Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-28


you set a better table than can
set at the price they pay" she said.
You can't keep that up. If that
amt getting them away from me"
You rent your house, don't your
inquired Resale LIE Grange.
Yes" replied Mrs. Moore, dabbing
her eyes.
Rent is furnished2'
YES"
HAS it been full lately?"
mo. I've had room for four more
all spring and summer. Times are
dreadful hard" Mrs. Moore ceased
to weep for herself and dropped a
tear over the whole state of the body
polite.
You haven't made much money
them"
Money" sobbed Mrs. Moore,
breaking out afresh on her own ac-
count, II scarcely keep soul and body
together-I barely hold a roof over
my head" :.
1T hasn't occurred to you, l guess,
said Rosalie LIE Grange. that I own
this house and furniture. l haven't
got any rent to pay. Moreover, with
this Mrs. Hanska and Miss Lane,
who came in unexpected, an same
particular personal friends that are
comm next week, I'll be full up.
Guess you can see how | make 1t
nav. Guess you can afford to take
back what you said-about my keep
ing up a grade of victuals that |
couldn't afford regular, just to git
custom away from you."
Outmaneuvered, Mrs. Moore Topped.
what will become of mel" she
walled.
Now Mrs. Moore said Rosalie.
with the high rent they charged you
for the old place, there was no future
for you. You were bound to fail.
I've got a better away. I'm busy, an
I'm goin' to be buster. You see this
house-well. it amt my only interest.
An jest at present I'm rushed to
death. Goodness knows. standin' off
reporters the way I've had to do this
last week, is one woman's job. I've
got to hire a housekeeper to look
after things an tend front door an
help out with the cleaning. How
would you like that? Over there,
you were carryin' the whole thing an
workin' for your board. Here, you'll
git thirty-f1ve month, an I'll do
the worryin'."
"Oh. Mrs. LIE Grange!" walled Mrs.
Moorel and this time the moving
emotion was gratitude.
So, at the end of a mighty anxious
and perturbed week, the old Moore
household settled down on Rosalie LIE
Grange, shook itself together again,
and returned to the dull routine of
it's days. Professor Nol rode his
hobby as gaily as ever. Miss Hard
ing resumed her vocation of tipping
and her avocation of studying man
for her uses. Miss Jones continued
to initiate her roommate in her own
shadowy and futile way. Miss Es-
trilla grew no better; still she re-
manned in her room, visited daily by
the doctor, nightly by her brother
and hourly by Resale.
The two new boarders-they were
longest naturally in settling to the
routine. Indeed two or three days
passed before the others grew accli-
mated to their thrilling and some
what perturbing presence. But Con-
stance and Betsy-Barbara behaved
through a soul-racking week in such
manner as to secure Rosalie's grow
ing affections and to win the respect
of the rest. Until after. the harrow
ing funeral and the more narrowing
coroner's inquest, Constance kept tc
her room. There was special neet
for that; in spite of all Rosalie's tact
she was a woman besieged. The
newspapers kept her under fire. FRS
came the police reporters. Constance
saw them once. The interview wal
very little CARRIED, on the whole, ever
though one yellow evening newspa'
per did make her say, in type thres
inches high, II loved Lawrence Wade
lis not that enough?" Then, wher
| she refused any more interviews
came the feminine sympathy writers
| One of them pushed past the guart
| in a moment when Rosalie was ava!
and got an interview which won he
q bonus from the city editor. Other
pecked at her during her passag
from the house to the funeral or tn
| inquest, supplying with imagination
and description what they lacked o
information. "She Is like Venu
with a convent education" wrote one
That, perhaps, describes Constanc
Hanska better than I can.
When she went abroad she face
batteries of clicking camera shutters
Her photograph. together with i'm
pressionist drawings more or less &C
curate, blazoned the front page
every afternoon extra. Parenthet
cally, let me mention that to Mis-
Harding these pictures formed tn
most thrilling feature of the who
affair. On the day after the inque.
an afternoon yellow, being shoi
of news and imagination, mad
an extra of the Three Beautif,
Women in the Hanska Case" The
were Constance, Betsy Barbara an
Miss Catherine Harding. Publicl!
Miss Harding affected to be injure
in all her finer feelings: secretly st
bought ten copies. AS for Lawrenc
Wade, his breeding, his athletic ca
reer, his personal comeliness-b,
Lawrence Wade will enter In h
proper place.
The newspapers were not the onl
extra irritation. Mrs. Hanska's ma
grew until the postman approache
the LIE Grange boarding house lool
J | ing like Christmas and departs
J looking like Monday morning. CHI
ping bureaus, private detective age
cies, young men who wanted to
detectives, unknown but cordi
: friends--their letters caeee by dozen
! by scores, by hundreds. fll-spell'