Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-24

It'bSttN II 'tN t'tllN u Nti'It tiihf
before Gabv began speaking but to Ruth
It seemed mary minutes. ard 10 Nlyra.
whose suddcr share was making her
checks scarlet the silercr must have
seemed cterrel trd aIl this time the
hlack-cycd Gaby icarcd lrdolertlS back
agalret the couch. strdvIG Mvra in a
quite iupcr>oral ;ld slightly contonp-
tuous fashion
Then she began
Ivc often wondered why We all SIT
around ard tell polite tibs ard avoid
subjects that might hut certain people
feelings. she haCar. twher the certain
people have So little consideration for
Us near vou. \lvra. wher ! say Ger
taIr people I've already told Ruth some
thirgs about YOU Oh never anything
| haven't said directly to Won Now I'm
going back over a lot Of this while YOU
arc here and make you confess T. every
thing I've told her
Oh, GabH. please Ruth managed
to say
WHY not the girl asked, her black
eyes flashing Is quite evident that
Myra came here 70 be III pleasant She
SAYS She wanted 10 speak the truth. or
force you IL speak the truth suppose
we All tell the truth Gor half M hour
After all Is good practice
Ruth smiled little IT spite Of herself
IEc good uatucd Gaby occasional
cl,icism alwayS au used her
FIRST OF alI who told vou Tim vas
rcvcr H. love with Ruth9" Gahv bcgar
He dld Myras voice answered
su.lerly
II he said thet nc should he whipped
for cad Cab, terrcd slightly 70 Ruth
This ore pont She evidently meant for
her friend consideration
"Whcr did he tell yoU that
Last right
But Nou krcN hc was in love with
Ruth ard YOU knew Ruth was in loyc
with him. wher lie first came to New
York?
No Ruth rcver told nc.
But You knew m~t the same hdn
YOU
Myra flashed ~Hd,Icnly iato dcfar u
and Said the orc Ting She cid net ucan
to confess u
What II did They vcrcr engaged
50 il wasn't ary harm il va~ nice ~
him I couldr hep I il he fell in Iovc
with me
There a small p,at of honor raised
there. Gahy Observed But Il happened
10 be rather delicate one - suppose
you never took II lrto consideration
You could help il ~ least you dIdn
have T. flrt quite rs outragoousiy a>
you did
Anyway. what's I'll this got to do
with it Myra asked lwpatIel tll
Quite right what has II Gab1 re-
spondcd cheerfully But YOU did fiirt
with him you've confessed that
Well what if | did
"0I vCtb hing not rhtrp And (yaEN
turned agzln to Ruth Her manner plain
~ showed that she felt she had scored
point in this game she was playing
But Gaby Ruth put in. We oughtu
t. quarrel L Myra and Tim fell il loye
and are happy, that's not our affair, but
theirs Iii such cases a third person
often gets hurt-ln tins ole il would
have been either Mvra or myself Il
happened TO be myself
All N doing Is To show YOU that
Your little friend Is an unscrupulouS
flirt, Gaby answered When tha
fact Is established IS the lawyers say
then you Il understand her better. and
won waste so much sympathy OF The
girl who could try TO cut our her best
friend. and the nlaa who was weak enough
to let her do il
Maybe | did fir Myra said sud
denly. little CLEAN in her eyes a. she
began Tim never was interested III
me, and | just made up my mind | was
going 10 nave nm tall IN love with Ine
tried i al home bQf came TO the
city before ! gof him interested Then
when hc came, II was easy-he was crazy
about me ID no time Maybe | knew Ruth
liked him too. bur if she did, WHY di nit
she axe hIm when she had q chance
/ waited 10 marry him 80 ] did
Gaby threw up her hands with little
expression as though she gave up the
whole affair
What queer creature you are
she exclaimed Did YOU happen to like
III y while YOU were so ruthlessly breaking
Ar old love affair between him and
notier girl?
no, not at first did ii 70 amuse
J. ys IT, and to show Emily ] could have
& be II too Emily was so proud because
she had SO many Of them But ] like
Tim and In not soTry ] married him
just fiirted because you were bored?
Yes
and never thought that you might
be causing real pain TO your friend?
If she wanted biIn she could have"
Really Myra, you do amaze me. ]
always thought you were a silly, heart
ess little creature, but ] never knew
you we're 50 cold and calculating and 50
absolutely ruthless Really, I'm inclined
0 congratulate you 1t takes real art to
be as bcastly as you have been.
Myra turned angrily on her questioner
Il guess maybe Ruth's as bad What
Sas she doing flirting with my husband
ast evening, when he
Gaby twisted about to face her more
directly
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