Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1936-04-11

4 quarrel a1oslt.
That's what ven have to decide,
said Adora brightly. We win have 70
think OF something. and we'd better
make up our minds right now. IL 49,. Z
\ no use wasting any more of our Enf@e
dollars and forty-one cents on gQou
for me, Eddie, when mother Is setekE8
q perfectly good table three times
I Clay. III get a bus to WeStcote when
we've got these dishes washed--ls's
much better for me 20 get there s.
night. I wish It was raining-0r snow
ing-it would seem as Il was 50 nlucn
more angry. It ought 70 The something
asiIlyf"
THAT we quarrel about. silly quar-
rels are 50 much harder to make up
there's no sense in them. mean there's
no logic in a silly quarrel. It is rust
quarrel and It can go on as long as the
quarrslers keep on being idiots"
"WeIl, you know what mean, Eddie.
So what wiz we quarrel about2"
@But darling. don't want 70 quar-
rel, don't even want to pretend 70
quarrel with you"
Eddie Bates, we've got to quarrel.
Ferociously 1t win be so good for moth
rather meek, you know. And the girls,
they think you'd let me walk all over
you What shall we fight about, Eddie"
% gOShl can't even think Of fight
ing with you"
Eff you belonged to g lodge or g club
or something could be mad at you
for going to 1t when wanted you to-
stay home" said Adora. -But you don't
belong 60 anything do you2"
Just to you, honey, you're all be-
sbariingl" Adora said absent mind
edly, toying with q spoon. you might
tell me look like q hideous old trump
in that blue hat. I know do but u
would make me mad to have you tel
me So"
II thought you looked lovely In it.
That's not fair, you aren't helping
me bit. Do try to think"
SO they both sat and thought. From
time to time Adora's face frightened,
then fell again as she rejected some
idea that had come to her but would
not do. Then suddenly she clapped her.
hands and jumped from her chair and
ran around the table and kissed her
husband with joyful vigor.
Eddie, I've got It'll" she cried. you
didn't come home to lunch"
What lunch?"
This lunch"
But I'm here"
mo you're not You said you would
come home for lunch-you promised
positively you would come-and got
ready the loveliest lunch, Just wore
myself all out getting it, and was
all dressed beautifully because you /,
promised you would take me some
where. Where did you promise to take
me?"
ssThe zoo2"
"Crazyl A matinee. What matinee Is
there, Eddie2 Dark Wings at the EN-
pire. And I did so want to see 1t, had
set my heart on it. And then you tele-
phoned."
"But we have no telephone"
THAT was the worst Of it, Here was
with such a nice lunch and all dolled
up and the elevator boy--imagine
came and said you had telepnoned that
you would not be home for lunch
Aaistah Bates he says he won't be home
To- lunch an he's goin' TO the ball
game wifi Who with, Eddie2"
Il don't know whether there Is
ball game this afternoon"
"Of course there is. There's always
D ball game somewhere. Who did you
90 with2"
~It could have been with Joe Prior.
He was the only ball fan in our office.
Eyes, Joe Prior. So here sat cry
and lonely and deserted"
Poor kidd"
"And when you came home" said
Adora brightly, "and at my first WORD
# reproach-"
Il got down on my knees"
you said it was q nice state Of az
airs II man couldn't have one after
loon to himself without lot Odd
'ou say damned tears, Eddie?"
even. without a lot Of tears, any
Vay, and that It was about ttme-at any
ate, IL Yves awful, and you shouted and
damned the door, and Just slung some
Kings into suitcase and went home
0 mother. I was never 50 angry Ia my
lie and I'd never, never, never go back
0 you until you came TO me and
Iumbly apoIogized I'd better say that
efOre you storm out, don't you think?
% you'll know It, And you simply WON'T
pologize because I'm so unreasonable.
Sarling, isn't that simply perfect?"
II simply hate It," Eddie said, but
dora closed his mouth with another
iss.
aIt's only until you get another Job,
earest, and so they won't say I told
on So" she said. 7 hate it just as
luch as you do, and you'll come and
poiogize the very first minute you do
ct q job. How shall we spend the aft
rnoon2 Shall we go to the park and
atch the swans and ducks?s
<2ACA4f nay As<Esf SAkAiUt W4ldJCfEA
the matter3 Where Is Eddie?" Mrs.
arter demanded when Adora thumped
er suitcase down on the veranda.
Mother, don't you ever mention Ed
le to me again. I'm through with Ed
lie. I'm never, never. never going back
} him. I've been SO insulted. I've never
zen treated like this. won't go back
, him, never"
But Adora-ten me what happened.
hid"
II won't go back to him. Never. Not
Mess he begs my pardon, not unless
2 comes on his knees and begs my
ardOn."
'HThis, thought AIRS. Carter, ais one
those adjustment spats so many
,tIng couples must go Through. Adora
so high temperedlS and she said,
Tell me about it. Adora," and Adora
Jured out the story Of the mythical
III game and her wounded heart, and
d 1t very well
Wei, must say / don't think It was
ny considerate OF Eddie" Mrs. Carter
United, but you do have a hasty
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