Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1927-05-20
ISABEL.
RETURNS
TO EARTH
20. 1927. by D. ]. walsh.)

had married crawler when what
she wanted was a flyer. She was al
ways prodding Homer and plying her
self and distinguishing wishing
that they had more money.
Here we are, middle-aged people,"
she would say, 'and we've got no
where. Yet you've worked hard and
been steady and I've economical and
contrived. All we've got Is your job
and our house. Almost everybody
who was married at the same time
we were has got more. Just look at
the Tarboxes They've just bought
their third automobile And the other
day Stella Tarbox went downtown and
bought that expensive library suite In
Cables window. She paid $500 for 1t.
We think we've got to live six months
on $780,"
I'VE have,' Homer would reply
gloomily. II don't see how Dick Tar
box gets hold of the coin. 1 wish 1
could. wish I could satisfy you for
once, Is, and give you Just such
home as you want. You'll give me
no peace till l do"
The Hopkinses were not very happy
together because at morning when
Homer started to work Isabel sent
him away signing, and at night when
he came back she sighed again, be-
cause they had to have salmon loaf
instead Of roast chicken.
Worst Of all, she got on hard terms
with her neighbors because she was
not on good terms with herself And
she grew to hate the neighborhood
and the small, neat house and every
thing in 1t.
Il could be just as much as Stella
Tarbox If had q chance" she said to
herself. Homer ought to give nue. the
chance. Any man can make money IL
he tries hard enough to. Homer
doesn't try. He just sticks to that old
job and takes what 10 handed out
to him without complaining. He's too
easy, that is all the trouble"
Isabel cried a good deal and her
emotions made her sallow. People re-
marked that she didn't look we'll. And
she didn't How could she look well
or feel well, for that matter, when dis
content was seething within her like
liquid brimstone3
Then one night something happened
Homer came home to supper with q
new look, new air.
There's what you've been looking
for" he said, 'ih that letter." He
flung 1t to her.
When Isabel had read the letter she
screamed. She had her wish, indeed.
Some relative of Homer's had died
and left him $4,000.
Now we'll live as we ought" she
said ''Ill show Stella Tarbox. Homer.
want you to buy me the Norris
place"
'"rhe Norris place. Why, we don't
want that The house Is too big for
us, Is. And what would we do with
all that yard2 And that carriage
house, besides oh, you don't mean
you want that"
"a do. It's going for a song And
we can fix up the yard and put a car
In the carriage house."
But who'll learn to run the carr"
81 will, If you can't" snapped
Isabel.
Homer gave In. As soon as he got
the money he bought the place for
his wife. This meant lot of new
furniture. The yard had to be re-
dressed, repairs had to be made every
xubapa and tha pau, nor caIaotaA
Isabel had delightful time. She let
people think what they pleased about
the size of HOmer's inheritance. The
most triumphant moment of her life
was when Stella Tarbox sourly con-
graduated her on her good fortune.
They had met at the dressmaker's
where Isabel was having some new
gowns made People were saying that
Homer had received anywhere from q
hundred thousand to million. Isabel
made him keep his mouth shut. But
she could not make him give up his
job. He kept to that with quiet de-
termination that ruffled her.
In time she got things to suit her
and they gave "housewarmlng."
Everybody was invited and everybody
went. 1t was great affair for hum
BILE little Summitville. In time also
the new car was purchased. Homer
called 1t the yellow PERIL and after
one or two attempts, refused to learn
to drive 1t. Isabel, In spite Of her
heroic resolve, gave up trying to I'm
derstand clutches and service brake
and hired man to drive for her. In
a purple hat she made quite a sensa-
ton, flashing about the Summitville
streets in the yellow car.
For couple Of years she had a
delightful time. The more money she
spent the more ways she found of
spending II. In the beginning $4,000
had seemed limltless sum. And any
way she had to live up to what was
expected Of her.
Meanwhile, Homer kept on working.
He had never given up the little house
on Meadow street, nor rented It. He
always had M excuse ready when Is
abel begged him to sell.
"T'm sort Of sentimental about It."
he sighed st was our first home"
And Isabel let him have his own way,
for he was very generous with her
and lenicnt in all else. But $4,000
cannot last forever when II Is being
constantly drawn upon.
There came a day, though, when Is.
abel received a polite note from the
bank saying that she had Overdrawn
q "a,