Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-19
SHATTERED ILLUSIONS.

Anne Carriers childhood was
Swallowed by her mothers suicide
and Jim Carter never let Anne FOR
get that is was through her hat It
happened. Mrs. Carter had preferred
the dark waters of the river to go
ing on with life as she hal to live
II, and when Jim Carter took down
a strap and struck Anne for n child
ish misdemeanor the tragedy Tsp
pened. The family moved TO Green
Vile. n small town, a11 Anne was
brought up strictly. In school she
rnade a friend Of Cherry Harding,
but IL WAS a secrss friendship. Aid
;hca one night Jim Carter brought
a mo-. home foe d;nucr anil quite
suddenly everything was changed.
Anne realized that her father ex-
pected her to be nice to this man
and to accept his invitations whether
she wanted to or not. lie took her
to a band concert and for a ride
afterward in his car.
CHAPTER XIV.
Anne Carter knew nothing of
men. She was not prepared for
fencing as Cherry Harding, fortified
by many, triiing iirtations, was
She was too simple and direct, too
untutored in subtlety she felt too
Will nv -
Bill Snyder leaned toward her she
! was terrified. and drew as far away
from him as she could.
His arm flung across the back OF
the seat, slipped down and closed
about her. drawing her nearer to
him.
kiss me-" he said huskily. trying
to force her small white face back
on his shoulder. Although she
struggled, he was much stronger
than she was, and in q moment she
lay quiescent in his arms n he
was kissing her childish, trembling
lips before she pulled away from
him, beating against him with small
fists.
He was amazed at the blaze of
anger that she turned on him.
How dare you, how dared your
she gasped, her gray eyes black
with "to bring me out here
and treat me that way! I'll tell my
father, and he'll settle with you for
this. you'll see." And then quite
suddenly she crumpled up. the brief
anger gone. swallowed up In the
began to cry like a child, piteously,
in a hurt fashion that made Bill
Snyder terribly uncomfortable.
He leaned toward her. clumsily,
eager to make amends. He had no
idea that Anne would behave this
way. He had an idea that all girls
rather expected this kind of thing,
and he had honestly believed that
her first tentative struggles had
been mainly for effect in order to
make her surrender not too obvious.
He really did not appreciate Anne's
utter inexperience and the fact that
she had not known no man until III
had known him. With women, Bill
Snyder was not tender or chival-
rous. He had no very high opinion
of them.
He understood better girls like
Cherry, girls who liked to trifie, to
play with fire, Anne's upright
standards of right ana wrong were
a revelation to the man n were
misunderstood. He thought of her
as a silly little prude, an utterly
cold, frigid type of m There
could have been nj better way of
cooling his interest. After Anne's
sobs died away and shes at with her
head turned so that he could not see
her face, he cranked up the a and
drove sulkily toward home. feeling
that he had been cheated and that
his evening had been spoiled.
They reached town and drove
through the silent streets. Before
the ugly little house he handed Ann
out with great ceremony and bowed
a stiff goodnight. In her big four
poster bed Martha Carter lay wide
awake, waiting for Anne to come
home. She heard the girl come up
on the porch, and before the bell
could ring Martha was out of bed
and half way downstairs. Anne
had not been entrusted with a key.
and Martha did not want her to
wake her father.
Aunt Martha opened the door and
Anne came in. There was no light
In the hall. and the two women
whispered. Aunt Martha closed
and locked the door from the
inside. Anne had gone on upstairs
and Aunt Martha followed her. For
fear that her aunt would come into
her room and see her te~ar-stained
face, Anne was undressing in the
dark. With Icy fingers she was hur-
rying as much as h could, and
Martha seeing no light, went back
to her own DON and was soon
asleep.
Covering between the cold sheets
Anne was still awake when the
large, old-fashioned cluck in the
hall down stairs struck 8 o'clock.