Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-09-06

If he did have anything. since they
were SO touchy he hoped they would
all get it. If they locked him in he
would kick the door down.
When the Doctor came he said It
was too early to tell positively, and
Ire ordered him liquidt diet and said
he would be back that evening.
Which-the diet-taSes me back to
the famine. After they had moved
jim. Mr.. HARRISON went. back to the
telephone, and found everything as
it should be. So he followed the tele-
phone wire, and the Erest followed
him. / did not: He hap systematical-
.ly ignored me ali. morning, after hav-
ing dared to kiss me the night before.
And any other man knew, after look
ing at me the way he had looked a
dozen times, would have been at least
reasonably glad to iind me free and
unmarried. But 1t was clear that he
was not: / wonderedsif he was the
kind of man who always makes love
to the other mans wifa and runs like
mad when sho Is left a widow, or gets
divorce.
And Just when had decided that I
hated him, and that there was one
man / knew who wouid never make
love to q woman whom he thought
married and then be very dignifled
and aloof when he found she wasn't, /
heard what was wrong with the teie.
phone wire.
I. had been cut! Cut through with
a pair of silver mahicere scissors
from the dressing table In Bellas
room, where Aunt Selma slept! The
wire had been clipped whare 1t came
dnto the house, 5ust under a window.
and the scissors s. lay on the sill.
1t was mysp s enough but nc
one was int, d In the mystery
just then. v anted food, and want
ed it at op Mr.. HARRISON fixed the
wire, ane lie first thing we did. OF
! course, Vas To order something to eat
Aunt Selina went to bed just after
luncheon with Indigestion, to the re
lief of every one in the house. She
had been most unpleasant all morn
! ing
When She found herself Ill. how
/ ever, she insisted on having Bella
and that made trouble at once. We
found Bella with her cheek against
the door into Jim's room, looking
! maudlin while he shouted love mes
sages to her from the other side. Al
first she refused to stir but after
Anne and Max had tried and failed
the rest of us went to her in body
and implored her. We said Aunt
Selma was in awful shape-which
she was, as to temper--and that size
had thrown a mustard plaster a'
Anne, which was true.
So Bella went, grgmbling. and Jim
was a maniac. We had not thought II
would be so bad for Bella, but Aunt
Selma fell asleep soon after she took
charge, holding Bella's hand, ,and
slept for three hours and neger BET
goi
About two that afternoon the sur
! came out, and the rest of US wertlup te
the roof.
stayed on the roof at q the 10Th
ers had gone, and fofp fas time
thought / was alone. After q while
1 got whiff of smoke, and then
saw Mr.. HARRISON Far over in the cor
ner, one foot on the paTapet, rnoodils
smoking a pipe He was gazing OCT
over the river, and paying mo atten
ton to me. This was natural, con
sidering that / had hardly spoken u
him all day.
l would not let him drive me away
SO 1 sat still, and 1t grew darker and
colder. He filled bls ptpe srow ant
then, but he never 1ouked IN my dt
rection. Finally, however asidt; grew
very dusk, he knocked the ashes out
and came toward mo.
\ 81 am going to make "a request, Miss
McNair," he said evnnk. Please keer
off the roof after sunset There
! are-reasons." l HAD risen and wa,
preparing to go ,downstafrs.
Unless ] know the reasons. re
fuse to do anything Of ahe kind" l re
torted. He bowed.
"Then the door viii Ibe Skept lock
| |sed," he rejoined, and opened Sit 70:
me. He did not follow me, but: :stoos
watching until I was down, and
heard him close the ruef door ifrmiJ
behind me.
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