Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-06-21
CHAPTER vIlI-contlnued

Wdiu pelSudolNeigs just itt LII
try running things for you til
Christmas-well. until after Thanks
giving anyway. You're not strong
yet, you ought to take thing:
easy"
Suddenly she yielded, with 6
sweetness and docility which should
have warned him.
VERY well, Geoffl Have 1t your
way" She looked pensively into the
fire. I'm having a guest from New
York next week, and it'll give me
more time to be with him"
"The man that wants to marry
your" asked Tenny.
Eyes, Tenny, the man that wants
TO marry me-" She gave Geoff q
glance of friendly malice. II hope
you'll do your best to give us nice
meals while he's here. He's a
wealthy man, used to every luxury"
Geoff went upstairs to his room
In q state which bordered on col
lapse. This was the first time he
had thought of Cynthia In connec-
tion with another man.
What a blind idiot he had been,
taking 1t for granted that Cynthia
hung like a rosy apple on the Dough
ready for his pickingl What a
consummate fool he was to insist
on running the housekeeping If
Cynthia had domestic problems on
her mind 1t was a cinch she
wouldn't have much time to devote
to the New Yorker.
But wait a minutel Maybe all
the sordld little money cares would
have sent her scooting into his
armsl Maybe she'd say to her
self: whats the use of my spend
ing my youth wrestling with nickels
and dimes, or the lack of them,
when there is a man waiting to
give me everything a girls heart
could desire?"
"Still upT Cary's voice asked
outside his door.
Come I'M"
Cary had startling news.
I'm married." he said, without
preliminaries.
Married" Geoff laid his pipe
on the table, took his feet down
from 1t and stared at the boy.
again or YETI"
Again" He perched socially on
a corner of the table and began his
explanations. Cynthia doesn't APP
prove of the new Mrs. Cary Ayles-
bury"
"You surprise me-" was Ge0ff's
somewhat dry comment.
Cary remained unperturbed.
when she knows her, everythingll
be X. o. Nobody could resist
Baby. But here's what / started to
tell you. Cynthia saw me riding
around with her once or twice and
she gave me thunder about tt"
"WhyY'
"Well, partly because Of the ali
mony, / guess, and partly because,
as / said, she doesn't know Baby"
what is your wife's manner"
FLORENCE Geraldine McMichael
Aylesbury"
"Helpl"
"You seel Better call her Baby
It's simpler. Now the point is,
Geoff, | want to bring her home. It's
q dead sure thing her people aren't
going to take us in. They think I'm
a bum, always getting jobs and al
ways losing them"
"And 80 you are"
Long ago the indulgent amuse-
ment Geoff had first felt toward this
brother of Cynthia had departed.
Now his mad acquisition of a wife
at a time when the family was hav-
Ing unusual difficulty In meeting the
usual expenses aroused In Geoff an
anger which it needed all his self
control to keep In leash.
"You expect to support two wives
on your present salary? 1t comes
to that, with your allmony to be
paid every MONTH"
The youthful b%ridegroom's face
clouded. "Say, wouldn't you think
that she-my first wife, you know
Wouldn't you think she'd dispense
with alImony now I'm married
againY
II wouldn't cherish any hope In
that direction. You plan to bring
her here, you say-Florence-G eral-
dine-and-all-the-rest-of-it?"
"What else can ! doY" Cary de-
manded. "Her folks will raise hi
--as I intimated a moment ago. We
were married this afternoon but /
thought perhaps we'd better wait
q day or two"
Lost your nerve2" Geoff asked
bitingly.
Cary rose to his feet and stood
with his shoulders squared. "No, I
haven't III you must know, | just
began to realize, after we were
married, what a deuce Of a position
I'm putting Baby In. Miss Nona'n
be sweet to her--Miss Nona's al
ways sweet to every n But
Cynthia"
The wrath which had been sim
mering In Geofr's mind burst forth
IN leaping words now.