The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-04-09

IT'S all rignt, James. just one on
Mr.. Van Brunt's jokes. You See"
But I saw i'm, sir. Il was there.
and there was wreaths and collins
Jung about, and
ITS all right" says I. Here! come
along and I'll show you"
But not one step would he stir. A
derrick wouldn't have lifted him up
them stairs. SO I quit trying and went
aloft and fetched down ths crayon
enlargement and the wreath. Then I
set out to explain.
why, you imbecile!" says Van.
Where's your taste for art? We
were identifying FOUR room. Taking
off the bare look, as per Scudder."
James color begun to come back.
And when 1t come 1t come thick. He
redeemed up so you could see II even
through the sun-buru.
"Mr. Van Brunt," he says, getting
madden every minute, Il give you no
tice. / leave tomorrow morning"
Don't be an idiot" begins Van.
but his lordship cut him short.
Il leave tomorrow morning" he
shouts. "Ain't 1t enough to bring M
to this Gawd-forsaken ole and work
me 'alf to death and blister me from
cad to foot, without this? l give you
warning now. I'm going 'ome. And
you be glad | amt 'aving the law on
you for this outrage. Us poor servants
as rights, and"
There was more, plenty more. We
couldn't shut him up. And the Heav-
enlies' explanations didn't count either.
He was dead set on leaving in the
morning.
Finally, we give 1t up and went
back to bed. Lord James said he was
going to stay in the kitchen all night.
Nothing would hire him to sleep In
Marcellus' receiving tomb again.
"Humph!" says Hartley, as the
Twins went upstairs, at looks to me
as If your joke had lost us the best
valet you ever had, VAN"
Van cussed under his breath. He
shan't leave" he said. Il must keep
him somehow. He's invaluable in the
city, and we may go back there some
time. Not for months, though, of
course" he adds.
But in the morning James was
worse set than ever. He wouldn't help
with breakfast nor nothing; went aloft
at daylight and begun to pack his
trunk. He was going to leave, that's
all there was about it.
The Twins was pretty blue during
breakfast. Van about losing his lord
ship and Hartley on account OF sun
burn, l cal'late. Twas another ele-
giant day and there was wind enough
| to keep the flies and mosquitoes away
from the house. If you got in the lee
an%ywheres, though, they was laying for
| you in droves. They didn't bother me
much, count of my hide being tough
and leathery and my favor too salt
maybe; but they was f~attening up fast
on the Heavenlies and James.
About ten o'clock Scudder shows up
with the first dory load of Fresh Air
ers from the Eastwich place. Miss
Agnes come along with EN-. Then the
second load come, cap'ned by the Tai.
| lulu Bill. kllu tlCh thSiS was oOAhSo
Them Fresh Air young ones want
all Of a piece with Redny, which was a
mercy. He was a handful in himself,
that little %sorrel-top was--but there
was enough like him to keep things
stirred up. Marcellus' old shingled
prison had to take it that day. There
must have been some stewing in Heav-
en- if old Lady Berry could look down
and see them youngsters %whooping
and carrying-on in the front parlor. In
Mrs. BIS day that parlor vas a kind
of saints rest, as you might say, and
the only time anybody opened its door
was when she sailed in with the broom
and feather duster. And then she
must have had to navigate by com.
pass, because the blinds was always
shut tight and the curtains drawn and
twas too dark to see anything.
Hartley looked out for the children
and Van Brunt piloted the two girls
over the place, pointing out where the
garden was going to be some day, and
where the hens was likely to roost and
the pig to board. They seemed to be
as pleased and tickled as he was, and
thought everything was lovely" and
Just too quaint and dear" I was
busy cooking and Lord James sulked
out in the barn, He couldn't get away
until late afternoon on account Of the
train.
Redny stuck to Hartley like a mud
turtle to a big toe. He was right al
his heels all the time. By and by the
pair of EN- come out in the kitchen tc
see me.
Hello, Andrew Jackson" says l to
the boy. How do you like this part Of
the country"
Great" says he, his eyes swapping
Gee, amt we having the peach of
time!"
Must feed you well there"
says. Seems to me you're getting fat
already. Boards up to the mark Of