Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-10

worker they had ever employed who
could cook to his liking,
Ilo glanced from his wfe's signal
of ''hush," to the new girl who was
placing the coffee cups before her.
Something OF her mistress expires
sion had settled over the servants
plain face. There was a discreet low
'ring of evclids a prudish puckering
~ the lips that made Lee think %
The portrait Of one his Quaker an
c'st"rs. And suddenly it diwned up-
on MIN that ,hc emotion Of his help
mate ana her maid seemed to he
shared by the feminine guests "a. his
board.
'pid vou drive most of the time
during the thrce-dav trip? asked Mrs.
Gaines
Lee saw that she was elahorqtcly
changing the subject. lie could not
quite understand hoN his laundering
observation of a new servant could up
set every one so.
Il sat at the wheel for six hours
AZ stretch, during the thirty hours
Il raincd," he answered
Md then, plunging into racv de-
scription of croSs-countrv campaign
ing. he forgot the servant problem
and all II implied.
II was not until the card tables
were being dragged out and he and
Mrs. Lee were hunting Vainly for
cards and bridge scores that Emma
was brought to mind AGAIN.
"Oh-I remember, told Emma to
take tho stuff up to my den while the
library was being cleaned" Lee re
marked. ASK her whore she put It
and Ill
Emma is gone. For good" said
Mrs. Ice coldly. Then. under her
breath. For heavens sake don't
bring that hussys name up again this
evening. | want the Gaiucsos 70 for
get her"
cards himself, shocked and worried.
When a respectable married woman
called a servant hussy. in Westvil. she
meant only one thing.
Nnd Emma had been in their family
tWo years.
AS soon as | found ont. of course.
she had to GN." said Mrs. lee when
their guests had eonc and they had
retired to the dainty co2iucss OF her
own grey and amber dressing room.
/ "WhCn | think Of such a gltl dsso-
ciatnc with my Innocent. unsuspect-
/ inC children | want to tear her 20
/ riCCcs To have woman like that
/ in a decent home Is like finding a
/ snake
"rhc twins. at ninc months. arcn't
likely to suffer any moral contamiNa-
tou," interrupted her husband drlN.
"Now begin at the beginning Of this
MESSY story and tell me Just what has
happened to the girl"
Mrs. Lee slipped into a rose silk
ncFucce and stood hraiding her hair
rs she went over the details.
There had hecnl suspicious, accus1-
tipus. confession. Some wild appeals,
am interview with the minister and
the doctor and terrible time in
which II seemed that even the county
authorities might bc informed But
the minister had thought it inadvisa-
bile to do anything that would involve
the family N unpleasant publicity and
Emma had passed from hystcria 10
defiance Thcv did not know who
light I'VE responsible for her tragcdy
aud she refused TO tell.
"Hc aiu't uothin' but loafcr and
no good and | wouldn't marry him II
you XIII me for IT, she had walled.
The minister. the doctor and her
mistress argued Nainly that marriage
would make things better FOR her
baby II she would not let them make
the man marry hC~ she could expect
no help. no sympathy. Her own sis
ter refused to receive her into her
family and she had no place To 20 un-
less Size would he guided hy Ncir
wishes So she hal packed her bag
and l,tt lust rs it goe dark enough
to leave the house without being no
ticcd No. Mrs Lee didn't know
where she went. the twins had devcl-
opCd croupN cough ana she had
been busy telephoning for 4 new girl
because she CoGldnt manage alone