| Show I 1 WHY NORMA LEFT A I 1 a g by JANE OSBORN J ft S M M it was blue monday bloodily on the calendar for or mr burton majors the subway had taken the edge oft off the day to begin with no earlier than that it had been that ungrateful unregenerate regenerate im sam nho he did his oriental host best to play the housewifely role in mr majors uptown apartment then things wont went wrong lu in the lie jiggled the telephone impatiently tor for live minutes before lie heard any response and then it hoys boys crude tones came through to him ile he was used to it girls voice ile he remembered now that it hall had been it n voice cultivated calm calin and sure hure tn in its handling of vowels and consonants why anyone answer sooner he asked only he did xo so with more emphasis isbos left came back to him she hns has left hav ha she well why the office ina manager nager know and why he get another girl to take her place ish IS sh h did tell ira im only he thought she was bluff inI thought she was for or more wages ony got six sir a week but left all same well feliy the office manager let me know shrieked the impatient mr majors 1 I want that girl back where has she gone there was a suppressed unsteady giggle from the boy ashes gone to keep house for the girls club that is ashes up a place for them thein to live at M 1 I sister tit in the club says the girls han hai e to spend so much on car fares decided to live near and and so that there norma why site he said i it if club tog together ellier and get na as much as she was getting here shed get et out and some home place for them thein to live tit at that was nearer in the meantime norma had been earning her six dollars a week that th the girls at the club had pursed purged tor for her she had found blocks way away a curious house around it was at cemented court the bureau of buildings had not allowed office buildings to intrude on this space well norma hall had found this spot and she hail had also found that through some lease of on the remainder of the estate to which the sequestered house belonged the plot could not be disposed of for ten en years more she went to the agent and got him to quote a price for the ten years lease then cattle came tile the task of finding some someone orie who would lend the girls club the amount necessary eury for the first three months rent find and the other necessary much larger nee needed ed to put in the necessary one of these improvements was the erection of a trellis over the cemented STR courtyard where norma planned to grow vines lirt but she alna finally lly md aid ian W someone to trust her she alie called in ill person on oa the richest woman she had ever heard about and would not leave her house till tile rich woman had consented to see her personally mr majors meanwhile grew more rod and more distraught over till rasping ras ping male voice on the switchboard then at a directo direct ora rii meeting of a charity ili arity tit in which his family had lung iong been interested lie he met the woman of wealth who had trusted norma she asked him about her and told lihn of her admiration for the girl the next day majors went out to find her 1 I 1 dont know just ahat hat I 1 have come to ask you he said its as lie he lui liel the youthful figure ivil in fit a 1 coarse all enveloping gingham 1 I thought at first that I 1 could tempt you back but now nov that I 1 see what you are doing here I 1 lime liao another idea this Is a rattling idea of yours this I making a little garden cottage in the midst of the city I 1 wonder whether there arent other oilier places that con could be transformed norma told him hial there were just that morning ahlie if said a real estate dealer hearing of nor normas nas assistance from the well known woman of wet Alth had tried to induce her to take a lease on a similar piece of property it block away you could perhaps get that hint place for me I 1 am sick to death of subways A place like this could be made ideal 11 norma norina thought for a i moment if you would pay for the ilie time ive silent spi nt and the club a bonus and assume all the indebtedness tor for this place you could have it ill start the other place for the girls with the bell bonus us from you to help belp clear their initial debt so they struck in two weeks ibe the work of 0 finishing mr majors house had been completed norma had bought furniture that fitted in with lines of the old house for norma had the innate eye of 0 it a decorator and a homemaker honic maker she had been too full of the joy of ibe he undertaking to real realism realise lite that mr majors was really more interested in n the girl who furnished the house than he be was la in the house then when the task amk was waa competed and norma led him through the room they stood speechless speech leas dormit in sheer Pap happiness over her task completed you see ive had lots lota of lea lm majors majora was telling her ane igoe was all the voice at the end of the telephone I 1 get you back so I 1 came to you there was waa the problem of the subway and you solved that for me cue I 1 want this place to be a home and youre the only girl I 1 ever knew that could solve that problem for me and so terminated normas normaa career as a a furnisher of houses housea downtown Aown downtown town ind and so terminated mr majors desire to induce norma to come back to be the voice at the other end or of the wire copyright ma by th the mcclure mcclur no af pf kyndt to 1 |
