White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-08-22
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day."
"Then you like capricIous women"
said Linda thoughtfully.
If he did he had ample opportunity
to prove 1t in the whirlwind month
that followed, for Linda never knew
until the day after she married him
whether she cared or not.
Courtney Roth was high-headed,
reddish faced man with the sort Of
staring gray eyes that are always look
ing over peoples heads in search of
something farther a6eld. He was
wanted to be there. If he had this
he wanted that, not through fretful.
ness or greed but because of an uncon-
querable appetite for life. He wanted
to see everything, to have everything
and he was in hurry about getting
both. Such tastes are expensive.
His restless expansiveness fed and
encouraged something that might have
lain dormant in Linda If she had mar
ried another man. With Courtney
Roth train of venturesomeness was
lighted in her that was to burn to a
brilliant flare until that part Of her
that was his was consumed
Even with this attraction 1t might
not have happened but for Mrs. Rails
toms fmpatience. She could not for
get the senator.
You must be sure, my DEAR" she
warned the girl. "With your beauty
you ought to go far And. remember,
it is all the same after you have been
married six weeks. Courtney is a
charming person. but the senator has
been wonderful friend. Your posi-
tion in Washington would be superb"
Linda looked at her with dilating
eyes, 1t was not the first time that
the senator had been suggested to her
as other than her fathers friend, and
each time something within her grew
colder and shuddered with deeper
aversion and strange precedence
that unless she was careful and quick
like bird in the grass-this thing
might happen to her. Measured by
Converse, Courtney Roth became splen-
did and desirable. She did not con-
slider love, but only safety and the
certainty that now she could afford to
forget the other man to whom she
seemed to owe some vast and incom-
prehensible debt.
But even after the engagement they
spoke far less of love than of plans
for covering ground during the honey
moon. They were going around the
world, but Roth was worried about
missing the winter sports in Switzer-
land.
IF we were married six weeks
sooner, we could Top off enough mile
age to get us there in time" he said
anXiously.
Linda laughed, but her color came
and went. She was amused more than
offended that his reason for hurrying
the wedding was not herself but pair
of skis
We'll see what Cousin Amy says"
Cousin Amy was not averse to an
early wedding, but she wanted to
know several things.
HAS he money, Linda dear? OF
course. there must be some but is
there enough? 1t takes such a lot to
live as he does, ah-er-s Suffering
about the world. and two of you would
be rather frightful.'
Linda shrugged. She was only
twenty. but the world has fallen in
a way of treating girls Of twenty as
if they had the wisdom of their grand
mothers. Linda had thought so much
about money that she had begun to
take her luck seriously Money al
ways came. There had been a bad
time after her fathers death, but that
WAS bridged by the clever financing
ut the stock certificates. She was SO
certain she was on safe ground that
she neglected to go into the matter
thoroughly with her fance. So Linda.
hard bitten with the virus of change.
consented to hurry the troussean and.
therefore. please her lover nightly.
Courtney Roth was in love with her
as he would be with woman. He
was always trying effects with her
notwithstanding 1t from different
angles.
you need pearls" he said one day,
and soon after brought her an ex-
quisite strand Linda stood perfectly
still while he druped the tenderly beau
tiful fearful circlet upon her smooth
neck She had never dreamed of own
ing such pearls but once they nestled
against her flesh she felt perfectly at
home with them.
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