Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-01-28
SYNOPSIS.
BY BERTA RUCK.

SYNOPSIS.
Julia Parry. aged is. typist in a Lon
don office. becomes engaged to her en-
ployer. Mr.. Lewis. an old friend Of the
London. While on her way to work. she
o1ten passes a young man. Jack Smith
oy name. and though they do not meet,
they have a mutual interest in each
lack has no friends, either men or
women. in London. put his buddy"
slim, seems to know many girls, and he
takes lack to a dancing class. There
has protested to be keen about. Jack
gets a promotion at the railway office
for good Judgment in handling ten thou
sand troops who arrive unexpectedly.
he becomes engaged to Phyllis.
julia cannot attend a dance she Is in
stted to. because David does not care to
90. She makes a secret trip to the danc-
ing academy, n meets a young woman
there.
CHAPTER XVII.-Continued.
Or am I'no Judge of what another
girl feels?
Anyhow. I wished she would not say
h things she did.
saids You don't mean you-are one
of tine girls who has got engaged to
show somebody else
: I'm not engaged yet. But I shall
be tomorrow" said the girl in black
az coolly as ii she were saying, ITO
morrow I shall go and have a sham
poo h smiled at me, holding her
head high.
l said rather sadly, 1.-The
other person has asked you to marry
him ?"
Not yet, but he will tomorrow, as
told YOU, my dear He has all the
signs of it. He walked across the
Park with me this evening when l
was coming here, before he went on
to night-duty at his ADMINISTRATION:
and 1 thought to myself, All. yes
You're just working up to a proposal,
my dear boy. But 1 shan't let you
bring it off tonight; because 1 don't
feel quite up to it myself? p So I head
ed it off for that time. But tomor-
row I'm going of by train with him
somewhere, and he will wangle an
empty compartment; and shyly (heis
still shy) hell ask me then. And l
snail say yes. . . And then there
will be another of these engaged cou-
"Dont" 1 begged her. Don't talk
like that. Tor l do think you are
nice. Too nice to arr anyone who
isn't as nice as you are!
young man who Is winding himself
up to propose to me tomorrow. He's
a dear boy; kind. chiyalrous. brave as
straight Decent-iookine. too: and
not at all un-clever at hts Job. IE-
nofant as a babe about women, but
what does that matter. Men who
know anything about us know. first Of
all. how to hurt U.s."
AS h said the last words her quick
clear voice hardened, and again I
sensed that unhappiness was near me,
and l felt more helpiessly sorry for
her than 1 could put into words.
l forgot myself and my own aftairA.
I actually forgot about being engaged
to David Lewis; forgot hat l myself
was going to get matried-quite unro-
mantically Iand without any question
of even a Elimmer of that "roey IA
dance" that she had talked about.
SO that was passionate Love and All
That. i. I was very vague. really,
on anything to do with that. Girls
aren't allowed to hear anything clear
or helpful ON this subject. which At
the same time il what Is supposed to
settle their Nfe's happiness or the re-
verse. No wonder girls get mudd1ed
about it!
Or is it only /. Julia. who have been
brought up in a blindfold, out-of-date,
d6credited manner?
Or am I quite wrong, and Is All
That just an unimportant detail in a
wonran's life?
Or is everybody who brings US up.
ignoring All That and saying. Hush.
Dear; one doesn't mention such
thinEs"-k everybody like this wrong,
and coward1y, and harmful?
Or Is It only my im~pertinence to
suggest this? /,
Or don't I know what to think?
r But to come back to this quaint
interview In this place where I'd never
set foot before this evening, where
I'd expected to find = crowd Of peo-
pie doing the Jazx-roll. and where I
had only found this big. dim, empty
room. with . piano done up in sack
ing and one stranger-girl whom I had
never e In my hfe before. who had
begun talking to me like this!
Awkwardly, hesttatingly. I said to
her. Il wish you were going to be
happy tomorrow. I do wish you be-
lieved that Love can come to every
one!"
She began. Glove" Then sess
stopped, 1t an interruption.
From close outside the hpuse, ia
the back street on to which tho fur
ther window looked, ptano-organ