South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-09-16
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- "a MYSTERY STORY oFNEWYOpK
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: eyes lifted from its pages. had settled
! on spot in midair halfway across
! the room. Betsy Barbara and Tom
my North were sitting together in
! the low, much draped, much-cush-
Toned seat Of the coy corner. Before
them was little table. furnished with
a pad of paper, two pencils scharpen-
ed TO needle-point fineneSs, and the
i catalogue of a furniture store. over
I the table glimmered two blobs OF
\ OF llght-the yell0w-goid that was Bet
/ sy-Barbara's head and the red-brown
/ that was Tommy North's. And these
/ shimmering patches were close to-
/ gether-very close.
! Involuntarily, Rosalie listened.
/ Il want il to be very simple, but ele-
CANT, too" Betsy-Barbara was saying.
/ Mission would be my choice. Two
| desks-a big, solid. mportant-looking
one for you and a small. modest. util
! itarian-loOking one for me-four
/ chairs, a card-catalOgue a few pic
/ lures simpiy-rramed, but dignified,
and perhaps q rug"
Sounds like fairy tale 10 me,
/ said Tommy North. Il tell you what
we'll do-tomorrow morning Wen
draw two hundred and fifty Of my five
! hundred and circulate around among
| the furniture places and do the thing
up brown"
Two hundred and fifty" cried
| Betsy Barbara: two hundred and fifty
II that isn't like a mani Seventy five
at the outside! We're going around TO
| auction rooms and pick up second
hand stuff. Well get better things,
and they'll look just as good as new
when I've rubbed them up with oil"
We'll, of course, you're boss" said
Tommy North, but don't you think"
But here
Hadn't you better light up, child
rem ?" Rosalie asked.
"Oh. thank you, Mrs. lie Grange"
! said Betsy-Barbara. Now as for
the big desk; should you want"
| AS Rosalie continued her weary way
/ upstairs, she heard the click Of the
electric light and the distant babble of
voices going on and on
Lord" she sighed heavily to her
self; lord lord, how great it is TO be-
| gin life sweet and pure like that
CHAPTER TX.
Moving the Pawns.
At breakfast next morning, Resale
opened her game-opened it like a
master of human chessmen. with a
trifling move or two of the pawns.
I Don't any of you people be aston
| ished," she said IF your clothes look
strange and orderly when you get
home tonight. This is my day for
cleaning closets. / announce now that
If ] find anything isn't hung where it
ought to be, I'm going TO set 1t right"
Please be so good as to cover that
box of Bran-O biscuits on the top
shelf of my closet. before you begin
dusting," requested Professor Noll.
Il guess it's all right" remarked
| Tommy North Importantly. but gem
orally l don't let any one but my
valley or his assistant NEEDLE with my
wardrobe. Remember, please, to fold
them on the same creases upon re
placing them. While you are about ii,
you might give some of the passee
suits TO any deserving person who
comes TO your attention. For in
stance, there is my third-best even
ing suit-you will recognize it at once
because it is cut in last years style.
Why not the furnace man. Then
there are a dozen sets of English flan-
nels which I've REALLY never had
chance TO wear, and they're getting a
little faded from hanging in the clos
ct My man tells me that clothes
must be worn now and then to pre-
serve their appearance. Perhaps the
ash man could find use for them. |
The point is. use your judgment, my
good woman. l rely on your honesty
to keep for me any bonds or securities
which you may find in the pockets of
my lounge suits" And Tommy. re-
marking in a feminine tone. 90 blab!'
flecked an imaginary speck from the
somewhat threadbare sleeve of the
only business suit he owned.
When they were gone. Rosalie lie
| Grange, refusing assistance from
Mrs. Moore, put on dust-cap and long
apron and made good her word. But
she did more than clean. From Miss
Harding's apartment on the ground
! floor to Miss Estrilla's on the top, she
examined minutely every garment and
every pair OF shoes. When she had
! finished. when she stood in her own
I street
! looked very serious. Before she put
/ away her house dress, she took from
its pocket the red shoe button. She
inspected II again, and locked it away
in the deepest compartment of her
jewel-case.
Resale walked briskly 10 book
| store in the heart of the foreign dis