MUTT AND JEFF
GOSH, THIS JOB OF TRAINING PLEAS FOR
THE FLEA CIRCUS
16 NO CINCAMME
DIDN'T SEE 'EM B059!) THE WHOLE FLOCK JUST HOPPED OFF. AND LEFT ME{{{ FLAT I Guess!,
DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO. BE CAREFUL? THAT'S THE SIXTH: SET OF FLEAS YOU
LOST THIS
WEEK!
GOSH
SORRY, BOSE! I GUESS MY EYESIGHT IS. GETTIN' BAD!
JAFF: FLEA TRAINER
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THE DAILY SHORT STORY,
MADE CRISIS
She called Don's club and had him EAR GOD," Laura prayed, "don't
So she "DEA
let this happen. Please, please paged, but he wasn't there. don't let it happen." For a long time left word for him to hurry home; that she remained on the floor near the bed, Dolly was sick. Then she called all her head pillowed on her arm, allowing the places where he could possibly be
and left a similar message. tears to flow unchecked.
Dolly. was wide awake when she went Presently she rose and went to the window. She stood there, looking out back upstairs, "Is Daddy coming now, at the front lawn and the flagstone Mummy? Is the doctor coming? He walk, remembering how many times won't give me any bad pills, well he?" she had stood there waiting for Donald.. to come, swinging in through the gate, her heart leaping at sight of his tall handsome figure even after six years of being married.
Laura sat-by-the small bed and read aloud until. Dolly went to sleep. Then She she tried to finish the novel she had started. An hour passed. Two. got up and went downstairs. What a What an idiot. It And now she could never expect him fool she was. again. Thinking about it, it seemed wasn't likely that he would come even impossible that this thing would have if-
on the happened, that another woman, could have come between them. That-sort porch. The door flew open. Don star- of thing was for: fiction, for idle cosed at her, eyes wide with apprehension. sip. It couldn't happen to two sane. "Laura! For God's sake, what happen- normal; every day people.
ed? What did the doctor say it was?"
The
Quick footsteps sounded
Laura's heart: froze,
doctor! But it had happened. This thought kept recurring. Cruelly. Each new She had forgotten all about the doctor. recurrence more stunning, more merci. And even if she had summoned him, less than the one before.
how ridiculous it would be. Suddenly she knew how utterly stupid it all was. She started to speak, but. Don was halfway up the stairs.
It had been a blow. Wholly unex- pected. She had attributed his moodi- ness to poor business, She had be- lieved he was only depressed, and she
f
the She heard him open
nursery
had tried to cheer him. What a fool door. She heard Dolly's exclamation.
By Meredith Scholl
she had been. All during those long months he had been seeing her the other woman. It had been prey ing on his mind.
somehow
Laura stood before the fireplace, wait- ing, fearful, determined to face it through,
The nur-
Fifteen minutes passed, She pressed her nails into the palms sery door opened, closed. Don came He stopped of her hand until blood showed. Des- down the stairs slowly. peration shone in her eyes. What on the last step and looked at her, She could she do? How could she hold lifted her chin a fraction of an inch. him? How could she, make him see: ·
: "Laura!" He came
toward her. II. -it's hard The words
"Dar-
that she needed him, and he her. She remembered stories she had read. "Dolly told me. Something always happened to bring to believe." He paused. the estranged couple together. Some wanted to say, wouldn't come. sort of crisis. The sickness of their ling, I left only because because I'm such a wretched failure.. I can never child.
The give you the things you want. things you deserve. You're young and—-_-
The bedroom: door opened. Laura whirled, all thoughts but the concern of little Dolly, who stood there in her long nightie, rubbing her eyes, driven from her mind..
"Mummy, I afraid. I had a bad dream. Mummy, please let me sleep with you.".
"Please!" Her voice was harsh, "How can you talk sò after telling me about-- -her?"
His face cleared. He almost smiled. "Why, honey, there isn't any other wo- Laura scooped the child into her man. There was never any one but you. I had to tell you something arme, held her close, crooning over her. that you'd believe. I Dolly cuddled in her mother's lap and closed her eyes in happy security. It was then that she broke down and Laura looked down into the sweet, reached out her arms and he came into innocent, face, and suddenly her own them. And she thought: "It does hap- heart began to pound..
pen in real life, even if you have to "Dolly! Wake up! We're going to manufacture the crisis?? play a game."
Dolly's eyes opened wide,
"Game (Released by The Associated News-
Oh, I like games. What kind of game; Papers.) -in: mummy 7",
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"We'll play a game and fool daddy. We'll tell him you're sick and have the.. doctor come in and everything."
Dolly clapped her hands. “Oh, mummy! That will be fun, Will daddy think I'm really and truly
sick
52.If you pretend good and hard. You
must make believe you're terribly; terül ribly, sick, and you must never tell him we were only, playing.
Oh, let's do it
thumpin'
"I won't, mummy.
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