Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-09-28
The Wife.
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Ruth Il Sent Away Again. Brian
Goes Out with Mollic King.
CHAPTER XXXIII


CHAPTER XXXIIL
| The day after Ruth's talk with
Brian, and after she had told La
Monte Of her intention TO move, Mr..
Mandel called her into his private
office.
THE Cary house is nearly finished.
| Nothing, now, but that the others
can DO" he said TO her. II want you
| 10 take the noon train for Philadel-
phia. There IL home in the suburbs
! / have been asked to look at. and
/ then submit plans 1t Is impossible
| Tor me to go with you, but La Monte
will give you all the necessary infor-
nation"
Shall | be there long?" Ruth
asked. II had come again. She would
have another disagreeablc scene with
| Brian.
"Oh, two or three days. Stay at
| The Bellevue Go home now and
pnck up what you want to take with
you; then return here. La Monte
viii have your Instructions ready
when you come back"
Ruth nodded. She realized that
the call on her was as business
woman, and so she obeyed II without
|
the going, because of Brian.
She called him on the telephone
as soon as she reached the flat and
told him what she had TO do. This
time there was no gasp, no asking
her TO repeat her message. lie list
ened quietly then said:
"If you Will let me know when YOU
are coming back. will meet you"
! Indeed will! that will be lovely
Mr.. Mandcl said It might take me
three or four days. / am to stay at
the Bellevue -Stratford. 1t will take
me longer because | am going to go
alone and so will have It all to do
myself"
Ruth had added that last sentence
thinking TO comfort Brian, and TO
disslpate any jealousy he might feel
II he imagined Mr.. Mandel had ac-
companied her. She know that II dis
=, turbed Brian not to have her at
home: also that II troubled him not
to know where she was and what
she was doing every minute OF the
time Philadelphia was a big place,
and during the day she would not
even he there but out in the suburbs
attending to her work.
Ruth had lately met some friends
| Of Brian's one or two married cou-
pies (the women had been shocked
that she worked, and had shown II
very plainly, and two or three
young women and their escorts.
Brian. before he married, had been
something of Bohemian. and from
what he sald--and what she had
gathered from the conversation of
others-had been quite friendly with
Mollle King. an artist living In the
| Latin IT nf Nav Vnrk-
wlch Village.
Ruth, speeding TO Philadelphia,
her mind fixed on the work che had
10 do. the plans laid out on a table
the porter had brought her. little
dreamed that Brian, lonely. dis
gusted at tho idea Of eating his din
ner alone, had called MollIe King on
the telephone and proposed they dine
somewhere together.
where's that clever wife OF
yours" Mollle had asked when she
/ received the unexpected invitations.
she is over in Philadelphia. I
shantt eat alone. Mollle, so II you
don't come ] shan ask someone else"
"Oh, I'll come: all right Where
shall we go?"
Meet me at the Brevort for old
times sake"
NO one wants you to eat alone.
You couldn't lose little Mollie to-
night, II you tried" she told him. all ,
the time wondering IL there was any
trouble between good old Brian. and
his stylish. clever wife She hoped |
not: she liked them both.
She found Brian waiting for her. |
He had engaged a table, one In the |
same old corner where they used to :
sit before Brian married Ruth. With !
much laughter and many reminiscent |
ces, they ordered the dishes they !
used to order. Strangely, the walter |
who served them remembered them, |
and coYertly watched them. wonder |
ing VI they we're married.
| They had delightful evening. |
Brian had taken Mollc home to the |
little studio high up against the roof |
OF one ot the old houses in the quar-
ter. and had gone in, in the same old |
fashion. and smoked his cigar, while |
she pufted away at cigaret to keep |
him company. |
When the clock in the church !
tower, not far away struck twelve, |
they both started.
| "Scandalous," Mollie laughed |
"Out YOU go, this minute"
81 should say II was scandalous |
! Really, Mollic, 7 had no intention of
boring you so long. 7 had hoped you |
would go with me again, some night |
| Now ! know YOU won't"
ASK me II you dare" she flung
back her bright face mockinG him |
"Wr' you dine with me tomorrow |
night It the same time and in the |
same place, Miss King" Brian asked |
with mock humility, his eyes dane I,
| Ing
"Certainly, Mr.. Hacketu 7 accept |
your invitation with much pleasure" |
And Molie swept him an elaborate
curtesy
"Mollie's some nice girl, all right |
II was a heap sight better than stay |
ing home alone. must tell Craw- |
ford not to get dinner home. tomor-
row night. No use wasting good |
grub" Brian soliloqui2ed as he pre-
pared for bed
| Tomorrow Brian Takes Mollie |
| King to Dinner \ Second Time
! Copyright 1913 George Matthew A5ams.) |
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