The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-23

find, Flanagan was lifting rugs to
shake them on the roof-Bella's or
der.
Wash the table linen" ne was
Frumbnng I'm do what I can that's
necessary. Grub has to be cooked,
and dishes has to be washed--Ill ad-
nit that If you're particular make
up your bed every day; l don't object
But don't &c J me We have to use thir-
ty-three table napkins a day, What
did folks do before napkins was in
vented? Tell me that,"--triumphant-
~
What's the answer? 90 Mr., Harbi-
son inquired absently. evidently with
the screw-driver in his mouth.
Used their pocket handkerchief
And If the worst comes to the worst.
Mr. HARRISON. these folks here can
use their sleeves. for all care-not
that the women has any sleeves TO
speak OF. Wash clothes / will not"
Well ell don't weHfp-M Wilson
about it, the other voice said. Elan
sigan Strengthened himself with
grunt.
Mrs wilson" he said "A lot she
would worry. Shes been a disap-
rotntment 10 me. Mr.. HARRISON. me
thinking that now she'd come back
to him, after leaFin' him the day she
did, they'd be like two turtle-doves.
Lord! the cook next door"
But what the cook had told about
Bella and Jimmy was not diyulged.
for the HARRISON man caught him up
with a Jerk and sent Flanagan,
grumbling, with his rugs to the roof
1t did not seem possible to carry
on the deception much longer. but II
things were bad now. what would
they be when Aunt Selma learned she
had been lied to, made ridiculous
generally deceived? And how would
be able to live In the house with
her when she did know? Luckily
every one was so puzzled over the
mystery in the house that numbers
OF little things that would have been
absolutely damrftng were never no.
ticed at all, For instance. my ask
ing Jimmy at luncheon that day If he
took cream In his coffee And Max
coming to the rescue by dropping his
watch In his glass of water, and ere
atng a diversion and giving every
body an opportunity to laugh by say
Ing not to mind. ii had been In soak
before.
Just after luncheon Aunt Selma
brought me some undergarments Of
d an y ~ bt pdltElCbt one NApidblEI AT
length that he had always worn out
his undergarments. because he always
squirmed around so when he was sit
ting And she showed me how TO
lay one of the garments over "A pillow
to get the patch in properly,
1t was the most humiliating moA
ment OF my life, but there was no
escape took my sewing TO the roof
/ while She went away to ind something
else for me to do when that was fin
| ished, and ] sat with the thing on
my knee and stared at II. while re-
+ bellious tears rolled down my cheeks
I The patch was not the shape of the
hole at ALL and every time took a
stitch ! seWed ii fast to the pillow
I beneath. IL was terrible. Jim came
/ up after a while and sat down across
from me and watched, without saying
anything. | suppose what he felt
would not have been proper to say
to me. We had both reached the
point where adequate language failed
us. Finally he said;
Il wish ] were dead"
so do L." l retorted, jerking the
thread.
Where Is she now?"
Looking for more OF these" I in
dlcated the garment over the pillow,
and he wiggled. Please don't squlrm."
said colby. You will wear out
your-llngcrie. and I will have to
mend them
He sat very still for five minutes.
when / discovered that / had put the
patch In crosswise instead of length
wise and that II would not fit. AS |
jerked 1t out ne sneezed.
cor sneeze," | added venomously
"You Will tear your buttons off and
will have 10 sew them on"
- Jim rose wrathfuliy. Don't sit,
don't sneeze,'" he repeated. Don't
stand, ! suppose. for fear will wear
out my socks. Here, give me that. II
the fool thing has to be n,snded. IN
do It myself"
He went over TO a corner of the
parapet and turned his back to me.
He was very much offended. In about
a minute he came back, triumphant,
and held out the result of his labor.
I could only gasp. He had puckered
up the edges Of the hole like the neck
OF bag, and had tied the thread
around II. "You--you won't be able
to sit down." ventured.
Don't have any time to sit" he
retorted promptly. Anyhow. II will
give some. won't III 1t would If II
was tied with elastic instead OF thread.
Have you any elastic7"