The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-06-12
Copyright, 1914, by Newspspes
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But you can see Mary's point
of view" said to Dick, going
back to Mary and her troubles
with the Waverly family. 1T
makes your mother perfectly furi-
Gus now to know that Mary has
so much to do with her affairs.
! What she will do when she can
not be trusted to pay her own
board bills, cannot say"
That's just what Mary said"
remarked Dick. "She told me
that mother even had the temer-
ity to say that she Mary had
usurped the business that be-
longed to Jack, and she was not
quite sure In her own mind that
Mary wasn't making a good thing
out Of It,"
How TERRIBLE would not
blame Mary for passing the whole
thing up"
II think she would" said
Dick, IF she was not so stuck on
that Book Shop game herself"
Let me tell you something,
Dick" | remarked in a burst of
confidence, that | have been ever
sorry for since, "all you people
better be pretty good to Mary.
for you know as well as / that
you could not get anyone to keep
up the business as she does with
out paying them salary that
would eat up the entire profits.
Mary will wake up some fine day
and see that she can make all
this money for herself, and then
she Will set up n little book shop
of her own.
Dick. don't you fool yourself,
my dear. II n woman as pretty as
Mary can also show the same bust
ness ability and starts out to get
money, she will have no trouble
in finding 1t. In Mary's case I
don't think she will have to 20
very far with the richest young
man In the town standing right
at her elbow ready to make an
effort to procure the money for
her il she asks for It."
You don't mean young Pat
terson?"
THE very one."
But / thought he was only in
terested in adding old books to
his library"
"Dick. Dick, you're just like
all others of your sex. You can
never understand why any man
Is Interested in any woman that
does not particularly interest
you"
Mary does interest me-" Dick
protested"
Eyes, as a sister-in-law and
business manager of the Book
Shop, but you will not say, for
instance. of her, as you did of
Kitty, she's a fascinating little
creature to flirt with"
"My dear girl, no man can tell
why one woman appeals to him
and another does not, but II a
man be honest. he will tell you
that six women may come through
that door and not one will mean
the raising of an eyebrow to him,
while the seventh will immediate
ly make his pulses pump and his
nerves Jingle"
Even il he Is married?" l
asked, in voice that was a little
shocked, for Dick had told me
something had not dreamed
about his sex.
'My dear Margie, mans mar
riage vows are not always hang
ing between his eyes and those
Of pretty woman. II they were,
i don't know what the newspapers
would do for sensational stories
with which to decorate their first
pages"
Dick, do you mean to tell me
that no man loves his wife so
much that there may not come
some circumstances under which
he will be untrue to her."
"My dear Margie, love has
nothing to do with II. One of
your sex, l think IL was, Gertrude
Atherton, quite understood us
when she said, "a man may love
his wife devotedly and be untrue
to her in thought or deed every
day of his life.'"
We had strayed a long way
from Mary and her troubles and
Mother Waverly, and / was sur
prised when Dick returned to
them as though he had said moth
ing out of the ordinary.
II told Mary to let mother
have a check to pay her board
bill, made out to the hotel COM
pany, and to keep all remaining
money next month after the board
bill was paid to reimburse the
estate for this loan. Mother will
get enough money for her neces-
stiles from the rent of her house"
you have only deferred the
evil day when your mother will
make things boil again, Dick" /
said, thinking of her complacency
as she left me Just before Dick
came to dinner.
| I realized now that she had re-
ceived the check for her board
and did not dream that she would
have to pay 1t back to Mary a.
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