Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-13
BY SEWELL FORD

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there III wire ahead that you re coming and don't
leave Hub until he contented. I'll put in bill
to Mrs. Talcott for your time say five an hour-wil
that do?"
4Countin day and night says l.
ooh, certainly" says Pnckney. at starts Be
sides, you're bound to be crazy about Hub
"At five hour l could be nutty about most any
one, says L.
MUST say though, that it wa mt any of love at
first sight; for when Mr.. Talcott shows up all |
can see in him is tall loose ointed sag shouldered
young gent with long, serious face, high cheekbones
heavy chin and an odd droop to his mouth corners
You wouldn't guess from the healthy color in his cheeks
that he's invalid; but he carries wrist limp in
black silk sling and drifts in of hestan and bash
full. There wa mt anything specially humorous about
the way Pnckney does the honors but Hub grins
of foolish and then loose in high pitched raspin
voice. to say how he's glad to know me, and that he
hopes he amt causin much trouble and on,
til Pinckney steps in and soothes him down
"There, there, old chap!" says he dts only Pro-
fessor McCabe, you know. He's going down with
YOU and I'm sure you'll both be crazy about each
"Ah, say, Pnckney" breaks in, don't work that
overtime And if we're goin to catch the two-ffteen
amt got much margin to waste YOU
So l gives Swiftly few hints about what to phone
grabs my emergency kit bag, and off go. We had
two-hour ride into South Jersey, and if Hubby old
scout developed any sudden lkin' for me durn that
time he conceals we'll Mostly he sits sort of slumped
down in his paror chair fingerin bunch of opened
letters, and then glancn tmid at the other pas
sengers and shrinkn back pancky when the conductor
calls for his ticket, which was holdin.
Once he remarks to jerky and loud that its
quite long trip, and when wer halfway there he asks
excited if I'm we're the right train. Say,
expect they cant help it. but some of these
colapsers take it out in queer ways don't they? Hon
est, that's chatty got the whole trip. On the
drive from the station he observes that he don't like
such fiat sandy country and he believes bein there
make him
"Ah pump your chest full of this pine air and forget
the scenery" says l. "They1l buck you up at the
restorium See that be the roof of it. off there
IT'S some elaborate shack too,-half cement, half
= single, with the beams shown through old Eng
sh STYLE and the tall trees left CROWN close to the walls
Whispern Pines good name for it, in more ways
than one, discovers later. They shows into
SO and 80 on the second 1oor,-cunnn' little cells
openin onto individual seepin porches each with a
white iron cot A maid in a nurses uniform tells
that superb be ready in ten minutes; washes
up hasty and gets down just as they unbuttOn the
dinn' doors, there want any time for Hub to
get fdgety.
Say did you sixty seventyfive prostraters
all in bunch? Believe me, it some mixed collec-
tion-frOm young girls of twenty that had filled too
many dance orders to heavyweight old dowagers that
young men. few middle-aged gents, and lot of
haired old sports; but all of EN- with husky bank
account back of their complaints.
It's big, bare room, full of round tables that would
seat about with plenty of elbow for fork play
and me and Hub are planted casual at of EN-,
without bein introduced anything Seems they
want strong for sociability at Whsperin Pines for
there want the usual bOardin house chatter bein'
passed the tables. l folks noddin' to each