Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-11-15
ANGELA's Departure
BY LOUISE OLIVER.
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Angela had had a most terrific fight
with Bobby, and as a result packed up
all of her belongings, including the
pearls he had given her for Christmas,
and departed far distant, where sym
pathetic relatives would be sure to call
Bobby names that would soothe her
injured feelings.
The cook had heard the rumpus, and
seeing Mrs. Bobby pack had given no.
tice. This gave the cue to the others.
from Sadie, the upstairs girl, to Adam,
the chauffeur, so they all left bag and
baggage, and what Bobby was to do
when he came home that night-but
I'm getting ahead of my story.
The general exodus had taken place
in the morning. Angela, still furious
over the way things had turned out
she had expected Bobby to give in as
he usually did and come up with the
price of two new evening dresses,
which she did not need-Angela still
furious, had got as far as the Grand
Central station before she thought Of
Ali Bi, her pet Persian cat, probably
asleep at that minute in the sun par
lor.
Bobby had never liked cats, and
with the girls gone the poor thing
would starve. She must go back i'm
mediately. SO she checked her belong
ings and took taxicab, but, rejecting
that luncheon in q hotel would be
much more attractive than in a din
ing car. she drove to the Colonial.
There, as she expected, and more than
half hoped, she met few people she
knew-also Anne Forsythe, to whom
she told everything. Angela craved
sympathy
81 think it's a shame" declared An
gela, that girls give up their lib
erty and tie themselves down to one
man, and then have to get down on
their Bonded knees for every little at
spirit there would be more equality
In this world and men wouldn't ride
over them roughshod."
But" protested Anne, 1--WE always
thought Bobby was rather generous
that is" She didn't f1nish,. for there
was war in Angela's eye.
"well- he isn't" she asseyerated.
Don't think itI'
There were some things she wanted
to get after lunch. She was glad now
that she had decided to stay over a
few hours, for in the first heat of her
wrath she had forgotten her intended
shopping. An hour or two more or
less wouldn't matter, and she would
get the cat any time before six, when
Bobby came home.
So 1t was quite five o'clock when
she drove up to her own curb and let
herself into the house.
ALI Bi was not in the sun parlor.
Having had no lunch, he had gone for
aging. SO Angela hunted him up. But
In the buffers pantry she heard a voice
coming from the kitchen. 1t was
Irish:
"How many are you laying places
for. Thomas, at the party?"
Mrs. Carter told me ten, Nora. It's
mighty hard findin' things In a strange
house."
"That it is The whole business Is
queer! Givin' a party in a persons
house the minute her backs turned
, There-that's done and It's the pref
] test birthday cake l ever turned out
Angela tiptoed out. What did it al
! mean? Nanette Carriers cook and but
: Ter in her house And birthday par
tyl Whose birthday was 1t? Then II
, flashed on her suddenly that 1t was
Bobby's.
So Bobby had decided to celebrate
friends to help him out. Suddenly sh,
t heard voices coming from the librar.
t and she hastily retreated into a tele
: phone closet under the stairs as the,
AZ approached. Nanette Carter hersel
and Anne Forsythe, to whom she hat
d been talking in the Coloniall
o ''Well, it wasn't my idea" Mrs. Car
ter was protesting Dicks wanted t,
. have something on Bobby's birthda.
3 all along. They were always friend
until Bobby and Angela were married
you know"
: But it doesn't seem right with An
g gela hundreds of miles away by thi
n time. It's almost CHASTITY If she doe
n as she says and never comes back"
! "Oh, don't fool yourself. told Die
q what she's told you and he just howle6
= She'll be back In two days he sale
: Bobby is too good thing to let go
Why, he's given her everything in tn
- world. Look ut this house I'd Civ
II my front teeth and ten years of my lif
q for it,
e The voices died away in the directio
't of the dining room. Angela, seethin
J; with wrath, rushed to her own room
> "I'll show them If I'll ever come back
y she stormed. 'I'm going away forever.
# But she locked the door of her bot
h doir and threw herself face down on
couch. Time passed slowly. She hear
voices and laughter downstairs, an
from the darkness of her own ROOF
she heard Bobby's door open and clos
and then his footsteps in the hall.
al Suddenly she sprang up and flew
n her own door, fiinging 1t omen.