New Britain herald., 1925-06-02
THE STORY so FAR;

marries Dick Gregory, struggling lawyer. Her idea of marriage is fun and fine clothes =. but no work or children,
 She refuses 10 cook and keep house. She hires Ranghild Swanson to do 1t for her, although Dick says they can't afford maid. And she swamps him with debts for her clothes and m automobile.
 Gloria becomes infatuated with Stanley Wayburn, an actor, She and Wayburn. with May Seymour and Jim Carewe, make d jolly foursome. | Wayburn is offered a job in New York as leading man for Russian actress, Sonya Chotek He needs money Gloria lends him soO0 of Dicks money, which she coaxes from his secretary, Miss Briggs,
 Dick is i'll with pneumonia. When he rccovers, pr. John Seymour, husband of the highty May, sends him away for rest. Gloria refuses to go along because Dicks mother, whom she hates, is going. 1 As soon as they leave on their | trip, Gloria sets out for New York. She goes straight 10 Wayburn. But he spurns her, and tells her he has just married Sonya Chotek. For two weeks, Gloria tries to land job, but fails. Finally she comes home 10 Dick. He takes her back, but tells her she will have to prove | 10 him that she intends to be a bet ter wife. if she wants to stay. He { feels sure that the only reason she came back to him was because | Wayburn had married.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 The next morning Gloria was awakened by a loud knocking on the door of her room.
 "Yc-es," she called in a thick sleepy voice. She had been dream ing that she was still in the lonely hotel room in New York.
 Then she heard Dicks voice.
 Better get up. Glory" he was saying. There's no Ranghild to bring you breakfast this morning, you know"
 Gloria didn't answer at once. The door was not locked. Why didn't Dick come in to say hello" to her?"
 Oh, all right, she made up her mind suddenly, if he wanted to keep her at arms length, she'd help him out.
 Thanks, I'll get up when I feel like it." she said. But the old snap and spirit had gone out of her voice.
 There was silence for a few sec onds, then the soft pad-pad of Dicks feet going down the stairs.
 Before he had reached the bot tom Gloria was out of bed on her bare feet.
 Dick looked Up in surprise as she ran down into the hall.
 T think you might have been a sport and made some coffee for | me, S0b Sdlu iO tllIls
 DO you?" Dick asked politely. There was no color in his voice. He picked up his brief-case from the | table in the living room,
 Yes, do," Gloria cried. T think it's mean of you to treat mo like a red-headcd stepchild when ] I've come back and told you I'm sorry. Do you know you haven't spoken kind word to me since the night I showed you Stan Wayburn's letter? ... I suppose you never had a letter from a woman in your life! suppose you never did any thing you're ashamed of! You're so darned pure"
 Woman-like she seized upon the half-forgotten letter incident as a peg to hang all her discontcnt upon, now.
 Dick didn't answer. He crossei the room to his old writing desk .. the only bit of furniture that he had brought with him from his old home. :.
 He took from it a bundle of letters and photographs, and tossed them down on the table without a word. There was a queer, cold smile on his face as he he went out.
 The front door banged. In the stiffness that settled down over the house. Gloria could almost hear her heart beating.
 Did Dick mean that she was to look at the letters? Was there an answer to her question in them? Was that what the smile on Dicks face had meant?
 She picked them up, and loosed the rubber band that held them to- gcther.
 The letter that lay on the top of the pile was the one she read first. It was written in blue ink on dull blue paper, and it smelled faintly of vioIets.
 Dick dearest" it said, T am sick of tearing up the letters that write to you. l am tired of pre- tending - and so l am going to tell the truth 10 you. love you. Dick. ! I love you. It is hard for me to i write this letter Lucie."
 "Lucie" had not found it so hard 10 write the half dozen letters that followed, it seemed. Some of them were ten pages long. And all of them were signed with Love and kisses from Lucic." That seemed 10 be her stock phrase.