The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-05-28
BY Virginia TerhGne Van de Water.
CHAPTER XXI.


CHAPTER XXI.
Isabel's deliberate remark startled
John Hamilton out of his calm dig
nifty. He dropped his paper in his
surprise.
you would go to a dinner without
me-" he asked incredulously.
why not?" his wife inquired. you
occasionally go to places without me.
Last Sunday evening you said you had
to see man on business. and were
out until midnight, while was at
home alone. Next Wednesday you
would go to your club supper and
leave me here So may as well make
my plans as independently as you
make yours"
She did not speak with temper, but
quietly and judiciously. Her words
made the man think faster than she
suspected. What she had said was
partially true He had gone out sun
day evening, but not to see man on
business. He had not stated that such
was his intention. He had simply re-
marked that he had to make call
about a matter Of business. He had
said nothing about any man in the
case. Isabel had jumped at conclu-
sions.
He had really gone in reply to a
summons from Adelaide Simmons. She
had telephoned to him at his office on
Saturday that there was little busl.
ness she wanted to talk to him about.
AS he was an old friend this was ma
tural. But Isabel might have misun-
lorcf0NA he no -
to her.
He stayed later than he had meant
to. But Adelaide had been worried
about some investments she had made.
and after they had discussed these
she had insisted that he remain for a
Welsh rabbit and some beer. One Of
her woman friends, as we'll as Henry
Dennis and David Duvall, had dropped
in, and the evening was gone before
he knew it. Yes, he had been there
without Isabel's knowledge. Yet if
she met any OF that group-except
Adelaide-she might learn the truth.
To forestall her resentment of his
| visit he might as we'll let her go up to
Ida Ferris dinner by herself.
WELL" Isabel asked, after a long
silence, in which her husband had
been deep in his cogitations, have
you any objection"
"Why, no." he smiled THAT is just
what l was thinking about mean l
was thinking that perhaps. aIIer all.
since l can not go with you, and since
Mrs. Ferris is an old friend. there
might be nothing out of the way in
your going without me, just as l might
go to an old friends house without
you. But. of course. yoh would have
to call up Mrs. Ferris and explain how
things are, and ask her permission to
come unattended"
"All right. / WILL" the wife agreed.
Not Much Pleasure
In the Prospect.
Yet there was little enthusiasm in
her tone. The idea of going without
John took from the invitation much
of its alluring qualities. She was
proud of her husband-he was SO good
| looking and so clever-aud she wanted
to show Ida how nice he was. But if
he could not go with her she need not
lose her one chance of pleasant eve
ming.
But how shall go?" she asked
after fifteen minutes, in which she
had seemed absorbed in her book, but
had not turned page.
line ability to bury himself in the po-
litical news of the day he had for the
moment forgotten the subject under
discussion.
She looked at him reproachfully.
Have you forgotten already the thing
that is so much to me-" she asked.
81 suppose that man can hardly I'M
derstand what the prospect of an eve
ming at an old friends house can mean
to one shut in as a woman is"
"Oh, come. honey" John laughed
good naturally, that shut-in line of
talk doesn't go down so far as you are
concerned. You go out every day of
your life. unless you want to stay at
home"
"Where?" she demanded. Nowhere
but to market or shopping
We'll, isn't that what women enjoy
housekeeping? I've heard it is. If
not, there must be an unholy number
of martyrs in town-if one may judge