, 1923-03-28

see' thats rue responded
the major with a pleasant smile.
de turned expectantly as a tall.
uark, languid youth of sixteen strolled
into the room.
What is 1t, Howard?,
Il don't think I'd better 20 tonight i"
SAID Howard, briefly. 81 think | ought
&c stay home, sir; I've got a cold"
He hasn't at all, MONT" volun
teered the wide-eyed, ~eight-year.old
Carley, who had followed on his con.
SINS heels. "He says he's sick Of
~theaters. He wants to stay home and
read The Hound of the Basker.
villes
III he has a cold" said the major
oolivious of his grandson's remarks
Any plea of health was always Wild
to the major.
Yes. you had better t here. nv
boy; much better!"
well, Ellyn will enjoy it ANYWAY"
began Sally comfortingly, as Howard
disappeared, and stopped short as a
t1ii, thin, abnormally short-skirted
young girl came toward them with an
agitated expression on her small. pale.
snub-nosed c~ountenance.
rs there anything the matter,
Ellyn?"
"Oh, nothing, but" Ellyn was at
the age when to make one of n fam
lily party of pleasure was nothing
short of agony. ~ do so hate to tell
you and the major, but one of nv
neuralgia headaches is coming on and
think-Tm afraid ought not to 90
out in this weather. l know mother
wouldn't want me to be exposed"
mo, of course not ~ said the ma
jor hastily. in spite of his stricken
~countenance. "You mustn't be ex-
posed on any account, my dear child.
mol"
Il feel dreadfully about it, major
dear" murmured the girl with a sharp
look at Sally, who was f~iercely silent.
Two tickets cast away, and the major
had paid seven dollars apiece for
them to a Spectator.
Little Maisie May with her out
standing crop of curls guilelessly
added her version of the affair as
Eilyn ran upstairs.
"She told Howard she didn't want
to 90 because she hadn't any sweetie."
"Oh. If she would like some candy !"
began the major with eagerness.
"She doesn't mean candy, she
means a young man." said Sally.
Never mind. father dear; we'll get
some one else who would be glad to
go!"
Her heart was hot within her; 1t
was exactly like Cartoons relations,
they never put themselves out for
anybody,
But all the more need for Carleton
to stand by now. A saving idea &C.
Cured to her, solving the problem at
once. Why hadn't she thought of 1t
before? The rain was hurting itself
at the window with renewed violence.
She must manage to get to the Wake
fields at the corner and telephone
Carleton to have his dinner in town
as they would all have lone but for
the baby's needs-and meet them
there afterward. He liked to come
home and dress first, but he wouldn't
mind this time. She must slip out
without Fathers seeing her.
As she splashed through puddles
in her artics. the rain rafting down
on her umbrella and Cartoons mack
intosh, her mind was uncomfortably
reverting to the parting from her hus-
band that morning-there had been
something lacking. To married lovers
each day differeth extremely In glory
there is a deepening Of the Joy of
affection. or an im~perceptible lessen
ing Of It; there are the days that
seem to make neither for progression
nor retrogresslon, and yet of which
1t is dangerous to have too many ;
n~on-recognltlon may slide so far that
what should be the thrilling pleasure
of recovery turns into an irritation.
II is a fact often overlooked, that,
taking 1t by and large, there is no
being more inwardly sensitive to the
changes in domestic atmosphere thai
the unanalytical American husband.
Carleton had gone of that morn
ing, after the vaguely unsympathetic
conditions OF the past week. with an
indefnable effect of glad escape from
household demands that impressed IT.
self on her even in his kiss Of fare
well.
Sally was more in love with her
husband than when, nine years ago,
they had begun life together; she
knew that his love for her had grown
also. That was what It was TO be
really married. But she had a sudden
consciousness now that she had per-
haps been tiresorle In asking him to
do n great many things lately, from
the first moment he entered the house
until he left 1t; she didn't wnnt him
to be glad to get away from herl He
never refused TO do what she asked
OF him. but he had told her once that
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