| Show I H-I- rt t l I i H I H tI-J tI I r I I I I I i j The rs r's I Ii Eve Wedding 1 T BY MARION A R R REAGAN N i L H I I I I 1 I I I 1 I I I-H-I I 1 SW w W lr I ivi 1 was s set 1 n as as 1 I the Ihl date dale for tor the lie wedding f 1 Rub Hull und leL r tL I Main Their friends thought and s t-o t did they flit thai 1111 it II IIIi Ii Z r would tin mean excellent luck IlIck f- f to tl begin the Ihl Now New Your II as us- us 11 11 rn inin HI avid 1111 wife Kill But sis as I the time tiros dr drw clew w nearer Ruh Boh lit at 4 t I lead t began 1 In III have fears lars and md S not so sot Y V o t II III JI III the Ihl I lip dIY div ns as about the llie 1111 1 event itself Mar Mar- Mart Marring doge ring was Ills n II i sni lons thing And nd t after rt a n lUll Inn long lime dine on the subject l perhaps lOll Inn 1011 long tie lie wasn't NI MI sure un sur that lint lie Ill w wu ua III III a wl wise e step after nil 1111 It II would have han mad made f Basler uder if Bolls BohlI load luid tI agreed old with l him hut but l ut she Blie hadn't Charlotte washer liar hr Idea of the lie right kind of or a girl for any young JUIl ll mat hll to o 10 marry She was thrifty mid arid sensible Sensible hie ble She Rill was too loo sensible Bob Boh thought 11 lie would have hll liked d her tier to tobe tolie Ie be Just a little bit lIlI foolish lI Girls were I to In he a 11 little silly That's what 1011 made them them feminine Still lie he hemd had md comp como to to III rely on her Jurl Judgment ment Mud It 11 would l hun have been t cen en annoying to 10 have found her tier She was a good 1 pal Ital and all nil that I and ond he liked her lar of or course he be liked her But Hut was that love Ion Was that romance Oth Other er fr fellows fill HK poetic about the girls ahoy 1 hp were to 10 Marry lury couldn't ni night for fur thinking of or hem them couldn't eat nt and arid 1111 lie whole state a was j fi as love 10 1 Well Poh noh never nl M a t i I For Hours She Sat Silt at it Her Mirror Practicing felt that way WUI about Charlotte His lis as us good us ua ever cr and he be was W a n tong Ions Ion way from Insomnia Then lie Ill rues lilt Helen uy at lit U house Ue tt party and hi his digestion at al once nm began I to I It somehow V look luuk him u a Inn lung time lime to 10 go 0 to tu steep bleep at tit night nod tl the day his hiM mind was In o II fog Ire He couldn't concentrate on business lit at atall nil Helen McKay with her tier trim und stylish lier III Ilea II and nd rou routed rouged d checks her hr artful VII l Iris bh li vine tripping lUll lilt Ills his constantly There Thre wits win U a T irl 11 lie he there there wa 3 n ft girl sirl rl lip wouldn't 1111 lisle liu e hurt hurl Charlottes Charlotte's hz to ro fur the world but lie WillS was J wn II mam r d of ur Helen and surely lie I could b BO out with 1111 tier her 1 a H few times s without Charlottes Charlotte's t finding out out lye He did hut but Charlotte found round out A At t first firM she he jealous fib fI ra r re i e eC the Ille lh diamond ment 1111 ring Into Its little box and wa was about to mall It back to him when her old good gOld sense ense returned To send back the ring would have hn been JEen to admit de der defeat feat The only wise tiling thing to 10 do was to In laugh and II l b t Rob Iob at his Ills own game Sloe She determined det r to dress up and vamp another min mall A likely prospect 11 appeared JI IrNI In Sam Peck feck Sam had Just t come cOllie to tn QuIncy from sea New York and with his worldly manner nod handsome ome face was enough to arouse the tie Jealousies or of Bob Bub thought Charlotte and she started out on her campaign She hc had been hen wearing old oM dowdy ny dresses drese savin ln her new things for tier ller trous Irolli trousseau seau but hut now she took out not the lie new clothes und and In addition bought herself hersel n a lipstick and Innumerable jars of up take up l For or hours she sat sal at nt tier her mirror practicing Evidently she became quite skillful for Samuel Peck did what Is known fall rail very rry easily as ns III lag ing hard haril and soon foon Sam San nUll and Clar lotto Clar lotte p a appeared ared at parties to together Boh stormed and ra raged ed He Ill threatened to 10 break off oft their engagement hut but when I he found how bow apparently ready Char Char- CharI Charlotte Charlotte I lotte was to have the lie en engagement I broken he changed his attitude lie Ile I simply couldn't got get et over Chu Charlotte acting lint way He Ill became so wor wor- worried reed ried about Charlotte that lint he lie forgot D completely One Sunday evening he went over O overto overto to Charlottes Charlotte's to call She wa was tanta- tanta tantalizingly tanta 1 gay ns as she was always Inte lately Bob sank ank down In n n a chair sullenly People are beginning to talk tie hI I sold sa Id briefly i They are arc About whet or oit whom I About bout you I About me How Interesting I dIdn't know I that lint amid what dr do de the they say suy about me complimentary me complimentary things I hope nob Bub got 01 up and walked hade hack and forth h In III front of or th the floe fireplace Likely An en engaged aed girl Irl who be- be begins be begins gins Ins to In play Iny around with another fel- fel fellow fel fellow low scandalously 1 and to use lint ul vulgar gar looking gar make up la is liable to be held up as a n model young oun woman to till the Women's Bible class I suppose Ive I always got ol along very ery well the lie hoe Women's BIble class class but what right have you ou to criticize Y Youre engaged to me mel I Yes but that can lie hoe broken You were engaged to me roe too inn when ou started going with that Helen n M y kI I Ay iy Who WIIO dont don't be he ridiculous I didn't mean Ihn than seriously ly at nt ull all Id I'd even HI forgotten rill fur H a minute who ho inthe In Ini till the lie world shoe she sl Wits You forget women rather ruber quickly U It seems to IU me Ins Look 1001 tl here rI Charlotte 1 I m ro tired tirell ot of this Yu got to In o make muke up your lIr right now whether youre you're going to 10 1 lie be your Soar old self elf df and ancl marry me mo sea l Years Year's Kv Ive us mis you yon promised or not nol But Bill rc r member I cant can't possibly 10 love you af of a 1 yes always always yes have always always unless 4 you YI dike off that look Ing look look- lookIng In Ing up The Th loll I atlon took look tooka D a very fry im trend after HUr that and nu l heft fl swearing hi he wits was orT ofT u fur rr life Ilfe II r T The w N-w S arlI Year live I wedding Wit Was Wa's uT oT T Holi lh Jh on one or of the I lop fie w It n t grouches gro In town lown IJ Ile Hewn was ver m-ver seen Keen except nt III hi his ollice or home II while hll Charlotte nine to 10 look more ln and more worried Then 1111 C came the lilt lie n and andas as II Ih the lif Inn awn sit sat one on lIln e evening s sending out OUI Invitations to 10 the llie New pw ears Eve e dinner that Hint to culminate In their a Hob Boll said CI nee Gee Imn Im III WI we gut all nil our quarreling over ON before our wedding ar arent aren't nt you ou ill we e certainly Dr ore are n never er going to tn III halve v even en the I least leam 11 I t argument n ln ice I I ZI western hW III t In I |
