
So Alison, rejoiced to be away
from the restraining influence of
the Osborne family and basking
again in the adulation that was al
ways 20 be counted upon from her
own family, dismissed from her
mind all the worries of marriage.
Wearing one of her most en-
chanting trousseau frocks, she
dined with her mother and Mrs.
Wales and later, over coffee in the
lounge, was presented TO the ac-
quaintances the two older women
had made at the summer resort.
There were a number of young peo-
pie among them and several youths
begged for a dance, so she was soon
floating down the long ball room in
the arms of a smsrtly fsnneled
summer man." who called her
Miss" Osborne.
Alison was too deeply immersed
In the spell of the waltz and the
summer night and her own sense
of truancy, to correct his mistake
and so she was introduced to other
men and girls under the same mis-
leading title. Before the evening
had psSed. it was voted around
the hotel that Mrs. Atherton's lit
tie daughter by a former marriage
was an out-and-out peach" and
more than one youth who had safe
~ the lliF
of several seasons was wondering
IL a fellow could ever get a girl
with a dimplc like that to take him
seriously.
Alison herself laughed over the
error in her title. remarking it to
her mother and Miss Wales when
| she rejoined them for one of the
! brief intervals allowed her by be-
SieRiOC mariners
Mrs. Atherton smiled indulgently.
| Every woman likes to be thought
| guilty of a second marriage.
Barbara Wales nodded approval
No need to correct them. The
| court will eventually give you back
your maiden name anyway
Alison flushed guiltily. The
thught also brought a vision of
Lawrence, handsome, strong, ador-
, ing. a striking contrast to these
! slim summer idlers in carefully
| thOught-out sport clothes.
She slipped out to the veranda
Unobserved and leaned against one
I Of the broad white columns. look =
| ing up at the moon as lovesick
maids have done since time imme-
mortal. But her thoughts were not
ycarninE toward her young hUS-
band. She was thinking, with a
| little smile that set the dimple
| quivering, that at about that time,
| the Osborne family would be clam
berinE out of the car. Larry
would be helping his mother with
| a soliCitous hand on her arm and
! she would send him back for her
( fan. left in the front seat. Jane
| would be trying to bring order TO
! her fluffy locks with which the
wind had sported. before facing
! Burton Edwards. who would rise
from the gloom of the verands, ter
minstinE his monoloGue with Fan
! ny to begin at once and without
! perceptible interruption on the
! same subject with Jane.
! Larry would deposit hfs charges
carefully on the veranda and then
, he would go-where?
II struck Alison with forcible en-
| phasis that she would rather like
| to know.