Arizona republican., 1910-01-23

been dug I'D in the back yard yet stood on
 small pedestal on Mrs. Woodss drawing room
 anteoiece Susv had often wondered whysit had been singled out for this honor To-day having .eisure and opportunity she wondered more than ever.
 She had come to play house with Emmy Woods but had found her in the hands of the vsang seani- stress After an unpleasant three quartersod hour Mrs Woods had politely dismissed Susy telling her not to bang the door after her, and the visitor had departed with feeling of deep resentment.
 With dull Saturday afternoon stretching in gray ness before her Susy had crawled istessy down the stairs letting her slide along the smooth mahogany banister until she had paused just before the open drawing-room door It then, she stood peering into the shaded hushed place that the little green bottle had begun 70 interest her curiously.
 Why should i: be Up there enthroned pedestal? It seemed her rritatingly stuck up as II 1t eered down on the Dresden shepherd and his lass and on the stuffed canary under glass cover that kept looking up al ii most worshipful!y. if II wanted to chirp:
 Cast but ore glance on thne humble servant, O King"
 It was odd too that Mrs. Woods should put the bot 1le there for every one to look at and ho2e II cleqned Susy remembered that the first time she had seen i-oh very long time ago, maybe as long as SIX rnonths-t had been very dirty, and dirty 1t had re- mained The result of her reflections criticism of Mrs Woods as housekeeper, and decision to use her  looking bottle.
 To this end she cautiously rolled over to the mantel piece rep-covered armchair. Very guardedy, fixed nervous smile of anticipation her face, Susy took the bottle from high place and, lifting the point Of her apron, prepared to give 1t thorough brushing But her uneasy feet had pressed the armchair backward and she lost her balance She fell against the rnael piece and her clasp loosened on the bottle With a dainty, tinking crash it broke into spinters.
 of he hymn zed her nj inaction and for a moment she could only the Drisrnatc hued wreck With realization of her mis- chief the thought of the wrath in Mrs. Woods's cold eyes made her crnge. She pushed the chair back to its place. stole from the and the previous direc- ton to leave the house quietly was obeyed with fanatical exactness No crept out on mid night recorloitering expedition with slken stealth than did Susy Giivarry from the Woods home
 What was to be done? She must tell her mother, of course and her mother would go and tell Mrs Woods, making polite apologies for her child after the of the Big People; and Mrs. Woods. matter how furious she might be in5ids would also following the same law smile and say it did matter in the least and that Mrs GvaIry must not think of such triAe again.
 Susv was however trembling and very awed when she reached her own home but few doors away. Ellen admitted her, her expression suhy because her cheek swollen.
 "Oh it's you Miss Susy, is t?" she grumbled. You forgot to wipe your feet again. How often will Peter have to wash the steps I'd ike to know3"
 Susy did not seem to hear. With pfeoccnpied pression she began climbing energetcaly to her mothers room. It empty. Neither was Margaret. the nurse, in the sewing-room, stitching usual. There was no of her sister Genevieve whom sho had left in the back yard digging with her spade. The library was vacant, too The whole house Increasingly still
 sense of personal injury began to inAste Susy par ticularly when she realized that this being Saturday afternoon her father had left his office eary-in fact that the smell of his eruncheon cigar s,l in the library though he himself had vanished Where were they all? Why she left alone in the world, and at time when she badly needed around her. breast to shiver up against she confessed her faui
 She hurried to the kitchen but cook who gener- ally welcomed her with cooky, had other interests today her visiting her, and cook was talking to him in happy excited way with the big green but tery bow which she reserved for great occasions pas tered on her breast. Ellen cleaning silver in the laundry, her cheek wrapped in small shawl
 Where is eserybody. Elenin Susy asked in an .in- iured voice
 "out," said Ellen thi4lS9
 But wherean ss
 "Drivin'z
 Time needed for the Bitterness born of this reply to have its full effect
 Mama and papa took GenevieYe-and didn't take me-"
 Don't bother me Miss Susy" said Ellen. sMe face is ready walk of with the pain an me feet are in me knees"
 Driving?- Susy faltered. "But mama knew was at Emmy Woods's. Maybe they drove there after left she continued miserable yet hopeful speculation Perhaps they'll back for me. I'll put on my Roman sash to be ready"
 They won't, then!" said Ellen, impatience and sui fering making her brutally honest I'm thinkn your mama said you might go into Mrs. Woodss so they could take Miss Geneveve without you raisin your usual ructons"
 Susy stared at her The rising tears rereated before a cold. dead feeling that in some subtle way was an awakening to new. humiisting point of view
 Sure they'll take you-next ime." said Ellen care le';ly.