The Washington herald., 1922-08-15

you take a trip to one of those
towns"
"oh. goshr protested Gloria. col
lapsing mentally. why won't you
do 1t for us? hate trains"
We'll hire car, and"
Gloria yawnsd
I'm tired of discussing Seems
to me all we do is talk about where
to live"
My exquisite wife wearies of
thought" remarked Anthony ironi-
caily. She must have a tomato
sandwich to stimulate her jaded
nerves. Let's 60 out to tea"
As the unfortunate upShot of
this conversation. they took Dicks
advice literally. and two days later
went out to Rye. where they wan
dered around with an irritated real
estate agent. like bewildered babes
in the wood. They were shown
houses at a hundred a month which
closely adjoined other houses at a
hundred a month: they were shown
isolated houses to which they In
variably took violent dislikes.
though they submitted weakly to
the agents desire that they Took
at that stove-some stover and to
a great shaking of door-posts and
tapping of walls. intended evidently
to show that the house would not
Immediately cona-se, no matter
how convincingly 1t gave that i'm
preston. They gazed through win
dows into interiors furnished either
commercially" with slab like
chairs and unyielding settees, or
"homelike" with the melancholy
bric-a-brac of other summers
crossed tennis rackets. ht-form
couches. and depressing Gibson
girls. With a feeling of guilt they
looked at few really nice houses.
aloof. dignified. and cool-at three
hundred month. They went away
from Rye thanking the real-estate
agent very much indeed.
On the crowded train back to
New York the seat behind was oc-
cupied by a super-respirating Latin
whose last few meals had obvious
ly been composed entirely of garlic.
They reached the apartment grate-
fully. almost Historically. and Clio
ria rushed for a hot bath in the
reproachless bathroom. So far as
the question Of a future abode was
concerned both of them were inca
pacitated for a week.
The matter eventually worked it,
self out with unhoped-for romance.
Anthony ran into the living-room
one afterno on fairly radiating "the
idea"
I've got It," he was exclaiming
as though he had just caught a
mouse. Well get a car" -
Gee whiz, Haven't we got
troubles enough taking care of our
selves?"
Give me a second to explain,
can't you? Just let's leave our
stuff with Dick and just pile a
couple Of suit-cases in our car. the
one we're going to buy-weIl have
to have one in the country anyway
and just start out In the direction
of New Haven. You see, as we gey
out of the committing distance from
New York. the rents'll get cheaper.
and as soon as we find a house we
want we'll just settle down"
By his frequent and soothing In
terpolation of the word Just" he
aroused her lethargic enthusias SIN.
Strutting violently about the room,
he simulated a dynamic and irrest-
ible efficiency. Wen buy a car
tomorrow"
Life. hmppg after imagination's
ten-league boots. saw them out of
town a week later in a cheap but
sparkling new roadster. saw them
through the chaotic unintelligible
Bronx. then over a wide murky dis
trict which alterated cheerless blue
green wastes with suburbs of tre-
mendous and sordid activity. They
left New York at eleven and 1t was
well past a hot and beatific noon
when they moved rakishly through
Pelham.
Continued Tomorrow.