Show r. r k F MARRIED L I LIFE L I F EI I Helens Helen's Return to the Dusty Musty Apartment With No Maid Is c Most Distressing BY MABEL HERBERT URNER EAR I dont don't see him Helen wa was leaning over the railing DEAR J f I I trying to locate Warrens Warren's father in the waving raving crowd on ont ont t the pier below t in the white dress of that woman in back there there just just her handkerchief now I do waving Oh Ob yes 1 See her 7 Just back of Carrie too theres there's And HAnd by Jove then I U Helen had hoped that Carrie Carric would not come to meet them for sho she dreaded the awkwardness of tr trying ring to entertain her while they stood around waiting for their 1 difficult to baggage Carrie was always so 60 talk to The great ocean liner with the aid of ot four tugs was now being slowly swung into i jar they her ber dock With a shuddering t of the pier the I struck the floating flo ting end l i r were wee thrown o and the g gang gangplanks gangplanks ng P- P h f-h ropes with planks hoisted The air r was tense of landing and excitement the eagerness 0 1 Here they are over arc over this way as arren pushed through the excited crowd to where his father and II I I sier fer were were waiting There wore WOrD tho usual greetings greetin the about the voya voyage e the folks Youre mutual thome thorns and tho oking okin mighty well After the first enthusiasm Warren id his bis father went off to see about while Helen was left with leba 16 baggage 3 e irne fOh Oh yes we had a very pleasant I ip in Yes we liked Paris very much ere ero Helens Helen's stereotyped answers to irrie's stereotyped questions is ia tho alI alaya al al- Why or why And And with the inane inano greeted aya I- I tripe who ld yoa have a a. pleasant trip not uld admit that their trip had pleasant sen een n J 1 1 Pans quite quito warm wann in in it wa was wag weather you JOU had some conic warm ere r e 1 JOb Ob yes its it's been beon been quite warm Carrie and aud this brilliant con con- towered w came to O an ani awkward pause conscious uncomfortably Helen was vas her scrutinizing tat was othes When you arrive from Paris to look like a aarian friends expect u YOU vou our r arian arisian fashion plate Rn and and Helen lleW new there was nothing Parisian or thic about her simple traveling ilL it U It Id Id I'd no idea so many people would woud woude e down to meet the tho boat 30 so early in inh in h 10 morning was Carries Carrie's next pro pro- und urn observation Yes Yes there are a great many But Thit suppose theres there's always a crowd to toof af et of bier rr steamers yi rb Wa Warren n- n and his father m re re- strained to e escape pe cl from those these Helen suddenly remembered hat h t she wanted to phone to the apart apart- lent eat to tell Ma Maccio Magrio tie to have havo the ice box lied So she excused herself hersel and hur hur- ed to a n booth farther down on the tho ier lier They Ther had written Maie from Paris Pans ut bt they thoy would arrive on the and andor andI or I her to have bavo tho the apartment opened nd rid aired In order to keep her they rare era to pay her half her re regular ilar wa wages or or IT the time they were awa away and she cousins cousin's in the rag ras to stay tay at her ber J The hB hill hail boy who answered Helen lid aid that the Curtises CurtIse wore were abroad nd id that no one was in their apart apart- lent ent No f L NOe No this is Mrs Curtis talking ere VeTe Just iut landed Im I'm phoning from tie be Is dock Connect me with my apart- apart I lent ent nt Im I'm sure our maid maM Is there Ill Ill IlI connect you mn maam ma'am am but there thero tnt no nn fun tn to Then Helen insisted on speaking the superintendent who told her their apartment was still cos closed d and that he be had not seen Been their maid What could have happened f Could Maggie have havo failed to receive the letter letten letter let let- ten ter ter Helen hurried back to Warren worried and anxious H She She may not have bave got ot t the letter Better send her a B. tole telegram m ri right ht away he suggested sUj ested It Its 8 just j st out in Jersey she Jersey she can get et in toda today Carrie murmured some sympathetic platitude about never nover being able to i depend on an any servant and that Mag Mag- Mag Maggie have taken another place But gie gb ie may mar I Iver Helen insisted stoutly that Ma Maggie gie was ver very loyal and that she he had really wanted to come back A Suggestion See here Warren turned to Helen Reten suddenly Thoros Macros no need of or us both I waiting r Ill I'll have to stay to pass PM the baggage b hilt but t why cant can't you go to on on- on I get that wire o off to Maggie ra e and open up the place Helen ea eagerly accepted this excuse wait and to escape from the long lont strained conversation with his people And to Carries Carrie's su suggestion that she go with her Helen insisted that she aid lid not at all mind going alone Ten minutes later lator Helen left the pier Disregarding Warrens Warren's advice to take a taxi she took the first cross croS town car to the subway How strange the streets looked I After After a few months abroad ah 11 1 na ones one's own city looks curiously foreign Even their own apartment house seemed unfamiliar There was a new elevator boy to whom Helen had to toie give i e the number of her floor door With a feeling of depression she unlocked un un- locked the door of tho the darkened musty mU ty smelling apartment Quickly throwing up the blinds s an and windows she glanced over the accumulated accumulated mass masH of ot nail man for some Rome message from Maggie Yes there thera it was was was-a. a. a cheap en envelope en- en clope in n Maggie's cramped hand Dear Mrs Curtis I 1 got your Totter letter but I aint coming back any more I got sot gota a a. place where the work ork aint so hard hardon on me I dont don't have haYe to c clean cean an no hard floors and no ironing I hope you get somebody Just as Rood good MAGGIE rAGGIE MURPHY So Maggie was not back hack Helens Helen's dismay was as mingled min led with indig nation If It she had thought the work ork too hard why had hOod she he not said paid so before beCore I they sailed Helen felon looked helplessly around the on 14 THEIR MARRIED LIFE Continued from a page pago o 0 9 dusty dismantled apartment The firs thing to do was as to get et someone to cl clean an up imp Hurriedly she he ii penciled a 3 note to toMma Mrs Mm-a Mr OGrady her washerwoman and standby asking her to come at nt once once once- toda today If it 1 possible s if I not the first thing in iii tho the morning When she had sent the note she go got out of ot her traveling suit sui and ald Into a work- work In house dress She Sho wanted to get sonic some of or the tue dusting done before Warren arren aiu and the trunks trunk came or there thero would be 10 no flO place to la lay anything when she sho Iho un un- un packed Very Ver Depressing There Thero I Is nothing more moro depressing or discouraging than the opening up of ot an ai apartment after several eral c months months' abs absence absence ab ab- ab- ab s sence and for fOI tho ho moment Helen was almo almost t homesick to for I their rooms In Paris Just now nw her minds mind's picture of or those rooms looms seemed more familiar than thIs tills their own home It I was waa as almost almott an hour before ohe olie saw sawa sawa sw swa a cab with their trunks driven up and Warren Jump out Eagerly Helen lichen ran rn out t to the lie hall ball haJ Dear she's shel not coming back Lack slit t-hc the announced tragically lly as Wa Warren stopped stepped the elevator followed by the tho 0 boy with wih their bags not coming back Now where I do clo you want these things put In my room room Ill room room-Il Ill I'll unpack everything In I there Wh Why Maggie Maggie Maggie-here's heres here's here's heres a letter leter from her hel She saws she sh him hitis a place alace where lie tho works work's not And nd after fel she site promised promised prom prom- so 60 faithfully to come collie bac I Well what of ot It glancing over the lie pile plc of or mall mail on the tho dining room table Plenty of other girls girI What's What this bill bi from rota Ardman's Ardman l Thought hought I paid pid that be before before be- be fore we sailed I haven't had time to look over o an any o of the tho mall mail yet et Oh here come the lie trunks and Melon helen ran rn to hold open lh the door Bo Dc careful ont don t scar th the walls wails toor You room can eun cn take them right Into that last lait t I When the men had gone bone Warren different glanced around air the apartment with wih an In Indifferent indifferent in- in In-I In I Well VeIl cl youre you're all al rIght no now I must be begetting begetting bel getting Il down to the office I But Rut dear what shall I do about a 0 girl Had we better advertise I T dread detail dreaden gning en lac to those employment agencies Wonder Wunder If we Wi could get Jet et that thal sister o of Mrs St Stevens Stevens' ent girl She wanted anted to come la last t winter Nothing like that Wo Yo dont don't want rn anyone one carrying arr hh noses news back and forth to lo lothe the Stevens te Get Gel a girl on your our own Helen hesitated You know that Swedish Its It's Is nai tut nt far ar from your office Do you OU IU you'd yOUl ha have time lime lo to run In there here Now ow sea here Ive I've 1 0 enough to do 11 to today to- to tn day without trotting around fur or UI any girl If I you OU cant can't nt go ro yourself telephone Get m my umbrella out of or that shawl will 1 you oti Ix Looks like I. I It'll I rain rin before night Jove this place Is dusty as os he took his hat from tho the hall hal table I 1 know 1 leer dear e r. r Its It's dreadful You I wouldn't think 11 it I would get act e so eo dusty when everything's been closed up Ill I'll Il tr try to tu have ha lave the thin worst of It I off orf before you ou get hom home ome Ive I've Ive sent seni Bent for or Mrs OGrady but I slit she he ri may not come core toa today Dont know now what time Um Ill I'll Il l be It f home hornu as ho lie strode tro toward tho door coor But Bui Dut wol well I I Have flave Jave to go so out for dinner tonight anyway anyway any any- wn way so o It wont won't matter Helen lichen followed him bin to the door with witha wih a a. wistful Dear do call cal me inc up some time durIng during dur dur- ing tho ho day dar Ill I'll Il be bt so iiO lonely here hero all al alone I IA A Cruel Reply Lonely as B he hc rang for the ele ator elevator Should think you'd havo have enough to do doto doto doto to l keep from being lone lonely h Ill I'll Il not h have we tiny uny time for telephoning and Warren entered the elevator ele ator with a curt So long She ghe turned back Into the apartment It I had never looked to her so S desolate The Tho lonely da day dav and the tho dreariness of unpacking lay before her she could cried from ron sheer d despondency y have hav hae It 1 was tho the Inevitable let Jet down that comes after a trip There The aCor Is 3 no mental t state ta te more depressing than than that which which comes w with lh the thc il unpacking of or ones one's trunk 4 And nd the thc heart sick Ick lump hump in Helens Helen's throat stayed hero thero most of th the day dy rl j j |