Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-09
Condolences.
Chap,er XCJII.

Chapter XCIII.
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. 'rHe would have been different
BORT of man, too, think"
al don't doubt it," Gaby remarked
drily. "But after all, it's poor sort OF
man that has TO have constant inspiration
to be anything"
t0What do you meant We all have
to have Inspiration TO be anything.
'T mean" Gaby frowned in her effort
to concentrate and straighten out her
ideas, chat It's poor sort of man who
has to lean on someone else Tor ali nus
ideas and his ambitions. Probably Tim
would amount TO something II ne had
married YOU, but | don't think his sue
cess would be any the more To his credit
Ruth thought this over for moment
II was very nice TO have the Hy1npatheuc
Gabv TO talk to. She felt for the first tune
that she could really tell everything TO
this little woman
Anyway" Gaby was saying, look
what vou've DONE And you didn't have
anv inspiration- that ! could sec
''No, il was desperation" Ruth smiled
es she answered. She was beginning To
feel that she was talking about another
person whom she knew we'll, but in whom
she was impersonally interested II didn
seem particularly as though she We're
talking over herself at all.
.'Of course If Id married linn ahe
began, still feeling as though, she were
talking of a third person, and not her
self III Id married Tim, ] would nave
come 10 the city to hive. We would not
have had much money, so prohabiy J
would have taken that business course
wanted so much, and eventually q posi-
ton IN some office. We would both have
worked
"Then YOU would have gone home
20 some tiny fiat, worse than the ono
Tim h. now" CIaby put IN rithlessly
'0You would have taken that long ndf
on the subway when it's crowded and
the air is bad from - many people breath
INC il over and over, YOU would have
stood long time getting home and az
rived worn ont and with headache. her
vo, would have TO get dinner for I'm and
Yourself and do al .he housew6rk yo'
| hadn't time to do before you went to th'
| Office
"Gabvr Ruth protested, bcGnninl
"a laugh at this cheorless picture +,
Then YOU q have had dishes TO wash
! and bv that time you would have bee
too tired to want 70 do anything hu
creep INTO bcd-to get up and 90 through
/ the same thing over next day.
4 Well what II we did have 70 over
| work for a time? At least MyrR isn
working now and they arc comfortable
even Il We don like their fat
We'll. hut TINS not the sort eve
70 make much Of himself, even Myra !
| nroud az his $40 week ! don't think he
i,e an enormous SUCCESS, even With yo'
behind him 70 inspire him.
but who wnnts money kuth pTo
tested almost angry j don't meal
that Tim would have been a hnancla
success Its necessary q have enoug
to live in moderate oomfort-l'm think
| ing az other things. We could have rea'
| good books together even i We got then
from Libraries and gone 70 hear nc
music. even II we had 20 stand N the 10
gallery. we" she broke of with lItti
gesture az her hands, and sank back agar
In the corner Of the couch
"In other words. Gabv said, ''yo'
think You would have been happy he
cause there was intellectual svmpath
between Won and Tim But ! tell vo
tnat IHAI = .t4Sh WAtAN - 49, . :" "a
Tim hasn't the intellect you think b
hiss
Hes gone back because hc marie
Qlrl who had no intellect
He's gone back because there wash
~trength 81 mnd CROUCH 70 reslst Myra'
bad influence" G4bv said vigorously
II ten YOU. Tim i just mediocre he neve
will be anything else. You could have pull
ed him UP little, but only little, be
cause there isn't 3 great deal Of materia
there TO work with And meantime you Y
gore forward I'm no hghbroT, st.
went OF, relapsing into something hk
her old light, frivolous manner, but
meet sI sorts and kinds of men an
women. and can see the difference
can see the difference III you You're
changed being, you are nor bit ike IN
tin1id, wistful, shabby little glrl tha
came to New York feNv wears ago. 70
talk better, act better-yolr manner
that Of q woman Of great intelligence an
what We cal 'qushty' in stage character
You only think you're " love wlt
Tim You're not It just dream you 7
carrying about with you. AS for INTEL
! gent c0urpanionship, you get more O
that with that nice Langley Williams tha
ever you would with Tim. Why don't yO
fall il love with him anyway"