Evening star., 1917-09-09
] RANSOM! =

oh, I've got that piece of property that
Carey couldn't sell. I'm acting as my
own agent rent collector and that sort
of thing. 1t brings me in about $40
week"
Mrs. Willy gasped Forty dollars
sometimes paid for one of Mrs. WHY'S
hats
But you can't live on that, Phil.
You aren't a Stacker. Phil? You aren't
lying down, are you? You aren't afraid
to work? ?"
'Dh. no. Bill Husband offered me a
job, butt
Why didn't you take it?"
Warnings voice grew bitter Well,
Madge, what good am l? Your hus-
band offered me a job, hut-what ex-
perience have l had? l wouldn't be
worth a fourth the money he offered
me, and I'd feel like a beggar taking
But what are you DOING persisted
Mrs Willy.
We'll, woman if I must tell you, I'm
doing my darnedest to find this Simon
Bergson.
Had any success"
Not a bit.
Expect to-"
Hope dies hard in the Warnings"
Mrs. willy eyed him specula lively
L don't know what sort of a. business
man you'd make. Phil. But l do know
one thing about you"
Il entreat YOU. Mrs. William Wife
know about me.
You'd make a dandy husband. Phil"
"Eh?" He erinned bis infectious grin
You aren't thinking-Madge it isn't
possible that you're going to turn Bill
Husband loose and
Philip Waring. you're immoral L
maybe l won't introduce you to her,
now.
warng put his hands up over his
head Help" he groaned. Il thought
a
from''-
We'll. it won't" declared Mrs. Willy
well, my Bill Husband lost every penny
in the panic seven years ago. and look
at the old dear now. And he didn't
have any business experience or-or
anything.
No. not thing in the world except
a wife who came to him and offered
him the hundred thousand that her
father had left her
Mrs. Willy colored. Well. he didn
take it,
And you expect me to take from
some woman'-
"Oh. you go ahead too fast" said
Mrs. Willy. "She-well Bill Husband
will find something else for you. and
this girl-Phil, she's a beauty. and her
uncle is immensely rich-4very one
says so, anyway-and she's his only
heir-or should ! say heiress? Any
way you're going to meet her-tomor-
She's stopping at the Plutonia, | be-
lieve and-Ill bet you'll discover this
Bergson person and get your money
back, and-I'm home at last! Oh, Phil.
look at old John smile at me I'm a bad
wife and housekeeper running off for
three months at a time
She waved at the griZzled butler
standing on the steps. Then She was
out of the taxi and at home. Waring.
after conditionally promising to dine
with the Sinsabaughs the following
night-if Sinsabaugh should return
from Chicago in the mornin g-and fur
ther assuring Mrs Willy that he knew
her Judgment of feminine charms was
perfect and that he felt certain that he
would fall madly in love with Miss
Sorel soon as he saw her, dismissed
the taxi and walked downtown toward
his bachelor quarters in 2Sth street.
He smiled he walked. Mrs. Willy
SinSabaugh was a dear. Just now she
was reproaching herself for having
been away from home for three months.
but within another couple of weeks
she'd be restless and off she'd go again
He remem mbered what he'd heard her
hush nd say. to a group of chatting in
Inmates, a t the club one day:
It's all very well for you people to
say that I'm no better than a bachelor,
with my wife trotting off to Europe or
California or some other place" Sinsa
baugh had laughed. "But-the average