New Britain herald., 1928-08-16
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her that her mother deserted them and that all women have theil price.
 Lynda meets Emily Andrew 5 who cll,rishes secret fondness 10, Dasi1 Kenmore. l.ynla's companion iron. childhood. Emily plots against Lynda from the very beginning David tells Lynda he loves her. bu, she decides she doesn't want to be in love with any man, David is away on trip.
 Lynda's father deserts her. and Claire Stanhope comes to live with her. Claire has had an innocent love affair with Fred Blaque, a married man. June Challer, who has annexed money. invites Lynda and Claire and Emily 10 big par ty. Emily secretly sends David a letter. suggesting that he come home for the affair, so that Lynda may be made to feel at ease. Then she sends him an anonymous note. saying Ralph Armitage is rushing your girl" David writes to Lynda admon:shing her to beware of Ralph Armitage. It stlrs her ire, and turns her thoughts to Ralph.
 Ralph meets with an accident. Lynda goes to his home, where he is enthralled by her kindly inno- cence. and next day he tells her he loves her, and that he'll h
 the party if he must so in an = h,,1 IoS she's to marry Fred Blaque when a divorce has been secured.
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 CHAPTER NNNIN
 Twisted Lives
 After Emily left the house. Claire and Lynda sat up for little while longer. talking about their twisted lives.
 T wonder why it k" said Claire, that destiny, if it really has in tended two people to marry and settle down to happiness and con- tent. should allow them to go blum dering around, making all kinds of mistakes before they come together at lasto"
 Lynda" she spoke her name in . kind of hushed voice, do you suppose that there was a time when Fred loved Bertha as he thinks he loves me now Will the time come in the future, when we. too, will have forgotten? Will he sometimes say of me. as he now says of her. There was time when I thought l loved her. He said tonight: I was quite crazy about Bertha until We married, and then I found that the woman I had married and the vo- man l had really made my wife, were strangers to each other.
 Almost from the first l found had made a mistake he ended. with sigh. almost whispering the afterthought: I presume she was quite as much disappointed in me as 1 was with her.
 My heart grew cold. Lynda am afraid-yes l am cowardly afraid to lace it.
 Why does the silly little old god recover his sight as soon as d man and girl get married? Sometimes l think perhaps these people have the right idea when they ad Acate this companionate marriage which so many people are talking about"
 What is panionate mar riage?" asked Lynda, curiously
 T don't just know,' answered Claire. but as nearly as I can find out, its a kind of an affair carried on under the sanction of the state and under the eyes of the chur,Sl, | from which you can withdraw. with | honor, if you find you have made | a mistake"
 With this she got up slowly and ! went off to bed
 Lynda was never wider awake in i her life. She felt so very lonely. | Although Davie had never said as ! sweet things to her as Ralph. yet 1 when she was alone, Davie was | She stepped out on the lean-to' porch and dropped down into the shabby old hammock
 The moon. thin. pale silver cres- | cent-had drawn away from the | church steeple. IL seemed to be bid- i ding her farewell.
 Ever since they were small chil- dren. Davie and she had watched that moon-their moon-make its [ appearance behind the old steeple. They used 10 say there comes our moon" as it pocpcd around the bclfry " Other moons - other people-but N this one was theirs alone, Never having watched i' so late at night. N Lynda never had seen if so thin and X pale. IL seemed 10 add another loneliness 10 David absence. She VI wondered where he was tonight x and why he did not write her. Al z most angrily she brushed the tears i away that would insist upon rolling down her checks. The hammock all at once gre" humpy and uncom- fortable. Decidedly hlue. Lynda rose and went into the house locked tn. M door, and seeing no light coming N from under Claire's door. she tip toed to her room. 4 The old church bell chinled out ' three o'clock, T shall be sleepy in {. the morning" she told herself. as her blue black head sunk down into her pillow.
 This was her last waking thought. 4 Although she had been sure she would not sleep. the morning sun smiled as i' peeped through the