The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-09-23
CHAPTER FORTY.FOUR

! "You said one day, you thought
Jimmie loved his wife," observed
Mrs. BROMLEY Is Patricia sliced
some tomatoes. "Why do you think
he loves her? They haven't lived
together in . year"
mo, and that's the reason for
you," said Patricia brutality. 1.-THE
only reason. It's also the reason
for me-" she added. ''They were
living together when I came on the
scene. But they were at one Of those
impasses that married folks seem
to reach at one time or another;
resentful toward each other, proud,
avoiding explanation that might
have brought understanding, and
generally disseminated"
"But he told me-" gasped Mrs.
BROMLEY. "that there was nothing
between you and him."
There wasn't. And because
there wasn't he probably imagines
he still wants me. It's m awful
muddle."
Mrs. Bfownley made pictures on
the tablecloth with > fork. "You
really are rather bitter. Have you
ceased to care for him."
mo. And I'm not bitter toward
him. couldn't be. ! can see his
side Of it too clearly. ! feel more
CORY for him-a great deal more
than do for myself. And feel
sorry for you. And for Aunt Pam.
don't know which Of you il the
more to be pitied."
"Well, Of course, I'm in the worst
fix. She has an Independent for
tune Of her own, and he'll settle .
large sum on her. have nothing
but the dividends he makes for me
on the stock market. Apd naturally
II we break up. that would stop.
And I wont trust my little princi-
pal in anybody else's hands"
In . flash, Patricia saw the an
swer to several things that had
pricked 1t her mind. For Ill that
Mrs. BROMLEY talked Of having 20
little, she had lived two months ct
the Edouard VII, at seven dollars
= day; and though she said she
didn't care for clothes and had only
one or two good things, Patricia
had discovered she had . great
many good things.
That Jimmie must be furnishing
the money seemed certain: vet Mrs.
Brownley was not the type to take
money from . man. Jimmie had got
ten around this difficulty simply BY
taking her small capital and pre-
tending to gamble with It In Wall
Street, thus enabling him to give
her lavish dividends"
Patricia wondered that the NO
man never thought Of this hsrseH.
Perhaps It had been she who had
thought Of It first, and put the idea
In Jimmie1 mind, thus saving her
from lowering herself In his esteem.
and at the same time accepting I'll
he could give her-Oh. mol must
have . nasty Suspicious mind - Il
was his idea, Of courss-and she's
exactly the type who would never
give It . thought.
"In the circumstances" said Pa
tricia, maybe Jimmie could win
some money for YOU"
n don't want him to win Il for
me, unless" she choked, went on,
s.unless- he is mine. ! thought be
was. Now ! see he isn't-and ! don't
know what to do about my life.
You're lucky in every way. You
have your work-somsthing to look
forward to Il you don't want to
marry. And IL you do want "a
marry, you have Jack, young, good
looking, rich. For me . blank - II
I lose Jimmie" She blinked back
the tears and smiled. sDon't bother
about me. ! don't often do this.
Sometimes it gets the best Of me
though, when ] think Of the fu-
turs."
II haven't Jaek." said Patricia.
sHe's gone"
why don't you set him baekl'