New Britain herald., 1928-09-05
SWEETHEARTS
By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON
~ Author my sweehear" Confessions of Wife, ETC.
Copytsh y
loor marked Ralph Armitage-

door marked Ralph Armitage-
Private"
Out of the corner Of her eye she
noticed that Emily Andrews was not
at her desk, and she wondered why.
Ralph's desk was covered with
mail. and on her own there were two
envelopes with her name on them.
The one on top was in David's IA
miliar hand.
Hastily dropping the other. she
tore it open and read:
Dear Lynda:
II expect you will be quite as sur
prised to see that I still call sou
dear Lynda, as you will be to get a
letter from me at all. You are very
dear to me, even though ! do not
know the Lynda of today.
/ cannot understand how you
could possibly think that l would
spy upon you under any condition
with any other man.
Lynda, you and have been
through too much together not to
believe in each other now. and !
want to tell you that nothing, nor
no one, could have made me believe
what saw the other night.
IAN my life-ever since could
distinguish living from mere exist
ence-you have been part of 1t,
and I sometimes wonder II 1t were
just egotism on my part to think
that was part of you as you have
been a part OF me.
Lynda, I think the giving up OF
you would not be SO bitter, If it were
an honorable man that was asking
for you: but don't you see that ]
cannot reconcile the girl whom ]
have always held above every other
woman on earth to the humiliation
and grief that will be yours II you
let Ralph Armitage take you and
eventually crush your fragrance and
beauty and throw you away as he
| does the flower in his buttonhole
that he enjoys for the moment"
Lynda dropped the letter on her
desk. She found she was stfll hurt
that David did not believe In her
sincerity. Why could he not under
stand that she was trying to work
it out just the same as he was?
We all long and try for happiness,
and if she found that she could be
happier with Ralph than with David,
why was it not all right for her to
choose?
Then 1t came to her that IL she
chose Ralph. she would have to give
up David. and she could hardly
think of life without David. She had
always told David everything, and
she would have told him about
Ralph II he would have let her. The
more she thought about it. the more
convinced she was that Emily An.
drews had made the trouble between
them. She snatched up the letter
again. She wanted to know If David
mentioned Emily.
Sure enough he did, In the next
paragraph she read:
Il tried to get you at home and al
the office. Emily Andrews told ms
1t would be useless to look for yo,
anywhere but at the hospital, and
could not telephone there so ! am
leaving town without seeing you.
have resigned my position Will
Armitage & Son.
Il expect this is good bye, Lynda
and although write the word Will
the rest. yet 1t means something very
different. Goodbye has such an IT.
revocable ending sound. feel al
though one of us were dead"
There was nothing signed to tn,
letter. Lynda told herself that Davit
had ended 1t as abruptly as he hat
sometimes ended one Of his visit
when their discussions had reache,
a stage when both knew they woul,
never reach an agreement.
, After she had read 1t over again
she lost all inclination to write Da
vid-even to thank him for savinI
her feelings about the check.
She picked up her other letter
listlessly, and found 1t was a rathe
formal note from Mr.. Armita4e ask
! ing her II she would stay in tn