The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-14
Xix. it va. turnin' out all right

| "Jabez." said Mrs. Bunker.
YES, Ma"
| Them DoogaE babies is starvin'
every minute"
| Il dare say. Ma"
| "And the sooner I git my money 70
! them. the sooner some of the poor
things wunt starve."
! Seems like" answered Jabez.
| "Could you-couId you git my money
out of the Oroduna Bank for me pretty
soon. Jabez?"
| Mr. Bunker was rubbing his face
with the rough towel. but now he
stopped and looked at Mrs. Bunker
as II in surprise
Me get it out?" he exclaimed. why.
Ma, I amt got nothin' to do with your
money! What's yours is yours. I
can't get your money out OF the bank;
you have to get 1t out"
"Oh." said Mrs. Bunker. and after a
moment of thought: Can get 1t out
any time want to. Jabez?"
ANY time you want to. Ma! Yes. IN
deedyi All you got to do is go up to the
cashiers window and say you want 1t.
and Cashier Harris will hand 1t rigN out
to you across the window-sill. OF course.
he added, as one explaining the most OBJ
lvious details of the banking business to
a beginner, you'll have to sign paper
a check, they call 1t. Any time you go
up to the cashiers window at Oroduna
and
Bunker. '.You meant I got to go way
out to Iowa to get that money!
Mr.. Bunker rubbed his face vigorously
with the towel.
Yes. Ma" he Said. Seems SO. To tell
you the truth, Ma, I figured maybe you'd
never want that money, so made q sort
of trust fund of it. It's yours, all yours,
but sort of told Harris he wasn't to
hand 1t out unless you come for 1t per-
sonally. hadn't no idea we'd ever leave
hav Ne
Mrs. Bunker rocked a few minutes in
silence
Pa" she said after while.
Eyes. MAJ"
II been wishin' for some weeks I
could go back and made little visit
In Oroduna. Cousin Margie has that
new baby since we left. and got some
things in tho cedar chest wish I'd
brung with me. I'd sort of enjoy visit
in week or two out home.''
'I seen fl" chuckled Pa Bunker, you
can't fool your old husband, Ma! been
SEEM you get more and more homesick
every day. and I Just been wonderin'
now long 1t swould be before you spoke
up and said you wanted to go out home
for a visitin' spell I knowed it was
xviii you como along?"
"Ma," he said seriously. IT'D like to.
but can't leave town till I get this
Spanish Prisoner bunco-game cleaned up.
you'd better plan without me. guess
you're safe to leave travel onto train
alone without havin' young fellers nirt-
In with you"
"T'd like to see 'emr said Mrs. Bunker.
1T reckon can start next week."
4 After dinner that evening Mr.. Bunker
Insisted on remaining in tho dining-room
q few minutes to discuss the Ford peace
party with Mrs. Winners elderly board
er. Mr.. Daggle, and Ma Bunker was
-Jo <HA ~ fn an
words to Reverend Mr.. Griffin. 1t need
not be said that the Reverend Mr..
Griffin was glad to. hear a few words
from Mrs. Bunker.
At the announcement that the money
was in the Oroduna Bank, Mr.. Griffin S
face fell. and he was for q minute the
picture Of a most disappointed man. and
his sorrow was no whit hghtened by Ma
Hunker's announcement that to draw the
money it would be necessary for her to sc
1 to Oroduna; but when she said. further
that she had decided to go to Oroduna
the next week and then hasten back to
New York, Joy filled his heart again.
| Before Mr.. Bunker had finished his dis
cussion with Mr.. Daggle. Mr.. Griffin had
convinced Mrs. Bunker that 1t was in nc
way necessary to wait until she had fin
ished her visit with Cousin Margie and
rescued certain pairs of wool socks from
her own cedar chest before saving the
lives of countless Doodags. He explained
how she could purchase q draft at the
Oroduna Bank and mail 1t to him the
moment SHE received 1t. Mrs, Bunker
! agreed to do this. Every moment mean,
q life or two saved among the poor Doc.
days of Tasmania
The next few days passed happily FOL
everyone at Mrs. Winners boarding.
house. The Reverend Gildad Griffin
maintained sweetly benevolent mannel
while at table-and sat with his fee,
cooked on the window-sill smoking TWEEN
Entertainments cigarettes and occasion
ally slipping from q nat bottle, while II
his room. His earnings in Iowa, while
posing as the Reverend Gideon Gith hat
been excellent, but an additional thou
sand was q delightful prospect. Mrs
Bunker was cheerfully busy preparing
for her trip. Mr.. Bunker was in and ou
Of the house. seemingly busy with thu
Spanish Prisoner affair he had under
taken. and he was never so happy al
when working on a plan to bunco somt
one in New York. So all were happy
The first cloud fell over the boarding
house sky Monday morning.
Monday morning Mrs. Bunker was VI
bright and early. for she had decided te
leave for Oroduna Tuesday at $40 D. m.
and she was a leisurely old soul and con.
sidered day and a half none too much
to give to the packing of her trunk. She
let Mr.. Bunker sleep a full hour afte,
she was up and dressed, and even ther
, she said nothing until he had shaved hi
chubby cheeks. Then she spoke in the
half-reluctant manner Of a woman wink
seldom asks her husband for money.
Pa" she ventured. kin have q lee
tie money!"
"Eh?" exclaimed Mr.. Bunker, turnfnI
sharply.
"A leetle money" repeated Mrs. Bunk
er.
Money!" said Mr.. Bunker. why. Ma
you've got two thousand dollars in tlrs
bank out a Oroduna- If you want auy
OF IT, all you've got to do is to 70 ou1
and get It, Ma
But, Jabez." said poor Mrs. Bunker
Il can't get any of that money unless
go out there. And haven't any rnoneI
to go out there with. The least car
get out and back on Is fifty dollars
Jabez."
well. Ma" said Mr.. Bunker, IT hat.
to refuse you, but I'm gofn' to. do II.
amt goin' to give you a cent to go &c
lOroduna with! II you want to 20. 90