Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01

all your life, and now you've got It your
as pleased as a child with a new toy
Wait till the paint wears of and Il won
smut IT'S eyes when you put IL down on it'
back and sawdust begins to leak out a.
the Joints"
Wouldn't II he more kind of you tC
leave me to discover the sawdust fol-
myself?"
1T unquestionably would and I ought
to be Kicked Trego agreed heartily 81
only started this in fun, anyway, to make
you see why 1t Is you look so good to me
-dlferent-so sound and sane and whole
some that / Just naturally can't help
pestering you"
She did not know what to say to that.
She suffered him.
! Her duties secretary to Mrs. Cos
| mold proved when inauEurated the second
/ morning after her arrival TO be at once
! light and interesting. Her employer was
| conservative enough I'm an unmannerly
| age to Insist on answering all personal
| correspondence with her own hand; what
passed between her and her few intimates
was known to herself alone. But she car
| red on, In addition, an animated cor
respondence with numberless frauds-an-
tique dealers, charities, professional poor
relations. social workers. and others of
| that ilk-whch proved tremendously di
verting to her amanuensis, especially
when 1t transplred that Mrs. Gosnod had
mind and temper of her own, together
with n vocabulary amply adequate TO her
powers Of ironlc observation. This last
gift came out strongly in her diary, a
daily record of her various interests and
activities which she dictated, interspers-
Ing dry details with many an acid an
notation
When all was finished Sally found she
had been busled for little more than two
nd rrgan aTINt 81 i 4.
her duties would be made more BURDEN
some only by the addition of n little light
bookkeeping when she settled down to the
routine of regular employment.
OF the alleged high play, at cards or
otherwise, she had yet, at this third mid
night, to see any real evidence. Mrs. Cos
mold most undoubtedly played a stiff game
of bridge, but she played 1t with a master
ly facility, the outcome of long practice
and profound study; her losses when she |
lost, were minlmized Nor was there ever |
a sign of cheating that came under Sallys |
observation. Everybody played who didn't |
dance, and vice versa, but nobody seemed |
TO play for the mere sake of winning |
money. And while the influx of week. end
guests by the Friday evening boat
brought the number at Gosnold House UP
70 twenty-five, they were all apparently
self-centered folk of long and
Intimate acquaintance with one another
as well as with their hostess and all her
neighbors on the island. OF that dubious
rev of Adventures she had been led to
expect there was never n hint.
Such provision as their hostess made |
Tor her guests entertainment and amuse-
ment they patron2ed or ignored with
aqual nonchalance, according to individual
whm they commanded breakfasts for
an hours of the morning. and they
unched Mt home and dined abroad or
reversed the order. or sought all their
meals In the homes of neighboring
riends, quite without notice or apology,
such was the modish manner with them
nat summer of 19li--a sedulous avoidance
u alNthing resembling acknowledgment |
II obligation to those who entertained
indeed, II one interpreted their attitude
II It's face value the shoe was on the
,ther foot
And they brrnmed the alleged hollow
less or their days with an extraordinary
mount of running about. There was
ncessant shifting of interest from one
ocal point to another of the colony, a
'erpetually restless swarmng hither and |
on 10 some new centre of distraction,
ohtlhual Kaleidoscope parade of the
most wonderful and extravagant clothing
ne world has ever seen.
10 the outsider. Of course all this was
ot merely entertaining and novel. If
luch as she had imagined 1t would be, :
was more-it was fascination. it was
hehahtment, 1t was the joy of living
1ade manifest, it was life!
If only this bubble might not burst,
OF course, 1t must; even If not too good /
. ne true II was too wonderful to be en- Il
uring; the clock strikes twelve for every |
lnderella, and few are blessed enough Il
pe ao!e TO leave behind them match II
'ss slipper Il
But Whatever happened nothing now