The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1917-02-01
TOM and DICK
BY ISABEL LEE.


Little do you know how worried
am" Toms wife sighed pathetically.
But ! won't bother you with my
troubles. You have so much to be
happy about and so many plans TO
make for the wedding"
Dicks fiancee bit her pretty lips
I'm not at all sure there Is going TO
be any wedding" she said.
81 don't even know whether to go
down to shop or not" added the
younger woman. whats the use OF
getting the things when don't know
whether shall want the-the we'd
ding veil and white satin and the
rest? But don't talk about poor little
me. I'd so much rather know why
you are worrying"
Toms wife laughed softly. First
II was the teacup." she said. 1T was
the morning he asked me for a lem
on. The next evening he had a mys-
terious little package when he came
home. II was a horrid, sticky. teacup
We'll. the next night II happened
again-such a horrid old cup That
kept on for several days. asked him
| outright what Il was all about.
"'Well. you have caught me. snook-
ems, haven't your Those were the
very words he used. and then he
laughed a little, rather sheepishly.
| and tried to kiss me. i didn't want
to tell you at first he said. L thought
you'd make a fuss about II. But that
new English secretary
"That new English secretary--and
that was the first time that had
even heard OF the creature-he said
had to have tea. They all do In Lon
don, he said.
you've never had tea with me- I
said, and now for this brazen English
yourself by bringing the cups homer "
That's where the Joke comes in,
he said laughing. I thought OF get
ting Miss Stebbins to wash them, but
she rebelled'
"'Just because I am a woman. l
suppose you think | must do the
drudgery. | never washed a dish in
my life. II you want a servant you
should have hired one. and not a
stenographer,' said Miss Stebbins.
"T am sure I don't at all blame
Miss Stebbins. said"
you did perfectly right" said
| Dicks fiancee. Il know all about It
found Dick carrying not only one
but two cups home at night-his and
the secretary's. He even brought
them around to wash, and then he
told me, Just as Tom did you. about
the creature. Only he wouldn't say
much and I said less. didn't want
him to tell you that was Jealous and
il is not really that. Only. of course
| IL that is the kind OF man Dick is, Il
he is the sort who stoops to Office fir
tations."
Have you seen her?" inquired
Toms wife. patting away an imagin
airy tear through the meshes OF hel
veil.
Heavens, no, and don't want TO
blonde. English women so often are.
The idea seemed to occur to then
both at once OF stealing unexpected!
into the Office where Tom and Dicl
held their tea orgies every afternoon
And in less than half an hour the TIVE
women had started downtown with al
the intense excitement of a real ad
venture
1T isn't as II we were doing any
thing underhanded." assured Tom
wife. For ] am sure any wife has ;
right to call at her husbands Office
Do you suppose they sent way t.
London for her? don't see VIII!
they couldn't have got some honest
deserving American girl who woul,
have been quite satisfactory"
They had reached the office an,
Toms wife went in first. Tom an,
Dick were both in and showed no en-,
OF pleasure at the visit They tool
them right into Toms big. roomy oi
nee.
"'Stick around for q half hou
more" Tom said. "and you can hay
tea with us. Its great institution
isn't it, Dick?'
Both Toms wife and Dicks fance
smiled coldly. But II was part O
their plot to stay. They peered aroun
every curve and listened for ever
sound. expecting to see the willow
blonde appear. But the only petit
coats they saw were worn by tn
sourfaced Miss Stebbins. who sa
pounding away relentlessly at he
typewriter.
Maybe we can get the ladies I
wash up the Dishes" suggested Ton
ITS such a nuisance to have to car
them home with u.s."
Toms wife had her cue and. Will
Dicks fiancee fairly trembled at wha
she felt was bound to follow, she b,
, gan: