Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-05
THE GIRL WHO
SMILED THROUGH
By Marion Rubicam.
Copyright. George Matthew Adams.
CONGRATULATIONS.
Chapter Gil.

Chapter Cll.
A week went by after the letter iron
Clara telling of her engagement TO Law
renee. III. -
After her first feeling of loneliness and
tbc forgiveablc hit of envy that Clara was
~ bannv while she herself was mlset--
sble Nice came back to her norman
frame of mind.
She sat down and wrote them both
i, rart of her letter to Clara she SAID:
II am very happy for you. Lawrence IS
door dear bov. | know that, ccatise he
v.os sn charming TO me. Perhaps because
;,:as crqeped to him at one time, can
tell how lovely he will be to you. tie has
1hp ono supreme gift that man can nave
sympathy Sometimes think that Il
.wo peoplc have only that and nothing
else. they can bc happy together. | know
znu two will be, for you are suited to each
other in that and III other ways.
And to Lawrence she wrote:
"(Yora II YOUR real mate You nave
found that out now | thought 1t some time
ouo At least knew | was not the woman
for You. | think q year ago you were LII
love with love, Lawrence, not with me:
was only the object, temporarily, oil
xfdlr love. because | aroused your sym
nathy and because ] was different from
other girls you had known.
Deep inside of you was need lot =
real womanly woman, not a preIVS niue
butterfly. You thought was that woman
because | had some OF what my nelghpoIs
cali solid qualities. But now you kho"
that Clara has all that and iots hloIe rtsll !
things you want III your VIZ
not have. ;aa, &c
She became a bit vague IN her Ideas as
sbe wrote this. Alice was gaining great
command over herself Two years ago sIe
would not have known what 20 say ~
sither letter, but now she tclt NIUE
Measure at being able to express even tlls
much of her thoughts. -
After a little she received this letter
from Lawrence
..What YOU said to me once was tFue-
the first love dies hard. As helleNeu you
cIrInc TO your first love Tor TINS 1horhe' 50
/ found | was cllnglng 70 my lISt Ivy
which was you. 1t was not unVh ! llat Z
few weeks pretty much 10y nlyysell u elie
CJsra-that | realized how much she hau
come TO mean TO me.
And ! don't think that IS making my,
old love for YOU any the less. You Will
aI1vavs he NV dearest friend, and next 70
Clars the woman ! care for most. but
when / met her at the station, as she came
~ from home, | knew how awtully much
I cared. Now | won't write any more
"Christine was perfectly furious az me,
by the way. She evidently had a na1cIl
fixed up between us and would not nave y
any other wav. But she admits now that
SIsra { . sweet GIRL and she even told her
that David wasn't 50 bad. che coiors
everything bv her affection for YOU.
..She has gone back TO her home now,
ord | miss Her red hair and inplsh little
face I wanted Clara to see more 81 her.
no YOU know. in her burst Of lnpauence
because YOU threw me over last winter,
sbe not only would not see David but she
wouldn't tell him what had happened!
| think he should know that we are not
engaged: he would not he likely to hear II
any other way than through her, ana she
wouldn't tell him. She said she kept, on
hopinc YOU would make It UP with me, 6ut
when She found ! was growing reconc1ied @
the arrangement. she told me first that |
T3Jp't annreciate YOU and that | should
have gone of with YOU, Ia young
Iochinvar, and secondly, that after all
nrobablv YOU would be better on Il YOU
married David
.Then / asked her whether he knew you
were free and she said no. she added u
vas too late now he had gone away She
s,lpposed YOU had written and told hun,
or that he had heard, and when ne went
swav and no one heard ABOUT hun, she
confessed she didn't know what to think.
She thought he was going straight 70
Pennington for YOU.
Anyway, l got his address from the
college Office, and then the forwarding
address left at his city apartment. Hes
in Montana-and ! wrote short note,
saving we were not engaged. / hope he
81, 1<1o- Of
Iawrence's letter was dated June 9TH
the day before. And so David was IN
Montana-and, according to Clara :
earlier letter, Lawrence had written hun
more than 8 week ago. He would have
had time to get the letter, and 70 Trlte hei
bv now-and the old fear came back, 1hat
David had ceased TO care as soon as ne
found himself free to come TO her.
At least she understood the old silence
he had been thinking all along that sht
was engaged She might have told him
vet how could she have written that
when he was married? Lois sudden deatf
had changed everything-ye she coulc
not have written then and told hlTn snt
was free! That would be more than hlnt
ing-she blushed little at the idea. e
the new silence was unexplained. lie nae
had more than enough time TO write x
her. The old sick fear came back again.
Monday-The Telegram.