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W?W?PPPwwp?W!!WJ-Pw?lwr-- ? THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE DICK SUGGESTS GOING AWAY Confession CLXV. (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper I Enterprise Association.) Just as we left the Selwins the other night, the Tenney car whipped by us. "Hello, Bill," yelled Dick, and there came an answer back but the car did not slow up. "I should have thought Bill would have stopped and taken us home," Dick grumbled. "I wonder what 'chicken he had in there that he did not want us to see. My heart stood still, for I was al most sure that I had recognized Mol lie before she quickly turned her head. Then I remembered what Mol lie said about "putting Bill Tenney in his place," when I last talked with her, and decided it could not be. Jack dismissed the Tenney epi sode as we took the street car, with the remark: "I've been hoping, dear, that business would pick up so that I would feel justified in buying an automobile, but just now business is 'rotten,' and you know we paid that twenty-five hundred dollars over to Jack." "Don't worry about me, Dick," I said; "I am not dying for a motor, and, besides, I'd rather make Jack and Mary comfortable with the money than have the added luxury of a motor car." "You are a splendid little wife, Madge, and you have been a brick in the way you have shouldered the troubles of my family. I did not think, dear, when I married you that you would need to be any more than friends with them, but with father's sickness, Aunt Mary's bereavement and Mary and Jack's secret marriage, you have had your hands full. You must be tired out Selwin thinks I had better make a long trip to close up some contracts that are hanging fire, and you can go with me if you wish." It came over me all at once that I was tired, very tired, that I would like to get away from -jygryxhing and everybody yes, even my husband for a little while. I wanted an entire change of environment- "I wonder, Dick," I said, "if I might go and visR an old school friend in stead, while you are away. If I go with you we wil both have the trou bles of the family more or less on our mind and we can't help talking about them; besides, I think it is a good thing for husbands and wives to be parted for a little, once in a while, don't you?" Dick's face cleared in a way that made me understand that he did not really want me to go on a business trip with him, but had asked me to do bo because he thought I would like to get awy from everything; that I needed a change, and, like a dutiful husband, he was willing to martyr himself in a good cause. I think perhaps that is lie reason so many trips that husbands and wives make' together are unsuccess ful. The wife Is invited from a sense of duty and accepts for the same rea son. Each would rather have gone some place by himself and herself, and would have returned, with re newed love and content, to the other. "Remember, my lady, you Were the one that suggested leaving me and going your own sweet way," said Dick as he helped me from the car, "and if anytldng (happens that you don't like, you have only yourself to blame.1' ""Dick, I wish you wouldn't make that land of semi-prophesies; It al ways gives me chills down my back. Sometimes when I look about and see all the unhappiness, I think our married life is too good to be true." "Don't you think it, dear heart," he answered; "nothing is too good to be true; it is only the things that are too bad to be false m this world that make it unhveable." (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) MiawMtfttMAAMttMttfAtalitiiteflAiittlMiifltii