Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-05-08
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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
falls IN love with David Thorne; they
are engaged; Alice is wonderfully
happy.
A cousin. Lois Kennedy. takes
David away from her. Alice hears
they are married. She is heart
broken. Some time afterwards she
adopts a baby, deserted by Its fam
Lawrence Ifarlowe, to whom she
finally becomes engaged. She feels
h cannot marry him until she has
completed some college work she al
ways wanted to do. 90 she m to
q college In New York City.
CHAPTER 81
The day after Alice arrived at the
college was the busiest one she had
known. After the proper formalities
of registering and paying over some
OF the precious money she had
brought with her. she unpacked her
few clothes and as many of her books
as she knew she would need, and
then walked about exploring the
college grounds.
The place was set high on q hill,
with the city sloplng away on all
sides of II. 1t was an immense place,
crowded with buildings, but with the
little bit of lawn left, most beauti-
fully planted with trees and shrub
berry. Alice sat down to rest on a
little bench under q thick tree, whose
day. Then she remembered the
luncheon hour and ran to her dormi-
tory.
The maid who had charge Of the
floor met her and handed her a box.
This came for o an hour ago."
she explained. She followed Alice
into the room.
II expect you'll have this room
real pretty when you get 1t fixed up"
she said.
81 hadn't thought about It," Alice
answered, busy with string and pa
per.
hangings and pictures, and have
their rooms done up elegant" the
girl went on, looking curiously al the
box Alice was undoing.
Alice stopped q moment. or
course. It would be nice to have the
room fixed up charmingiy-she
glanced about II. 1t was bare. of
course. 1t had two small beds, two
chairs and a small bureau, but the
paper was a plain. pretty gray and
there were no pictures at all. The
girl, finding out hat she wasn't to
see the contents of the box, went out.
The box was Alice's second charm
inG surprise. Lawrence had written
TO a city florist and had flowers sent
out to her-they filed q pitcher on
the bureau-but this box came from
Mrs. Marlowe. She pulled out some
exquisiteIy dainty undertakings, sew
eral blouses and a dress of the soft
est black satin with touches OF her
favorite shade of blue. At the Dot
tom was q negligee-and such q neg
ligeel Alice looked at ii r~apturously.
1t was a heavy drapy blue satin
with a quilted lining Of rose color,
and 1t had bands of gray fox around
the arms and the neck. Tucked In
II was q note:
"Nfy dear" 1t said. These are
some Of the things ! was getting
ready for your trousseau. You Will
remember them. You might as Wen
have them now and enjoy them this
winter; when the wedding date is de.
cided there will be time enough 10
make new things. The slippers are
In q separate box. Lovingly yours.
Berenice Marlowe."
How sweet she is" Alice said
aloud to herself. Then, promptly
forgetting the note, she pulieu out
the little box where slippers to match
the negligee lay wrapped In tissue
paper. These, too, were blue satln,
lined with rose and edged with a tiny
band of fur. -
1t was little wonder that Ailce Kept
her mind with difficulty on the ex-
animation she had to take that AFTER
noon! For she was. after all, a very
normal girl. And she had never a
sny pretty things until she became
engaged to Lawrence. and now
everything she had with her was ar
tistic and expensive enough TO satisfy
the most fastidious.
II was a new life she was entering,
and she was entering II under the
most auspicious circumstances! she
looked about at the few students al
ready arrived with timid but friendly
Smiles. They all looked so happy and
carefree. the girls in light smocks
and white skirts, the boys in summer
f~iannels. Some of them knew each
other. An animated couple spent the
entire afternoon on the -bench sne
mad liked, their heads close together,
the girl all smiles and coquettish
looks. aor
Worse than that, she felt older; mucn
older. than any of these. She
about it-she was twenty-seNen, oiu
enough to be thought an old maid in
the little circle of people on Dexter
street And here she was in college
~eba took her afternoon xamina
tion sitting by a girl who did not look
a day over eighteen.
She wanted to explore this marVei-
ai., b,,t h had not the courage