The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926 Page: 9
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THE AVESTA 9
"Shall I go or stay? You know it's up to you."
"No it isn't."
He did not expect this. The leading lady had evidently forgotten her
lines. It was her wont to falter and beg him to stay in at the price of her
silence.
"What do you mean?"
"I am not going to keep still any longer when you give your money
away to a lot of trifling loafers for no cause but to make folks think \oi
have a full pocket."
"You know I ain't going to stand chin-music. If you shut lip. i stay
in."
Mr. West rehung his hat on the nail. He felt he had gained his point.
The scene had always ended with this ultimatum.
"But I'm not going to hush."
"You'd better."
"I am not going to."
"Did any one ever see such a looking place for a tired and hungry man
to come to?"
"Whose fault is it? The money you throw away would put us on our
feet and pay rent for a decent place."
"You'd keep it in the same way."
"Try me."
"Not on your life."
Both stopped for a moment and looked at the wretched place they
called home; the man with the air of one who had been cheated out of his
rights, and the woman with a miserable sense of injustice sharpened by
her helplessness.
"Nice home for an American man."
"I'm just as much American as you are, and it is worse for me."
"All right. Th ii You'll take what's coming. That's all."
"I'm ready."
He reached ror his hat, and Mrs. West catihi her breath sharply.
"You're going out ?"
"Yes, and what's more, I ain't coming hack."
"You'll need some clean clothes to take with you."
"You needn't bother. Make them over for the kids."
"You'd better take a few."
She went to the chest of drawers and selected socks and fIded shirts
which she bound in a bundle and handed him.
The man looked uneasy and sat down in a chair.
She crossed to the window, wiped the steam from the window pane,
and peered through the glass.
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North Texas State Teachers College. The Avesta, Volume 5, Number 2, Winter, 1926, periodical, Winter 1926; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2105597/m1/11/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.