Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-03

lshore only for week-ends. Through
the week he read law in his uncle
office in town.
He was maturing rapidly. ant
as his world broadened, his mothe
and Bessie seemed, dear ant
sweet but a little too old fash
Toned.
GETS DESK SPACE
4 The Summer after he finished
college he got desk space in hi
uncle's office and the promise o.
steady advancement. Labor Da,
weekend he arrived at hi!
mothers cottage with a new suit
I a broad smile. and a bride.
The young couple lived with the
senior Mrs. Bannister. Mr.. Ban
mister could not yet afford a maid
and his bride had never learned tc
keep house.
When the junior Mrs. Bannistel
learned Bessie was not a poor re.
lation but a paid servant without
even a high school diploma. she
had a scene with her mother-in
law.
The scene upset Mrs. BannisteI
so that she took to bed with a
huttering heart. When she was
able 10 be up again, Bessie S
kitchen status was settled.
She spoke to her son. but he
said that he wanted no part of a
woman's fuss. Mrs. BanniSteT
began to spend most of her time in
her bedroom. And so her frailty
increased, so did her dependence
on Bessie.
son Is BORN
At the end of the year Mr.. Ban
niSter'S son was born. He was a
fine average baby with the aver
age baby's many demands. Young
Mrs. Bannister was ready 10
scream inside a month. She found
an escape by getting a job.
There came a catastrophe
month for Mr.. Bannister. His
wife's employer moved his business
to another city. Young Mrs. Ban
mister kept her job. She did not
write her husband for two weeks.
When she did, it was to ask for a
divorce.
Mr.. Bannister rushed off to see
her. His mother went TO bed
with shock. He found Bessie's
telegram on his return TO his hotel,
after his humiliating session with
his wife and her employer, so OBJ
viouslN the man she planned to
marry next. He returned home
alone to his mothers funeral.
FEEDING BABY
He walked straight through the
house TO the kitchen. Bessie was
feeding the baby. He knelt and
put his face in Bessie's lap. No
words passed between them, and
Mr.. Bannister wished he could
stay in the kitchen with his face
in Bessie's lap forever.
All that week Mr.. Bannister
tried to find words to ask Bessie
TO take her meals with him.
At night when he sat in the
living room alone, he longed to ask
Bessie TO join him. But however
hard he tried, the words would not
come.
One night he rode home on the
bus behind two of his neighbors.
The most voluble one was telling
her friend that young Mrs. Ban
mister had left her husband be-
cause of the long relationship be-
tween him and % Bessie, which
relationship Mr.. Bannister had
tried to hide by RELOCATING Bessie
TO the kitchen.
DIDN'T TAKE LONG
II did not take young Mrs. Ban
mister long TO see that Bessie was
crazy about her husband. After
the birth of her baby, she had
gone to work to regain her self
respect.
Now she was in another city
getting divorce, so that Mr.. Ban
mister. would be free to marry
Bessie.
Mr. Bannister was upset, but
the only thing on his mind was
that he was compromising Bessie.
There was but one thing Mr..
Bannister could do. The next day
he invited his secretary TO lunch.
He had never paid any particular
attention TO her.
Now he saw that she was
charming and amusing and kind.
They went TO lunch rather con-
Stantly after that, and then they
began to 60 TO dinner and the
theater. and on Sunday outings.
GETS DIVORCE
When his wife received her di-
vorce, Mr.. Bannister realized sud-
denly and sharply that for some
time now he had monopolized most
Of Miss Taylor'S evenings, and
that his only honorable course was
to propose TO her.
They were married one Satur-
lay afternoon. Bessie did not
know they were married until
they walked into the house as man
and wife. She murmured her con-
CALCULATIONS through bloodless lips.
The new Mrs. Bannister liked
Bessie at once. She did not try