The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-15

NN0A HoJt otdA GU at uCI VIM
itor in speeches. amazement.
"Oh, Pm so sorry" faltered Helen,
"but the tailor's boy delivered Mr..
Gordon's suit to us, and II came
to get Mr.. Curtis"
"You came into my bedroom! This
is most astonishing! / never heard
OF such"
Mrs. Gordon, your maid couldn't
find the suit" in crimsoning embar-
rassment. "She suggested that +"
"And you took advantage of an ig-
norant girl to go prying through my
thingsT
"Prying?" famed Helen.
"You couldn't have waited until I
got home"
"We're dining out-Mr. Curtis is
waiting to Dress"
The coat and vest Helen had taken
from the hanger, and now while Mrs.
Gordon looked on In contemptuous
silence, with burning cheeks and bum
Gig fingers she was trying to free
the trousers from the obstinate patent
holder.
AS Mrs. Gordon stood haughtily
aside to let her pass, there was a
heavy step In the hall, and Mr.. Cor
don blocked the doorway.
In unaffected masculine amazement,
he gazed at Helen, an incongruous fig
ure in her airy evening gown, awk.
wardly holding mans dress suit.
"Mrs. Curtis was exploring our
closets when l came in," began Mrs
Gordon maliciously. ut seems the
tailor left her husbands suit here
and she inveigled Jane to let her il
. while we were out"
! ooh, I say, Blanch, I'm sure Mrs
! Curtis didn't mean"
"Pve tried to apologize" quivere,
Helen, "but Mrs. Gordon persists ii
misunderstanding. The maid couldn'
find the suit-she suggested that
come in and look for it. / suppose
shouldn't, but"
"Why, that was quite oil right,
Mr.. Gordon was following her dow
$ the hall. "Tm sorry you've been ii
convenienced. Wait, allow me-"
g he opened the door.
"Oh, thank you," in murmured COZ
e fusion. "But FL shouldn't have gor
y In while you were out. l wouldn't
Q I'd stopped to-think.
aPlease don't let 1t distress you. 7
: explain to Mrs. Gordon, I'm sure 81
q didn't understand"
t In her own apartment Helen file
L into the bedroom, where Warren WI
waiting in Tuning Impotence.
s Without a word she threw the su
It on the bed and ran into her ov
n room. The modification of that seer
was still too acute; just then 81
Q could not rehearse it.
In the rush of getting off, there WI
u no time for discussion. But in Il
e taxi Warren's keen glance rested a
n praisingly on her flushed face.
whats wrong?"
L "Mrs. Gordon came In while WI
there-while I was going through h
:, closet I" dramatically.
e "Huh, that was trifle awkward
E Then with a chuckle, "Must've give
n her jolt. How'd she take it?"
L "Don't laugh" tensely. SIT couldr
have been worse. She said took a
: vantage of an ignorant girls perml
sion to pry through her things
"She did, eh?" angr1ly. "That's pr
y ting 1t pretty strong"
"That wasn't half! Then Mr.. &c
don came in, but he was very COT
teous--he tried to smooth thin
II over"
"Yes, I guess Gordon's pretty q
IL cent sort-but that's the difference
. mans attitude. You and Mrs. &c
sr don have it in for each other-you ty
n are always squabbling."
n "Squabbling?" indignantly. ~
II hardly spoken to her,"
10 A moments silence as, swirling
corner with reckless speed, they u
lie missed colliding with heavy mot
u truck.
~ "Guess that did look pretty ba'
u muttered Warren reflectively, ~
~ rummaging around in there. Do
" much blame her for handing 1t to yo'
"Why, you suggested It," SMART
:, under this injustice. "You had
- have your suit--you said we could
!. stand on ceremony"
=. "Oh, well, it's over now" putt
es aside the unpleasant incident W
ID masculine indifference. "Forget /
n "If only they didn't live ON the sa
4 fioori" deaf to Warren's careless
r.. Iosophy. sim always meeting her
OF the hall. And now--oh, it'll be
speakable meeting her now"
!" "Yes, you're in Dutch with her,
~ right, but what's the diff? Don't ws
,ir to be too chummy with close neighbt
ng anyway" Then as the cab lurched
before pretentious apartment hous
,r- "Hope we get decent dinner here
he not lot of fancy samples. ] feel Il
IT. some real nourishment."