The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-07-26
ANGELA'S DEPARTURE
BY LOUISE OLIVER.

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Angela hpd had a most terrific fight
with Bobby, and as a result packed up
all of her belongings, including the
pearls he had given der 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 81, her pet Persian cat, probably
asleep at that minute in the sun par
! Tor.
Bobby had never liked cats, and
with the girls gone the poor thing
would starve. She must go back inn
mediately. So she checked her belong
ings and took taxlcab, but, rejecting
that luncheon in "a hotel would be
much more attractive than in din
Ing car, she drove to the Colonial.
There, as she expected, and more than
half hoped, she met n few people she
knew-also Anne Forsythe, to whom
she told everything. Angela craved
| sympathy!
II think it's 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
tention. If more women had little
spirit there would be more equality
in this world and men wouldn't ride
over them roughshod"
But" protested Anne, ''we always
thought Bobby was rather generous
that is" She didn't finish, for there
was war in Angela's eye.
"Well-- lie isn't" she asseVerated.
"Don't think It'll"
Thsre were some things she wanted
to get after lunch. She was glad now
that she had decided to stay over Il
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 81 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 voice
coming from the kitchen. 1t was
Irish:
"IIow many are you laying places
for, Thomas, at the party?"
''Mrs. Carter fold me ten, Nora. It's
mighty hard flndin' things in q strange
house."
THAT it isl 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 ever turned out"
Angela tiptoed out. What did it all
mean? Nanette Carriers cook and but
Ter in her housed And birthday par
tyl Whose birthday was it? Then 1t
flashed on her suddenly that it was
Bobby's.
So Bobby had decided to celebrate
In her absence and to call in his
friends to help him out. Suddenly she
heard voices coming from the library
and she hastily retreated into q tele-
phone closet under the stairs as they
approached. Nanette Carter herself
and Anne Forsythe, to whom she had
been talking in the Coloniali
swell, it wasn't my idea," Mrs Car
Ter was protesting. 'Dlck's wanted to
have something on Bobby's birthday
all along. They were always friends
until Bobby and Angela were married,
you know"
"But it doesn't seem right with An
gela hundreds of miles away by tlbs
time. It's almost CHASTITY if she does
as she says and never comes back"
ooh, don't fool yourself. I told Dick
what she's told you and he Just howied.
She'll be back In two days he said.
Bobby is too good thing to let GO
Why, he's given her everything In the
world. Look at This housed I'd give
my front teeth and ten years OF my life
for It,"
The voices died away In the direction
Of the dining room. Angela, seething
with wrath. rushed 10 her own room.
"I'll show them If I'll ever como back ~
she stormed. "Tm going away forever"
But she locked tho door OF her bou
doir and threw herself face down on
couch. Time passed slowly. She heard
voices and laughter downstairs, and
from the darkness of her own room
she heard Bobby's door open and close
and then his footsteps in the hail.
Suddenly she sprang UP and flew to
her own door, flinging 1t open.
"BobbyW She almost whispered,
'Forglve mep
He turned and took her I'm his arms.
Dear loveW was all he said, as he
stroked her hair.