The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1913-01-29
THE SUTTONS' HOUSE
BY /. M'DoNALD.

Was doing the talking that | was
quite within my rights. Ny husband,
however, Ia firm in the conviction that
fatally ruined my reputation for
good breeding. secretly think that he
believes me now beyond the palel He
is still at the point where he sputters
whenever allude to the subject.
"Ot course. would not go around
looking into peoples windows in
town. When a person builds house
in town you know It's his castle and
you haven't any right on the premises
without an invitation. but when he
builds one In the country II 10 a posi-
tive bid for inspection!
Why, new red barn Is subject
for dinner table conversation for miles
around in the country and a house 10
positive godsend. because every
body can explain ut length why he
doesn't like It.
The Suttons began building their
house out near the golf links early in
the spring and as 1t was merely across
the road from the eighth hole 1t was
quite the thing from the start to tako
. 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-
clared every time we looked at 1t that
the hole was either too big, too small.
too shallow or too deep and nothing
could induce us to have cellar like
1t. When the workmen began putting
IN the foundations 1t was even more
exciting, because there are 30 many
kinds OF foundations. Nobody who
looked at the Suttons' foundations
approved Of them.
I'VE all gurgled with Joy when the
uprights marking off 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 crime,
the hall joke and the bedrooms a
fright. Most people said the house
should have faced east instead of
west, though there were few in ia.
vor OF a southern view and some
voted for the north, which gave one
view OF the railway line and let
one keep track of the trains that went
past. 70
"The walls started in cobblestones
and that revived tagging interest," II
Rome one wasn't telling about a cab
oiestone house he knew of that fell
down at the first puff of wind some
one else was explaining how banal
and inartistic cobblestones were now
that they had grown so common. That
the second story was half timbered
only famed the flame. Everybody
who sat around on the terrace to COO
off after a game got all heated VI
again expostulating against the hall
timbered style.
"The Suttons house, in short, was
not building; it was an institution
without which the golf club woult
have fallen fiat It made it all the
more comfortable that the Sutton'
we're in Europe and the house wal
helpless.
when the Fielding girls came ou
to spend the day at the club with mi
what was more natural than that
should take them oyer to see the Sut
toms house? I thought they woul'
enjoy gloating overits deficiencies.
We tried the front door, but 1t wa
fastened and so was that at tn
+ back. Evidently the carpenters ha
, finished their work and left.
Anyhow l told the Fielding girls
I want you TO get a glimpse OF tn
inside. You never saw the like!'
so we strolled around to the sid
and l got box and stood on tipto
and fiattened my face against the li'
ing room window
, II found myself looking straigh
. Into the interested eyes of perfect
: strange man who seemed very muc
at home in a wicker chair beside
big table heaped with magazines an
books and flowers and surrounded b
furniture! II you have never peeke
into room in house that did NJ
I belong to you and found the own'
; regarding you meditatively you cann'
Y understand my sensations.
my face remained glued to Il
! pane, because was too limp to tai
] 1t away The strange man arose al
i came out at the front door and arour
to where we trembled and shrar
:, and regarded us politely. In a voi'
strangely not my own / stammert
3 foolishly that I was showing n
i friends the Sutton house. The strani
l. man then announced that he was Mr.
;. Sutton's brother and living there i
Il the arrival Of the family and he wou
I be charmed
; Were you ever hypnotized? D
. ? you ever dream of doing things tn
y curdled your soul with shame? We
Z | curdled as we trailed after that I
= lentless man, who took us from att
to cellar and had the cruelty to ser
tea into the bargain and act as thoul
xra had callad nOIitpIy instead of nee