The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-09

1T isn't your needing another per-
o that brings you to love that per-
son." said Mary. "It's the other person
that Norman needed me-"
"And when I began to find that Mary
needed me" from Norman.
soon?"
1.-The second day at sea; about noon,
wasn't it darling? That was when Mary
came. up on deck. I was sitting in q
deck chair watching the Atlantic roll by
and having a delightful cry inside my
self about the girl who had gone glim-
mering out of my life. Mary had dabbed
her eyes and dashed cold water over
looking sports outfit. She came and sat
down beside me and murmured, Thanks
Norman, for being so kind"
Csc dear and kind and understand
ing was what I said," Mary for once
amended q story of her husbands.
and for letting me cry off that at
suspected Those were my remarks, and
I don't want any Of them left out. I
think it was a right pretty speech"
"UnqueStionably. And them"
a frank talk"
mot before I'd told you how much
I appreciated your having let me keep
proachfully.
20 yes, to be sure. And that, of
course, was where I had my first ink
ling that perhaps this man I'd married
on the rebound might need me. Well,
then, as I say, We had this frank talk.
It was about how, though We certainly
didn't love each other, it was plain that
we weren't bad company for each other
IN RI nNyv II could foln NIo~p,o ~ x,s~I
off the CIR! he loved, and he could take
mine off the man I'd lost; at least we
could do that for each other. So we
decided" Mary's voice slowed a trifle.
Let me put it in plain, manly Eng
lish, DEAR" Norman offered. I'VE de-
cided, Frank, that we'd just forget
we were supposed to be On a honey
moon. We'd make it a simple trip to see
what we could see in Florida. We'd
forget the mutual worship and adora-
ton, and all those things that are in
order on the conventional honeymoon
and just be friends out for a jaunt.
Tell people we were married, of course,
and keep up appearances of being a
ried. But we wouldn't try to simulate
affection, romantic attachment, that
we couldn't feel now and didn't know
whether we'd ever feel"
Il WONDER" Mary said pensively,
"how many honeymoon couples would
dared"
PLENTY of them," Norman assured
her, as emphatically as if he could put
his finger on statistics TO prove it.
II think So" Mary solemnly con-
CURED; She went on, Maybe we'd bet
dear"
20 yes; at Hialeah, the day after
we reached Miami. I think, though, that
that had better come from your lips.
Mary said, 1T wa just the slightest
sort of thing outwardly, but it went
to show-well, anyway, we were in the
Line Il indn IN front at a,s Of the ,t Two dollar + betting tatH g
little flier for fun. One of those flashy
little men who seem to war; down
there elbowed his way roughly into the
line ahead of me. Now, when a thing
like that happens my instinct is to
put up a battle of words that people
can hear for a block. Some common
streak in me, I suppose"
Just courage, dear, courage" Nor
man murmured.
Mary resumed, II had barely begun
to speak my mind to this person when
Norman very gently took me by the
arm and changed places with me in the
line. Never having seen Norman in such
a situation before I expected a fist
fight: But what do you suppose hap
pened?"
nm sure I could never guess"
Norman" said Mary, the wonder OF
it creeping back into her voice after
five years, merely talked to this little
man for a minute or less in that sooth-
ing, friendly way he has"
my training in the advertising bust
ness" Norman deprecated.
Whatever it was" Mary said. the
whole incident passed off charmingly:
The little man stepped back to the nj
of the line in the friendliest manner,
but before he went he whispered to us
to put our money on the nose of a horse
named Franklin D. And we did, and
the horse won! So you see, I had q
most arresting glimpse right then and
there of a whole field in life where !!
need Norman-the big, big field
where a little diplomacy and polite
will get so much better results than
the boundaries Of that field yet"
There's a corresponding field, tho,
I need Mary" Norman said as
Mary paused reflectively. Its in the
matter of getting your moneys worth.
inclined, you see. to pay bills Off
hand without adding up the items,
throw money at taxi drivers without
at the meter; all those things.
Just Plutocrat Fain-the only flaws be-
ing that Fain hasn't a plutocratic in
come, and that real p%lutocrats don't do
those things anyway. which is n rea-
son why they're plutocrats."
Mary put q damper on that?"
"She did-beginning with the second
time she saw me overtip somebody for
And she does, ~everlastingly.
Hence, my dear Frank, this house in
the country; hence this car; hence
everything else we have that makes
people think Fain is doing far better
in the world than he really is"
He gave Mary a look which, COM
ing from any husband, would have
thrilled any wife-grateful, tender,
"That's more or less the way he
looked" Mary said fondly, the night
fell in love-"
tell me about that" I begged; then,
hastily, "of course, If you care to-"
you mind?" Norman asked his wife.
Not at all. Go ahead"