Norwich bulletin., 1914-12-17
THEIR BUSINESS RUSH

' around in thfe ridiculous fashion AL fred brist1ed and said it was plain to be seen that knew nothing of bugi- ness and. that the buiness mans time was not his own.
 .vibblek phoned just then. He said that if we would meet him at the main entrance of the Blank hotel we'd take the elevated from there. Al least this was a start, and sprang to my feet Just then Alfred remembered that he had to. phone man WlIicn he did for i've minutes. Finally we dropped down fifteen stories to the street to ind that 1t Vas. raining. Al fred said he'd just run back for his umbrella and it wouldn't take nlin- ute. 3draped myself over a steam radiator and let the glad world rush by for hfteen minutes, On his re- sign some letters.
 Arriving at the main entrance or the Blank hotel we waited ten minutes and, going around to the side en- trance xhiGh @ had not been mentioned: found Ars Xibhles, He was ono of these charming, well grnoned persons, absolutely not to be rIiffled He said casually that he had been so rushed that he was topheavy, yet he looked perfectly placid. I know perfectly well he had taken an hour and a half for lunch at the club and played a game of billiards afterWaEd-
 He and Alfred discussed soiennly
 whether It were better,t to go on the e1- evated or to take the Northwestern. Meanwhile the afternoon shadows faster feT, We rode for ages and those two poor harassed men sobbed on one anOther'S shoulders about the hardness of life and the awful grinding rush. Finally we reached the station, and as we started MT. NibbleS expatfated
 on the health giving properties of the
 air and how the walk to the station | oh,. a brief very brief walk-oh, ten minutes or so-woulds tone Alfred's system wonderfully. Then I asked il they knew we were coming Yes Jcnes downtown and MT. Jones said | his wife would be home all afternoon so H was all right.
 When we reached the home nobody answered the bell MT. Vibbles eoughed He said it was most strange, most strange. indeed-and that if Alfred and would. look the place over from the outside he would just step down te the one store at the station and see il Mrs. Jones had gone there. He tooE an awful step, for he was gone a haIi hour and Alfred and I sat giuraIy hud- | dled on the porch steps, like two burg lars in the dusk. Continually ht moaned over the strangeness of Mrs | Jones being out when her husband iaal
 said she would be in
 Do you mean demanded in aw.
 full tones, that he just trusted to lucl l and didn't phone her2' It seems thai
 was just what he had done. Wfthoui
 one word I turned and marched to-
 ward the station and Alfred and MT
 Vibbles followed, still explaining. w.
 were twenty five miles from home ana l it was raining and $ o'clock.
 But he said she'd be home Mir l Ntbbles protested. You just remenbei
 one thing. told him fierceIy, ana
 that is that no man has any right ts
 think he knows what a woman is go | ing to do at any timei' oh, heavens !
 said the VibbIes man, speaking req
 human and unbusinesslike, don't know it? Am I not married?' And
 toldAhfm it served him right.
 And yet Alfred says MT. vIbbIel makes corking income a year and
 admit Alfred does earn a living-bu how those two babes in the woods
 manage it Pm blessed if know!"-
 Chicago News.