Show of a Wife Wife I ES E'S S 'S HOPE IS TO DIE HAPPY iou you know Margie sal said Mollie MoUle iI nor ler r leg had been set and she had red gyred from the tho anesthetic every ery that hat happens lo to me In life comes comes a clear sky I 1 never know what tr around und the corner IY ty do you know Margie I was waa happier happl r In my life lite than I was waa ight while dancing with Cha Chad I at ILl all aU my dreams had come true I wn vas was was' Chad who still loved me doa doy do- do y y a baby I had wanted so 50 much I de-I ming Life was good and I was waso o 0 be alive Then Then-biffl Then Every- Every went fluie and here I am with en leg m my hopes of ot the coming shattered and everything all I Mollie I said at least It is 1 t broken leg and you OU will not noto I o stay in bed for tor a whole year as asI I i. i Margie since I have become pus jus lying here I have thought about you ou This physical pain I terrible You see dear my life lite en singularly free tree from any kind kindL i. i Only for lor a little while when I it I had lost Chad forever was wasil I il it sick but bu t th this Is Is the first time I been physically ill m. I feel teel Just justa 5 a though I were a mass of ot flesh I nee ines full of pain nain Wh Why Margie do you know I am so full tull of ot physical hurt hutt that I cannot feel oa LU t terribly as os I know I shall afterward at the tho loss lOBS of the baby Just then Chad came in and his look of ot love lo and the tenderness with which he moved mo the poor wracked pain ed leg made me feel I should willingly go through it all again to get those looks from Dick The queer part port of ot it IB Is iso said raid ald Mollie that I have learned how quickly the world orld gets along without you ou Your friends say Im I'm sorry sorry and then go their way as though their duty were over You are out of it my dear I never realized when you were ill 1111 so 80 long Margie but I know now how I Iu you youx u must have hove felt fell all those long months Bend down close cose b beside m me meI me- me I want to tell you something Margie said M Mollie close to my ear I 1 think tate fate slipped a ft cog with me the tho other night It seems to me the time when one should die and die quickly Is when one is perfectly happy Dont mistake bit me I me-I I am not a n. morbid I dont don't want to die or rather I should say I am not tired of ot living but this is the point I want to make When one is as happy as I was the theother theother theother other night when night when everything looks Joyous Joyous Joyous-It It seems to me if It one ono could be I Just snuffed out then without realizing it It that would be the best way to leave off ott living Do you see what I mean Margie 7 Yes dear for tor I have often orten thought that A few times In my life lite I think I have been perfectly happy but never I has such Auch happiness come to me but me-but but suddenly I had to pay for it with somo terrible disaster I too have thought that when the time carne came for fob me to die f I would like to have it come suddenly when I was happy but I presume I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall live on and on until my friends sa say behind m my back Isn't It too bad she sho cant can't die poor thing She Is IB no comfort to her herself elf nor anyone else Now Tow look here hero girls broke in Chad cant you cut out all this gloomy talk about battle murder and sudden death Please cheer up Mollie Margie Margie Margle Mar Mar- gie gle tell her she Is Infinitely better bettor than ten dead women omen and Id I'd rather have her this way than any other woman in all the world even with two I good legs lega and Chad bent down and andl took Mollie in his arms and kissed her Isn't it strange little book that it is given to some men to say absolutely the right thing In all our married life Ute Dick never said ald such a thing as that to me or took me in his arms anns as thought he ho meant It and wanted me meno meno meno me- me no matter what condition I was in But little book I am not going to be captious I think I am going to try It all over again and unless s something happens that I know not of ot at this moment four weeks from toda today or when Mollie is well enough to go home I too am going home Little book little book I wish you could tell me If it that Js is the right thing I to do To be bo continued |