The Glenwood post., 1913-03-08
rNE SUTTONS' n0U4E
Dy I. M'ooNAla

Dy I. M'ooNAiA
II ST.. Insist" aaiA tie w00An ~
~ AsaAS the talkins. that I 10
oaits within ~ dghts- Ny husAan4
{ faAally rufAaA ny rsDsaatisa ~
~ bees1iag. secretly think ~ -
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b SIN - tAs Dotnt wharo - sQuaAAgo
whsesve9 l aMsAs - ths Gsh6sst!
-Of esnFsa. I vsslA not - sssas1
sass1aG iats Das0ss's vtAAsvs -
town Whsa . Dossaa bailAs 0 hsaao
y tsvn y0s knsv itIs his saseas 80
ysa hovsat ~ HShe - - DPsaAsss
vitAoot n tnv1ta&ioa, ~ VAoa -
bsiiAs ese IN tAs sssstry 4 = . -
i've ~ Tor inspsetioa!
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~ AaASe tabss essvsraatiso ~ n1Sao
asosnl in ths ossatry ~ . Assss =
Dastt1ve 0oAsanA. beoasas even.
boAy saA expaaia s& IsaGth Wy -
doesn't Mn T.
/ ''Ths 0attoas bagaA buiIAlAg tha1P
house out near the golf Links early in
the spring and - It vas merely across
the road from the eighth hole II vas
quite the thing from the start to taks
Q recess at hat point and cut across
the road and survey the hole In ths
ground that vas going t0. b tie 0at.
toos' cellar eventually. Al Of u As-
clared every time We looked at It that
The hole Vas either too biG. too snail.
too shallow or too deep aAA nothing
could induce us to have q cellar like
II. When the workmen began putting
In the foundations 1t was even more
exciting. because there are 20 many
kinds Of foundations. Nobody who
looked at the 6uttons' foundations
approved OF them.
I'VE all gurglsd with 10y when the
uprights marking Oh the partitions
were up and We could ses where the
rooms were to be. According to ~
rious golf players who dropped over
there In one morning the living room
was q farce. the dining room . crime.
the hall a joke and the bedrooms .
fright. Most people said the house
should have faced east instead Of
west. though there were . few in fa-
vor Of . 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.
The walls started in oobblestonea
and that revived Tagging interest. II
some one wasn't telling about . cab
blestone house he knew Of that fen
down at the first pun 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 fame. Everybody
who sat around on the terrace to cool
OH after 4 game got all heated up
again expostulating against the half
timbered style.
THE Suttons' house, in short, Wa
not . building: 1t was an institutioa
without which the golf club would
have fallen nat. It naAs it all tAa
more comfortable that tAs 0attoas
we're in BuroDe Al ~ Aessa. vas
helpless. u.
when the Fielding sifls saas %
70 spend the day st tAs club With -
what was more natural than that ]
should take them over to ~ Tie 0at
tons house? thought thsy woah
enjoy gloating over its ds0cionciss.
We tried the front door, but It VA
fastened and 20 was that at the
back. Evidently the carpsntsrs ~
finished their work and left
Anyhow told the Fielding gifla
I want you TO get . glimpse Of the
inside. You never saw the like!'
so We strolleA afounA b the sils
and I got . box and stood o. tiptos
and dattened my face aSainst tie ~
ing room window.
Il found myself looking straight
Into Tie interested eyes Of . Dsffsekly
stfanss man Who seemed vesy mech
at Ao0s In . Wickse chair bssiAs Q
~ tabas heaDsA wltA na0asa.ss aaA
bss&s anA Aowsrs and ssrrosnAsl by
furniture! II you have nsvsr Dssksl
i1to . room In . hoass that ~ nol
belong to you and found tie owner
regarding yoa meditatively yoa cannot
Understand my sensations.
my face remained glued to The
pane, because I was too limp to take
1t away. Tho strange man arose and
came out at the front door and around
to where we trembled and shrank
and regarded rs politely. In q voice
strangely not my own 1 stammered
foolishly that I was showing my
friends the Sutton house. The strange
man then announced that he was Mrs.
suttoa's brother and living there till
the arrival Of the family and he would
~ eAArnoAE
Were yoa ever Aypaotissd: DiA
yoa ever dream q 1eiag tAiass that
s1F6loA y011 oo1l VitA sAa0of We'll
s1r01o0 - - tEa1DoA aetee that ~
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