The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-29
Euening Story
With Jaundiced Eve.
By LILLIAN HALL CROWLEY.

BY LILLIAN HALL CROWLEY.
Mary. now that you have promised
to marry me, l won't be jealous any
more"
I'm SO glad, Jim. cause it's an
awful thing-being jealous. Why, 1
don't know what the feeling is. 1 just
love you and trust you, and that's all
there is to it,
II know" answered Jim. shame
facedlv, but whenever I saw fellow
near you 1 thought he'd beat me to
it and marry you before 1 got a
chance
at see, dear"
Lets be married soon, Mary. just
as soon as 1 get that job as foreman
Jack Costigan is going back to Bos-
ton, and I've been promised his place.
hate to see you working so hard in
this old restaurant: on your feet from
morning till night. We can buy a
| home on the instalment plan, and
then you'll have lots of time for your
self. You've worked hard here,
Mary"
work hard. 1t isn't anybody's fault.
| There are three meals day, and they
have to be served
/! .That'H soon be over OF course, q
switchman's wages amt much, put
I'm cointin' on the foreman job
| Jim Maclean and Mary Naseby had
]
or so. They had been deliriously hap
DIV except for Jim's outbursts of jeal-
| ousy. He was a Woodworking, ampl-
tious Young fellow, and after he had
| fallen in love with Mary, VINO was
quite the sweetest girl he had ever
seen, he worked harder than before,
SO that he would have something 10
offer her. Now they were engaged:
he was soon to become foreman OF
the switchyards.. He would make
good wages, and Mary and he would
have their cosy home and their love-
| Returning to his boarding mouse
after leaving Mary at the house where
she had a furnished room. he sat on
the veranda in thought. 1t was a
lovely June night and Jim was sc
happy he Just wanted to sit there anc
think of how lucky he was.
Mary was an orphan, and mad come
TO Missouri because it was railroad
center. and she could get good wages
| in the railroad eating house. She hao
spoIxen of her brother, who was con-
ductor and married. Being an un-
usually pretty girl, she did not lach
for attention, but she cared Tor no one
except Jim.
ousy. and was always able to explain
away his suspicious with the simplest
statement Jim was full of contrltlon
and cursed himself for fool
inns luck followed him next day
when he was made foreman. He could
hardly contain himself until he coulo
tell Mary They would be married
right away.
Mary's usual time for leaving the
restaurant was o'clock. Jim went tc
| a movie to pass the time, and ther
went for her. He often found her eat
| ing her dinner at one of the small
tables in the rear of the room.
Tonight-could he believe his eyes
She was there at the table, and look
ing lovingly into the face of the best
/ looking man he had ever been Jealous
of The stranger was big and master
| full looking as he leaned over the table
and imprisoned one of Mary's hands il
| both of his.
Mary smiled at him and then wiped
away a tear Jim was raging. How
could she behave like that when she
had just promised to marry himi He
had been so proud of his promotion
and now-wel1. curse every woman
that was ever born, said he. He never
wanted to see another as long as he
| lived
He stayed until he saw the mar
help Mary with her coat and hat, an6
then he flung homeward. He was
thru!
But his feet, in spite of his mind
carried him to Marys restaurant the
next night. The same big, handsome
man, all devotion, was with her
This was the night of the Switch