South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-29
THE WAY DICKY BANTEREB
MADGE INTO KEEN WAKE
F'ULNESS

The waiter is laying the table in
the sitting-roOm by the fire, Madge.
Is there anything I can do to help
you dress?"
Dicky was standing in the door
way OF the bedroom in the hotel
suite DIR. McDermott had secured
for US his face holding the antici-
patory complacence which the
thought OF good food generally
brings to masculine features.
l brought myself back from ms
drowsy dreamland with difficulty
and smiled up at Dicky
You sound most attractiveiy
Dickenesque. I said. IF you could
only produce Mr. Micawber to grill
chop or fix something in a sauce
pan, now"
You're only talking to postpone
getting up" Dicky grinned down at
me. II know you when you're
sleepy. But it's no use. Up you
get unless. of course, your head Is
hurting too bad. If it Is, I'll bring
your dinner in here"
MY head isn't hurting at all
that is, nothing 10 speak Of" I
amended cOnsciendously. land I'm
not sleepy any more. But, Dicky.
what will the waiter think OF me
looking like this?"
put a troubled hand up to my
forehead. and felt myself flushing a
little at the qIizzical grin I saw upon
Dicky's face.
Think" he echoed. There's
only one thing possible for him TO
think, and that IS. that you've been
ur 20 something which YOU
shouldn't and that 1 very properly
gave YOU a husbandly bin on the
bean. The waiter will not express
any opinion, of course. being
properly-trained gent, but III bet
a cookie he'll silently applaud me
in his heart"
lyon Don't Mean"
ooh. Dicky. do stop your non.
sense!" I groaned. For II there's
a grain OF truth in what YOU saw I
won't go in the other room at all"
What is II LII always tells you:
Don't be an anointed idiot just be-
cause YOU know how " Dicky's
voice held a touch Of impa+ience
What dye think you're going to
do during the time you're getting
rid of those black and blue spots. go
into a nunne-y? Can't he done. my
dear. You've got TO hunt up Katie
and get hack home. and that all
entails being seen in public I'll
cr-a NJ I
the public dining-room OF this hotel
or any other with YOU just now. for
I'm the ultimate goat IN this bust
nessi hut a dinner in our own rooms
like this with Just DR. NfcDermott
ard one lone waiter present Is some
thing else again. Here are your
shoes. Stick out your feet and I'll
put them on for YOU"
cbeyed him. but mechanically.
for I was much upset by his refer
ence 20 himself as the ultimate
goat"
"DScky." I pleaded you don't
mean that people VIII really think
-"
Won Little Idiot!"
That I gave you yours good and
plenty" Dicl<y asserted with mad
dening cheerful ness. WHY. OF
course. they will You ought 10
know that. All you've got out Of
this IS a black eye But the reputa-
ton OF being a wife slurger Is pin
red on me forever and ever. I
don't care 50 long as its only hotel
waters and house physicians and
people q that sort 20 whom little
affairs Of this kind are only IN
stances Of almost daily. or. rather.
hourly occurrence. But - ever
the boys heard about IL I'd never
hear the last q IL. but they'd pre-
tend to all right. and existence
would be lust one hectic little slice
OF purgato~y until they got a chance
"a set some other fellows goat.
Don't you dare let any OF the Dur
KEGS see you until your map Is all
straight again I can imagine what
old All would do 10 me II he'd get
a glimpse OF you now"
The jealousy which always turks