Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-12-08
BLANKETING OF
MRS. WORTHINGTON
BY s. E. KISER.
Robert" said Mrs. Faddlewaite, 81

II hope you won't think I'm extrav-
agant, and | know it is so hard for
you to scrape up money enough to pay
the horrid bills that always come along
about the first of the month, but |
simply must have 500"
'"Twent-say, Mabel, what do you
think l am-the son-in-law of some
life insurance president? You might
as well ask me for twenty million. Do
you know that our expenses for last
month were 500 more than my sal
airy? If you are acquainted with any
body who can tell me how to make
ends meet when things are going that
way bring them around and I'll pay
him well for his time. What do you
want $40 for?'
"Oh, never mind, old Mr.. Crosspatch.
I'll get along without it some way.
| know that I'm not worth half what
l cost you, and-and I'm going to take
up steOgraphy or music or be Chris
tian Science healer or something, so
that | will be able to earn money and
and not always be such an expense
to you. 1t must be ju-just terrible
for man to have to give up every
thing for a woman he doesn't love,
when he might have so much If he had
never married her. and"
There lite girl what's the use of
talking that way? You know I'd be
| the happiest man in the world II
could pile bundles of money at your
7 feet every morning and give you the
privilege of doing what you liked with
it. But really you know, l didn't
expect to be called on for any more ex-
tras for few weeks and had it all
! figured out so that I'd be just about
able to start in even next month. Of
course l can give you the money If
you absolutely need it but"
ooh if there are to be any butts
please don't say anything more about
it, | appreciate your kindness, dear,
and | know that you have a generous
nature. and it must be awful selfish of
me to leave you to practice all the self
denial. Never mind, III get along with
out it. will show you that l can be
brave, even if am merely useless ex-
pense to you"
"Hurrah! Now it's be so pleasant
for me to go away to work and keep
thinking all day of our joyful parting.
Just imagine me whistling gayly at my
desk as | remember that little old 500
and the look you gave me as you told
me you'd get along without it. In my
minds eye can see myself calmly smOk-
ing my cigar after lunch and thinking,
oc 7 toh ~ RI ny, orI #
here, radiantly happy because of your
noble sacrifice. Oh, yes! But come on,
dear, let's not quarrel over a little
money. OF course you can have it. What
am | earning money for if it isn't to
give you happiness? And please don't
talk any more about doing things for
the purpose of earning cash yourself
You earn it as it is Your love is worth
a thousand times what
Dearest" she cried. pulling his face
down to hers. forgive me for saying
what did. You know appreciate your
generosity, don't you? All, if you could
only know how long the hours seem
when you are not with me! And
couldn't love or admire you more than
do If you were so rich that you could
buy everything John d. has and turn
him out of house and home. Have you
the money with you or shall have 70
get a check cashed?"
Here it is. What are you going tC
buy?"
why, you see, heard from Miss
Westcott the dressmaker, yesterday
and she can come to me three days this
week, so | shall have to get something
for her to make up
But thought you said the other day
that you had all the clothes you were
going to need for awhile?"
yes. I have only Miss Westcott has
these three days that she can give me-"
Il can't see why you should feel thai
you are obliged to hire her simply be
cause she has three days for which she
isn't engaged"
I'm not, you dear old goose. but vol
see, if | don't take her Mrs. Worthing
ton, who is crazy to get her, will have
her over there and find out about all the
things I've had remade and the lace rem
nants -and-everything, you
know"
We'll, hut why should you care, al
long as your clothes fit we'll and lool
fine and are just as good as if they haC
cost five or six times as much as the!
did?"
"Oh, dear!" she sighed, as she sa
there clutching the money, after he haC
gone 81 wonder how men, being 81
stupid, ever manage to get along at all 2
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