Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-02-01
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER T-James Wilson or Jimmy
as ne is called by his friends, Jimmy was
round and looked shorter than he really
was. His ambition in life was to be Ia
70 do SO, his art is considered a huge
Joke, except to himself, If he asked people
70 70, Dinner everyone expected fro PIC:
Jimmy marries Bella Knowles; they live
CoGeLher year and are divorced.
CHAPTER II.-Jimmy's friends arrange
20 celebrate the first anniversary OF his
divorce. Those who attend the party are
Miss Katherine McNair, who every one
the Misses Mercer, Maxwell Reed and a
Mr.: Thomas HARRISON, South American
civil engineer. The party Ia in full swing
when Jimmy receives a telegram from
his Aunt Selma, who will arrive in four
hours to visit him and his wife. Jimmy
gets his funds from Aunt Selma and after
he nnarries she doubles his allowance. He
neglects to tell her Of his divorce, as she
is opposed to it. Jimmy takes Kit into
mis- confidence, he tries to devise some
way, 80 that his aunt will not learn that
that Kit play the hostess for one night,
pc Mrs. Wilson pro tenn. Kit refuses,
but is finely prevailed upon to act the
part
CHAPTER III.-Aunt Selma arrives
and the deception works out as planned.
as she had never seen Jim's wife
CHAPTER IV.-Jims Jap servant is
Bella, Jimmy's divorced wife enters the
mouse and asks Kit who is being taken
away IN the ambulance, she insists it Is
jim. Kit tells her Jim is we'll and is in
the house. Bella tells Kit it wasn't him
she wanted to see, but Takahiro, the
Jap servant, as she wished to secure his
services HARRISON steps out on the porch
ana discovers a man lacking a card on
the door. He demands an explanation.
The man points to the card and he sees
the word smallpox printed on It.. The
man is an officer from the board Of health
and tells him the house is under quar-
antine and that the guests will have to
stay until the quarantine is lifted,
CHAPTER v.-The guests suddenly
realize their predicament, the women
Joke
CHAPTER vI.-Harbison pleads with
Kit to tell him the real situation OF
things. She finally tells him Of Bella's
incarceration in the basement.
CHAPTER VII.-The all important
question arises as to who is to prepare
the meals and perform the other house
hold duties. HARRISON finally solves the
the. various departments of the house.
each one is assigned to his or her du-
ties
CHAPTER vIII.-After the nfAm. ..
the quarantine several letters written by
the guests were found in the mail box I'M
delivered, one is addressed to Henry
Ilewellyn, Union Nitrate Company,
Iquique, Chile, which was written by
HARRISON. He describes infinitely of their
Incarceration, also Of his infatuation for
Mrs. Wilson.
CHAPTER IX.-Harbson attempts to
patch up one quarrel after another be-
tween Kit and Jimmy. Aunt Selma is
taken i'll with la grippe. Betty acts as
nurse.
CHAPTER X.-Harbison finds Kit suIk-
Ing on the roof. She tells him that Jim
has been treating her outrageously. Har-
bison fully believing that she is Mrs.
Wilson, tells her that she doesn't mean
the things she is saying about her hus-
band. Kit starts downstairs, when sud
denly she is grasped in the arms Of a
man who kisses her several times She
believes that HARRISON Is the one who
did it and is Inundated.