Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-28

| you nave Tor me! It's peace
-, His hands sought hers and gtipped
them. e'r'''
But don't get sentimental about
II, she warned "And, remember,
there's only one woman in a lifetim.
that n man feels this way about. It's
usually his mother or his sister: once
IN a great while it's his wife, In this
particular case 1 m lucky that It hap.
PenSd to be me: enjoy it So Her
aroii chuckle slipped out. "Yet don't
ieei at all upliftIsh about 1t. l just
reel like a lucky little pussy summing
myself after saucer full of cream,
not stolen cream, understand, but
tFeam that Kind Providence poured out
"Iou absurd child" he scolded her.
DO you know you have n very bad
habit of comparing folks to animals /"
ITS flattery when l do" she as
Sured him. II told you long ago that
have heaps and heaps of respect for
| animals. The dears are so honest that
1 diagnose over them by the hour"
Margery' was in n softened mood
! out sailing one day. Charles was his
incest self. Bronzed, a good twenty
pounds lighter than he had been when
she first hailed him in the spring. he
smiled lazily up at her. And when he
smiled like that she forgot everything
| In the world except the fact that they
were pals. Something Of her little girl
alteration for him always came back
into her gray eyes Mt such time. She
cSulted in the droll lift of his eye
brows; she gloated over the sturdy set
OF his shoulders, but she grieved over
mis- irrcSolute mouth.
ITS not fair" she found herself
thinking passionately, that just be-
cause l was born a. few years too
late he didn't recognize me, that he
didn't know enough to wait for me
the stupid dear! He'd never have got
ten stodgy and bored If he'd kept play
Ing around with me! He'd never have
grown into any tired business man
he'd have been my merchant prince !!
And he'd have dashed off to all the fas.
cinating corners of the earth whenever
the spirit moved him and come home
| just bubbiing with his old time fun.
Oh, II he'd had son or two that
| mouth of his would have been tirmer,
and il he'd had daughter or two how
chivalrous he'd have been. The cal
endar simply wasn't fair to him-or
to me"
The sail tapped idly in the calm.
almost hear the faint click Of the knit
ting needles and the throaty breath
ing Of their chaperon, who had
slipped into bromidic dreams. Charles
reached out his hand and imprisoned
MaIgery's. She did not open her eyes,
she let her fingers rest in his for time,
but when she pulled them away
she smiled and gently shook her
hend. OF all the memories that Charles
kept of her the tranquility of that mo-
ment was the ono that always rema aincd
pregnant with inexprcssiblc longings.
They dined together on the club,
sparkling. She teased Char les unmer-
cifully. They lived through a stupid
game OF bridge in the Habitual Med
dler's house. She was the only bad taste
that their summer had left in their
mouths. She always ran true to form.
and that particular evening she had
cackled much about "When the cats
away the mice will play" Joined by
the scorn they had in common for her,
they both Of them solemnly calculated,
"Oh. damn :" in chorus as they shook
the dust of her pathway from their
feet. It was so funny and unexpected,
their saying it aloud and together, that
they laughed immoderately as they
strolled homcward in the cool starlight.
His arm slipped across her shoulders in
exactly the same friendly way il had
when she was little girl and they had
prowled sleepily homeward from the
village band concert.
"Remember how Aunt Debs used to
leave the freezer ont for us to scrape
Wednesday nights!" he asked sud-
denly.
"Before We started" she answered,
de.nurely removing mis- arm. II told the
Model Maid her wages would be docked
if she didn't leave at least pint and
half Of pineapple shcrbet on the cellar
stairs landing"
you treasure" he exclaimed. ~
don't know what your poor old Charley
boy would do without Miss Imp
"Rc sure to save some for old Miss
Inn" She gently Knocked his senti-
mental tone as she opened the cellar
door. ooh, almost forgot something
While you're digging it out I've an er-
rand-dOn't let any salt run down In
the can. I'll be back In jifyT--
He heard her little roadster bang ont
of thc yord as he set the freezer on the
kitchen table. He waited five min
utes, ten minutes he began to get very
impatient.
where she was going" he growled peev-
ishly at the whining trudge. Don't
see why she's so blamed secretive about
whore she was going" and when the
car slipped back up the drive toward the
garage he held the door for her. "Where
the deuce did you go?" he demanded
"Just where 7 pleased" she answered
saucily. She said nothing more until
the last appetizing spoonful had dis
appeared. w !
boyishly. That stuff makes me posi-
lively hungry. Let's cook something
Cant. l have to finish packing"
absurd. "You re not going anywhereY'
"I'm going to, just the opposite of the
'out OF the everywhere into the here OF
that slushy old baby dear 'pome. I'm
going out Of the here into the every
where. old dear. Back on my job. This
is enough vacation to last poor work
ing girl for lifetime
He was terrifyingly tall as he stood
beside her. He caught her to him so
swiftly that she had no time TO dodge.
you can't CO.
Her strength surprised him. She was
out of his arms and through the door
way before he could comprehend how
she'd done it.
Cant thought she flung back
at him. "I can do whatever ! please.
And the next thing please to do is
to give you your medicine. Want to
take it standing or will YOU sit DOWN."
IIc was trembling with rage. lie
spoke thckly.
Don't you worry. III take whatever
think is coming to me-" His tones
,,,on "a n,anaoinU