Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-11-21

Some one wants to speak to you
on the telephone, ma'am," said Nora,
coming into the diningroom, where
Helen was busy sorting silver.
Hello" said a voice over the tele-
phone, a voice calculated to be sweet
and winning, but which Helen heard
with a strange feeling of remem-
brance. Where had she heard that
voice before?
Hello, who is this, please?" she
said, trying her best to recall where
she had heard the voice last.
why, don't you know? Well sup
pose voices are different over the
telephone, so I'd better tell you. Ihls
is Mrs. Raymond" ,,
Mrs. Raymond?" said Helen, still
trying to remember. Yes. L know
now. Why. Mrs. Raymond, where did
you come from?"
Mrs. Raymond had been the pest OF
the hotel last summer at the shore
and Helen and Warren had been thor
oughly out of patience with the way
she had clung to them, and now here
she was in New York evidently with
her husband, and there was no doubt
that they would claim both Helen
and Warren as old friends and expect
to be entertained.
1--WE are down here for week or so
just for visit. One must go to New
York once a year anyway, don't you
think so, Mrs. Curtis?" Mrs. Raymond
was saying. I'VE are staying at the
Clarendon, and / want you to come
down and have dinner with us to-
night"
at don't believe We'll be able to do
that, Mrs. Raymond" said Helen, with
a sigh of relief. "Mr. Curtis and l
are dining out tonight"
That's too bad. Well, you come
down this afternoon and we'H have
tea somewhere. 1 certainly do want
to talk to you"
Helen hesitated. She was planning
to be busy or had been until Mrs.
Raymond had called up and she hated
to have all her arrangements changed.
However, If she went down this after
noon perhaps 1t would arrange mat
ters so that Warren would not nave
to be dragged into an engagement.
She had better go.
Helen Agrees to Come For Little
While
'Well, / am up to my ears in work,
but I'll come down for a little whole,
anyway" she said finally as cordially
as she could. "Thank you; good-by!"
At three-thirty that afternoon
Helen, in the brown suit with the
fur over which she had had so much
worry, was going up in the elevator
of the Hotel Clarendon. Mrs. Ray
mond had asked her to come upstairs
and although Helen would have pre-
ferred to wait down stairs in the
lobby she could do no more than to
comply with any wish Mrs. Ray
mond might make while she was
hostess.
The page had gone up in the
elevator with Helen to show her the
room, and a few minutes later they
were knocking at the door of one of
the rooms on the third floor. There
was no answer and Helen looked up
at the page in surprise.
That's very strange" she said
finally. "I was to have met Mrs.
Raymond here. You're sure this is
the right number"
Helen said nothing as the page
summoned one of the chambermaids,
who unlocked the door so that Helen
could step inside. Helen could not
help thinking it was strange for
Mrs. Raymond to go off when she
was expecting company, and yet
there were many strange things that
Mrs. Raymond might do in Helen's
estimation that no other woman
would think of doing.
Helen walked restlessly around the
room, which was the typical hotel