The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-29

Hc, was still holding the watch in his hand 1t was
well, at least" she cried, that gives us some time
to plan"
PLAN All do IS to put for it"
But she'd know from the concierge that you got her
card And-and supposine VIC met her at the corner
She TO the front window =" knew it knew it
knew it She's just paying the cabman nowl
"Wc could both be laid out sick" And for his part
he could have given the perfect imitation of an
exceedingly weil-bred young man having fit
" If we both were, she'd insist coming in But I'm
going to be III have to be- couldn't be around after
my taking the things out" She fed into the bedroom.
You tell her I've had a headache and asleep"
We'll my heavens, like that By James, dol
And how am I to square it with her."
Why you're all the time making things up, It's
say that when offer you suggestions in your plots |
only get you mixed!-l guess Id help you If l could
But lit needn't be trouble at ALL You can do it
just as II, II were part of a story
Miss Pastonbury was a mddle-aged, educated English
spnscr of inexblc principles and unconhdng tcmpera
who had long gained fair livelihood by teaching
her language to the patrcian youth of Paris She had
let her apartment during the period of her visit home
and She had let it TO Amcricans-ior whom, as sister
race, she had very half-Sscry affection But she had
put that apartment under the eg both of the concierge
and the house agent And although she had not men
toned il to the Cartcrs-she had from the beginning
counted upon the present continental tour to give her
the opportunity of returning at the end OF the second
month for visit of inspection herself t,.
Nor did Mr.. Morton Carter need any psychic ntui-
ton to tell HIM that 1t visit of inspection And
while, outwardy, he making apology for Mrs.
Carter and leading his guest to the scat in front of the
fireplace. nwardy-with tightening of every sncw of
dctcncc-hs mind was speeding back to first and basic
principles He had once youngste against parental
warnings, applied the tip OF his tongue TO iron pump
handle in weather. Immediately in ingenious
attempt to lick it off, he had followed it with the rest
of his tongue, and his lips as well And moment later
he russing his slobbcred fingers beside his
the agonizing chancey The experience had stayed
with him aftcrward a great moral and literary
lesson In all fiction whether written spoken you put
the end of your tongue the pump handle perforce but
to attempt 10 IT by tongpc-that way mad
ness lies Safety and strength in specious
E,1aIf fot tto
simplicity
And already Miss Pastonbury's gaze had come to rest
upon the shelf above the mantel Oh you've
been shifting things about a bit, Mr.. Carter.
Why-why yes, Just little What was it you
used to be thcrc'"
"My little shepherd-the Dresden, you know was
afraid for moment there had been accident
"Oh-Oh yes" He drew in his breath for it. "To
tell the truth, Miss Pastonbury we-wcve been send
ing of your china ont to be looked at by the
mcnder. Not that anything broken-but they'd been
little Knocked about and"
oh Mr.. Carcrl" There was bitter agony i'll her
Reay-really! You can take my word for it We
sent them out Just to be dead sure-enrey certain you
be able to for yoursclf!"
But I'm sure Christine--in my service she used al
ways to be the very carefullcs maid !"
Oh 1t wasn't Christine She's all right. She's the
pure Mccoy, and it awfuy good OF you to recon-
mend her to usl 1t was dog-Monsieur Lajcunesse's
-Poigneam you know; He was in one day, and got to
Why, l thought Monsieur Lajeuncssc had gone to
Vile dAyray, and taken the great stupid brute along
with him."
Eyes, but he came back again morning You
see, he'd forgotten some stuff" Having said So he
realized that when Miss Pastonbury went downstairs
she would ask the concierge about it, and learn that
Monsieur Lacuncssc had never been back at all 1t
was the pump handle.
But, this first occasion it did not seem to have
taken hold of him Miss Pastonburys eyes had dropped
to the mantel =" Mr.. Carter, II don't my bowl!
1t wasn't broken?"
"Yes but they weren't broken. II don't believe
they were even cracked 1t was Just 'tat we thought
it safest to send them out There, was that pair of
Gouda vases on your desk too" (she was at that
mcnt looking for thcm) They weren't damaged at all,
though-not in the slightest
She sat back and fairly shrillcd at him 'But-Mr.
Carter-thc bowl stood directly the hearthstonc l
cant see how IT escaped beng absolutely shatcredl"
Heb 1Wcll-wcll, to tell the truth it did have the
closest kind Of squeak! If it hadn't been that of
the cushions happened to be lying right beneath it at the
time" He reset his smile :" 1t funny, wasn't it,"
Ohl-oh, yes, indeed" They were cushions which
Miss PaStonbury had embroidered herself
" And l must tell you about the other things-thc
shepherd and the Gouda vases" drop suddenly
down in front Of his left car. Monsieur Lajcuncssc
managed TO catch them halfway. We them just as
they were gong. 1t was mighty quick work, though
",Oh! oh, yes it must have been"
Until now Miss Pastonbury had been sitting with her
back to the serving table and the china cupboard But
during the last few moments-and she had her excuse
in the lcvcled glare of the setting sun-she had been
gradually shifting her position Cupboard and table
came within her field of vision at last And as she had
only strongly suspected there to be neither
Queen Anne tray threcplccc service ancestral
tankard
Mr. Carter had marked the direction in which her
eyes had travelled And now-with what might very
we'll have been mistaken for eagerness-he began at
TO speak about that silver In fact, he had been
just about bring up To tell the truth they didn't
have had the right sort of polish for it 1t had
kept getting dulcr and more tarnshed in spite of all
they could do And i'll the end they had made up their
minds to have it cleaned up dccenty. When she
turned she could count finding the things prac-
tically the condition when she had left them.
They had felt only right that they were kept
} i'll proper shapcl He smiled upon her more rcassur-
ingy than nephew trying to borrow money,
why, that was very good of you, Mr.. Carter, very
good I'm sure!
Oh not at all And it really Mrs Carter's sug-
gcstion"
where they do rc-polIshng, weren't you? I've heard
there's such shop just down the Rue Monge Per-
haps that where you left it n?"
No. No, little afraid to trust it there
We took it across 10 the Right Bank We found big
place over there where they do all sorts of mendng and
fine metal polishing