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I had not mentioned that Gard- ner Kenyon had brought me home when Robert had failed to meet ma. it was from nodeaire to hide any- thing. but I had been so hurt by doberfs failure to meet me, that I hated to talk dtnnything connected ‘with my home-coming.

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diobert looked from one to the. other, In so puzzled a manner that I said: - "Didn't _I tell you Mr. Kenyon was kind. enough to bring me homo

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"This is the first I‘ have heardjol it." Robert dryLv answered, v .“Weli he did I had looked all over for you nnd probably looked as I felt-ready to cry. 8o he took pity on me."

"Really I must g0," Kenyon broke in. And this time helgot away. “Kept mighty quiet about that fol- iOw didn't you?" Robert remarked as soon as we were ulonel "A lot of difference it made whether I met you or not!" ‘,

, "I was so hurt and disappointed I forgot all about him!" I 1'09"“. resenting his tonei‘ s _ ' “He's the sorta woman forgets. slick, well dressed, and holds a 800d position. I expect he came, out on top when- you compared us", '," “Now, Robert, aren't you ashamed of yourself? You should be, if you are not." He had turned petuianlly away, and made no reply. But when he laid: his bookidown an hour later, he remarked:

“Phat paragon of yours didn't seem to approve of tho way we lived. When you left tho room t0 get the ice water, he talked as if he were surprised that we lived in a boarding house."

"He acted astonished when I , lipid“ him we did ‘not keep house. but ' l can't, seguthat It is suite! his busty. nessfl I returned, "Rretendod he. thought a woman could not be mar; to business."

conscious I flushed as_I refilled the exact words Gardner Kenyon had used: _ ' ' "i imagine you fill both positional well." ,

"I am not such a bad wife, am I i

" business woman," I added. i “You're the latter all right. I've not complained, have I?"

“Living as we do doesn't seem t0 ' strike anyone as being anything they need envy “B. (1098 ll?"

them haven't a mind above their stomachs. If a woman can or wants to do anything except wash dishes and cook, they act as if something was wrong with her. I'm siad Y0“ aren't so narrow." u "It is a good tllln8. 18111 ll? - Again that sarcastic tone. Then: _"I might as well toll you, Gerry. II?‘ not making very good at Calding s.

' "What!"

"I'm not making much headway at Gaming's."

"You don't mean you have lost your position?"

"No-but when I asked for 111B DPOIIIIBQII‘ raise, they told me l 118d not earned one. That's all."

“I'm sorry, Robert," I said after a moment. Pit will come later.‘ Yet as I kissed him sooduisht l felt more disturbed than i cared to let him know more discouraged . for him than ever before. ~

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Robert? and l km" I m“ a 5° her brotber—-I'li take any message?’

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"Didn't he tell you snythins?" "Only that when he asked ._for his promised raise. they told him he had not earned it."

‘IPoor fellow! Honest, Gerry, in

bleeds for him." - ~ dish-ing at Mary; yet Lfslt. var!) rious as I told her of-m-y fsartt-and my symilfllhl’ for Robert. _ ‘ f "I teal so ‘different this time," I said‘. "Before lcouid talk encour- 115111813.‘ because =1 did not feel is- couraged, mygeif pliant him. ut ‘this ls ‘differ at. Something must be wrong with Robert-he should have made goodwlth Caiding. I wouldn't "say this to him for the world, but-it lrorrlesame." ' "Yes-ii: would worry most wo- men. 0f course‘ lt‘ don't makeins much difference to you as it might to some women the kind who couldn't‘ wear the pan'ts. But still I can seoflt- akes n lot, even. to youf Can't you think of any way to chirk him upla little? Couldn't you; ggvepim something to work o‘, .. .,_. _, . 1 "No more than, he has now. _0h well, ‘Igllesa it will come out right some way-i" ‘I replied.

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way, I d-id not getdhe comfort frour talking with Mary that i used to be- fore I was married. Yet l‘ hadto talk to someone. Then"! didn't. understand ways acted as if there was some- thing I plight to do; as if} were in some way‘ to blame for ‘Robert's defection. his failures.

"Yes, in the wash, maybe!" ‘Mary ad called after me as I left her. That night Robert diq} not come home to dinner. I waited until 8 o'clock, then called up Marion Ho- vey. I had determined to be politic. sand although _I wasqjealous, hurt t st iRoltert wouicrso neglect me. I had mo. into‘ tlon of ipiaylfis the

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6y." 1 said when a vol my call. i . “She's gone) to the theatre. I'm

"Never imtnde-yott don't know where she wenl——to what theatre?" “No, they didn't say."

"l desperately wanted to ask who ‘they’ meant. But rung off yvithout doing so. '. I. would not

stoop to question a small boy- much as I longed to know if Rob- ertwas with Marion,

iBut I would not stay home alone I would ring up Gprdner Kenyon. He would belgiad to run up for an hour. But he also was out. Again I left no message. and smiled grim- ly as I thought of my waisted nick- els. - .

I would not stay alone.,I would go and sit with Mary Ryan for an hour. IShe had no telephone, so I could not waste a nickel on her. if she were out I would- have my walk anyway. That would be ihetter than toying alone. :

Vlfllen "I reached the street, I of people coming to- ward the house; and heard excited curious as u.

hut bad happened .

thattwo men had a third between about, half leading, ' half carrying m. ' ‘Probably drunk," I said aloud. and stepped back into the shadow or the Wesiibuis to wait until they had pas . I , "Herslgdlhe place." someone said. and ~I saw the two men lead the one who appeared rather Iiellpleaajp the steps. ‘To ‘my horror, I recog- nised Roast and cried out; 1 '1 '~ "Ohuwfiat is it? What has hap- igented to him’! I am his wife-is he ur " a .

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Mary any more. She a!“ 'unhg_ppy though“

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a ‘ all their attention was. given Robert. Thomas, they reach- ed the vestibule. o“; of the men aa- aiatlng him said: '

“Re who ‘hit ‘by s car. I don't think he is ‘badly hurt, but his leg may be‘ broken ."

"I don't tbinik it is, Gerry," Rob- ert ellld, faintly. He was deathly white and seemed about to faint.

I fumbled in my purse for my key ind rang the bell at the‘ same time. Mrs. Lane opened the door before l found the key, an¢ her e:- Olflmltlflflg of distress brought oth- er boarders to their doors to see what was going on.

The men helped get Robert to our room, then ‘left. Itelephoned for a doctor, and then with Mrs. Lane's help got him undressed and In bed.

“He is not dangerously injured,

itiry toils chest is the most ser- ious; I-Iialeg is badly sprained, but not broken,"

‘Then as won't. die?" I was a bit hysterical as I asked the question. "No, heels in no danger-not un-

"l am sorry, Gerry," Robert said. after the doctor left.

"Sorry for what, dear?"

"Sorry that I have to atop work,

trouble." - "Nonsense! you didn't run over yourself, did you?" "No-—but~—" "Now stop worrying and

don't‘;

you know." ‘ "No-than God!" Then: "It's the first time i have been really glad you rwera ‘a business woman, Ger- ry. Now no matter how this turns out. you won't suffer."

"Of course you are glad I am s' business woman instead of a. help- less butterfly-When you lee] ahle l want you to. tell me how it hap- pened." '

"Oh, I was careless I guess! I was blue and so‘ was on my way to a show instead of coming home and inflicting myself upon you. I was thinking nbout—oh, what dil- ference does it muike!" he spoke im- patientlyfa twinge of pain cross-. ed his face an he added: "The thing hit me, and went on. I guess they thought they had done for me-plty they hadn't!" he added, af- ter a moment.‘ "Then those two men- cams along and brought ‘me home——l.hat's hII"—hs said it so wenriiy that ‘I lowered the light and told him he musn't tailk any more. y I sat by his side holding his hand. Htleyes weré closed, but I know behaves not sleeping. . The doctor hadTBlIcn him something for the pain in his chest, and had bandag- ed his leg» I felt sure it was his which caused him ‘to frown occasionailly, rather than his pain. So I said nothing, but silently watched him, andwon; dered, why he had been so depress- ed that he would not come home, and where he had been until aften 8 o'clock-Aha time he had ‘been-in- lured. '

morning and told Madame of Rob- ert's nccldent, and paid I woifld not the down for two or three days —not.~ trntil he was really‘ comfort-

a e. .. _ ,. "Don't stay sway longer than pos- itively necessary." she" said, after expressing her sorrow and‘ ‘sending a kind message to Robert. "Get a

eantuit be left.” - v I thanked her, but told her it- would not be necessary, Then I asked to speak to Mary Ryan.

* “Do come and cheer hiin up," I said after telling her‘ silsolbat I could not comelo work, and why. That night, after dinner, Mary came. She joked ‘and tuugheirjvi/itii Robert for a iittlewhiie, therfitose to go. -

"Come down to the door with ma, Gerry," she said, and gave me a look which said plainly: “I llavé omething to say to you."

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Mary asked the question after I had‘ followed her to the door. "in aday or two. ‘The doctor says Robert will be all right. He will be confined to the house long er, of course, but he will ‘be able towslt upon himself." -

"I dontknow, Gerry-d wonder sometimes about you and Bob," She spoke very seriously. something quite unusual m Mary. "You're so wrapped up in that shop, what you are doing what you want. to do that you don't. bother‘ much about- anything eIae-whethexg you are going b0 be b pity. or make him hapgg. You're coking all the time to s _wbat you're gol lto get, tliingingivrhat you're gett ag out of life‘ bat you don't stop and ask if therdrdnything big orflne you are niisdlil fbspsuso you look at every- thfn _ om that business end of thin éyolir-‘own business end. I

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airless woman What we would ‘WNW?’ . '. ' “ "ybe Roibert would have come h mbtlf he had had a home to come t i. Then he wouldn't have been "lIYF-Efi‘ . . _""!‘oli have thatuhome Idea on the nce you took thait fiat" I re- vt not taking anything she said ilflribusly.’ "' “Good night, Gerry. I am awfully

nurseQ-I-daxft all"? Y0}! IIIIBE HOW: feorrylfor Robert, but I am sorrier

for you.’ The woman always gets IIUIQ’ [tile most in the end when things go wrong" and without wail» ing foran answer, she left me. ' Yet I thought of what Mary had sold,‘ even if II did not consider 'it at‘ thétiime. A day or bwo after- ward I said to Robert: “Yotrtoiddme the reason you diidnlt‘ dome homo that night you were hurt was because you were hluo and depressed. Was there nn-y- thing particular, anyithing new that made: youj so?"

"No. nothing ‘but the same old ory "'

-He,~had flushed and at once I knewyho rwouid be pleased if I asked no more‘ questions. But ai- ‘though I seldom questioned him, I was determined‘ to find out what had‘ happened that night.

hero diaiyou get your din- nert". . . .

"I had- dinner at Marion's." "How-dtddt. happen‘ you didn't take her to the theatre if you dined with her?" ‘

"filhp-ehe had a. previous engage- inen." . .

Suddenly I thought I knew the reason he had ‘been depressed and why he; had been so absent-mind- ed‘ and careless when crossing the street. I-Ie had been either jealous or annoyed because Marion could not,.go with him and depressed for the same reason.

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