The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-10-27
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Z dare say" he said, trying to look
easy, that this is sooner than you ex.
pected usls
Mr. Pierce looked down at the crowd.
Then he smiled, growing smile that
ended in a grin.
ION the contrary, he said; '1,ve
been expecting yon for an hour or
1ho procession began 70 move
gloomily up the steps. All Of them
carried hand luggage, and they looked
tired and sheepish. Mss Cobb stopped
IN front d, Mr.. Pierce. s, 3
DO yol mean 70 say she demand.
ed fufiousIy, .'that You knew the rail
road was blocked with snow. and yet
y9Si let us gol 1870,
On the contrary. Miss Cobb, me
said ,politely, q remember distinctly
regretting that you insisted on going.
,Besides. there was the sherman
house..
Senator Briggs stopped In front Of
him. Probably you also knew that
that was full, including the stables,
with people from the stalled trains, =
he asserted furiolsiy.
Two BY two they went In and
through the hall, stamping the snow
off, and up to their old rooms again,
leaving slooum. the clerk. staring at
them as ~ he couidn't believe his eyes.
Mr.. Pierce and watched from the
piazza, through the glass.
We saw Doctor Barnes stop and
look, and then 90 and hang over the
news stand and laugh himself almost
purple, and we saw Mr.. Thoburn bring
ing up the tail Of the procession and
trying to look unconeerned. / am not
q revengeful woman, but that was one
Of the happiest moments OF my hfe.s
We gave them a good supper and
Mr.. Pierce ordered cIaret served with.
out extra charge. BY eight O'Clock
they were all In better hunor, and
when they'd gathered in the lobby
Miss Summers gave an imitation OF
Marie Dressler doing the Salome
dance. With the exception of Mr.. Won
invalid, not one of them really wanted
to go.
At eleven o'clock we had the clam
bake with beer in the kitchen, and Mr..
Won invalid came, after all. They were
really very cheerful all Of them. At
the end, when everybody was happy
and everything forgiven, Mr.. Pierce
got up and made speech.
He said he was sorry for what had
happened that day, but that much he
had said he still maintained; that to
pretend to make people we'll in the
way most sanatoriums did 1t was sheer
folly, and he felt his responsibility too
.keenly to countenance q system that
was clearly wrong and that the best
modern thought considered obsolete.
Miss Cobb sat up at that; she is al
ways talking about the best modern
thought.
He said that perfect health, clear
skins, bright eyes-he looked at the
women, and except for Miss Patty.
there wasn't an honest complexion or
bright eye In the lot-keen appetites
and Joy Of living all depended on "a
tional and simple living. 1t was being
done now In Q thousand fresh-air
farms, and succeeding. Men went
back to their business clearheaded
and women grew more beautiful.
At that, what with the reaction from
sitting In the cold station, and the
beer and everything, they all grew en-
thusiastic. Doctor Barnes made
speech telling that he used to be puny.
and weak, and how he went into train
ing and became a pugilist, and how
he'd fought the Tennessee something
or other-the men nodded as If they
knew-and licked him in 40 seconds or
40 rounds, I'm not sure which. The
men were standing on their chairs
cheering for him, and even Mr.. Jen.
niugs. who'd been sitting and not say.
ing much. said he thought probably
there was something in 1t.
They ended by agreeing to try it out
for a week, beginning with the morn.
ing, when everybody was to be down
for breakfast by seyen,thirty. Then
somebody suggested that IL they were
to get up they'd have to go to bed,
and the party broke up.
In a halfhour or so had cleared
away, and went out to the lobby to
lock up the news stand. Just as /