The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-18
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A Tilt Of Wits Over the Telephone.
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SSTS this Mrs. Graham"
The feminine voice that came
over the telephone was a strange
one to me, clear, musical, were it not
for Just the suspicion Of hardness in
its timbre.
Il am She" Uncon,ciously my voice
took formal note. fel, as if were
putting myself in .armor to meet some
/ unlocked for blow
"Oh, ] am so glad have been try
ing to get you all the morning. Mr..
Graham left message for. you with
me and made me promise to be sure to
deliver the knows how forgetful !
am, and | don't want to settle to any
thing else until its off my mind"
Unknown on Wire.
The voice was full of mischief. am
not so dull a, not TO recognize touch
OF malice when hear it, and instinc-
lively ! knew that the unknown woman
at the other end OF the wire was wait
ing for the answer should make her
as q cat would wait for a mouse
repres,ed every instinct to make my
voice and manner icy, and lpurposely
assumed a careless CHEEKY air
1T is trial to be forgetful, isn't IT,
| asked, and then added cordially; u
am so sorry happened to be out when
you called before don't suppose il
is a very important message after all.
| was firmly resolved not to ask for it
you will have to be the Judge oI
that" the voice replied, and hint oI
tartness showed me that had scored
"Mr. Graham wished me to tell yot
that he wasn't certain whether he coulc
attend Mrs Underwood's dinner TO-
night or not, but he wishes you tc
know that If he isn't there, he will NEE
you and Mr.. Savarin at the Pennsyl
vania station in time for the II ~
train"
wives Arc Apt to Know"
Thank you so much for telling me,
returned swee,ly, although it reall!
wouldn't have made so very much diff
ferncc ii you had forgotten it. Mr.. Ora
ham told me all that this morning be
fore he left, but ! suppose that he ha
been so busy he forgot what he dit
say
He must hold a championship in tn
forgetting line" the voice retor,ed
Now | wouldn't think that of Mr.
Graham. | always thought he neve
forgot anything. But his wife surel,
ought to know"
YES, wives are apt to know" | re
turned, laughing, Then, at her unex
pected, rather ,nappy "Good-by," | mur
INJURED a saccharine response, and hun
up the receiver, thoroughly puzzled a
to the identity Of the woman who wa
on sufficiently intimate terms wit
Dicky for him thus to use her in get
ting even" with me.
Dicky Was Piqued.
, For that was the reason for the r
diculous telephone message. kne'
that as we'll as If had been privilege
to look inside OF Dicky's brain Will
he was evolving the scheme. He ha
been so piqued by my reproof of one q
his peculiarly atrocious slang expres
sions that he had gone into town wit
Lillian on an early train, leaving Rob
ert Savarin on my hands, and ha
vaguely threatened that he might nc
be able to attend the dinner Lillian wa
giving in the artists honor
That he would come to the dinner
was certain, for he knew Lillian we
enough to stand in wholesome awe c
her wrath. But both because of hi
anger at my presuming to reprove hin
and of his ridiculous jealousy OF Rot
crt Savarn. he had made up his min
that he would cause me ANNOYANCE !
some way. Hence the childish tel,
phone message relayed through som,
one else
The curiosity which | flatter myse
was so wholly absent from my voice a
to piQue the woman at the other en-
5 OF the telephone wire now would M
r he denied
Which Friend of Dicky's1
Ny thoughts went first to the soutf
ern girl, Edith Fairfax, whom ha
once seen with Dicky in Hambels mi
y linery department buying an expensi,
c hat Dicky had explained away the il
cldent, but the memory of the girl
lace IN the cafe later as she looked
D,cky, wholly unconscious that her ey,
h were proclaimng to all who saw the
h tina, she loved him. had haunted II
, ever since.
But acquitted both her and her ST
ter Leila OF the telephone message, Il
" 'tirct told me tina, their voice, we'
not the calber Of this woman', ar