The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-03

claim the girl. and immediately the pair are recognized and the guests are ln- formed of their identity. As Ruth stands stunned. Billy comes up to tell her that'
 under the circumstances, their engage ment must be broken. Then Dot Belmar and Craft take Ruth away with them.
 That night Dot gives an elaborate party at her place to celebrate Ruth's arrival After hysterical scene in her room up- stairs, Ruth is forced by her mother to appear before the guests in a low-cut vampish evening gown. She IS intro- duced to an old rogue and locked Tn a room alone with him and Dot Belmar
 Tn the meantime Judge Whitlock has
 learned of the scandal caused at the boarding school and, suspecting Dot Bel
 mars designs hurries to the Belmar resort He arrives just in time to save his Ruth from the advances of the rogue, and takes her away from the place
 A year later Ruth marries Douglaa Courtenay young American diplomat keeping him in igronance about the 'rutn of her mother Whitlock having warned her that by telling her husband Of the
 mast it would plant the seed of suspicion
 which he would never be able to over come. And so they voyage 10 france together, Courtenay looking Tor new diplomatic triumphs and Ruth hoplng TOT a new life where Dot Belmar and VelVet Craft would be forgotten.
 Tn the meantime the police had closed down the Belmar resort and Dot and Vel vet Craft parted company. Out of cash and out of luck, Craft goes to Paris . and recalling that Courtenay, his ac- ouaintance of better days. was there, looks him up. At the Courtenay nome he finds Ruth, who is terrified when Craft threatens to reveal the lamily skeleton to her husband if she refused Dt,th the bla ckmail reg ularly until her husband discovers that she is converting her pearls into cash' Craft cornered and seeing hls piacK- mailing schemes fading, tells Courtenay his wife is the daughter of Dot Belmar, and receives nothing in return except a peremptory order to leave town that night or to go to jail. But CourtehaS suspicious had been aroused.
 When a detective tells Courtenay that Ruth had frequently visited Crafts Paris apartment. the husband, jumping at the conclusion that his wife is no better than her mother, informs Ruth that everything is at an end between them Thereupon Ruth quietly kisses her baby daughter good-by and leaves the house forever.
 weary year passes for Courtenay who. upor realizing the mistake of his hasty action, comes to New York tn search for his lost wife. There he ia even more rernorseful when Judge Whit lock proves to him by letters that Run was not, after all. the daughter or Dot Belmar, who had a snort tlne pelore been fatally injured.
 rourtenay is not interested when the judge promises him a surprise. but the despairing husband allows himself to be taken by the hand and led into the next room. There he finds his "surprise in the person of his beloved Ruth Their happy reconciliation which follows is in terrupted only by the reappearance or Craft The judge gets rid of the visitor however W ith frst-class one-way ticke; 1 to south America and a promise to never to return to this country.
 The story ends with Ruth. in the arms of her husband. talking to her baby ovei the telephone.