The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-19
The Woman
He Married
BY JANE PHELPS
iFELICE WANTS PAY FOR MANS
GOWN
BY JANE PHELPS
CHAPTER 40.


The telephone rang insistentIy.
Hello. helIo." called. had been
putting Junior to sleep. The bell
wakened him, and 1 was accordingly
ill natured.
..HeIlo. Is this Mrs. Williams?"
Yes" 1 answered. Who is call
ing?s
4 am talking for Madame Felice."
"Yes?"
"She wants to know if you can ac-
tcommodate her with check. She has
some very important bills to meet,
duty to pay on her imports, ETC., and
she would like you to help her if it is
convenient"
Certainly" I replied as calmly as
| csuId- II will send her a check"
Where it was coming from didn't
stop to think. Then
THANK you SO much!" gushed the
voice. s.She says to tell you to be sure
and come in and see her new models
She has some very reasonable ones just
your style"
Eyes, perhaps I may get in in a
| day or two 1t didn't occur to me to
notice that she didn't ask me to come
| to the shop again until after had said
| 1 would send a check.
went to Clara.
you are such a good friend to me,
Clara, am going to ask you to help
me once more" I still owed on sew
| eraI of her accounts
What is it? The gas man this
timer"
"No-worse. The dressmaker. l
\ must pay for that dress and Dick
won't get cent for another week.
happen to know he is strapped, and
can't let me have it. I'll do as you
asked me and tell you the tips Mr..
Burns gives Dick if you will lend me
the money for two weeks.
"Mr. Stowell has just opened an ac-
count with Dicks firm, and Dick is to
| have q commission on his trades pc
cause he came on his, Dicks account
| so we will have more to do with now.
And then Dick has decided to make
some money on his own account, with
| Mr.. Burns's help"
| This last I added of my own Volt
| ton. Dick had told me nothing OF
any such plan or intention. He had,
however, told me .he was to receive
comm ission on Mr.. Stowelps trades
and had been delighted at the pros
| pect. as he was a heavy trader.
"ItR lucky Jim got paid this week
| end 1 haven't been out to pay the DIS.
You are sure you can give 1T back next
week? And you promise to tell me
everything Mr. Burns says, everything
| he tells Dick?'
"Cross my hearth I replied gayly,
so relieved that she had the money
and would lend it to me that 1 cared
| fof. nothing else. :,
well. here it Isl Now don't fail
me. Jim would be furious If he knew
| I had loaned it instead of paying bills
Not that he would not accommodate
you if he could, but you know what
a crank he is, and how I have to plan
to keep them all satisfied so he won't
know I am SO in debt"
'I7know. and you're dear to let
me have it. I'll be sure and have it
for you" z4L
l. / calleu for Mrs. Dooly to stay with
Junior and went happily downtown,
not worrying 1 owed Mildred 5000,
Clara this $140 (bes:des what I owed
on her accounts) and planned to take
the money Dick would. give me for
the house to pay the $40, giving
scarcely a thought to the tradesmen
who would receive nothing because of
this. AS / look back think [ must
have been crazy to do as did. But
each time 1 had gotten into trouble,
had found a way out, which made
me feel that in some way things would
keep on going in my favor.
1 paid for the dress, and spent a
| wonderful hour looking at the new
| models. ] ached to give an order,
but made excuse that 1 wanted Mrs.
| Stowell with me tadame Felice was
most emphatic in her thanks, and in
her desire to dress me.
Madame Williams is SO chic, SO
pretty, she should be dressed prop
| erly!' she said. as she babe me good
afternoon. Il should love to gown
Madame, she would be irresistible."
] left the shop longing to have
Felice go En me. longing to prove her
assertion that 1 would be irres stible!
But after 1 reached home and went
about tie prosy household tasks,
thoughts of the bills I owed, the dan
| ger of being dunned, ct cetera, COM
meneed to worry me. All my ANNA
ton and indifference of the afternoon
was gone. Suppose Dick found out ali
owed. all 1 had done-would he adj
vertise me?
(Tomorrow-Nan has a windfall.)