The daily Alaskan., 1916-09-15
A Parting
 Dinner
By ALAN HlNSDALE

leave you"
 'sThats not bad idea" said the husband. 'tA bit of freedom from this new life that neither of us has yet become used to will give us breath ing spell. and If we come together again we will appreciate each other all the more for it"
 .aThat if is we'll put in."
 "And if we don't come together again just think of the fun well hRYeg'
 "FunY'
 rYea can remain out at a poker party till 8 o'clock In the morning 1T like, smoke and drink to my hearts content, spend no end of time sitting on a stool before a glove counter with S pretty girl on the other side smooth Ing down my fingers with her sort hand
 'If these things are so delightful to you why did you marryT
 "l haven't come to your own enjoy ments consequent on the break yet You can sit all day beside your moth CT holding her hand and listening to her advice to you how to manage husband. Won't that be just too nice for anythng?"
 eff YOU loved me one-tenth as well as mamma does there would be no need of a separation"
 "Oh. l could never compete with mothers love! That is not to be ex- pected. l suppose that's what gives her a right to tell you just what course to take respecting your husband. Now that you're going to leave me, her ad- vice with respect to me will be no longer necessary, and l wonder what YOU and she will talk about when you nestle down for a morning chin-chin.'
 She was inclined to think that. the one interesting topic being removed the chin-chin would be rather dulL but she did not say so.
 There's one thing I propose to do'' continued the provoking husband. "As soon as you are gone I'm going to take down these curtains. have en- dured them simply for your sake They shut out the light"
 ~Indeed, you will do no such thing!
 "Why so2 It will not matter to you whether there are curtains here or not. I shall make a smoking room of this. and you have always declared that when smoke gets into curtains it's hard to get 1t out
 "A smoking room of this cozy apart nent! Why, arranged everything here myselfw
 "So you did. and a delightful room you made of 1t, I remember when l | first saw 1t l thought how many de liEhtful seances we would have here. little thought that a few short months would end it all"
 "whose fault Is it?" "Mine"
 "Why don't you do better?T
 "I can't. I'm naturally wicked. If were not you wouldn't need to leave me"
 "Of course don't want to leave you, but you cant expect me to endure | such treatment forever"
 Certainly not. I deserve It all. But it's sad to think of my having to dis mantle this pretty room for lot of fellows who will throw cigar and pipe ashes all over the carpet and
 '"They will do no such thing! If you're going to have those horrid men here I-I-won't"-
 Wont go?"
 "Yes, I'm going. l have come to that decision after long and careful dellberahon."
 And consultation with your mother"
 This was a home thrust.
 "If there Is any one who knows what is best for the child she has cared for and loved from babyhOOd 1t is surely her mother" "I agree with you Therefore the Daughter should never leave her moth CT"
 "Fhe daughter is not expected to marry a-a"-
 Brute! But We are wasting time When do you go?"
 "Are you in haste to be rid of meg'
 "NOt at all l merely wish to make arrangements for your departure VIII you permit me to see you to your mothers hOuseT
 "Who said was gong to mammaT'
 every well. I win take you wher ever you wish to go"
 "Youn have to dine elsewhere to- day. have made no preparations for dinner here"
 Suppose we have a last dinner at Skinners, with bottle of that wine you Ike so wellT
 She hesitated, and he suggested that she telephone her mother that she would not arrive till after dinner. This last reference to her mother, though highly respectful, called frown to the wife's brow. Nevertheless she went to the phone and sent the mes sage Then she dressed for the dinner and came downstairs looking very lugubrious.
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