| Show STUPIDITY FO FOR R TWO mo by IM IMES ES MACDONALD copyright 1918 by mcclure mcclura newspaper elspa er t syndicate billy sat an on the veranda rail mil half oblivious to the chatter of tile company about him until edna burn barns their charming hostess i stood beside him do come collie in end and sing something billy sho she rt im afraid tile evenings to i drag War wardon doua rose I 1 d uti fu ily a and ild followed her into the house toward the plan piano leshe announced from froin tile the tl como come on everybody S going to sing and everybody room where billy was wa already run runn lillig lug over the piano keys A aimlessly 1 ml essly V What ll you have he is asked over ills his shoulder to the something sad ead S by or something frivolous s fy something fri frivolous sill fans as tile unanimous request SoB So Billys llly fingers st strayed rayed anio into 6 a syn co melo melody ly as he threw back his blond head aud add sang in rila his rollicking barl baritone tofte in a situation while engaged in a flirtation when 3 asks you it forever you will love her dont fall in constein con consternation stern tion a F for or evirtt mal maidens denB approbation nor trahe rt ake promise that youl nevor leve leva another by Idl clous implication ani and a little os osculation gently and be clever dolve the girl but not forever fr for forever Is along long aimel forever lio Yo rever Is a long long aimel applauded oneff abw themen raen Ili right light your you I 1 are eel bill billy y I 1 A little later after be hat bai managed to break away from the p piano 1 a i na jedna edna darns caught him inthe halland balland faced him accusingly f A man of your talent ought to bo be ashamed to have such it a fri frivolous yolous philosophy billy wardon warden shi she e said im t billy was bland anil and hisoye was innocent since that heartless beartle ss songor son g of yours emily wayne has been beed out in a dark corner of the veranda w weeping e fiig her eyes out she chedid 1 I nevar never made IO 10 love ve to ito em in my life ahe pr protested ted you make love to every woman you meet with your eyes billy it slie she accused 1 I dont Iden led billy audeli rudely you do too slie she insisted 00 oo even make love to me that way youre doing it ft now I 1 for an instant ills his serious s glance sought sough hers as she stood there looking cupat him I 1 this Is a grand little old life cotil be said wl altha tha pathetic grin Effi emily ily wayne wayn e 1 l loves oves me I 1 love you you love jim bradley and jim loves emily outside of that were all as happy as h bunch of pickpockets pick pockets at a prison wardens convention and an he moved off gloomily toward the ve randa in search odthe grieving emily while edna watched him go with a a perplexed little smile on her lips but bui he did not find emliy emily although he did find jim bradley smoking moodily jim m said billy yant want in this world dont amount to much but abut what the women want different en tl now I 1 want E edna dna and you want emily but women being contrary edna wants you and bifid E mily emily wants me now its up to us us to td make mak e them happy so the only thing to do Is ferou you to go ahe ahead ad and marry edna ednaann and I 1 algo go and find emily a and ng fix it up with filth her buti dont want edna protested jim violently and ill be darned if ill stand your mi tarrying ying emily I 1 want tier her myself why chump I 1 I 1 dont want tier her have fleron on ahot but weve got a chance chanc e to moke the two finest gI girls girasin in th the e world h happy a py by a little sacrifice on our parts port F finally after much persi qa a greed agreed but when edna out onto the lawn under the trees thunderstruck at his proposal propos nl why jim she said 1 I ilki you yon better than ahny any man I 1 know except one and he Is so stupid I 1 guess ill have to propose to him him myself i but billy uns u ns not so easily di scour agenda ake cl you f iee pe its like til this s emily ive been thinking about marrying you for a sometime alm and we mig 4 t a as well go aisea ahead nd and have it over oer with billy Y you ne me of tile the charge of theL lff li brt gade ende but evenso even so I 1 might marry you 11 it for the fact N ilu libove ili 1 with I tb somebody else afi well said jim asche two of them conferred by the front R steps your dope was all wran and were both out of it emily emilly loves somebody else buelt m me and edna loves somebody else but it you theres na no e ets 1 11 annl triangle to tj this tragedy its moia more like ike dho a hollow ilow square 1 guas guess we have tej alsed L tham heni enough ll 11 came tn th emiles am amused alsed voice hut can yaji you alln imagine n gine two grown men being so stupid no I 1 ca cant nt but wen then 1 said mild the aprile edna stupid men make the best husbands i 1 whereat allty looked at jim apil jim looked fit at billy then with I 1 one on enn ill all 1 the same impulse they charged 10 on those two defens defenseless suddenness A i anden amily 1 l thought know ww n joke 11 white ilia fir practical edna V eadon I 1 0 irenr ii orew slone long time 1 sig it t ikiye pidy not nol for forn a stupid husbard 8 ald billy blana blan bla nv liv |
