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2. Even after Anthony learns he has been tricked into his marriage, Ellen fears he is lost to her and she turns to Michael Forsyth in her loneliness.
wonderful person Ellen is, and he had fallen in love Z ^ fri 7° coun*er-act Millicenfs vicious charges Michael had now induced Ellen to announce their en ' gagement— and so prove to the town that she was not still in love with Anthony and had had no reason to attack Millicent. . . . Ellen had consented, but had asked Michael to wait six months to give them both a chance to be sure. In all this time, Ellen had never told Michael that she returned his love, but she had always hoped that mutual respect and companionship might grow into « deeper emotion-had hoped that Michael might make h*v love him. . . Millicent, determined to block Ellen's chances for happiness— even apart from Anthonv-haH then contacted Monty Fuller, a Chicago columnist who
4. Millicent recovers, but has lost the boby she had hoped would bind Anthony to her. She accuses Ellen of having pushed her, and plots with Anthony's sister Victoria to further discredit Ellen.
3. In an angry visit to Ellen, Millicent falls downstairs. Maria
specialized in unsavory news items. Through him, sh learned that Michael owned a luxurious town house W Chicago which was occupied by a mysterious » ^ Harriet Summers— and that Michael was paying medical expenses for Mrs. Summers' daughter, L°la; a rest home near Chicago. . . . Ellen thought it had w such a gay engagement party that her good friends, Brightons, had given for her and Michael, even thou* Anthony had been suddenly called away, Pres"mtaS,e on a professional emergency. She hadn't known that call had come from Harriet Summers, who then reye to Anthony that Michael had once been engaged to daughter, Lola, and had jilted her just a week after had arrived in Simpsonville. Mrs. Summers told Anm
°nd Ellen, watch as Anthony attends her.
that Lola had collapsed on hearing this news, and the irate mother announced that she had come to Simpsonville to force Michael to return to Chicago and to her daughter. . . . Meanwhile, Ellen had been taunted and insulted by malicious town gossip which whispered that her engagement was only a shield for her carryings-on with Anthony. At last, wounded and desperate at the destruction of her good name, Ellen had announced mat
she would marry Michael right away But now, even
as Ellen took one last look in the mirror at her ««""}* costume, the doubts came crowding in. She was strange y troubled by the woman who, only yesterday had appeared in the tea shop and, introducing herself as rars^ Harriet Summers had shown Ellen a diamond ring wnicn
5. To counteract Millicenfs charges, Michael and Ellen announce their engagement. Ellen's friends, Linnott Brighton and Maria Hawkins, offer congratulations.
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