Show M Malcolms Malcolm's Rubbers and Umbrella D By JANE OSBORN I Copyright A AS S A hoy boy Malcolm Orfey hAd hud been lItell the youngest one otie In his hili set ret to e l be e allowed lI a Pitch latch key Moreover er erthe the day he was sixteen n he lie was gh given gl glena givena n na a small runabout of his Ms own and permission per permission mission to pet get a 0 license to drive In his suite of two on the third Moor door of his mints aunts house houMe In Tinton he was sae permitted always os to dispense Indefinite In definite ho ho to any of ot the hogs 1101 he chose cholle It scorned to most of ot the grownups tips In the neighborhood as All If It his file maiden aunts would ruin their charge with theIr Indulgence enre When Malcolm having arrived at nt mans man's estate es eg tate tote shower showed no slims signs of having been hren ruined and ond turned out to be an nn ambitious am am- Industrious steady steady going going sort of ot fellow the neighbors n greed agreed that he be was the sort Mort who never ne could have ha been jeen ruined anyway Malcolm l on ng college had put some Iome of ot his hll pAtrimony In a 0 certain well d contracting conr concern m In Gifford and was as os the neighbors said lold getting get ting on i splendidly But ut Malcolm suffered and always had hod suffered a deep and Incessant Irritation Ir Ir- lie He appreciated his aunts aunts' kindnesses he regarded them with real affection but on ruin rainy mornings s or when even a single lingle cloud appeared In Inthe Inthe inthe the sk sky Aunt Susan would Ia say cay Malcolm dear remember r your rubbers rub nih- bers jers berl This while while- he was seas eating breakfast and lest he might slip away without them Aunt Clara would be Je standing In the hall ready with Malcolms Malcolm's rubbers and umbrella umbrella- ra raincoat coat too I If f the Ik sky dripped or was was really overcast Maie Malcolm lm bore It because really there was nothing else lIe to do It was wal during daring an on extremely wet April that Malcolm came to the conclusion con ron elusion dUllon that hed he'd go to live by himself himself him him- self Belt In tn Gifford Hed He'd give as his excuse ex u. Use cure tb that t business 1 now required into residents residence there tint lint really In hit his hearte heart hurt fie ne e kD knew w that be was wu going so to so that he ie could go 0 and umbrella umbrella- less leu ess when he chose His HI aunts arose to the be occasion better than be he end bad even hoped They said laId they had bad been expecting for tor tome some time that he be would make some such proposition and they would be glad to close up op their bo boand house bouat and spend a year In travel So Malcolm Greeley set Bet himself up UJ In bachelor apartments In la Gifford Clifford In ID time he be grew lonely He Be could not even go to spend holidays with his ht aunts aunte who were now Idling their time In Italy or southern France Trance Having always heen n used to the most lp home homp atmosphere and the thO society of of two women who were In t all respects HO so agreeable Malcolm Malcolm Mal Mal- colm felt hi his hi loneliness keenly Then along came came ame Dora Hilton whom Malcolm Mao Mal calm colm Im met at a 0 dance e In and all allt t tt once onN It flashed through Malcolms Malcolm's mind that this eyed starry young lady und and and she alone could alone could fill nil void the In Inn Int n t 1 lonely heart produced by his hll aunts aunts' absence It was In ID April and Malcolm and Dora were sitting In a sequestered spot on the veranda of ot new Country clubhouse i Malcolm made the usual preliminaries lIm- lIm narles about something that was v very ry hard to say filly yet tt something that to him was very Important and the starry eyed girl made the usual but hot not quite truthful remarks about not having haYing an Idea what It could be Then Malcolm proposed and Dora sot sat looking pen pensive t l and very pretty for tor full roll two too minutes so IO that It might appear ap lip- pear that she was considering a proposition proposition prop prop- that had bad never entered her head before and then she pouted just Junt Junta justa a little little little-a a provoking kiss pout It wee was wasand end and sold said she Fhe thought shed she'd accept That night Malcolm wrote to his aunts and told them the glad news giving Doras Dora's address so o that th thy they y might write to her and say My the polite little things that good form torm demanded de Ite mended under the circumstances The next morning the air was wal filled fined with a damp ml mis that threatened ruin rain But Hut M J IT lc t was too Joyous even to weather Martha Mortha hi hit his old col housekeeper had bad breakfast ready for tor him as usual at I eight and at past halt he be would leave for tor the office Just five minutes after eight the telephone rang Malcolm set seized zed the receiver and recognized Dora's Doras vole voice For a terrifying second or IQ Q he be was afraid that thai she be wanted to tell teJi him that she he bat bad reconsidered had Mid bad ld eaid U the night before and pal t after all til he bad had better not nOi get iet fhe be runt b bt had bad spoken about But Rut then came tol vole vole- Malcolm dear ar I 1 know It Isn't very nry conventional to call you at lour your apartment apart apart- ment so o early In to the morning but bal Malcolm dear dr It looks loob like tike and ram and and I J wanted to remind you to wear You know now that that that- that were mere tre engaged Im I'm going colna to tit take such inch good care of you You darling breathed Malcolm over the telephone Then he sat at down to breakfast and aDd laughed to himself at u be he ate att the good things thing Martha had bud cooked for tor him A month ter the letter from Malcalm's Malcolm Mal calms colm's aunts reached Dora It was war such soch a t lovely letter Dora told him himas himas as al she tat eat beside him In the little roadster that he hI told Dora Oora he ht had hart bought fur for himself as os an present and lInd thore e darling nun aunts asked me for their lr sakes fakes to he be surf und and that carried d see you your Our umbrella umbrella um urn brella when It rained and that you ou wore your rul rubbers even when It didn't rain If the ground was nag dump And I 1 was os os so tit becHu became lIu e Id I'd already nl III ready made up n II nv v mind that I J wa war going to take gOll good cure care of ot you jou ou |