Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-01-11
CHAPTER VII.
We Make an OmeIet.


1t was Betty Mercer who said she
was hungry and got us switched from
the delicate subject of which was the
thief to the quite as pressing subjecV
of which was to be the cook. Aunt
Selma had slept quietly through the
whole thing-we learned afterward
that she customarily slept on her left
gathered in the GSaIIas Browns rOe1a.
and Jimmy proposed plan.
I'VE can have anything sent in that
we want" he suggested speciously,
land if Dial doesn't make good with
the city fathers, you girls can get
some clothes anyhow. Then, we can
have dinner sent from one of tho
hotels"
why not all the meals?" Max sug
gested. 81 hope you're not going to be
small about things, Jimmy"
'It ought to be easy Jim persisted.
ignoring the remark, ''for nine reason.
ably intelligent people to boil eggs
and make coffee, which is all we need
for breakfast, with some fruit"
mine of u.s." Dallas said wickedly,
cooking at Tom HARRISON, who was
out of earshot, why nine of us? I
thought Kit here, otherwise known as
Bella, was going to show off her
hOusewifely skill
It ended, however, with Mr.. Harhi-
son writing out lot of slips, cook.
scullery maid, chamber maid, parlOr
main, furnace man, and butler, and as
that left two people over-we didn't
count Aunt SeIina-he added another
furnace man and trained nurse. Bet
ty Mercer drew the trained nurse slip.
and, of course, she was delighted. 1t
seems funny now to look back nd
think what a dreadful time she really
had. for Aunt Selma took the grippe.
you know, that very day.
1t was fate that I should go back
to that awful kitchen, for of course
my slip said "cook" Mr. HARRISON
was butler, and Max and Dial got the
furnace, although neither of them had
ever been nearer to bucket of coal
than the coupons on mining stock
Anne got the bedrooms, and Leila was
parlor maid It was Jimmy who got
the scullery work, but he was quite
crushed by this time, and did not
protest at all
Max was in a very bad temper:
suppose he had not had enough sleep
no one had. But he came over while
the lottery was going on and stood
over me and demanded unpleasantlys
in a whisper, that I stop masquerading
as another mans wife and generally
making a fool of myself-which is the
way he put it. And 1 knew in my
heart that he was right, and l hated
him for it.
"Why don't you go and tell him
them?" I asked hastily. No one was
paying any attention to us. Tell
them that, to be obliging, | have near
" drowned In sea of lies; tell them
that I am not only not married, but
4hat never intend to marry; tell
them that we are lot of idiots with
nUUnIng DeUUer to do than to trif1e with
strangers within our gates, people
who build mean, people that are
worth two to our one! Run and tell
them"
He looked at me for a minute, then
he turned on his heel and left me. 1t
looked as though Max might be going
to be difficult
While l was improvising an apron
out OF towel, and Anne was pinning
a sheet into a kimOno, so she could
take of her dinner gown and still be
proper, Dallas harked back to the
robbery.
Anne put the collar on the table
there" he said There's no mistake
about that / watched her do it for