Show remained as cook and d mra her new year culinary y artist agreed to stay but bul added mrs to her name by MARION R it was finishing his ing meal with tile tha sense of that belongs belong only to those men who have a pa palato late that knows good food a and nd the digestive process to appreciate it when the dining room door opened mrs afro bell avato v lio lind had been his cook for sonae some fifteen years stood in the doo doorway way fidgeting nervously with her a aaron won mr ballotin Mal lotin she lie began tit timidly idly ive come to give you a months notice after the first or of the year I 1 think bouy have to be loo no so for another cook what ballotin Mallot Mal lotin ln asked at last youre going to leave the matter arent yon on satisfied with ft ath your our wages I 1 was just thinking the other day of raising raiding your salary Is there anything oil oh no sir its nothing like that its just that that im going to bo be married again agnin 11 Mal ballotin lotIn fifty seven was a tactless tact lesi ti at your agel age he mrs bell drew herself up tip indigo indignantly antly im forty six mr ballotin Mal lotin but I 1 should think one of your ago v N consider it young j why borr old enough t W B W alii mother mun man under r ity I is still vy very v y houi slid sald with great ferhat dig city ma alay I 1 ask who thi the fortunate lort jn Is mrs idl hesitated a minute ar thice horage 11 orage in packs grocery she answered that young chap asked mallo flit div why youre old to bo be jils s mother mot lier mr ballotin Mcl Nal lotin I 1 came ip in here evening to say I 1 was leaving after january not to ile he Ingul insulted ted 11 with that mrs dell slammed tile the dinin didin in room door and disappeared leaving her employer in ii a 0 state of corn com bete bewilderment it was aa not long however that the excellent tx lent brain of mr Mal Wal lotin re lined muddled he simply had to ti find id ft a way i ay of retaining mrs bell there woj riot not another cook in all now york yok who could even compare etli her lio ile must have her with debei initiation in ill ills eyan lie he left the li biotic otic and started off in the direction of packs grocery arthur II orage a youna voun roan man about tent 01 enty six haq IQ arranging cans cani on the dmitr counter omi tr Mal ballotin Millot lotIn ln idrew dro film off to 1 I 1 corner of the lie store etore find and the two to talked together quietly for over oer an hour finally FI nally ballotin Mal lotin pulled out his chock checkbook book scribbled something on it 1 and banded a narion narrow slip of white 1 paper to the eager caper hernge who held it out to read the amount more carefully I 1 ballotin Mal lotin lett the store a hippy limn lie he had never spent two to hundred dollars so well it had been just ai he had sus sua you young n clorn e was marrying 1 mrs hell 1111 ri for tile the silke sake of th tho lioney she had saved saed sho was to liac diac love started him lit in business mallo alws offer of hundred dollars looked so good to him ilo however wever that plot lio lie avab willing to forego hie wife and her dowie take the two hundred ond and make off to Clovel cleveland find as ballotin Mal lotin had specified now to fix it with mrs bell salil ballotin Mal lotin this ho thought would be quite simple mrs rell bell would be grateful to him for saving her from such a foolish step and would willingly willin aly agree to continue in his service sen ice and he was right up to n certain point mrs airs apil was waa willing to give ghe up her erstwhile suitor with only a little regret re gret but most important of all to ballotin Mal lotin was not to stay on in his service you see I 1 get apt rather lon lonesome estimo here mr maultin malt MaUc tin im IBI tired of this thir dreary ilfe ali and even it I 1 dont marry arthur horage there are other men I 1 expect to get married mr Mallol ln then a lutap atlo sentimental Wal self haold his hanl han l tenderly on mrs beefs shoulder look here mrs mm bell did it ever occur to you what a lonely life I 1 lea ac chere here did you ever think how bow daei imore more life might mean to ipp if I 1 had g i ine wife like well like yourself 0 to o look after me mrs bell turned to him and alid Sm smiled Ilef well ni ill stay ou on then after JAI JA A cury isit but well beg abeln inthe the net ne year as mr and mra Mallot ln shall wo nat natal we AVO shall was Mal lotins ready read and emphatic response CU western watern newspaper Newe paper fir |