The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-05

ishlnent. Does Warren know of this?'
mo"
HELEN TELLS ALL.
Then why have you done such
thing?H
For the eight dollars she pays me.
Warren has complained of the expense
while he's been away. and | want to
reduce them
But why by taking a roomer! No
one in our family has ever rented
rooms. He'll be furious when he
knows
He'll not know unless you tell him.
I never shall And Mrs. Morrison will
give the room up before he returns"
Well | certainly shall tell him, It's
my duty to tell him. Why, I'm surpris-
ed, Helen. that YOU should do thing
like this while Warren'S aWay-WitA-
out letting any 4t us know. And who.
is this woman that you're taking into
your home? DO you know anything
about her? DO you know shO she is?
She's the buyer of millinery at
IS stifly.
well she doesn't look like the kind
of woman for you to have here Now
Warren should know of this, and know
of it at once. And if you won't tell
him shall have to-"
Very we'll. you may. But it doesn't
matter what anyone says-I shall
keep Mrs. Morrison until Warren re
turns. She's been very quiet, and very
little trouble. and the eight dollars a
week will help to get many things |
need for Winifred and myself
That's nonsense l know Warren is
perfectly willing to get everything you
! need Rnt can't HXOpCt him hl-
NOR YOU in your extravaganza
"EXtrava gances, | don't think, Mrs
Curtis, anyone could be less extrava-
CANT than | have since | married War
rem"
"Oh, you may think that, but you
spend more money than you know.
! The trouble is you care too much for
show, you want to give the impress
! sion that you're better off than You
| are. If you'd been willing to live simp-
| ly in an inexpensive neighbOrhOOd, as
Mr. Curtis did when we first married
that you could have saved and laid
something away. But we never took
roomers." severely. Cur home, how
ever simple, was our own. I don't
know what Warren's father will say
when he learns you have done this
| without letting any Of us know
81 didn't think it concerned you,
goaded at last to retaliation. 1T seems
to me the only interest you and Mr..
Curtis have ever shown is to call here
occasionally and find something to
criticise"
For a moment Mrs. Curtis was too
astonished to speak. 1t was the first
time that Helen had ever really dis
played any resentment-and the I'M
expectedness of it was dscOncerting
We'll of course, if you take that
attitude" Jelly, Il have nothing more
to say-nothing!"
And with a freezing "Good-by she
was gone.
Helen has always before gone out
with her to the elevator, but now she
! made on attempt to do so. Never had
she felt so bitterly resentful towards
his people. What right had his moth
er to interfere in this way. What had
she ever done for them. that gave hel
the right to always criticise.
A FIRM RESOLVE.
And she had accused her of being
extravagant and. of spending money
for show. There was nothing thai
could have made Helen more furious
She thought of how she had "skimped'
and saved and done without and nov
for his mother to accuse her of this.
And she had threatened to write
. Warren about the room! All Helen's
pride rose in revolt. She was now
, fiercely rebellious.
Still standing there in the hall anc