Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 149, 5 May 1915 — Page 14

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1915

"A Man and His Wife"

Isabel Refuses to

Be Scolded About Her Husband.

Mrs. Simmons by

By Virginia Trhune Van de Water. CHAPTER XIII. Copyright 1915, Star Company. Dinner was ready -when John Hamilton reached home that evening, and the meal passed without any inconvenient questions being asked or answered. Inwardly Isabel congratulated herself on having carried out her plan with skill and success. She precluded the chance of any queries from her husband as to the day's doings by giving him a detailed account of how her afternoon had been spent omitting to mention the ringing of the front doorbell. Nor was she at all nervous when, as she stood washing the dinner dishes, the telephone rang. John answered it. A3 the door into the butler's pantry was open she heard his end of the conversation. "Yes, it's I John," he said. "How do you do? Shall I call her? Certainly, I'll give her your message. Missed her, you say? How could tnat have been? I know she was in all the afternoon No, I'm not mistaken. What time was it? Four o'clock! Why, it was just four when I called her up from my office. Yes perhaps she may have been asleep. Of course that accounts for it. I'm sure she will be disappointed, for she was all alone and would have been so glad to see you." There was a long silence on John's part, during which he was evidently listening to the person at the other

end of the wire. , When he spoke again his voice was lower. "I'll see about it," he said. "Of course I want to come. I'll know later, and will notify you then. Yes, yes, I understand. I can't say just now. Good-night." The wife did not stop her work when her husband appeared in the door of the pantry. She was humming a little tune to herself at least it may have been a tune, although it did not sound particularly musical. A close observer might have thought her indifference studied, and that she was unnaturally absorbed in polishing her glass and china. When her husband spoke, she glanced up, apparently surprised at his presence. "Oh," she said, "did you speak, John?" He looked at her keenly. "That was Mrs. Simmons who telephoned just now," he remarked. She Leaves a Message to Be Given to Isabel. "Ah was it?" she rejoined easily. "What did she want? Why didn't you

call me? Oh" as an afterthought "was it you, and not me, that she wanted to speak to?" "She gave me a message for you," John said. "As you were busy, I said I would take it." "What was it?" asked Isabel, still with well-feigned nonchalance. She was annoyed to feel her heart beating rapidly. Had she not a right to refuse to see anyone she wished? "She said she was sorry to miss you

this afternoon," John told - her, "and wanted to be sure you knew she had called. Although she left her card under1 the door, she feared your maid might forget to give it to you. Did you find her card." "Oh, yes I found it," Isabel re-plied "But you were in, weren't you, when she called?" the man questioned "I haven't been out today, as I told you," Isabel said. "Why ask that?" Then, he continued, how does it happen that you did not see Adelaide? She came at 4 o'clock, she said and it was 4 o'clock when I telephoned you." "I woke up from my nap just about 4, I think," Isabel remarked. . She was putting the dishes away on the shelves now and did not meet his eyes "If she rang it may have been that woke me. I had been fast asleep." "Didn't you hear the bell?" the husband persisted. "Yes, she said glibly, "I "heard it. And when I went Into the hall I found Mrs. Simmons's card under the door." f She had put away the last dish, and turned to go toward the parlor, but he checked her. "See here, Isabel," he said, "I know that there is something more to this than appears on the surface. I know you are a light sleeper, and that front door buzzer makes an infernal noise also that call of your voice sounded as wideawake as it does now. Didn't you hear Adelaide Simmons's first ring?" The hot blood rushed to her cheeks. "How you do question me!" she exclaimed, facing him as he stood in front in the little pantryhrdetaoetaoi front of her in the little pantry. "Yes, I did hear her first ring. But I was undressed and could not go to the door in my wrapper, with my hair down my back. So I didn't answer that's all."

"It's not all," he objected. "For

you knew she was coming. And you are not in the habit of lying down down so late in the afternoon in fact, you . never lie down in the day time when you are well. Did you forget that she was coming?" "I won't be catechized in this way!" she burst forth. "Then why not tell me the truth to begin with?" he demanded angrily. 'What difference does the ridiculous thing make at any rate I" she retorted. "The main difference It makes," he said sternly, Is , that you tried to deceive me though why I can't see." Then I'll tell you!" she exclaimed, "I did not see Mrs. Simmons because I did not want to. I did know that she was coming for you told me so. But that did not mean that I had to see a woman that I don't like." "So," he said slowly, "you demeaned yourself to the extent of making plans purposely to avoid her, did you? And you let her a friend of mine come here and ring the bell again and again and refuse to reply to it! I'm astonished at you, Isabel. I should think that loyalty to me would prevent you treating one of my friends in such a low, underhanded way as that when she really wanted to see you." "And I should think," she flashed back, "that loyalty to me would make you consider what I want rather than what Mrs. Simmons wants! She may be your friend but she is not mine! To me she seems coarse and" "Hold on," the man's deep command made her stop and look at him amazed "Be so kind as not to criticize any friend of mine in that way. Until you can speak of her in a diferent tone, I must ask you not to mention Adelaide Simmons to me again." To Be Continued

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Manager Reports Weekly's Financial Status. Fair trade condition were reported by delegate to the Central Labor Council at a regular session last night. Only a few of the delegates were present. In the absence of President FahUing, h. Ji. Harrison took the chair and Henry Kunge acted as secretary. No successor has been elected to fill the vacancy left by Charles L. Kirk who resigned.

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