Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-05-04
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"MGTy::'
ooh, it isn't distressingw said Mary.
"And [ got along so fast" She broke
off to laugh; continuing then, But
that's the way l went at it, Of course.
We are in hurry, aren't We?"
"My dear, I don't know what to-"
What to make Of anything" Mary
finished for her. $50 that's all right!
Now I'll tell you all about it. It was
gorgeous and deafening and teetOtal.
We could have lived a year on it. l
think the orchids alone would have
lasted us a couple of months. There
they were, before me, but | couldn't
steal 'em and sell 'em, and so-well, 50
| did what | couldn'
She leaned back and laughed reas-
suringly to her troubled mother at
seemed to be a success-what / could"
she said, clasping her hands behind
her neck and stirring the rocker to mo-
ton as a rhythmic accompaniment to
her narrative. 1.-The girl Edith and her
siSter-in-laW, Mrs. Roscoe Sheridan,
were too anxious about the effect of
things on me. The fathers worth a
bushel Of both Of them, if he knew it.
He's what he is. | like him." She
paused fefiectively, continuing,
"Edith's interested in that Lamhorn
boy; he's good-loOking and not stupid,
but [ think he's" She interrupted
herself with a CHEEKY cutlery: "Oh,
| mustn't be calling him names! If
he's trying to make Edith like him l
ought to respect him as a colleague"
Il don't understand a thing you're
talking about" Mrs. Vertrees COM
planned.
'All the better! Well he's a bad lot
that LamhOrn boy; everybody's always
known that, but the Sheridans don't
know the everybodies that know. He
sat between Edith and Mrs Roscoe
Sheridan. She's like those people you
wondered about at the theater the last
time we Went-dressed in ballgOwns:
bound to show their clothes and jewels
somewhere! She flatters the father,
and SO did |, for that matter-but not
that way. | treated him outra geouslyw
Nary
That's what f1attered him. After
dinner he made the whole regiment Of
us follow him all over the house, while
he lectured like a guide on the Pala-
tine. He gave dimensions and costs,
and the whole bilin' of 'em listened as
if they thought he intended to make
them a present Of the house. What he
was p, oudest of was the plumbing and
that Bay of Naples panorama in the
hall. He made Us look at all the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and everywhere
else-and then he made us look at the
Bay of Naples. He said it was a hun
dred and eleven feet long, but 1 think
it's more And he led us all into the
ready-made library to see a poem
Edith had taken prize with at school.
They'd had it printed in gold letters
and framed in motherof-pearl. But
the poem itself was rather simple and
wiStful and nice-he read it to us,
though Edith tried to stop him. She
was modest about 1t. and said she'd
never written anything else. And then,
after a while. Mrs Roscoe Sheridan
asked me to come across the street to
her house with them-her husband and
Edith and Mr.. Lamhorn and Jim Sheri-
dan
Mrs. Nertrees was shocked. "Jimr'
she exclaimed. Mary, please"
'Of course" said Mary. "I'll make
it as easy for you as l can, mamma.
Mr.. James Sheridan, Jr. We went over
there, and Mrs. Roscoe explained that
'the men were dying for drink
though l noticed that Mr.. Lamhorn
was the only one near deaths door on
that account. Edith and Mrs. Roscoe
said they knew I'd been bored at the
dinner. They were objectionably apollo
getic about it, and they seemed to
think now we were going to have q