The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-05-19
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When Mollie and Aunt Mary
came home / pretended to be
asleep. l heard Aunt Mary ask
II Jack were better, and heard
Dick answer gruffly that he had
left the hospital yesterday and
should have been home before
this.
He did not say that he learned
this interesting fact from me.
Aunt Mary said she was very
tired and then hurried off to bed.
Now, young lady," said Dick
to MolliewBoon as Aunt Mary's
bedroom door closed, don't you
think you have kicked up about
enough Of rumpus?"
81 don't know what you mean.
Dick" answered Mollie stiffly.
You are the only woman In
the Waverly family whose name
has figured VIGOROUSLY in the
newspapers.
No. we have usually left I'M
pleasant notoriety to the male
members" was Mollie's calm re-
joinder.
This seemed to have angered
Dick almost beyond his self-con-
troll.
Look here, Mollie, l want you
to give up this newspaper writing
tomorrow and stay out of any
business where you will come in
contact with men, except in
social way. You were not made
for business. l don't want the
women of my family talked about,
and | won't have it,"
Pardon me, dear >brother,"
Mollie tones were like ice, al
may as we'll tell you that | shall
do nothing of the kind, In the
first place, / don't want to; in the
second, you know as well as | do
That mother spends every cent
she gets from the book shop. and
from the rent of our house to Mr..
Hatton. I've got to live we'll. You
nor Jack can't take care of me
financially as we'll as | can take
care of myself Since / began
writing the paragraphs / have
been getting $50 a week for them
and $15 as Mr.. Hatton's secre-
tary. Now that he is gone, Mr..
Sullivan says that | may do the
atrical and other interviews to
make up. Can you give me $40|
a week out of your salary?
And l want you to know
something, Dick, that Margie
knows but l am sure she would
never tell you. l am the cause of
Chadwick Hatton's leaving town.
i offered to go with him, but he
would not let me make the. sacri-
flee. | am very unhappy and II
must work or go mad"
"You-my sister-offered to
elope with Hatton when you knew
he had a wife?" clustered Dick.
You must remember that fell
in love with him before | knew
IT,"
We'll, he knew it and should
have protected YOU"
DO you always protect
women? II so, why have / seen
you lately lunching and dining
with that little red-haired stenog-
rapher of yours?"
Evidently Dick tried to protest,
for Mollie went on: "Oh, / know
you are not the least in love with
her. | know you love Margie, but
just now you are inexpressibly
bored by the fact that Margie is
not up to her usual standard of
beauty and grace. You cant be
proud of her when you take her
out and you are not contented to
stay at home with her. Conse-
quently you. like all other men,
take your own where you find it"
Look here, Mollie, l don't
mind telling you l do get some
what bored talking about that
wonderful baby that is coming
Why can't Margie be content to|
wait until 1t comes before she gets
30 enthusiastic. She doesn't pay
much attention to me any more.
Why she never wrote me letter
while / was gone"
Mollie laughed scornfully.
"You are a nice one to say that
when you never wrote a letter tol
her in your life. ] know it al
most broke her loving heart not
to write to you, but she deter
mined not to do SO when you did
not write to her."
"But / was busy"
~You make. me very tired,
Dick. You know as well as I that
q man is never too tired to dol
anything for the woman with
whom he ID in love and of whom
he is not quite sure. don't know
II all marriages are like those
that have seen among myl
friends and relatives. but II they
are ! am not sure but would not |
like to have tried the elopement.
'Mollie. l never thought sis
ter of mine could be SO coarse
Don't be silly. Dick. I'm only
unhappy and can't spend time to
think of you and your feelings.
I've noticed that men are very
apt to call q woman coarse when