Show II B By a R Ruth Woman Agnes Abeling ctt I I I I I I I I I I I I APPROACH Tim FIlE PARTY WITH And then then then-In In the fall Grace Continued continued continued con con- her story Tom came again agalI and once more took me rae away Ho lIe brought me here here and and that Miss Sorensen is the end of the story so far tar as Tom and ana andI anaI I are concerned How queer I thought Tom thought Tom has madeI made this thi the haven of or two girls for tor whom he in feared I didn't much like this the Idea of having been directed to the same place to which lie he had had directed directed d a a. girl who had come como u up as Grace had hadj yet I had to confess that tl the thought was unworthy Why shouldn't Tom have been as considerate considerate con con- of ot Grace as of me weren't me-weren't weren't we each a woman trying to find ourselves In a world which had r for r us gone awry Grace was speaking again There Is Just one more thing I want wantI to say say say-in y in regard t to err Tom Tom that that will you than than a athIng count u more e to you you- perhaps anything anything any any- thing else I waited halt half fearfully tearfully There are men men Grace was speaking whom though they so go O dangerously dangerously- eoff near to t the flame come m out Is one of ot them We Wo often otten think that men every man likes to wade In the mire and that there is never any regret for a past past past- I but were we're wrong there Miss Mias Sorensen Goodness is sexless In all of the time that I was dependIng depending depending depend depend- ing on Tom Bradford Bradord not once did he hellas 1 Mss me and me-and and 1 I soon learned to not expect expect ex ox- poet any lIuch such thing from him So this was Tom Tom the the Tom who had I offered himself to me I felt as I lIst listened lis lIs- t ned to Grace Cameron that perhaps I 1 thrown lifes life's for what for had away gold what Vaguely I 1 wondered Just what I was traveling toward I couldn't exactly tell The rho thought disturbed me You have hava been very frank I said and very brave It isn't often otten that we have courage enough to face ourselves as you s seem em to do I couldn't help admiring the girlAnd girlAnd girlAnd girl And I row now UW its it's all arranged that tat you are re going to tc stay and go on as f it there had never been a note from Tom I I questioned Yes Yea she sno smiled We are partying hero tomorrow night night did did you know that I asked Hope nothing dreadful happens to spoil It she laughed as She closed the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of ot her room behind me How like a woman I thought as 1 walked toward my room room hoping hoping be before before be be- fore the catastrophe came that It wouldn't happen Women are born trouble trouble trouble trou trou- ble borrowers ButI suppose that is natures nature's way of ot evening things up Men wouldn't trouble trouble trouble trou trou- ble a bit beforehand and would spend very little W time i In regret afterward so r d da so probably b that h Is why 1 feminine I f folk f have havea a talent for borrowing trouble I 1 rather dreaded the party myself On the guest list were familiar names names that worried me not a a. little I wondered how I could go through with It It would be like taking part in a play and probably a very stupid one There had been a time when I lived In InI anticipation of Just suen sunn things as Mrs Ames' Ames dinner party How conditions I change I 1 had dropped down on the seat by mv window to rest for fur awhile I was almost asleep when I 1 heard the knob of my bedroom door move and I 1 remembered remembered bored that It was not locked To be bo continued Copyright 1921 by Newspaper Enterprise |