Show i BY V RICHARD HILL FALL H ILL WILKINSON THEY TilEY DECIDED to be sensible 1 about it It Im Ilm only making makin 30 a w week ek Ken Xen said laid But Ive I've a good lood chance of ot makin making more soon loon t I couldn't ask ak sk you ou to get let along on 30 a week Wed be happy Jill told him I IId Id be happy with you OU no matter what you OU made a week she add adds ed d practically But It in It more sensible to Wilt wall Things would be beso beso beso so much easier euler Jill's Jill parents nodded their heads wisely when she told them about it Their daughter was daughter was smart She had good sense enose Kens Ken a bright boy Mr Whit Whitney ney agreed alreed Hell be making 50 50 per in no time tune at all aU I. I Mr Whitney had faith Jill had hd I faith Ken Xen had faith But Ken had more He had Incentive Jill was the incentive Up until a month ago ao women hadn't bothered him much Then hed he'd met Jill Neither of them had ever quite recovered from the discovery that they loved each other It was too wonderful Ken was wu a writer of advertising copy In the days that followed i he wrote advertising copy with a I zip and a sparkle sparkle- that he had never thought himself capable of ot He thought surely that Mr his hb boss bolS would notice Mr San Sans trell did He lie complimented Ken Xen highly and bestowed upon his hia young shoulders an encouraging pat But the old pay envelope still contained 30 bucks no more Weeks passed Ken still zipped ed d dout out his smart copy but that was wai all aU the good It did him Every w week ek he opened his pay envelope envelop with an eagerness that made his disappointment disappointment double livery lvery week he hoped that he could colli call on Jill and tell her that hed he'd received the raise and there was no need of waiting longer But that day didn't come lie Ise and I talked about abou it it Occasionally tone one of them became discouraged Then the other assumed a cheerful and land optimistic attitude The raise would come It was bound to But it didn't Two months passed Ken began to despair Jill JUT he im im- was becoming less inter inter- ested He fancied she was falling tailing out of love with him He couldn't blame blame her On the other hand if ir her love were genuine shed she'd wait forever His llis fears were realized one day a I I week later when he saw her out driving with a young man with a ablack i black mustache Sight of the pa pair Ir laughing and talking together was like a thrust knife in his heart He made inquiries and learned that the young man with the black blackI I mustache was Cy Parker son of ot a I business associate of Jill's father lather Cy was just home from a year abroad labroad after graduating from cols col col 1 lege I IThe The next night when Ken called on Jill he expected her to explain about Cy Parker But she said I nothing It was a dreary night The I moon was obscured by heavy clouds There was mist in the air I Ken Xen drove home early They said night goodnight without kissing i i iKen Ken wished he were dead He lie II might he thought as a well be Death could have no sUn sting Ilk like the pain In his hit heart Thereafter the zip sip and sparkle went out of Kens Ken's advertising copy He could think of ot nothing but Jill Jut Mr no longer paused pawed betide be bet tide side his desk to compliment him and pat him on the shoulder He began bean to fear feu for tor his hit Job sob He Ite was miserable Three nights later he called ClUed on Oft Jill She was wu alone atone welting waiting In the living room dressed for tor a party He knew she must b be going oln out with Cy Parker I f guess guel he said aid without preamble pre pr amble youve thought It over and decided it was wu a mistake Thought what overt over Jill said About marrying marr-In me If U you loved me you wouldn't care how much I was making Ive ve already told you I could be happy with you OU no matter what you made a week But you you wouldn't 1 0 wouldn't marr marry me on 30 w dollars doUar a week Who said I wouldn't Why said ald Ken why you why you did I I never I never said any such thing I merely agreed alreed with you when you said we ought to be making mak ing ine more I thought you wanted me meto meto meto to agree I thought you didn't think w we could be happy on 30 Well for gosh sakes said Ken He stared at her She was looking at him round round eyed There was a sort of hopeful appeal in her heT ex Well for gosh sakes he said again and suddenly popped out of his chair and strode over to the divan where she was sitting silting When Mr Cy Parker rang the Whitney doorbell 15 IS minutes later laterno no one answered It it The elder Whit Whit- news were away and Jill was busy I Quite busy After awhile Mr Par Par- ParI Parker I ker went away I Shortly after this Ken sat up straight He looked like one who had swooned into a c. c coma ma and liked it Jill said And now that weve we've decided we can be happy on 30 dollars a week I want to tell teU you something I feel I that I have the right I You certainly have declared i Ken earnestly No one in the I world has a better right Then tomorrow you start writ writ- I ing advertising copy with the same i I I I I I i i zip and sparkle that you did before I And after youve you've been doing it for fora a week you go into Mr and demand a raise But holy smoke I cant can't do that Why he might fire fire fire- You do as I say Jill told him After all all my opinion ought to be beI considered if 11 I have to get along on halt half your salary Ken did as he was told The following fol fol- lowing Saturday night he rushed up upI the Whitney front walk with wild whoops of joy I knew hed he'd give you the raise take Jill smiled Your stuff is good What gripes me Ken said perplexed is why I didn't think of asking him myself long ago ago Theres a lot of things you should have bave thought of long ago Jill said wisely |