The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-19
Married Life
the Third Year

Here's a package ma'an-t8.S6,"
said Della, putting the parcel on the
table.
"Oh. yes, those are some towels l
got yesterday" and Helen, who was
pressing out some of Waren's ties, |
set down the iron and went in for her |
pocketbook.
But there was in it less than dol |
lar in change Then she went to the
bottom bureau drawer to get the $40
bill she had put there yesterday.
Helen never kept money in her
purse, for while she believed Della
was perfectly honest, she did not
think it fair to tempt her by leaving
money around So she kept her bills
tucked away in odd places. usually
under the paper that lined her lower
bureau drawer.
But now, to her horror, when she
drew out the drawer and felt under
the paper. nothing was there: Hur-
riedly she took everything sout and
lifted up the paper-but still no sight
Of the bill.
Could she have put it between some
paper? She unfolded and shook out
each garment, then took the drawer
entirely cut and looked back of 1t.
When Della came to the door won
dering what kept her so long, Helen
was sitting on the floor with every
thing dragged out of the drawer and
piled in confusion around her.
why, ma'am. the man is waiting
for his money"
L,,% 7 o.,f
here-and now / can't find it," excit-
eddy. Have you any money, Della?
Pay him if you can and I will give 1t
to you in the morning.
Della went into her own room to
get the money, and Helen again shook
out each article, again looked behind
the drawer and around the floor in the
futile, nervous way that women have
of searching for thing, again and
again. in the same place
Where COULD it be? Could she
have put it in one OF the other draw
erso Then she looked under the
paper of the other drawers. under the
paper on her closet shelf, in the blue
vase on the front room mantel-all
~lare: where at times she had hidden
bills.
10 you want me to leave them
irops on, a'am? Is you going to fin
ish the ties?" asked Della.
For the next hour she tore out ev-
erything in a feverish, hurried search
And at length she found tin the
bottom of her glove box in the top
drawer She had never put it there
before, and she didn't remember do
ing so now. But, oh, what relief to
find it!
1t was at dinner time that evening
that Warren asked abruptly Man
coming to fix that hot water faucet?
"Oh Warren with a note OF dis
may, 81 forgot to telephone about it."
Huh you must have a lot to think
of. Strenuous day today?"
"Oh, dear. it wasn't that" with an
apolegetic laugh, but ! did such a
foolish thing this morning that it
drove everything else out OF my
mind.
Well, what was it this time?'
"Oh. nothing" flushing consciously,
"onlv I hid away ten dollar bill and
forgot where. | usually put it under
the paper of the lower drawer, but
this time it was in my glove box-and
looked Just two hours before I found
it That's why I forgot about the
bathroom faucet
See here, what you need is box
with a combination lock. Then you
money. instead of tucking it away in
outlandish places"
"A combination LOCKE" wonderingly
YES, then you don't have to bother
with a key. Every woman ought to
have cash box around the house
they never know how to keep their
money. If have time I will send one
up tomorrow. Have to go down
through that neighborhood in the
morning anyway"
The next day about three O'Clock
the box came. 1t was a heavy Japan
tin box with combination lock and
a card Of instructions for opening it
Helen had seen Warren open his
safe at the office, and it had always
seemed fascinating thing. And now
she took the box over to the window
with all the delight of a child with a
new puzzle.
Carefully she read the instructions
Give the knob at least THREE full
turns backwards to the LEFT stop
ping under the mark on top, Is. TURF
eight and stop when Z comes the
second time to the mark. Turn LEFT
and stop first time when II is jus
past the mark Turn RIGHT as fa1
as possible and raise the lid
But though very carefully she fol
lowed this. the box would not open
She tried it again and again. She wa:
sure she was doing it right, yet thu
lid would not raise.
1t was more absorbing and mor'
battling than any puzzle and she work
ed at it almost until Warren came
The lock was sprung or the combina
ton was wrong-she felt certain o
that.
Cash box Gomez" asked Ware,
cheerfully, as he hung up his coat II
the hall
Yes, dear, it came this afternoon