Evening star., 1937-10-01

gan to paint large bullfrog sitting
on top of Margit's hat. Its this way
I gave Irene lecture this morning
on being helpless. Not knowing how
to cook-and so on. She said that
maybe she couldn't cook, but that
she was the best little laundress in
the world. dared her to wash some
thing to prove it. She couldn't wash
her dress-that has to be dry-cleaned
so she's washing her underwear"
Margit's voice was low and hate
full. You haven't got any decency
or self-respect, have you?" She stood
up and started across the compart-
ment, saying sharply, Irene! Irene!
Come out this minute!"
There was faint glimmer in
Charles eye. You realize that if
Irene came out this minute it might
embarrass both of us"
Margit stopped stock still. She gave
tongue to single outraged cry. She
looked through the curtains. She
swept them aside. Irene was not
there.
Maybe she's stepped out for some
laundry SOAP" Charlie said, compla-
Gently.
Margit spun around. You were
kidding mel"
His face was innocence itself. MY
dear Margit. We may have easy
chairs in trauers, but not laundry
tubs. Where does my supply Of
running hot water come from?" Mar
gifts reaction to that was interrupt
ed. There was loud ringing sound.
THE telephone" Charlie murmured,
and he rushed from the trailer
Margit followed him. Ontside the
rear of the trailer, hanging from
metal arm, was large gong such
as ships stewards pound to an
nounce meals. 1t was that gong which
had rung. Charlie was streaklng
across the parking lot toward the
back door of Spikes. She could not
see any one near the gong. Then a
voice doomed across the yard. "H'ya,
Miss Agnew?" She looked up. Spike
was standing in second-story win
dow. He was holding an air rifle
in his hand. She understood Charles
phone calls came in at Spikes, and
Spike notified him by firing across
the parking lot BIB shot which rank
the gong.
1t was a lottle too much for Mar
git. She went back into the trailer
and sat down. I must tell him, she
said to herself, that he is to stop
seeing Irene. I must explain that
she's young and mpressionable-tha
a crazy person like himself can easily
turn her head-that he will ruin not
only her life but Waldo's.
She had an idea. A solution for the
whole thing. She would dispense with
the magnificent wedding she had
planned. Irene would marry Waldo
at once. They would leave for Europe.
That would solve everything. More
over, she realized, it would leave
Charlie free and unattached. That
thought elated her, although she did
not know it. And she forgot, at the
same time, that Charlie was married.
Margit was pretty badly confused.
There was a sneeze in the trailer.
Her scalp prickled. She assured her.
self that it had come from the out
side. but the sneeze was repeated.
Slowly, dismayed, she went again
to the front section of Charles mo-
bile abode. She had just glanced into
it when she had been looking for
Irene. Now she surveyed it more care
fully. On one. side were two hunks,
which formed comfortable double-deck
sleeping quarters.
On the top deck there was a man
now visible because he was sitting
up.
He sneezed again.
1t was Waldo.
Charlie is a new type to Margit.
and he completely battles her. Yet
every one seems to like him. And
now, what does Waldo's presence
mean? See tomorrow's episode, in
which Margit tries out new set of
tactics in this battle with Charlie.
(To be continued.)
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