Show i j i y amm told AND WK by ISABEL LEE 4 toros coias wife sat before her dressing ulma putting the finishing touches to her afternoon toilet little do you know how worried I 1 am toms wito wife sighed pathetically but I 1 wont bother you with my troubles you have so much to bo be happy about and so many plans to make for the wedding dicks fiancee bit her pretty lips rm im not atall sure eure there la Is going to be any wedding she said 1 I dont even know whether to go down to chop or not added the younger woman the use ot of getting the things when I 1 dont know whether I 1 shall want the the wedding veil and white satin and the rest t but dont talk about poor little mo me rd id so touch much rather know why you aro are worrying toms wife laughed softly first it was the teacup she said it was the morning he asked me for or a lemon the next evening he bad had a mysterious little e package when he camo came homo home it was a horrid sticky teacup well the next night it happened again such a horrid old cup that kept on for or several days I 1 asked him outright what it was all about I 1 well you have caught me snook ems you those were the very words he be used and then he laughed a little rather sheepishly and tried to kiss kias me 1 I want to tell you at aret he said 1 I thought make a fuss about it but that new english secretary that new english secretary and that was the first time that I 1 had eve even heard of the creature ho he as said id had to have tea they all do in london he be said youve never naver had bad tea with me I 1 sold said and now tor for this brazen english secretary but why make a tool ot of yourself by bringing the cups home where the joke bomes comes in he be said laugh laughing trig 1 I thought of 0 getting miss stebbins to wash them but she rebelled just because I 1 am a woman I 1 suppose you think I 1 must do tho the drudgery drudge rr I 1 never washed a dish in my life it if you want a servant you should have hired one and not tt a stenographer said miss stebbins 1 I am sure I 1 dont at all blame miss stebbins I 1 sald said you did perfectly right said dicks fiancee 1 I know all about it I 1 found dick carrying not only one but two cups home at night his and tho the secre secre ile he even brought them around to wash and then ho bel told me lust just as torn tom did you a bout about the creature only he say much and I 1 said less I 1 dian didn want him to tell you that I 1 was jealous and it Is not really that only of course if that Is 13 the kind of man dick Is it lie he Is the sort who stoops to office flirtations tat ions have you seen her inquired toms wife patting away an imaginary tear through the meshes ot of her veil tell heavens no and I 1 dont want to of cou course be 7 she he is a tall willowy blonde english women so often axe aro the idea seemed to occur to them both at once of st stealing ealin unexpectedly into the office where tom and dick held their tea orgies every aftem afternoon oon and in less than half an hour the two women had started downtown with an all the intense excitement of a real adventure it as if we were doing an anything T underhanded assured toma wife tor for I 1 am sure any wife has a right to call at her husbands office do you suppose they 6 nt way to london for her I 1 dont see why they have got some honest deserving american girl who would have been quite satisfactory they had reached the office and toms wife went in first tom and dick were both inand la and showed no end of pleasure at the visit they took them right into toms big roomy of lice flea St stick steell lell around for a halt half hour more tom said iala and you can have bava tea with us its agrest a great institution it dick both toms wife and dicks fiancee smiled coldly but it was part ot of their plot to stay they peered around every curve and listened for every sound expecting to see the willowy blondo blonde appear but the only petticoats they saw were worn by the sour faced miss stebbins St who sat pounding away relentlessly at hor her typewriter maybe we can get the ladles ladies to wash up the dishes suggested tom s its such a nuisance to have to cari cart them home with us toms tom wife had her cua and while dicks fiancee fairly trembled at what she felt was bound to follow aho begat began it seems to me that tho the english secretary had better do the dishwashing since it was waa the english secre idea to have tea tom and dick began to laugh a good one datil tom and the then at his summons a tall fine look ing middle aged well tailored man appeared tho the wife says saya you ought to wash the dishes tom repeated with a laugh laigh and then he be introduced them all alf you see etwas it was mr air harry harrl harri con aon the bew hew london secretary of the company whom tom and dick wanted favorably to impress and not that firyth mythical ical willowy blonde at all copyright 1816 by mcclure newspaper Newn paper |