Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-27

sibility"
 Mrs. Justly accepted unwillingly. She said no more at the moment, but when Justly got home next evening she met him at the door. Henry Justly" she. snapped, T never acted on one of your suggestions in my life that I didn't get into trouble You've got about as much good sense Tn your makeup as a counterfeit dollar. Why
 Didn't it work?'' queried Justly
 She came over this morning to borrow 8 stepladder to hang some pic lures with" went on Mrs. Justly, ig- noring the question 50 I thought I'd just give your, plan a trial. l went down into the cellar and got out the old stepladder that you fell through when you were putting up the screens last spring. She didn't seem any too well satisfied, but I didn't say one wood about our good ladder, 50 she took it.
 About fifteen minutes later I heard a terrible shriek and>a racket like a china closet falling down stairs. Mrs. knew that she was hanging the pie lures. 1 simply had to go and see whether she was killed.
 "Of course, when I got there I found just as I expected, that she had brok- en through that ladder. The step
 
 had stopped on the floor in sitting position and the big picture had come down and struck her with such force that her head poked right through it. T felt So abject because l had given her that dangerous old thing that l just-'
 Hold on," interrupted Justly. That's enough, I have learned that the scheme worked, and that's about all l care to know. I'll venture she S,,r else. And if | know anything about 1 human nature she won't be back, eith- l err
 | If you were as smart as you think 1 you are,' replied Mrs. Justly, even l ly. you'd have wit enough to wait i until 1 finish. I said I felt sorry for i her: and as she was parked and skin ned here and there's thought Id better 1 act as ndTse and patch her up. When | l asked her where she kept her medi | cires she said sine didn't have any. so l l had to lend her the most of my daTI- i Ing. frst-aid-t to- the-iniured chest i And when l got her fixed so that she l could get around comfortable she de- l cIdcd that bone in her arm might be i broken, so she came over with me and 1 used our phone to call the doctor ! When the doctor came he said nc 1 bone was broken, but he thought il 1 would be best for her to rest for the ! afternoon at least. When he'd gone | she began to cry and explained to me l that she had been trying to get the pictures hung because she was ex- 1 pecting some of her husbands people ] and that they were just the fussiest 1 things imaginable.
 T never could endure seeing a ia woman cry, and when she said she didn't know what in the world she 1 was going to do I had to offer to hang i those pictures for her.
 And now I want to tell you ont ] thing, Henry Justly, if you think was going to risk my precious neck or that old patched up ladder you're mis.
 taken, that's all. I slipped home anc l got our good ladder, and to save Inl face I had to tell her that I borrowed l it from the Hensleys. She thanked me profuseiy and said. in that case no to bother about it any more, as sh, would return it to them direct whe1 1 she got through with it."
 Great guns!" exploded Justly, 1 Don't you know George Hensle, swore that ladder was the one he los
 and claimed it not more than on,
 week after I bought and paid goo,
 money for it?"
 ''Is that so?f retorted Mrs. Justly f1atly. Well. I don't care, anyway 1
 serves you right. And really, I'm gIa,
 you told me; it relieves my mind When she takes it back and tells tha l said l borrowed it from them theyl
 just take it and not give me away
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