The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-01
The Woman
He Married
BY JANE PHELPS
NAN MAKES GOOD.
CHAPTER so.

worked very hard to get my little
business started right. Mother and
Ned both helped me all they could.
Somehow as I went ahead. endeavor-
ing to do all I could to get us once
more on our feet. the endeavor gave
me some of my old time confidence
that had been so disturbed by fear
and remorse for months past. 1t real
ly returned stronger than ever, be-
cause 1 now knew / was doing right.
that I had nothing to hide. I had
passed the crisis, the moral crisis in
my life Our present was secure to a
certain extent. / now felt almost pos
tive our future was also.
Wen climb up. Dick" I said to
MIN In one of our talks. but solidly
this thine. Before our house was
built on sand-the sand of my willfuI
extravaganza"
or course we will, Nam" He
Kissed me fondly then sent the check
for my first work. which had been
PAID mostly promptly. with what we
nad saved, to Mrs. Gray. She, the only
person who knew our address, had
promised to attend to all our bills
for US.
After much discussion we decided to
send this first money we had saved
TO clarence Burns. 1t was only 800.
Just one-tenth of what We owed. But
we were both very happy over sending
IT, DICK was almost hilarious.
Wen have him paid up in year,
Mani he remarked. This debt seemed
always on his mind. Had he known
mat Mr.. Burns had purposely loaned
MN money that he knew he would
lose to be revenged upon me because
would not listen to his insulting pro-
posals he would have been still more
disturbed.
Dick insisted upon hiring a woman
IL
I don't want you to lose all your
beauty doing housework," he said
when 1 objected.
Beauty doctors claim that it is one
or the greatest beautifiers of the hu-
man FORM I laughingiy replied.
Bother the beauty doctorsi You
don't need their advice. You're too
pretty. and-too good for me. Nan. 1
feel wicked sometimes when you look
tired. and I am afraid you will overdo,
and get sick"
NO, Dick, I shall get healthier as
the debts are paid, and that look Of
anxiety leaves your face"
some way our trouble. all the awful
things that had happened. my con-
fessed mistakes and sins had brought
us nearer together than ever before.
Dick was tenderness itself to me,
thoughtful and helpful when at home
Mother came over nearly every week,
and often took Junior back with her
AT those times I dido great deal
OF work. Naturally missed my boy.
but the feeling that I was really help
our home in New York. of Dicks am
bitions. urSe1 me on to every effort.
had had some inexpensive cards.
printed, and sent around. Work came
to me. all I could manage. Finally
l hired a woman to run the machine.
That left me all my times for plan
ming, cutting, and the hand work. 7
had become tremendously interested
in the work, had added many dainty
things to the list. I now took orders
for many other things besides drap-
cries. Lamp shades. bed spreads. any
thing of that sort. had samples sent
me from a Chicago store, and ordered
my goods in quantities, thus allowing
me larger profit.
Dick had heard nothing further
| about the part he had taken in ex-
posing the man in the bank, and I
| had almost forgotten him and the in
cident. I was SO busy.
Dicks salary had been raised, and
he looked happier. seemed more like
| than ever before. The simple life we
| led, early rising, but also early retiring
had done him good. His nerves were
rested, and at time he would whistle
blithely, and come skipping in as he
did in those first weeks of our mar
| ried life.
He was quite a favorite at the bank
the president told mother. and was do
| ing his work well. Mother naturally
felt little anxious as it was thru her
We had come to Lansing.
Then one day we had the threat of
| the man who had robbed the bank
| brought home to US.
Junior had been playing in the yard.
He was seldom allowed outside the
gate. But there was a large pile of
sand in the street, and he had begged
SO hard to play in 1t with his pail and
shovel had consented
| He was quite gleeful, and at first
called me. After a while I realized he
had been silent for a time, and quick