Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1927, Page 12

THE EVEN Her Bad Bargain. LAINE GAGE’ duced a ployers, had not had dreamed of The day before Elaine*had been at work as usual, quiet, trim little fig- ure in a dark serge with no jewelry | =t watch, her brown hair smoothly coiled over her ears, her-de- mure violet eyes intent upon her busi- ness. At 28 Elaine appeared to be stabilized in the business world. She was earning $50 a week with the pros- pect of even better. She had no one but herself to look after. Success and independence and a peculiar fitness set Elaine Gage apart from her fellows. She was looked upon Wwith envy, won- der and admiration. “Of course, there is but one reason for this sudden change,” Cora Clin- ton said. She was the girl who came nearest to being Elaine’s friend, the one with whom Elaine oftenest walked and lunched and talked. They were Junching together now at the small restaurant which had become famil- jar to both of them. “You are going | to do the thing I thought you never| would do—get married.” “That's it,” Elaine took a sip of coffee. ““You ought not to mind, Cora. Without doublt_you will be asked to| fill my place. You've earned it.” “When I get it,” Cora’s lips were firm. “T shan’t give it up for any mere man. I hate to say it Elaine, but unless your flance earns twice what | you do— “Thirty dollars a week! And you have $50. Well, you must be in Jove or—erozy wo persons to live on 30 a wee Jike asking a lame old horse to carry double.” laine smiled faintly. “It looks like a bad bargain to you T suppose,” she said Cora leaned forward, her dark eyes of anxiety. Tt looks like worse than a bad bar. gain to me,” she said. “It looks like suicide.” A week later Cora stood beside Elaine before the altar of a certain plain little church and saw her take the vows that made her the wife of a tall, plain, shy-looking man of 30 named Will Collins. It was a mystery to Cora. She herself w nothing in the man that should have attracted Flaine Gage. She cried when she said good-by to her friend, then she went back to earn the $50 per which Elaine had sacrificed. One Sunday afternoon Cora and another girl from the office went t see Elaine in her new home. She had a tworoom, kitchenette apartment with windows on air shaft five flights up, in a building where there was no elevator. The furniture was of the sketchiest, yet Elaine seemed to be very happy. She served ginger ale and sandwiches. Will, she said, was out on an assignment. He came in while the girls w there. Tired and shabby as he there was no mistaking the admir tion in his glance as it rested upon h wife. Cora came away then ever. It looks like the real thing—but won't last. Thirty a week—and b doesn’t lock as if he could report : wa & Sons, and none fu more mystific 2232232288833 38888888 Lansburgh & Bro. “Flare effects”’ —Women’s Wear presents the news of new things that are just about to become fashions! style mentor of the department store world. Flare effects are important in our Advance Sale of Coats You'll find the front other interesting new features in this annual sale. Read Sunday’s papers. Lansburgh & Bro.—7th, FEP P PP PP PP PP PP CP PP AR FFT | fire. " 2 s S resignation pro- Her em-|qonded. a thing. | e ,oa,'v,. 2, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, out of work, a baby, a wife scarcely |along."” NG STORY Crazy thing—this love. to business. uess T will, too.” Helen Archer re- | But she sighed as she thonght of a certain man back home | who was hoping that she wonld get cnough of the city and return to be his wife. Cora went again and again to the little apartment. She felt that Elaine | !more than convalescent and no bank account to fall back upon! lelicately as she could offered aid to|Collinses did not return to town Cora wondered if they had starved to death re perfectly all right,” Elaine GoWn there in Peckville. Cora herself » ‘are going to the country had received a raise in salary and had There's a little |beside cleared up a tidy little sum ona She was even more | vent for almost nothing, | Successful than Elaine had promised 1 “laine. s I shall/ ., house in | which we and we're g men on a cf Cora as|Summer. sots well. o village he came from |lucky inv ¢ to give up the apart. | to be. P e of getting another nc i’dreel jam and couldn’t work. A man |to know how comfortably we shall get That was the last of Elaine for that ‘When Fall came and the vestment. oor Elaine! She was browsing in a book store ‘nfixt Fall, and take our things in a|one afternoon for something to read van. D. C., FRIDAY, home and devoured it. It was en- thralling. Next day she searched through the papers for comment on the novel and found that the thing was selling like wildfire. The $30-a- week reporter had emerged as a best seller! A week later she went down to Peckville to see Elaine. She walked in unexpectedly and surprised a pret- ty domestic scene—Will typing, the baby laughing over a new toy, Elaine looking like joy itself. Cora received | a hearty welcome. o laid aside her | times, AUGUST 12, 1927. ‘He always wanted to write a book. poor boy,” Elaine said. “And I knew that he could write good ones. This is only the beginning of his success as a novelist.” “I couldn’t have done it if she hadn’t married me,” Will said. “I'm naturally slow and careless and lazy. A reporter. me,” he smiled at her admiringly, “she just kept at me till T finished writing what T'd begun and laid aside a dozen I'm doing another now. She said proudly. country. literary and famous like her dad.” Cora_Clinton sat staring at the ra- diant Elaine, ered the biggest fool in the universe. Elaine’s bad bargain was nothing of And I was stuck fast to my job as a | the sort. After Elaine got hold of |on love. sealskin coat and took Annajane on|wont let up on me till it goes to been planted at the top of Mount Fra- “On Annajane’s account. { child should be brought up in the I think she is going to be TRAIN VICTIM SUCCUMBS. North Carolina Youth Struck While Supposedly Asleep on Tracks. LYNCHBURG, Va., August 12 (). She had just taken a chance | Charles Overcash, 19, of Davidson, And love hadn't cheated her. | ., died at a local hospital yesterday ',n:‘r“x“, 2 S afternoon as the result of injuries s e tained yesterday morning when a Southern Railway was struck by passenger train at Leftwitch near whom she had consid- A small forest of pine trees has must ‘needed her even if she, pretended not to. Each time she was astonished at the happiness that seemed to ra- diate from this amazing girl. Yet for a whole year she never had a new garment, and the whiffs of food smells that Cora detected in the kitchenette seemed to consist entirely of beef stew. Elaine must have learned to handle a soup bone with the skill that a chef bestows upon poulette. In the second year Elaine's baby girl was born, but this only added to her happin , this can’t go on forever,” ought, “not on thirty a week. s touched by that baby whom Flaine had named afted her own mother and Will's——Annajane, That Summer Will got hurt in a 5%% Mortgage Loans Consult Us on Your Home Financing or Refinancing Problems NSNAENNNNENN Immediate Anstwers on Applications B. F. SAUL CO. Main 2100 925 15th St. As EBONITE Srings toa Stck Ebonite cannot pack nor deteriorate; it lasts longer than anything ever devised for the same purpose. Just say “EBONITE” Be Sure You Get It 20 Cents a Shot ONE_FILLING WITH ERONITE W 2, MILES From the Checkerboard pump only, and in five-pound cans. 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