Show a Husban IL and ad lh l I IBy h By Iy Jane Phelps s CHAPTER 43 Moving Day The next month was a very iery busy time for fob me It was no easy task to clean and lea leave leae e the apartment In shape shapo for the Incoming tenants and to pack up take tate C care caie of the baby and do the other work worl Tom saw how tired I was getting and Insisted upon my taking Nora back But you said we couldn't afford It ft r TOm Tom ml i I reminded him Mm I 1 know but It will cost us more If you get sick Well We'll make out some someway someway someway way way he replied as he hurried aWa away How Ilow Tom is changing I 1 thought as I 1 busied myself about the house hous e eA A month ago he wouldn't have ha lae said that and three months a ago o he would have hae declared It Impossible Perhaps after all aU he was going to be more like I I x had been wanting him to be ever since I r learned what one could do and i have with a little money mone and credit I Yet I was still worried about my I bills with the tradesmen when moving I Iday Iday day came and they still were unsettled unset unset- AVe We were going so far from that locality that It wOuld v not be convenient convenient conven conven- nt i-nt to keep on with them and it was also doubtful it If they would deliver goods at such a distance But they I would just have to wait walt I decided I would write them a note telling them t to send their bills to the new address that would keep them quiet i let until wo we got away then I 1 would see what I I could do about paying them Tom could not leave leae to come up and help me so after I had seen the big storage wagon start off with our I things the baby Norah and I took the subway y down to the new apartment HELEN IS NEIGHBORLY I Helen Heen met us In the hall and insisted in inis Ib ed that I should let her take the baby while I watched the men unload d and told them where I want wanted d the furniture furniture furniture furni furni- ture placed Then she told Is Norah orah and me to come in to luncheon Youre too good to me Helen Heen I Is Isaid s said Bald ld as we stepped from th the tha elevator at her apartment I am going to leave l a few things foi for the baby with you then go back down to my own rooms I am so delighted to have you down here that I dont don't know lwow what to doWalter do Walter Valter says I have ha talked of at nothing else since it was decided If m mj my apartment will look only half I as pretty as yours ours does I shall shan be perfectly perI perfectly per per- I satisfied I said as I looked around at the dainty crisp hangings I the flowered cretonnes and the pretty furniture But Dut you must have bought a lot of new things I had not been I down since she had settled and noticed noi noticed no no- i many things she had not had In Inthe inI inthe the old place I Not so man many Of course the curI curtains curtains cur cur- never fit So I 1 took those I had I and made them over for the bedrooms i the bathroom and kitchen Then I II I bought ht this muslin for 14 cents a yard and made them myself I made the I cretonne too I dont don't think our moving expenses and all an cost me over one OM hundred and fifty dollars dol dol- lars One hundred and fifty dollars dollars' And Andi i Helen had said only I had hid not notI I planned to spend anything for new furniture but I thought as I wen I down In the elevator to my own ap apart apartment I ment that I probably would have to have new curtains too and I would love some pretty dainty cretonnes In InI I m my heart I envied Helen her dainty new style furniture though I had been more mora reconciled to our heavy heay old fashioned pieces since Everett Crandell Cran- Cran dell deli had hael so admired them A TIMELY GIFT Just as the men were leaving a boy came in the open floor door of the apartment apartment apartment apart apart- ment with a long white box But It ft was not long enough to conceal what It contained as the end lied had been cut cutout cutout cutout out to allow the stems of the flowers to come through I signed for them then opened the box A full dozen of ft l lovely vely chrysanthemums yellow arid add aridI I reddish brown lay on a bed of ferns They were wonderfully large and beautiful beautiful beau beau- Without looking at the card laid ald aldon on top of them I instinctively knew that Everett Crandell had sent them Just a welcome to your new home I he had written above his name name Again I t wished that Tom had sent them and wondered how much they cost and If it itI Tom ever eyer would have money enough I to buy me such lovely flowers Luncheon Is ready Helen interrupted my thoughts with the announcement Then You lucky girl What wonderful chrysanthemums Arent they beautiful I queried as I selected three e of the largest and gave them to herShe her She did not ask nor did I volunteer any information as to who sent themI them I Imagined she had made a rather shrewd guess however I CHAPTER 44 Getting Settled When I tried my curtains I found that Helen was right that none of ot them fitted the windows window s Other things too were needed as is always the case when one moves I have haye found out I Isaid Isaid Isaid said nothing of all an this to Tom until the heavy part of the settling was over The furniture In place the pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures hung etc Then I didn't say anything either cither I waited wafted a day or two then one evening proposed that we I Ican call can on Helen I was tired and it I would rest me I trusted her dainty hangings and other purchases would I so impress Tom that he would not object object object ob ob- ob- ob to our having them also I was right I How lIow pretty and cosy you look he exclaimed It must be your hangings hang hang- ings Helen we haven't ours up yet you know Helen explained how she had used th the 0 old ones taking Tom a and showing him all through the rooms I When we reached home he said to tome tome tome me I I guess g you'll have to tn do as Helen HelenI did use the old curtains for the b bedrooms bedrooms bed bed- d- d rooms and get new ones for tor the living I and amI dining room loom TOM AGREES TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT But Dut Tom I haven't vent a a. penny of f my In allowance left lett that I can spare I answered Well Nell its it's got to be fixed up some somo someway I way It rooks looks as bare and like as fury after Helens Helen's apartment Why dont don't you ou open an account for forme forme forme me at one ono of the bl big d department stores where they carry everything Then I could get what we really needed I added without waiting for tor an answer and It wouldn't cost us any more more and I wed we'd have the use of ot the things right awa away instead of waiting goodness knows how long for us to save the I money I waited breathlessly for fot his answer I knew If I could win him over oyer to that I my troubles were ended when I wanted wanted wanted want want- ed something pretty prett to wear or for the tr-e hou house houge e It never entered my foolish head that they might be just beginning begin begin- ning he said You see I continued when nothing you are getting a good salary now Twice as much as ase we e had when we were married And you ou are with a progressive man man I I quoted him that makes maes all aU the difference too But Sue we are aie three now Instead of two four really because I can see that you'll ou have to keep leep Norah orah most of the time Then we are paying just justI double rent Well We'll get fn In a hole If it we dont don't look out out Then Then But But we must I have havo those windows fixed up some some- way Ill I'll write Bimble's and tell them to open an account In your name That That's s a medium priced place and they I carry everything under the sun sun sunI I I was so elated I could scarcely keep j I from dancing but I managed to keep within bounds as I said I The sooner you do it the sooner I can fix up the house HELEN HEARS THE NEWS I could sc scarcely wait until Tom had left to go In and tell Helen tho the news II Tom is going to open an account for me at Bimble s Helen I exclaimed and I want you to go down with me meto meto to buy the curtains Today I No No I I guess not today Ill I'll have to wait walt until Tom tells ms ma it is all right V ry well Ill I'll go an any time you say Im I'm glad Tom has decided to be sen sea sensible sensible sible sable at last and let you have accounts ae Its It's such a convenience she then astonished me by asking DidI Did Everett Crand Crandell send you jou ou those I chrysanthemums chrysanthemums' Yes I answered almost without thinking Dont think Im I'm nosey but that man surely Is In love with you or you or very near it It I 1 Nonsense Why Helen everyone knows that I love Tom Tam That Thatis Is everyone everyone everyone every every- one I know Why Vh even Miss 1 Morton laughed at ot me for tor showing In my feelings so plainly and said laM I let Jet people know by my actions that I had not been long married Yell Well look out for Crandell that's all she the said laughingly hes dangerous dan dan- |