Show I Saint Sinner Sinne I IFor For exactly three days Faith was vas wasa vasa a heroine In her husbands husband's eyes be because b ba- ba cause she was demonstrating that she could cook for a family of four keep house and take care of a baby unaided Then he became b absorbed In his IsIs plans for the new retail fur store whose windows were to be so distinctive and Faith found herself taken very much for granted The third evening of the re regime re- re regino gime gino Bob did not Insist too toG positively upon his right to wash dinner dishes possibly because Cherry had ducked her share of 01 the tho duty by leaving Im tin- Immediately immediately mediately after afLer the meal for a visit with wiUs Junior and Fay and her father at the old Myrtle Street home That evening Faith washed the dishes herself herse and Joy dried them an arrangement which Faith could see sec would henceforth be routine But she did not complain even to her her- herself herself self for she found the extra work easier cosier to bear than the tile sound of Cherrys Cherry's high teasing laugh Joining with Bobs Bob's toned deeper-toned mirth as the two of them made a frolic of an un un- unpleasant unpleasant un- un unpleasant pleasant task It was wes a comfort too to know that Bob was busily and cheerfully at work again with every assur assur- assurance assurance assurance ance from the rich fur merchant of ot having ha his plans accepted Faith Falth Joy dropped her voice olce mysteriously aint you ever going to have a little baby i t Looks like you'd oud want ant one of your our own not just Cherrys Cherry's baby I The unexpectedness of r the t ques ques- question question ge e tion stunned Faith for 0 a moment o St Under the clear keen gaze of Joys Joy's gray eyes a a. hot tide of color spread over her throat and face race I I 1 Isho sho she gasped and end she knew that she was trying to answer that question for herself as much as for Joy I 1 dont don't know honey Women cant can't always have babies just when they want them And Hope nope seems like my very own baby you OU know Fay Pay says she hopes she has twins because Its It's not any more trouble to take care of o two than one She says one ties lies you hand and foot anyway so co it might as so aswell aswell sowell well be two two and and then you jou ou have hae It over with lIh Joy elucidated wisely her small face eager cager but solemn I hope Fay Frey gets gels her wish Faith answered evasively But long after Joy had apparent apparent- apparently ly forgotten the conversation cOD Faith brooded over It I t. t She lived again those first ecstatic days das of her mar mar- marriage marriage when she had so foolishly be believed be- be believed that Bob loved her as M pas pas- passionately passionately passionately as she loved him She re remembered re- re remembered the look on his face the lace the divine tenderness In his hIt eyes hen eyes when they had talked of the child that would undoubtedly come to them be before be- be before fore the year ear was out Then Ilsen as the first months mouths of ot her marriage had slipped an away ay she sho had Isad seen that he was growing reconciled to natures nature's hesitation in the matter of ot making him a a. father And after Cherrys Cherry's baby had been born he had seemed to dread the ordeal of child-bearing child for Faith had rejoiced that it was as not pot his wife who had suffered so She had tried to reconcile her own aching desire for lor a a. child with Bobs Bob's undoubtedly sane viewpoint but there In the dark she gave way to her grief Crid for lor the child that was WM de denied de- de denIed denied nied her because Cherry had had a achild achild achild child she did not want Of 01 course she alse told herself even en as D. D she wept her arms unconsciously forming a cradle for the baby she wanted Bob was as right Life was WD already complicated rated d enough without adding to Its problems Slut But oh If 11 he loved her as much as she he loved him he Iso would not be happy until ho held their child In his arms I After a Il little while she went vent to see sec if 11 Cherrys Cherry's baby was com- com comfortable table for the night NEXT J Cherrys Cherry's tall tail handsome man Copyright 1927 1917 sEA NEA Sen Ice Inc |