Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-07
EXPECTATION

(SynopsiS of Preceding Chapters)
Alice Fairbanks mas won her way
through life by her optimism. She
has had the wonderful ability to
smile in the face OF the most discour-
aging circumstances. Her sunny dis
position first attracts to her David
Thorne, with whom she falls in love.
When a pretty, silly little cousin OF
hers takes him away from her and
marries him, h is heartbroken.
Later she meets and becomes en-
gagged to Lawrence Marlowe. She
feels her old love for David has gone
then, while at college in the city,
she meets David and knows she still
cares. She runs away from him and
comes home, and breaks her engage
msnt to Lawrence.
CHAPTER 81
After a little time Alice was able
to go on with the letter. But there
was very little more about the thing
hat most interested her. b went
back to the beginning of it
Guess what2 David Thorne's wife
died yesterday. He sent word he
couldn't lecture because she was Sc
riously sick and he had been sent
comment among the girls. for your
old-time friend was awfully popular
Il don't suppose you knew that, but
Thorne was the youngest lecturer in
this staid old institution. and he was
good looking IN the bargain"
Alice frowned impatiently. h
wanted more details of this sudden
death. She wasn't a bit interested in
whether the college girls thought
David good looking or not. Christine's
habit of talking all around subjects
frequently annoyed her. h read
on
lola Hunt said she thought Mrs.
- - " L~ADkt1 ha
had been sent for. OF course I knew
they weren't living together-you had
told me-but I was a nice child and
didn't let on. Then Louise Hammond
told all about 1t. 1t appears h lives
In the same apartment house with
'our young professors wife, but as IT'S
n of those huge places with a hun
dred or more apartments, she had
never seen her. But she asked some
of the servants and they told her.
They said the lady was always
going out to dances, usually with diff
ferent men-evidently she created
lots of scandal among the ignorant
elevator boys and janitresses-any-
way, she came in one night all tired
out and soaking wet. 1t appears the
taxi she was in had broken down
about two or three blocks away, and
Lois-isn't that her name?-ha TO
walk the rest of the distance. There
was snow and sleet and h had on
satin slippers and a light cloak-you
know how little fashionable women
are wearing this season anyway
and she caught cold.
she was cross and inclined to
blame the man she was with for the
accident-now isn't that III some
women, Alice, to blame a perfectly
patient man for trouble with a car
buretor or a d~ifferential or some
I- 1900 cha sold OnOd-nNl
to him in the hall and snapped al
the boy at the switchboard, Get my
husband on the wire at once-you
know his number
well. I don't know what she told
poor long-suffering David when she
talked to him on the phone, or even
whether the boy got him for her.
ANYWAY. she had been Ill and wasn't
supposed to go out, and h evelop
ed pneumonia and died yesterday. Sc
that's all I know about 1t.
snow, why couldn't all that have
happened q long time ago. II 1t mao
to happen at all? I suppose now
marry David-only please don't,
Alicei He really isn't worthy OF a
fine girl like you. / shan't speak 10
him myself, except to tell MN the
conventional words of sympathy. vi
course, we girls are subscribing Tor a
gigantic Inc or roses 10 seno ~
the funeral. Now 1 want to tell you
about .
But Alice was not Interested IN
college gossip. She only half read
the rest of the letter. And when she
had finished she sat for a long Tune
staring out of the window.
Clara had gone out. Mrs. FAR
hanks was busy at some one OF the
many tasks she seemed to find about
the house. Alice called to her ano
read her the letter. -.
'sPoor Lois" Mrs. Fairbanks sald'
and gave the conventional sigh as she
spoke. .poor
I,oisi Why DO you SAL that? Where
II there any need of plying her.
80 die so young" Mrs. Fairbanks
began timtdly. "She was pretty
ESQ it's the thing to pity her TOT
cutting short her career by dying!
Alice's eyes flashed as she spoke. He1
mother rarely saw her stirred to such
a heat by anger. IT think she was
i,,ckv TO die so soon. She had every
thing she over wanted. h could no,
have gone on as she was withou'
fnding q time sooner or later when
Ehe couldn't get her GOOD
heavens look at her lffe-we know
"She and her mother lived an
empty. aimless existence on the little