The Washington times., 1937-11-09
Cast of Characters in
"The Quarrel"
SALLY, who is tired of
dishes, dishes, dishes.
BOB, who didn't like them
either.

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the next cut-in. Having a good
time?" he had asked; and then,
Il hear you have a new boy
friend" and she had only nodded,
and smiled fleetingly, and tried
not to show him her heart, since
he wanted it no longer.
Sally knew now that all the free.
dom and gayety and fun and ire
SponSibility in the world could
not compensate for the aching
void of Bob not loving her, of Bob
not wanting her, of Bob not need
ing her.
Oh, the work wouldn't matter
any more, nor the skimping to
live on Bob's salary-she would
rise above that, now that it was
too late.
She couldn't bear it any longer,
and when next Tippy tagged her,
she begged him that he take her
home.
Jaw, JUS when we're having
fun" he demonstrated, and Sally
wondered if he hadn't been drink
ing little too much.
But the whiteneSS of her face
penetrated his consciousness, and
sobered him somewhat, and he
bundled her solicitously into his
nov op6 b11F1,ied owaV
AN ACCIDENT
But Sally couldn't sleep when
she reached home. She was in a
lost, broken world. She still was
dressed and aimleSSly circllng her
room when they called her from
the hospital about Tippy'S acci-
dent. He wanted her to come, and
so they had called.
No, they couldn't tell yet how
seriously he had been hurt. He
had simply been found by the side
of the highway in his overturned
car. Evidently he had swerved
from the pavement into a soft
shoulder. No one knew.
Frantically she wished that she
had been the one to have the ac-
cident, and she wished that she
had died. Ironical that anything
should happen to fun-loving, life
loving Tippy.
The hospital corridor was dim
lighted and ghoStly at that eerie
morning hour. There was hud-
died group at the desk and it
broke into pieces as she opened
the heavy outside door.
She could not see clearly in the
dim lighting; and at first she did
not recognize the figure coming
SO rapidly towards her.
And then suddenly there was no
one else in the whole word except
herself and the man coming to-
wards her.
Sally" he cried, SALLY" She
recognized the anguish in her
husbands voice. And quite
naturally, quite simply, she was
in his arms and holding his face
between her two hands and the
whole world was singing.
HAPPY REUNION
II thought that you were in the
wreck" he said, and in his eyes
was all the love and longing and
need for her that she had thought
was gone. There were all the
promises we'd that she
thought had been broken forever.
"Oh, Sally" he burst out,
haven't you wanted me just
little? Haven't you wanted to go
back? Haven't you wished we were
still together? I've nearly died"
She laughed shakily. "Why I
could even manage on $75 a
month" Then her face changed,
and She clssped her hands in
panic. But Tippy"-she moaned,
poor, poor 7ippy that I've
killed."
I'm not so very killed" sug-
gested a voice from up the hall
way, and they peered through the
half light anxiously.
. The huddled group now had
shifted from the desk to a newly
opened doorway, and the huddle
fell back so that fully dressed
ana apparently unscathed, Tippy
was revealed.
"Tippy," cried Sally wonder
lngly, unbelievingly, aren't YOU
hurt even?"
A white capped nurse annearad
from behind Tippy; and very
Sternly she told them all to be
more quiet.
MY nose is still a little wobblv
but that's because that husband
OF yours took punch at it early
IN the evening"
Bob wouldn't!" she said indig-
nantly; but when she looked at
Bob she knew that he had.
He's been stealing my wife!"
Bob'S words came through
clenched teeth.
And you've both been numb
SKULLS with your silly pride" said
Tippy. mot telling each
ether"
You darling!" exclaimed Sallv
ana her eyes were shining. You
6ld it all on purpose, didn't you
4lppy? You faxed that accident"
Tippy grinned.
wen, I kept thinking about
you two kids all the way back to
the country club.
IT was easy enough to get the
fellows to tell Bob you had been
with me in a car wreck; but Nurse
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