The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-10
CHAPTER II.
The

~ VQ0 WuAtAiU8 " inC dl LuO 0OAOts
While I unpacked and washed she sat
on the bed and RECALLED me with the
news. "WhO do you think turned I'D
from home last week? You'll never
guess. Billy Rivers. And he's just
the dearest ever"
Now. ages upon ages ago Billy Riy-
ers had gone to schOO! to me In the
year of my initiation into the sacred
mysteries Of pedagogy in North TOna-
wanda, ard l rather think-nOw that
| see things from the middle-aged
point Of view-that Billy taught me
nor than I taught him. He had been
in New York now for some little time
since his graduatiOn-a cub reporter
on one Of the big dailies.
whats Billy doing over here?"
"His mother had a stroke OF sOme-
thing while she was at AK for the
baths and Billy had to come over to
get her home. They're going Cunard
day after tomorrow IL she's able to
travel"
When I came out of my stateroom
on the steamer the next-day-but-One
after seeing my suitcase slowed the
first person my eye lighted on was
Claire!
Claire tripped up to me. delighted
but a little embarrassed, and in her
wake followed a lady whose face was
very familiar. as mine was TO her. and
a smile of recognition broke out on
both Of US at once and we exclaimed
Mt each other, why, you're the Lady
Of the Slippers
Now "the slippers" were the top
notch of my wild extravagant life in
Paris and I'd never mentioned them
tO Ann. / came by them in this wise:
Just as l was leaving for Vevay 1 had
passed a little shop on a funny little
street and in the window was a pair
OF slippers. They were high over the
instep-sO they'd keep my feet warm
and decorated with the queereSt orien-
tai pattern you ever saw, and they had
low heels.
L bounced into the shop to ask the
RI1tCs duu at tkI0 COuutCI StOOu du-
other American lady with an identical
pair In her hand I demanded the
price.
Zone hundred and twenty-five
francs" beamed madame. 'and most
The other American woman and 1
dropped the slippers like hot cakes
our reckless passion for spending
wasn't equal to twenty-five dollars for
a pair of slippers. Madame am down
ten francs and inveigled us into trying
the slippers. There was Il differ-
ence of half a size in the pairs and
they fitted as though they'd bee made
In heaven. Madame came down ten
francs more and then Knocked of five.
and we bought them n Il huIdrr'
francs a pair. laughingiy telling eaci
other we'd caught each other in thu
act and promising new to give eacf
other away.
l had liked this American wOmaE
and should have been glad to see hes
again; and here h a She was
pleasant and unaffected, a woman OF
possibly forty dark hair, black eyes
waxy as to complexion; not what il
would call handsome but with a dis
tinct air,
Claire had introduced her as Mrs
DelafiO and later the child confidec
that her father had found her by &C
cident as he had me. That he paid
her fare over as an inducement to hei
To come on this steamer-with me.
aven then surmised. Claire and she
shared the largest stateroom or
board.
There were two other women going
over. but Mrs. DelariO and / seemed
the only ones able to keep u sea
legs, while Claire stayed in her berth
for almost the entire passage.
But the really friendly acquaintance
between Mrs. Delario and me began by |
our being flung into each others arms
was. -. ,fr:-kx. little craft took III