The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-07-02

spring broken on the way home ID
night he said, keeping thumb be
tween the leaves of his book. ooh,
don't know-not late"
Look at this" She appeared II
the doorway holding up small
bronze clock. whose hands were point
ing to quarter past IL.
That isn't right" he protested.
But 1t is ] asked the telephone
girl for the correct time before
4 started ii this afternoon Why, ! just
lay down on the bed by baby for a
minute this evening and | must have
dropped OFF and slept all this time
Have you been reading ever since
went into the bedroom?"
Why yes-unless I've been asleep
In my chair, | would have sworn 1t
wasn't later than ten"
| And we We're going TO bed early to.
! night so you could get good start In
the morning. Isn't it ridiculous?
| Come on. now. Don't read any more. :"
| Mrs. Hawley began to hustle about.
fastening windows and turning OF
| lights.
I'm set the alarm for SEVEN she
said. i don't see how we could stand
it to get up at six now Come. hurry.
1t will be one o'clock before we're
asleep"
They were just doing off when a
sound from the apartment overhead
made Mrs, Hawley sit up in bed.
What do you think of that?" she
exclaimed, Indignantly THAT man up
stairs is playing ragtime at one o'clock
in the morning"
ITS a poor outlook for getting up
early, Hawley agreed They're hav-
Ing midnight party down below, too,
from the noises that come up through
the court"
I'm going to see. It's no use trying
to sleep while that pianos being
thumped"
Accordingly, in dressing gown and
slippers, Mrs. Hawley reconnoitered
1t was a long time before she returned
to the bedroom. Brown" she said
then, what kind of a building have
We moved into?"
"A fiat building" he answered, with
husbandlike omniscience.
"Harkl They've been playing cards |
at their dining room table down there, |
and now they're making coffee. saw |
them turn on the light in the kitchen |
just now and ! smell the coffee. At |
two o'clock in the morning! And lis
ten! That Incorporating Mr.. Hess
has just come in-now Brown, we're
certainly not Obliged to endure such
performances until this time In the
morning-not in respectable build
ing. shall complain to the agent to-
1t seemed to the Hawleys that they
had just closed their eyes when the
ring of the alarm clock startled them.
you made mistake setting it."
Hawley declared, lighting a match to
investigate. mo, sir" he added, In an
iggrieved tone IT'S actually seven
o'clock Raining, too, and dark as a
pocket"
Mrs Hawley rubbed her eyes and
accepted her fate courageously. With
III the lights on to make the dark
morning more cheerful, she few
bout and had breakfast on the table
n short order.
Everybody except us seems to have
'verslept this dark morning" she re.
marked, complacently, as they sat /,
own. The building is perfectly still
The milkman's late again, too. but
luckily l had some cream left over.
m out of all patience with him. If 1t
appens again I'll change"
There he comes now" said Haw.
sy I'm give him a breeze myself" {
Five minutes later an injured-look- {
lg man came back 10 his place at the 8
able. Mrs. Hawley," he demanded. G
what time yesterday did you set that 4
clock?" y
What do you mean? didn't set II. 4
started II at half past three. And d
he funny part was that 1t happened n
} have stopped at the exact minute z
lie telephone girl told me the time. so a
just wound 1t without touching the s
lnds."
And didn't look at II again."
Not until night. Mary Bartell was
re and ! went by her watch. Why" n
He knitted HIS brows. Then he 4,
oked up solemnly. you started Il n
it'll the hands at quarter past six =,
linking II was half past three. and n
u hustled me OF to bed at half past 3,
ne. And 1t is now FIVE o'clock in .,
e morning fr
As he was starting for his Office at a
ght O'Clock. still grumpy, she called N
m back to the door al
ITS important" she told him. as he n,
me reluctantly NJ the stairs again. 10
wanted TO ask IL you aren't glad we
ind out our mistake before I com
aimed TO the agent2-
~Pshaw, You've made me miss my 4.
lin for that" was all he said. ~
But. though IL sounded cross. she =.
ut back into her fat satisfied. As a.
tarncd the corner Of the stairway :.
ing down she had caught him smil- -
!, :.
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