The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-13

| a.,-s a. ~ ~ IVY .Is. sno N.s,ensu Aahvs
Losee. Az otner times she ieid all theil
unnappiness 70 ner youtn-his age.
hitty Campbell wrote her regularly
sne spohe U! JACK ana toia now ne nae
conn1eo N mem ana sald ne was ais
eonsoIate because she had asked HIN
NOT 20 come untll sne nad decided wha'
sne woulo 90 AFTER her divorce had beer
granteu' she never mentioned Walter
Meuge lonsed to near OF him, but would
ASK no Questions
she mad written JACK. HIS answer
came lust IN time 10 queil teeling OF
Inconsistencies
Dear" he wrote, II think of you
every hour, every minute of the day
A single week only has past since
left you. and am so hungry for a sight
the station and taking the first train for
Reno, am delighted that you have
} found more comfortable place to live
You will he happier. more independent
in the apartment than you were in the
Douglas and Hannah You will not be
too lonely. could almost hope you
would be; then YOU might send for mo,
Was time ever so long, hours composed
OF so many minutes s as since you sent me =,
safety. N Keeps me from yielding 10
the temptation to ny TO you,. Write me
dear, long, long letters telling me all
about yourself, love you. Jack"
There was much more. hut mostly
knowns Madge treasured the letter. II
had halted the lonely, homesick feeling
which was creeping over her.
Walter wrote and sent her allowance,
He asked after Douglas and hoped she
was comfortably situated.
Madge had decided not to allow any
thing people she met might say 10 in
nuence her. She realised that Outsiders
never can arrange our lives for us. that
she must do. 80 herself, and although
she had made some acduaintances IN
Reno she closed her mind 20 all sug-
gestions, and tried TO work out her own
problems.
She was tempted az times TO wire
Jack 10 come. Then she realized that
her lonliness would be but Interrupted
| II would he hut the more POIGNANT when
he left. So although she wrote regu.
| larly. ms they had planned, she said
nothing Of her lonllness, nothing OF her
longing for him. She tried 70 interest
| herself In hooks and music. In the people
| she met hut constantly her thoughts
| wandered TO herself, her future.
All her own people wrote 20 her regu-
larry. One happy Weekend william
out II she were comfortable. he ex-
planned In halt-laughing apology for his
presence.
How Madge enioyed the long heart
tO-naart TALK with MN. Cne tulu HlTl
many things, but carefully .refrained
from blaming Walter unduly. She dwelt
more upon her own unsultabillty TO
make him happy because of her ignor-
ance than upon anything he had done. |
But II was a relief to talk-she declared,
and IL had helped her. For days after
William left she was brighter more like
herself than she had been in long |
time.
Willis not entering into any OF tho
f. Ia1 .at
several educated, interesting women, |
She used Ia wonder why they were IN
Reno; what thoir lives had been. hut
she never asked questions ana as theN
never volunteered any Information. sns
knew no moro or them than they ola
OF her.. r.. ..,,,na ,o,,.r
Then one DAY she received Ietter
from Kitty. -,
met Walter IN the seree,' re
looked very OLD, ana ! thougnt ~. ~
stopped ana SPOKE 70 me. nU ". !,
somehow ne seelneu o,tlol p"'
Madge could NOT Eet ,,is 10, Wa
VI NlttF lnttor GUY ~ MI a., ,,o bo
Wauer really physlGnN ~, ". M VT
perhaps-no' ne couIu , uot 10 o trottinv for
her ensenUue, 10 r1sNt dvo r,rotn him
.'o ,ae' b ,"s Ictter saving absolutely
nolrmnE o. neI 'en, .n,ia thirls n, tbat
snta,,essI tn'I po,, n she rnneated his
reterred 70 i,outlhs S .not,an yew
a um!nt lin ~ IN tor Tho ranch now
worHS wmen s III dav iorg' she had n
nc Jnn'en,U,u, ~ ",, tnol, baIf n dozen
camera WIN , nSr nnu d' uTo~ pos,tions
p,o ,.,,,,, dor gbo Ma bought ns hIs
,in,,r,ato nj ovcr inter the letter
,,nd COVE she wondered n Walter were
really III. II her letter would satiafy Inn,
hor brai in in connection with tho man
with whom she Ind lived four years.
CHAPTER CIV.
Aro1ro hocane very restlesa aH tho
,,,ws nasscd' She laid Il in part to tho
H 10y ,hat Iack lad written begging her
70 change her mind and allow him to
cor,a r. nor Her impntience At his in
siatcnre SURPRISED and annoyed her.
~ INNS, he very hard TO please when
any one does annoys me-"
sho gr,,mbIod Not even TO herself had
Madso vet owned that her days OF self
roihnr aisn pnadnted because OF the
= . a ai,,,ness with which sho considered her
,aiattnns w,,th lack Turner. Her en-
thms,nsma had cooled. vet she scarcely
MA fait In such a mood before she
,,esrad about again and looked forward
shou,d 500 him.
Wndea racolved n letter from her
.,,o,hos ,ha. aiso gave her food for
,ho,,gb, M. clark Ind said,
III ono findS they have been mistaken.
~ have mads n mistake, neither pride ,
:, az, ether thing shouid prevent ,
,har, Notwithstanding that mistake. IL,
ano not saving ihis TO Influence you,
dnnr. vet often when we have taken ,
,ir,a ~ commune quietly with our
selves thinqs take on n different mean
'na
sHUa,,or wrote ua n very nice letter
h,n't ,lo,r Having Rim. He said no ,
,ord ~ niau,o NJ vou' elnply regretted
VIZ Wv IVA =, ~ hner abie n make Won happy ,
!, y, ri i'' Ma med himsolf for thinking no !
.o,,la AmonT other things, no said.
= did MIA, Thought 10 he NV duty by
Ntadgc what I Thought would NJ her
80 sbo rosnnnuihiiliIes which would