Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-10-12
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PINK KMONO
By IZOLA FORESTER
Copyright, 1906, hs Ruby Douglas


wick's letters lay on top of it. neatly,
as the hall boy had placed them. also
his weekly paper from home.
Warwick glanced at the letters.
again ut the clock. tossed off his hot
coat end gloves and carried the whole
lot, parcel. letters and paper. into the
comfortable study and dropped into a
deep chair
There was an hour before the crowd
would arrive. Everything was ready.
The spread would be sent UP at $40
sharp. He hoped Stanton would he
able to get away. He liked Stanton
The boy needed a good friendly grin
just now. He knew himself what If
was to be In New York a stranger
Money could not give one the pass
word that admitted one to the inside of
things. the getting next to the itness
of ALL as Stanton said. And if tbe
right path did not open. and one hap
pened to be lonely. there were others
wide and welcoming. Warwick knew
The boy was young and clever. The
only thing that allied him was too
much money, and the confidence he
had therein. He was bit handy with
it all-the whirl and the swing and the
chance for big success. Warwick had
kept an eye on him for weeks, measur-
ing and judging him, and now he was
satisfied. All the boy needed was di-
rection and cool hand checking him
now and then, and he would win out.
Warwick opened the weekly paper
from home and smiled to himself at
the familiar heading, the Weekly Wis
itor. Ever since he could remember
the Weekly Visitor had visited reg
ularly at the quiet. big gray house that
crowned Warwick's hill. up in Hills
boro \. H. And Stanton was from
the country, too, some place out west.
out in Nebraska. He wondered if he
had weekly paper, too, to keep him
in touch with the old world, and the
ethics and standards of something be-
sides New York.
The letters were unimportant He
took up the parcel and slipped off the
cord. Laundry probably. He had not |
ordered anything.
The paper fell to the floor and he
sat staring at the thing in his hands. |
1t was a pink, delicate, shimmering,
silken thing. He stood up and shook
1t out to it's full length. 1t reached to
the floor 1t was not a bath robe. 1t |
could not possibly be a smoking jacket
II was a womans garment, unmis-
takably.
The texture was the softest Japa-
nese Grape, the silk interviewer around
the sleeves and neck in a border of
golden butterflies. There was no mark
on it nor on the paper. Warwick
looked carefully
The door bell buzzed imperatively,
once, twice and a long one. That was
BILLY Trainor's ring. Warwick hest
lated, cast the pink silk thing behind
MN on the chair and opened the door.
Billy stepped in smilingly, interroga-
lively looked about the room and spied
the pink silk thing.
"Rex," he said reproachfully; why,
Rexr'
1T was left here by mistake" said
Warwick hastily. THE hall boy did
It. What is it?'
Billy lifted it by the shoulders and
Oeamed with the apPreciative eye of a
connoisseur
It's kimono. the real imported ar
uce' No bargain sale. Who's the
lucky ladyg"
lAe door bell buzzed again War
WICK took the kimono with deliberate
so.rethonsht, went to the wardrobe in
therein.
the rest"
warwick played the host with more
,lner discomfort than ever before in
~ ME 1t was not the mere fact of
ne mistake that troubled him, nor that
- minded the boys knowing of it, but
= uidn { want to see that particular
%uat mad Billy called it?-kimono?-
Lanuied and laughed about and specu-
~ 'eu over. Somewhere there must be
e slrl who wanted that kimono. He
topeu she was a brunette. Pink was
bs ~ Ior brunettes. Not too much of
o.unette' perhaps with blue eyes. or
yes, gray-a gray eye or so.
ons was pushing back the chairs
to taborets for the spread. Stan
fba was singing at the piano. Out in
A. Altchenette Yates and Rogers and
Sls, Danforths We're rummaging for
vo snes and knives and forks Big De
IT, ~ was up on the divan with its red
aha.Al lsn cover draped picturesquely
no ooul him, reciting some original
cot ,'eA' don't you own a decent table
NJ, YOU Deggar?' called Yates.
WICK smoked without replying.