The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-08-05

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CHAPTER LIv w
When night came and 1t was time
for Sam to take his bride home,
Flossie refused point blank to set
foot outside her mothers house
What do you want to do? Stay
here all night" Sam asked and she
nodded her beautiful head sulkily.
But is there room here for the
two of us?" Sam asked, nervously
biting thseends of his tiny new mus
tache that he was growing in imi
tation of John Gilbert's.
FlQssie batted her eyelashes at
him in mock surprise. ooh, yes,
there's plenty of room for us here, :
she said airily. But / don't want
you to stayl You can trot back to
your boarding house, alone. I'm
sick of the sight of your
Sam blushed painfully under the
sting of her words, and turned to
Mary Rose, his sole friend and ally
in the Middleton house, now that
his wife had turned against him.
wouldn't look like a fool going
back to my boarding house alone.
when they all know I'm just mar
ried?" he asked her. why, they'd
kid the life out Of me-"
II should worry whether they kid
you or not E'lossie 'drawled, and,
yawning deliberately, she started up
the stairs.
Sam looked at her retreating back
with unhappy. puzzled eyes. Wont
you tell me what I've done to make
you ice like this7" he appealed. "If
you're still sore because l couldn't
afford to buy you a $40 hat, you
must be crazy!'
Flossie turned and her eyes blazed
at him like blue rockets.
t"Crazy am II" she asked. We'll.
I may be crazy, but I'm smart
enough to show you where to head
I'M You just keep your darned old
money to yourself, If you want to
and I'll keep myself to myself, seer"
She disappeared around the curve
of the stairs.
Aren't you even going to kiss me
goodnight" he called after her,
niserably.
There was no answer but the
steady tap-tap of her high little
heels, followed by the banging Of
her bedroom door and the turning
of a key in lock.
Bang! Goes the honeymoon"
Tom Fitzroy remarked. with his
crooked smile, a minute later when
the front door closed smartly behind
the hapless bridegroom and his
bags.
This marriage is turning out ex-
actfy as I knew 1t would" Mrs. Mid
dleton shook her head with her best
I.told.you-so air. But there's this
about it--now that she's married
Sam Jessup. she can't stay here. A
wifes place is with her husbandP'
And she hustled up the stairs after
her stubborn daughter.
A quarter Of an hour afterward,
when Tom had gone, she came down
again, defeat written on her face.
"Well, I can't do anything with
her" she told Mary Rose. "She says
that she won't live with him ever
again unless he let's her handle all
the money. You go up and see If
you can make her listen to reason. ,"
Mary Rose found Flossie sitting UP
against the pillows of her narrow
white bed. combing out her spun gold
hair.
Now. don't stand lecturingN me
about going back to SAM" she began
angrily the minute her sister stepped
into the room they had shared for
so many years. "I'll teach him
lesson he won't forget Telling me
I've got to get along on~so much a
week! why, the poor sap never
would have got that SO raise of his
if 1t haCn't been for me! Dexter
gave him that extra money FOR me.
if Sam only had brains enough to
see itr'
Mary Rose raised her level black
brows.
mo, L don't think he did," she
answered coolly, bringing her firm
lips together I think he'd have
given It to him, no matter what girl
he'd married. He seems to be very
fond of Sam"
Nonsense! He's very fond Of mev'
cried Flossie, looking admiringly at
herself in the mirror across the
room.
Mary Rose yawned. II don't see
how you can keep on thinking that,
after the way he treated you that
night, when you walked home" she
said rather brutally. He showed
you that night that the one women
he does care for f. his wife. Be
sides that he told me to- tell Won