The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-06-15
Chapter SO.
Condolences.


81 would have made different sort
of wife," she said finally.
She leaned back in the corner Of the
sofa, her blue eyes looking steadily
across the room He would have
been a different sort OF man, too,
think"
81 don't doubt It." Gaby remarked
drily. But after all, it's poor sort
Of man that has to have constant In
spiration to do anything"
What do you mean? We all have
TO have inspiration to be anything"
81 mean" Gaby frowned In her ef-
fort to concentrate and straighten out
her ideas, that it's poor sort OF man
who has to lean on someone else for
all his ideas and his ambitions. PROB
ably Tim would amount TO something
if he had married you, but | don't
think his success would be any the
more TO his credit"
Ruth thought this over for a mo-
ment. II was very nice to have the
sympathetic Gaby 10 talk to. She felt
for the first time that she could really
tell everything to this little woman.
Anyway" Gaby was saying, look
what you've done! And you didn't
have any inspiration that | could
see"
mo, it was desperation" Ruth smil.
ed as she answered She was be-
ginning to feel that she was talking
about another person whom she knew
we'll but in whom she was imperson-
ally interested. 1t didn't seem par
ticularly as though she we're talking
over herself at all
"Of course if I'd married Tim" she
began, still feeling as though she were
talking of third person, and not her
self, ''if I'd married Tim. would have
come to the city to live. We would
not have had much money, so prob
ably | would have taken that business
course | wanted so much, and evertu-
ally a position in some office. We
would both have worked"
Then you would have gone home
TO some tiny fat. worse than the one
Tim has now" Gaby put in ruthlessly.
You would have taken that long ride
on the subway when it's crowded and
the air is bad from so many people
breathing it over and over, you would
have stood long time getting home
and arrived worn out and with
headache Then you would have to
get dinner for Tim and yourself, and
do all the hauseWork you hadn't time
to do before you went to the Office
"Gaby." Ruth protested beginning
to laugh at this cherries picture.
Then you'd have had dishes to
wash. and by that time you would
have been too tired to want to do any
thing but creep into bed-to get up
and 60 through the same thing over
next day"
We'll. what if we did have to over
work for time? At least, Myra isn't
working now and they are comfortable
even il we don't like their fiat"
We'll, but Tins not the sort ever
10 make much OF himself, even if
Myra is proud of his $40 a week.
don't think he'd be an enormous sue
cess, even with you behind him to
inspire him"
But who wants money!" Ruth pro
tested almost angry. ~ don't mean
that Tim would have been fnancia
success, It's necessary to have enough
to live in moderate comfort - I'm
thinking of other things. We could
have read good books together, even
If we got them from libraries, and
gone to hear nice music, even IL we
had to stand in the top gallery, We
she broke off with little gesture Of
her hands. and sank back again in the
corner of the couch.
I'm other words" Gaby said, "yor
think you would have been happy be
cause there was intellectual sympathy
between you and Tim, but l tell yol
that that's just where you are wrong
Tim hasn't the intellect you think be
has"
He's gone back because he married
a girl who had no intellect"
He's gone back because there va:
not strength of mind enough to resis
Myra's bad influence" Gaby said Wig
orously. Il tell you, Tins just medi
OGRE: he never will be anything else
You could have pulled him up little
but only little, because there isn't {
great deal of material there to worl
with. And meantime you've gone for
ward I'm no highbrow," she went on
relapsing into something like her oil