Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-15
B~IlANKETING OF
MRS. WORTHINGTON
BY S. E. K1sER.

What's the trouble" he asked.
II hope you won't think I'm extrav.
agant, and | know 1t is so hard for
you to scrape up money enough to pay
the horrid bills that always come along
about tn, irst of the month, but |
simply must have $40"
"T~went--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 $63 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 500 for?'
'Oh, mind, old Mr.. Crosspatch.
I'll get along without it some way.
l know that I'm not worth half what
l cost you, and-and I'm going to take
up steography or music or be a Chris
tian Science healer or something, so
that l will be able to earn money and
and not always be such an expense
to you. 1t must be ju-just terrible
for a 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 if |
could pile bundles Of money at your
feet every morning and give you the
privilege Of doing what you liked with
1t. But really you know, l didn't
expect to be called on for any more ex-
tras for a 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"
"Oh II there are to be any butts
please don't say anything more about
it. | appreciate your kindness, dear,
and l 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, I'll get along with
out it. l will show you that l can be
UTdNG, GNGu IL 1 dLu IQcISly q uoViCoS CA
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 l remember that little old $40
and the look you rave me as you told
me you'd get along without it. In my
- ~ dBc avn 7 oop n r, wee ole calmly cmpE-
ing my cigar after lunch and thinking,
as l watch the rings curl upward, of you
here, radiantly happy because of your
noble sacrifice. Oh, yesi But come on,
dear, let's not quarrel over a little
money. OF course you can have it. What
am I 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 1t 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 I 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 thar
| do il 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 TO
get a check cashed?"
Here it is. What are you going to
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-"
81 can't see why you should feel that
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 you
see, il / don't take her Mrs. Worthing-
ton, who is crazy to get her, will have
her over there and find Jul about all the
things I've had remade and the lace rem
nants notwithstanding, you
know"
well, but why should you care, rs
long as your clothes fit we'll and look
fine and are just as good as If they had
cost five or six times as much as they
did,"
ooh, dear!" she sighed, as she sat
there clutching the money, after he had
gone. 81 wonder how men, being so
stupid, ever manage to get along at ALP"
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