The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-06

CHAPTER LV
The next day F'lossie went house
hunting with great success.
Eve found the cutest little place
you ever saw she dubbed when she
and Sam came to supper that night.
only three rooms and a bath, but
you should see them They're abb
solutely adorable"
She was as enchanted with them
as a small girl with her Christmas
doll house. She even helped with
the supper dishes IAN unheard-of
thing so that they could get an
early start to go to see the new fiat.
1t was only three blocks away
Il wanted to live near mother
so that when Sam was fed up on
my cooking he could go over to her
house and get a square meal" Flos-
sic admitted with her twinkling
smile, as she unlocked the door for
them.
The tiny apartment was quite as
adorable as she had said it was. 1t
had ivory woodwork and bow win
dows with flower boxes in them,
and dark polished floors. The little
kitchen, with its bright sink. its new
and shining stove and its blue and
white breakfast nook, was the COIL
est room of ALL
How much rent?" Sam asked,
when they had gone all around the
place three or four>times.
"Seventy-five a MONTH" Flossie
answered defantly. She knew that
1t was more than they could afford,
without Sans telling her.
He whistled "Well have to pass
it up then and find something
cheaper" he said. That's more
than one weeks salary old girl!'
Flossie stamped her small foot on
the beautifully polished floor Of the
living room. 1--WE just will afford
it| she cried, nodding her head.
with great emphasis. I'm not going
to live in a pig pen to suit you. or
anybody else! So you'd just better
bestir yourself, and get in line for
another raise. If 1 don't live Lere
with you, I won't live anywhere,
with you, Sam Jessup! I'll just go
back to work. and leave you fiatr'
Mary Rose could see that she was
going to hold that threat over his
head, as she had always controlled
her mother by her constant threat
to leave home, when things didn't
suit her.
She ~3s not surprised the next
day when Flossie told her that they
had taken the little fiat.
Don't go jot-hunting today" she
begged Mary Rose over the tele-
phone. meet me down town, in
stead, and help me pick out my
rugs I'd ask mother to come along
but she's so cld.fashioned."
Mary Rose knew that her mother
would be heart-broken il she were
left behind, on this important ex-
petition.
Don't you think we'd better take
her? She knows more about fur
niture than both of us, together?"
Mary Rose answered Loyalty, and so
Mrs. Middleton went along.
For four days the three Of them
haunted the shops, buying the
painted furniture, the flowered silk
cushions, and the gay lamp shades
that Flossie simply had to nave,
although her mother pointed out that
they wouldn't last half the time that
walnut and rep would last.
well, when they wear out, Sam
will have to buy me new things,
Flossie said GROSSLY. I'm going to
have what want in this world, and
IL Sam Jessup doesn't get it for
me. I'll find some other man who
will! It's nothing these days to
have two or three husbands IN a
lifetime. Variety is the spice of
marriage, so they tell me!'
That's a wicked. immoral way for
you to talk, Florence Middleton" her
mother reproved her. Marriage is
holy thing. and if you don't realize
It now, you will when the babies
come"
Babies F1ossie snapped her up,
Babies? Hah, you make me laugh!
Can you feature me with a baby?"
Mary Rose looked at her. 1t was
hard to feature" Flossie with a
baby, at that.
She seemed like a little girl play.
ing house the next few days as she
went about the tiny fat, putting lace
paper on the cupboard shelves, and
trying the effect of a chair here or
there, in the living room.
Every night Tom came over for
an hour or two, always laden with
bundles. He brought the queerest
assortment of what he called WED.
ding presents" although he had
given them at least twenty on the
day of their return from the honey
moon.
Here's a little something that
they-use down in Panama for killing