Show The W Woman Who And Loved And nd Earned A MODERN STORY OF HOME AND BUSINESS BUSINESS' Bv By Jane I I MARY RYAN TELLS GERRY THAT ROBERT IS DISCONTENTED I CHAPTER 11 11 I had not forgotten my promise to toI I help Mar Mary Ryan gain a better tion I had very little time so asked her to come to the same boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse boardinghouse I house with us There was a small room on the upper floor she could have for tor about what she she was paying and it would save her car fare tare as she lived some distance away It It will seem as if it I am in she demurred Not if It you will pronounce your gs g's I returned So it was arranged that she should come and take the tiny liny hall bedroom oom Just vacated I never thought when I planned for Mary that I was once more wronging Robert cheating him We had very little time together and I Iwas was planning planning planning plan plan- ning to take several hours each week i ito to teach Mary Naturally It had to tobe tobe tobe be In the evening Robert made no objection after atter the first time But Gerry dear we have so little time timo together as it is he said I scarcely see you at all an Now If It you take an hour or more for Mary where will I come in But I promised Robert You also promised to love lovo and cherish me he said whimsically yet with that wistful note in his voice which always came when we talked of the way we lived Teaching Mary wont won't interfere with that silly All right Gerry but dont don't forget torget you have a husband and that perhaps he Is entitled to something I I wont won't dear Long afterward Robert told me that he felt he could say nothing to me about what I should do In a way he felt that he had no right because he ho did so little for tor me It took over half his salary for our room and arid board I dressed myself entirely and often otten I paid for any little extras Then I saved a little That he also knew and encouraged me to save as much muchas as 1 Ii 1 could I wish you could put all you earn away every cent he once said but butI I cant can't dress you as you dress your your- self As I have to dress to get the salary I do I corrected Then explained that a saleswoman In a smart shop was obliged to be smart also So she blend with the shop Yes in a way But why work so hard just to wear clothes that only the people you serve see It seems to me you women have things figured out wrong some way work early and late just to dress nicely That's about what it amounts t to isn't it No dear dear- you dont don't quite understand understand understand under under- stand how a woman who has made a a good position for tor herself feels Wo We work worle hard to raise ourselves just as you do We have pride In our ability I also abo just as you have If we have I chosen a trade trado or profession that appeals ap appeals appeals ap- ap peals to us we are ate happy in It just justas as a man is happy if he is In some business which interests him Really our outlook is identically the same sanie as yours Robert looked bewildered but not convinced Hes just as disappointed as he can be bo that you wont won't wear that frilly kind of ot apron I told you about Mary said one morning The evening before she had sat with me mo for tor an hour while we both s sewed wEd wE'd and chatted Robert occasionally Joining In but for tor the most part reading reading reading-as as I thought That magazine was upside down I Isa saw sa- saIt it when I dropped my thimble He hadn't read a word Honest Gerry Meredith I am sorry for him If It you i wont won't give up your Job why dont don't you do two I What do you mean I Just rust what I say Get busy learn all you can about keeping a house and cooking there cooking there I said both g's gs gs g's then rent a get a young younS' girl or an old woman who needs a ahome ahome home and Just let that poor man put his feet under his own table Dont talk nonsense Mary I am going to learn to cook some little things in a chafing dish so we can give a little supper once in awhile right here in our room but I never shall shan try to keep house and sell hats at once Sometime Sometime Jn a few years perhaps when perhaps when we have saved enough and Robert earns more we may keep house Robert Is very good looking Gen Gerry that got to do with it Oh Ohl nothing nothing nothing-he's he's hes alone a lot though GERRY IS TROUBLED WITH MIS MIS- GIVINGS CHAPTER 12 Gerry Gem dear I hope I L haven't been doing something you will scold me for Robert said Friday night after we had had our dinner I had been very late that night business had been rushing all day and I was dreadfully dreadfully dreadfully dread dread- fully tired too tired to talk But after I had put on a negligee Robert had insisted I lie on the couch and said ho he would do the talking for tor both I had noticed he looked a little worried worried worried wor wor- ried when I complained of ot being wear weary Walt Wait until I hear what it is s. s I had slipped my hand In his I met Murphy and Weed this noon and arid I asked them and the girls to come up tomorrow evening Oh Robert I intended to learn how to make something nice before we asked them Im I'm sorry you didn't consult me I should have havo told you to wait walt another week Im sorry dear but I could hardly harly help it You see they have been mighty good to me and I know that when I married they thought we would still see each other frequently I think they have been disappointed that we haven't been more sociable But we have only been married two months I know and you ou have been so busy and used up Poor dear But about tomorrow night Dont Don't you worry Ill I'll go to Mary Elizabeths Elizabeth's or some other place and get something thing nice nicefor nicefor for tor supper We Ve wont won't try to do very much they wont won't expect it in a boarding house What a dear you are Robert I will wUl ask Mrs Lane the landlady to let us have a card table We Ve will have Mary Ryan and you invite some nice young fellow then we can have two tables and play bridge Wouldn't that be nice Indeed it would would would-it if Mar Mary will come You better find out In the morning and telephone me If she cant can't Join I us I wont won't ask anyone but the Weeds and Murphys I saw at once that he didn't want anyone els else but would not riot say so fearing to hurt me He knew how fond I was of MaryI Mary I think perhaps we better not have anyone else this first time We Ve can play hearts Robert looked pleased and we planned the supper supper just Just a a. salad either lobster or chicken thin bread and butter and some cakes We became became became be be- I came quite hilarious over It and I almost forgot how tired I was until later when Robert woke me and said I It was time to go to bedI bedI bed I I hadn't been reading the paper paperA A minute when you were sound asleep he told me Its It's too bad for lor you to work so hard I It wont won't always be so hard The busy husy season will be over now In a short time i That will be fine You must get thoroughly rested before the spring rush I half expected he would say I ought to stop working and was thankful he understood I should notI notI notI not I wish you would wait walt after atter the others go Mrs Meredith Madame Leets said to me the next day It I Iwas was disappointing when I wanted to I get home early but I replied Certainly I will remain as long as you wish It was after 6 0 when I left lett the shop 7 1 when I reached the boarding house Robert said nothing but I saw at once he was hurt because I was so late I wouldn't eat any dinner but sent him down alone the alone the first time since we had been married Then I dressed myself for tor the evening arranged the card table table table-I I had bought a a. linen cover and and by the time I had everything ready Robert came up He brought me a sandwich and some coffee cottee The dinner wasn't very good and andou you ou will have to make malte up at your own supper he said as he hurried to change his collar and brush up a I little He lie had the supper all ready and it looked delicious What was the use of worrying over not knowIng knowing know- know Ing how to cook when we could buy i things so easily I We had a delightful evening Both I girls s praised the salad and to my I delight declared it was far better I than they could make I frankly told them where it came from also that it was so late when I got home I had I had no dinner Robert is too good looking to be left lett much alone Jane rane Murphy re re- re marked Someone will steal him if it you dont don't watch out Hes so sociable too Betty Weed added Then We Ye are very fond of ot him Gerry I had Insisted they stop calling me Mrs credith It sounded so formal when they called my husband husband hus hus- band Robert We Ve had a tip top time didn't we dear he asked after atter they left lett I thought they enjoyed themselves themselves themselves them them- selves I answered rather absently my thoughts on what Jane had said said- Someone will steal him if it you u dont don't watch out To T-Q be continued |