Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-10-09
Jane Bunker.

Odll6 DQ1lha
cDpysiea!ns Bsahs-ltGais O.
per nearly cost me my sanity and my
life!
Now, when unpacked / found the
slipper. but even then 1t didn't occur
to me that 1t wasn't mine-I merely
wondered how I'd lost the mate, and II
was couple Of days, before I got to
, the bottom Of the other suitcase and
found my own pair, neatly done up In
tissue paper. OF course knew In
stantly that the old slipper was Mrs.
Delario's, and remembered then how
I'd carried 1t of; but I didn't have
box suitable for sending It through the
mall to her, 80 set 1t on q chest
where I'd be sure to zee 1t and not let
1t get mixed with mine, meaning to
take 1t down to the house as soon ms
could find time for 1t. And thus
several more days went by, and I
forgot the slipper and that Mrs. Jimm-
son was coming to clean. / some
how assumed that Mrs. Jimmson had
sense enough to see 1t was an odd
slipper and leave 1t on the chest
where she found It, hut you never
can tell what anybody will do-per-
haps she'd have done Just the same II
I'd told her not to: for she mixed
those slippers up and set them in q
row beside my bed along with oxford
ties and bath slippers.
| It was ON the day that Mrs. Jimm-
son cleaned that Claire came tripping
| vp TO see me and tell me- that her IA.
Their bad arrived.
It was the first time I'd seen her
4 since we'd parted at the cable Office.
and Of course had to spare her a
few minutes and hear what she had to
say. She was staying with her father
ut h0tel-mamma hadn't yet come,
because grandpapa was dying every
day and she didn't dare to leave him.
And then she suddenly wished to know
II all Americans lived the way Mrs.
Delario did, and did American ladies
work. e
4 / had to ask her what she meant
and she explained that everything at
Mrs. Delario's was $50 unlike the way
they lived ahroAd;;" that Mrs. Delariu
never left her bedroom unlocked fol-
a single minute; that all the upstairs
rooms were locked; that she made
her Claire keep her door locked
.'because." she said. ''tyou never car
tell" that people, most Of whom were
strangers, were coming to the honst
all day from nine till FIVE. Mrs. Della
rio called them "sitters'' and gave
them readings" In an awfully queel
room where the shutters weren't evel
opened; and she ~ Claire believet
that Mrs. Delario took money FOL
these readings. though she never woult
4 say what she read and II she tool
money how, could she be lady
Though she was very nice and kint
and papa wanted her to keep her
Claire-till her mother arrived, ant
Mrs. Delario wouldn't on account O
Y her work, and what sort of work c0ult
1t possibly be? '.
i saw by that that Mrs. Delari,
hadn't taken Claire much into her con
fidence Claire said even her fathe
couldn't guess whnt Mrs. Delario did
exactly, though he thought he knew
a little, only he didn't know that Ia
| dies did 1t In America.
While was considering what II
better say the clock struck and
!. bounced out Of my chair In q hurry
1t was the hour Of an appointment
and here was Ave miles away. goi
siping. u:
told Claire I had to run. and sh
followed me to my bedroom while
got my coat, and It was she who ez
claimed, "Why. there's Mrs. Delario'
slipper! She's hunted everywhere 70
1t. You picked IT up at the custom
house and put 1t In your suitcase"
"a "Tm the thief" laughed. slippin
on my coat.
Claire took couple Of steps t6war
the slippers and said, "rll take 1t bac
to her."
! @No. mytdear Just leave It. I don
Z know which Is hersI see Mrs. Jimn
son has mixed them all up and !,
haven't time to find out now.
"Oh.S I can soon tell" and Claire wa
about to pounce on them, but I heade
her on.
That's q matter for me to atten
to, Claire. and entirely between Mr.
Delario and myself"
I'll BY this time had on my veil an
gloves. and hearing the elevator sto1
ping at the door. I shooed Claire IN
lsb0lted for IT,. u
Al Now "a looked 1t the slippers q
Claire spoke. and they were stAndin
HEEL 10 THE WALL. between
paid Of oxford ties and pair (
bath slippers that were Toe to a
wall. 40: were All the rest but thes
three clippers |: and noticed this ~
v fdea,lnrlss ana xn6nnxnln II latn3 elaS,