Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-20
LANGLEY.
CHAPTER LXXVl.


Chapter LXXVI.
After all the talk and preparations
about rojrg TO the city, II was well aiorg
towards Fall before Ruth got of. she lett
Sunday afternoon, and Saturday evening
Langley came TO sec her.
Saturday she was sure to be alone;
for IL was the big pight at the club ana
all their friends were certain to be out IN
tbc Tttle farmhouse that had been made
nm in temporary fashion as place to
dance and play and flirt in. Ruth had
orIv gore out TO the club occasionally
for a game Of tennis since her fathers
death.
so she sat this Saturday evening in a
bis wicker armchair in a favosite position
her krees doubled up so she half sat
upon her feet and so she was completely
swallowed up by the big chair.
Langley lour ged back in the ham
mock. smoking cigarettes and blowlrg
ont clouds of blue smoke to catch the
lamp light and to be lit up into o sort
of blue illumination by the soft light,
Something amusing happered to-
day" Ruth said. Il had letter from
Miss Loan Bryce, who is a special
writer for a womans magazine, We ior,
gotten which ore. She wal is me 10 zen
her about my share in maklr up South
Narketown. and all the thir e. in the
wav of Fairgrounds here she seems TO
think I've put through
$50 you have put them through. "hae
else did she say?''
SSbe wanted, she said, to interview
me. Isn't that funny? It's overnight from
l.cIc 20 New York where she lives why
s,u,lI she be il terested in prosaic little
i.ee IKE mel"
d., slcv blew out another smoke
4. ~
IN tie glow of the lamp.
.TheIes such tmrg as too much
modestv. nv dear, he remarked You
have dore all she claims and lot more.
Rcearrize it, and acknowledge 1t. hat
did you write herr?
Nothing vet. could call her up
~ her magazine when get into New
York. hut / thought "a wait, then write
and saw hdnt done anything"
Ruth. once in while you make me
mad
Ruth laughed at this, for. the man
was in earnest, SO much so tfat re sat
UP on the couch to lecture her; She ilsten-
ed meekly ~ his lecture, and then prorlls-
cd 70 let the woman know where TO hnd
her in the city
You re he most amazing girl ever
saw ANYWAY. I don't know what would
over have done in this place i It had not
been for YOU. he ended.
Gone On to another town in the course
af vour work. she responded practical
u You did that anyway. You went on
to Ohio
And came back" he answered her.
n came back TO help you work out
fhc details of the scheme for q factory
-own that was your sole idea, but think
would have come anyway.
4ySry l. rFzrg
sity and without any trace Of coQuetTy.
To aec YOU. to be near you." he said,
There was silence, SO sudden, so
,Ieep that it seemed almost startling
Langley had never talked like this before !
To be sure. he had picked her up in his
arms the night after her father died, but
Il WAS only as though he were grown
man soothing grief-stricken child
There had been little enough sentiment in
An otherwise sentimental action.
aAnd now YOU are sending me away to
New York for a month She laughed
narvouslv as she said it. She was ready to
saw ANYTHING TO break this sudden sill
anoe. and these words came first into
her head
II have a special reason for doing
thst. One thing is that I want you to
have a complete change-the change from
ne outlook on life to people with quite
another. want you to rest little, and
n he little frvolous-ss you'll have
n be. for YOU must let yourself be enter
tanned bv some Of the people you wi meet
,isere on business
That's several reasons, that's not
one special
sI'Ti tell YOU the special reason when you
came back And might add that / Il miss
yol awfully.
Ne held out his hand, stretching his
log arm over the little table. Ruth put
Ter hand in his "a frankly IS though she
were boy.
she said.
IN probably get lonesome and write
Won a lot Of letters he answered.
She pulled her hand away; he let
II 90 when he felt she wanted TO be free.
YOU'VE done more for me than you
know. he said. Il used TO think had no
more faith 10 women. ] never knew any
hing about them before l u1et-the one IN
Chicago-and after my experience with
her. / decided ! knew the whole lot-and
had little use for any Of them. You We
restored my old faith and my old ideals
no woman can do more for man than
thst.
az used to hate her. thought all women
were like her. as shallow, heartless, mer-
cenary, calculating, as she was, know
that | loved her q lot because hated her
so afterwards. But ! don't any more. /
never think Of her
Ruth looked at him steadily.
you were awfully miserable, weren {
vou7''
Her ready sympathy had touched
something in him. She watched hls whole
face soften little He Lit another cigarette.
Tonorrow-The story.