Show Saint Sat l r 9 Sinner Sinners Just at that moment a thin high fretful wall came Irons from Faiths Faith's bed bed- bedroom bedroom room announcing that the baby had awakened For the first Ume time since Cherry had returned from the hos hos- hospital hospital pital with the infant Faith did not Jump up to answer er the Imperative summons of that beloved belo bit of hu hu- hu- hu manity Cherry made no mo e toward her child did not seem to have heard How much Bob she Insisted archly You know Churchill offered me thirty a week and poor Mr Cluny was paying me thirty five Bob Which you OU weren't worth laughing into her eyes But Ill I'll match Churchill Thirty It Is Is but let me tell you right now young lady you oU wont won't get a raise until youve you've earned It it Bob and Cherry talked on about filing system the rate of or his dicta dicta- dictation dictation tion the kind of or typewriter he pro- pro provided vided for his secretary and through it all Faith sat rigid holding herself tautly against the call of tho scream scream- screamIng Ing lag Infant Good heavens heavens' I Bob interrupted himself at last Does Docs that baby cry nil all the time Better see if theres there's a a. apin apin pin sticking in Its tummy Faith In his discussion with Cherry he had hd evidently forgotten that Faith alth was v-as hurt and angry but b t when he looked up at her as he spoke the sight of her tense crimson face tace and staring rage-filled rage eyes must have been ben a a. terrible shock to him His own animation died and his mouth tightened in a way she had learned to dread But before ha h could speak words began to pour p ur out of Faiths Faith's mouth hot angry cataclysmic words Let Cherry go to her own child for a change Im I'm tired of being taken for granted like a 0 servant In Inthe Inthe inthe the house I haven't ha been to a show how since June because Ive I've had to take care of or the baby I haven't made myself a new dress this summer be because be- be because because cause I had to sew for Cherry and Joy and the baby I Im I'm Just a slave for everyone everone to order about and trample on And Im I'm sick of It I Itell Itell Itell tell you both I Sick to death of HI iti Cherry gasped tried to speak in instinctively In- In Instinctively instinctively reached for Bobs Bob's hand as asIf asif If 11 to ally herself hersel with him And let lct me sac tell you this this' I Faith went on standing by the table now her trembling hands pressing hard upon the white cloth If U Cherry wants to work so she can get out of or srn r nf li hr r n have to get geta a nurse for f Ui Im I'm not n going l to tobe tobe be tied down to someone else's baby losing my youth and and my my husband her voice broke on a sob but she went on ruthlessly after she had batted the tears out of her eyes Youre going to pay her thirty dol dol- dollars dollars dollars lars a week Bob I demand that she pay me ten dollars a week for her food and get a nurse for the baby bab You can get a n colored I gIrl for ten dollars a week Cherry she turned upon her cowering little sister furi fun furiously and that will leave you ten dollars a week for clothes God knows I dont don't have that much Her lIer great brown eyes almost black with despair and anger flashed from one to the other of or her dumfounded audience then she whirled from them and ran from the room In the blindness of or her fury she did not realize that she had fled to the room where the baby was wailing wailing her her room and Bobs Bob's TOMORROW TO Faiths Faith's sacrifice Copyright 1927 1027 NEA Service Inc |