South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-11
HOW LILLIAN GALE STARTS OUT
TO MAKE MADGE REALLY
LIKE HER.

To MAKE MADGE REALLY
LIKE HER.
Curiously enough, my first distinct
emotion after hearing Lillian Gale
calmly tell me that her husband
fell in love with every new face ne
saw that he was attracted by me.
and would probably try TO make
love 10 me. was resentment against
my husband.
Why. / asked myself p-assionately,
had Dicky insisted upon my friend
ship with these people? Suppose
they were his most intimate friends?
] was his wife, and j had nothing
whatever in common with them.
Knowing them as we'll as he did,
he must have known Harry Under
woods p~ropensities. lie must also
have known the gossip that con-
nected his " name with L~illian's.
He should have guarded me from
any contact with them I felt my
anger fuse 10 a white heat against
both my husband and Lillian.
An ugly suspicion crossed my
mind. Lillian Gales absolute calm
ness in the face of her husbands
hayward affections was unique in
my experience of Was the
secret of her indifference, a lack
OF interest i'm her own husband. an
excess OF concern in mine? Did she
hope perhaps 10 gain ground with
Dicky with the development of this
situation? Was her warning to me
only part of a cunningly constructed
plan. whereby she would stimulate
my interest in Harry Underwood?
] was ashamed of my thoughts
even as they came 10 me. Lillian
Gale seemed too big a woman, too
frank and honest Of c-ountenance
for such "A subterfuge. But / could
not help feeling all my old distrust
and dislike OF the woman rush over
me. / had a struggle TO keep my
voice from being tinged with the
dislike / felt as / answered her:
II am very sure you must be mis-
taken. Mrs. Underwood Such a
possibility as hat would be un-
speakably annoying. We will not
consider it"
LII LEhE MI.
L think you Will find you will
have TO consider il she returned
brusquely, with "a curious glance at
me. But we do not need TO spoil
our afternoon discussing il. Isn't
there something we a do while we
are waiting for those onions? Tbis
bread ought not to be cut until the
filling is all ready TO spread between
the slices
Like an animated answer TO her
question Katie appeared at the
door.
"Oh, Missis Graham, vot you do
dose nuts? Heem dry like bone.
You feex now?"
II will be there in a minute
Katie" L said. and when she had
gone l turned 10 Mrs. Underwood.
Il have some almonds ready 10
brown in the kitchen. But / really
do not need any assistance with
them. Won't YOU talk TO Dicky
while l do them"
Indeed. l will do no such thing.
child" she returned. You can't
get rid of me that e>sily. Dicky's no
novelty. 1 see him every day; you
know our studios are on the same
floor. But I'm not acquainted with
you yet, and I've made up my mind
TO make you like me-"
That ought not to be hard TO
do" l replied, and felt myself a
fraud and "A cheat for the answer.
Il don't know about that" re-
turned Mrs. Underwood. The
shrewd glance that accompanied
her words was an illumination 70
my mind. 1 realized that this wom-
an read my dislike of her. my pre-
JUDGE against her, as she would
read the pages of a book. She did
not press the subject farther. how
ever to my intense relief, but led
the way into the kitchen as if she
were at home.
Aren't you the ambitious lady.
though, TO prepare your own sailed
Almonds she said. as / lifted the
white nutmeats. Never mind. my
dear. two years from now you'll be
buying them at the corner delica-
lessen like the rest of US. / can
remember ages and ages ago 7 do
this same stunt, but ] got bravely
over il. / am always glad 20 be in
vited 10 the home of a newly-wed.
Brides are the only women ambi-