The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-11-28
Married Life
the Second Year
sy MABEL HURBERT URNER.

with eager fingers Helen cut the
string and tore off the wrappings from
4 large box of candy.
How dear of him, He had NOT for
gotten after all.
A layer of Crystalized fruit was on
top She lifted out the pasteboard
tray and underneath was an attractive
assortment of chocolates. Oh. it WAS
dear Of him. And what a big box
surely five pounds! 1t must have been
at least four dOllars-this candy was
never less than eighty cents!
Oh. he shouldn't have sent so much
but Warren did not do anything half
way. If he gave her anything-it was
always something worth while. And
today was the second anniversary Of
their enga cement,
She had determined not to remind
him of it and when he left that morn
ing without the slightest reference to
if, she had gone about her work with
a heavy heart Try as she would,
she could not keep back the sickening
sense of disappointment. That he
could ever forget this day! 1t was
Just two years ago that he had taken
her in his arms with a murmuring
We shall always celebrate this day.
y
because Of this"
And he had NOT forgotten, This
was his remembrance II was like
him not to speak Of it in advance. He
never talked of things-he only did
them.
And now as was her nature when
given the least chance, she began TO
dwell on and exaggerate his every
virtue and minimize his faults Did
not this show he thought Of many
things that she believed he had for
gotten? Perhaps very often in the
same way his thoughts We're full of
love and tenderness OF which he gave
no sign. Perhaps all she had felt
was Indifference was only a lack of
demonstration.
Her heart went out to him in
great wave Of tenderness. Oh, she
would try to understand him better
after this, she would try not to be
hurt at his seeming GOODNESS, but to
remember that deep in his heart he
DID love her-Only she must not ex-
pect him to show it, that was not his
nature.
She started up-she would phone
him, She could not wait until he
came hOme-she must tell him NOW
that the box had come and how happy
she was, and that she felt it had help
ed to make her understand him better
than ever before. JOyfully she went to
the telephone
1925 COurtland.'
WARREN IS OUT
"Hello-I would like to speak to
Mr.. Curtis oh, then you will ask
him to call up Mrs. Curtis as soon as
lie comes in?" She had hardly hung
up the receiver when the door bell
rang. 1t was the elevator boy with a
very worried look on his usual stolid
face
I'm sorry ma am but that package
the other boy brought up little while
agc-that don't belong to you. That
is for Miss Cuttings"
Miss Cuttings Helen gasped.
"Why it was addressed to me-"
mo, ma'am. it weren't. Might have
been wrote badly. but it belongs to
Miss Cuttings. She gets box like
that every few days. The other boy
didn't know"
Helen's cheeks were crimson as she
went over to the waste basket and
took out the wrapping paper that had
come around the box. The address
was no more than penciled scrawl.
But it is Mrs. Curtis, don't you
see handing it to the boy.
mo. ma'am. it is Miss NJ. Cuttings
that's her name"
With a sick weight on her heart, Hell
en- realized the boy was right. Now
that she looked at it closely it WAS
Miss NJ. Cuttings"
But | have opened the box-I have
eaten some OF the candy! What shall
do"
Just have to say that it was open
ed by mistake, reckon"
Helen brought out the box.
Just spread it out a bit and tie
it up and she'll never know nothing"
oh. but she will know by the rib
bon and broken seal-yOu will HAVE
TO tell her"
The boy looked sullenly obstinate
Then I will have to take it up to
her myself ought to anyway. I
suppose I should have looked at the
address before | opened it."
Yes, ma'am, you should" agreed
the boy, anxious to shift the blame
Helen rewrapped the box in the pa
per and followed the boy to the ele-
vator What floor is Miss Cuttings
on"
Ninth floor. ma am"
When she rang the bell of the ninth
floor she was not as embarrassed or
so conscious as she would have been
fhad not the weight Of her own disap-
pointment dulled her to any Their feel
ing.
The door was opened by an attraC-
tive young woman IN a dainty house
gown.
II am Mrs. Curtis, from the fifth
floor. They brought me this pack