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Show IN PAYMENT OF THE DEBT I H They had quarreled before, but this H time the case was serious. Taking issue over a trifle, each had. said H tningB not easily forgotten. Alice had H left the breakfast table In a still pas- H slon of anger, and when Dick, after i wandering about miserably for half a H day, reached his office, It was to find H awaiting him formal notification of H her intention to bring suit for divorce. M He asked the door and hod it out H with his head on the loved. It seemed H too awful. They had loved each other H so much, still did love each other, H despite the smoldering fires of her H jealousy and his temper. They had H thought to love each so tenderly in H the future. And now IH He'd have given' much to recall that H last, cruel speech that had so deeply fM offended and estrangea her, perhaps jH she, too, was sorry, but she'd never jH make up. Pie knew it! The proudest jH woman in the world, his wife Alice, jH so soon to be his wife no more. H The telephone on his desk checked H the sob that shook and stung him. H The voice across the wire was that of jH Jessie Newton, with whom, as boy and H girl, he had played the game of love. .fH "That -you, Dick?" she asked him. H "Yes it's Jessie. Dick, you remember H the time when I quarreled with John lH (her husband) and you fixed things H for me. Well, I'm paying that debt H now. H "I ran into Alice this afternoon at H the club and got out of her that there's H some trouble betwen you, liable, per- IH haps, to be serious. So I I did you a jH good turn, Dickie. I I made her so H jealous of me that I think if you give H her a chance she'll make up." H Greatly daring, he called up his home, and Alice answered. jH "How are you, dear?" he stammered, H and at the tender tone her wrath H yielded. oH "I'm all right," she replied, a little shakily. "And you you aren't going M to be late for dinner again, tonight! " H Tho only flaw upon their lasting H happiness came through Alice" per- H sistent coldness to Jessie. For Dick, H ueuuuse oi me aeDt nis peace had paid H for Jessie, could never show Jessie H to Alice in her true light" H Read the Classified Ads. H Read the Classified Ada. H |