Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-30

 that ! thought the English pre-Ra- phaelites had carried the dish face rather too far The girl Co whom l ut- tered this heresy was SO shocked she dropped taacup-you know how brit tle everything is in there-und l came home. You were really the on.y ad- venture got out of my day there. And | didn't fud you entirely satisfac. tory
 Thank you. Francesca, for these condolences. And having lost your po- sition you are now free Co roam the hills and dream on orchard walls. Your scheme of life Is to my liking can see with half an eye that you were born for the open and that the walls of no prison house can ever hold you again"
 She nodded a dreamy acquiesence. Then she turned two very brown eyes full upon me and demanded.
 What is your name. pleasef"
 I mentioned it.
 And you doctor chimneys? That sounds very amusing.
 'Im glad you like it. Most people think it absurd"
 What are you doing here? There's not a chimney in sight"
 "Oh. I have a commission in the neighborhood. Hopefeld Manor. You may have heard of Miss Hollister's place.
 "Of course, every one knows of her"
 And now that l think Of it. it was she about whom you asked in the Aso- lsndo that afternoon. You wanted to know what she said about the tea room"
 q remember perfectly"
 She was quiet for a moment, then she threw back her head and laughed that rare laugh of hers. You might let me into the joke"
 Tt wouldn't mean anything to you. have a lot of private jokes that are for my own consumption
 "Your way of laughing is adorable I hope to hear more Of it In the Aso- lando you repulsed me in a manner that won my admiration. but l venture to say now that. if you roam these pastures, I am the grass beneath your feet, and if wonder tuneful water be sacred to you l sit beside the brook to learn its song"
 You talk we'll sir, but from your tone l fear you can't forget that we met first i'm the Asolando. That day of my fife is past and I am by no means what you might call an Asol0n- ded. l don't seem to impress you with that fact I'm human being. not to be picked like a red apple or trampled upon like grass. or listened to as though l were a foolish little brook I'm great ly given to the highway, and l prefer macadam l like asphalt payements. too, for the matter of that. l should love motor, but lacking the coin pedal s bicycle My wheel lies down there in the bushes. You see, Mir Chimney Man. l nm a plain spoken person and have DO intention of deceiv- ing you. My name wus Francesca for one day only. It may interest you to know that my real name is Hezekiah."
 "Hezekiah, Then you are Cecilia's sister and Miss Hollister's niece?"
 Guilty"
 And you live'-
 lover there somewhere beyond that ridge. And she waved her hand vaguely toward the village and laugh ed again
 Pray tell me what this particular joke is It must be immensely fun ny" I urged, struggling with these new facts
 "Oh it's Aunt Octavia! She will be the death of me yet You know the girl who waited on Aunt Octavia that afternoon took all that artistic non sense as seriously as a funeral, and she told me after you left. with the great est horror, that Aunt Octavia had asked for a cocktail" That laugh rip. pied on again to carry joy along the planet trails above us. But you know" she resumed, that Aunt Oc- tavia never drank cocktail in her life and wouldn't She doesn't know a cocktail from soothing sirup She. pines for adventures She is just like a boarding school girl who has read her first romance of the young American engineer in South American repub- lie shooting the insurgents full of t6rtilas and marrying the presidents dark eyed daughter She reads pirate books and is crazy about buried chests and pieces of eight And they say I'm just like her She is the most perfect ly killing person in the world" Heze- kiah laughed again.