Evening star., 1926-06-06

Something In Gales eyes held Bill''
for a. minute. Then he laughed.
INC, don't want one either.
want to sound several things out.
have plans Just wait and see."
"Rut I'm afraid we're gonig to neet
some money"
What for?"
why. the monthly bills
"Oh those" said Bill, "of course
III look after those. How much dc
You need for YOURSELF"
lie wrote her check and that was
all there was to that, except that the
next morning. since there was no nceC
to go to work. he didn't get up. When
] Norma Pedler breezed in. un
announced, for lunch Bill was still ir
bed.
"Bin having one of his usual sprees
Of not working?"
His what?" asked Gale.
"Oh. Bill just has to lay off ever!
once in a while. He's bound to &c,
bored. We're all like that" said
| Norma, half conceitedly.
| Doesn't. 1t rather mix up your
finances" Gale inuqired.
"Oh. doesn't it. I suppose we are
the only people in the world who have
a sense of humor about finance
When we have money. we have 1t
when we haven't, we haven't"
| But" began Gale.
Bill came out in a bathrobe and
| interrupted them. They had a gay
| lunch and then Bill went out. Gale &
| mind soothed a little when he was
| to a natural basis.
II was several days after that when
Mr.. Allen, who owned the apart
| ment, sent them a telegram in which
he explained volubly, with no regard
| for the expense of telegraphed word,
that he had been married, that he
would be bringing his wife home and
that he was horribly sorry--didn't
| want to turn them out-but that they
could stay indefinitely as his guests.
We'll, what do yOu know about
that?" laughed Bill. "Old Bach Allen
stepping off,
Where will we go?'
Why" demurred Bill. "he says
! we're welcome here as guests
/ Gale stood up.
Why" she cried, her breath com
ing in little gusts, I'VE can't stay here.
OF course, we're going to get out this
week. We can't stay and sponge on
them"
You don't want TO be silly about it.
] think we'd be all right here till we
| look around. But do as YOU please.
| Only the family eXchequer's a little
| low
But you'll be working
'Of course. I'll get in Davis & Eng
| lands brokerage house, / guess.
| There's a chance to make a lot of
money around those places
| Il don't want lot. Then we can
, move? Shall we look for an apart
nent tomorrow"
| You are in rush. All right, old
| dear, we will"
And how much do you suppose
we ought to pay?"
| What we'll have to pay, foolish"
| Gale had a little money of her
own-only $18 month--but she had
figured that it would provide extra
things for the house. At least SO she
! had planned when they were mar
ried. This month she thought she
| would pay the rent with it and some
OF the bills and surprise Bill. Only,
she thought she must be careful not
| to hurt his feelings.
The fiat she found was In great
| contrast to the apartment which they
left. Bill was jocular about it. From
rags to riches and from riches ia
| rags" But Gale did not laugh. She
| looked a little harried as she set
about furnishing the new home.
| X X X
IFE went on with Gale trying to
see the joke of it--trying to see
| the joke the day the water was turned
| off because the bill was overdue. Bill
| Of course, paid it next day, but the
| sick humiliation of that dry tap lin
gered in Gales mind for weeks. Bill
thought it extremely funny that Gale
had discovered the water was turned
off just as she started to take a bath
| 1t was also funny to surprise the
landlord by paying the rent when he
thought he was going to make row
because YOU didn't. 1t was funny tC
drop a fat little check into Gales lap
and funnier vet to borrow most of il
back two days later. Just as the
Pedler conversation had been to fast
for her, so the way she came to live
bewildered Gale. She did not dream
Of forcing her habits on any one OF
of developing her old plans. In the
effort to keep going she forgot them
Once in a while she found hersel1
saying secretly over and over to her
| self, Bill loves me- Bill loves me.
as IL she were trying to fix that fact
in the front of her mind. Anything
good fortune or bad, honesty or eva
sion, only existed to the Pedlers az
they chose to look at it. The turr
of a phrase was magic to them--the
humorous slant which one gave to a
situation by looking at it in what Gale
thought a very upside-down position.
Bill was by no means constantly
poor. There was the time when he
made $500 unexpectedly and carried
| off his wife to the nearest Winter
resort for a week. Even while hel
conscience tingled at the thought Of
the bills she had left behind. Gale
could not help getting the savor o1
his love.lnaking. They made great
plans and Gale determined to believe
in them.
** X X
THIRTEEN months after they were
married the funniest thing II
the world happened. The baby was
born and the baby was twins. Th'
Pedlers all rocked with joy. Bill
married was funny enough. Bu'
Bill, father of twins, unable to tel
them apart, was funnier yet. AL
Bills friends made jokes, and aftel
he got over his first fright about
Gale he matched them at 1t. 1t wa:
Gale. lying so very still in her hos
pital bed, who again did not see any
thing funny in 1t. She did not think
the babies, SO alluring and small
were funny. She did not think thu
change in plans occasioned by the
presence Of two instead of one wa.
funny. It meant that she'd neet
more strength and more clothes fol
them, and another perambulator-
and they wouldn't take back the ont
she had perhaps--and another crib
and besides, twins had a. harder tinn'
than most babies. No, Gale didn'
laugh. Nor did her mother laugh
And somehow Gales dazed worr,