The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-04-11

"Giyc up your business W" ""
he asked quickly. az,
h nodded. ut cant he lone ou'
there" she suid. "All the DIE Pro""e
lions that there's amy money III "'s
mndc I'm New York. III CONF ""N"
and lust be your wife. I'll Keep s'"'
house and mother the childreh' "p"
maintain your status, If you uo"
think I'm spoiled for that -,
That last phrase, though, was Snu.
with u smile. which he answered WIN
one Of his own. But with an ihsth"'
return to seriousness. he snid ="
not asked TINT, Rose. ] wouldn't uTenu'
Of asking It."
"Thcre's n real job there she per
sisted. "just in being successfully the
wife Of n successful man. ] can SIZE
that now I never saw II when II was
nv fob. Hardly caught n glimpse OF H.
7 didn't even see my bills, let you
my them down Mt the Office, with al
your own work that you had To 40
at wasn't me-" he said. ut was
Miss Beach"
She stared at that and gave a short
laugh. "If I'd known TINT
she snld. Then she came hack to the
point. 1T Is a real job, and think
I could learn To do II pretty well
And OF course n wlfe's the only person
who can do II properly
SIN he shook his head. But he
hadn't, rs yet, any reasoned answer to
make, except us before, thnt u
wouldn't work.
"What will work, them" h asked
And this he couldn't answer
"Wc'vc lust got 10 20 nhcnd,' he
said AT last. "and see what happens.
Perhaps you cnn work II out so that
You ran do pnrt Of your work nj home.
We could move the nursery and give
YOU Tlorence's old studio, And then
II would do II you only came down
here for your two big seasons-fal
and spring"
"1'hat doesn't seem fair 10 you" she
protested. "You deserve n real wife,
Roddy: not somebody dashlng In and
, dnshing ont"
~ don't deserve anything ! cant
get" he said. "Td rather have n part
interest In you than to possess, lock
stock and barrel. any other woman
/ can think Of"
She came back to him again ant
y settled In his arms. "A man told me
she sald. "John Galbraith told me tina.
he couldn't be n wOmnn's friend AM
her lover at the same time, any more
than n steel spring could be made sof
@ so that II would bend In your fingers
like copper, and still be a spring. III
G said that was true OF him. anyway, nm,
he felt sure Il was true Of nine men on
o Of n dozen. DO you think It's true
Have We got TO decide which wei
? bef"
@ 1--WE can't decide" he said with al
impatient lnugh, That's Just wha
I've been telling you. We've got 4
!? take what we can get. We've got (
= work out the relation between our
h selves that Is our r~clation-the RIOS
Al and Rodney relation. ItIl prohnbl
he n little different from any Othcl
Therell be friendship in It, and there
T. be love In II. Imagine our 'decidin,
d that we wouldn't be lovers, But
h guess that what Galbralth said va
ID true to this extent that each Of thOs
OF the other. 1t won't spring quite $
well, and II will bend Il little
t. After n while he said: II. ,rc's WIFI
g, we've got to build on Whatever el,
&c II may or may not be. this relation b
lr tween US Is Il permanent thing. We,
lived with each other and without enc
We other. and we know which we wan
/ II we find IL has It's limitations ar
g. drawbacks, we needn't worry. Just
no ahead and make the best OF II v
I'd can. There's no law that deere
IN we've got to be happy. when we a
W, happy itll be so much to the goo
ng And when we aren't :"
She gave 4 contented little laui
~. and cuddled closer down against hi
he "You talk like solomon IN all his /,
Ike lemnity," she said. But you ca
imagine that we're going to be I
is happy. Reallyr
ng His answer was that perhaps
is couldn't imagine II, but that he KIN,
.gs IL, Just the same. Even an ordInn
he marriage isn't any too easy a mi
It'll riage, | mean. where IT'S quite well ,
lat derstood which OF the parties 10
- shall always submit to the other, n
M. which OF them is the important @
ID. who's always to have the right OF W.
me There's generally something perfec
I'D unacceptable that decides that an
Is ton. But with US there isn't. So
mt question who's got to give In will hi
nix to be decided on It's merits every ii
n difference arises" She burlesouc,
|, II look of extreme apprehension. 5
was deeply and utterly content W
life just then. But he wouldn't be
vcrtcd. "rhere's another reason"
she went on. "Tve Il notion that the IN
md were after Is about the finest IN
ear there Is. II that's so, we'll have
Int pay for II In one way or another. ]
tell we aren't going TO worry about
his Wen Just go ahead-and see W
happens"
hey DO you remember when Won s