Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-25
THE GIRL WHO,
HAD NO CHANCE
BY Marian Rubincam.
rrpArcted by George Matthew Adams.
TWO CHUMS.
Chapter l.

No tvo girls ever looked less alike
than Ruth O'Neil and Myra Weed, Vet
no two girls were ever greater friends.
Ruth, who WIS the more romantic of
the two, liked to think that her friend
ship was ideal IN every way and she
quite adored the golden-haired, gray
eyed girl with whom she had played
and studied for years.
Mvra responded to Ruth's alteration,
but in quite different way. She ap-
preciated her chum-at least she ap-
preciated her usefulness. In school, for
instance, IL was Ruth who dug for the
hardest problems, who managed TO con-
iueaie the most irregular verbs and who
trained Myra IN these essentials chen an
examination was imminent. To Myra,
skipping merrilv over the surfaces of life,
Ruth was q fine substantial rock 70 cling
to.
And this, both girls decided, was to
q on forever and forever II Is 80 easy for
Is 20 spell forever"
Web have a house together, Ruth,
Myra often said. "We can take one OF
those two-story brick cottages on Hill
,tree,-you know they are really awfully
cheap"
Are they How much?" Ruth, the
practical minded, looked up from her
Virgil
Nyra mentioned the rent-something
like IS month. For IN those days, rents
~ere not what they are today, and Market
town, Pennsylvania, where the girls
lived, was small place with low taxes.
That's cheap. you know" Myra
went on. There's bit of yard IN front
and quite a large one IN back, enough TO
blesch clothes in and to have little
vegetable garden, and there are FIVE rooms
in each house. Father SAYS the rents are
low because so many people are going
Away to the big cities TO work and IT
drains the small towns"
The two were silent for while.
"Tbe big cities''-that was a magic
phrase. Each one longed with all her
heart TO spend q little time ln one large
ci,y-th4ir dreams took them sometimes
to Chicago, sometimes SIS far as San
Francisco. or TO Boston or Philadelphia
especially whe they were studying
American history But mostly, perhaps,
il was New York that called them-New
York which was Aea enough SO that even
little Marketowh felt family its COS
mopolitan vibrations
II se Mother letting 90 off house
keeping by hyseif or with you, Ruth said
with little laugh, a. she turned the page
of her book.
But wouldn't it b. fun? W, could
give little parties-and have the boys
down sonletimes-and-" Myra's voice
trailcd of. Shl was picturing rapturously
an ind endent existence.
Without your small brother to come
around and tease you," Ruth said, fill
ing out the thought, If not tn sentence
And the difference here-this conver-
sation happened whe both girls were
barely Twas th Myra quite believed
it would com true, whereas Ruth knew
that II wouldn't that, neither conventional
family would consent to the daughters
setting up separate establishment,
even if If could be afforded.
However, as it neared the time for
them to graduate from the High School,
dreams Of q home together were super
seded by definite talk as to college.
Ruth's father had always liked vague
ly about when you 20 to college" and it
was not until a few months before gradua-
ton that Ruth realized that this, too, was
only another one of the dear mans visions.
be had so many and such beautiful ones
all Of the things they were to do to-
gether, the places the were go-and
be made hem so real, that Ruth was
ault' grown up before she knew they were
Only a sort of fairy talr that he lived and
that sh. had been living with him
You'll 90, OF course Ruth said.
"lour fsther wants you to and it's no
question of money. / can't. That's fiat
Even Father admits it now"
Il wont 60 # you don't Myra said
Why. Myrs, Of course you viii. Think
oi such chaneef
But won't you miss me?" M4ra al
most sounded childish in her question.
Miss youl Dear, you know j will"
kuth arms we're around her IN quick,