But I am one to
confess when I have made a mistake. I do not beleive in laying
the blame on Providence when it belongs to the Other Sex,
either.
It was on going down to the shed one morning and finding a
lamp gone and another tire hanging in tatters that I learned the
Truth. He who should have guarded my interests with his very
Life, including finances, had been taking the Arab out in the
evenings when I was confined to the bosom of my Familey, and
using up gasoline et cetera besides riding with whom I knew not.
Eighty-three dollars and 45 cents less thirty-five dollars
for a tire and a bill for gasoline in the village of eight
dollars left me, for the balance of the year, but $40.45 or
$3.37 a month! And still a lamp missing.
It was terrable.
I sat on the running board and would have shed tears had I
not been to angry.
It was while sitting thus, and deciding to return the Frat
pin as costing to much in gasoline and patients, that I
percieved Tom coming down the road. His hand was tied up in a
bandige, and his whole apearance was of one who wishes to be
forgiven.
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