Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-11-10
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CHAPTER Is
THE MONEY QUESTION.

n YEXT morning the world seemed
N radiant. The only change was
lin SssS t5es ,s sssd ssss o Ssa
across the breakfast table.
Their tenderness made them bold. They
didn't care who guessed that they were
newly welded.
Just you and isn't it fun?" Santa
dimpled.
"Ill sey it's fun. But has it occurred
TO YOU, Mrs Doncaster, that well be in
New York within the next few hours?
I can't take you to my bachelor quar-
tiers. Well have to perch in q hotel TIL
we've found an apartment. Before We
move in we'll have to purchase furn1-
ture"
That's easy" She corrected her
loneliness in a pocket mirror Well
Older my furniture to be forwarded
from Chicago"
And sit on the chairs on which he
sat?"
But, beloved dumbbell, why waste
money? I sat on them, too. They were
wedding presents"
We promised never to mention his
name Give lowered his voice. You
and ! received no wedding presents. l
couldn't live with you in his setting. 1t
wouldn't be-wel, it wouldn't be de-
cent. 1t would mean eating off the
same plates, using the same knives and
forks
Don't you think you're bit squeam-
lsh?" she coaxed him. ITO replace the
things I've left in storage would cost
I haven't an idea how much. At any
rate, small fortune"
I'm not proposing to replace them"
Now was the time to take the bull by
/ the horns. Wen accumulate as we go
along Well start simply. Which brings
me to finances.
You are a Joke" she twitted him.
My income" he ploughed on, doesn't
Sun to antiquities and Grown Derby"
Who cares?" She stuck out the tip
Of her pink tongue. Il didn't marry
you to be gold-digger. With what
Grandfather Summers settled on me and
have the best part of twenty thou
sand. Since yesterday it's ours"
Gives face fell.
We should have had this talk earlier.
Tn afraid you'll be disappointed. For
q years work l only earn a quarter of
what you receive for nothing"
only five thousand?" Across the
table she stroked his hand sympathet-
ically How old Cleasby grinds you'll"
He doesn't. There aren't many fell
lows Of my age"
You're clever" She glowed on him.
a'We'n be all right with me helping
Why spoil a perfectly good marriage
morning."
Because. you adorable absurdity,
happen to be honorable. I married you
to support you"
AS though you needed to tell me.
But let's postpone banking until our
honeymoon's ended"
He stared at her.
Sorry, Santa"
Whats the next misery?"
The only honeymoon I can afford is
this trip from Chicago"
oh see!" Quite evidently till that
moment she hadn't. THE more rea-
son for enjoying every moment OF it."
He was shaken by intensity.
You're as generous as you're sweet.
g., If you say, Let's be impracti-
cal"
She ruffed his hair.
Lets"
That afternoon when they landed in
New York she was the one who dis
played the better judgment
You can see me as far as the hotel.
While I'm unpacking you're going to
report back to the Office"
He objected that the day was nearly
over-that he would find nothing to do
at the Office.
You took French leave" she insisted.
"You mustn't postpone a second in
making your peace with your bread and
butter"
The moment he had signed mfr. and
Mrs. DoncaSter'' on the register she
hustled him off.
In the room to which she was shown,
having changed into a negligee, she
threw herself on the bed, smiling up at
the ceiling. So far, SO good. As an ex-
pert on marriage she was sure this one
was fated to prove huge success. If
1t didn't, the fault would be hers A
husband revealed exactly what he was
going to be within the first "a hours.
Give would require managing, though
IN totally different fashion from the
way she managed Dicky. She'd have to
mind her p's and as. His awkwardness
was that he was overscrupulous His
attitude toward possessions inherited
from her first marriage was ridiculous,
as was his idea that their scale of liv-
ing must be kept within the limits of
his income.
Very dear of him to be so anxious
TO pay for everything! Unfortunately,
she'd been accustomed to more luxuries
than he could afford. And then she
longed to do things for him The first