| Show THE REAL JI J I L ADVENTURE pw ir 0 f by HENRY KITCHELL WEBSTER copyright 1936 both bobbs merrill C co OVER ROSE STANTON THERE COMES A CHANGE WHICH PUZZLES HER HUSBAND AT FIRST HE THINKS PEEVISH BUT SHE IS NOT SYNOPSIS 11 iloie stanton marries rodney aldrath 1 rich voting jeerer it A briet brief courtship and I I 1 Is taken up by chicago a social met bet and made a part of the gay tt 1 I lit lili I 1 ot of tile the rich folks foils jr it Is all now new to the gari gar mid for tile first few months she la Is chimed v m till ith the life and ill thin she comes to feel that she he 1 Is living a yelp useless existence sante m that she la Is a social butter butterfly fir a mers mere ornament in her hushard husband a imin home R rose re e longs to do something useful eaul and to have the up op v to employ her mind and list her talent and education IS much the same islas way bout about himself he thinks he ought might to patr around in society just to please his wife when in reality he it rather ile be giving him bis nights eight to stud fail or social 11 service of some me sort art they the fly to reach eh an understanding foll following folling ing the visit of two now kew york friends who ba have worked out satisfactorily this same pro problem tihan CHAPTER X 7 A birthday rodney bodney heard h eard young craig who deviled up law tor for him saving earing good night eight to the stenographer he file waited limited till he heard t them hem go then vent ment out and ad disconnected am ere it his hi own ask tel tele phone the allies boy bay on going home alwais left plugged through w ent back to his hia inner allies al ag aln ain and shut shot the door off after lit him T there in ere was less more than enough press 1 ing 9 work rk on his desk to fill the clear b hour or that re remained blind to him before he be had he it I 1 to a start tor for home but lie dlan dian I 1 name mean to do it he md ilan t menu can to do anything g except to danli down thirstily tile the slite minutes ot of pure pace solitude that were before him film that hour I 1 had ad become a a bob habit I 1 I 1 wa with th him lately like h he e smiled mile d at the compari comparison sim like tal tak mg ing a drug g he we was furtive beat about it too can lie he all never corrected roses eose a as IP tint the file thing which idah kept him late at the I 1 office re so much of the time non nowadays was a press of work nork it was las not that ehe he had bad failed faded tor far iner him li become a jose eab the fault poignant t livid irresistible thing he be had first falls fallen 1 in love with rather bather the cant contrary sh she hadiat seed se ed quite well lell lately nor nl together happi and he had not been able to tied find out oat why he had bad attributed tt it at first to the shock occasioned casio ned ad by her other mother ft A mae illness aad ad tier her departure with portia to california 1 I but bar this that explanation if seemed not at to cover the ground she was all right she he alnas ables said maid he ere aide t force faces confidence train from her ot of course but her pat pale face and eyes cye wide with a trail ills in the them he could not fathom stirred sai deeper la in him than tile the form former glow glom and glory had ever reached A and d there them we a new thing that gripped d litta him to ID a posit positively hely terrifying way ay a realization of hla his importance Import ince to her bar he be had disco discovered d othis dja to fortnight might or so me ago in the course cours of a rummage after some IMM article till he be bed bad mislaid millaid a heap of law books that bernt in hi he had bad guessed the ex er plan atlon of them their but had said nothing I 1 to a ll 11 about be t I 1 it t sad round found it ins curiously cl bously ho impossible possible to say my Sa anything inting if only she be had bad taken take up something of at her own one I 1 it seemed as aa essentially a law of her bring being to attempt bomp to it 0 aurb herself 1 in ill bilm as it was a law ot at his to resist raster that absorption of hini him alf if in her but resistance was lots difficult the to tendency dacy wea was after his bla perfectly lid recognizable duties had bad been a ghen their place in the cuble cubic content D ot f his div that rome eose should fin fill up the is rist ar and yet the there a was a a man an in hin him who she was bobber neither 1 the berd hardworking n m 1 successful fill ad advocate nor roses husband du a man il whose existence rose it B t becal to ma eu eudeal was there then the 1 in her no a woman that corresponded t to him that 1 man I had to fight role now tor for a chance to breathe he got gat a pipe out of a draper in his esk desk loaded and lighted it ter tr etched ill chad his him arms and ad sat at don down 1 in him amk a it chair the thing ruseti in front of ahls e ea was his deah calendar calen dai ahem we was so familiar about tile the thim date S bonn subconscious 4 team saam to ion that coulden couldn old I 1 quite thin rise to the B aur or tact fee ft 11 as elul abue a something he be had it to A no today that he bcd d fill toi gotten allea n with fill a grunt grant of relief nod ad arouse abent he be got it it was wait bis birthday it 1 alm another her milestone abear A year ago I 1 that we was the day it tad had all 11 aga how few did he be compare mra the me man a who he sat but there a now with till the nan who he had bad unhesitatingly jumped it ft the cir to lo follow follo wanew a new adventure th tiu ni fil nim m uh who had turned up water ed at I 1 8 S dinner inurn and ad made do lt of 01 her via atan to marry him film off to gi from Vun he waa Is 11 his practice now riall faung g in money me getting t cnut if tous ilaw p april u lent bout he ikin t bolt the it ak any more ame ali and d I 1 the 1 a quality of his wort 1 i I 1 is I good IS oat coulden couldn quarrel with that out only Y tie lie old big tree free dreams that had I 1 ad gle glorified it mid it nam aers go gone ile he was 1 in h areas dawm drawing ji a cart fol owing a finish of hey hay ahe ill bunding building we was pretty t Y well do de sorted cried liv be now and ag against J ast the silence he be heard beard th the e buzzer I 1 in lit bia telephone alt hhoward proclaiming insist insistently be fly that mor nelam w was vying trying to get him oa art tile the clothe lie thought at met lie he ifould n t answer he tilde t want to talk to anybody an body but no one I 1 fin re pe iq the mechanical bell ringers they use in exchanges exchange nowadays the e en spaced ring and wait ling line and wilt it so a incapable of discourage ment at the end ot of forty five file I 1 st cin ends he snatched open his it door r puro punched hed the jk jick into it its soc liet caught up the head piece and bellow lonca id hello Helli tio 1 let into the dangling transmitter and five minutes later he was ill call ing 1 9 rose on tile the wire rome itose liston fiste to this I 1 barry lake bud and ills his u vita lie are here he ere jut just called up they got in from new ew york at film 0 clock and ad I 1 ive ve asked them out to ill dinner like and jane I 1 X chats hats the matter cau can t you hear bear cef me why about the halt best friends ile ie got at tile the magazine writer you know and ad his wife and they re coming mif out to dinner coming right out at I 1 told them not to dress ili come straight it home mi self get there before they do I 1 gonse all right good by but he be sat there frowning 1 ID a puzzled led boit it of way for half a to minute tests roses voice fee led had certainly is sounded landed queer he ha was waa sure ana he had haan hadn t planned anything else for tonight he distinctly remembered leer her nying just before he left for the effir office that they it list ltaif the evening to themselves and it was as incredible that she minded his bringing home home two ohr friends like the lakes on the spur of the moment to take pot pat fact luck oh oft well 12 a ou tell about peoples voices over tile there them must hae been base something funny about the connection an opportune text taxi just leasing the alie entrance to his offee building as he be chaie our net enabled rial bodney Y to better the fifteen minutes bed allo allowed d tor far getting home but in spite of that met he found rose rather splendidly gowned gnarled tor far her expected guests gaeste good gracious he cried excitedly it but bat did you do that for I 1 thought though I 1 oi trying to H help elp both bath of ef them out of their wraps at once I 1 told you over tile the phone the lakes werch t going to da d a ir T was ons glossed like this when you yen telephoned row sold and I 1 afraid theia be if atme to in change into anything ole 11 tie 1 11 going albere were we lie V he asi ed ad iberea nothing im for forgotten forgette gatte no she bald 04 we berea t going sol an where b and you dressed like that just tor for a fr free t for ato me SIM she nodded ju jut I 1 I 1 tor for you she mo nd lit ruddy atho be are the LL lakes oh I 1 know hla his articles article X thuinli but where were they friends of if yours years sail sad when wheal for beals until they moved to now new york I 1 hey need to ither live here I 1 know knew I 1 must have told you about ban it them I 1 lie imia always having halim dinner with thoun them either out in 14 rogers fall where it they tiled or 01 at 1 ainor inor terrible little emst imst brinit downtown they ne w ere realon alft ays 5 game to arv anything once IT hi a the longest leanest larest absent imp chap in the tha world rid and just built about the b best t and lit nil wife 11 fit fits al 11 his mlle angles she im waites tes M too oh you re sure to like them I 1 they re going to be out here for months he lays IY II aie s going to in women and ad he be is corm come back be tire all where they get the vote to make herad headquarters its blest I 1 I 1 linc lint ahnen ind a real met talk alth ith nobody since he wilt 4 awai 43 3 air air a year ago go then at the sound of the liell bell he be erld out there they are am and dashed thion let into the hall ahead of the parlor maid as eagerly as a schoolboy anticipating a birthday pros pres ent at rose itose followed more slowly and by tile the time hem she had reached tile the leading landing she he I 1 found d lit him slapping barry on mi the beef and shaking both made builds oath n ith jane and trying to help both of them out of their wraps wrap at once NN bhea he the greetings gree tinga were over anil and the hey Y w were or a on the way upstairs p age again he sold said 11 1 1 I 1 told rome eose u tte seen I 1 g go ing to time dress but ah she she did dian didn t put put on an this ear coronation lie rob robe tor far you but for far fl a treat for far me before I 1 telephoned and hada I 1 time to change b baah 1 and when jane cried out as they entered the drawing room main good goad heavens bodnev rod what amt a bouse hatim 11 he h son answered imil it is that oars am we re rented led it t tor for a 3 sear ear in some sort of it honey I 1 moon delirium I 1 giones gauss we don 1 t 11 live up ap to lo it 0 of course nobody could but the amin who built ito ft th the gaiety 1 la his has voice clouded a little as lie he mid it and his its grin gria for far a moment had bad a rueful twist but for a moment only then them his ered delight in the possession of his bla old friends end took 61 him again they talked beR heavens vens how the they id I 1 it as like ilk a the breaking b baijo maijo oil 0 ot of a log jam the two tuo men would uld rush h long along bid side a by side la in perfect agreement for far a while bile cut catching ching each others other s naif expressed ideas and hurling them forward and then suddenly they it meet head on la in collision ever some fundamental difference of fall amid a prismatic spray ot of epigram jane kept up a sort of oblige to 0 o to the show inverting inserting provo cathe mittel witticisms sols here and there sometimes Is as rodney adiv sometimes be as her lu shands and luring them when she bhe could into the quiet latel backwater ter at 0 metaphysics V here harm she ft as a more the than a match tell for far the two tio ot it the them but the main topic of the evening got get launched bed when hen rodney seized tile the bill advantage adian image tage of a pause pages to say bay A sarien aeries of reids on women eh bit I 1 hat bat are you going to do to th thun l tt aith ith that the topic of feminism was on an the carpet and it was never thereafter abandoned after half an hour lour of it jane turned to bodnev but ahat do vou von think about it she bhe demanded loue ima a been grinning ann away Y there all aei this time without saing log a word card are you for icv it for what rodney wanted to know kime tor far what hat women wool want said time jane re economic moule independence equality caby my alv divorce all il the now new stuff 1 im I in not against it rodney said adv a v more than I 1 in against tomorrow being it a going to be tues bues day whether I 1 like feorg it r or not at but bot that con lethin kp keeps an me I 1 from c crusade ing 19 for far it deiy hard b id ft hat I 1 im I 1 an curl ing about Is how it s going to work IN athen lien they get what they want arit do you yon suppose they re going to w want ear what amt get I 1 knew there was waa something deul dd 1 li about 3 lour a or gun said joan jane NN hot aie 1 B you yen so he malat as abac fl hy by the thing said old rodney that sours its my naturally sweet ills du lathim ion 1 la this conom lc millpond depend iu e enie I 1 ive A bem faial hrag it at almur tables table all cintr N ann its I 1 h hiar a bomin worn in nith i ith fi file e bundled bundi ed delta dollora r north I 1 clothes clothe on 11 no BO not net on bit lor baik back ond ind you I 1 like L in jewelly talking about economic c aall inde 1 e pandia lendL nce tim as it if it were note something of cu ale c e join jam on tile the pantry shelf ahelf that we me men were re too seedy to let them have a share her of f I 1 hills hae to put on the brakes in older to stay slay on the rails ate na nom men bills to taht tor far economic ell emmile lonce lence im the time to two ty more or like till til the time we tile die it ta I 1 a Ban tence to hard labor for life th hats t what ilat clon ualle independence is how does that woman memo think tied set act about it to mke her h or im I 1 services worth a bundled dollar ollars tl B day or afi or ten tell vicars hats she got that has a mallot value what VI hat is the thera that 1 she I can imant 1110 ches she S got her physical ch chirm ca of courie and there them are am professions where her the she elt can make it pay will and ad blast elaf at she a can bear children calil 3 jane BIL ale alit to be paid veil mall tor for that you yon re only paid well rodney re plied tor for something you ran can do a pith I optionally well 11 ll or tor for something that f few are people can do at all al As aa long as i the ast majority of women cout can child chil children dien so the only w women homem w who he could g get t well paid pit tor far it t noldia be thoro these e exceptionally x c eption ally qualified or exception aty ally proficient delan t tina this is economics now new were ta talking aking other considers consi dern difini R I 1 are left out no I 1 tell you economic independence it she really kit got it the hind of woman man iv ive be been talking about would uld make lie her very cry pitk ilk site she d get over a being sick thou feh ulin blindt dt t she be said it hose after bob awhile ae and then don doot t you think shed be glad rodney laugaud the sort of we boni an n lie been talking beat about he and would feel eel when hen nil 11 la IS said that shed ajie d got a gold brik rose poured his coffee with n steady ined bund they were are tn in the library now it if there tant s so BO she said bald the then the 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