Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-01
CHAPTER vi.

MOTHER week has passed, and
~ the police still report mo prog
ress" on the Wade Hanska
murder case, now back number with
the newspapers--a story laid aside.
Wade, scorning, he says, all lawyer
tricks, waits in the Tombs until the
police shall have finished and turned
the matter over to the mercies of the
grand jury. The week has been equal
ly quiet at the select boarding house
maintained by Rosalie LIE Grange-a
quiet overlain with gloom and yet IL
Eliminated with human sympathy and
even gayety. Gradually the house,
hold has become body of Wade par
tisans. That, although they know 1t
not, is due to Constance. Her somber
sweetness, which persisted even In her
desperate situation, has moved them;
and emotion has persuaded reason
and opinion, as it always will until we
become intellectual machines.
Out of the shadows twinkle two
stars-Betsy-Bar and Tommy
North. Rosalie in Jest, and Professor
Noll in earnest, call Betsy Barbara
1.-The little household fairy" Engaged
though she is in tragic guardian
ship, she is also young and sprightly
and village girl, fresh to the Won
der of New York. Rosalie is the quiet
force, but Betsy Barbara the visible
focus, which draws them all together.
She brings to their consideration Of
Manhattan all the small-town inti-
macy of interest. She brings to their
intercourse the country habit of ask
ing help, and accepting kindness, as
matter of course. She asks counsel
of Miss Harding and Miss Jones on
her autumn clothes. In her spare mo-
ments she sews industriously with
Rosalie lie Grange-dropping mean
time those condolences which flow at
sewing-b bees. The orphan of a coun
try Clergyman and a schoolmistress,
she has at her finger-tips all the arts
of play. Whenever the household
stays in of nights. she gathers them
| together over hearts or bridge: when
cards grow stale, she is capable or
getting contagious fun out of cha
rades or anagrams. She even starts
experimenting with table-tipping
and wonders vaguely why Rosalie LIE
| Grange seems uninterested in that
| one of their sports alone and man.
ages to break it up on the first ex'
cuse.
AS for Tommy North, he-assists.
He is jester-in- chief to this elfin
princess. Also, he makes the Welsh
rabbits with which, at her sugges-
ton, they finish off the card-parties.
81 appoint myself all-night chef to
this establishment" said Tommy
North, as he rolled up his sleeves on
the first evening. Is 1t possible that
there is hamlet in this happy coun-
| try so remote that the fame of my
| Welsh rabbits has not reached it? I
| learned through toll and suffering
other peoples. The first one | made
| Is still hanging on the wall Of the old
| farmhouse. After that, an automo-
bile-man saw one of 'em. Great ex-
citement He thought the problem
of the rubber substitute was solved.
But he little rocked. The tires they
made of 'em were all right as long as
the auto kept running. But when 1t
stopped out in the country, the field
mice used to come in f1ocks and risk
their lives to nibble those tires. No
chemical combination they could ever
discover made my Welsh-rabbit tires
distasteful to the little creatures.
kept on with my art, until now-Tm
too modest to show you the letter I
got from the st. Regis the other day."
More and more the boarders take
to staying at home. This charming
life domestic is a novelty in New
York, it seems; they revel in the fad.
Professor Noll enters into everything
with the simple gaiety of a child.
The two stenographers go out of
evenings bat rarely now. Their young
men (Messrs. Dayne and Murphy
entreat Rosalie daily to furnish the
attic rooms for them. Your waiting
list is going to make the Metropolitan
Club look like the Ludlow street
JAIL" remarks Tommy North.