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Show 'BETTY SAW THE LIGHT YOUNG WIFE'S GREATEST FAULT GENTLY CORRECTED. Dearest Friend and Wise Husband, In Collaboration, Effected Cure of Habit That Is Trying, to the ' Punctual Person. Up In Hetty's lovoly rose colored room Hetty was pouring out the story i Df her happiness telling It. Hetty , fashion, in little rainbow-colored frag ( nients, to Knthcrlno Arnold. Knther liio had been her dearest friond from ;ollege days, when tho steady, splen Jldlypolsed Junior bad taken tho lov-iblo lov-iblo harum-Hcnrum llttlo freshman under hor wing. Sho had kept up the protectorate" through Iter senior year, nnd through tho three years tlnco. Her own marriage bad not Bhnngcd tho friendship, nor had Hetty's. Het-ty's. "You see," Hutty said, bulf-wblmsl-sully, half In earnest. "I have to havo you to steer ine by tho pitfalls oven though I know of eourso thero couldn't possibly be nny pitfall between Jack mil mo." "Hetty," Knthorlne naked suddenly, 'bow nliotit your tordlness7 Doesn't Unit worry .luck?" Hetty blushed tin Infinitely becoming becom-ing process that was qultu enough to llvert tho spectator from seiious nnd, ns Hetty would jay, "scolding" Inten linns. "IT you havo to know," she acknowledged, acknowl-edged, "Jack did say things two or Hire" times. It tvas so n'.most unfnlr of him I mean, it w.ould havo been unfair If It hadnt been that .lack couldn't possibly bo unfair when It was Just liucniiBo 1 was trying to make myself pretty for him! Vo missed the opera once lost tho train by three minutes but I told .lack I'd rather havo an ovenlng with him than tbu grandest opera that over was, and wo did hnvo tho dearest time. Hut Intoly, Kalherlue, 1 really think .lack must bo reforming mo, because wo haven't been Into for ever so long, and wo woro actually ten minutes early nt that Sous of Somebody banquet tho other night! Think af It tr.o early! I told Jnek he'd better bo careful, or he'd reform mo to tho other extreme." "What tlmo did be say tho banquet was to bo, Hetty?" Katherlno nsked olowly. "Seven-thirty. Tho cnb 'was to nomo nt six forty-live. Although 1 think It must have been later than that." Hetty ndded, puzzled. "Do you remember what time you woro to bo ready for the Hamilton reception?" "Nino o'clock, 1 think. What In tho world nro you driving nt, Knthlo? Wo were In plenty of tlmo." "Do you know why, Hetty? Don't you sco? Jack la tolling you to bo ready bnlf an hour early each time. It If tho only way ho enn bo suro of not'mlsslug trains and being Into for parties. Hetty's oyes widened Incredulously; then n Hood of shamed color swopt aero ii 9 hor face. It was very different from her usunl roso-leTif blushes. It scorched. "Kntherlno Arnold! As if I were a baby, anil couldn't bo trusted!" "Hut could you, dear?" Katherlno nsked gently. Hetty's pretty lips closed tlrmly nnd hor small head lifted. "We'll soo!" 6bo cried. At that Kntherlno mulled. That wus what she wanted. Youth's Companion. |