Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1911-05-17

To the pans, TO the windows, 70 tn.
bric-a-brac on the mantel. and bach
to me
sat stouily silent Why should
explain? Whenever | got into "A fool.
ish position. and tried TO explain, and
tell how 1t happened, and who was
really to blame. they always brought
IL back to me somehow. So l sal
there on the floor and let them stare
And finally Lollie Mercer got he1
breath and said: How perfectly
lovely; It's charade,"
And Anne guessed Kitchen" al
once. Kit you know. and the pans
and-all that" she said. vaguely. At
that they all took to guessing. And
| sat still. until Mr.. HARRISON saw the
storm in my eyes and came over to
me.
Have you hurt your ankle?" ne
said in an undertone. Let me help
you up"
/ am not hurt said. coldly.
and even IL 1 were. Il would be IN
necessary to trouble you"
i cannot help being troubled" he
returned, Just as evenly. You see.
1T makes me i'll for days If my car
runs over a dog"
Luckily, at that moment Dial came
In. He pushed his way through the
crowd without word. shut or the
lights, crashed through the pans and
slammed the shutters close. Then he
turned and addressed the rest.
"Of all tho lInatica- bo r,o,,,
only there was more to It than that
"A fellow goes 10 all kinds of trouble
to put an end 20 this miserable s.tua
ton, and the entire household turns
out and sets TO work to Illustrate the
whole scheme. You like 20 stay here.
don't you, like chickens IN A coop!
Where's Flanagan"
Nobody understood Dars WRATH then,
but 1t seems he meant to arrange the
pot himself. and when r. was ripe
and the hour nearly come. he intend
ed to wager that he could break the
quarantine. and TO take any odds he
could get that he would free the en-.
tire party in half an hour. As FOR the
plan itself. It was idiotjcally simple
we were perfectly delighted when We
heard it. II was so simple and yet so
comprehensive. We didn't see how II
could fail. Both the Mercer girls
kissed Dial on the strength of 4, and
Anne was furious Jim was so much
pleased, for some reason or other. ard
Mr.. HARRISON looked thoughtful rather
than merry. Aunt Selma had gone c9
bed
The idea. Of course. was 10 starr an
fire Just Inside the windows
in the pans. to feed 1t with The orange
fire powder that is used on the Tourts
OF July. and when we had thrown |
open the windows and yelled fire" /
and all the guards and reporters had /
rushed to the front OF the house. To !
escape quietly by rear door from
the basement kitchen. get into mt /
chimes Dai had in waiting. and loss !
ourselves as quickly as we could
You can see how simple il was /
Everyone rushed madly for motor (
coats and wells. and Dial shuffed the |
numbers so the people going tho same !
direction would have the same ma
chine. We called to each other as we
dressed about Marmaroneck or Lake /
WOOD or wherever We happened tn /
nave relatives. Everybody knew
everybody else and his friends The
mercer girls were going to cruise un.
TIL the trouble blew over. the Browns
were going to Pinehurst. and Jim was
going TO Africa 10 hunt. 81 he could
get out OF the harbor.
Only the HARRISON man seemed 10 ,
nave no plans; quite suddenly with the /
world so near again. the world OF coun !
Try houses and steam yachts and oil |
the rest OF IL, he ceased to he one OF !
us. 1t was not his world at all EIe ,
stood back and watched the kaIeido Z
scope Of our coats and wells. haIs-0ui2-
zically. but with something i'm his
face that had not seen there before ,
II he had not been so selfreiiant and
big l would have said ne was lonely
Not that he was pathetic IN any sense /.
OF the word. OF course, he avoided
me, which was natural and exactly
what | wished Belle never was far
from him. and at the last she loaded
him with her jewel case and a mum
and travelling bag and asked him to
her cousins on Long Island. felt
sure he was going to decline. when he
glanced across az me-
do go" l said. very politely They
are charming people" And h9 accept
ed at once,
ITO BE Continued