Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-03
copyEisAtisas. by ths Habbs Merrill Co.
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DO you know" he said, looking Gown at me with his clear. discon- eerting gaze. do you know that have just grasped the situation7 There was such Q noise that did not hear your name. and am only real king now that you are my hostessi I Cont know why got the impression that this was a bachelor establish nent, but I did. Odd, wasn't it?'
 l rositively couldn't look away from him. My features seemed frozen, and my eyes were glued to his As for telling him the Tuth-weu my tongue refused to move. intended to tel him during dinner if l had an op- portunity: I honestly did. But the more l looked at him and saw how candid his eyes were. and how stern his mouth might be. the more ] shiv- cred at the plunge. And of course, as everybody knows now, I didn't tell hiTn at all. And every moment l eE- pected that awful old woman to ask ne what paid my cook. and when ! had changed the color of my hair Bella's being black.
 Dinner was a halfhour late when we finally went out, Jimmy leading oI with Aunt Selma. and I, as hostess. trailing behind the procession with hr Harbison- Dallas took in the two Mercer girls. for we aere enc man short, ard Max took Anne. Lcila Mer- cer was so excited that she wT1ggied, and as for me. the candles and the orchids-everythin - danced around in a circle. and I just seemed to catch the back of my chair as it flew past. Jim had ordered away the wines ana brought out some weak and cheap Chianti Dallas looked gloomy at the change, but Jim explained in an un- dertone that Aunt Selina didn't ap- prove of expensive vintages. Natural ly, the meal was gum enough.
 Aunt Selma had had her dinner on the train, so she srent her time in asking me questions the length Of the table. and in getting acquainted with me. She had brought a bottle Of some sort of medicine downstairs with her, and she took a cleret glassful, whi,e she talked. The stuff was called Pc mona: Shall I ever forget 1t?
 It was Mr. Harbison who first no- ticed Takahiro. Jimmy's Jap had been the only thing in the menage that Bella declared she had hated to leave. But he was doing the strangest things: Ills little black eyes shifted neryously. and he looked queer.
 Whats wrong with him?" Mir. Harbison asked me finally. when he saw that noticed. "1s he ill?''
 Then Aunt Selina's voice from the other end of the table:
 Bella" she called, in a high shrill tone. do you let James eat cucum- bers?"
 "I think he must be- said hurried iy aside to Mir. Harbison. "See how his hands shake!" But Aunt Selma would not be ignored.
 "Cucumbers and strawberries" she repeated impressively. T was saying, Bella, that cucumbers have al=fasys given James the most fearful indiges- ton. And yeti see you serve them at your table. Do you remember what l wrote you to give him when he has his dreadful speIls?"
 l was quite speeches.; every one was locking. and no one could help. IL was clear Jim was racking his brain. and we sat staring desperately at each other across the candles. Everything I had ever known faded from me; eight pairs of eyes bored into me. Mir Harbison's politely amused
 -T don't remember" said at last Really. I don't believe" Aunt Sc lima smiled in a superior way.
 Now, don't you recall it?" she in sisted. T said: Baking soda in water taken internally for cucumbeTs! ba king soda in water externally, rubbed on. when he gets that dreadful, itch ing strawberry rash"
 I believe the dinner went on. Some body asked Aunt Selina how much overcharge she had paid in foreign hotels. and after that she was as harmless ss a dove.
 Then hallway through the dinner we heard a crash in Takahiro's pan fry and when he did not appear again, Jim got up and went out to ID vestigate. He was gone quite little while. and when he came back ns looked worried.
 ~sick," he replied to our inqairinl glances. "One of the maids will come tu They have sent for a doctor.
 Aunt Selma was for going out a once and fixing him up" as she PL st. but Dallas gently interfered.
 T wouldn't. Miss Caruthers,' h' sa,d. in the deferentiai manner h' xx .sortod toward her You don know what it may be. He's been look ing spotty all evening
 Tt might be scarlet fever Maj broke in eheerfully. T say. scaTie fever on a Mongolian-what colo wouId he be. Jimmy What do vel ,o-- --s --s --.~2 C--c-?"