Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 169, 27 May 1921 — Page 5

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The Girl Who Had No Chance By MARION RUBINCAM

Chapter 77. THE STORY. The cigarette lighted, he leaned back. He had told her part of the story once. Now he told the wholo thing again, with much more detail. "She was so pretty, so unbelieveably soft and pretty." he repeated several times. "Her hair was fluffy and soft and gold. Her skin was soft when I kissed her cheek. She wore soft looking little dresses that always seemed

Ruth looked up quickly. For an instant she did not entirely comprehend what he had said. She had stumbled in trying to reply and said only sounds that made no words. "But you aren't in love with me!" She managed finally, and her astonishment was genuine. "I think I am." It was the most impersonal way to tell that to a woman, she thought long aferwards. It was so mater of

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them rags. Her bands were the soft- fact-it was so lacking in sentiment

est, smallest hands, the most incap- Yet her heart jumped but what girl's able looking hands any woman ever doesn't when a man, any man, says

possessed."

Ruth looked at her own unconsciously. She knew she should keep her nails better. Her hands were not large, but to her they seemed hopelessly competent, and anything but pretty. Langley followed her glance, and broke into his story. "Your hands have character, Ruth.

Hers hadn't but I didn't know that. And I thought her heart was as soft and sweet as her appearance." He went on. He told about the rainy afternoon when they were out under one umbrella, and how, as they took shelter in a doorway to escape a sudden heavier downpour, he had told her he loved her and asked her to marry him. He went on through the weeks of the engagement the first quarrel because he could afford only a tiny engagement ring, the reconciliation and weeks when he vas happy, the sudden disappearance "to visit her sister in Chicago," the letters, charming at first, infrequent later, and the final, sudden, brief note that announced that she had married, as she put it, "a man who at lease knows how to make money." "Sow you are making a lot." Ruth said when he had finished. "You say it will come to $20,000 this year anil you own a lot of our new city bonds You said you were going to Chicago and make her leave her husband " "I know I said that once. It was a spirit of revenge. I have always wanted to make a fortune from ths moment she left me. First, I wanted to go where she was and spend more money than she could. Then I wanted to take along a very beautiful wife, to show her I didn't care and make her jealous and envious. Then sometimes my old love would come back and I'd want to go there just for her that must have been when I said I was going to make her get a divorce and marry me. Now ' "Now I haven't any feeling about her one way or the other. In fact, I don't care whether I see her or not. It is a matter of indifference. I knownow that we would have been miserable tied to each other, for there was not the first bit of friendship between us. You taught me that." "Taught you what?" "That friendship has to come before love." "Why, yes, we have been wonderful friends, haven't we?" Ruth said it without thinking that might mean more than that they had been good friends. "It has to be a part of love. I think the largest part. I think it is the largest part of my love for you."

he loves her? "But " "I said I think I am. I know I am. I have forgotten the other love affair. That other woman doesn't even exist for me. You have been so fine ana so brave; you have calmly looked in the face of difficulties, you have showed a man's courage, and a man's capacity. You have made this town the very thing we are growing rich on now is based on your idea " "Which you have been carrying out. I only helped, once it was started," she protested. He got up from the couch and came

towards her. She drew back a little i in the chair, looking up at him. "Wait, wait, please," she begged. He stopped, and took the hand she held up in protest "No," she shook her head, and pulled her hand away. "Please go back and sit down. I want to talk now too." "I don't know what you are going to say. I am afraid I don't know, it's something in your face I'm afraid you are going to say you love me " she began. "I have already "

"Don't! Wait, please. I don't want you to say that. I love you, yes. but I love ' you because you have been such a dear friend you have been so sweet to me. We have driven around the country here, we have sat here evenings and read together, we have walked over every road and field for miles, we have climbed around those factories and houses they arc putting up, and we have spent evenings going over blue prints and plans. We have built a city, a bea" tiful, healthy city, you and I. Wr have worked to bring good things tthis town, parks, concerts, social life I never knew anyone, man or won' an, could be so good a friend as yo have been." She paused a moment. Tomorrow The Journey.

DENBY TO INSPECT NAVAL WORKS ON PACIFIC COAST WASHINGTON, May 27. Secretary Denby is planning to make a tour of inspection of the naval establishment on the Pacific coast, he said today He expects to leave Washington lato

Jin July and spend several weeks in

the west. If time permits, he will inspect the Pacific fleet and also go to Honolulu to look over the navy's extensive establishment there.

serious injury Thursday when he fell from the top of a cattle barn at the home of Harry Montgomery. The lad landed on a cement floor and was knocked unconscious. An examination by physicians showed that no bones were broken, and he was injured only slightly about the head and shoulders.

35-FOOT FALL FAILS TO BREAK BOY'S BONES LINDEN, Ind., May 27. Paul Green burg, 12 years old, son of Mont Greenburg, miraculously escaped death or i

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Whether you want it for gifts or for your own home, you will find some wonderful values in Cut Glass at this store. Our stock is the largest and finest in this city, and our prices you'll find to be most reasonable.

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Flowers for Memorial Day We Have Large Quantities of Beautiful Flowers in All the Leading Kinds

OUR LEADER Bunch of Assorted Flowers

$1.50

fllllf SITs- ;;8g - -: BLOOMING PLANTS Geranium Plants, in bloom 25c each Large Geranium Plants 50c to $2.00 each Salvia Plants, in bloom 25c and 50c each And Many Other Plants and Flowers

Our Store Will be Open Saturday evening until 10 o'clock Sunday until 4 p. m. Monday until 11 a. m. Deliveries Sunday morning and Monday morning

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Phoenix Silk Vest Week-end Special $1.98

Specials for Decoration Day Saturday will mark the one big day of our Month End Sale. Specials in every department for this sale and Decoration Day. Vast assortments of new Summer Wash Frocks and Sport Garments for immediate and Summer wear.

Wash Dresses The styles and materials of our Wash Dresses far surpass any we have ever offered $3.98 $7.98 $10.98 and up Silk Dresses Advance Fall models, presenting all the latest styles, and especially priced for 3 days $15.00 $19.75 $25.00

FINAL CLEARANCE ON ALL COATS AND SUITS Suits and Coats, the choicest of the season, just purchased on our last trip to New York, are all included in this Month End Sale.

Suits worth $ 50.00 for $25.00 Suits worth $100.00 for $39.75

Coats worth $25.00 for $15.00 Coats worth $50.00 for $25.00

SPORT WAISTS New colored Sport Waists, newcollar effects, such as Buster Brown, Peggy, Tuxedo and Jabo effect; all new colors of the season $1.98 $2.98 $3.98

SPORT SKIRTS Featuring for month end one group of All-Wool Plaid Skirts in all combinations, to wear with Silk Sweaters. All new models; values up j

NEW SPORT WEAR Suitable for Decoration Day; plain and Blazer striped; Flannel Shirts, Suits and separate Coats. Moderately priced $9.75 to $21.75

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The Values at Romey's are Trustworthy SPECIAL VALUES FOR SATURDAY Downstair Bargains in Household Economies

Good quality Porcelain Tables, all white, only $7.65 Big Jumbo Basins. 27 inches in diameter, on sale at 98c 42-piece China Dishes, priced at $14.95 Squaie Aluminum Roasters. 98c Round Aluminum Roasters . .98c 7-piece Porcelain Bride Sets at $12.48 Hygena Carpet Sweepers to go a I $2.98 3-in-l Lipped Sauce Pans, Aluminum, at 98c

Complete Aluminum Sets to be sold at $11.95 Baskets, all kinds 79c up Furniture Polish 25c, 40c Magic Covers 9Sc Mechanical Egg Beater3 to bo sold at 60s A good Spatula for 20c Aluminum Measuring Cups to be sold for 15c Egg Beaters 15c 1-cup Sifters 20c Strainers 29c

Odd Dressers This May Sale enables you to buy that Odd Dresser at a very low and satisfactory price. Imagine buying a solid oak, lifetime-constructed, high-finished CO"! 77. Dresser at ?)w J 4 O Many Others Priced Down in Same Proportion Second Floor Gas Ranges and Combination Stoves We can give you real values in straight (Estate) Gas Ranges or Combination Coal and Gas. See this line before deciding. Buy your Gas Range here. Cash or deferred payments.

Baby Cabs and Carriages Delightful Cabs, both large and small, for baby, priced down as low as $11.50, $16, $18, $24, etc.

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Specials in Footwear for Decoration: Day

We arc offering a large showing of the late style footwear for ladies at the very low price of

Brown Kid Oxford, Cuban heel $5.00 Growing Girls' Oxford, brown calf, military heel, wing tip $5.00

Brown Kid Pump, crossstrap, Cuban heel . . $5.00 Brown Kid Slipper, twobuckle, one-strap, Cuban, heel, all widths $5.0O

Attractive Styles in White Canvas Sport Oxfords Trimmed with brown Q PCf leather, Cuban heel. . . J)0OU

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PICNIC TIME IS HERE, with Mother Nature smiling on you at every turn ! Put on your old grey bonnet, tell Dad to fill the themos, chuck a bit to eat in the basket, and we'ro off! PICNIC BASKET REMINDERS

Boiled Ham Cooked Tenderloin Goose Liver Sausage Fresh Potato Chips Brick Cheese Neufchatel Cheese Pimento Cheese Shelled Pecans Shelled Peanuts Picnic Plates Olives all kinds 1000 Island Dressing Sardines all kinds Cliuuot Club Ginger Ale White Rock Water Canned Baked Beans Special Tea for Iceing Catawba Grape Juice Fish Paste Marsbmallows Lime Juice. Ripe Salad Tomatoes Lemonade Straws Fresh Cottage Cheese

Baked Ham Cooked Lunch Tongue Minced Ham Swiss Cheese Limburger Cheese Camambert Cheese F-ouquefort Cheese Shelled English Walnuts Shelled Almonds Drinking Cups Pickles all kinds Salad Dressing Russian Dressing Appolonaries Water Rasbo Fruit Juice Fresh Fruits all kinds lxgan berry Juice Concord Grape Juice Ripe Olives Instantaneous Coffee Fresh Limes Wafers all kinds Jams. Preserves and Jellies Frejgh Shrimp for salads

SPECIAL Double Holiday Feature Our store will be closed Monday, Decoration Day, and a two-day food supply will necessarily be required on Saturday. Let us make a suggestion. BUY A LITTLE PIG HAM Bake or boil the whole ham and be prepared. We have 100 of these 8-lb. hams just in. Special, per lb 38 We will sell you a half ham at the same price. CANNED FRUIT SPECIALS California Yellow Cling Peaches, in gallon size. ftQs regular $1.20 price; special while they lasi-. can. . JUs

3 Cans

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Canned Hawaiian Sliced Pineapple Canned California Syrup Apricots Canned California Syrup Peaches

(Large No. ZVz size, regular 65c cans; dcuen cans. $3.79) Jumbo, Salted, Shelled, Fresh-Roasted Peanuts, lb. .29 (Sold regularly at 60c pound)

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