The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-05
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BYflAFU ROBERTS RINEflART
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Copyright. 1893. Tas BsShs- HeErtil Company

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Holy CATS Max stopped in the
act OF hanging up his overcoat. DO,
you mean--why. can't shave myself!
III cut my head on.
''You'u do more than that" I re-
torted grimly. You viii carry coal
and Tend fires and empty ash pans,
and when you are not doing ans OF
those things there VIII be pots and
pans to wash and beds to make
Then there was a row. We had
worked back to the den now. and |
stood in 'front.' Of Ahe fireplace and let
the storm beat around me, and tried
to look perfectly cold and Indifferent
and not to see Mr.. Harbison's shock
ed face No wander he thought them
lot of savages, brow beating their
hostess the way they did
ITS fool anyhow" Max Reed
wound up, TO celebrate the anntver-
sary of a divorce-espeCia Here
he caught Jims eye and stopped. But
| had suddenly remembered. Bella
down in the basement!
Could anything nave been worse
And, of course, she would have hys-
terra and then turn on me and blame
me for IT all. 1t all came over me
at once and overwhelmed me. while
Anne was crying and saying she
wouldn't cook If she starved for 1t.
and Aunt Selma was taking off her
wraps. ] felt queer all over. and
"A
I looking at me. and he brought me a
glass OF wine.
/ 1t won't be SO bad as you fear"
! he said comfortingiy. There Will
/ be no danger once we are vacct-
mated, and many hands make light
work. They are pretty raw now, be-
cause the thing is new to them. but
by morning they will be reconciled. J"
1T isn't the work: it is something
/ entirely different" l said. And it
was. Bella and work could hardly
be spoken in the same breath.
IL / had only turned her out as
she deserved to be. when she first
came, instead of allowing her 10 car
ry through the wretched farce about
seeing TAwahiro! Or II l had only
I run TO the basement the moment
the house was quarantined. and got
her out the areaway or the coal hole .
And now time was fying. and Aunt
Selma had me by the arm. and any
moment | expected Bella to pounCe
on us through the doorway ana the
whole situation to explode with q
bang.
1t was after IL before they were
rational enough to discuss WAYS and
means, and, OF course, the first thing
suggested was that we all adjourn
below stairs and clean up after din
ner. l could have slain Max Reed
4 for the notion. and the Mercer girls
for taking him up.
"Of course we will" they said in
a duet. What lark" And they
actually began to pin up their dinner
gowns. 1t was Jim who stopped that
"Oh, look here, you people," he OBJ
teoted, I'm not going to let you do
that Wen get some servants in to-
morrow I'll go down and put out
the lights. There will be enough
clean dishes for breakfast"
1t was lucky for me that they start
ed a new discussion then and there
about who would get the breakfast
In the midst OF the excitement / slip
ped away to carry the news to Bella
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