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Show HAVE FAITH I - ' YOUR FRIENDS 'He'll never make a living for her," they predicted. "lie. hasn't I he pluck of a rabbit and he's as lazy as an extra tire !" 'Wouldn't it make you sick the way she looks up at him with that adoring smile," added the malicious ones. "As though she'd caught a (ireek god for a husband instead of a good-for-nothing , simpleton." Now, as a matter of fact, the idle gossip was not without foundation. The young husband in question was neither a Barney OldfiiJ;! nor a Thomas Jefferson. He was both slow and dull. And the little bride bad my sympathy with the rest. AYhat was my amazement some years later when a friend from rhe town they had moved to told me of their prosperity. "How come'.'". I asked. MBich uncle die?" "If anyone died it isn't the Cor-sons." Cor-sons." said my friend. "No. they bave done it all themselves, or rath-ei rath-ei Bob did. He's made his money himself. They have their own house. English type, garagel car and everything." "Must be bootlegging !" I was mean enough to remark. I just couldn't imagine Bob Corson owning own-ing so much as a lemonade stand. "Or else Florida !" "No ! Neither ! He has a store, a thriving. prosperous hardware stoiJe. He's a (splendid business man they say. too !" I got tbe story. "You see Bob was married yoimir." explained my friend. "He hadn't really gotten over that mental men-tal torpor that goes with growing muscles. He'd always been the family fam-ily joke and town joke, and he got ro thinking be couldn't do anything right. Then ho met Margaret and from the very first she bad faith in him. She just took it for granted he f-ould do things. She didn't pretend it she really had faith in him. Mho's never lost it. And it has made him. They saved H bit out of bis salary at. first, then lie got a small chance in the store he kept hooks for. and he knew chough to , take it. Margaret still looks at; him as though he was a god. And he'd die, t believe, rather than disappoint disap-point her." It's a threat thing this faith in l.eople! |