Show THE how they searched hie tile scriptures ires to find a tex brooklyn eagle my dear said mrs open dyke glancing up from the letter she was writing dilg and pressing tig the nib odthe of the pen on her thumbnail thumb nail to see why wily it work any better be ter say my dear do you know where to find ind that text por tor the unbelieving ing husband lius baud is sanctified iu in the wife in exodus it replied mr it sounds like exodus wheres the bible ivas looking for it today to day returned mrs kc getting up and preparing tor for another search 1 I dont think it is in ex odou odous because it sounds like paul I 1 think SO some one roust must have stolen the tile bible for I 1 seen it since we 0 came from the country Tl iata kind of curious salilo quizzed mr arousing hill a if to assist in the investigation 1 I tont dont know who would want to steal a it bible dont you remember where you put it 7 think its here and mr pend ilis ice upset the bandbox containing couta ining his eifes now hat and then made a lungo for the fancy coal cual behind the stove you had it last what did you do with it it bo be apt to get in there would it suggested mrs trying to divert her husbands attention by rattling flug the basw on the bureau if it is s tile orthodox bible it ia is liable to penetrate anywhere and everywhere retorted dyke abandoning the scuttle and making a dive for the button bag Str ikei me that bible ia is keeping pretty quiet he lie ruminated rumina ted as he tipped tile buttons out on the floor and darted across the room to try tho the L bureau drawers be in a fine fix now if a minister should happen to drop in now and ask for family worship have rave to tell him to go on oil his recollection or start a now theory of his own and mr endyke pulled the shams off the tile bed and and then got down on oil his hands and knees to look under tinder it ill bet a hat its where I 1 said it 11 was sherea Wh erea that dear asked mrs 0 supposing he had K frind it in ili exodus snorted mr wiping alie ornaments off the mantelpiece and looking bahi behind ad tho the cluck clock cant you remember what I 1 say from one moment to another it if you had any memory with your habits of classification only need the coat of arms of all nations and sta a little more incoherence to bo be a first class clasi dictionary I 1 dont know though continued mr ruminating on this proposition while ho he tore the things out of if the tile wardrobe 1 I dont k know jov but what have to get a binding and have your sides ma marbleized blei zed you don dont t suppose that bible got lonely and went off into the country on its own hook do you im m sure I 1 dont know murmured mrs 1 I cant imagine how it would do a thin thing like that I 1 think it ia is only mis ruis laid well find it well I 1 should lewark ren ark replied mr without meaning cailing lu the tile di t irreverence there i M may ay be only one small fish or a arutt of breed hafi but we well 11 find what ahue ro is lefore we go to bed bet aillem that bibles gone tu to get revised therell bo be no sleep in t vie ie apartments until wo lay our hands lovingly on oil that dear old family bible maybe its hid under a bushel I 1 and he lie capsized the wastepaper basket and scattered the tile contents over the room 1 I dont know but what it is in E Exolus xo lus said 31 mrs re S POO dyke with her firger in her mou mouth t 1 now I 1 come to think it over im sure its in in exodus so you look for it any tiny more inore 1 I know its in ill exodus said mr Soo kicking his wife a s workbasket work basket across tha the floor and aud turning the contents over with the too 00 oo ot of his bis boot but pro im going to find out which cud end of exodus it is in in before I 1 go to business again how do you suppose any ones to know knoy when we were married or when the baby was born or when we died if wo find that bible think im going through life without a bible to r refer efer to when im lonely and depressed got kind hind of notion because im good and that religion cornea comes natural tome to me yd yel well it dont ive got to keep posted just as well as oll any one else wheres that bible demanded mr endyke rising in wrath as the book seemed to evade his search become of tho tile pious injunctions of my youth I 1 going to bo ile able to tell So solomons lonious wives from tho tile rest of the family unless I 1 have the book before in UK wheres my and iny beu is where are the friends of my boyhood and mr edke glistened glit ened up hithe in the mid middle T 1 0 of the room and glared at his wife as though she had inflicted on him a mortal injury been dead some time replied mrs who always took everything literally v you dont caro care about them tonight ili 1111 and my abraham begat begot isaac isanc all and lune begat bedat jacob and jacol begat judah and hid his breth brethren reb I 1 where are they suppose some ty y fellow me tomorrow to morrow whom brethren begat what am I 1 to say ye yo standing there for looking like a hole in thu the fence for think that helps you any say slay dear commenced sirs mrs dont yon remember tho the night yo you U and mr tie got into a dispute as to whether the prodigal son was uns thrown into the pit or w was theono the ono whose car peter cut off for hiding biding h ial talents ina in a napkin I 1 seen the bible since then you had it out and when you got through you put it in your now new hat lint and here it is now and mrs held up the missing volume lier ter fl face ace wreathed in smiles of delight that things hail not been any woree fini i ft it li i hii not scowled sir mr ii q aiji it c i no wang the bookou ui r alhani li in another time ivien I 1 ili i li with it remember p I 1 d i h it now let s fila thal bif 1 1 r at t you were so ti t gnoj inov and mr i ald 1 ough tough t exodus and anti laid JOW down n tile book in disgust theres no such tiling thing in the bible I 1 knew there all the time but bull I 1 just minted wanted to prove it t you let roe me look suggested mrs sp and turning to I 1 corinthians vii 14 the mie found and read it to him 1 11 I 1 had an iden that it wa in kome of pauls writings she remarked ns its she shut tho the book and put it away what you always have roared air mr enraged by bv hia his defeat if you should ever run rn efort of ideas boa bo a comparatively ively smart woman somo some day dav pm im going to put 1 a 1 in your mouth and start a public school with you anle unless as I 1 change my mind and conclude to open a branch college fur for the preparation pa ration of married women fo for r tile lunatic asylum I 1 and immensely pleased this business outlook I 1 mr sp oo drapl dropped ed his cloth clothia cs ili in the middle of the tile floor for his wife to pick dick up and tumbled into bed 1 I dont care murmured mrs birs aa she took down flown her back hair and screwed herself around to see if it reached to her waist 1 I dont care lie he can puke fun full at me nie all he lie likes and he can upset everything in the house but I 1 know that mrs wears a switch end she can deny it all she wants to she cant deceive me and with this consolatory reflect reflection io n mrs popped into bed and after thinking for awhile got up and puttered buttered putt ered around in thedarl the dark putting the room in order in case s e anything should happen to hers e 1 f or her her husband in tl tha inight night |