Show Ha Having ving the Last Word 1 0 By Dr SHINEY M. M WILD HOLT J c u. u Ii 1121 UH W pap r Union I RS WILLIAMS bustled out o otlie of M MRS MilS tile the tack Lack doorway from her ber kitchell ostensibly to sweep 01 oS Off the rear punch ucb Good morning Mrs Ir Williams the she laI said Good morning Sirs Chase Mrs Williams was Inwardly relieved She waited a decorous Interval and ami wen went ent wenton on JO You know MI MUs 8 Matilda Mer Mr Mrs Ch Chase I solemnly nodded She had bad no ho need to nod noll It was Mss Miss Mn Mn- tilda who acting as al representative o othe ot of the estate that owned ownell most of the houses bousu collected the rents Oh Ob yes eI Mrs Chase knew Miss Matilda Mrs Williams paused dramatically Well she rode rude away with him in la a taxi last lost night Miss Matilda had two rooms on the third floor of Mrs Williams Williams' house You dont don't mean she sill went awa away awny with Samuel P. P Sanderson 1 chirped Mrs Mr Chase Challe Exactly 1 confirmed Mrs Williams In n a taxi about seven o'clock That means she's ehe's after him al alright all allright right Mr Mrs Chase Chose commented And that Isn't nil nil Mrs Williams William continued I r didn't hear henr her come In lust last night She must e have got Rot back after I was abed al 11 and asleep Probably a 8 show and supper afterward afterward after after- ward word suggested Mrs Chase Choe Perhaps she didn't come hack hack Mrs Williams observed ed ominously I Ionly only said Mill I didn't hear benr her come In You 10 dont don't mean mean mean- menn 1 7 It would be Just dust like her Mrs Williams complained In an nn Injured tone MM rA Chase shook her head hend sadly Not liot so much ns as a n good good-by or gratitude gratitude tude or anything Mrs Williams wen went on 00 Yes agreed ec Mrs Chase Especially Especially Especially Espe you yon You 1011 saw Mr Sanderson going Into Inlo his big house out In 10 A Au Auburn Auburn Au- Au burn that dRY day and you told Miss Matilda Ma tIlda about It and ond then you found ou out that the house bouse belonged to Sanderson the lawyer and you yoo told fold her that too Well Peli said Mid Mr Mrs Williams what who can you youe peet Hemet Helmet her walking by the house one day with his portfolio portfolio port port- folio tollo under r his arm She told me that tha she dropped one of ot her ber bills bills it It It wa was the day she ahe was 81 collecting rents and rents and when he be picked flIcked It up for tor her ber she explained explained ex ex- she Bile was vas going her ber month monthly rounds He lie laughed and said that tha walking would do her good od just as h he be walked to do clo him good He must mURt be past forty Mrs Chase ee le remarked But Dut his walking I suppose keeps keeps keep him Mm young young remarked Mrs MfR Williams Miss 1 Matilda asked him you know after litter I told her ber about the big car In front rf r his biB house why he didn't ride sometimes a and d th that t w was s what he said salt that t walking kept him young She paused And Miss Matilda's thirty els cr lx herself she hoarsely whispered Well If she hooks books him shell she'll lord It over r us mourned Mrs Chase ere ure- If It she hooks him him Sirs Mrs Chase repented repented re re- scornfully The two women finished daubed sweeping s their bottom steps together They heard a door open It was waR the door doo upstairs and Miss 1188 Matilda Merritt herself stood In the doorway Good morning Mrs Williams said data Miss Matilda drearily I came down downto to ask you you you- ou Good morning Mrs Williams re re- plied Did you yon have a Rood good time with your jour our lawyer lost last night Hes cs c's not a lawyer Miss Mis Matilda Bald said bluntly Not a lawyer Mrs Williams repeated re reo prated In a puzzled voice Samuel Samue SamuelI I T. T Sanderson not a lawyer Miss Mills Matilda clenched her fingers and regarded her two small fists lists Intently intently In Ic for tor a moment not moment not however purposing nn any violence Ills name Is not Samuel P 1 P. P Sander Sander- son film son she replied Mrs Williams was stunned Hut But but hut hut- she stammered But Hut that was Mr r. r Sanderson's house Miss Matilda's Matlida's e eyes lS l'S flashed sudden fire That may be she admitted grimly Imly and then but hut Its It's it not his house 1 l she exclaimed defiantly Mrs Irs Williams gazed at Miss Matilda Ma tilda a open mouthed but silent silent for for once onee Miss Matilda glared with suppressed anger and on chagrin lies only a II b book ok salesman she ehe exploded lIe He walks she he added oded maliciously to keep young lie He had occasion to walk one day Into the driveway of ot Samuel P P. Sanderson the lawyer Furthermore he be thought that I owned all these se houses bouses from which I collect coUert rents rents rents-or or did collect rents rent she folIe amended Mrs Williams regained control of her temporarily paralyzed ton tongue e. e Lie He did 7 she gasped He lie did asserted Miss Matilda with emphasis He lie had the audacity to say 1181 ay so last so-last last night Oh breathed Mrs Williams soft soft- ly r. r y Mrs Williams I L subsided nay Day ex ex- pined In in that mat breath Drea t n. n I came down Sties Mies Matilda n said reverting to the statement Sirs Mrs Irs Willams Wil lams IIams had Interrupted I came corne down Mrs Williams to ask you to forward my mall mail Mr Sirs Mrs Williams stared Miss Matilda handed her a slip of ot paper with a written address You see ee she added l. l turning tumiD back up the stairs Im packing up now because H she he paused to plunge home the full tull force forre orce of her revelation ren because I married him him- last night I |