The Detroit times., 1912-05-30
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BROWN DERBY
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Wells HASTINGS
e19 Author Of GEO
The Professors Mystery
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CHAPTER x.


Bless your neart. why should
you? IL cant tell bit OF gossip
IN my kitchen, | certainly couldn't
tell IL anywhere. Breaking eggs and
the news sort of go together. IL
takes a stronger-minded woman than
| am TO make any kind .of answers
with her hands folded in her lap.
There's nothing clears the mind APP
as good as saucepan" She pushed
open the kitchen door as she spoke
and we stepped from the dim hall
into its flooding sunlight. You SIT
right down at the table there and
fire away: but, In the first place, how
would you rather have your eggs?
at doesn't matter" ! answered.;
amy way that Is most convenient.
was told, Mrs. Iathrop, that you put
up a gentleman and two ladies here
last night"
No" she said over her shoulder.
"only two ladies. the doctor didn
stay, but he came back for them this
morning. l certainly should not have
taken them IL ! had known about
them at the go off. Land knows,
need boarders bad enough, but like
them to be good plain everyday
boarders, and not unfortunates and
their nurses. know I'll dream
about that poor lovely little thing all
my days. Do you suppose they're
kind to people like THAR
People like what?" faltered.
Mrs. Lathrop banged down the
stove-lid and turned squarely on me.
Suppose you tell Inc about them
first" she said. land what you want
TO know about them. | don't mind
saying right here that l. like your
looks, and that I didn't like his;
but he paid his bill fair and square
enough. and II seems only right you
should tell me what you want OF
them, before l, perhaps, make more
trouble for that poor unfortunate
| child"
Il am afraid / can only describe
one OF them plainly 70 you,' SAID l.,
| and can give you but a detail or so
about the others. What they look
ed like is one of the things that i
wanted TO find out from you.
am looking for a man and two
women; all know about one of the
women is that she is probably stout
Il
about the man Is that he Is nearly as
either a checked cloth cap or q brown
derby" Mrs Lathrop nodded
And about the young LADY," 3he
asked.
About the young lady can tell
you a great deal. She is Lot tall;
suppose you would say that she Is
barely OF medium height. Her eyes
are gray or blue or violet, you can
never be certain which; and her hair
Is golden, not yellow golden. but the
color OF actual gold itself. She
fihd IL is not so easy TO describe her
after all. But she looks as II she
had never grown TO what she Is. but
as IL God had made her so all al
once, and loved what He made" !
stopped. stammering.
THAT will do" said Mrs. Lathrop;
now will you tell me. please, what
Lit is you want with them?"
II want to find them" | said: 81
l am not quite sure what / shall dc
with the man or woman. The
young lady is my WIFE
Mrs. Lathrop stared at me in
round-eyed wonder, as IL for a mo
ment speech had been taken from
Iher; and across the kitchen table she
faced me squarely. lis that trueT
she asked.
Yes" said.
For another moment she looked me
n the eyes, then turned to her cook
ling with a clatter and fury unbe
lievable in such a little. bird-liks
person. Pots slid Gathering to tn,
back OF the stove, which Kissed ant
steamed with flying hot water, a dish
fell from her hands and she stamped
upon II recklessly; and of a sudden
speech came to her in a perfect tor
rent.
Il might have known they lied,
she said; lied and triple-lied. that'i
the word. Doctori He couldn'
have doctored a horse: and she's {
nurse! thought when she first cam,
in here, she looked as il she pu
more peroxide on her hair than OF
her patients. Nurse, Nurse! Who
ever heard of nurse with a face
like a cast-iron lawn dog, and an ex
preston that tried TO look somewhcr,
between st. Cecilia and kitten
and only came out looking as IL IL be
lcnged to the matron OF q police sta
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