Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-12-31

huff, remarldng, as she passed Susan
IN the hall. that she wouldn't live I'M |
der the same roof with her.
Then there was the young man and |
his sister. They liked the connecting |
rooms upstairs He worked on a morn |
ing paper and she was a stenographer. |
The east exposure he thought would
not permit of his sleeping late in the
morning, and it would be cold in win
ter for his sister during the day and
early evening. No, the rooms upstairs
wouldn't do for them. and as for those
on the ground floor they had no furni-
| ture.
| About noon there came man with
| little boy.
| He was widower, but he looked as
| though it were not owing to any fault
of his own. While he talked with Susan
his son dug nice little hicks in the win
| dow sill with q new jack-knife. he
liked the rooms very much, but his wife
had left on his hands a lot of dishes and
there appeared TO be no place to hang
them or arrange them at all. Susan
told him of our large woodshed, but he
said that he could never think of ''the
light of his life's" things being put out
in the woodshed, so he didn't take the
l rooms.
| Then there were two ancient school
teachers. They liked the rooms up
stairs, but could not see how their
piano could be moved there Susan
couldn't either, 80 they went away.
About four in the afternoon a young
man and his wife came up the front
steps and rang the bell.
They wanted two unfurnished rooms
and wanted them right away. They
wanted running water, a stationary
wash-stand, mantel, and a gas CRATE
Observation-Disclosures of our rooms
exactly. From behind the curtains ]
. saw Susan's color grow flush with in
terest as she thought: swell, they re
: gone this time, sure"
She talked with this couple long
time. She came down a dollar o
month when they faltered, and finally
when they went out the front door and
5 she had slammed 1t after them, abe
came into the parlor and sank into a
chair near the table.
t what was the matter with them?"
:. asked.
8 They didn't like the ceiling chande-
d hers. They wanted wall brackets
: They said IL it were not for those
/ chandeliers they would take the room,
: at our own price"
o saw the careworn look in Susan's
: eyes and began to feel real pity for her
e Poor little girl, I thought, it's a shame
u for her TO run up and down those stairs
II 20 much.
g And II was in the midst of my pity
unexpres%ed that the bell rang again.
t This time IL was q man and his wifi
y desiring unfurnished apartme nfs
u Susan trudged down the hall again
She opened the doors, turned on the gai
lie In the CRATE, raised the shades anS
Il lighted the Jets. The couple were de
le lighted from the outset. They talke'
d of everything. They wanted to know
Re IL Susan would put down mating il
b the little bed chamber. OF course Susal
would. Anything to choke of the re
W Suits OF that advertisement of tire
lines
~ Well, they would go out and figure
all up and would they be given the re
i'd fusal OF the rooms until the next noon
s. And this time when Susan came int
D. the parlor her face beamed-
They're coming tomorrow noon'
abe said. land then there only remain
to the two upstairs. oh. Reuben. d
H. hope"
In She did not finish. The bell had tinl
led again
at IAN upstairs ROOM" heard her say
be "Yes."
sc They came back down after abou
Ve ten minutes. Again heard words. thi
10 time vpoken by q masculine voice c
10 singular gendleness. Very we'll
In shall move in tomorrow afternoon.
expect my wife here in a week and
ay the second room upstairs is not rents
I shall probably take that also"
ps Susan could hardly wait to close tn
n, door after the second real renter Sh
IN came bounding into the parlor, he
ne eyes as bright as two stars. "Oh, Re'
Id ben!" she exclaimed. I've rented then
p Tie says he will move in to-morro
er afternoon, and, with those in the dow
stairs rocme at noon, that leaves oni
lg- the one hall bedroom on the secor
floor. And can rent that, too. know
ed. Ibid they leave any money to no
he rhe roons?' asked
'as Her face fell for a moment. mo
she replied. at never thought to a.
elf them" And then with more cage
The ness: "ButI know they'll come. for Il
people who looked at the rooms dow
sed stairs measured for the carpets al
talked about where they would star
err their table and all that, and the m;
MT. for upstairs wanted to know all abo
led the bathroom and the closets and II
wouldn't even take him TO meals. G
son know they will come to-morrc
i'm night"
the Tomorrow" came.
mt, At noon Susan was in high pitch
IL excitement.
DOR No one rang the bell.
the Half-past twelve.
Still no one for those unfurnish
not rooms.