South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-14
REVELATIONS OFA WIFE
By Adele Garrison

only have 10 give up that one after
noon each week, but she'll be study
ing and planning all the rest OF the
"eek she's so blamed conscientious
And all for twenty dollars, I'll tell
you, Madge. phone the old girl
you've reconsidered. and I'll pay you
twenty dollars each week"
LET him rave" said Lillian. He
will be sane by and by" Dicky
made a face at her, and she crossed
over 20 him and calmly boxed his
ears as if he had been a trouble
some boy
Il haven't time TO listen 10 you"
she said, while / inwardly ragged at
the familiar way in which she treat
ed Dicky. III be late for my din
ner engagement if l don't hurry
away. / came over 20 ask you to
eat dinner with us Sunday. Then
well think up something to do in
the afternoon and evening We al
ways dine Sunday at O'Clock,
/ concession TO that cook Of mine
/ I'll never get another like her. and
if she only knew it l would have
Sunday dinner at 10 o'clock in the
morning rather than lose her. 1 do
hope you can come"
There's nothing in the world TO
hinder as far as know" said
Dicky.
Il am so sorry" / turned to Lii
liam as ! spoke. My dismay was
/ genuine. for 1 knew how Dicky
would view my answer. But [
could not possibly come on Sunday
/ have a dinner engagement for that
/ day which i cannot break"
I For 1 had remembered as she
spoke that Sunday was the day
when Jack Beckett would arrive in
the city; Jack, the best friend 1
I ever had, who had been in the will
/ derness for over year and who had
no knowledge of my marriage. He
/ had written 70 ask me 20 dine with
! him on the day he reached New
/ York. 1 could not break this en-
sagement.
HOW LII SAVED THE DAY FOR
MADGE.
/ If / had suddenly thrown a bomb
at Dicky he could not have looked
more surprised than he did when
said 1 had dinner engagement for
Sunday and, therefore. could not
accept Lillian Gales invitation.
Mrs. UnderwoOd's face also held
a look Of establishment. but l could
read also in her expressive features
that she thought l was simply pre-
. -,
90 accept her invitation.
"A dinner engagement Dicky
calculated at last. Why, Madge, you
must be mistaken. We haven't any
dinner engagement for that day"
His face was beginning TO reflect
lillian Gales doubt of my SINGER
/ ity. Much as 1 dreaded reminding
/ DiclIy anew of Jack Bickett's re-
turn from the wilderness saw that
there was nothing else for me TO do.
/ knew that he would be angry,
but l hoped that he would wait until
Lillian went away before INDUCING
in one Of his paroxysms of temper.
You haven't any" / tried to
speak as calmly as L could. There
+ is no reason why you cannot accept
Mrs. UnderwOod's invitation if you
wish. But do you remember the
/ letter I received a week ago saying
an old friend Of mine whom / had
not seen for a year would reach the
city next Sunday and wished an en-
gagement for dinner? There is no
way in which / can postpone or get
out of the engagement, for there is
40 way 1 can reach my friend before
Sunday
/ had purposely avoided using the
words he" or him" hoping that
Dicky would not say anything to be
tray the identify of the friend"
who was returning from the wnds
But 1 reckoned without Dicky.
Either he was so angry that he
recklessly disregarded Mrs Under
woods presence, or else his friend
ship with her was so close that il
Gid not matter 10 him whether or not
she knew Of our differences.
"Oh, the gorilla with the mumps""
Dicky gave the short scornful, little
laugh which L had learned to dread
as one OF the preliminaries of a
scene. Il had forgotten all about
him. And so he really arrives on
sunday and you expect 10 welcome
him. How very touching!"
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