Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-13
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BY Arthur B REEVE
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CHAPTER VIII

tBAI EN- VIII
ALTERNATING AFFECTIONS
Il was lat when DICK hnlsned r.
tailing the conversation on which
he had listened in over the wireless
dictagraph.
Nevertheless Garrick insisted on
crossing the Park and dropping n
at the Usonia. On the register,
freshly blotted. he read:
Miss Ruth Walden, Nonowantus.
Miss vira Gerard. Nonowantus,
TOO late TO disturb them-but
Won can bet IL won't be late in the
morning when they're disturbed"
Garrick turned into a telephone
booth and rang up Mia Walden.
'Ili wager Ruth doesn't sleep much
tonight" he concluded. THE
thought of you and the wrecked car
and the mess she is in will keep her
awake. A few serious thoughts in
the darkness will do her a lot OF
good. Wen stop for you-early:'
II was not much after seven when
Garrick, Dick and Mrs. Walden
rode up in the Usonia elevator. As
the door changed shut Mrs. Walden
motioned Garrick back, with a nod.
In her haste and nervousness she
nearly stumbled to the door OF
Ruth's room. She put her hand on
the wall to steady herself and lis
tened. In the room she heard
voices. She raped but did not wait
for Ruth to open, for the o wal
not locked.
"Mummsyi" Without a seconds
hesitation Ruth ran to her mother
There was no reprimanding. MIA
Walden felt only a joy to have re.
covered what she thought might
have been lost. Only a mother
could know the depth of that feel
ing.
ingly in her hands and looked in
tensely into the beautiful blu'
depths. Mother love and trust were
trying to drown suspicion.
"Ruth-is everything all righ'
with you?" Her hold OIL Ruth tight
ened.
, How could 1 eve do anything
. with a Mummsy like you.
There was that in Ruth's eyes tina
told of innocence in spite of he
wild love of excitement. F..
Don't worry, Mrs. Walden
chimed in Vira. "Her only com
panions last night were a bottle o.
Omicron Oil and my greasy finger:
doing a m~assagirg act"
Ruth laughed outright but Mrs
Walden smiled a serious smile. "Yot
g~iris." was all she could find words
to say.
Vira answered another knock a
the door. 1t was Garrick and Dick
Ruth looked up surprised. How dis
you know l was here?"
Dicks invented a wireless mine
reader. Love will find a way" Gar
rick answered with a twinkle as hi
looked from Ruth to Dick.
Dick couldn't say anything a
first. Mrs. Walden took his han(
and pressed 1t gratefully, then she
turned deliberately from Ruth and
Dick and began talkiry 10 Garsech
and Vira as she moveu aVE52E.
Ruth . . if you only kne-S fft
relief l feel at seeing yog 2gabI!
was afraid you had been hue oil
something. If you could only nave
seer me you'd know what you meaf
to me. 1 felt so sorry for youl
mother, Ruth. Please be a littl'
careful for her sake"
Dick had taken her hand and for
gotten to let it go. Ruth looked a
him and away and approved of thu
nOldlnS. Sucn a little, sou manu- L
do the risky things that had bee'
suggested by her active mind.
"Ill have to let go, Ruth, or . .
Somebody must have slipped a pow
der or vial in my food or coffee, like
they did in the old days-hang it
they don't need love philtres VI
these days when they make 'em a.
wonderful as you! Confound it, the
wilder you are, the more 1 want u
have you to Ruth, dear, lear
over. l want to whisper something
Ruth leaned over. Il love YOU
and a light, surreptitious kiss on the
IA
Ruth" 1t was Garrick, with &
smile that he might have worn if HI
had been forty years older. HI
walked her over to the window
aside, leaning down to talk low Il
her. All that Dick caught was {
fragment. and the estate-the
income of the million dollars. next
month-when you are eighteen
In a manne that no one else coult
initiate, Garrick was not scolding
He was just giving a little fatheri,
advice. Ruth said little, almost
nothing. But nee their eyes met