Show FICTION MY MISTAKE By Richard H. Wilkinson Luther was very I know how happy and thrilled you are at being Phil is a nice Dear I I ber when Alvin and I were first 3 Fiction I was I I Just the Luther illusions of Dear Beth Franklin tried hard to maintain a role of gracious your illusions Luther laughed and suddenly looked I suppose they For I did have illusions about my just as you have about your And Luther's lips tightened darling my You my is not naturally a woman He was frightfully upset and He promised to do anything if I'd only not leave To this day Dave is He'll do anything I He is humble and and I declare I think I have the best husband in the suppose It was wasn't Luther leaned toward her young my that 1 wish others could benefit by the same Your Phil Is very and Carter Is very She I simply must be Beth sat down at a cupped her chin in her hand and The orchestra swung into a Beside Tom Craig stared out at the Carter is very What had Luther Luther was bitter and disillusioned Poor Dave How dreadful It must be to be constantly under TWO weeks later the Hempton Country Club held its annual spring opening Phil and Beth went with the En Dorothy Craig said your eye on that handsome husband of yours They tell me Gretchen Carter has bought the most seductive Beth She strove for and maintained an attitude of Even later when she saw Gretchen blonde and gorgeous In a filmy gown that was truly she would not admit that what Luther or Dorothy had said was affecting her peace of She danced the first dance with Phil and conscious of Mrs Luther watching her from across the conscious of Dorothy Craig's mischievous she deliberately Ignored her It was quite by accident that toward the middle of the evening she saw Phil slip through the French doors out on to the Or was It Certainly it wasn't accident that sent her eyes sweeping around the room till they found Gretchen And then her heart stood still Gretchen was moving toward the same French The orchestra swung into a Beside Tom Craig she I I've got a headache And she moved Without consciously establishing a she made her way out on to the stood there In the dim Abruptly she saw them two figures silhouetted against the sky a the far end of the terrace standing close Reason left Logic Seized by an uncontrollable conscious only of one desire the desire to wreak vengeance on this woman who had robbed her of her she sped along the cried out In sudden anguish and flung herself toward tho filmy white dress and startled face of As from a great distance she heard a masculine saw a in the dim and suddenly It was as if an icy had engulfed her and was holding her For the face of the man who had been standing with his arm about Gretchen Carter was that of Dave |