The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-30
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BROWN DERBY
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WELLS HASTINGS
.1o Author Of Geo
The Professors Mystery
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CHAPTER x.


Bless your neart, why should
you? II can't tell bit of gossip
IN my kitchen. certainly couldn''
tell II anywhere. Breaking eggs and
the news sort Of so together. II
takes a strohger-minded woman than
am 10 make any kind OF answers
with her hands folded in her lap.
There's nothing clears the mind up
as good as a saucepan She pushed
open the kitchen door as she spoke
and we stepped from the dim hal
Into It's flooding sunlight, You SIT
right down at the table there and
fire away: but, i'm the first place. how
would YOU rather have your eggsY
cit doesn't matter" answered;
ANY way that Is most convenient.
was told, Mrs lathrop. 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. | certainly should not have
taken them If | had known about
them at the go off Land knows,
need boarders bad enough, but likS
them TO be good plain every day
boarders, and not untortunates and
their nurses. | know I'll dream
a bout that poor lovely little thing all
nv days DO you suppose they re
Kind TO people like that
People like what" faltered.
Mrs. T.athrop banged down the
stove-lid and turned squarcly on me.
Suppose YOU tell me about them
first >. she said, and what you want
TO know about them. | don't mind
saving right here that ! like your
looks. and that / 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 perhaps, make more
trouble for that poor unfortunate
chilli"
Il am afraid | can only describe
one of them plainly 20 you. said |,
and can give YOU but a detail! or SO
about the others. What they look
ed like is one of the things that
wanted TO find out from you
am looking for man and two
women all | know about one of the
women is that she is probably stout
and middle-aged. and all | know
about the man is that he is nearly as
tall as |. has long nose. and wore
either a checked cloth cap or a brown
derby" Mrs. Lathrop nodded
And about the young LADY," she
asked.
About the young lady can tel
you a great deal. She is Lot tall
suppose you would say tina: she il
barely OF medium height. Her eye:
are gray or blue or violet. you car
never be certain which; and her hair
Is golden. not yellow golden. but the
color of actual gold Itself. She
| hud IL is not so easy 10 describe hel
after all But she looks as il sh,
had never grown To what she Is. but
as IL God had made her so all a.
| once. and loved what lie made"
| stopped. stammering.
THAT will do. said Mrs. Lathrop
now will you tell me. please, wha'
il is you want with them?"
| Il want to find them" | said: 80
am not quite sure what | shall dC
with the man or woman. Tn,
young lady is my wife"
| Mrs. Lathrop stared at me il
| round-eyed wonder. as If for mo
ment speech had been taken from
her: and across the kitchen table she
faced me squarely. is that true?'
she asked.
| Yes" | said.
For another moment she looked ms
in the eyes. then turned TO her cook
ling with clatter and fury unbe
| lievable in such a little, bird-lik,
| person. Pots slid Gathering to tn,
| back of the stove, which Missed anC
steamed with flying hot water, disl
| fell from her hands and she stamped
upon it recklessly and OF sudden
speech came TO her in perfect tor
rent
| Il might have known they lied,
she said; LIED and tr:ple-lied thatt
! the word. Doctor! lie couldn'
have doctored a horse; and she's
nurse thought when she first cam,
in here, she looked as If she pu
more peroxide on her hair than or
her patients. Nurse. Nurse! who
ever heard OF nurse with a face
like cast-iron lawn dog. and an ex
preston that tried TO look somewhere
between ST. Cecilia aud kitten
and only came ont looking as il il be
lCnged to the matron OF police sta
ton. Her a nurse. and left her al