Show THE H RE REAL A A ADVENTURE DV N TURE by HENRY I KITCHELL WEBSTER 41 copyright 1916 bobbe bobbs co OVER ROSE STANTON THERE COMES A CHANGE WHICH PUZZLES HER HUSBAND AT FIRST HE THINKS rEE PEEVISH VISH BUT SHE IS NOT SYNOPSIS rose nose stanton marries rodney aldrich a rich nung lawyer after a brief courtship and instantly Is taken up by chicago a exclusive social met and made a part of the gay guy whirl of the rich folks it la Is all new to thu tho kirl girt and for the first few month months fhe she Is charmed with lilt the lie lift life an I 1 tun pita elm she comes to feel that ahe she Is living a useless exi attrice that she ho in Is a social butterfly a mere ornament in her bus bands homr home rose longs to do something useful and to have the ol 01 op to employ her tier mind and utilize her tier talent and education rodney feel feels much the name way about himself he ife thinks it h ought to potter around in society just to please his wife when in reality he hed d rather be tying giving his billits to study or social service of some eort sort they try to reach an understanding following the visit of two ne new york fri friends cadi aba have worked out satisfactorily this thi same problem I 1 CHAPTER X 7 A birthday laney heard young craig who deviled lov llod up low law for him baying saying good night to the tile stenographer lie ile d till ito lizard board hem them go then went ment out baud nud disconnected Us ills own on desk tele phone which the office boy on celtic thome atlays left plugged through acut back to his ottice again and but abut tho the door after him was inore more than enough pressing work on hie his desk to flit the clear hour that remained to hit him before ho he t find to start for borne home hut but be le dlinn t man to do it lie ile mean to do anything empt to drink down thirstily ho tho sixty minutes of pure solitude eoll tudo that suero before hini him that hour had be s conic a habit with him hira lately like he unified at the th comparison ing a drug he lie was mas furtive ab about t it too tim ile II 11 never corrected altos M oe As 0 that the thing which kept him film into nt at the office so much of the alnie nowadays wit wt a press of work it we not that alg 1 had find faded for phim him become jess tho the poignant vivid irresistible thing he had first fallen in lovo with rather the tile contrary she Ciba tint seemed quite well uell lately nor happy anil and ho he hud had not bit ix u able to flud find out why hy ho ito had attributed it nt at first fit it to tho the shock oc cautioned by her tier mothers Ill and ahier dt with portia to callior nio but this explanation seemed not tu cover the ground HI sit ins ull all right sho ho euld said lie force confidence from her of course hut but her pale face ond eyes wide tile with a trouble ji pi them ho he could not fathom shirr 1 t deeper in ibin liln than the kanuer glow and glory had eer mer reached and there was a nev thing that gripped him la in a 11 terrifying ony waya onya a realization of U fab importance import anc to her ho ile had find discovered ono one day a fortnight or so ago in the tile course of a rummage ruin mago after ronie rome article ho lie had mi millaid a heap of law books that verent hie his had guessed the tile explanation of them but had find eald said nothing to rose about it ishad find found it curiously to eay say anything ony thing it only sh eha had token taken up something of her own I 1 it seemed as eisent lally i it law of her tier being to attempt t to absorb herself in him as n it wae mas n law ot of ills hi to resist that absorption of him it in her nut resistance waa as dItT cult tho the iten tenn doncy ncy was max after hia his perfectly leolla duties had been given 1 their place in the coble cubic content of his hl 0 if that rose should nil flit up tip the reel rest and yit there was as a man in him hini uto was neither the hard hardworking work successful advocate td ed nor hoses roles husband a man whose existence hose rose el i ant seem to suspect vm was there arthen in her tier no woman that corro corre to him mull that waa had to filsht now for a chance to breathe lie got a pipe out of a draper I 1 in n bla ibis illek loaded and lighted it stretched clied hta his arms and bat sat down in ibis dacic chal tho the thing exactly in lit front of his ryes eyes wan was his de dek deti ti calendar there was as something lilar about uhe ithe dati date some subconscious moan aloa ohm that quite ilso rise to the aur f kfare tape uns m ther there t something dom ething he lie had to alo today thit lie lied d forgotten forg ithen then math a grunt of relief und and amuse ont intent lie got it IL it was his birthday another a milestone A year agol that was the day it had pit 11 begun ilow did bo he compare the tri min triin in who sat ant there now with the men had unhesitatingly jumped off the car to follow a rem r em adventure edren ture the man who mho had turned up waterlogged i at a dinner aul and made thay of her plan to marry him till to woodruff ff lie was wits increasing his practice now va naming money getting cautious pm pro client be he didat bolt thu the track any more and the quality of his work ns 4 good ho quartel quam with that only tae old big free dreams dream billat illat bat bed it were gone he ile was la in harness hamem drawing a ti cart following a handle bundle of hay bar the building was pretty well do seated by now and again the silence be he heard board tho the butter la in his telephone pro proclaiming dalming I 1 labouy beauy abar nwee was fyrne nc to gt him va thip th lie ile thought at t fart 9 bo he wouldn t answer lie il want wast to talk to anybody but no one can re alst let th thi mechanical bell ringers alwy use in exchanges nowadays the even paced spaced ring and wait walt ring and wait so hanife aly incapable of discourage ment at the end of forty five see onda her he notched snatched open his door punched the jack into its fix eket caught op up the bead head piece and bellowed into the dangling transmitter and five minutes later he be was call ing rose on the wire Il rose lose listen to harry barry lake and his lifs lf are here lie ile jut just called tip they pot rat in from new lork at five and I 1 ve asked them out to dinner harry lake and jane joliet I 1 the matter cant you hear me alty by about the beet beat friends ive got the magazine ir writer lter you know and his wife and coming out to dinner coining coming right out I 1 told them not to dress ill III como come straight home myself get there biafore they do I 1 guess all right I 1 goodby I 1 but he sat there frown frowning inc in a lied bort sort of way may for halt half a initiate noses rosell voice had certainly sounded queer iio lie was euro sure she planned any anything thinK else ise for tonight iio ile distinctly rt her tier saying just before ho he left for the office that have the evening to themselves them selveR and it was incredible that she minded hl ahli bringing homo home two old friends liko like tho the lakes on the spur of the moment to take potluck pot luck oh ott uell ell you tell bout about people a voices coytr the tile phone there must line been something funny about the connection an opportune taxi tail just passing the entrance to hie file building as he came out enabled to better the fifteen minutes hed allowed for kitting home hut but in spite of that I 1 fait fact ho he found rose rather splendidly gowned for her guests good gracious I 1 I 1 he cried excitedly 1 I havid you do that for I 1 thought I 1 A trying to help doth of them out of their wraps at once I 1 told you over tho the 1 chono b one the lakes berent to drew arc 1 I was wa dressed dress td like this when you telephoned rose eald said and I 1 as afraid there bo be to change into anything elsea ele we going anywhere were we ho asked theres nothing lye I 1 forgotten no vo the she mid sold we wo going any anywhere here j and yoa you dressed like that just for tor for me I 1 she he nodded just for your you she said I Jl odily toddy who are the oh I 1 know his ble artl cice I 1 think not but where were they friends of yours and way why for yera until they amed moved to new york they used to live ih here him I 1 know I 1 aut mow linvs told rm about them I 1 was sin ays having dinner with it it then them either elther out in rogers park where they lived or at terrible tittle little restaurants downtown they i were always alsys game to try anything once lies lie a the longest leanest larest ab nb ent chap in the world I 1 I 1 and just about the tile lunt and his ills wife fits all his ills angles she writes too oh you re sure to like them I 1 they re to going to be out here for months he says iles going to specialize in women momen and hes come back here where here they st the vote to make head tern Us its great grent I 1 I 1 haven t had a real talk with anybody since he wert away over a year age then at the round sound of the bell he cried out there they arel are I 1 and dashed down into the tile hall ahead of the parlor maid as eagerly as a schoolboy anticipating a birthday present I 1 lice willi followed more lowly and by thu the eho she had reached the landing she found him slap slapping barry on the hack back and shaking both hands with mith jane and stud trying to help both of them out of their wraps at once when han the greetings were over and they were ere on the way nay upstairs again he tie eald said 1 I told rose we me going to dress but she he explained she didn dian t put on this coronation robe for you but for a treat for me before I 1 telephoned and bada t time to change back and when jane cried out as they entered the drawing room good I 1 heavens rodney odney ll what hat a house housel I 1 he answered it ours we rented it for a year in some sort of honeymoon delirium I 1 guess we don t live up to it of course nobody could but the woman who ho built it the gaiety galety in his voice clouded a little as he said it and his grin for a moi arat had a reful twist but for a moment only then his delight in the possession of bis his old friends took him again they talked heavens how they talked it was vas like the breaking up of a it log lot jam tho the two ONO men would mould rush along elde side by sido side la in perfect agreement for a ft while bile catching each others halfer half expressed pressed ideas and hurl hurt ing them forward for siard and then suddenly meet head on in collision over mine some fundamental difference differ euce of opinion amid a prismatic spray of epigram jane kept up a eort sort of obliga to to the show inserting provocative witticism here and there sometimes ns As llod neye ally sometimes au As her hu husband ant and luring them when she could into the th quiet backwater of lixta ph files where here she was ins more than a mutch for tho the ano of then them hut but ill lie main topic of the evening got launch la d when rodney seized tre tte of a pause to say A atries alea of articles on wi binen inen eh ehl I 1 ahat ant aro are you going to do to them with inith that the topic of feminism was mas on the carpet and it was as never abandoned after half halt an tin leour our of it jane turned to rodney odney ll nut but what do you think about ita it she demanded you a been grinning away there all this time without saying a word are you for it itt t I 1 for wb wh lr ir wanted to know tor what women want said jane FAo economic independence equality easy divorce all the new stuff 1 I ira m not against IV it rodney eald said any more than lin I 1 in against tomorrow being tuesday ite its going to be tuesday whether bether I 1 like it or not hut but that conviction kelps me from crusading for it very hard 11 what hat I 1 ira m curious about is how its going to work when they get what they want do you suppose tu going to want what hat they get I 1 1 I knew know there was something deadly about your grin eald said jane hat arc are you so about 1 why the thing said It odney that sours my naturally sweet disposition posit ioa Is this economic independence ive I 1 been hearing it at dinner tables all winter minter when I 1 hear bear a woman moman with ith five hundred dollare worth of clothes on well no not on her back and anything you like to in jee jeely Jow clr lr talking about economic independence pen peu dence as if it it were ere something nice jam on the pantry shelf that we men were wem too greedy to let them have a share of I 1 have to put on tho the brakes in order to stay on the rails we mm men have to fight for economic independence from the time were twenty more or less till the time we die ite its a sentence to hard labor for life that 8 what economic independence Is how now does that woman think shed set about it to make her tier professional services worth a hundred dollars a daj bayor or fifty or tea teat 1 1 W lulls hats she he got that has bus a market value what Is there that she can capitalize shea pot pt her physical charm of coarse co ilsc and there are various professions here phe can make it pay par well and what ahat elsel sho can bear children chIldr eur said jane sue e ought to be paid well for that youre only paid well rodney replied for something WU you can do cx ex well or tot for Gaet Mag that few can do at all As U long as the vast majority of i women omen can bear the oaty only women who could get well paid for it would mould be those exceptionally exception allf qualified or exceptionally proficient this la in economics now were mere talking other considerations are left out no I 1 tell you evno tale independence if she really got it the kind of woman moman I 1 ive ve been talking about would make her very sick shed get over being sick though m ehe she eald maid rose after awhile and then dont you think shed be glad clad rodney laughed the sort of w oman I 1 ivo ve been talking about he be eald said would feel when all Is said that hed shed got a gold brick hose rose poured hie his coffee with a shady stady hand they were mere in the library non it if so go ehe she eald said then the kind of woman youve been talking about has already got a probes len As doctor randolph aye says ehe she a cased in on her ankles but mabe you re mistaken in thinking ehe she t choose something else if she had a chance maybe she he rit have done it except because her tier husband wanted her to and she was in love with him and tried to please you cant ahi always ays tell it was almost her first contribution to the talk that evening she had bad asked a few questions and said the things a hostess hoste sj has to say the other three were manifestly taken by surprise but surprise was not the only effect ehe she produced her iler husband had never seen her look just like that before the flash flush in her tier eyes the splash of bright color in her cheeka cheeks the exciting timbre of her voice was new to him and very alluring barry saved him the necessity of trying to answer ansler by taking up the cudgels hir him aseff selY rodney t feel like an answering nor for the moment like listening to barry hl interest in the discussion was mas eclipsed for the moment by the tile thrill and wonder of his ills beauty for the next halt half hour she matched wits with barry lake very prettily finhen ben jane declared that they must go her husband protested 1 I balint managed yet to get a word out of rodney about any of bis his things I 1 want to know how fur far you ve come along with your book on actual government I 1 want the whole thing yaw vow ive had my fling said rodney with a sort of embarrassed good humor there are no more intellectual rold oats for me have llave ou forgotten youre you ro talking to a married man on learning their determination to walk down ilona he lie said hed go with them part of the way would hose ilose go 90 too but she ought not CHAPTER XI A defeat the gown which rodney had spoken of apologetically as A coronation robe was put away the maid |