New Britain herald., 1926-11-24

Are you sorry to have me homer" she asked.
 I'm sorry to have you come home this way. Honey Lou" she replied. T just felt that there was some- thing going on. all day. tried to call you about one o'clock, but your phone didn't answer"
 No one was at home. was over at my mother-in- laws house, hav- ing a row with her." the girl said in that same hard cheerful little voice.
 mothers big easy chair. and told the two of them the whole story, from beginning to end.
 Didn't I tell you all about An gela Allen, months ago" Margret cried triumphantly when she had finished. Didn't tell you she'd never stop until she'd separated you from Jack?"
 Honey Lou had to admit t1at she had.
 Well, maybe everything will come out all right in the end" Mrs. Huntly remarked with opti- mism that had brought her through many bitter troubles, "All we can do is hope for the Test. Jack may come to his senses when he finds Honey Lou's gone"
 Hes done without me for six months" Honey Lou remarked. with a shrug. He seems to have forgotten I'm alive. Last week he even forgot to leave me any money for the housekeeping. l don't know what he thinks I'm going to use for money. Buttons. maybe"
 "Perhaps he wanted you to come to him and ask for it." Mrs. Hunt lcy suggested. Perhaps he was as ready to make up as you were.'
 Honey Lou thought that over... Perhaps her mother was right. After all, Jack had come home early op the night of the wedding anniver- sary. Was it only last night? It seemed like weeks...
 Steve and I are going out for dinner somewhere, and to a movie afterward," Margret said to her suddenly. Wouldn't you like to 20 alon,, ?" But here eyes were trou- blcd when she said It, and Honey Lou could see that she was relieved when she refused her invitation Poor old Margret.
 But when Steve came he would not take No" for an answer.
 "You've got to come along'' he told Honey Lou. "Marg.et and l won't go ourselves, unless you do. Will we, Margret?" =
 "Of course not" Margret did her best to make her voice sound hearty and happy, but failed miserably.
 I'm not going the way l look especially with Margret all dolled LID like church bazaar" Honey Lou declared, but at last she did go just as she was. With her eyes and nose swollen, and marks of tears on her cheeks.
 All through the dinner at little Bohemian restaurant on foht Street, she was the gayest of the gay to all outward appearances. She drank Steve's health and Mar eret's health in hot coffee, and she told jokes that Daisy Deane ana Suzanne had told to her.
 And Margret laughed at them, along with Steve. and pretended that she was having the time of her life.
 Margret had learned to pretend good many things, during the last year. She had preterded to stephen May that she did not suspect for a moment that he was in love with Honey Lou. She had gone on being his good friend and his pal, when what she wanted to be was his sweetheart and his wife.
 She had read the medical DOCKS tn he brought to her when she wanted to be darning his socks and putting the buttons in his shirts for him.
 Most women are pretty good at this sort of pretending, but Mar gret had become an artist at 1t.
 But Honey Lou saw through her that night, and she made up her mind that she would never join her and Steve again! She had made a hodge-podge and wreck of her own love affair and she was not going to ruin Margret's for her.
 She looked up at Steve suddenly from the apple strudel she was tearing to pieces with her fork.
 i've left Jacko, Steve,' she said to him. Isn't that dreadful?'
 Steve just stared at her.
 "It's dreadful" she went on clearly. "because I'm still in love with him, and I always will be-
 Gro be continued)
 Honey Lou visits Grumpy at the Mills office and he gives her some advice in Fridays installmcnt.