The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1914-12-19

house party at this time. | wish you
would see that as do"
1T isn't the house party" defend
ed old Mrs. Hart IT'S everything
see It's time for me to move II. Hut
| desplse that suitcase"
ElOlse looked curlously at the suit.
case. Its first lustre was unmlstak-
ably impaired
why. what" abe began.
Il dragged II on the floor" saio
old Mrs Hart trlumphantly, Il took
some Of the shine of It, guess"
Elolsc merely sighed.
In due time the cur came tO the
the door and Eloise accompanied her
aunt 10 the station.
Odd Mrs Hart had the same fear
ot motor car that she had Of lion
Or tiger they were all rigging beasts
" n sort. She sat upright In her cor
ner of Eloise's mahogany and velvet
lined Limousine with II rigidity des-
tresslng to behold. In spite Of Elolses
reassunnccs she was thankful
enough when at last she had OK.
changed the car for railway coacn.
Now she had nothing Ia do hut think
about her journey.
II Is true that she had left Ben.
trice's some four months before
rather unpleasantly. but time Is n
great eraser and the surface of life
was again ready for fresh Impressions
Resides, Beatrice lived In quleter
manner than did Elolse. Her husband
was not making w much money. Not
that old Mrs. Hart objected to money
She had always had plenty Of II her
self She merely objected to the way
This younger generation spent Il. She
had no patience with limouslnPs aud
vlctrolRs and playcrpianos and all
the other eNtrnvaganCes which people
excuse under the plea Of theiN being
necessary comforts. Eloise's house par
ty had been the cap sheaf To ask
twenty people to stav n week One
might "a well keen hotel.
Old Mrs Hart had brought up Re.
ntrlce and Eloise and their brother
Ralph brought them M to nlease
herself They were her dead sisters
children, and ns she had means she
had taken them In. Each had taken
the way IN life she prepared. The girls
had married well and Ralph was q
successful lawyer. The three could not
have suited her better had they been
her own. She never thought OF her
sisters children ns being more than
three, though In fact, they had been
four There was Eustnce, but Eustace
had beeu unmanageable. He always
had been crazy about machinery.
When he broke into absolute revolu.
ilon by marrying Fanny lynch who
was mere machlnlst's daughter, old
Mrs. Hart cast him off, She never
spoke to him or " him again. And
II was sometimes a source of Olsen
sion between her and the others that
thev would not do the same.
When at last Mrs. Hart alighted
from hack at Beatricea door Bea-
trlce herself answered the rIng--n
flushed, dressod-nn hentrice, whose
kiss was an apology nv well NJ wei
come.
"I'm giving a ten IN honor ~ q
house guest" she exclaimed, "If III
known you were coming III have haA
Edgar at the station to meet YOU IIel.
en-" she called to the maid, take
Aunt Mahnla upstairs and -"
"waltw mid old Mrs Hart II
shant stop Beatrice after NIL III
20 right over TO Ralph's, They won't
have houseful dareSay told
the hackmnn tu wait Tor | wus pretty
certain when saw the carpet down
out In front that something wos 90.
ING on here"
"rm so sorry murmured Beatrlcc
contritely.
Rut Mrs Hart was gone She was
rather ln n dmdeemi M She cl0mhcrc,
into the hack again and ordered the