The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-12-27
THE SUTTONS' HOUSE
BY 1. M'oosALD.

fatally ruined ny reputation for
good breeding. ! secretly think that be
believes me now beyond the pale He
is Still al the point where he sputters
whenever I allude to the subject
"of course. would not go around
looking into peoples wtaae-s =
town. When & person builds q house
in town you know It's his castle and
you haven't any right on the premises
without an invitation. but when he
builds one in The country It Is q post
tive bid for inspection!
Why, a new red barn is q subject
for dinner table conversation for miles
around in the country and 3 house is
a positive godsend, because every
body can explain at length why he
doesn't like It.
The Suttons began building their
house out near the golf links early In
the spring and as It was merely across
the road from the eighth hole It was
quite the thing from the start 10 take
recess at that point and cut across
the road and survey the hole in the
ground that was going to be the Sut.
tons cellar eventually. All Of US de-
clsred every time we looked at It that
the hole was either too big, too small,
TOO shallow or too deep and nothing
could induce uE to have q cellar Ike
It. When the vorkmen began putting
IN the foundations II was even more
exciting, because there are so many
kinds Of foundations. Nobody who
looked at the Suttons foundations
approved OF them.
We all gurgled with JOY when the
uprights marking of the partitions
we're up and we could see where the
rooms were to be- According to va
rious golf players who dropped over
there in one morning the living room
was a farce. the dining room crime,
the hall joke and the bedrooms a
fright. Most people said the house
should have faced east instead of
west, though there we're a few in ia.
yor OF q southern view and some
voted for the north, which gave one
q view OF the railway line and let
one keep track Of the trains that went
past
The walls started in cobbleatones
and that revived tagging interest. II
some one wasn't telling about a cab
blestone house he knew OF that fell
down at the first pun Of wind some
one else was explaining how banal
and inartistic cobblestones were now
that they had grown SO common. That
the second story was half timbered
only famed the fame. Everybody
who sat around on the terrace to cool
of after a game got all heated up
again expostulating against the half
timbered style
The Suttons' house, In short. was
not building; it was an institution
without which the golf club would
have fallen fiat 1t made it all the
more comfortable that the Suttons
were in Europe and the house was
helpless.
When the Fielding girls came out
to spend the day at the club with me
what was more natural than that
should take them over to see the Sut.
toms house? l thought they would
enjoy gloating over its deficiencies,
We tried the front door, but it was
fastened and so was that at the
back. Evidently the carpenters had
finished their work and left
Anyhow l told the Fielding girls,
! want you TO get a glimpse Of the
inside. You never saw the like!'
so we strolled around to the side
and l got box and stood on tiptoe
and fiattened my face against the llv
ing room window.
u found myself looking straight
into the interested eyes Of perfectly
strange man who seemed very much
at home in a wicker chair beside
big table heaped with magazines and
books and flowers and surrounded by
furniture, II you have never peeked
into room in a house that did not
belong 10 you and found the owner
regarding you meditatiyely you cannot
understand my sensations.
Ny face remained glued to the
pane, because ] was too limp to take
It away The strange man arose and
came out at the front door and around
TO where we trembled and shrank
and regarded US politely In a voice
strangely not my own stammered
foollshly that l was showing my
friends the Sutton house. The strange
man then announced that he was Mrs.
Sutton's brother and living there till |
the arrival OF the family and he would |
be charmed
Were you ever hypnotized? Did |
you ever dream Of doing things that !
curdled your soul with shame? Well |
| curdled as we trailed after that re.
lentless man, who took us from attic
to cellar and had the cruelty to serve
tea into the bargain and act as though |
we had called politely instead OF peek.
ing In at windows!
He hadn't any right to revenge
himself so! The inside Of the housel