News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-01-25
IN GREEN
AND VIOLET
By IZOLA FORESTER

OthCI VI u0I nOuSeuOlu ROuk
up against the wall. "Nerc
chewed her poor dear feet all I'D until
they wasn't anything left but regular
hash, Uncle Archie"
Terrible" said Uncle Archie, look.
ing over Trix's fluffy curls at new
Whistler on the wall. What good
taste Eleanor had; for instance, the
ecru tint of the etching against that
background of dark green burlap
TriX gave Lilybelle final loving pat
and turned around to survey Mr..
GWynne, her small hands clasped
around her knees, her head on one side.
You haven't been here for ever and
ever so long, Uncle Archie. Mamma
says she thinks you're 'fraid. What
are you 'fraid OFF,"
1--WE brought you a medicine case
for that battered up family of yours"
interposed Gwynne calmly, taking a
tiny blue enameled bonbon box from
his pocket. These pills are to be given
every five minutes"
Irix took the box and dosed the
whole row of dolls lined up against the
wall before she returned to the charge.
Its most whole week Mr.. Ste
phens comes up every night with his
violin, He plays lemonades and
things"
"Screnades, TriX."
Yes; ali soft and lonesome, you
know, and mamma goes over to the
window and looks out and does this"
TriX sighed heavily.
GWynne rose and crossed the room
to the corner half encircled by the
low, black bookcase. How deliciously
dainty and homelike it all was-the
great shaggy bear rug, the carved tab
aret, with it's little bronze pipe tray
on it, the little japanese ash cup and
the low tobacco bowl.
Eleanor had arranged it all for him
so he would always feel at home there
and have his own special corner
He could not say even to himself
when he had first loved her. 1t was all
SO gradual, so unintentional, OH his
part. He had received the news of
Bobs death with regret, remembering
many jolly bOyish adventure he had
shared with his cousin years ago in
the Shenandoah, but the idea of
having to meet his widow and look
after her business interests was an
other proposition. She would prob
ably want him TO dine with her and
talk things over, he had told himself,
reading Eleanor's letter the second
time. She would cry and tell him poor
BOb's last words and all that sort of
thing. He wished she had remained
y Virginia,
As matter of fact, he was not asked
to dine Eleanor had arrived in Chica-
20, had secured her apartments. had
furnished them and was serenely set.
tied in her new home long before Mr..
Gwynne was appraised of her presence
there. Then he had merely received a
formal businesslike note requesting an
interview relative to the full settle
ment of Dob's affairs. There had been
neither antemortem messages nor de-
Spairng tears. Instead he found Flea
nor serene. nOncommittal and fully ca
pable Of managing the affairs Of ROb's
southern estate ana western business
AS her legal adviser as well as cousin
by marriage he had considered it his
duty to call frequently, and then all
at once the old commonplace world
had turned topsy turvy, with paradise
on to-.
Ana yet it had all been practical
While he sat and watched her during
the long winter evenings she had
laughed and chatted on. with the old
frank, SoOd comradeshiD that had grown
to be SO sweet tie between them
without vcnturing on the frontier, even,
of sentiment. 1t was week now, a
whole week. and he had received no
word from her. If she only knew how
hard it had been for him to write that
letter, to try to make her understand
she Who had understood everything
else in his life so well-how dear she
was to hM,
lie leaned his elbow on top Of the
bookcase and stared grimly at a little
bronze satyr that grinned mockingly
back at him. Thirty-siX and she could
not he over twenty-five.
Mamma says she's awful sorry you
don't come any more, Uncle Archie"
TriX was saying. "She thinks it's be,
cause YOU don't like Mr.. Stephens.
And what do you Think" TriX lean
ed forward mysteriously. Mamma
cries about something. The other night
after Mr.. Stephens went l crept out of
bed cause L wanted to be rocked and
and l tiptoed in here, and
there she sat right over there at that
desk, with her head bowed down, cry
ing dreadful And / asked her if 1t
was cause Uncle Archie didn't come
any more"
"And them" exclaimed Gwynne.
"She said, No." replied TriX serene
ly. ut wasn't you at all. She said her
tooth ached, But she had your picture
on the desk all the same. And look
here!'
she climbed up on a chair and took
a photograph from little silver rack
On top of the desk
"See those SnotS?" she asked, hand