The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-08-25
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OH, WHAT is LOVE!
By MARY J. HITCHCOCK

Wife'S pale face among INC Piii'"'
! Under the sOftened light Of the SICK
| room she looked so frail-the glrilSh
sieuderness which was really one OF
| her chief charms seemed just sklnnl-
ness. Sick for several days, she iau
failed to get up to prepare his break
fast as usual, and he had hurried nome
| from work, anxiously wondering wfat
| the doctor had said.
"He hasn't been here-yet, Sally an
sw cred. Josie phoned for nm ilrst
thing this morning, but he said II
would be late before he could get
around
"WeU. how do you feel?" Jim sat
down heavily on the edge of the bed.
"Oh, no worse than I've been feel
| ing" 1t was the best that Sally could
| think to say in an attempt at cheer
fitness. you haven't been worrying
about me?'
"How can help it," Jim reached
for Sallys hand, and noted with grow
| ing concern how hot and dry 1t
seemed, IF anything should happen
to you, Sally"
! "YOu would go looking for Number
Two in little while Sallys playful
ness did not irritate jim. 1t seemed to
make him sad.
"Td look a long time before l found
anyone like you" Again he reached
| for he; hand, and tried to hold it,
when Sally would have pulled it away.
81 haven't been a very good husband
to you, have l, Sally?'
Don't be silly!' Sally told him.
you've never heard me say SOL" -
"Of course you wouldn't"
"Because | couldn't"
'Well, in way | haven't been so
| bad Jim admitted slowly. Il haven't
| beat you, and | don't remember that |
ever got drunk-even since prohibition
but, | haven't done as much as |
might-as much as l ought to have
| done for you"
Sally pulled her aching bones to the
| far side of the bed. She had never
ulSCoNtIti llllS CluLy SULTAN III JILL
Alarmed, even more than little fright
ened, she surveyed him incredulously.
II don't blame you"-Jim was speak
ing again-"rve been brute to you"
You've been nothing of the sort,
| but you talk like a fool" Sally
snapped. Then, as the buzzer sounded,
| THANK goodness! The doctor! Let
him in, and stay out till he goes-dow
jim recalled the day when he had
| married her. 1t had been a double
wedding, Sally's girl chum marrying
chap with whom the girls had both
| gone to school. And it had ended
| In the divorce court-that other mar
rage.
He walked into the hall as the doc
tor came downstairs.
Anything serious?" His concern
was real at least.
Nothing worse than one of these
spring colds that everybody seems to
be taking turn at. I'll leave pre-
scriptlon that ought to get her out of
bed in couple Of days"
The doctors cheerfulness, perhaps,
was the reason for Jims haste to get
upstairs. He took them two at time
believe | feel better already"
was Sally's greeting as he pushed
open her door
Huh. Doctor said you weren't sick
at all. Sally's husband stood eyeing
her sconfully now. Such a fuss Won
made over nothing-getting me all
worked up over your sly insinuations
about dying, and all those things. Had
70 take 1t out telling me what hard
time you've had Of it with me. Anv-
one might think l was really the
| meaneSt--"
Hurry, if you're going to get that
prescription filed tonight" Sally
vaWhed and turned her pillow to find
cool spot. ITS after 10 now
jim shrugged himself into a coat
anu rubbed his hat with his sleeve
You might bring me a little ice
cream The doctor said could ear
it" cat
bring you nothing" Jim growled
lou II be costing me enough with
druggist charges and doctors hills
hut he took the stairs very SOFTLY
anu sally did not catch even an echo
OF the closing door as he Went into
the street. ''i'o
III Ia minutes he was back tho
i'uch-Wanted ice cream in paner how
ana Sally'S favorite magazine flantaS
oy a basket of selected frpit uas
under his arm. was
i""ught you'd be too lazy n eror
Try to get up tomorrow" IA onns 1''n
So 10 keep You from settjnr ~"
,'"IS l got you something TO raad
anu JUST 50 YOU won't have me- nm
hlns my legs OF waiting on ro,, vi
'"',eu Josie on the drug store nba,l
she sending her girl over tp nom'
house" uoue IN this
Fine" Sally sat up in he'd 90,
pe'Nea DAINTY at the ice. "Yopr s,sta-
'e"' comfort-thinks of aror,
''''ns' doesn't she? You arc 49,,
as an afterthought. ''o'
Jim paused, hung up his coat .,on
stunning at the foot nj ~. men,