The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-12-18
THERESAS PLAN WON THE SUTTONS' HOUSE
BY 4 n'poNALo.

was doing the talking. that | wa
quite within my rights. My husband
however. is firm in the conviction tha
fatally ruined ny reputation 70
good breeding. I secretly think that b,
believes me now beyond the palei h,
is still at the point where he sputterr
whenever ! allude TO the subject!
"0f course. | would not 90 arount
looking into peoples windows II
town. When a person builds a hous,
in town you know It's his castle anC
YOU haven't any right on the premises
without an invitation. but when b,
builds one In the country It Is q posi-
tive bid for Inspection
Why. a new red barn is subjecI
for dinner table conversation for miles
around in the country and a house II
positive godsend. because every
body can explain at length why he
doesn't Ike II.
The Suttons began building their
house out near the golf links early in
the spring and as II was merely across
the road from the eighth hole II was
quite the thing from the start TO take
3 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-
elRred every time We looked at II that
the hole was either too big, too small,
too shallow or too deep and nothing
could induce US to have a cellar like
II. When the workmen began putting
in the foundations It 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
were 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 q crime.
the hall a joke and the bedrooms a
fright Most people said the house
should have faced east instead Of
west. though there were q few in "a.
vor OF q southern view and some
voted for the north, which gave one
8 view OF the railway line and let
one keep track Of the trains that went
past.
The walls started In cobblestones
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 puff OF wind some
one else was explaining how banal
and inartistle 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, vas
not a building; it was an institution
vithoue which the golf club would
have fallen fat 1t made it all the
more comfortable that the Suttons
we're 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.
tons house, I thought they would
enjoy glosting over It's deficiencies.
We tried the trout door, but It was
fastened and so was that at the
back Evidently the carpenters had
finished their work and left
Anyhow, told the Fielding girls
I want you TO get a glimpse OF the
inside. You never saw the like
So We strolled around to the side
and I got a box and stood on uptoe
and Aattened my face against the liv.
ing room window.
I found myself looking straight
into the interested eyes OF a perfectly
strange man who seemed very much
at home in wicker chair beside a
big table heaped with magazines and
books and flowers and surrounded by
furniture. II YOU have never peeked
into a room in a house that did not
belong to YOU and found the owner
regarding YOU meditatively you cannot
understand my sensations.
Ny face remained glued to the
pane, because I was too limp 10 take
it away The strange man arose and
came out at the front door and around
10 where we trembled and shrans
and regarded US politely In a voice
strangely not my own I stammered
foolishly that l was showing ms
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
eurdled your soul with shame? Well
I eurdled as we trailed after that re
lentless man. who took US from attic
to cellar and had the cruelty 10 serve
tea into the bargain and act as though
we had called politely instead OF peek