The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-23
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II doubt if I could"
Everybody says he's crazy about
you. Hes : peach. I met him the
day you left Palm Beach>xe gok
to talking. Then I saw him i few
times in New York. Really, ! could
love him # I weren't 20 in love with
Jimmie"
Patricia pondered this. Strange
Jack had never told her about
meeting Mrs. BROMLEY. OF course
her name had never come up. ).
But there was something very dis
agreeable about the idea that the
woman had met both Jack and
Jimmie in Palm Beach, and h . d
seen both in New York. OF course
people talked At resorts; but unless
they were friends they 50 rarely
met again.
Il must rum" she said. '41'll be
late for my lesson. Be back about
four. You can stick around and
read or do whatever you like il you
don't feel like getting out"
She ran ont, her mind troubled
BY the problems Of the woman she
should have hated; but somehow
lik = d. Something in the softness,
the very helplessness Of Myra
BROMLEY appealed to the sturdi-
ness Of Patricia. I can zee Why
Jimmie cares for her. \. And I can
see too, Why men loved women Of
the olden times more easily an d
tenderly than they love rs. !.
She really il in an awful fix. /.
And 80 10 he. Well, I'm the one to
get out.
Having settled this question, .
sense Of youthful heroism swept
her. She felt she was doing .
rather fine thing In stepping out
for another woman when she knew
the winning cards were in her
hands. For the first time III . year,
her conduct impressed her. She had
loved Jimmie 50 long; waited 90
patiently; yet she was deliberately
determined to give him up for an
other woman; because that other
needed him more.
She sent OF . wire to Jimmie, IN
care Of his London bankers, say
ing: Mrs. B. needs you. I don't.
Goodbye"
Maybe III back out, she kept
thinking that night q she fen
asleep. I'm feeling great now, but
when ! cool OF I'm going to suffer
horribly. =
The following day her b heroic
world collapsed.
II began around eleven o'clock
when Mr.. Braithwait received q
phone call from Pamela. She had
arrived The previous evening and
wanted him to have lupch With her.
She inquired about Patricia, but
did not ask her to come along, nor
to ths phons. Pamela wanted his Id
WeN about somstAine. Mr.. Braith-
wait didn't know Whist Patricia felt
- Il she had rsesiytd . blow.
Accepting at first Pamsla's word
for Il that she WAS disillusioned
and bored. Patricia had In the be-
ginning dismissed all thought Of
Pamela's reaction Or feeling In the
matter between herself and Jim
ME. But Jimmie's talk In the Re-
gence had rsvsalsd many thixgs. . .
First, that b loved his wiz .
thing that had not once occurred
70 Patricia. His fancy for her she
had taken tor love. She now saw.
% she had told krs. Btownley.
that love includes something more
than that. She had been greatly
shocked By hts ENHANCEMENT With
another woman" while he sup
posedly loved her ~ and also she
saw that. loving Aunt PA m, but
slightly estrangsd from her, It was
quite within the possibilities that
she herself hsd represented but a
ENHANCEMENT with another vo-
man.
What be had told her about IL
closed. but uhloekod door, sheveA
that Aunt Fam had not lceked
upon The closing q that dor 8
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