The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-12-30
PARADISE
DAWSON

She slipped her arm through his coaxingly.
 I'm all worn out. Let's talk while we undress."
 m turn out the lights first"
 When he rejoined her, she was climbing into bed To prove that she wasint the person with whom he was angry, he arranged her pil- lows Then let fly.
 He grows boresome-comes to see you, not us. Struts like a rooster. You must have noticed how he expects me to walk out when he arrives. I might be the officeboy snooping on a directors meeting. His attitudes a joke; but joke repeated too often is annoying. Wasn't our arrangement that you were to get rid of him gradually"
 She cuddled her chin against her shoulder.
 Tt was But Dicky sticks like gum. He's so dependent-digs his toes into you. He's like a child in a dark room-frightened."
 Frightened nothing!" Give snorted. Works the only thing he's afraid of"
 But he is working"
 'tAt what?"
 Theatrical producing"
 Give roared with laughter.
 He's playing you for a sucker. The only work he'll ever do is picking up chorus girls"
 "If that were true" she stiffened, after all the pity I've lavished on him. But it's only sur- misc"
 The good work continued. Gives first married Christmas was spoil ed by the prosperous penitent's inclusion Santa excused his pres ence on the ground that it was the season of peace and good will.
 Give thought up fresh argu- ments, but to utter them seemed futile. He grew secretly anxious. He compared his lot to that of the gullible husbands in the Decam- eron. He was well aware that the imperial verdict would be that he was being hoodwinked. The only man he could trust to be lenient in his judgment was another dog Fido-so he consulted his father in-law.
 MT. Dawn chuckled.
 Like mother like daughter. All women are cheats. Pleasant cheats. Self-deceiving cheats. Cheats, nev- erthless. Which, being the case, if you don't want to become single let her live through her frenzy"
 Give bit his lips and watched more closely. At the right moment he would come down like a ton of brick.
 Santa's frenzy was progressive. To evangelize Dicky whom she had doubly wronged by marrying and divorcing became for her a sacred mission. The vivisection of his soul stimulated her to exaltation. Give clad in pyjamas and aching for sleep played audience to her rap lures. Nightly the serial story of Dicky's gropings toward righteous ness was inflicted on him.
 She had been talking an hour. His mind had wandered when she startled him into alertness.
 You were right about chorus girls I've gouged a confession; he makes Lou-Lou an allowance"
 Give sat up in the darkness, grinning broadly
 That's the best news I've heard in a long while"
 She initiated his example by popping up.
 flows it good news?"
 Its good news to me-" he in- sisted. T could take a drink on it."
 But you don't realize" Her voice became awe-struck. "Dicky wouldn't make any woman an al- lowance for nothing"
 That's precisely what I do rea- lize." In his joy he embraced his wife. Here's luck to her dig ging."
 She pushed him aside.
 Either you don't understand or you're disgusting"
 From then on Santa began to attribute to Lou-Lou fresh crimes. She made her the scape-goat for Dicky. In the proportion that she was black he was white. The theft of the polo coat was remem- bered and the fact that she might have been quoted as correspondent. Her father was plumber. Her