The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-09
Page of
Interest
WIEN AMANM MARIE
Thenoafomvhhh The play NVNDNSwas made
DYMARY ROBERTS RINEfART
Author Of nEOnQMS Staircase - TIE MANN LOvFRM
WRCAT 81 TIE NAN
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-Afifit. anu EAtt flaA bFtAA up IVA NAA
hour, looking in shoes and under tho
of rugs and around the bed
clothing for her jeweled collar. When
she saw me she began all I've again,
Il had it on when l went into my
room she declared, and / pat 1t
on the dressing table when l un-
dressed. / meant to put It under
my pillow. but / forgot. And l didn't
sleep well: | was awake half the
night. Wasn't 1t, Dal? Then. when
the clock downstairs in the hall was
Ginning Ave, something reused me,
and / sat UP In bed. 1t was still dark,
hut / plnched bal and SAID there was
somebody in the rOom You remem-
Der that, don't you DALI"
I thought you had nightmare he
said sheepishly.
Il lay still for ages, 1t seemed to
me, and then-the door into the hall
closed. / heard the catch click,
turned on the light over the bed then,
and the room was empty. / thought
cf my collar, and although 1t seemed
ridiculous, with the house sealed as
il ts, and all of US friends for years
well. | got up n looked. and II
was gone"
No one spoke for an instant, II
-~as collar
was gone. Anne's red eye showed
it was true. And there we stood
every one OF us a miserable picture
Of guilt, and tried TO look innocent
and debonair and unsuspicious. Fin.
ally Jim held up his hand and signl'
fed that he wanted to say something
ITS like this" he said: until this
thing Is cleared up, for heavens sake
tAs- f.. - - a-at I nNsnrXF fatlrp
thinks the other fellow did 1t. THU
house will be a nice little hell to live
in. And IL anybody"-hsre he glarec
around-"1f anybody has got funny
and Is hiding those jewels. l wan t.
say that he'd better speak up now
Later II wont be so easy for him
It's a mighty poor joke
But nobody spoke.
CHAPTER VII.
we Make An Omelct.
II Was Betty Mercer who said sht
was hungry. and got us switched from
the delicate subject of which was tbs
thief to the quite az pressing sub
iect Of which was to be cook. Aunt
Selma had slept quietly through the
whole thing-we learned afterward
that she customarily slept on her left
side, which was on her good ear, We
gathered in the Dallas Browns room,
and Jimmy proposed a plan.
We can have anything sent in that
we want" he suggested s~peciously
and II Dial doesn't make good with
the city fathers, you girls can get
some clothes anyhow. Then, we car
have dinner sen from one of tht
hotels
why not all the meals Max sug'
gested. Il hope you're not going &c
be small about things, Jimmy"
1T ought to be easy Jim persist
ed, ignoring the remark, for nine
reasonably intelligent people to bot
eggs and make coffee, which is all We
Nine Of u.s." Dallas said wickedly
looking at Tom Harrison, who was
out Of earshot. why nine Of u.s.
thought Kit here, otherwise known
as Bella, was going "a show off hel
housewifely SKILL
1t ended, however. with MIR. Har'
bison writing out a lot of slips. cook
scullery-maid. chamber-maid, parlor'
maid. f-urnace-man. and butler. ant
as thai left two people oVer-w'
didn't count Aunt Selina-he added
another f-urnace-man II a trained
nurse. Betty drew the train nurse
slip, and, OF course 81 > was delight
ed. It seems funny now to look bach
and think what a dreadful time she
really had, for Aunt Selma took th'
grippe, you know. that very day.
1t was fate that ! should go bach
to hat awful kitchen, for of course
my slip said cook" Mr.. Harrison
was butler. and Max and Dial got the
furnace. although neither of them hac
ever been nearer TO a bucket of Goa
than the coupons on mining stock
-HHup-YUt the bEdTooms. and beiis
was parlor-maid. 1t was Jimmy who
got the scullery work, but he wal
quite crushed by this time. and die
not protest at all.
ITO be C%ontinued.)