The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-07

Bye, and he held the door open Tor June.
 This once' And she looked him squarely in the eye. He smiled.
 June thoughtful all through that delicious twenty minutes of riding. Blye-his dark face haunt ed her Another face to her-Nedl A great of homesickness swept over her
 They made their adieus rather hastily to Blye for their time little more than up.
 Just before dinner called Mir. Wiles home, and June happened into the library. It Dolys favorite storeroom for toys books and every thing else Mrs. Wes-he called her Woozly-was sitting on the arm of her husbands chair her arm around his neck and his chin in the palm of her hand. With the other hand she twisting q lock of his hair and her finger, and she most distinctly and obviously wheedling him for money, His voice low and protesting with much sternness as man can use when he is being charmed into docty. Woody Wiles locking the money in her little inlaid desk when June next her.
 They were going out after dinner. There some talk about ordering car, and it needed but word to give Dolly start The luxurious limou- sine of the black Vandyked man was tue whole of her text. She rattled and and about it. and as she talked the pretty face of Mrs Wies grew more and more distressed.
 Harry, dear" she said, Dolly and want a limousine, Pease.
 Dolly clapped her hands.
 After that limousine again." he gayly comment ed Not now, Woody. Business is too bad"
 II don't like business" she laughed. "Its mean 
 Get thee behind me. Woozly" The man still laughed but he began to look very seriously at his charming wife You'd get anything out of a man. And his laugh half vexed. altogether admiring. Pretty Mrs. Wiles accepted that compliment pret- tily but June she slipped out of the library observed, was hurt for the woman, for herself for her kind, as her face betrayed. Here it again the endless, almost unvarying story of the woman dependent on the mans bounty and, in this getting all she could out of him.
 Again in the evening June heard Mrs Wes and Dolly pleading for big limousine, and next day costing several thousand dollars stood before the door
 Mrs. Ned Warner had been made tremendously thoughtful by the affairs of the little Wiles family. There was something wrong ill the custom which made this condition possible. What it? The position of donor and recipient. Neither the nor tho woman really to blame. It tom. And June knew what Mrs. Wiles would net admit to herself, if she suspected it, that the was being constantly wheeded beyond his means.
 The crash came sooner than June had expected. On the next evening after the limousine had come home there walked into the house grim iawed, hard eyed man of forty-fve, whose suit were pasted foreign labels.
 Hello, Baker!' exclaimed wcs, with cordality. 1r'"A little pefsonaf bnsincss. And Bakcr seated himself
 Flows the London branch?. asked Wies by way of making conversation.
 Doing very nicely" was the curt reply and Ba- kef SHOOK nan0S With Dolly. By and by the voices of the men they became interested in their conversation and there ioated up to June an emphatic speech of Bakers which she could not help hearing
 .. "You've spent it.' Bakers words were clean cut Tn my absence of a year and half you've drawn your account $50.0o0 Fifty thousand dollars was the exact amount of your investment That makes us quits. You'll turn your share of the business to me immediatey.'
 But that leaves me without cent without an incomcr' worried Wiles. He had no blame for his partner nor he as much crushed as he had ex- pected to be- 'I have wife and child, you know, Baker. could refuse them any thing than could refuse bread to starving child.
 That's the trouble.' Bakers voice was not harsh. It simply cold. You've spoiled them. A wife should be help to man, and most of them would if they were given chance. You made toy Of yours'
 The next morning Mrs. Wiles up June. She had been crying, but there light in her eyes which good to
 ''I am very sorry,' she said simply. We have had business reverse, and shan't be able to keep you The fact of the matter is that we don't happen to have cent in the house. I took all of Harry's pocket money yesterday, and l spent it yesterday afternoon I-I-I-that isn't quite the truth she suddenly blurted out "We are absolutely broke. We haven't any money at al"
 It hurt June to part with them. She had liked them all. and when the little girl hung around her neck they cried together all three-Junc and Mrs. Nl1eS ana DOl1y.
 Halfway up to the avenue June. walking along and dabbng her eyes occasionally. confronted by some one. Blye
 (Which way?" he asked.
 ITO the employment ofiice." she told him and showed him her little purse with laugh.
 It's a shame that pretty girl like you has worry about money" And his coal black eyes gazed down at her gowlngly.
 He tried to detain her: catching her gently by the tried to urge her into his used all the per suasiveness of his eyes and his smile and his courtesy, but she obdurate. /
 Suddenly he jumped into his limousine and whrled away. He was at the employment agency before June reached it. and he had cordial chat with the employment agency woman. He handed her ad- dress and went away.
 June was delighted when she secured an open ing quickly and started out immediately for the place. For moment June felt an intense dislike to the ugly looking house at the address given her and all that it might contain then, laughing at her own fancies she strode mp the steps and rang the bell. The door swung open silently. but ap- peared. Wondering, June walked in and the door slammed behind her.
 Two minutes later Gilbert Byc walked up the steps. took key from his pocket. inserted it into the lock and smiled
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