Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1909-06-01
BIZ, Arthur E. McFar1ane

He was still holding the watch in his hand II was
Well, at least" she cried, that gives us some time
to plan"
Plan All we can do is to put for it,"
But she Know from the concierge that you got her
card And-and surprising we met net her at the coTner!
knew it, She's just paying the cabman now!"
We could both be laid out sick" And for his part
he could have given the most perfect imitation of an
exceedingly webred young man having fit
II we both were, she'd insist coming in But I'm
going to be- III have to bel couldn't be around after
my taking the things Quit" She fed into the bedroom
You can tell her I've had headache and am asleep"
Well my heavens, / like that! By James, do!
And how am | to square it with herr"
Why, you're all the time making things up. It's
your profession And you know, Morton you always
say that when offer you suggestions in your plots
only get you mixed Il guess I'd help you if could
Bat tit needn't be any trouble ali! You can do
Just as if it were a part of story"
Miss Pastonbury middle-aged, educated English
spnster of inlexbe principles and uncondng tempera
nent who had long gained fair livelihood by teaching
her language to the patrcan youth OF Paris She had
let her apartment during the period of her visit home,
and she had let 1t to An1ericans-for whom sister
race she had very hslfsiserly affection But she had
put that apartment under the egis both of the concierge
and the house agent And, although she had not men
toned IT to the Cartersshe had from the beginning
counted upon the present continental to give her
the opportunity of returning a: the end of the second
month for visit of inspection herself
Nor did Mr.. Morton Carter need any psychic intu-
ton to tell him that it visit of inspection And
while. outwardly he was making apology for Mrs
-
fireplace iHwardly-wth Tightening of every sinew of
defence-his mind speeding back to first and basic
principles He had once as youngser, against parental
warnings, applied the tip of his tongue iron pump
handle in zero weather. Immediately in ingenious
attempt to lick it off he had followed it with the rest
of his tongue and his lips as we'll And moment later
he trusting his sobbered fingers beside his jaws
the agonzng chancery The experience had stayed
with him ever afterward great moral and literary
lesson In all fiction whether written spoken you put
the end of your tongue the pump handle perforce but
10 attempt by tongue-that way mad
ness lies. Safety and strength in specious
pansions but in narration confined TO the most Dorc
simplicity.
And already Miss Pastonburys gaze had come to rest
upon the shelf above the mantel oh, l. see you've
been shifting things about hit, Mr.. Carter"
"Why-why, yes, just little. What was it YOU
used to be there?"
my little shepherd-tle Dresden you know 1 was
afraid for moment there had been accident
"Oh-Oh, yes" He drew in his breath for it. TO
tell the truth, Miss Pastonburv. we-weve been send
ing some of your china be looked at by the
member Not that anything broken-but they'd been
little knocked about and"
ooh, Mr. Carteri" There bitter agony in her
voice
"Really-really! You can take my word for it We
sent them just be dead sure-enrely certain you
know And they'll be home again tomorrow. You'll
be able to see Tor yoursefi
But I'm Christne-in my service she used al
ways to be the very carefillest maidl !"
~ Oh, it wasn't Christine She's all right She's the
mend her to u.s. 1t dcg-Monsieur Lajeunesse's
-Poigneau, you knew. He was in day, and got to
Why. thought Monsieur Lajernesse had gone to
Vile dAyray and taken the great stupid brute along
with him?
Yes but he came. back again morning. You
see he'd forgotten some stuff" Having said so, he
realized that when Miss glastonbury went downstairs
she would ask the eonrsrge about it, and learn that
Monsieur. Laeunesse had never been back at all it
the pump handle.
But, this FIRST occasion If did not to have
taken hold OF him Miss Pastonburys eyes had dropped
to the 1nantel " Mr.. Carter, II don't my BOWL
1t wasn't broken?
they even cracked. II was just that thought
it safest to send them out There that pair of
Gouda vases on your desk too (She was at that mo-
nent looking for them They weren't damaged at all,
She sat back and fairly shriled at him. "But-Mr. >
Carter-the bowl stood directly the hezrthstone
Heb Well-weiI, 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,
Oht-of, yes, indeed" They were cushions which
Miss glastonbury had embroidered herself
And l must tell you about the other thingsIthe
down in front of his left ear Monsieur Laeunesse
managed to catch them halfway. We them Just
they were going 1t mighty quick work, thought 4
OH oh, yes, it must have been
Until now Miss glastonbury had been sitting with her
back to the serving table and the china cupboard But
during the last few motnentsand she had her excuse
in the leveed glare of the setting sun-she had been
shifting her position Cupboard and table
withinher field of vision at last And as she had
Queen Anne tray threepiece service nor ancestral
tankardi ts
Mr. Carter had marked tke direction in which her
eyes had travelled And now-with what might very
well have been mistaken for eagerness-te began at
oce to speak about that silver In fact he had been
Just about bring up To tell the truth they didn't
seem to have had the right sort OF polish for it had
kept on getting duller and furnished in spite Of all I
they could do And in the end they had made up their
minds to have it cleaned up decenty. When she re-
turned she could count finding the things in prac
ticaly the same condition when she had left them
They had felt it only right 70 see that they were kept
in proper shape He smiled upon her more reassur-
ingiy than nephew trying to borrow money,
Why that was very good of you, Mr.. Carter very
good I'm sGrel
. On. not al all And it really Mrs. Carters sug
gestion'
Yes? And you were SO fortunate in finding place
where they do rc-poisrihg, weren't you? Fve heard
there's such shop just down the Rue Monge. Per-
haps that where YOU left It in?
No. No, we were a little afraid to trust it there
We took il across to the Right Bank. We found big
place there where they do all sorts of mendng and
fine metal polishing"