Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-24

she marry before she is thirty-five She
falls in love with handsome young DR..
Peter Graham and marries him without
telling him about the condition in the
will. Eventually he hears gossips dis
eussing it and assumes she married him
to get possession of the fortune. He be-
comes cool and she assumes he married
her for her money. She becomes very
jealous of her husbands kindly atten-
tons to Mrs. Ruth Williams, a wealthy
patient, and also of the nurse in his Of
flee Mabel Howard. Althea meets Ken
meth Moore and his gaety attracts her.
Now go on with the story.
CHAPTER XLVHI
4 LTHEA was descending the stairs when
~ Peter and a patient came into the
n hall. Miss Howard was evidently the
subject of their conversation Althea waited
quietly on the stairs and heard Peter say:
81 can't tell exactly when Miss Howard
Will return. She will stay with her little
sister, the crippled child 1 spoke of, until tb@
little girl is we'll on her way to recovery.
Then she will come back to me-"
'For all our sakes / hope it will be sooT =
the woman replied in high, laughing YosV
"She made one really feel as if they we're
making an afternoon call while waiting TO
see you. I liked to look at her sweet lace
and serious brown eyes. quite ulllerehe
from your present incumbent" she lowered
her voice There's nothing about her to
make want to look at her.
In moment she passed out and Peter
returned to his office.
The conversation had given her food for
thought Mabel Howard was going to stay
with her sister until the child was almost
we'll. That would mean she was to go to
Mrs Williams home when the child did.
Peter couldn't show much affection Tor one
with the other, the girl who had declared
she loved him, in the room. But-perhaps
when he called Mrs. Williams would plan to
send Miss Howard out to walk, as she had
sent her from the hospital room. No, there
would be nothing gained by the arrange
ment save keeping Miss Howard away from
the office. Althea decided as she went
about her shopping
She met Nell Blackwell for luncheon. Nell
was yivacious usual-aways good conn
pany.
'Have you seen Town Gossip" she asked,
referring to a so-called society weekly.
"No; something particularly scandalous In
it," Althea replied.
"Only that George Williams got into some
sort of in a restaurant the other
night. He had party of chorus girls, it
seems, and there was no end of trouble.
Poor woman! certainly feel sorry for Mrs.
Williams. I hope she doesn't see it,
II thought you said some time ago they
were to separate" Althea returned thinking
she would buy the paper on her way home.
ooh l was talking to Mrs. Walpole about
that She knows Mrs. Williams very we'll.
She said she didn't believe it; that Ruth
Williams wasn't the kind of a woman who
would air her family troubles or do any
thing to make a scandal.
cit seems to me they are pretty well aired
as it is Althea said, when things like that
are printed
'Yes-but that's him. Her name never
has been mentioned. Mrs. Walpole also said
Ruth Williams was too really good to leave
a man she had married because he had
turned out different from what she expected.
That he would have been dead long ago ii
she hadn't stuck to him, nursed him after
his outbreaks, and kept his home for him.
I wonder if I could be so good if Rodney
should grow like Williams?" Nell invaria-
bly, brought Rodney into the conversation in
some way. But my Rodney never could
change
Althea bought copy of Town Gossip and
when Peter came up to dinner she said:
"Haye you seen this weeks Town Cos
sip?"
"No-I never look at the thing Why"
"Just little article about the williams;
that's ALL"
Eyes. 1 lunched with Nell and she told
me about it. III get it for YOU She
handed him the paper, glad to have him
read what it said where she could watch
him.
Horrible Sheet" Peter declared when he
had frowningly finished the story. cts a
shame to print such things with their in
nuendoes. They're bound to hurt someone"
"YOu mean his wife,"
"Yes-in this case. Perhaps some Of
those with him also. But hope Mrs. VIZ
liams will not see it--or hear of it. 50
isn't apt to read that thing unless someon@
gives it to her" =
Then, you think wife should be kept
in ignorance of what her husband does?"
Althea asked.
'Yes-when he's brute.'
"But not otherwise?"
mot necessarily, yet often it is for her
own good, her happiness not to know too
much, Peter speaking in abstracts
ed manner, his thoughts IN Mrs. Williams,
the article he had just read. Men will be
men at times, go too far, some of them yet
they aren't bad and love their wives.
In such cases it is better the wife be kept
in ignorance"
I'm glad to hear your opinion. How
about the wives? Should the husbands be
kept in ignorance, too, if the wife sidesteps
occasionally? If she takes her fling, yet az
you say loves him?"
Now, you are getting too deep for me-"
Peter evaded. II haven't time to tell you
my opinion that subject-of what ia
right and proper for wives. I know too
little about it to express one, anyway"
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