The Washington times., 1926-01-19

Every Man Is in Love With His Stem
Ographer-Or His StenOgrapher Is
in Love With Him, Says a Student
of Human Nature.

/. "CAM'S married to Flossie. " Mary
~ Rose told Dexter. and was an.
swered by another silence, longer
than the first one.
s'All right. I'll see that he gets
It. I'll speak to Bfsbee MT.
Dexter hung up, evidently for
getting to say goodbye.
wild Thing
He. was stin staring at the tele.
phone ten minutes later Wnen
Miss Minnick laid a yellow
envelope down on his desk,
1t was a telephone from Sam
Jessup: Mighty sorry eouldn
get word to you last night that 1
wouldn't be at work today Mar
ried Miss Middleton YESTERDAY.
win it be an right with yon II +
take a week S vacation? Best re.
CARDS. Sam Jessup, q
He sat there for long time
looking at that piece of yellow
paper with its typewriter mes
sage. And he tried 10 think OF
F'lossie Middleton as the wife of
Sam Jessnp But he couldn't
He tried to think Of her as
girl young enough to be his
daughter wild, gay little thing
like his own daughter. Elizabeth.
But he couldn't do that. either.
He could only remember the
soft littls hands that he had held
over restaurant tables so many
times. lie blue eyes that had
been SO merry and mischiev5us.
bird-Iike notes. nc fool like
an old .foolv' he told himself
angrily, but he went on thinking
Of FIossie.
At last he called Miss Minnick
and dictated a wire to F'lossie's
husband:
Take two weeks and 80
raise. Congratulations. Hilary
Dexter
AS F1ossie said an hour after
when she read the message to
Sam: Your boss may be a crab
sometimes, but he sure is a good
SPORT
CHAPTER. Ii
No word came from the honey
mooners for more than a week
Mary Roses heart ached for
her mother who waited with
pathetic eagefness for a letter
from Flossie.s Afietter that never
came.
Every morning she would stand
out on the front steps. watching
the slow progress of the postman
making his way up the street.
And her feet. would drag list
lessly as she came back into the
house
We'll. l guess the baby's just
forgotten US, Mary Rose" she
would say. She has Sam now,
and she doesn't need US any
more But that's the way of the
world-the young things grow up
and run away, and forget. /
suppose you'll be leaving me. too,
one OF these days"
One morning when Mary Rose
got to the office she found
letter lying on her desk Across
IL her name was scratched in
DGncII. IIlS was
Flossie 's-round and Uniformed as
q six-year child's writing.
Need Money
Darling Mary Rose it read.
"You still have $40 of mine. Re
member that l asked you to get
It for me last week? Please send
II to me right away. as / am in
terrible need OF money and can
not get Sam 10 give me any. He
sure is the worlds worse tight
wad. and the way he freezes on
10 money makes me sick. If l
had known he was like this, he
would have had to chloroform
me TO get me to marry him, be
lieve me, baby. With love,
FIossie
''P. S. Send the money special
delivery. 1t is for a hat that ]
need terribly, and have paid
down my last dollar to hold it,
F. NJ. j.
The letter had ben mailed from
Ridalmnnt and Mary Rose
groaned aloud as she laid ii
down. .
She knew that F'lossie couldn't
possibly be in terrible need OF
a hat. For her cute little felts
were made to weather sun and
rain, and. moreover. she had
taken at least three of them along
on her nuptiaI flight with Sam.
Ruf hats were a ra SSion wit IN