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'.? of 3hi to see her'marrv Mr.
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jnTTlV, Jlninn wiiyt Mama, mint
Wi. M or Vptfcburg to-to mc?
flbji i-1 i.iq t.i
bald. Why,
he (1 o u ' t
know I'm on
enrth. He
he's"
"You mean
baby, h o
don't know,
anybody else
it on arth.
What's now
adays, t bnby.
a man 'forty?
W h y, why,
ain't mania
forty - one,
baby, and
didn't you
just say
joursclfj, for
sisters they
Im. Ma. but l.c-he- AVIiy
l."i t an accent, Ma, just like old
. .i. ..ln.l nil nf Vm. lfn
S, 'too-saml' for thousand. He- '
-.,t,3 anv difference how n Rood man
Lrhter It the wrists down into her
ft, . "Voii're a bad little flirt, baby.
lit pretends the don't kijow what u
Wfnd' man ran sec.
J.A and she tUERc'd for tile, freedom
jwnrlsts. "Ma. ouit scaring me!"
"ScarinK 3011! That sucn a rising
em like Vetsburjj, with n business lie
" i..j MmirlF into nresident f rom'
vor 11.... v.- .- -
ftoV. looks cvcr' tla u,ur' . e "r N
. .1 ! iA. 1. !tli nn MlinnM kpnrii
lilllD! iu " "" ' "
To reolv she Ml to stroking the
month black plaits, wound coronet
HiMon about Miss Kaufman s small
kid. Urge, hot tears sprang to her
ej(S. 1W. neu jou iiiik nue inui
itT0U tnai wurei mama i
"He-he ; ,
iMt'k. ..., tliitil Thihv. T hpcii mak
ing Out 'of mjfcdf a servant like you
call it 0.1) tnese 1 ears except iur .vuur
future? Ktor mself a smaller house
t.i...t C...K olinw nnfl mnho fivn or
lii roomers without meals, jou think
ib't easier as tnis oig uarn: ior
uliit, babj, jou think I nlwajs want
. bkn..M lion. nTtpnvncniii'PS mahe
I can't afford and should keep up with
tbe fine girls what j ou meet down by
Atlantic City if it ain't that a man
il. Mh-it Vrtsburc can be nroud to
tlooicjou from the best?"
"Mama! Mama!"
!'n..'f Mnl- ldiliv wlinn flin flnv
comes what I cRn give up this white
ekphant house that it won't be a hnpp
onewriac. i.vcry nignt wnen i near
l.Am ,.re(4ti.d l.nll Trfl Tnt7. mill fill
o them hollers down 'towels' and 'ice
liter' to me like I 1 was their slave.
don't think, baby, I won't be happiest
foman in this world the day what J
tin slam the door, bang, right on the
wdg."
"Mama, Mama, and jou pretending
ill these years jou didn't mind!"
! Jnn't fitif "V,f nnn mlnntn wllllp
I jot a future to look forward to with
I jou. For myself. j-ou think I nslrany-
taiog except my lime gin s nappiuess;
Anywaj's, when happiness comes to jou
with a man like Meyer Vctslnirg. don't
don't It come to inc. too. baby?"
'"Please, I"
"That's what my little girl can do
for mfinin better ns stenography. Set
herself down well. That's why, wince
we got ou the subject, bnby, I I hold
off signing up the, new lease, with every
day Hhullf fussing so. Maybe, baby,
I well, just majbc eh, baby?"
For answer a torrent of tears so sud
den that they cume in an avalanche
burst from Miss Kaufman, nnd she
pruiripled forwnrd, face in hands nnd
led rushing up the back of her neck
nnd over her cars.
"Kuby!"
"So, no, Mn! No, No!"
"Iloby, the dteam what I've dreamed
five jenrs for jou !"
"No, no, no!"
She fell back, regarding her.
"Why. Kuby. Why, Kuby, girl!"
"It ain't fnlr. You mustn't!"
".Mustn't?"
".Mustn't! Mustn't!" Her voice had
slipped up now nnd nwny from her.
"Why, bnby, it's natural at first
maybe a glil should be so scared. May
be I shouldn't have talked so soon ex
cept how it's getting every day plainer,
these trips to Atlantic City and "
"Mama, Mama, jou're killing me."
She fell back ngaiust her parent's
shoulder, her face frankly distorted.
A. second staling there into space,
Mrs, Kniifmnn sat with her nrm still
entwining the slender but lax form.
"Ituby. is Is it something jou ain't
telling Mama?"
"Oh, .Mommy, Mommy!"
"Is there?"
"I--I don't know."
"Ituby, should jou be afraid to talk
to MamaT who don't want nothing but
her child's happiness?"'
"You know, Mommy. You know!"
"Know what, bnby?"
'Ior "
"Is there somebody else jou got on
your mind, baby?"
"You know. Mommy."
"Tell mama, baby. It ain't a n
crime if jou got mnjbe somebody else
ou jour mind."
"I can't say. it. Mommy. It it
wouldn't be nice be nice."
"Ho help me, I don't."
"Mommy, don't mako mc say It,
Mnybe If when his uncle Meyer takes
him In the business, wc "
"Iinby, not Leo?"
"Oh, Mommy, Mommy!" And she
burled her hot, revealing face Into the
fresh net V. 1
"Why why, baby, a a boy like
"Twenty-three, Mamma, nin't a
boy I" '
"Hut, Ituby, just a rlerk In his
father's hotel, nnd two older brothers
already in It. A a boy that nln't
got n start yet,"
"That's just It, Ma. Wc we're
waiting! Waiting before wo talk even
even much to encb other yet. Maybe,
mnyue ills uncle Aieyer is going to
take llm in the business, but it nin't
sure yet. Wey "
"A little yellow'-hnlred boy like him
that that can't support you, baby, un
less you live right there In his mother's
nnd fnthcr's hotel away away from
mc!"
"Ma!"
"Ituby. a smart girl like you. A
little snip what don't make salt yet,
when you can have the unqlc his-self!"
"I enn't help it, Mn! If if the
first time Vetsy took mc down to to
the shore, if if Leo had been 0. king
or a or just what he Is. It wouldn't
make no difference. I I can't help
my- my feelings, .Ma. 1 ran tl
A large furrow formed between Mrs
Kaufman's eyes, darkening her.
"You wouldn't, Ituby!" t,he said,
clutching her.
"Oh, Mommy, Mommy, when a a
girl can't help a tiling!"
"He nln't good enough for you,
baby!"
'Nice?"
"He he-
jet.
We ain't even sure
"He?"
"Not ct."
"Who?"
"Von know."
"Ho's ten times too good: thnt
thnt's all you know about It. Mommy,
please! I I just can't help It, dearie.
It's Just 1 ke when I I snw him n a
clock began to tick Insldcof inc. I "
"U my Uodl" snid Mrs. Ivauiman,
drawing her hand across her brow.
"Ills Uncle Meyer, Ma, 's been hint'
Ing nil nlong he he's going to give
I,co bis stnrt nnd take him In the bust
ncss. Thnt's why we we're waiting
without saying much, till It looks more
like like we can all he together, Ma."
"All my dreams! My dreams I could
give up the house! My baby with a
well-to-do husband maybe on Illversldc
drive. A servnnt for herself, so I could
pass, maybe, Mrs. Suss nnd Mrs. Kntz
by on the street. Ituby, j-ou you
wouldn't, Ituby. After how I've built
for you !"
v "Oh, Mnnn. Mnmn. Mama!"
"If you ain't got ambitions for your
self, Ituby, think once of me and thi
long drenm I been dreaming for us."
"Yes, Mn. Yes."
"Ituby, Ituby, and I always thought
when you was so glad for Atlantic
City, It was for Vetsburg; to show him
how much you liked his folks. How
could I know It was "
"I never thought. Mommv. Why
why, Vetsy, he's just like 11 relation or
something.
"I tell you, baby, It's just an idea
you got In j'our head."
"No, no, Mnmn. No, no."
Suddenly .Mrs. Knufman threw up
her hands, clasping them tight against
her eyes, pressing tlicm in frenzy. "Oh.
my God!" she cried. "All for nothing!"
and fell to moaning through her laced
fingers. "All for nothing! Years.
Years. Years."
"Mommy darling!"
"Oh don't, don't! .Test let mc be.
Let me be."
... . -w I .l!.tU
"Aiommy. please mommy i 1 uwu
mean It. I didn't mean It, Mommy
darling."
"I enn't go on all the yenrs, Iluby.
I'm tired. Tired, girl."
"Of couue you can't, darling.- wc
I don't want you to. 'Slili-b-li I .
JL H 1J1IIJ JIMI IIWU ..J ..v,'....
that kept me roing nil these yenrs. The
hope' thnt, with some dny n good mnn
to nrovlde for vou. I could find n rest,
maybe."
.es, yes.
"Every time what I think of that
Iahm nnimlAiiA In i In it tliirn nil flint. flCRK
j" life cm .iwi. i,""n .....- - -
with Its lense uniting to be signed to
morrow, I I could squeeze my cye
..i,,.t iii,t nn.i ..lull T 1 iln't never
hnvc to open them ngnin on this this
house nnd this drudgery. If you mnrry
wrong, bnby. I'm cnught. Caught in
this house like n rat In a trap,
"No, no, Mommy. Ico, he liis
uncle "
"Dou't mnkc me sign thnt new lease,
Ituby. Hhulif hounds me ever day
now. Any day I expect he snys is my
last. Don't make mc saddle another
five years with the house. He s only
n boy, baby, and years it will take, and
I'm tired, baby. Tired! Tired!"
She lay bnck with her face suddenly
held in rigid lines nnd her neck ribbed
with cords.
At sight of her so prostrate there,
Ituby Knufman grasped tho cold face
I.. !. n1- n tin. tinnrltf. nrftmincr llpr
Jll 111.1 Ittl.llll. JWUMfc .....auu, ....w... n -.--
lips to the streaming eyes.
"Mommy, I didn't mean it. I didn't:
IWc'rc just kids, flirting n little. Leo
and mc. I didn't menu it, Mommy!"
"You didn't menn It. Kuby, did you?
Tell mnma you didn't'
"I didn't, Ma. Cross my heart. It's
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only I I klnda had him In my bend.
Thnt's nil, dearie. Tlint'n ftlll"
"He enn't provide, baby."
"81ih-li-h, Ma I Try to get cntm, nnd
maybe then then thluRS enn come like
you ttnnt 'cm. 'Hhh-h-h, dcnrlel I
didn't mean It. 'Course Leo's only a
kid, I Wc Mommy dear, don t.
You're killing mc. I didn't mean it. I
didn't."
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