South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-14

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yesterday" And Helen. who was press
/ ing out some of Warren's ues. set
/ Gown the iron and went in for her
I pOcketboOk
J But there was in il less than a del
lar IN change. Then she went TO the
/ bottom bureau drawer TO get the S10I
/ bin she had put there yesterday.
Helen never kept money IN her
purse, for while she believed Della
was perfectly honest. she did not think
Z II fair 10 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
I the paper, nothing was there Hur-
riedly she took everything out and
lifted up the paper-but still no sight
of the bill
| Could she have put it between some
! OF the clothes instead of under the
paper? She unfolded and shook out
! each garment, then took the drawer
out entirely. and looked back of it,
When Della came to the door Won
dering what kept her SO long, Helen
was sitting on the floor with everything
| dragged out Of the draWere and piled
| in confusion around her
why, ma'am, the mans waiting for
his money"
"Oh yes, I know-but I put a bill
here-and now 1 can't find it," eXcit-
eddy. Have you any money, Della?
! Eev him if you can and I'll give il TO
vc3 in the morning"
! Della went into her own room to
| get the money. and Helen again shook
| Que each article, again looked behind
| the drawer and around the floor in the
| futile. nervous way that women have
/ of searching for a thing again and
/ q "a in in no cor
| Where could il be? Could she have
] put it in one of the other drawers?
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-an places
where at tim IS she had hidden bills.
do you want me to leave them
| irons on, ma-am? Is you gOin' TO
finish the ties?" asked Della.
| ooh yes, I'll press the rest Of them
but I must find this money first"
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 doing
so, now. But, oh, what a relief to
find it,
! It was at dinner that evening that
Warren asked abruptly: Man come to
| fix that hot water faucet?"
| "Oh, Warren" with a note of dis
may. "I forgot to telephone about it. "
| Huh, you must have lot to think
OF. Strenuous day today?"
"Oh, dear, it wasn't that" with an
lapologetic laugh. But 1 did such a
| foolish thing this morning that it
| drove everything else out of my mind"
| well, what was it this timer
| ooh, nothing" flushing conscious
| ", "only I had hid away ten dollar
| WI / uCnqllW
! it under the paper of the lower drawer
| but this time it was in my glove box
land / looked just two hours before
found it. That's why L forgot about
the bath room faucet"
"See here, what you need is a box
| with a combination lock. Then you'd
lhave some place to put your money
instead of tucking it away in Outland-
ish places"
Combination LOCKE" wonderingly.
| Eyes. then you don't have 20 bother
with a key. Every woman ought to
have a cash box around the house
they never know how to keep their
money. If have time I'll 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 a 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 a 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 directions:
"Give the knob at least three full
turns backwards to the left, stopping
under the mark on top, Is. Turn
right and stop when z comes the sec
|
stop first time when II just past
| the mark Turn right as far as poss
sible and raise the lid"
But though very carefully she fol-
lowed this, the box would not open.
She tried it again and again. She
! was sure she was doing 1t right yet
the lid would not raise.
| It was more absorbing and more
! battling than any puzzle and she work
ed at ii almost until Warren came.
The lock was sprung or the combi-
nation was wrOng-she felt sure OF
cash box Gomez" asked Warren
cheerfuIly as he hung up his cOet in
the hall.
open it all right? Learn the
combinations"
the lock got sprung in coming
Nonsense. the locks all right,
bring it here"
Helen brought in the box and the
card. He read the instructions, fol-
lowed them quickly, and in second
the box was open.
There, what's the matter with
that?"
But. dear. how did you do it?
Work il slowly now and let me see"
He closed the box. threw off the
combination, and opened it again.
"Oh, I see now. 1 did do il right.
but 1 didn't hold ne knob back when
I tried TO raise the lid. 1t didn't say
that"
They thought you'd know that
much Now try" locking it again.
1t took several unsuccessful efforts
before she finally opened ii.
There, that's it, Now you've got
II. Now won't that be better than
poking your money around in the bot
/ tom Of drawers? But be sure and
don't shut up this card in the box.
II YOU do that before you've memoir
lied il. you're gone. It's very simple
/ vOl1'd better memOriZe III now then