Show LOVE OVE L-OVE AND DISHES By Margaret Wood BEGIN HERE Bonnie DonnIe gives up her job as private secretary to marry Bill Dear itt Industrious plodding young drafts oung drafts man She gives up her job and goo good times with Gregory Gregor Lon Long Long- junior par parner partner part part- ner ncr of her boss with reluctance fo foshe for forshe forshe she realizes she will wUl have to scrimp and save until Bill can establish his own clientele When Bill Dill comes home with in payment for lor some plans he has s be been n slaving slavin over for several weeks they arc deliriously happy Bonnie deposits de dc posits of it In their savings s ac u. count Bill is called home because hi his mother is seriously ill iii and has to us use the for her operation He lie leaves leave Bonnie no money for food She is worried during his absence and gets one brief brIel unsatisfactory note from him When he returns after six days day she suggests that he take her out to dinner Bill BUl tired and haggard says say he has to get to work but gives he her hersome hersome some money to buy something Bannie Bon Ban nie furious flatly states that she I Is going gain back to her job Then she dashes from the thc apartment She feels better after alter she has dinner and goes to a movie b by herself hersel 5 CHAPTER 13 At 10 o'clock Bonnie stepped ou out of the elevator and walked briskly down the hall toward her open door Bill met her herand and drew her frenziedly inside closing the door and holding kolding her close What on earth is the matter Bon i I was frantic about you youl Oh dont don't let l t me worry you for fora a moment please replied Bonnie with frigid politeness Where have you been Its It's 10 o'clock II tried to catch you and you had disappeared I couldn't work Bonnie threw back her head and laughed She laughed hysterically and long Oh dear me You couldn't work Imagine that You couldn't work and gales of laughter cut cul cutoff oC off her power of speech You couldn't work vork Bonnie please Dont Don't be that way I missed you so so and wanted you so all the time I was away I was so anxious to get home so happy to see you Arent Aren't you glad to see me even ven evena vena a little Surely Your ardent letters just kept me awake at night thinking about your homecoming 1 Have you had anything to eat I dont don't want to talk about anything any any- thing to cat eat now Im I'm so miserable Bon Ban I depend on you so need you sol Bonnie smiled archly I know just how you feel Bill Bm Youre You're hungry Oh Oh Sugar be serious I I am serious That's just the way J felt before I went out to eat cat I Was was counting on you being so io glad to get home so tickled t to be again that you would take me out to dinner Not for the whole evening Oh no I w wasn't nt that rash but I did think you would want to be with me for a awhile awhile awhile while 0 and you dumped some money on the table and told me torun to torun torun run along I felt a lot better when I had eaten Come on on Ill I'll fix coffee coUce and I brought sandwiches AN ULTIMATUM 1 But I was frantic about leaving the work That old codger is straining at atthe atthe atthe the bit hit for those plans He has no Idea of of the work it takes the time I 1 have to spend on them and we need the money You know that thill Bill ill dot don you dare tell me again that you are working on those thos plans for rae me mel I 1 dont don't want you to toI I haven't wanted you OU to tol Id I'd rather c ca do doa a little work myself to make the margo mare mar marego marego go and have a little fun along with i it Im I'm telling you again that Im I'm going goin back to work Bonnie unwrapped the sandwiches and set the table She hoped that Bi Bill wouldn't put his arms arms aro around J d herShe her She had to be firm and it was s shard so so hard to be firm when Bill kissed her Dont talk like that S Sugar garl Yo You make me feel like a damned worthless worthless worthless worth worth- less hound Weve We've had a bad break but Ii Ii dont don't know what I would have hav done without that money You seea see a fellow cant can't just let his mother die diel No uNo But a fellow can just let hi his wife go to seed Now get this straight Bill I I tell you again I was glad fo for you to spend the money I am am honestly hon estly estl proud that you had it But I Iam Iam am going to work just the same They ate in silence Bonnie stacked the dishes and picked up her book You arent aren't going to read arc are arc you Bon I want you to talk to me ITS IT'S NO USE USEI I couldn't possibly interfere with your work I wanted to talk to you when you first came Im I'm sorry orry buI but bu butI I dont don't care to talk to you now Bill sat at her feet He took the boo book from her and laid it on the he floor beside him Dont you love me Bon Boa Yes but I dont don't like you very much right ight now I dont don't like to be told to torun torun run run along I particularly dont don't like being told to run along by the man I married Kiss me Bonnie Its no no use Bill Its It's all wrong You put me in a position of being jealous jealous jeal jeal- ous of your own own mother I admit it i looks that way but Im I'm not You make me dependent on you arid then you walk out from under with all the support you have for me through no fault of your your own own If It youve you've got to support your mother you ought not to expect me mc e quietly q to take what's left YOU cant can't help it and she cant can't help it it but ut I can and Im I'm going to I dont don't want vant to keep house for you or for anybody I do want to make my own living iving Im I'm going to bed and I I. I wish I could creep into my little white bed bedat bedat bedat at Mrs Williams' Williams and think it all out You mean Bill hesitated you mean th that t you wish yo you had abed abed a abed bed of your own uY Yes cs Oh BoniWell BonI Well I just that It hurts my self respect to sleep with you when I feel like I do tonight Bill Bm got up off oft the floor Dont worry Ill I'll work Bonnie saw him turn the U light ht away from her and adjust it so the he glare would not keep her from sleeping He Heat sat at at his board his features set In a airm firm irm unfamiliar mold Did anything matter enough to make Bill so unhappy unhappy un un- un happy WORN VORN OUT She had not meant to say that about the lie bed He would stay up all night and nd he was already worn out She wished this crazy little apartment had two wo rooms They should have a couch ouch at least Bills Bill's hands moved Quietly under the light Strong white whit fingers ingers long and at the ends capable hands artistic hands hand She loved oved Bills Bill's hands and Bill w was s miser miser- able ble He Hf had left off oft his hi eye shade and nd hi his eyes would ache tomorrow Bip shouldn't you you have basic your shade Still looking after his physical cal needs Im all right thanks He hadn't looked up There was no change of expression but she noticed the fingers ingers of his left hand clinch Poor old Bill He wanted to be loved The little boy was shining through h for all his set face and preoccupied preoccupied preoccupied manner His feet were wrapped around the legs of his chair his hair was a mess of short black curls all jumbled together with one recalcitrant recalcitrant trant curl dropping forward on his forehead There were deep black circles cir cles des under his eyes and he was drooping drooping droop droop- ing over his board She wanted to rush to him rescue him from that tyrannical old board take him in her arms arias and kiss all his troubles away He had been through so much and she had acted like a sp spoiled child all because she was hungry STUBBORN No wonder thought Bonnie the prisons are full of people for doing terrible terrible terrible ter ter- ter- ter things when they were were really hungry But Bonnies Bonnie's was a stubborn wilL wilLIt It t seemed so hopeless so useless so futile She should have known their marriage could not work work o out t. t With all their differences and no nothing hing to hold lold them together but love Jove ve it could never work out And Bonnie ried cried for the failure they had made of f their venture She wept silently for those high hopes and brave determinations that hat were hers on that Saturday morning morn morn- Ing ng two months ago She didn't want Bill Bm to know she was crying and she tried ried to stifle her sobs in the pillow Her face was buried arid and she could not see him look at h her r hesitate and come softly to her He patted her shoulder leaned gently over her and whispered Want me to get out out- Bonnie She shook her head and reached or his hand I I. I I. I do dont don't know what wha I want Go to 10 sleep honey noncy You are all aU tired fred out Turn over and let me fix y your irr eyes He Ho dried her face but made nade no effort to comfort her no motion mo mo- ion tion to kiss her He brought her a glass of kiter and ana patted her handAU handAll hand All AU right now When she stopped sobbing he went back ack to his board but Bonnie saw that he getting anything done He le sat and stared at the drawing She he had set out to hurt Bill Bm and had succeeded In wounding them both A wave of ot disgust for herself swept through Bonnie nnie and it was followed by y a wave of tenderness for Bill She slipped lipped out from th the covers and went to himI him I I didn't didn t mean to hurt you so Bill Im I'm m a mean selfish little skunk and Im I'm m sorry I I I. think after all that's what I was crying ab about ut Sh She dropped into h his lap Iap Love me Bill I and nd dont don't ever pay any attention to I what I say To be continued Copyright 1932 the Register and Tribune Syndicate |