The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1922-02-25
A CONFESSION.
Chapter 95.

SO Dick had gone.
Amy remembered the name of th-
boat, and she hunted up map of
North and South America and found
the ports he said he would stop at
Some vague idea of writing to him
may have been in her mind, but ii
was not very definite. What she real
ly was doing was trying to keep III
touch with him by knowing the cities
he was stopping at and tracing his
route on the map.
She studied the southern part rough
iy finding the position of Camp Ajax
by remembering James description.
She wanted terribly to have Jane
around to talk to.
Then she wrote her one of her full.
detailed letters.
II told you the last time | wrote that
Adam and were engaged. told you
about the ring oh Jane. its an awful
ring. 1t is so big | can't get a glove
an my left hand. l used to long for
an enormous diamond. because it wes
q sign and symbol of all the wealth
wanted to possess.
Now I've got it, it's uncomfortable
and in my way. and I'm in deadly fear
Of losing it whenever I wash my
hands. I wonder whether that's Gn
omen of the way I'll feel about money
when ! have it.
Adam is very generous He has
given me big beaver coat which is
beauty. It's rather heavy. but all
fur coats are, | suppose. He wants
10 give me an allowance too, but l
won't take that, Jane. being half-rich.
Ike this, is frightfully uncomfortable.
Il used to go across the street from
the opera house and buy a 20 cent
lunch when we had long rehear5als.
! wouldn't dare take my fur coat into
that cheap little place any more, d
be so stared at So | have to go TO a
little tea room where lunch costs -
cents Luther laughs and says that
Is the price of upkeep of a fur coat.
Adam wants TO be married soon.
OF course | couldn't leave the company
this season. don't believe he will
let me go into it another year
Amy found writing clarified her
thoughts There she had written il.
Adam wouldn't let her do this--or that
or the other thing. Adam clearly
was to be her master.
Il won't have my wife doing so and
So he was apt to say during thes3
days of the engagement.
Amy went on, feeling sorry for her
self
Dicks gone for good He's working
his way to Buenos Ayres and has d
sort Of earter's job taking supplies to
YOUR camp. SO you will see him. !
am afraid he feels badly hopes he
knows do too. Jane, | asked him to
kiss me goodbye, and he did. ca
course. it wasn't strictly right of me
but YOU see Adam thinks it quite
all right if he kisses another girl
so why shouldn't have the same priv
ilege?"
She sat thinking a long time, thea
wrote on:
Mother is right, and we've all de.
veloped rather loose ideas about these
things. But I'd rather have Dick Kiss
me than Adam--but | like Adam lot
Il know | won't be happy at first,
I'll want Dick, I'll be awfully in love
with him. But after awhile VIII get
used TO it, and money is power, AMI
can do so many things ] want to do!
OF course, if | were just poor little
ignorant thing, I'd be terrlflcaliy
shocked when | married a man IKE
Adam. and miserable-but ! know JUS
what I am doing
Thus the letter continued, and on the
principle of confession being good tc
the soul it made Amy feel better
Then she went to Claire, who was
looking a little pale and dlscontenteo
She told her the whole story. ANY
had a puritanical conscience.
Il am not playing fair, she ended
1T doesn't matter whether Adam
wants to play fast and loose with any
woman that will let him. He is Civ
ing me a splendid home and none,
and all sorts of things like that, and
am not giving him anything. ~
least | ought to be a good sport about
ii. think I'll tell him about DICK.
You're an awful little fool Amy,
Claire replied GROSSLY. Adam is "
love with you and you are worrying
because you can't give him real love
also. You can't give him what ycy
haven! got. As for playing square
and all that sort of thing-if you think
vo ucan be satisfied with having YOU
YOU can be stuffed full of bills all the
time and fu.s and motor ears, YOU vii
find yourself mistaken. Money is al
right. you can't be happy without Il
But il won't make you happy, either
You viii grow just like all those ric'
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