Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-19

ana iufHtn Ou tue hEAtSs t-afC AN doubt 1 looked very strange. kneeling there on the bare floor. with row Of pans mounted on bricks behind me, and the furniture all piled on itself in a back corner.
 "Ksti What in the world" Jim be gan. and stopped He stared from me to the pans, to the windows, to the bric-a.b brae on the mantel, and back to me.
 sat stouily silent Why should ! explain? Whenever I got into a fool ish position. and tried to explain, and tell how it happened. and who was really to blame. they always brought 1t back to me somehow. So 1 sat there on the floor and let them stare. And finally Loliie Mercer got her breath and said. "Ilow perfectly lovely; it's a eharadei"
 And Anne guessed kitchen" at once. "Kit, you know, and the pans and-all that" she said, vaguely. At that they all took to guessingl And ] sat still. until Mr. Harbison saw the storm in my eyes and came over to me
 Have you hurt your ank,e?~ he said in aL undertOne. Let me help you up"
 T am not hurt" said. eoldly. "and even If I were. 1t would be un- necessary 10 trouble you"
 "I canrot help being troubled" he returned, just as evenly. You see. it makes ne ili for days fl my ear runs over a dog"
 Luckily. at that moment Dal came in. He pushed his way through the crowd without a word shut oI the lights, crashed through the pans and slammed the shutters close. Then he turned and addressed the rest
 "Of all the lunatics-i" he began, only there vas more to 1t than that "A fellow goes to all kinds of trouble 10 put en end to this miserable situa- tion. and the entire household turns out and sets to work to frustrate the whoe scheme. You Ike to stay here. don't you, like chickens h a coop? Where's Flanni gau7'
 Nobody unders.o1a Dars wrath then. but it seems he meant to arrange the plot himself, and when it was ripe, and the hour nearly come he intend ed to wager that he could break the quarantine. and 10 take any odds he could get that he would free the en- tire party in half ah hour. As for the plan itself. t was idiotically simple; we were perfectly delighted when we heard it. II was so simple and yet SO | compreh heusive. We didn't see how it could faiI. Both the Mercer girls kissed Dal on the strength of 1t, and | Anne was furious. Jim was so much ] pleased. for some reason or other. and , BIr. Harbison looked thoughtful re ther ! than merry. Aunt Se-ina had gone to | bed.
 ! The idea, Of course. was to start an i embryo fire just inside the windows. i in the pans. to feed 1t with inc orange l fire powder that is used on the Fourth { Of Juy. and when we had thrown ! opcn the windows and yelled fire" l and all the guards and reporters had rushed to the front of the house, to ! escare quietly by a rear door from | the basement kitchen. get into ma 1 chimes Dal had in waiting. and lose | As You can see how simple it was. I EyegyOne rushed madly for motor coats and veils. and Dal shufaed the [ numbers so the people going the 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 to 2 -n.- 1a,~s1 nr-aas everybody else, and his friends. The i Mercer girls were going to cruise un- ! til the trouble blew over. the Browns were goirg to Pinehurst, and Jim was going 10 Africa to hunt, if he could get out of the barbor.
 Only the HarDi8on man seemed to have TO plans: quite suddenly with the ] world so near again, the world of eoun- try houses and steam yachts and all the rest of 1t, he ceased 10 be one of
 us. l. was not his world at all. He stood back and watched the kaleido- scope of our coats and veils. half-quiz- | zicaIly. but with something in his
 face that l had not seen there before.
 If he bad not been so self-reliant and
 big. I would have said he was lonely
 Not that he was pathetic in any sense
 of the word. Of course, he avoided
 me. which was natural and exactly
 what l wished. Belle never was far
 from him, and at the last she loaded
 him with her jewel case and muff
 and trave'ing bag and asked him to
 her cousins on Long Island. I felt
 sure he was going to decline. when he | glanced across at me. | fronrinna7 roTnOrrOvg
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