Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
SYNOPSIS

SlNUPSlS
!, ,ros not until Virginia West had
altered. until dtte, her husband had
SitS and her baby had been born, that
'Ln had been oircr the sceirD cve4 II
.nos ibcr mat she sniD Kathleen Eos
,cr n, she rcqIlb icaa. selfish, iHsiaceTe
.nJ ;ucapabic of real friendship. And
,tc hand that had cgislcd Jei,ocen the
t,ro giris since boarding school days
pGS Jrofch' -
ATIILEEN knew that somehow she
hbad lost out with Virginia vir-
,cia was no longer the girl she had
bocp vifchood aud motherhood and
sufrcring had changrd' her. Her rirlish
.,ubhornucss aud ability to stick to n
thing that she felt vas right had
changed to IN oven reasoning faculty.
Furthermore. Kathleen itnew that for
thc first timc Virginia saw iicr as she
vos selfish through and through. Even
though shc kept saying to herself that
sbc didn't cure. she did care; tho fact
worried her.
SON uNtluth WI NV " dN h'illN ult'L Nut
had said good by to Virginia, as though
. great milestone had not been passed
IN their lives. and as though their
friendship was still unimpaircd, thac
after all what Virginia thought or did
mattcred very little. What she wanted
vas 10 bring Fill to terms. to be en-
raced to him and safely married. She
tncv that hc had comfortable. If not
large income and n ilourishing export
brsipcss which would make him rich
nan s0mc day.
However, in spite Of the fact that
Kathleen had told Virginia Of her en-.
gascmcnt to Bill, there was 10 engage
mcnl and Fill had demonstrated an
nloorueas Of late that had somehow Dccn
discouraginc Tie did not respond as lie
once had to llathleen's alluremcntS. She
saw him atone in the dimly lighted
drawing room two or three times n
week. The friends with whom she was
e'ayiug rimpsed the true situation and
hoIped Kathleen all they could by iu-
slri1g her privacy. She wore her
Ioveiest frocks and ono evening she had
SWUNG long earrings in her ears to add
To- The general effect. but Bill persisted
in remaining anuoyingly fricnd',
Kathleen could not understand it. He
deliberately sought her out. he seemed
TO like 10 bc with her. but there was 10
return Of tho eager passion that he had
exhibited during thcir cayly engage
mpnt. Thcn tho slightest touch Of her
fingers on his had been the occasion fSr
sweeping hcr into his arms. She could
remember tho blaze OF his blue eyes
above her and sho had come as near TO
loving him a4 it was in her to care for
anything,
Of course she had broken the engage
mout: She had no intention of living
with Bill on the terms that Virginia had
lived with Jimmy. If only she had
known nf the legacy. everything might
have been different now. But as II
Eas, there was just one thing TO DO.
WOO him back to her, and she still had
hopes of doing this. After all, if he aid
not care for her, why should he seek her
out as he had:
That evening she determined on bold
eoursc-shc would force the issue. Per
haps he had been holding off merely to
test hcr If so, the way vas easy. Bill
had not said he was coming that night,
but it was his regular evening. He hao
dropped in every Wednesday for weeks
and she had grown to look forward
10 il,
Kathleen wore q new frock, a simple
little white crepe thing that made her
look almost nunlikc. She arranged her
hair more simply than usual aud tucked
q red rose iu her belt.
Simple and Girlish,' she said, Us she