Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-03-25

(Jaurcl Stone married Granville
Burton because she loved him. She
surrendered her newspaper trork 10
become MS toifc and the mother Of
his t,co lille girls, but she did not
realize until after the ocdding that
nc did not care for her IN an
emotional teop at all. A year after
the marriage a baby tcds born. II tods
; then that Granville noticed q subtle
change in Laurel, an hdefnoble
something thdt he could not dndlVse
but ,cbiSh interested him. Finally
he realized that he loved her aud that
she tons absolutely indifferent TO him.
Tho tables tcero turned. Because
she pas miserable Laurel turned back
TO her old notospdper friends, aud
Harriet Long, Grdnoiile's sister i'm
lap, toho had uhonys been jealous of
laurel because she. tUos ot another
,oorId, tried TO make trouble for her,
r, AUREL had thought when she frs,
IL decided TO withdraw her inner
self from her husband that she could
steer straight course in Indifferent
sens, but she found herself menaced by
all kinds of stranger currents. At first
when she had treated Granville as she
might have treated guest in her home.
il had not been difficult. Now IL seemed
almost impossible, and she was certain
that it was because Granville had de-
cided that he had made mistake in
marrying her. s.
laurel had no one to go to for ad-
vice. She was too proud to confide in
any one, even Winona. Everything had
to be decided in her own heart and some
times she did not know where to turn.
Her one joy was the children and she
relaxed whenever she was with them.
She and Dulcie and Grace would go for
long walks at twilight time. 1t was a
time. of shy condolences, for the girls
trusted her and opened their hearts to
her, and Laurel loved it.
They would come in from these walks
flushed and rosy with happiness and
Crombie would smile to himself as he
heard their gay laughter. Ther there
would be romp in the nursery, fol
Junior was waxing fat and hearty again
and then Laurel would 60 down to heI
room to dress for dinner. 1t seemed as
though they were always going out
somewhere. Sometimes there were din
ner parties at home and now that Laure
was becoming comparatively well knowr
ir the fiction world other people begar
to creep into the society crowd. Well
known writer's, n certain famous editor
an organizer of woman's clubs, peopl,
who do things. Granville found him
self liking these writer folk and lookin,
forward to meeting them. They addeC
zest to the affairs; they always hat
something interesting to discuss.
Even though Laurel thought con
startly of the breach between hersel
and Granville she never thought of sep
aration. The idea Of such thing hat
never occurred to her. Womanlike, sh
still hoped that something would hap
pen, but nothing did happen, and Gran
vile, who had been convinced that tn
one thing to do was to give Laurel he
freedom, finally brought himself to tn
point where he could speak of it, A
least he would have spoken of it i
something unusual hadn't happened. l
was IN early March and the wcathe
had been miserable. Laurel, with
feverish desire to do something, ha,
suggested that they make up a part,
and open The Cedars for the week end
1--WE might have a costume ball o.
something like that" she said to Gran
vile eagerly. "This weather has beer
so miserable that I haven't been abl
to work."
They motored down the followin,
Saturday in four machines. Servant
had been sent down ahead and the plac
had been aired and fires lighted. Laure
had been careful to invite no none VIII
was not a friend of Granville's. No
even when he had suggested people tina