The Lamar register., 1919-11-26

but you'd he up on the two-eighteen.
Yes gets here ut tve-twenty. You het:
ri he here. Good-by honey
When about half way through this
monologue the man twisted about on
his chair till he was facing the mis-
tress of the Hanford establishment.
Then, still erinning broadly and with
the receiver sill ut his ear, he winked
al Eleanor-winked al Miss Eleanor
Hanford. If you pleasei The nerve of
him,
Miss Panford arose, TO the full height
of her sixty-three majestic inches.
She no longer felt any fear of this
mailman she was experiencing instead
mighty indignation. Much-anything
might he forgiven In mere lunatic;
hut for vandnl like this to violate
your privacy. 10 seize upon your prop
erty. to set at defiance all the conven-
tIons and safeguards Of society-for
the purpose of making love over your
phone-to some other woman-ughI
Miss Hanford was all Icy caimness
as the trespasser hanging mp the re-
ceiver. uncoiled his tall length from
the trembling windsor chair and stood
erect She gave him no time for first
word-there is no strategy in that.
May be privileged" inquired
Eleanor. "to know to whom | have the
honor of being hostess-and whyf II
would he interesting TO learn what
there is about this house to give
strangers the impression that il is
hotel or an Office building. do NOT
think II has ever been regarded as
mere public utility before"
I'm awfully sorry. Miss Hanford-
you are Miss Hanford. are YOU not?
But what's the use of that talk
know you are. m-honestly-awful-
ly sorry to come tearing in that WAY.
but ri tell you how It was
"You see. I've had that little bunga-
low that sets back in the woods a
quarter of a mile above here for
week. I've been away for good while
on that little business overseas and
she's been in California. so we haven't
seen each other She got home TO
New York yesterday and wired that
she'd he out here on this afternoons
train. There are two trains. you know.
and | put In n telephone call for her
at New York. After 1t was In. and I'd
waited half an hour, realized that II
waited any longer couldn't meet the
two-eighteen. and she might he on
that. So started. When the phone
man hooked up the bungalow he told
me that this big white house and that
stone one down below were the only
number was three.
Just as / was passing here heard
The ring. Gollyi What was I going to
dor II I stopped to be polite they'd
calmly say. 'Party's hung up; excuse
II, please by the time I got the re-
ceiver down. I know II was rotten
manners. but you've got to make al
lowances for a fellow. sometimes, now
haven't your My names Grey-Lester
Grey; I scribble foolish things that
foolish people print sometimes. hope
you'll pardon my headlong Intrusion"
Miss Eleanor Hanford with all her
dignity and all her responsibility as q
woman Of position and not a little
wealth was. as a matter OF fact. just
q mere girl. And this big. utterly nat
ural. laundering boy with the marks of
overseas still on him. was good to look
upon. Somehow II wasn't the ingenu-
Gus impropriety-quits shocking In IT.
self-of his receiving his sweetheart In
"A lonely bachelor bungalow that made
Eleanor feel a new and different kind
Of Indignation toward him. Away down
| In her secret heart she knew that II
was because there was n sweetheart at
all.
"ph. very WELL" she laughed-for, of
| course. under this new circumstance,
being woman. she could no longer
show Indignation of any sort lest II be
construed IN certain way-"if you
put your defense on the ground of
temporary alteration. there is nothing
else to do but pardon you. suppose"
Grey should have gone away then.
or course he should. young man In
his peculiar position would be doing
very well. you'd think to get out of the
situation without complicating it fur
ther. But the more he looked at this
marchionesslike little person the more
he didn't want to. The only thing he
could think of to say. however. was:
May l not bring her to see you.
Miss Hanford7"
II looks could kill, Lester Grey
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