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EVENINGr PUBLIC IiUDGttSR-PHlLADBtiPHlA, MONDAt, TONE 14 1920
iBS SECOND WIFE
' By ERNEST POOLE
Author of "The Harbor," "ma Family"
Copyright, 1910, by Public Ledger Co.
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.ATiTfl THE BTOJlY
rnl Knight la country bred, IdeaU
JiSautUv unsophisticated, tier
The lnn hCt,t0 T,' 'a
J?th later Amy dies of ptomaine
mnn and Ethel keeps house or
cattle Ethel and Joe marry. She
!n to take voice culture from
yjZV'ight.'' They plan to
rl'nUn in J6e his genlw, at d,at.
Tn nut. faring Dxotght may be too
lire" d m her, she tells htm "to bo
' Zm, tte ." if they are to continue
LZtand hands her some typewritten
Z,s drtaWng her acquaintance with
mmht Ethel defies her to show them
l Joe She iitthH roimVf way of
loaktng at life.
iir.nr, IT CONTINUES
iVnDENLY Ethel's eye was caught by
i . ., ..kninomnh on tho table By
,'1l. in the last few months Joo had
acl to notice It there. But how ho
ToM Wee It now. very soon, as he'd
IZ what Fanny had brought. For
'Amy iwl taughl Joe l0nB a?.
jealous, never too surp of a wife.
1 "so Amy Is here again, after alt I
wonder "hat I shall say to Joe?
Oh rubbish! Use more common sense t
a I've got to do is to mako him see
'., never told him nboiit Dwlght.
twasonly part of that plan I had.
But hat a fool! Oh. what a fool 1
When at last Joe's key was heard in
the door, both women leaned slowly for
ward, as though tho strain were unbear
able And then as Joe enmo Into tho
ball. Fanny said suddenly, sharp and
' "No, I won't keep quiet 1 Joe has got
to be told of this!" Dtnci wnecieu on
lit
"How odious !'
"I can't help It he's my friend I"
And tho next moment with Joo In tho
v,tvi Miwn wero talking to him
at once angrily, Incoherently, almost
holng each other away, uui oniy ior
a moment. It was too disgusting ! Ethel
left off and stood rigid there, while Fan
ny talked on rapidly.
She as speaking of how Ethel had
cut off Joo from Amy's friends. Ethel
heard only bits of this, for it nil seemed
n confuted dnd unreal. But sho noticed
how nervously tired he looked, all keyed
up from his day at the olllco. She re
membered that his partner was out of
town on business, that Joo had been
running the otllco alone "Ho will bo
hard to manage." she thought. He in
terrupted Fanny In a sharp, cxcltablo
"What's It all about?" he asked.
"It's time you saw where you stand,
Joe Lanier Look at this girl. I don t
blame her. Look how young sho is.
and then look at yourself. Here, take
a look at yourself In ' that mirror.
Are ou still young? Can't you sec the
lines, the gray hairs, Joe? They re
coming oh they'ro coming! Can you
supply all the love Bho wants?"
"Fanny?" He snapped out her name
In so ugly a volco that she lost no time.
She shoved those papers Into his hands
and began to tell him what they were
But Joe refused to read thm and grew
each moment angrier,
Joe ' ' cried Fanny sharply. "When
jou brought Dwlght to dinner here, he
met jour wife as though for the rlrsi
time. Did you know they had been
friends for months?" And at his star
red look, she added, "If you didn't, you'd
better lead all this!" There fell a
ludden silence.
I II explain everything vhen wo're
alone " Kthel mnnaged to put In. How
queer and thick her own voice sounded.
Vow Jon had gone into the hall with
Fanny Curtly he said good-night to
her. The door closed, and there was
tllcncp again. Why didn't ho come? Ho
must bo standing there in tho hall try
ing to get hoid of himself Oh, how
terrlblv hurt ho must feel ' But she
checked the sudden lump In her throat.
"Hemcmber now Just common sense?"
This as a time for keeping clear! But
Joo had come back Into tho room, and
passing tho gilt mirror into which Fanny
had told him to look, he stopped a
moment
"Dont do that. Joe I" In an Instant,
In spite of herself, her love for him roso
up in a wave, with fear nnd pity and
anger too Sho camo to him, and her
oWc was shaking. "Oh. Joe Joe!
Can t jou see it's nil lies? It's so loath
tome acry word! And so cheap so
chean and mean !"
As she spoke his eyes were rapidly
Manning the report ho mill Had in his
linnus Again sho noticed how tired he
was He looked up at her:
I know It Is! But why didn't you
treat it like that? Why did you try to
make her keep quiet? Weren't you try
ing when I came In?"
No' No! It was Just her odious trick
her pretending!"
'Pretending? How about you? Why
Jld ou pretend, when I brought Dwlght
nere, that you'd never laid eyes on him
yerore' na,i yoll or ha(in't you? Care-
..i?.ow' Kanny says It Is all here!"
'' "Plain in one word!"
What a the word? Say it, please
and clear this up !"
.Sh.liWa? breathlne hard, frightenod.
Ikf-i ,d ", a. whlrl- 0n- t0 be able to
tense' y US a "tlI mmon
''J,ust minute !" she gasped. "You'll
ee In a. minute "
tyM'Mwh,nrt den11 .U'B r,(fht ln yur
ahnnf Aha,1 airo you lllng so scared
?HnJ m m'what did sho say about my
Uime- J nm "'"-nntl y"'re young.
Cmht An&abea"y Just the kind for
fair' ivP" ' l know of hls l0Ve f-
"if asn t ho been ever since?"
U- careful Joe." sh nH.,i .n.Lii..
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?Ui ln "i" Ulttlon, nerves on edge, he
paid no heed Bnd went rapidly on:
"I'm Just a business man! And
y?, .u.mad. m? feel yur contempt for
all that! And he's a musician, he's dlf
rerent he has exactly what you want I
Ho you went to his studio twice a wcekr
ror months and months without letting
me know although ho was a friend of
mine I And you went to the Rltz nnd
tho opera! And then I brought him
jero to illnol How you two must
veuBm"?d a, cnch other when I
wasn't looking!"
"Joe ! Joe ,f'
"You Med to me, didn't you, when he
came? "V-ou say you'll explain It In n
""Hi1 .y"' what's tho word? I'm
waiting!"
,M7hcro.r ls,n,t.. any !" Hcr fftc WAS
white. "I don't care to explain to you
now!" she cried. He looked at her.
She could see he was trembling, nnd she
nearly changed her mind. But her anger
"Tot tonight p"1 won't!" bought
"Then vnu nnri T .. v. .....
know," he said vory huskily Ho turned
and went Into tho hall, and a moment
later the outer door closed. Ethel sat
.down nnd stared blankly.
"I nctcd like an Idiot!"
h.i8hoBat J.hcr.e Bho. Brew furious with
SSiuf.1 or hnv,ln.B hungled so. Why
i,ftdn..1 f."0 xP'atncd to him? Why
5?iSi SihllBliJ,p y L.ld Mn her plan for
giving him back his friends? All nt
once sho could hear herself saying what
rho should havo said to Joo:
"I may have been wrong about It,
Joe, but I thought the best way to bring
you back to all tho things ou used to
Ioo vraa to let you think you wero
doing It. So I let you and Dwlght come
together alone. I kept In tho back
ground, as I did about getting you Into
that club of yours. I wns afraid to
show my hand." On and on sho talked
to lilm. Oh, how simple nnd convincing,
strong, and sensible and true.
, ",why dldn,t yu say It, you little
fool? ou acted like a scared young
fJjTi ftiumk out ln Uo,lnB something
wrong!" She was ready to cry, but
checked herself. "At least don't be a
baby now. Whnt nrn vnu In lrt nUnttt
ll S!l2 ol1 hcr "P Nw It was loo
late. She had made It worse a hun
dred times! All at once she roso nnd
began to walk. "Oh, rubbish!" she
thought, Impatiently "You're not to give
up, when eveiythlng else In your whole
life was going so perfectly splendidly
Why, of course. That's It. I'H
call up rsourse, and have him come and
explain to Joe how I went to him at tne
very start."
With a swift feeling of relief Ethel
went to tho telephone.
"Mr. Xourso Is out of town."
"Oh, yes. Thank you I'd forgotten
When do you expect him back?"
"Not until tho end of the week "
As Ethel hung up the receiver she
felt a little faint and queer. When Joe
camo back this evening she would have
to face him alone I In vain she ungrlh
told herself that It only needed common
sense. Tho picture of his tired face
nerves all on edge, roso In her mind
Tho way his Joalousy had flared up ! No,
It would not bo easy! She might even
fall with him I At tho thought, a foolish
panto came. Moro walklnt was re
quired. sho heard Susetto begin
ning her supper, and sho went In nnd
sat with tho child. And at tlrst that
worked out very well. Soon she was
smiling and listening to tho ceaseless
chatter of the small girl But suddenly
Ethel exclaimed to herself.
Sho Jumped up In a frightened wa
nnd went into her bedroom. She threw
herself sobbing on tho bed but ln a few
minutes regained control with an effort
and lay there motionless
Tho very best she could hope was to
make Joe half believe her, she thought
And that would mean sho would have to
drop Dwlght and all chanco of meeting
thoso peoplo ho knew. She would live
with a Joe so suspicious that she would
be under his friend, Fanny Carr. "She'l!
be my friend, and bring me In touch
with whatever other peopie sho likes
I'll havo to be nice to them every one
And I'll llvo her life. Amy's life." She
lodkcd nt tho lnrso photograph over on
Joo's chiffonier. "Perhaps nfter nil J
shall bo llko her. How do I know what
she was at my age? As I grow older,
all hemmed In, why not stop caring for
anything else?
''Oh, now do let's be sensible!" With
an impatient movement of her lithe
beautiful figure Ethel was up off the
bed and walking the room" with grim
resolution in her brown eyes. Soon she
was much quieter. She felt the warm
youth within hcr rise. There must bo
a way! So far, so good. But the mo
ment she tried to think what way, again
nt once she was off hcr ground. What
could she do or say to Joo? Her failure
to manago him that afternoon had
shaken her confidence In herself Ethel
wns only twenty-flvo, nnd now she felt
oven younger than that. All at once In
a sickening way hcr courage oozed : she
ieu ntrsoic ignorant ana alone Why
did not Joe come back, she asked. Was
no going to stay away an nlghf And
If ho did, what would It mean? She re
membered what ho had said when he
left: "Then you nnd I are through, you
know." All right, then what was he go
ing to do? "I don't even know how a
man goes about It. If he wants to get a
divorce!" And panlo seized hcr as be
fore. "I can't do this all by myself! I can't
talk to him as I've got to talk not till
I know Just what to say! I bungled It
so! I need sound advlro! 'Oh, for
somebody to help mo!" She thought of
Dwlght, but sho would not go near him'
She loathed the very sight of him now '
Why had not ho told her of thoso othot
nffalrs of his that could rlso ln this way
against herself? Why had ho allowed
her to do thoso few little daring things,
which looked so cheap and disgusting
In the detective's typed report? And be
sides, If sho did want to seo him, could
she, without being watched by some
wretched detective? For the whole town
seemed bristling with detefitlves nnd po
lice. ,And tho city of New York felt
cold As sho lay on her bed, a sudden
gay laugh from a neighboring window
recalled to her mind thnt night long
ago, hcr first In New York, when she
had listened excitedly and thought of all
tho stories here, both Bad and comic.
(CONTINUED TOMORROW )
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DREAMLAND ADVENTURES
NO WORK AND ALL PLAY
By DADDY
BiHii nnn.?,i nV furies Peggy.
"f',,8?1'1' Lonesome Bear and
lair ft,, i' '" 1c'?in- whe"' (hey
th'n Ul'lu hcln ,Pa' tcd- The rug
Plal from ft."". 1 ' t0 the ' of
last ,..i '"r"'0 All thU, was told
o tird and theweek before.)
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Tim Two.ringer Sign
JTAR out at sea the sun shone- on n
ftt Tlu -?" U WflS tha Bh't tho
fcut n t,pft'hrUBh the foaming waters.
nd sorr "niratM ThA? lSnse tnB sor
nd proudii T .. , y,h.al """o boldly
their onivL?.!,'.'''1 falr brides: now
Al?i ithto1" to Bet aw'ay as
tooled b?-ai?eggysTr,khaen "y
Paint the Iaian3er ifA whloh wa.i to
l)y one apwSXd ilck wt,rhy,hJUlce un,U1
t smallpox K 'th the measles
JWud I tahnedwrhi?oa2nc?,1 wlth Jy " they
ftmQti vl,rwlllle sail crniv ymntlAH ....
lrlle8 and tvfi- ,onfl waB happy, the
Pint of "V r lovers belne the hap.
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SEto her.VPifBWLana.Dlly for com
8u'l for bft i n e thther,U,,.ar,keT(1 Joh"ny
ef for aue.inS P,lrate. Lonesome
f",8 Kb?Mhl. carman of"K
"land, although T;?ieiPKc "UK to tho
ly triink. rohhe Po'inS ,dlln1tKdeser?e
hen danger bamB?Uln ,mvo run nwa'
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IF Js.i roc" and hw ,,.-. uT"1,10" l0 h" top
'Ifith the hoy k L 'nfh i, ,,aTnrt' 1,e wa
hand wa rim,5i of, tno Il of Play.
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Prince Uashur
it mo niu to
I ItaViy Sam,
Lonesome Dear and Johnny Dull fol
lowed On tho bench, Gala, the boy klnp,
a (tain save the signal, and the Islanderb
rushed Into the water, aula held up two
fingers to Pegijy and Hilly and motioned
toward tho sen.
Peggy was puMlcd, but nilly laughed
Jt Is the swimming sign," cried Hilly
The bov king wants us to go swim
ming. True enough It was the swim
ming sign the same sign used by boy
In America.
IVhiffa nnd the animals accepted the
iiviiauon to swim, nut Peggy and Hilly
held back. They had no bathing suits
Neither did the Islanders have bathing
nults, but as they were dressed In grasse
and seaweed thoy didn't need any spe
cial clothos for bathing Gala, the boy
king, saw tho trouble of Peggy and Billy
and gave orders to his subjects. The boy
Islanders dragged Billy one way. and the
girl Islnndera dragged Peggy the other
way. , In less time than It takes to tell
the two were dressed In seaweed bath
ing suits, jiiRt like tho Islnndera Then
they plunged Into the surf for a wild
frolic amid the hlg rolling waves.
Peggy and Hilly looked for Astara
and Prince Bashur, but tho lovers had
wandered away by themselves and were
nappy just sitting under j. treo and talk-
The Islanders qulokly wnshed off all
tho beiry stains which had made them
look as If they had spotted plague and
then they wore very tine looking foIkH
Indeed,
When they grew tired of playing In
the surf, thoy lay upon the sand and
nullt sand forts Peggy whh enjoying
herself immensely, .when suddenly she
saw a Btrango creature coming toward
her across the sand It was a giant
turtle, and It looked very fearsome.
Help I" cried Peggy.
Ho, hoi" answered Gala, the bo
king. "I'll show you snort "' and ho
lenpfd upon the back of tho giant turtle
Away waddled the turtle toward the
ocean, giving Gala a flno ride, but It
aB a ride that soon was to lead to
trouble,
(Tomorrow will be told how the
"n' almost runs away ulth the boy
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The young lady across the way
'says.shc considers it a pretty poor
recommendation of n baseball team
to say that it excels on the attack,
and if they can't win without as
saultlng their opponents they'd bet
ter lose.
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