The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-08
EVENING STORY
Angela's Departure.
(By Louise Oliver.)

ANgela'S Departure.
(By Louise Oliver.)
Angela had had a most terrific hight
with Bobby, and as a result packed up
all of her belongings, including the
pearls he had given her for CHRIST
mas and departed far distant where
sympathetic 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 gwen
notice. This gave the cue to the otn-
ers. from Sadie. the upstairs girl 70
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 mad 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 didn't need-Angela, furl-
Gus, had got as far as the Grand Cen
trail station before she thought OF An
Bi. her new pet Persian cat, probably
asleep at that minute in the sun par
1or.
Bobby never had liked cats, and
with the girls gone the poor thing
would starve. She must go BACK I'M
mediately So she checked her De-
longings and took a taxicab, but, re-
fecting that luncheon in hotel
would be much more attractive than
on a dining car, she drove to the
Colonial. There, as she had expected,
and more than half hoped, she met a
few people whom she knew-also
Anne Forsythe, to whom she toio
everything. Angela craved sympathy.
Il think it's a shame" declared An
geIa, that girls give up their liberty
and tie themselves down to one man,
and then have to get down on their
Bonded knees for every little atten-
ton. If more women had a little
spirit there would be more equality in
this world and men wouldn't ride ever
them roughshod.'
But" protested Anne, I'VE always
thought Bobby was rather generous
that is She didn't finish, for
there was war in Angela's eye
"WeIl-he isn't" she asseverated.
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
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 could get
the cat any time before 6, when Bobby
came home.
so it was quite o'clock when she
drove up to her own curb and let her-
self into the house.
Ali Ri was not in the sun parlor-
Having had no lunch, he had gone
foraging 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 men ten, Nora
It's mighty hard findin' things in
strange house.
That iSf hu ic
queer. Given a party in a persons
house the minute her backs turned.
There-that's done and it's the pref
test birthday cake 1 ever turned
out
Angela tiptoed out. What did it all
! mean? Nanette Carters cook and
butler in her housed And a birthday
panty! Whose birthday was it? Then
it flashed on her suddenly that it was
So Bobby had decided to celebrate
in her absence and to call in his
friends to help him out That was
how he was taking her departure
from his hearth and home!
Well-shed show him that she was
still mistress in her own house and
she'd have a hand in the celebration
herself. Just how she didn't know,
but she didn't propose to have the
refns taken out of her hand in this
manner. Suddenly she heard voices
coming from the library and she has
tily retreated into telephone closet
under the stairs they approached.
Nanette Carter herself and Anne For
sythe, to whom she had been talking,
in the Colonial!
Well, it wasn't my idea" Mrs Car
ter was protesting. Dicks wanted to
nave 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 this
time. It's almost CHASTITY if she does
as she says and never comes back
''Oh, don't fool yourself. 1 told Dick
what she's told you and he just howl
ed. She'll be back in two days he
said Bobby is too good a thing to
let GO Why, he's given her everything
in the world. Look at this housei I'd
give my front teeth and ten years of
Angela gasped. So this was Nanette's
honest-to goodness opinion of her!
Her first impulse was to rush out and
tell these horrid people to leave, but
pride held her back.
Dick wants to give the poor fell
low decent time for once in his life
It's shame the way he's had to give
everything up. He does everything
she wants, but I've never known her
to do one blessed thing for him. In
the summer if he wants to go to Cam
ada she picks the seashore, and in the
winter if he wants to go to the thea
ter she chooses dance. I'll bet she
never even remem bered that this was
bis birthday. In our house it's the
eleventh commandment to have a
birthday cake and someone to help
eat it, And speaking of eating-do
you know Dick says Bobby has actual
ly done without lunches. to his knowl-