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EVENING PUBLIC LEDRl?HILADELPHrA, THURSDAY, (NOVEMBER 24, 1021
fTHE MAN WHO WAS TIRED
OF HIS WIFE
Dy LUCILLE VAN SLYKE
Ccpvrtjht Butterlck Ce,
THE CHAItACTBnS
rtcl SHulijEI" ruil , s i! "
irffiv!" Tobacco preKer. imhte
!fi life himself, and particularly
ritA-Hls wife, forty-one. Careful
Jffii YAsKty and In preserv-
LI., imn imp) Thlrtv-1we.
een In spirit, Helding the key
'tiwrday and tomorrow. Called a
2:1a 1 .nateher" by Oie neighbors.
rDia'ir entry en Uie etrourtean scene
iSSfiiw pulinK again In Charles'
"JSIm resentment In Bertha.
eedailn. of .Chart., develops the
Uit he nae """"' "" " "'u ""
ilfl! MOVED ponderously toward her
flLml steeped te touch the tear en
?K Vttle Maggie Sherman."
ISM n.M("?- ., ,u ,
HTjfd te live Uiuu.m t.., i.-... wu.
kpfc
cm neaucu i.""
?....i t pini,l veu around that bl
la when you tensed me about the
fij,.n twins and yelled. 'Wouldn't
Kit either of 'cm, net if they were
iOiieen of SIicdb, nnu uewn you
IE ... "
W!..T'!l... nui. fnnH." fthe Assured
LVWcl.v. "It really didn't
Clr at all. I really liked wearing
K bnlBse. it muue me icci cus--,KL,hed.
And It was the very next
if liter tuat you ict mc & nieng
'Ede Veu caught tlie big bass down
BFely's. Yeu let mu carry him
MWhita whopper he was!" his eyes
m glistening. "Yeu looked such a
feeing "" , . M
)Xi a IUUBI aniut -"D, ",,
ii'Teu couldn't have had. Yeu were
Jtiti nd years younger."
"Fifteen, she answered succinctly.
t Lt lust recall hew much elder
iitrtlet was than Elaine, but her feel-
Efmqtt have Dccn llke minc ou
'?.. . nA in nui Ynn wpri the
ni pw fcwn v ..- ..r ----- -'-
ilf preen wnp mnuc me uuuuruum.
merer known Aunty Debs if you
JJa't taken me In for her te bandage,
tin hear her yet saying. 'My stars.
mit a lefty brew! And wnat a
,rrr one :
J atthatever became of you all these
"J!lrt?" lie asked her eagerly. "We
J te wonder ami wernier, audi urui
i 1. Whatever made you go off,
filing that silly note, nnd however did
Kj hide yourself?"
She snoeK her neaa.
"It decim't matter. It was awfully
ftjj. Ana mebt or. me time x nau
hi In tact, i ve nan tun most 01
;U time since the day you nrst bpeite
nmt.
"l'eu ceuldn t possibly remember
ht I'll have te tell you. The Reb-
bem had just moved in the house
rotund the corner from yours nnd I
rife kinging out their dish towels. I
Irii that forlorn ! Hated everything
Ktl 'everybody! And you walked by
Rung like the bind of a person who'd
lorry for anybody who was in hard
tort, pe I signed awfully.
"Yeu stepped and said :
""Le. Cinderclln! Didn't the
dnce thew up last night?'
I '"I don't believe In princes,' I
ilreltd.
"i'eu beckoned for me te come ever
j the fence. Yeu just Jellied me for
he nut live minute nnd in the end
en-Mid, 'Even if you don't believe in
irinces believe In Kill Shakesneare.
ie'lthebey that said, "All the world's
utile." All you hnve te de is te re-
umber you're nn actor, and just this
slnute I'd tuy you were acting pretty
u. You've get te step acting that
ht or I wen t take you fishing with
pe tomorrow. I won't take you nny
w unless you dig all the worms "
'Teu ccrtalnlv wptp n kMiipv llftln
Um. Aunty Debs theuchl " he
topped, embarrassed.
1 "Aunty Debs thought the Hobinsens
isn't rive me enough te cat," she rin
JH for him. "Well, they didn't.
VI gave me eneuch mnnt nml hrnul.
fut they didn't understand thnt thir-
eea-reir-eid peer relations need hy
icIaUu te feast their souls. Yeu did.
ouiire me lets of hyacinths."
He shook his head Hupldly.
Cln t remrnihpr fcnnrllnf. vnit emv
Wdef flowers."
leu called me Mndgc and Mnrgery
tad of Mugglp. Yeu taught me te
ir croquet. Yeu premised me a t'trlng
; corals with pink streaks in em
'Id learn te swim "
And teetetally forget te give them
reu "
. 'I didn't leilrn In nu-lm vnvv a1I
trer have learned veil enough Unit
tft fflr.n TY.VL.lt .. Lll. l
tit leek be worried about it. Think
f "J, me you took me out le your
BJAIs farm haying. Urn, I can
wll that yet!"
W leaned forward laughing like n
1kidAJ keyed up nil the time
"All longing " her voice was ten-
Ev . "'" ou Played with me
K the kuZ zy ;.."" '"' "l li'. ?."'
Mtieu never plujed with me ngnln."
"B.Vif 4u(llnn'" he pJaculntcd.
Hew did that lumpen? Oh, let's see
Ml W09 rllO full 1 .... ... TI
t. -. 11111 4 nt'lll, IU lllivnilll
,,'?'0,i,sllll,Cl1 out jeurhdf beferu I
"" iu 11m nnu .
"Tiu " -1.- , . ..
1. --i nui; acrcwi ninniiv. "i
fWPM out jiibt nbeut n week 'after that
cm party. I helped pnsa the ice
i,i7 B!'u,w?s'i tuc iliblies for that
W. And all the whlle T wna wnnli.
Li 4". " ,vere ut en the side
ii."tKlns tn "erthn. She looked se
hU uhated ,,cr! Slie l"l big
Wern hat with pink rows and a
Ut d fknrtt rlrAc. -...1 ..!.- 1 1...1 .1,
.'Jr-you called me ever and intro.
lifciG."""".",.," "Ju."c" l"
hi.... : HUtl ueu- Am 'I'0 ne1!
w you si in
SL 'Gee. thnt r-Ir-l i,,i,v ,.i.ui. ,1,.
r?w. ?et tlle Prettiest laugh I
flM ?. .' T went "P " ny r"n nml
flCU mP ln,i. -. 1 1 , -
41 V. """ rl0Urs te niaKf my
wiien't
pretty laugh but I
tt!rfe.icru,nW?1 en tlie hearth,
iiiil'ii "ftlm's never Inst, her
1 rri nv L'mnmmtAi iiv
I
""""npwl ler fifit
-"Ti 'llrtll't Ltn.A . !.
--.. v uil- t UIU
ii I.' ..111 ??wmf,ltwl (lr-Tlv- "Inush
rfil.?Jll,the bc8t lhln Kcrltm docs.
Hit,:, 41 nn '"0 most of the tlnie."
1. r ai.
w
against her
tire that
y. 1,00k at me while I explain some.
mt- U, .about T!crthtt' Jt'8
:'7i 1 ?S iOU ,(,ou f "ii'lerstand, nnd
. mtle hard te put in words. Yeu
R4. r:0 n!T" lther of us been fair
V 1 1 n lmv t0 te y'' 'hat
Kei 1 1 Mer.,ha anrt '"''"'d with her
Nnd ,i..m &" T Mw hr the Vflr-V
W?H uy" I,. M "urprlsed thnt I
h 2,ihr'J11" tlle Impulsive Idiot I
Mlld, 'Oh, hew de you de?'
Mi. 8h 11 Bl,? difl Vfry "c11' '"'
Win i,f J"'1 luscious I J
Willi L?beutL,,0w r1 bn iytem-
Siiil,,,.n' .her a11 thMe yra- !
V p'
WMr tne. .L- ...-. ."."" ...
ti ii :"""" irincinDerci tne iiimi.
ftna you're working semetvhere
if.'"" eymmer?' "
MufiSf l!eck(1 flr', carefully
u'r'9U tones ncrfcctlv: she even
added a rnthcr geed Imitation of Ilcr
Uih'h second-best laugh. ,
Chnrlcs reddened. He get up abrupt
ly. "Loek here," he snnpped briskly.
"Bertha probably didn't mean any
thing na ruw as nil thnt. Se we'd
better leave llertha out of our conver
sation. Didn't 1 have a cap or some
thing?" "Please!" she begged. "You've get
me wrong nbhelutcly. And we can't
Icaws Bcrthn out at all. I'm only tell
ing you nil this le make you see
Bertha. Yeu and I lmvc neither of us
ever seen Bertha herself. I've seen a
person I hated nnd you've seen a person
you loved. We've loved nnd haled
Bertha's prcttlness instead of the real
Bcrthn. The minute you began bcold bceld
ing nbeut her it Hashed ever me hew
awful it must be, I mean hew awfully
hard it must be te have te be a Bcrthn.
She's always been ornamental, part of
the scenery instead of part of the pluy.
A whole let like Gulliver tied down by
the Lilliputians their wee ropes were
trivial, but all of them together kept
him prisoner. Berthn's been pegged
down all her life by invisible hairpins
nnd hairnets nnd veils and gloves nnd
high heels and bearding-school manners
and absurd little Ideas et! class distinc
tions and lace dollies and a thousand
and one inconsequential things that
scorned important. If somebody had
only loosed these Btrings children
would have done it!"
"Why, Bertha nlwnys thought that
children tied a woman down!"
"Then why arc we women who hav
en't them fe cramped? But at thnt
Bertha's better off than you arc bu
cauhe blic's never known freedom ; se
she doesn't knew what she's missed.
It wasn't Bertha that worried me It
was you. Seeing you just cut!"
"Yeu mean because I didn't knew
you? Why, think hew glad I was "
"Yeu blcseicd denr! It was I who
didn't knew you ! Net till I saw Ber
tha. Oh. it's net iUst that veu're
twenty pounds tee bteut or that your.
nair is getting grny or these owlish
specs of yours behind them jour eyiv
leek the way mine must have looked
the day you ca'lcd me Cinderella as
though your soul were bankrupt I 4nd
nil these years I'd been thinking of you
as rich in joys nnd fancies When I
think back te thnt summer when you
poured out n wealth of fun and com
fort for the poverty-stricken, scared
little girl thnt I used le be, I feci as
though I could never pay jeij back."
She moved closer te lilin. she took his
hand in both of hers. "Se think hew
glnd I am that I've happened back
when you need me. Y'eu cun't knew,
you can't possibly remember, hew much
joy you have stored awny in my heart.
Yeu cun't think hew I shall love trying
te pay back even a Utile of the great
debt that I ewe you. Kvcn it I can't
begin te give you anything like nil the
lovely unexpected moments you gave
me, I knew that I hnve much thut is
yours te glve back te you. Didn't I
begin te pay a little the ether day when
I took you fishing?"
"Loek here," he stammered rtwk
wnrdlv, breaking in en the flood thnt
bewildered him he hadn't grasped a
iiniirtcr of whnt she meant "it's very
nice of you, but I we you cun't go
around doing that sort of thing new
we're elder! Net in this kind of n
place! Wliy, this kind of u place is
just full of u let of tnbby cntu who
wouldn't understand at oil if I well
if I bheuld seem interested in
you "
"Seem interested ! Yen nrm.'i .,..
ing te seem Interested in me; you're
going te be interested in me!" In
delicious mimicry of his Auut Debor Deber
ah's old Scotch maid she wound her
hands in nn imaginary apron. "When
you re tnreugh wi' your bickering
Master Charley, what will ye be takin
te your Bupner?" her simulated rIi1.
Ing whine curried him back 11 score of
years.
He rumpled his hnir excitedly.
"What rows Uncle Redman nnd T
used te hnve Sunday nights! And
what wouldn't I give for a dish e' Til
lie's scallops nnd bacon!"
"We're just out of scallops, but
we ve oodles of bacon I" she caught
at his hand. She fairly raced him into
the kitchen. "I can cook it scrunchy
the way you taught me en a campfire.
Yeu cun de the toast. There's ncriiiin
of raspberry jam and we'll cat till we're
fairly wlilgy wi' feed!"
They ate In the kitchen. She snf nn
the tuble and swung her feet while her
nbsurd deg begged for scraps. They
laughed immedcrutely us she pretended
she was Tlllle nnd ecoided him as Tlljle
ubed te bceld. She banked her fire, just
as 1 11110 nua ennKed hers. She wound
the clock, exactly us Tlllii; had wound
hers. Then, with it quick change, she
dnnccd nleng the hull nnd in Aunt
Deberahs dear old phrases called:
"Reddy, dear! Charley boy! Come
out of tunc Kitchen: ion ve pestered
Tillle long enough. She wants te set
her bread "
"Yeu witch!" he cried. "Step It!
Yeu're just the same imp you used te
be! We never knew whether te laugh
at you or te shnke you."
She edged away from him.
"Yeu must net sluikc me new !" she
cried in mock terror. "It wouldn't
he snfe for jeu te shake me as you used
t de! Yeu might lese the key out of
my pocket!"
"What Ley?" he ili'iniimied, rom rem
pletcly mjstilicd. "Thi- key te jester
day? Don't you remember It? The
motto Aunt Deberah hnd framed and
hanging beside her bed :
"The key te yestcrduy I threw awn,
And new, tee late,
Before tomorrow's cloi-e-Ieckcd gate,
Helpless I btund, in vain te pray
In vain te sorrow
Only the key of jewterday
Unlocks tomorrow."
She hnd opened the deer nnd wns
leaning against it. the sweet night wind
blowing her hair about her well -shaped
head. Suddenly, without in the least
knowing why he did it, he tilted her
chin upward.
"De you like me n little. Miss
Imp? De you like me u little?"
Ills absurd old endearment for her
slipped out quite unconsciously. It
threw her off guard. She steed tip tip tip
tee with delight te think that he wns
really beginning te remember her. She
shook hands with herself cordially;
that wns a droll trick that he hud
taught her.
"Oh, heaps and heaps!" she an
swered ecstatically, just ns she had In
the jcars geno by.
lie steeped te kiss her Just as the
Rawsene' enr rounded the bend of the
reud.
Even though Chnrles Shirley was
blissfully unaware that it was the Raw
eons' headlights thnt hnd left his un
premeditated kiss in midair, he found
himself grinning rather sheepishly at
Margery's closed deer. It was Intinltcly
better that he hadn't actually kissed
her and .vlef course she must have
been perfcuiy aware that he'd meant
lel He waited n moment. He didn't
want te seem te be running away. He
heard net a sound. And Margery, lean
ing limply against the closed deer,
struggling te smother her laughter
or was it n sob that made both bunds
fly te her threut? listened te his soft
drawn whlbtle of relief us his footsteps
crunched lit the gravel.
CONTINUED TOMORROW
THE GUMPS High Cost
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By Sidney Smith
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