The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-11-05

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| tell you
up to admire them. They're very cute,
| amt they sir?"
They are Just like all pumps said
lndifferenty, and walked away If l could
have been quite sure that it was a chuckle
| heard, | should have given Britton some
| thing to think about for the rest of his
days. The impertnent rascal
For some two long and extremely mo
notonous days I toiled. chapter shaped
itself--after fashion. Even as l wrote, |
| knew that it wasn't satisfactory and that
should tear ii up the instant it was fin
ished- What irritated me more than any
| thing else was the certain conviction that
Poopendyke, who typed it as ! progressed,
| also knew that it would go into the waste
paper basket
Both nights ! went to bed early and to
| sleep late. / could not deny to myself that
| was missing those pleasant hours with the
Countess. ! did miss them l missed Rose
mary and Jinko and Helen Marie Louise An.
| toinette and Blake
An atmosphere of gloom settled around
Poopendyke and Britton They eyed me with
| time went on they began to look positively
| foriorn and unhappy. Once or twice l caught
them whispering in the hallway. On seeing
me they assumed an air of nonchalance that
brought grim smile to my lips. l was be
4 ginning to hate them. Toward the end of
4 the second day, the four Schmicks became so
4 aggravatingly doleful that | ordered them.
one and ALL to keep out of my.sight. Even
| the emotonless Hawkes. and the perfect
| Blatchford were infected. don't believe
| I've ever seen a, human face as soemnlv
respectful as Hawkes. was that night at
dinner He seemed to be pitvinr mo from
| the bottom of his heart. 1t was getting IN
my nerves.
took a stroll in the court ward after din.
ner, and may be forgiven | hone far tho
few surreptitious glances | sent upwards
in the direction Of the rear windows in the
eastern wing. I wondered what she was
doing, and what she was thinking of INV OK
traordinary behavior, and why the deuce she
hadn't sept down to ask me to come ap and
tell her how busy l was. She had not made
single sign. The omission was not par
tculariy gratifying to say the least
Approaching the servants hall. | loitered
heard voices, mixture of tongues. Brit
ton appeared to be doing the most of the
talking. Gradually ] became aware of the
fact that he was explaining to the four
Schmicks the meaning of an expression in
which must have been incorporated the /
words turned him down.
Hawkes. the impecrable Hawkes. ;oined
in. II I know anything about it, Id say
she has threw the ooks into i'm /
Then they had to explain that to Con
rad and Gretel, who repeated .'Ach Gott',
and other simple expletives in such n state
of misery that l could almost detect tears
in their voices
ut amt that Mr. 'Awkes,'' protested
Britton loyalty Hos lost his nerve that
wot it is They alus do when they realize
ow bad they're hit Turn i'm downs Not
much, Mr.. Awkes. Take it from me, Mr.,
Awkes, he's not going to give 'er the
chawnce to turn i'm down"
Ach, Gott!' said Gretel. | will stake
my head that she wrung her hands.
Women is funny said Hawkes.. (I had
no idea tho wretch was go ungrammatical
You can't put your finger on EN- ever
While | 'aven't seen much of the Countess
during my present engagement, | will saw
this: She has lot more sense than people
give er credit for. Now why should she
throw the 'ooks into a fine, outstanding
chap like i'm, even if he is an American
She made rotten bad job the first time
mind YOU Ii she has threw the 'ooks into