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oid when his -wife is gone, even if he
does not appreciate her when she is
there."
I was afraid he would notice with
"what absorbing, thirsting stare I de
voured him. I wanted him so.
But he seemed to be quite as ab
sorbed in looking at me.
"Haven't you gotten your hair fixed
differently?" he asked as he held me
off and lopked at me. "You are such
a golden, almost uncanny sprite with
it flittering and flaming about your
face."
"Dick, you've mussed it up your
self, you great big, teasing boy to
muss my hair up and then tell me I
look uncanny."
He stopped my words with kisses
and then said, "Stop, tell me the
truth, breast to breast, heart to heart,
life to life, are you really glad to see
me? Do you still love me, even when
I am a brute to you? Did you want
me, even wh,en you ran away from
me? Oh, Margie, that great big, beau
tiful house of Harry's was hell when,
you were away."
"But you didn't feel that way, dear,
When I was with Kitty and Eliene?"
"No, of course not. Then I knew
you were away, but I was sure you
still loved me. Honestly, Margie, I
have suffered worse these last two
days than I did when they told me you
would probably be crippled for life,
for then I knew that I still had you
and could in some way make up for
your lameness. That would not mat
ter to me. But for the last two days
I have suffered the torments of the
damned, because I was sure that I had
been so mean to you that you had
ceased to love me.
"Margie, dear, I'm going to 'fess
up.' I was not out of town at all. I
left you that day furious with you and
myself. I felt that life was not worth
living. When I got downtown I met
Bill Tenney and he said, 'What do you
say to a little game of cards tonight?'
I thought it would be a good thing to
leave you alone, and it was then that
I telephoned that I was going out of
town. But I could not play cards for
thinking of our quarrel and wonder
ing if yQu were as angry at .me as
I had been at you, and I lost $300.
Then I realized what a blame fool I
was, but I felt that I must get some
of that money back, as I did not have
a cent and I was ashamed to tell you
that, even with no board to pay, I
had spent our entire income for a
month on one evening's poker game.
The next night I won back $250, so
I am only $50 to the bad. So I'll
take my medicine and look as pleas
ant as possible.
Po
'oor Dick, he is learning that it
does not take as much courage to pay
the piper as it does to grin while one
is doing it, and he does not realize
that I, too, though perfectly innocent,
will have to take some of that bitter
medicine.
I know I ought to have scolded him,
for I hardly know what we are going
to do. We are so awfully in debt, and
I haven't spent any money at all for
the last two months. But I don't think
it does any good to get into a xow
with your husband over spilt milk.
It only makes matters worse and you
unhappy. I can't quarrel with Dick
when he comes and tells me his sor
row. I wonder, though, if he is going
to give me his salary next month to
pay the bills? Unless he does I know
he will always be in hot water. But
even in hot water with Dick is better
than in cold water without him.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
SCIENCE REVERSED
There were wails and a loud call
for help.
Passer-By What's the fuss in the
school yard, boy?
The Boy Why, the doctor has just
been around examining us, an' one of
the deficient boys is knockin' the
everlasting stuffln's out of a perfect
kid!
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To have a woman always agree
with you before you have married her
is a bore afterward it's a miractet-
