The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-04-17
Never, Never
able. I can't think of a thing we'd eve

able. I can't think of a thing we'd ever
quarrel about" -.
That's what we'll have to decide =
said Adora brightly. I'VE will ave 70
think of something, and we'd better
make up our minds right now. Insres
no use wasting any o OF our t!iteS
dollars and forty-one cents on set 5G0e
a perfectly good table three times a
day. I'll get a bus to Westcote wnen
we've got these dishes Washeo-ltS
much better for me to get there at
night. I wish it was ratntng-or
ing-it would seem as II I was SO mucn
more angry. It ought to b sometnine
asSillyq"
"That we quarrel about. Silly quar-
rels are so much harder to make up.
there's no N in them. I mean there's
no logic in 2 silly quarrel, It Is 1us T., a
quarrelers keep on being idiots"
"Idiots?"
well. you know what I mean, Eddie.
So what will we quarrel about?"
"But darling, I don't want 70 quar-
rel. I don't even want to pretend to
eddie Bates, we've got to quarrel.
Ferociously. It will be so good for moth
rather meek, you know. And the girls,
they think you'd let me walk al owe
you. What shall we fight about, Eddie?"
inr 90 vgIf Gsh y6 ! can't even think OF fight
If you belonged to a lodge or g club
or something I could be mad at you
for going to it when I wanted you to
stay home" said Adora. But you don't
belong to anything, do you?"
Just to you, honey, you're all 1 be-
"Darling!" Adora said absent mind
edly, toying with a spoon. "You might
tell mt I look like a hideous old trump
in that blue hat. I know I do but it
would make me mad to have you tell
It thought you looked lovely in it.
That's not fair, you aren't helping
me a bit. Dc 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
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"
mo you're not. You said you would
come home for lunch-you promised
| positively you would come-and I got
ready the loveliest lunch, I just wore
myself all out getting it, and I was
all dressed beautifully because you
where. Where did you promise to take
me?"
"Crazy! A matinee. What matinee is
there, Eddie? Dark Wings at the En-.
pire. And I did so want to see it, I had
~~A 49, - - ~ A~-S &I~NH ~ I
phoned."
But we have no telephone"
THAT was the worst of it. Here I was
with such a nice lunch and all dolled
up and the elevator boy--imagine-,
came and said you had telephoned that
you would not be home for lunch.
TO-. lunch an hes goin' to the ball
game wifi Who with, Eddie?"
II don't know whether there is a
ball game this afternoon"
"Of course there is. There's always
go with?"
1T could have been with Joe Prior.
He was the only ball fan in our office"
ing all afternoon, just so heartbroken
and lonely and deserted"
"Poor kidd"
"And when you came home" said
Adora orlgntly' and at my 1rst WORD
Il got down on my knees"
you said it was a nice state Of af-
fairs If a man couldn't have one after
noon to himself without a lot Odd
YOU say damned tears, Eddie?"
well, without a lot of tears, any
way, and that it was about time-,at any
rate, it was awful, and you shouted and
slammed the door, and I just slung some
things into a suitcase and went home
to mother. I was eve * angry in my
life and I'd never, never, never go back
to you until you came to me and
humbly apologized. I'd better say that
before you storm out, don't you think?
apologize because I'm SO unreasonable.
Darling, isn't that simply perfect?"
Il simply hate it." Eddie said, but
Adora closed his mouth with another
tits only until you get another job,
you so,'" she said. IT hate i; Just as
much as you do, and you'll come and
apologize the very first minute you do
get a job. How shall we spend the aft
ernoon? Shall we go to the park and
watch the swans and ducks?"
,s IAdora! NY dear child! Whatever
Carter demanded when Adora thumped
her suitcase down on the veranda.
Mother, don't you ever mention Ed
die to me again. I'm through with Ed
ole: I'm never, never, never going back
to him.. I've been so insulted. I've never
been treated like this. I won't go back
to him, never"
But Adora-tell me what happened,
II won't go back to him. Never. Not
unless he begs my pardon, not unless
ne comes. on his knees and begs my
This" thought Mrs. Garter, "s one
young couples must go through. Adora
Is SO high tempered!" and she said,
Tel me about it, Adora," and Adora
poured out the story of the mythical
pau game and her wounded heart, and
did it very well.
wen, I must say I don't think it was
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