Show I i 1 W Wll ll io 1 ve d ANNE i GaRONE WHAT HAS GO GONE E BEFORE Nan Hardy brilliant young oung newspaper news paper woman marries Jocko Weltman Welt man loan in the midst of an unhappy lov lo e affair with another man After th e er marrIage she finds that she loves he r husband and for tor a time lime they are ver er very happy They have their first quarrel when he Insists that they live Jive on hi s salary which Is considerably les s than hers Nan finally accepts th the e ef arrangement but loses lases the glow o 01 f romance In trying to make both end s m meet e She learns new respect fo fot r him however when a girl frIend a n working woman tells her that he her r husband lets lete her pay all the bills bUls Jocko Jacko is fired tired and Nan angry quits quit too CHAPTER 22 Divergent Paths I Nan had formed fanned a plan even en before before the sho ho had arrived at the apartment after resigning her Job During the thi time lime on the News she had made madea va various va- va rious contacts with which her mind mint had now stow been busy There were ele sev cv- cv cral oral persons who had gone one from the thi News to good positions In n other cities clUes She had met representatives of syndicates syndicates syndicates syn syn- and of New York newspapers newspaper who had come through town Th They y had all been impressed by her anc and some ome J of at them had asked her to leithem let lei them know mow if she ever er wished to U change Already she was seeing the upheaval upheaval up up- in their affairs affair as an opportunity opportunity opportunity to break away from their present pres pres- ent environment and try for something something something some some- thing bigger New NewYork York Why wasn't she rEady reads for lor New York She felt confident that she would be as fUi successful there thue thereas as she had been on the News Once the thought had occurred to her it claimed her completely All her dreams centered on getting something In n the metropolis She made a list of possibilities po and dispatched dis- dis patched a group of clever arresting night letters Then she settled back to wait and walt and to watch Jocko's efforts to toland land a Job w For some reason Teason she did not tell teU Jocko Jacko of her attack on the great city It might fall fail she told herself and she would not want even Jocko to know she roe had failed in anything SEPARATE PARATE PATHS But there was a a. deeper reason Without realizing it it Nan had begun to accept estimate of oC her husband husban Confident as she was of her own ability t to succeed in hi the most strenuous s competition of all she could not feel that Jocko Jacko would be as fortunate At least he should have ha more experience behind him of the kl kind d that counted there Yet she wanted so badly to go herself her her- self leU I 1 She solved the dilemma by simply simply sim- sim ply not admitting it until she should be forced to Meanwhile Jocko Jacko was floundering more or II less Poor Jocko If II he had been able to go 10 out masterfully and secure a good job quickly their whole story might have been different But that hat sort of at thing was as not Jocko's line Nan thought how ho differently she would ha c gone about it herself low How she he would have a whole subtle clever campaign worked out How she he would first pick the Job s she e wanted find tind out all aU about it then sell herself t to the person perron or persons who had that Job In their control And how haw easy that would be bet 1 Jocko's Jacko's ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts seemed pitiful in contrast If she hc had not had the New York idea In mind she would have ha hel helped d him planned his procedure for him made him see how to act how to tomake tomake make employers see his value But Butas as ns s it was it did not seem worth while I If It she failed to land a a. Job in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York then she would see what she might do for both of them But ut she did not fall fail Three Jobs were er offered her out of her sheaf of at prospects Then ensued wiring and writing while she tried to de decide which one to t take and contrived to 10 tomake make them increase their offers And Andall Andall Andall all the while she said nothing t to Jocko MUST lUST DECIDE At last she settled upon a position with a 0 syndicate whose managing editor had liked her work on the News She had bad liked him too and felt that he was one of the most enterprising enterprising enterprising en en- en- en men in his line There should be opportunity here as well weB us eta an excellent salary They wished her er to come as soon as possible Now Nov that everything every tiling thins was settled seWed std and her promise given she became con conscience stricken How Ho would Jocko Jacko take It all these negotiations negotiation without his knowledge without ever even considering him Then she argued the matter over with herself elf If Jf f she hc had been the theman man it would would have ha been proper for foi I her to keep this secret and then spring it as a great and pleasant sur sur- prise er E Everyone would have ha been happy But because she was a woman and she had hod got the Job while her husband husband hus bus band had none she must feel somehow some some- I how t to blame It was ridiculous Perhaps there was a faint flavor of this in her manner when she told Jocko of the Job Or perhaps it Jt was wa merely that already he had bad so keen koon keena a sense of his own Inadequacy At any rate although he congratulated her Nan could see we that he was hurt Why should he be bo hurt because she had a good Job She resolutely ly disregarded this and went ahead with her preparations Can we get away by day after to tomorrow tomorrow to to- morrow she asked him JOCKO STAYS YS He looked at her squarely Its Us up to you u. u I shall hall stay here Stay here What do you mean Im not going to New York without without without with with- out a job t to livo 11 of off you Wh Why 1 I haven't hn the money for the railroad fare Nan had not dreamed of such uch a development as this When she had thought of at Jocko In connection with her new venture it had been as getting get- get ting Ing a job in due time in ill New York He might make some sonic fuss about money but she could lend to him what he needed His refusal to go so found her totally unprepared Her first reaction was indignation Are you ou going t to wreck our lives together to together to to- gether because of ot money Doesn't it t mean something that we love e each tach other Must we always be going soing on the he rocks because became of at some silly point about money mone It would be different if I 1 had the money Jocko reminded her serious serious- ly Jy y But our love cant can't change chanse the fact act that Im I'm a man and that I cant can't live Ive off oft a woman They argued it or Nan argued it rather for Jocko would say nothing more all aU that day But what do you plan to do Nan a asked in exasperation Get a Job he drawled Where A SILLY lID For response he looked at her and said nothing She understood what he ic meant She had not consulted him Im before she took her step and he saw aw no reason to take her into his confidence Jocko Jacko you wouldn't get a n Job here ere she asked in alarm He refused to answer again gain that quality which she called stubbornness After a while Nans Nan's pride forced her er too to drop the subject But she ne was consumed with curiosity to know enow just how far Jocko intended togo to togo too go o in its his mulishness If It he did get a Job here what would she he do She loved loyed him She wanted to be with him Perhaps he thought she ae would give up her New York plans lans and stay with him But she couldn't give sIve those up They offered too rare an opportunity Already her mind was in New York In n eager quest of the crowds crowd the theaters the stores all the things she ic had read and heard about she longed so to experience She couldn't give Ive that up for tor a silly my whim of Jocko's For it was vas a silly whim She con- con herself of that After aU all she had lad given up her Job on the News on his account He might at least be bt reasonable and let her have her chance hance she so dearly desired NAN HAS liAS HER PLANS If It her love for him sometimes whispered that it was the way she he had lad done it her complete disregard for or him that hurt she would not listen Isten n She had her chance her herlans plans lans were made she he must go er r Jocko came or not This decision made they were very polite to each other It was decided that hat Jocko should stay on in the apartment until he had sublet it or disposed of the lease What he would do o then was not gone into Come to New Tew York Move back into a bachelor bache bache- lor or room again gain Nan would not have asked for the world Their last evening together they had ad dinner with June and Jim at a restaurant for June had not been bitten as badly by the bug buS of domesticity domesticity domesticity domes domes- as had Nan At the end there was the conventional conventional conven conven- argument over o the check which Jim won Then after a a. search of Ws IUs pockets he said with a channing charmIng charming charm charm- Ing laugh h to June Any currency on your person sweetheart I seem to have left my wallet in my other clothes clothe Nan saw Junes June's lips tighten as nos she began to open her purse but Jocko Intervened then and insisted d on pay pay- Ing Were they all aU being foolish Nan wondered letting their happiness go goto goto goto to smash over silly economic superstitions superstitions super super- Were Vere women going t to lose 1050 their happiness because they had learned to make mako money Here were two marriages marriages mar mar- apparently headed for the rocks one because the man had too much pride about money the other because the man had none Perhaps If it she and June were merely house home housewives housewIves wives all this Worry this suspicion would never have come Into being Jim wed we'd better run along alons June said Nan and Jocko will want to have t their last evening c alone LOSE LOS JOCKO Why no DO said Jocko Not at all aU You folks must stick sUck with us And so Nans Nan's regretful mood had no opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- for expression They went I to a a. movie mo to while away the time tU till her train should go but they were seated so that she was beside Jim Instead in instead In In- stead stend of Jocko Jacko She had not even en the comfort of her hand Into her husbands husband's holding it tight t tight as she sho wanted so much t to do As they waited at the station the talk seemed to Nan utterly banal bana Jocko Jacko must RO go often to see his friends Doubtless they would be kicking him out pretty soon roan Oh no Indeed Bosh twaddle But she laughed as If it she sho were supremely amused It was as time for farewells As her lips t touched Jocko's Jacko's Nan wondered 1 If she would ever er kiss him him again But he was so calm that she sum sum- molted her pride ride to support her She Sheran Sheran Sheran ran over all her arguments as the train sped through the darkness If happiness in marriage meant that women must suppress all their abilities abilities abil except those of drudgery then they were better off without men The men were to blame with their stupid Ideas If the wife made more marc than the husband was that her fault Couldn't they accept the situation situ situ- atlon work it out some way They would of course if they were sen sen- sible Jocko wasn't sensible lIe Ie was fine but his Ideas were impracticable She couldn't stop her forward march be because because because be- be cause he refused to follow allow She was entitled to go on to make what she die could of her life Ue But she aWOKe that night to the rumble of th tha car u wheels heels What if It meant to lose lase Jocko locko What if It meant to lose Jocko I Continued I la Is this the tire end of the marriage of ot Nan and Jocko |