South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-02-02
cEN0NO WEAR THE
0EOOND -ntn ~ ICE CHEST AND
MARRIED LIFE. DIz14iAs oBsTINACY.
HERBERT URNER

+ fiance this week. Yet more and
more she shrank from the thought
of breaking in a strange girl. And
Warren would be furious. There was
nothing he hated more than to
change servants. And tomorrow the
Stevens were coming 20 dinner
What could she do? She heartily
wished she had never mentioned the
ice chest. Oh, why had she persist
ed in it so? Yet how could she
make any overtures now?
She went through the hail. passing
Delia's room. But the door was
closed and there was a sound of a
trunk being dragged over the floor
Helen went on into the sitting room
and gazed out the window. The
thought Of losing Della overwhelmed
her more and more.
Just then the bell rang.
Only one letter, Miss Della O Don
oghue" read the address-painstak
ingly pencilled in the big, awkward
hand.
Helen went back and raped or
Delia's door.
"A letter for you" handing it in.
The Letter Arrives.
Della took ii without a wOrO anG
again closed the door. But in that
momentary glimpse into the room
Helen had seen the open trunk and
the clothes on the floor beside If
ready to be packed.
Well, she was going-there was ne
help for it now. Helen took dowr
| the telephone book to look up the adj
| dress of any employment agency
/ What was that place Mrs. Lewis had
| told her about? She had better cal
her up and find out Then she re
membered Mrs. Lewis was never
| home Thursday afternoons, and besides
] it was too late to get any one today
| She would have to get dinner herself
And then it occurred to her about
| Delia's pay--she would want her
money. But this was only the Sth
/ ii would be only about SO. Yes, she
, had enough to pay that
There was a sound of Delia's door
| opening and her steps down the hal
| toward the kitchen.
She had left an apron or something
| Of hers out there. thought Helen. But
\ the steps did not return. Then came
/ the sound of water running in the
sink and a noise Of pans and dishes
| Had she decided to straighten up be
! fore she left?
Helen waited a few moments, and
then went through the dining room
\ to the open door of the kitchen. Della
! was on her knees before the ice chest
/ with a big pan of suds beside her
I So she was going TO clean the ice
/ chest before she went
! Della did not see her and not
/ knowing what TO say. Helen once
more went back into the sitting room
! TO her mending. She finished the
/ tableclOth, sewed some buttons or
| WarrenB underwear, and mended the
| lace on Winifred's little shirt Still
/ Della was in the kitchen. once more
| Helen went to the door. The ice
chest was cleaned and left open tO
/ dry, while Della was rapidly finishing
| the ironing
DO you want that pineapple for
! dessert ma'am-or shall l make a
! cup custard2
l think the cusard would be very
! nice. Stammered Helen.
"All right, ma'am. and I II beat vi
| a sponge cake TO go with it,
And that was all There was no eX-
| PLANTATION and no apology. But il
/ was unquestionable that Della mad
] decided to stay And Helen was toe
/ content TO ask any questions.
The letter had been from Delia's
| young man" PROFESSIONALLY 4 had
! been a cOnciliatory one. And Il had
| come just in time TO restore peace
not only 90 Delia's troubled heart, bu
I TO the domestic machinery OF the
/ Curtis household