Arthur Hackett
Arthur Hackett works for a big publishing firm in Philadelphia and was Ruby Glenn's love affair. She describes him as “awfully handsome and as clever and sarcastic as anything.”1 Arthur “bewitched”2 Ruby with his charms by providing her with novels, magazines and stories of New York's society life. After he had won her heart it was easy for him to lull her away from her boring life in Hinksville.
After they enjoyed four adventurous months, Arthur grows tired of Ruby and reveals his true character, by vanishing one day leaving nothing behind but a fifty-dollar bill and a note. The note said: “No use coming after me; I'm married.”3 After all this time he didn't even have the guts to tell her in person that he was actually married. He never contacted Ruby again.