The daily sentinel., 1907-07-25

EyE$1 Hawley pulled
4 SH out his watch.
\ gGN Bet I've looked
VI dEN at that watch so
Xxx times since
lsSo found the main.
spring broken on the way home to-
might" he said. keeping a thumb be
tween the leaves OF his book. "Oh, l
don't know-not late"
Look at this!" She appeared In
the doorway holding mp a small
bronze clock. whose hands were point
ing to quarter past y.
THAT isn't right" he protested.
"But IT is asked the telephone
girl for the correct time before l
started It this afternoon. Why, just
lay down on the bed by baby for
minute this evening and l must have
dropped off and slept all this time.
Have you been reading ever since
went into the bed.oom?"
why. yes-unless I've been asleep
in my chair. | would have sworn 1t
wasn't later than ten"
And we were going to bed early to-
night so you could get good start in
the morningl isn't It ridiculous?
Come on, now. Don't read any more"
Mrs. Hawley began to hustle about,
fastening windows and turning on
lights.
TN 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. Hawlcy 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 hag-
ing a midnight party down below, too,
from the noises that come up through
the court"
Pm 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 lnto?"
"A Hat 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 moyning! 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 a respectable build
ing. | shall complain to the agent to-
morrow"
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 II,
Hawley declared. lighting a match to
investigate. No. sir" he added, in an
aggriered 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
all the lights on to make the dark
morning more cheerful, she flew
about and had breakfast on the table
in short order.
Everybody except us seems to have
oversight this dark morning" she re-
marked, complacently, as they sat
down. THE building is perfectly still.
The milkman's late again. too, but
luckily l had some cream left over.
I'm out of all patience with him. If it
happens again III change"
There he comes now" said Haw'
ley. I'm give him breeze myself
Five minutes later an injured-look
ing man came back to his place at the
table. Mrs. Hawley." he demanded
what time yesterday did you set that
wonderful clock?"
What do you mean? | didn't set It,
I started it at half past three. And
the funny part was that 1t happened
to have stopped at the exact minute
the telephone girl told me the time, SC
| lust wound it without touching the
hands"
And didn't look at it again?'
Not until night Mary Bartell was
here and | went by her watch. Why
He knitted his brows. Then he
looked up solemnly. "Yon started il
with the hands at quarter past six
thinking 1t was half past three. and
YOU hustled me OF to bed at half past
nine. And it is now five o'clock in
the morning,
As he was starting for his office al
eight o'clock. sull grumpy, she called
him back to the door.
ITS important" she told him. as he
came reluctantly up the stairs again
81 wanted to ask il you aren't glad we
found out our mistake before | com
planned to the agent"
"Pshawl You've made me miss my
train for that" was all he said.
But, though 1t sounded cross. she
went back into her fiat satisfied. As
he turned the corner of the stairway
going down she had caught him smil
ing.