The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-20

hadn't such thing since his last dinner u ~
Cafe St Martin"
And Dorothy spoke so easily that Agatha. for IN
her shrewdness detected nothing. The dinner pro.
eeeded in orderly triumph Dorothy overheard Ma.
Prentice saying. with true New England evasion 10
eongIatulation: We'll, I'm sorry say. she is only
borrowed: she is accommodation whom got foe
to-day. The cook is accommodation. too I vas
lucky, don't you Think"
Il think rd like their addresses If you please MIL
lcent,' doomed Mrs. Prentiee's deep voice; .rhese
pies something wonderful; so was the frozen
cheese and the aspic jelly"
The others hers but the pics" Mrs Prem.
tice radant-'the pies were from your own reeips
and l made them myself
Madame Prentice nodded her acquiline profile win
sign of approval than her ever
had She turned the conversation to the water
goblets of rockerysta curously with facets Rlea
ing like diamonds She had loaned them to Mile
she said. with gracious smile. Never before had
she shown such condesecnsion Mrs Prentice sat Ike
one in happy dream
1t with suppressed exultation combined With
gratitude, that as soon dinner over she made
the first opportunity to 60 to the pantry and look
through the slide into the kitchen There the pretty
maid and the cook whose white gown was protected
by the most voumnous and breteled of aprons which
being protected by nothing in turn had suffered from
the eccenricties of the coarange and the sportive
nature of eggs. But her brilliant eyes and flushed
cheeks made her handsome as the trim maid
Dishes stacked in all drectons-on the tables in
the sink. the pantry shelves The sacred De Witt
Clinton however, had been washed and stood safely
to side
snatch e conversation Aoated to Mrs Prentice
And to think that used to think our maids dal-
lied forever their meals-why. It's such relief
to sit down ! think were too hard-I mean was
too hard I'm fhe TN
too. l am going to see that they altered"
Mrs. Prentice bent to speak through the slide IN
happy cagcrness of her gratitude! The ancestral rob
lets the shelf; the ladys dislodsed
the protecting prop of kindlng- wood; there was the
swift slide of the guotine, sckenng. sinister efashl
Both sisters sprans to their feet; they the wreck
age; they noted Mrs. Prentioe's whitening face.
Dorothy around into the pantry: che pushed int
a heap the splinters of two of the glasses.
This way Mr. Wentworth. this way" . fun oso-
und voice proclaimed preceding the stately figure Of
Madam Prentice here's the china closet Ainiceae
win my bringing you in here. Aileens. where
those Glasses!"
Agatha heard the voice She realized part Of he
awful situation but chance for her own entry
into the tragedy; thing she could do: she did IT,
with all her weight she hung the slide and kept
the screen firm between the world and her own uaady
kitchen Dorothy win have save that misessb,s
Mrs. Prentice" thought she. Il can't"
Dorothy seemed equal to her task. She had dung
her napkin over the wreck: she Was sslkine IN tie
meekest voice there anything Madam wished
Here's one" said Madam Prentice. III you waM
a wedding sift, you couldn't d beeses."
"Pssdou. madam" Dosothys s1vesy. hunsIe tones
again slid into the pause. "Pasdou but IL these mose
beautiful glasses are for SELL know lady will bay.
pay what you 2e-unIess Of course. monsieur. he vish
-s
She looked quite calmly fun into Wentwostks 20.
turbed face; be gssped:
why yes yes. unless the lady-was Il City dollassY
Fifty dollars: and prefer 10 sen to yoa sesossed
MADAM Prsnt'ce Jouve got the 'e'ueosF md yos can
Il do diem up and give to the gensem.n1" softly.
YES" said Madam Prentice.
color ebbed back into her face Bot not until Madam
Prentees magnicent baek had esealed ana shimmered
door: n aas i mast "as Sc. , yos; %Ssa ~
they Co. Thank you"
mon breath to voice intoaersbje relief -On. yoa
god god cd tr. r.. =. smart yosns si' Oh win be II
Dear no. laughed Doroshy. 80 handsome that I
tSo r. As,na .. bs: ,;;. :: de s.ss the .o:
eons TO Ss e .re &c. =
you present Of them"
On amt she the esssss thing." sighed Mr.. Pres
According TO- in<mori.l New Ensiand rural eussoa.
The 49, dinner ,. had be. y The e;. sfternoo. b. is
P;snf;ee sood.aisia and went sp-s.a;rs She paused
She had opened il unseen b. he youth and n.;se:
journey into her own hearts which they were sa;ee;
posos, 's spoke: her s 90 f ses s'.n .<v .~..e
,s; ush a hacey hseey Ih.n.ssynsr she said Il dst
make II % of and make the poor things hapcyf
wn1 better Wv to return fbanAs-4o make peoeoe