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S 1 I Margaret Marp-aret Garrett Garretts s s b fJ j l i H Husband By U JANE E PHELPS an d I j 1 f i J CHAPTER 37 37 A Peculiar Kind of Jealousy What do you call can It then Bob asked anent my opinion that he should not spend his his' time with Miss Warren VarrelL 1 I ani am Jealous Bob I answered seriously se seriously se- se to ma me It was no Joking oking matter m matter But I 1 am not jealous of any woman Why that never has entered my head I am Jealous of the time you give to others the Interest you you bestow on them which belongs to me and to your home 1 I hope that you o love me too well ever er to belittle me me and yourself by making me jealous of any single person It was almost Inconceivable that he ever co could ld do anything like that I never shall shaU Margaret But there Is no reason for you t to bo be jealous of the time I 1 give my friends You could Join us if you would We Ve wont won't discuss that I have decided decided decided de de- de- de that I 1 do not care to be with them If 3 you ou can enjoy yourself knowing knowIng know- know knowIng Ing I 1 am sitting home alone YOU jou are area a very peculiar man I couldn't have havea a good time anywhere In the world If you were were not with me I 1 told him then wound up with my usual you you love me dont don't you Bob I love lovo you jou so de dearly and as usual my arms were around his neck That he ne would ever be become ome surfeited with my love Jove ove or the expression of it rather I never Imagined d. d A woman never tires of extravagant terms terns when used to express a mans man's love lore for tor her and I figured that because I lunged longed to hear a dozen times times' a day tat nat Bob Bub loved me me he must mast also lon Ion lone to know that I 1 loved him as aa many times limes as I chose to tell him Often otten about this time Bob Bub would decline invitations and remain at home with me But I could see that he did not do it willingly and unfortunately unfortunate I did not keep this knowledge to myself my my- I self I I e would accuse him of ot wanting w-inting to go and he would either vade m mj my questions anent the matter or make snake some reply like this Why not forget torget why I remained and be contented You have had your our way and y yet ret et you are not pleased But I 1 want your thoughts as well as you I 1 would answer I want yo yoto you you to talk to me me- about the things In which I am Interested But Dut though he did as I 1 requested I 1 felt an unwillingness to give up the evening to me and never stopped taUting talkIng talking talk talk- Ing about duty duty duty-duty duty as I 1 saw w It It Christmas came and passed We spent It with mother and father Bob was delighted with his smoking jacket V TCo Xo matter what one paid they couldn't get so handsome a one he told me as he kissed me and slipped a lovely bracelet over my hand 1 Father Jather and mother too were so pleased with wilh I what I had made them that it spurred me to make other things for them and m myself L I Wl was not very ery well after aler Christmas and Bob Dob left me but seldom I did not lay his remaining at home to that however however however how how- ever but to the Influence of my talks about his duty and the wonderful love loveI I had for tor him Occasionally he would ask John Kendall Kendall Kendall Ken Ken- dall or Henry Henr Creedmore to come up for tor an hour In the evening e But now he never asked them to dinner I tried to make them welcome for his sake when the they did come and would make them a a. little chafing channg dish supper But Hut ButI I could not control my manner to any great extent and I now realize that I didn't really tr try They knew I 1 did not nol want them and seldom remained long In April my baby boy was born These last months Bob had been so 80 tender so devoted to me that not a cloud darkened d my mr horizon He had I learned that his Ms happiness la lay in doing doIn his duty b by me lt I thought aa as t I hugs hugged ed edmy my baby boy bo- close clos to me NOT Never a.-a a. n 11 would I have to coax him to remain with me to give gi e up those thOlf Bohemian I friends I r so objected to his spending his time with with time time that belon belonged Ed ro fO ome o j i me j Bob was very ver busy now i it bis bust I 1 ness lie had become interested also I in some sone sort of manufacturing which occasionally took him to Chicago I III Ij j dreaded dread d his absence but business was WiS II business as father was fond of saying I I so I 1 made very ery little complaint anent I these Western Vestern trips When baby Is old enough well we'll go with you sou I t had said one dayAll day dayAll ayAn ay All An right Bob had returned laugh- laugh Nice lice lot of business Ill I'll do do however with a woman and a a. kid hid along Bob insisted that we should make plans to stay down on Long Island all nil summer Bummer I was still far from strong I and It would be better for the baby I Tather and mother insisted that we weI stay with them I was inclined to ob 01 object ob- ob I I 1 thought I I would have Bob more to myself if we had a small cottage or orI bungalow of our own until mother I said tr i x xI d dIf I It If you jou are with us Margaret you you will be free to come and go with Bob lIe He told me he would often be obliged Ii to remain In town and you could sometimes run up and stay with himI him I 1 would gladly keep the baby I That decided me So the first Df f fI I I June w we moved down to mothers mother's forthe forthe for forthe the the summer I took Della Delia and wo we woI closed the tho apartment f I Ill either stay with Kendall or at atthe atI atthe I the club Bob had said as we discussed the matter I had wanted to leave the I apartment open and have the laun laundress I ress keep It t clean and comfortable comforti But Im I'm coming up when you OU stay tay 1 11 overnight I 1 exclaimed When you ou do well we'll stay at an hotel to doI do But I 1 Imagine you wont won't care much coming in town with that youngster youngster youngster young young- I ster down on the island I 1 was I was going to say Just as devoted to my baby as I was to Bob But I wasn wasn't t tI I loved hint hi dearly as much as any mother loves her baby But he nev never r I could make me the feel less devoted to Bob Dob never make me willing g to t relax rex lone one iota of my desire for lor his presence CHAPTER 38 I It Is a Good Thing to o Have Faith The first t two two weeks Bob came down every night He lie had bad persuaded both John K Kendall and Henry Creedmore to come down over oer week ends and they had made arrangements at the club for forI forthe forthe the entire summer Bob told me nothing noth noth- nothing I ing of their plans until It was too noth-I noth late to change them Had he I 1 should have Insisted that he say nothing to them Elsie and Tom Barton had taken a I cottage near the club for the summer so the four men could play BO golf and tennis together Pleased as I was as to t have ha Elsie and her darling children where I could see them every day da I with I would willingly have dispensed her society rather than have things made so uncomfortable for lor me on account ac account account ac- ac count of the constant discussions I 1 had with Bob anent his duty to me me me- and now the baby in the The third week we spent country Bob telephoned one da day that he would not be down I was out with the baby when he called and mother took I 1 heard of itI it itI the message When I 1 rushed to the telephone and called his office lIe He had been gone half halt an hour Had nad left for forthe forthe forthe the office boy told me the In response tomy tomy to tomy Afternoon he said my inquiries I next tried tried his club and as alast alast a alast last studio ins Ills resort John Kendalls Kendall's man answered the telephone Xo No Mr Ir Garrett Is Js not here he e told me and when I asked for tor Mr Jr lr Kendall he said Hes not here either I fumed turned and fretted until mother lost all J patience with meDo me I IDo Do run over to Elsie's EIles a a. while dear It is ridiculous for you jou to feel so Bobis Bob Bobis I is old of himself enough to take care Bobs Bob's all right when hes he's w away do from m that crowd But mother y you do n not II understand They are bad for Bob They put ideas Into his head They I make him di satisfied dissatisfied with a quiet domestic domestic do- do doI I Ute life such as I want him to lead I I will not have ha him spending spendin time ume me that that belongs me I c cor- cor corI r- r to me bab baby and i I reeled lot of people myself with a with wiLh advanced ideas j Margaret argaret Deb isn isn't t a domestic man You would V do better to gO so out more moro r I S with to his h him friends to make yourself agreeable Well ell I 1 dont don't I I said sald passionately Bob I Garrett Garrell LU Is m my husband He will willmo spend hl his f time With me mo and I r flung upstairs that nh and didn't come como down wn again night even en when hen father came can up and I Ill n coaxed t me i to eat eM at some dinner stay up here all an alone I 1 said to myself when later 1 I heard hear Elsie's I voice olce downstairs Ill tell him that I 1 lid and hell he'll be I II ashamed to mak make e me I so unhappy when hen bal baby y Is ls so little figuring on using m my baby to Influence I Bob Dob to in do as I wished I I 1 was selfish abnormally so perhaps In m my love for tor Bob Dob But Dut I r have mot met other w women men who Were just ItS as selfish Just as Inconsistent There will bo ho perhaps perhaps per per- haps one n J young UnS girl who reads my mv story saved fu from m m my mistakes s and Sill will subsequent E unhaPPiness If so my story not have been ben told in vain It Is a good thing to have hae faith Faith in human nature In m the one n y you love It Is a a. good thing to be unselfish to toas consider others as well we as yourself It Is a good thing to be broadminded enough to grasp esp another's viewpoint and to Dissect vi dissect It and see sec if It is not better than V y your Ur own It is la a good thing to mix iX with Uh your fellows Allows to listen Us- Us Isten ten and to talk lu It U Is ls not good BOOd to dO of K none these things But at that time they were eacH and all ot of them the things hn I T left undone That I 1 refused to doI do I adhered to my determination In spite of Elsie's urgings She came to my door and begged me to come down stairs Its a lovely night Margaret Come Como on down and sit on the porch with us No 0 thank you Elsie Ill I'll not como come down tonight and nothing she could say changed my mindI mind I know lenow why you jou OU are acting so and I am ashamed of you you she finally burst out You think by punishing yourself you will punish Bob but you ou wont won't Youre You're the most foolish woman I 1 know Poor Bob Im I'm sorry for him and I 1 heard hear her sniff as she turn turned d from the door And the next day I moped about the house I would not go over to the club as I usually did every afternoon but I did walk to the station as usual to meet Bob He Jumped off the train almost almos be before before be- be fore it stopped Hello Margaret then after atter he Kissed me me hows the kid i iThe The baby is well I 1 replied J. J j Then why are you looking I so 0 solemn Arent Aren't you ou glad to see me rne 1 I I am very glad to see you jou ut ut I 1 should have been more pleased ha hanot you ou not remained In town last Jast nigh or had made it possible for me to Join you by telling mother where you vere ere I tried to get you on the e a at sev several se eral places You couldn't have come in ha hai you Oll found me me It was a stag and break up until very late f Where were you you I Oh we all went down to Fenton Fen Fen- I ton Farm Tarm for dinner and well well we we stayed until they put us out and he lie laughed heartily at the recollection Plase do not let it happen again while I am down here or I 1 shall come Into town ton no matter how hot bot It t V is is I r Isaid Isaid said severely Bob made no reply repy and I 1 Judged that he agreed Monday l Morbid Monday Morbid Thoughts and Actions |