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MUTT AND JEFF

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Best Friends

The moment Glen and Vina saw Chuck looked at them. Perhaps worst for the first time he realized how much Chuck's face they feared the

had happened. He grinned at them, they lacked in understanding of what sickishly and slumped into a chair.

he craved to do, what he had to do in order to be happy. They were his good friends. They wanted to help, could but they didn't understand, never understand.

ever

“We've folded,” he said. Glen and Vina exchanged glances They had expected this. Chuck wasn't cut out for a businessman, even He thought of Paula. Paula of the though it happened to be something blue eyes and chestnut brown hair. he enjoyed doing. When he started. He had known her, for five years. He the Round the Town News they were loved her, and because he loved her skeptical. During the past five years had pretended happiness, pretended lot. Chuck had engaged in not less than that he was satisfied with his

a dozen business enterprises, all of As soon as he became established in which had gone by the board. Glen, one of his undertakings, they would be and Vina were getting used to his married. He had never let her guess failures.

at the conflict that constantly raged Chuck wanted to be a writer, but in his heart a Conflict between first he had to make a living, and love for her and his love for writing had tried valiantly to do so, depend. He had never been able to wimble him- self enough to explain the things that ing largely upon the advice and en-i went on in his heart..

his

couragement of his best friends, Glen and Vina. Pryor Glen was an insur. Suddenly he sat erect. "Perhaps ance salesman, and a fairly good one, you're right," he said. "Perhaps but he tried hard to see the thing. Paula and I were married II'd get from Chuck's point of view.

There's no money in writing," he

"For hud advised more than once. get it and get yourself a man's job." "There's a living in writing" What Chuck had, argued. “And it's I want to do."

along better."

if

"Sure you would," Glen applauded. "You'd have to."

"There's nothing," Vina repeated, "like the influence of a good woman." Walking along in the cold January night, Chuck thought of what his best friends had said. They were right. If he had Paula to come home to, to sympathize with him and love job." him, it would lighten the load

"Then the Irst move," Vina put in, "is to establish an independent in- come for yourself by getting a

By Barbara Ann Benedict

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“Doing that is only going to pro- very much, make everything seem so long the time when I'll devote all much brighter. of my time to writing," Chuck said. But he must be fair. He couldn't d Glen." “Writ, ask her to go into it blindly, He'd “Rubblah!”. declared ing doesn't require any energy. Now,, have to tell her everything, try look, I can start you off as an in- explain, try to make her understand that no matter what, some day he urance salesman-

would become a great writer.

to

and

But Chuck, though he realized,

His stop was brisk as he turned up there was no alternative to the sug- gestion of his best friends, had shud Beach street and swung in at Paula'a dored at the thought of trying to gate. Paula answered his ring. She. sell insurance. Instead he tried soll was nionom.. ing advertising, then became a brush galesman, then worked as a clerk for. It was a week before Glon

Vina saw Chuck again. One night awhile. One by one, despite the ap- he appeared at their apartment. With proval, and encouragement of the Pryors, each Job failed. They failed becaused every moment he could spare Chuck devoted to writing, and a man can't be master of two trades. So then came this last of his enterprises -the Round the Town News, periodical which was financed by a friend's money and which flourished for two issues, then died.

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It seemed to Chuck that could happen to make him miserable

nothing.

morn

"What you need," Vina said, the influence of a good woman."

"is

· Glen nodded: "That's right. If you were married it would help`n lot."

"Now Chuck anorted in disgust. wouldn't I look fine asking Paula to marry mol (Good night! I can't even support myself);"

him was Paula Paula's eyes were bright and excited and there eagerness, in "Chuck's expression.

was

"We're married" Chuck said. Glen and Vina looked at each other. Smugness passed between them.

Marvelous! Vine cried "Oh, now it will be so much easier, Chuck. Now you have something definite to work for."

now

"How about that insurance job,

Chuck? Glad to take it I'll wager. When a man's married. ho hasn't time to think of anything much except providing ”

But Chuckmiled and shook his head. Thanks, Glen, I'm not taking the Insurance job. :: You ace, Paula'a: working and 'wo can get along on her salary until I got established in my writing, He paused, amused at the on his best friends' faces. talked it over

That's not the point," Vina sald. expressions. "If you were married, you'd be "in- "You see, I never vested with in. cortain iresponsibility, with Paula bofory, and show under.

It would not, perhaps, as the necer- otarda T

nary prod.

MauMakosivšu Jent out and

Glan agreed. "It did me. but failed to keep a touch of from his voiceJS

hustle,

angno

He tried,

Ho stopped Thore wasn't uso. Hla jibest friends could never understand

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