Show the house that jack kept HEN airs J jack a c went away for a months visit she was quite contented about her house for jack assured her that in the tile sad days dayse I 1 before their marriage ho ito had been elised to keeping bachelor bachelors s hall and ind t that hat the tho pretty little home y would bo be safe in ae a his care still there was a shade shado of agilely in her mind on the mern las jug of ner return did you get along all right at the sho asked when her lier husband met her at the station yes fine did you get got many meals at homa homal sonic I 1 cat much yon yott poor old dear it must have boon dreadfully lonesome for you it was thia this Is our car cir said jack who did not to tako take au ati interest in tho subject of his housekeeping experience mr mrs jack studied his profile aa as they the flat sat aide side by side aide on oil tho the car and decided that ho he looked tired and thin how flow sweet and natural it all looks she said as jack unlocked nn locked thi the door of their dwelling yes the house is I 1 still here tiers he remarked unenthusiastically mrs lira jack inwardly bo bewail the fact that the best of men like her dear old jack were painfully lacking in sentiment santi but as she stopped into flie the hall where tho the dist lay jay apparently a half halt inch thick ou oil the tabla tabli and hatrack batrack her own ro rejoicing at coming home weiko weik nod enod a little when she entered the living root where overflowing ash tray traya filled her nostrils with unpleasantly odors she gnip oil oh jaw jack seemingly unconscious 0 of any discordant note in the usually attractive trac tivo room said ill hivo to hurry downtown down lown d ir or I 1 shall be ute at the ollice go he did leaving mrs jack to ex alore the rest of he the house alone she we went it first to her own room hardly waiting to remove her hat and gloves aa she began tr tri ing to straighten out the chaos she found she hang up trousers and coats and put away awat eherts and then made up tip the bisor dered bod bed poor jack jackl how he must have buffered suffered in this untidy alico she said to he herself reel f then she went into the guest room whore where daintiness was always the pride of her order loving heart sho fairly groaned as she beheld the beautiful lace spread the she had bad herself croch crocheted sited in fit a crumpled heap on tha floor and cue cite of the pillow shams which watched so perfectly wadded ino inlo the mazli basin mil dewed dowed and showing only too plainly that it bad had been used as a towel th bud bed like the one in fit her room waa As v vw made and a stray collar and a wa n socks proofs to the indignant Ird ignant WHO that her husband had bad had bad the ur tv merity to use the tile best spare room hy ily the time she had mado made the tour of the ilia dining room kitchen and pantry she camo cume to the that never again would she trust her tier belongings to the dor care of jack oa on the dining room table was her best beat damask cloth generously epla splashed billed at ono end with coffee and stained at the other with prent great pota of grapo grape juice bcd dishes her frailest china were piled up hero here and there through the room moms A largo large turkey platter with ii 4 small dried up chop on it graced the top oretho pas gas stove rubbing elbows ts AS it were wore wh a huge lutge iron skillet in were the must remains of much fried tried potatoes rusty knives forks and spoons lay in the ink oink with a pot of half cooked oat moal two venerable fried eggs on agusu flanked on either side by hot bot aloa of soured wim creim cre im stood on one window sill while on ou tho the other was tho the coffee coffeo pot full of ground grounds jack for a moment at ht the firine ihen sho dried her tears and holding balding her shirts high above abo grossy floor walked out of the kitchen and into her own room the only apt la in tho the house which as yet had bad been saml order she donled ber freshest tree hest and most becoming rock frock end find going out of the house locked the door on what seemed to her a reign of terror and confusion con tullon and presented herself at her husband husbands s office in time to ito go to lunch with him hove you got straight wied toed out already he naked asked with a mile you found things shipshape shipshape repeat repeated td mrs sire jack sarcastically the must have clon lib arm been struck by a typhoon 1 I suppose it was a little mussy I 1 really meant to go around there af 55 berday and fix things up I 1 go around there what do you mean well you see answered jack looking for the first time embarrassed after I 1 had slept in al all the beds ana got a good many of the dishes dirty I 1 thought th tb best thing to do was to move over tu to the club so I 1 stayed in the house only three days daya after you left ohl was mrs jacks only audible comment but as sho looked at jack ahe ace said sald to herself that he was not really 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