Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-12-20
A Christmas
Honeymoon
Continued from page 81

Little Surprises For Peter When He
Came Home.
and Ned Davies. of course Fast fol-
lowing days when Peter went down to
his law office in Nassau street. when
Betty. under Riddy's cheerful guild
ance, got inklings of the housekeeping
she knew nothing at all Of. Little sur
prises for Peter when he came home
toward 5 O'Clock. little bits of wifely
comfortings as to warm slippers. house
coats laid II md brushes at hand.
Sometimes the coupe and Poppet and
Peacock prancing in their new harness
down Broadway to Nassau to fetch
Peter home: sometimes to carry him
downtown in the morning. Evenings
at the opera, the theater: quieter times
at home in the library or. rather. in
each library by turns. for there were
two. of course.
1t was al actual double house over
which Mrs. Van Zandt was called upon
to preside. On each loor merely the
big archway connecting the two quite
separate establishments and no COM
municatiOn at all in the garrets.
Peter had. when refurnishing the
double house completely for his bride.
| taken the keys of the archway doors
there We're doors? to be sure; solid ma
hOgany, inches thick. polished as glass.
| now flung wide with curtains looped
aside to frame m Peter then had
taken the three keys. tied them to-
gether and carried them up to h gar
ret Of the half of the house farthest
from the square. He hung them on a
peg and said. I'VE will never want
them. II let them alone just for the
sake of the governor who's gone on
So it was. after all the old physi-
clans painstaking years of s%equestra-
ton of his profession from his family,
now one big single house roamed over
by the restless feet Of Betty Van
Zandt.
This very day she had been herself
busting Peters library: they called the
library in the Washington square half
! Peters. because there were none but
law books there. and Betty. for mis-
chief, had just put a couple of senti-
mental novels or the table and a copy
of Harper's and of tiodey's: then she
had frisked out into the garden. Such
a delicious garden as it was. with the
high spiked iron fence matted with ar
Dor vitaes all the year round; with
box bordered paths all gravelly be-
meath her slippered feet; with a little
fountain and deep shade Of horse
chestnut and fruit trees; an arbor
matched with grapevines. seats here
and there. and flowers! All the sweet
old fashioned kinds in their seasons.
pansies and Sweet Alice. lady slippers,
hollyhocks. lilies of the valley; mar
igolds. dahlias: bleeding hearts: lark
spur. %bluebelIs. foxgloves; fuchsias.
Mexican sage. snowballs: lilacs; in
small formal beds marked out by box
way up to the stable and carriage
house.
Betty had put on one of her prettiest
frocks, a black silk skirt. and an over
gown that l think they called a Dolly
Warden, Il panniered. ruf1ed. chued
bit of da%intiness with punches of po-
sizes. pink and green and violet on a
cfcdLuy SOWH. DEITY . Hall IL a "
derful waterfall. with a beaded net.
confirming somewhat its exuberant
tendency to curl all over her pretty
head, had then frisked out into her
garden to gather a posy for the table.
They went to dine alone that even
Ing. just Betty and Peter. They had
been married exactly three months.
and Peter had said in a lordly way
that he hoped no one would drop in
around $50. Il man wanted his wife
10 himself sometimes. etc. at all OF
which Mistress Betty had laughed joy
ouSIy. Had there been sue a thing in
those days as a telephone she would
promptly have put it into commission
and had guests to tease her husband
with.
AS it was. for she was a child full or
WITNESSES. c~onceits. little rebellions.
getting away from the routine OF
things. Betty. instead Of being at the
vestibule to greet Peter on the third
monthly reminder OF her wedding day.
elected to sit demurely IN the garden
listening for the click Of the night key
In the latch.