The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-03

trying to smile at Mildred In a way tnat attempted
to convey at that IT was just hasy recolleo-
ton of something all but forgotten, and that NIL
dred should please choke off.>
"IIl never forget those poor yokels" beamed
Mildred "one of them smitten with Leo
ME that he wanted her to go applepicking with
him and said he had some cider in the barn that
would make a deacon do a cakewalk. Remember,
Lee2"
Harlan laid down the magazine.
You never told me Of any such soingson,
Leone," he said.
"Oh It wasn't anything-just a harmless Joke
We had laugh over It at the time and forgot It."
1--WE forgot IT," hurried Mildred But that poor
plowboy that fell so hard for your Leonis didn't
forget It so easily. He wrote her letters that
we'll say they'd have sold for the funny papers
And he hung around outside the fence. and
''Did you ever see him after-after that rather
nl-advised fivver rider" asked Harlan, In a voice
that Ieone had never heard before-that she didn't
know he had.
Leonle WAS on the point OF swapping tack an
answer, but Rs she turned she saw Mildred. with
lips apart waiting for It; so she switched without
throwing a semaphore and merely said:
"Oh, what does II matterY That was years ago,
when we were couple of boobs in school You
aren't going to get Jealous about it-now. arc you'"
"Oh bridegroom is a suspicious party, Lee, al
ways" Mildred felt she had to get in.
mot at ALL. snapped Harlan I've never for
one second doubted or questioned Leonie But +
well, It never entered my head that she would havs
engaged in such carryings-on"
"Oh don't be silly" pursued Mildred. This was
perfectly innocent. You see"
81 suppose It was But It in such depiora-
BILE bad taste. Is that what cultured parents send
their adoescent daughters away to schools for
where they're supposed to be chaperoned and guard
rd1 y,fSn
~Leonie rose to her slippered feet. And when
Leonie rose-lke that--it was time to make for
the trenches, because beneath her womanly little
structure OF affabiity ton OF T. N T.
Look here, Harlan-and you, Mildred, she
flashed. "Pm not on the defensive herein my
own homeland don't propose to rake over all the
flapper escapades of my scarlet past dare say
that II my husbands life were winnowed. IL he
had kept day-today diary might find
where reference to a stenographer-or maybe
even a chorus girl--somewhere in the chronicles of
his pre-marital adventures. Now--lets change the
subject. . . How about hghball. Mn?"
"Grand thought" chirpes Mildred Always
did prefer Scotch to cider though did get Jolt
out of that jug, didn't we?"
"Leonie," said Harlan and he trembling,
until this moment had always idealized you
had always thought Of you hisininded,
perior sort who wouldn't-who couldnt--have been
so-so--iet me say so frivolous, TO put II politely.
OF course married you as found you; l have no
right to search back IN post facto nvestiga-
tion OF your every hour before you came into my
life. But
"Yes," said Leonie @But--whatf Let's have IT
out"
what about to say-when you leaped on
me-which is something new In your attitude too
that something has gone that cannot ever come
back"
"Yes7 For instance?"
THAT complete faith in you-Y mean that un
qualified conviction that you were perfect; that you
Just couldn't DO have done anything
anything that you wouldn't do II were looking
on"
you couldn't very conveniently have been look
ing on when we met those two rubes," suggested
Mildred
81 suppose not" sighed Harlan perhaps It
was all for the best, at that. And perhaps I'm a
fool to fancy that my wife-just because she hap
pens to be my wife In spite OF all know about
women-should be so different from the rest But
l did l was just blind enough-and happy
enough
''If you say something about having lived IN a
FOOLS paradise, n smash vase" said Leonis.
"oh--yOu do mi, too?" moaned Harlan Good
night"
And out he marched
Leonie and Mildred sat looking at one another
for full second. Mildred reached oyer and nut
her hand affectionately on Leonia's
did l-have l done anything7" sha incutrsa
worriedy.
NOT thing answered Leonie. mot a single
thing You bachelor girls like Caesars wife,
except that you're a perry lot--always ready TO
crack whimsy hlt~oft bright wheeze,- you
haven't done much-only chucked my life into the
same whirling stew of chickering's, quarrels, jea.
onsies suspicious and doublecrossings that go for
the rest OF the marriages Know Of had hoped
to forestall it-for a while at least But now ,ts
over the top"
oh. I'm so sorry" hammered Mildred per.
maps wasn't as diplomatic as might have been