Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1905-02-16
ENLHGHTENING
WENTWORTH
BY x etb Gordon
BY x eifb Gordon
Observation-Disclosures

XFTTTsvTIFNFJ'rrTiT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
/ Wentworth took the third floor of Mrs.
Manice'S house Had she not told
him that she was almost an invalid!
/ And when the mistress of a house is
IN invalid! He had half n mind to go
back ard tell her that he had recon-
sidered; that he feared after all, that
the rooms wouldn't do. He slackencd
his pace. turned, then went on. Per
haps things would be all right, but n
fellow did SO hate household discom-
fort.
On the second morning after his ar
rival, when he sat like a bewildored
monarch among a piled up, shapeess
mass of books, pictures, tables and
chairs wondering why under heaven
/ he had ever acquired them-there came
/ a knock at his door. At the moment
/ he was pcrchei upon a stepladder,
4 smoking Il short pipe and taking Il rest
before he fatigued himself by begin
/ ming TO arrange things.
"Come in"' he roared, without nov
/ ing, expecting to see a servant. Then.
] at slight hesitation on the part Of
\ the persona hesitation that he felt
I rather than Saw--he turned toward the
4 door.
! "Oh! All! beg your pardon" he
I apologized with alacrity, laying down
his pipe and jumping from his perch.
"You see I'm a bit floored I'm
j He paused rather helplessly, waiting
4 for his caller TO explain herself, though
/ he felt vaguely that she was welcome,
/ thought she had dropped from tho
/ clouds, 50 frank was her gaze so fas-
4 cinating the way the thick hair rippled
/ away from the low, broad forehead, so
utterly womanly her face.
Mamma sent me" she explained.
| I'm Miss Manice. and she thought
perhaps the maid and / might be able
to help you out"
She looked about the room inquiring-
| ly; then, as her eyes came back to the
new lodcer's blank. helpless face she
caught her lower lip between her teeth,
thus holding back the smile that strug-
gled to escape.
Have YOU ever moyedT he asked
ruefully. surveying his heller SHELTER
possessions with fresh aversion, and
at the question she laughed out a
laugh so girish and infectious that
Wentworth laughed, too, catching for
a moment the point of view from
which his dilemma was funny.
"What the world needs he went on
plaintively, lis automatic, self arrang-
ing furniture furniture that, placed in
the room, will adjust itself and save
its owner all trouble
That's what we will have when the
millennium comes answered Miss
Mance gayly but meanwhile, if you
really loathe the task Of arranging
your things and viii leave it to me-
She paused quesuonngly. while
wentworth gazed ut her very much as
if size were the straw and he the
drowning man. Again her face dim
pied.
You wouldn't not really doubt
cd he. with the shamefaced air of n
! person who has taken palpable jest
! in earnest.
"id just love itthat Is, if you think
/ can arrange the room to suit you.
I You might give me a general idea "
! how You Ike things and'-
/ Wentworth cut her short
/ IF YOU can give it something Of the
4 look Of that little drawing room of
yours" he said warmly. Il shall be
! more than satisfied The fact is you
have saved my life" he finished can
dldly
await until you see the rooms, she
cautioned rs they parted, he 10 90 to
his Office with a burden off his Shout
ders and she to condde 10 her mother
as she got into n great apron that coy
cred her from neck to ankles.
"He sc ms a nice, grateful ledger
| man, mother mine. Perhaps 1t won't
be so hideous to have ii stranger IN the
house after all. And think OF the mon
eyr
When wentworth opened the door
OF his sitting room that evening quick
approval flashed into his eyes. All the
inanimate objects that had huddlei
together so ncongrr6usly IN the morn
Ing. as II there wasn't an ounce .
self respect among their iea
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