Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-10-31

THAT isn't true" she said, land you
know why
. why" he asked bitterly.
! Because you. insist on living as il
we had fifteen or twenty thousand"
| II suppose you don't live that way,
too | suppose you think I spend
| more than my share"
/ Harry, if you'll give me an allow
ance of hundred dollars week. I'll
run the house on it and buy all my
own clothes and provide my own
| pocket money. You can have all the
rest for the car and your own personal
expenses and I'll be perfectly salts
! fed
! an give you an allowance of a hun
bred and fifty a week." he said tartly
"A hundred will be plenty il ] get 1t
every week.
"-lll right" he said grinlTy
| lie turned TO the front door. lie had
| never left her this way before. He
| had never left her for an evening
without kissing her good night. But
he would be hanged If he would kiss
F. her now, after the things she had said
And how could he give her q hundred
dollars every week, when it would take
all the money he could earn in the
pressing bills?
Good night" he said and shut the
door behind him. He walked to the
garage without looking back.
* x j: X
HARRY woke up the next morning
with that uncomfortable feeling
one-half of which Is due to having
stayed up late and the other Of which
is due to the growing suspicion that
you made fool Of yourself the night
before.
Linda looked in at his door while he
was still trying to decide to get up
and, seeing that he was awake. an
nounced that she would bring his
breakfast UP on a tray. She came
back with it in a jifYy--a tall glass of
iced orange Juice and golden toast and
two soft boiled eggs and a pot of cot
fee, fresh and fragrant. Harry drank
the orange Juice while Linda sat down
on the edge of his bed and Clipped the
tops off the eggs.
did you have a good timer" she
asked
He shook his head, as men invari-
ably and women occasionally do In
the circumstances. No husband ever
has a good time when he goes to a
party without his wife.
I'm sorry If ! spoiled the party for
you" she said gently.
skinned, SO delicately pretty, SO gen
tle-he couldn't believe she was the
same person who had seemed so hard
boiled the night before.
II mean, of course" she said. TIN
sorry I had to do it. II can't take
back the things I said"
He had thought she did, but he
chose to ignore that.
DO you remember Doris Mclean"
he asked abruptly.
"Of cou1se--tnc curly headed blonde.
II played around with her all eve
Ming" Harry said.
Linda smiled approximately.
"rhat ought to have done You
good" she said. II thought she was
charming-so full of life and such
beautiful dancer"
Harry frowned. This was hardly
the right line for a wife to take.
Couldn't she make at least one snooty
remark?
Il suppose I ought to call her up
this afternoon" he said.
II would if I were YOU" Linda
said.
Harry gave up then and ate his
eggs. He didn't know that he par
ticularly wanted to call Doris up. But
o'clock that afternoon he and dozen
others were at Mrs. McLean's house,
engaged in that footles%but revtving
pursuit known as talking over the
night before. He didn't get home till
half past seven, but Linda greeted
him with a smile and q kiss. as If it
were quite the usual thing for him
to be half an hour late for Sunday
night supper.
!: * x ::
HE had, on Monday morning, to
- call at the firms offices in
Bridgeport. and wangle an advance
Of $500 against future commissions.
He gave. Linda $4o0 and suggested
that she pay the bills that couldn't
be put off, while he went out to sell
a car. Unfortunately, it was the sea-
son when nobody buys car.
BY Saturday afternoon he was as
thoroughly discouraged as he had
ever been in his life. He wanted COM
fort and reinsurance. How could he
get that from Linda? She knew all
the facts. She knew how recklessly
he had spent the high rewards Of the
Spring season, and how gloriously he
had escaped work ever since ne had