Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-22
BY JANE PHELPS
A Business Message.

CHAPTER CT.
The day that we were 10 start Tor
! Bar Harbor found us ready and anX-
ious 20 be off. About an hour be-
! fore rho train started, George re-
ceived a telegram.
He was called TO Morelands at
once. Some matter of business re-
CURED his immediate and personal
attention.
Its a good thing we are all
packed" l remarked, when he told
me.
What do you mean?"
why, that we can start home at
once"
"Yon will go on up to Bar Har-
Dor and wait for me. No-I have
it." and without giving me the slight
est inkling OF what he intended to do,
he went. to the telephone. He called
Julia Collins and told her that we
would 60 when she did after all
that he was going back home on
business. but would be back in time
to 20 when she had planned.
After he had hung up, he turned
to me again; Have Mrs. Sexton
remain with you until l return"
There was no time for talk, for ex-
postulation. His train went in half
an hour, and he would have to
hurry, My disappointment was In
tense. I had been so happy. in the
thought that l had the best of that
Collins Woman" Gas 1 designated
her in my thoughts). Now IL was
she. not / who could be happy. She
had gained her point.
Merton Gray Sympathihes.
The afternoon George left, Mer-
ton Gray called to bid us goodbye.
lie was very much surprised when
he found that George had gone back
home, and that the time OF our de-
parture for Ear Harbor had oeen
nostponed. / had called Mrs. Sexton
on the telephone and she had con-
scnted to stay with me until George
returned. 1t would be only few
days. at the longest, he had said.
| really was delighted to see Mer-
ton. 1t was a nasty rainy afternoon.
could not go out, and the prospect
Of n cozv chat with him was al
Turing
THE portrait has been shipped
and am lonely" he said apropos of
a remark / made.
Really! / did not know you were
to send It away SO SOON
Yes Mr. Howard wished 1t prop
erlv framed and ready to hand i'm
nediately upon his return. He Is
rather impatient of any delay, l
Judge"
Indeed he is. He is so absolutely
prompt himself, whore business is
concerned, that he has little patience
when things lag"
Now play for me-" Merton or
dered, after time. 'T have heard
no real music since You played the
last time"
"Flatterer! l am horribly out of
practice. Newport isn't Just the
place one would choose, If they kept
up their music"
NO, not when one has married
society man. and when one is the
best tennis player, the most accom-
plished swimmer--he stopped. Par
don me! I had forgotten your ac-
Cidcnt for moment
Don't take it back because OF
that" Then, without meaning to in
tho least, I told him OF Julia Collins.
How she had blamed me, saying
was trying to show off, etc. Just
as If | would choose 6 o'clock in
the morning when no one was
around, to show Off I finished. |
W ASA SOhT lAuSAlalidi VIZ INV
ard. there? | have an idea the lovely |
Julia wae referring to him"
COZ course he was there" I an |
swered inpatiently. How could he |
have saved me had he not been?"
Mrs. Sexton Arrives.
played and sang for some time, |
! was really glad to have the prac- |
tice. Merton with his intense love |
rfor music would have allowed me |
TO keep on Indefinitely, but Mrs |
Sexton came, so interruptlng.
For just a moment l was ember-
rassed that she had found Merton |
Gray with NE 1 recalled he warn |
ing-that he was a fascinating, a |
man and almost wished |
7 had not asked her to stay with me |
rhen 1 remembered her faith In |
me, and her knowledge of my love |
for George, and smiled at my lack |
Of trust in her good3 common sense. |
She greeted him pleasantly, me af- |
fectionately. She then excused her