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WORKING WIVES

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» CAST OF CHARACTERS TH MISERY MARIAN HARKNESS-—A working wife. DAN HARKNESS—Her husband. | DOLLY HARKNESS—Dan's widowed | sister-in-law. EALLY BLAKE--An ambitions young stenographer.

CHAPTER ONE " OUR toac: is getting eold, Marian.”

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Of freshly made coffee. Dan Harkness was always agreeable. Sometimes Marian was aggravated by his exceeding good nature. She stood before the mirror, carefully pulling a black felt hat over the deep waves of her hair. The

hat had come from Manning's French Room, it was the last word | in exclusive smartness. She folded | the crisp veil back over the close-| fitting brim. Turning, a perpendicular line etched itself between her silken smooth brows. She definitely did] jot look 32, but still— | Thirty-two. She hated it, cringed |

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i —————— ’ be RIGHT | 2 ABNER AWAY. ; {ties on feminine allure agreed that HOLD EVERYTHING By Clyde Lewis L] . dag - A-NEEDIN' A NEW NINE BOLLANS A - a woman's most attractive years] a— TA o ln = . MUCH A 4| A WEEK! N \ SHES AN were her 30s. Possibly, in the social] “ : : 3 Vw EF THETS WHY PRESIDUNT r AN KE. world, but not in a business office. ITS A WEEK? In a business office a woman of 32) was beginning to be outdated. It was more difficult to hold her place han it had been to obtain it.

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y TH & Fut - 148s had, for 10 years, been a little smug ( . , p QY - < over her success, not exactly throw- i 8 ; v7 | / / dd. ¢ Y = SS ; 3 ing it up to Dan, just being a bit . p> : x 2 3) superior, | / She gathered up her gloves and \ / 0 fox cape, stopping once more to, gain reassurance from the mirror. No woman in Chicago that day would be more perfectly gowned | or more carefully groomed. Her skin was flawlessly smooth, her body youthfully supple. What was wrong then? There was a discouraging lack about her appearance. The fire was gone, eagerness and joy were gone, Twelve years ago a gin with | starry eyes and wind-blown bob| and tremendous lips had smiled back from the mirror. A determined little girl, set on wresting more than her share of gifts from life, It hadn't seemed to matter that her clothes were chosen from bargain racks, | . » on

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HEH HEH --- I KNEW SHE'D COME CRAWLIN' BACK --- IT'S ME SPARKLIN' PERSONALITY,

larger apartment. But moving was expensive, larger apartments were expensive, everything she wanted was expensive, It wasn’t fair, just because she had married an unsuccessful man. that she should be dei of the world's riches, - to the painted table at the the tiny Kitchen, she sat an. coatless, big and broad nd easy, filled her cup with coffee Marian looked at him speculative vy. After 12 vears, she still thought rim the best-looking man she had Lean, intelligent face, expressive eves, a firm ce had been so tenWhy must Dan capable, have

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down, buried his face In the morning paper. ‘I bought sheets and towels this month. Your share is $590." This was something in the manner of a gouge, a way of getting a few more Jollars for the ever-increasing Nanning bill. dd, with her eXxcellent salary, that she should never have enous Of course, the private secretary to Grant Fellows, Investment Rroker and Consultant, had gf certam position tO mamtam. Dan laid $6 beside her plate. Dan was gener Again Marian wondered what freak of fate had Kept Dan a salesman, with a drawing acmt of £35 a week, after 12 years of endeavor He pushed the paper aside, ol ng. “I saw Pete Thorpe yesterday.) »'s just back from his honeynoon » Marian looked up, surprised. “1 now that he and Carma

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he wasnt making enough to support them—' “Perhaps not in the way Carma wanted to be supported. His wife, shes a cute little trick namea Julie, seems perfectly satisfied.” Cute little trick—Marian resented the description. The world was full of cute little tricks and each one . oo Z | was a menace. “Pete and Carma ot were terribly in love,” she mused. “I can’t understand—" = =» »

«yg OVE is very apt to die unless it has a little encouragement,” Dan said. Because of something in his tone, Marian snapped, “It certainly dies without a little financial encouragement. You men seem to forget that.” : He returned lightly, “Let it die. Whe cares?” Resentfuly, Marian finished her breakfast. In a way it was just as well that Carma had not married Pete. She was a buyer for Manning's and made twice Pete's salary, | she was accustomed to niceties] which he would never be able to provide and he had stubbornly refused to marry her until she gave up her position. Pete would never make good. She reviewed her own unavailing reactions to lack of progress in Dan. ardent belief, gallant encouragement, loyal defense, then suggestions, criticism, nagging and tears, finally a simmering indifSarma was fortunate to be

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i life. she thought, was like a stock broker's chart, the curving line rocketing upward during the first few months, then starting aj gradual decline with high spots Where are we going from here? I'm haps it was the nagging fear, the Eetuing ok oy ie ore Richt inp sick of our life.” need to lean and have confidence in | Moe Towm ws | He got up and stood beside her leaning.

depression. A tiny, nagging fear) which had lain In the back of her chair, looking down at her quirsic-| He asked kindly, “Would you like mind for weeks, a fear which had ally. “It's not much of a life, is it, that, Marian?” NY nothing to do with her job, pre-|Marian?” “No,” she sald wearily. “It's too 3 / | sented itself with the force of a] “If you only made a little more— late now.” blow. {if I could only stay at home like ee To dismiss the fear, she burst out other wives—" It had been a long (To Be Continued)

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