The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-10-31
CHAPTER !
The Other Woman

I NANCY'S one idea was to get away,
She wanted tu bury herself in the
Wilderness where she would never see
another man rs long as she lived
Lovc She scoffed at tho idea of
there being such II thing. Who had in.
vented the idea, anyway? And her
thoughts kent tumbling over them
selves in veritablc orgy of sef-loath-
ing and disgust.
OF course. the reason for ii all was
man. And she had loved him, or
| though she had. Ii hardly seemed pos
sible now as she looked back that she
ever could have loved him. But she
suffered because of him, suffered the
hot anger of youth and the humiliation
that woman always feels when Sac
has given her heart to a man who has
proven unworthy
Even now she hated TO look back
upon THAT night when all her dreams
and Illusions had been smashed. II
had seemed as though in a single
moment a veil had been torn from her
eyes and she had hated as quickly as
she had loved. But in spite of herself
her thoHghts insisted upon drifting
/ back ana dwelling oil tina, nights
happenings with persistency over
which she seemed TO have no control.
And after she had tortured herself
sufficiently with useless remembering
what did she have left? The certainty
that all men were unworthy and not
TO lie trusted the assurance that she
would never in all her life give her
love to another man. She even went
further than that. She liked TO think
Of breaking other mems hearts as
| Alvin Reed had broken hers.
How confident She had been when
she had promised to marry him. She
could see him now with his crisp
blond hair and his blue eyes. those
cye1 that had looked into le!s filled
viii passion. she sauddered when she
remembered the tight. possesslve clasp
cf his arms about her and her own
shy response to his kisses. II filled
her with shame now, shame that she
had been So oa.ily deceived, infinite
shame that she had ignored the warn
ings Of others that Alvin Reed could
never settle down to one woman
And so she had. given him her from.
.se and for a snort time She had been
/ blindly happy. Then had come the
night when they had gone together
to the Raymond dance She even re-
membered the feeling of pride she had
Had in being seen with him at an af-
fair of that kind. And then during
the evening she had come upon him
suddenly with Alice Ramsey in his
arms. His fair head was bent over her
dark one, as tall and slender she lean
ed against him, giving herself UP 10
| he passion of his kisses. And Nancy
/ had stood there swaying in the door
way OF the conservatory, unable TO go
backward or forward, her eyes rooted
TO the scene before her gasped and
drew quickly away.
Before Alvin could turn his head
Nancy had Vanished. She remembered
how she had hidden herself upstairs in
Mrs. Raymond's bedroom. She remem.
bcred facing herself in the tall mirror
and not rec gniZinS the girl she eaw
there The girl with white checks and
blazing dark eyes that looked almost
black. Nancy's eyes were gray ordi-
narily, n soft. smoke gray: that night
thcy had been black and the look In
them she never wanted to see i'm any
woman's eyes as long az she lived.
or course. Alvin had come to her
penitent and with that boyish charm
that she had always found hard TO
resist.
/ Nancy. YOU know that love you